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HISTORICAL 


ENCYCLOPEDIA 


OF 


ILLINOIS 

EDITED  HY 

• 

NEWTON   BATEMAN,   LL.   D.  PAUL  SELBY,  A.  M. 


AND  HISTORY  OF 


SANGAMON  COUNTY 

BY 

SPECIAL  AUTHORS  AND  CONTRIBUTORS 


PAUL  SELBY,  Editor 


Volume   I 

ILLUSTRATED 


CHICAGO 

MUNSELL    PUBLISHING    COMPANY 

PUBLISHERS 

1912 


Entered  according  to  Art  of  Congress,  in  the  year 

1912,  by  Munsell  Publishing  Company, 
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PREFACE. 


Why  publish  this  book?    There  should  be  many  and  strong  reasons  to  warrant  such  an 

undertaking.     Are  there  such  reasons?     What  considerations  are  weighty  enough  to  have 

j/7     induced  the  publishers  to  make  this  venture?  and  what  special  claims  has  Illinois  to  such  a 

r  distinction?     These  are  reasonable  and  inevitable   inquiries,  and  it  is  fitting  they  should 
receive  attention. 

In  the  first  place,  good  State  Histories  are  of  great  importance  and  value,  and  there  is 
abundant  and  cheering  evidence  of  an  increasing  popular  interest  in  them.     This  is  true  of 
all  such  works,  whatever  States  may  be  their  subjects ;  and  it  is  conspicuously  true  of  Illi- 
nois,  for  the  following,  among  many  other  reasons :     Because  of  its  great  prominence  in  the 
early  history  of  the  West  as  the  seat  of  the  first  settlements  of  Europeans  northwest  of  the 
Ohio  River — the  unique  character  of  its  early  civilization,  due  to  or  resulting  from  its  early 
French  population  brought  in  contact  with  the  aborigines — its  political,  military,  and  educa- 
tional prominence — its  steadfast  loyalty  and  patriotism — the  marvelous  development  of  its 
'  .S   vast  resources — the  number  of  distinguished  statesmen,  generals,  and  jurists  whom  it  has 
v    furnished  to  the  Government,  and  its  grand  record  in  the  exciting  and  perilous  conflicts  on 
fj.    the  Slavery  question. 

This  is  the  magnificent  Commonwealth,  the  setting  forth  of  whose  history,  in  all  of  its 
essential  departments  and  features,  seemed  to  warrant  the  bringing  out  of  another  volume 
devoted  to  that  end.  Its  material  has  been  gathered  from  every  available  source,  and  most 
carefully  examined  and  sifted  before  acceptance.  Especial  care  has  been  taken  in  collecting 
material  of  a  biographical  character ;  facts  and  incidents  in  the  personal  history  of  men  identi- 
fied with  the  life  of  the  State  in  its  Territorial  and  later  periods.  This  material  has  been 
gathered  from  a  great  variety  of  sources  widely  scattered,  and  much  of  it  quite  inaccessible 
to  the  ordinary  inquirer.  The  encyclopedic  form  of  the  work  favors  conciseness  and  com- 
pactness, and  was  adopted  with  a  view  to  condensing  the  largest  amount  of  information 
/r)  within  the  smallest  practicable  space. 

And  so  the  Historical  Encyclopedia  of  Illinois  was  conceived  and  planned  in  the  belief 
'  that  it  was  needed;  that  no  other  book  filled  the  place  it  was  designed  to  occupy,  or  fur- 
nished the  amount,  variety  and  scope  of  information  touching  the  infancy  and  later  life  of 
Illinois,  that  would  be  found  in  its  pages.     In  that  belief,  and  in  furtherance  of  those  ends, 
the  book  has  been  constructed  and  its  topics  selected  and  written.     Simplicity,  perspicuity, 
conciseness  and  accuracy  have  been  the  dominant  aims  and  rules  of  its  editors  and  writers. 
-   The  supreme  mission  of  the  book  is  to  record,  fairly  and  truthfully,  historical  facts ;  facts  of 
'    the  earlier  and  later  history  of  the  State,  and  drawn  from  the  almost  innumerable  sources 
connected  with  that  history ;  facts  of  interest  to  the  great  body  of  our  people,  as  well  as  to 
~   scholars,  officials,  and  other  special  classes;   a  book  convenient  for  reference  in  the  school, 
'~  1   the  office,  and  the  home.     Hence,  no  attempt  at  fine  writing,  no  labored,  irrelevant  and 

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4  PKEFACE. 

long-drawn  accounts  of  matters,  persons  or  things,  which  really  need  but  a  few  plain  words 
for  their  adequate  elucidation,  will  be  found  in  its  pages.  On  the  other  hand,  perspicuity 
and  fitting  development  are  never  intentionally  sacrificed  to  mere  conciseness  and  brevity. 
Whenever  a  subject,  from  its  nature,  demands  a  more  elaborate  treatment  —  and  there  are 
many  of  this  character  —  it  is  handled  accordingly. 

As  a  rule,  the  method  pursued  is  the  separate  and  topical,  rather  than  the  chronological, 
as  being  more  satisfactory  and  convenient  for  reference.  That  is,  each  topic  is  considered 
separately  and  exhaustively,  instead  of  being  blended,  chronologically,  with  others.  To  pass 
from  subject  to  subject,  in  the  mere  arbitrary  order  of  time,  is  to  sacrifice  simplicity  and 
order  to  complexity  and  confusion. 

Absolute  freedom  from  error  or  defect  in  all  cases,  in  handling  so  many  thousands  of 
items,  is  not  claimed,  and  could  not  reasonably  be  expected  of  any  finite  intelligence;  since, 
in  complicated  cases,  some  element  may  possibly  elude  its  sharpest  scrutiny.  But  every 
statement  of  fact,  made  herein  without  qualification,  is  believed  to  be  strictly  correct,  and 
the  statistics  of  the  volume,  as  a  whole,  are  submitted  to  its  readers  with  entire  confidence. 

Considerable  space  is  also  devoted  to  biographical  sketches  of  persons  deemed  worthy  of 
mention,  for  their  close  relations  to  the  State  in  some  of  its  varied  interests,  political,  gov- 
ernmental, financial,  social,  religious,  educational,  industrial,  commercial,  economical,  mili- 
tary, judicial  or  otherwise;  or  for  their  supposed  personal  deservings  in  other  respects.  It 
is  believed  that  the  extensive  recognition  of  such  individuals,  by  the  publishers,  will  not  be 
disapproved  or  regretted  by  the  public  ;  that  personal  biography  has  an  honored,  useful  and 
legitimate  place  in  such  a  history  of  Illinois  as  this  volume  aims  to  be,  and  that  the  omission 
of  such  a  department  would  seriously  detract  from  the  completeness  and  value  of  the  book. 
Perhaps  no  more  delicate  and  difficult  task  has  confronted  the  editors  and  publishers  than 
the  selection  of  names  for  this  part  of  the  work. 

While  it  is  believed  that  no  unworthy  name  has  a  place  in  the  list,  it  is  freely  admitted 
that  there  may  be  many  others,  equally  or  possibly  even  more  worthy,  whose  names  do  not 
appear,  partly  for  lack  of  definite  and  adequate  information,  and  partly  because  it  was  not 
deemed  best  to  materially  increase  the  space  devoted  to  this  class  of  topics. 

And  so,  with  cordial  thanks  to  the  publishers  for  the  risks  they  have  so  cheerfully 
assumed  in  this  enterprise,  for  their  business  energy,  integrity,  and  determination,  and  theii 
uniform  kindness  and  courtesy;  to  the  many  who  have  go  generously  and  helpfully  promoted 
the  success  of  the  work,  by  their  contributions  of  valuable  information,  interesting  reminis- 
cences, and  rare  incidents;  to  Mr.  Paul  Selby,  the  very  able  associate  editor,  to  whom 
especial  honor  and  credit  are  due  for  his  most  efficient,  intelligent  and  scholarly  services;  to 
Hon.  Harvey  B.  Hnrd,  Walter  B.  Wines,  and  to  all  others  who  have,  by  word  or  act, 
encouraged  us  in  this  enterprise  —  with  grateful  recognition  of  all  these  friends  and  helpers, 
the  Historical  Encyclopedia  of  Illinois,  with  its  thousands  of  topics  and  many  thousands  of 
details,  items  and  incidents,  is  now  respectfully  submitted  to  the  good  people  of  the  State, 
for  whom  it  has  been  prepared,  in  the  earnest  hope  and  confident  belief  that  it  will  be  found 
instructive,  convenient  and  useful  for  the  purposes  for  which  it  was  designed. 


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PREFATORY    STATEMENT. 


Since  the  bulk  of  the  matter  contained  in  this  volume  was  practically  completed  and! 
ready  for  the  press,  Dr.  Newton  Bateman,  who  occupied  the  relation  to  it  of  editor-in-chief, 
has  passed  beyond  the  sphere  of  mortal  existence.  In  placing  the  work  before  the  public,  it 
therefore  devolves  upon  the  undersigned  to  make  this  last  prefatory  statement. 

As  explained  by  Dr.  Bateman  in  his  preface,  the  object  had  in  view  in  the  preparation 
of  a  "Historical  Encyclopedia  of  Illinois"  has  been  to  present,  in  compact  and  concise  form, 
the  leading  facts  of  Territorial  and  State  history,  from  the  arrival  of  the  earliest  French 
explorers  in  Illinois  to  the  present  time.  This  has  included  an  outline  history  of  the  State, 
under  the  title,  "Illinois, "supplemented  by  special  articles  relating  to  various  crises  and  eras 
in  State  history ;  changes  in  form  of  government  and  administration ;  the  history  of  Consti- 
tutional Conventions  and  Legislative  Assemblies;  the  various  wars  in  which  Illinoisans  have 
taken  part,  with  a  summary  of  the  principal  events  in  the  history  of  individual  military 
organizations  engaged  in  the  Civil  War  of  1861-65,  and  the  War  of  1898  with,  Spain ;  lists  of 
State  officers,  United  States  Senators  and  Members  of  Congress,  with  the  terms  of  each;  the 
organization  and  development  of  political  divisions;  the  establishment  of  charitable  and 
educational  institutions;  the  growth  of  public  improvements  and  other  enterprises  which 
have  marked  the  progress  of  the  State;  natural  features  and  resources;  the  history  of  early 
newspapers,  and  the  growth  of  religious  denominations,  together  with  general  statistical 
information  and  unusual  or  extraordinary  occurrences  of  a  local  or  general  State  character — 
all  arranged  under  topical  heads,  and  convenient  for  ready  reference  by  all  seeking  informa- 
tion on  these  subjects,  whether  in  the  family,  in  the  office  of  the  professional  or  business 
man,  in  the  teacher's  study  and  the  school-room,  or  in  the  public  library. 

While  individual  or  collected  biographies  of  the  public  men  of  Illinois  have  not  been 
wholly  lacking  or  few  in  number — and  those  already  in  existence  have  a  present  and  con- 
stantly increasing  value — they  have  been  limited,  for  the  most  part,  to  special  localities  and 
particular  periods  or  classes.  Rich  as  the  annals  of  Illinois  are  in  the  records  and  character 
of  its  distinguished  citizens  who,  by  their  services  in  the  public  councils,  upon  the  judicial 
bench  and  in  the  executive  chair,  in  the  forum  and  in  the  field,  have  reflected  honor  upon 
the  State  and  the  Nation,  there  has  been  hitherto  no  comprehensive  attempt  to  gather 
together,  in  one  volume,  sketches  of  those  who  have  been  conspicuous  in  the  creation  and 
upbuilding  of  the  State.  The  collection  of  material  of  this  sort  has  been  a  task  requiring 
patient  and  laborious  research;  and,  while  all  may  not  have  been  achieved  in  this  direction 
that  was  desirable,  owing  to  the  insufficiency  or  total  absence  of  data  relating  to  the  lives  of 
many  men  most  prominent  in  public  affairs  during  the  period  to  which  they  belonged,  it  is 
still  believed  that  what  has  been  accomplished  will  be  found  of  permanent  value  and  be 
appreciated  by  those  most  deeply  interested  in  this  phase  of  State  history. 

The  large  number  of  topics  treated  has  made  brevity  and  conciseness  an  indispensable 
feature  of  the  work;  consequently  there  has  been  no  attempt  to  indulge  in  graces  of  style  or 

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6  PKEFATORY    STATEMENT. 

elaboration  of  narrative.  The  object  has  been  to  present,  in  simple  language  and  concise 
form,  facts  of  history  of  interest  or  value  to  those  who  may  choose  to  consult  its  pages. 
Absolute  inerrancy  is  not  claimed  for  every  detail  of  the  work,  but  no  pains  has  been 
spared,  and  every  available  authority  consulted,  to  arrive  at  complete  accuracy  of  statement. 

In  view  of  the  important  bearing  which  railroad  enterprises  have  had  upon  the  extraor- 
dinary development  of  the  State  within  the  past  fifty  years,  considerable  space  has  been  given 
to  this  department,  especially  with  reference  to  the  older  lines  of  railroad  whose  history  has 
been  intimately  interwoven  with  that  of  the  State,  and  its  progress  in  wealth  and  population. 

In  addition  to  the  acknowledgments  made  by  Dr.  Bateman,  it  is  but  proper  that  I 
should  express  my  personal  obligations  to  the  late  Prof.  Samuel  M.  Inglis,  State  Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction,  and  his  assistant,  Prof.  J.  H.  Freeman;  to  ex-Senator  John 
M.  Palmer,  of  Springfield ;  to  the  late  Hon.  Joseph  Medill,  editor  of  "The  Chicago  Tribune" ; 
to  the  Hon.  James  B.  Bradwell,  of  "The  Chicago  Legal  News";  to  Gen.  Green  B.  Raum, 
Dr.  Samuel  Willard,  and  Dr.  Garrett  Newkirk,  of  Chicago  (the  latter  as  author  of  the  prin- 
cipal portions  of  the  article  on  the  "Underground  Eailroad") ;  to  the  Librarians  of  the  State 
Historical  Library,  the  Chicago  Historical  Library,  and  the  Chicago  Public  Library,  for 
special  and  valuable  aid  rendered,  as  well  as  to  a  large  circle  of  correspondents  in  different 
parts  of  the  State  who  have  courteously  responded  to  requests  for  information  on  special 
topics,  and  have  thereby  materially  aided  in  securing  whatever  success  may  have  been 
attained  in  the  work. 

In  conclusion,  I  cannot  omit  to  pay  this  final  tribute  to  the  memory  of  my  friend  and 
associate,  Dr.  Bateman,  whose  death,  at  his  home  in  Galesburg,  elsewhere  recorded,  was 
deplored,  not  only  by  his  associates  in  the  Faculty  of  Knox  College,  his  former  pupils  and 
immediate  neighbors,  but  by  a  large  circle  of  friends  in  all  parts  of  the  State. 

Although  his  labors  as  editor  of  this  volume  had  been  substantially  finished  at  the  time 
of  his  death  (and  they  included  the  reading  and  revision  of  every  line  of  copy  at  that  time 
prepared,  comprising  the  larger  proportion  of  the  volume  as  it  now  goes  into  the  hands  of 
the  public),  the  enthusiasm,  zeal  and  kindly  appreciation  of  the  labor  of  others  which  he 
brought  to  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  have  been  sadly  missed  in  the  last  stages  of  prepara- 
tion of  the  work  for  the  press.  In  the  estimation  of  many  who  have  held  his  scholarship 
and  his  splendid  endowments  of  mind  and  character  in  the  highest  admiration,  his  con- 
nection with  the  work  will  be  its  strongest  commendation  and  the  surest  evidence  of  its 
merit. 

With  myself,  the  most  substantial  satisfaction  I  have  in  dismissing  the  volume  from  my 
hands  and  submitting  it  to  the  judgment  of  the  public,  exists  in  the  fact  that,  in  its  prepara- 
tion, I  have  been  associated  with  such  a  co-laborer — one  whose  abilities  commanded  uni- 
versal respect,  and  whose  genial,  scholarly  character  and  noble  qualities  of  mind  and  heart 
won  the  love  and  confidence  of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact,  and  whom  it  had  been  my 
privilege  to  count  as  a  friend  from  an  early  period  in  his  long  and  useful  career. 


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LIST   OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


PAGE 

Abraham  Lincoln  (Frontispiece) 1 

Annex  Central  Hospital  for  Insane,  Jacksonville 84 

Asylum  for  Feeble-Minded  Children,  Lincoln 237 

Bateman,  Newton  (Portrait) 3 

Board  of  Trade  Building,  Chicago 277 

"Chenu  Mansion,"  Kaskaskia  (1898),  where  La  Fuyette  was  entertained  in  1825  ....  315 

Chicago  Academy  of  Sciences , 394 

Chicago  Drainage  Canal 94 

Chicago  Historical  Society  Building 394 

Chicago  Post  Office  (U.  S.  Gov.  Building) 88 

Chicago  Public  Buildings     395 

Chicago  Thoroughfares     89 

Chicago  Thoroughfares     93 

Chief  Chicagou  (Portrait) 246 

Comparative  Size  of  Great  Canals 95 

Day  after  Chicago  Fire 92 

Early  Historic  Scenes,  Chicago 170 

Early  Historic  Scenes,  Chicago  (No.  2) 171 

Engineering  Hall,  University  of  Illinois : 280 

Experiment  Farm,  University  of  Illinois 12 

Experiment  Farm,  University  of  Illinois — The  Vineyard 13 

Experiment  Farm,  University  of  Illinois — Orchard  Cultivation 13 

First  Illinois  State  House,  Kaskaskia  (1818) 314 

Fort  Dearborn  from  the  West  (1808) . .  246 

Fort  Dearborn  from  Southeast  (1808) 247 

Fort  Dearborn  (1853) 247 

General  John  Edgar's  House,  Kaskasia 315 

Henry  de  Tonty  (Portrait) 246 

House  of  Governor  Bond,  Old  Kaskaskia  (1891) 315 

House  of  Chief  Ducoign,  the  last  of  the  Kaskaskias  (1893) 314 

Home  for  Juvenile  Female  Offenders,  Geneva 236 

Illinois  Eastern  Hospital  for  Insane,  Kankakee 85 

Illinois  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home,  Quincy 438 

Illinois  State  Normal  University,  Normal 504 

Illinois  State  Capitol  (First),  Kaskaskia    240 

Illinois  State  Capitol  (Second),  Vandalia     240 

Illinois  State  Capitol  (Third) ,  Springfield     240 

Illinois  State  Capitol  (Present),  Springfield     241 

Illinois  State  Building,  World's  Columbian  Exposition,  1893 601 

Illinois  State  Penitentiary,  Joliet 306 

Illinois  State  Penitentiary — Cell  House  and  Women's  Prison 307 

Illinois  State  Reformatory,  Pontiac 493 

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8  LIST   OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 

PAGE 

Institution  for  Deaf  and  Dumb,  Jacksonville 300 

Interior  of  Room,  Kaskaskia  Hotel  (1893)  where  La  Fayette  Banquet  was  held  in  1825  314 

Institution  for  the  Blind,  Jacksonville 301 

Kaskaskia  Hotel,  where  La  Fayette  was  feted  in  1825  (as  it  appeared,  1893)  314 

La  Salle  (Portrait) 246 

Library  Building,  University  of  Illinois 334 

Library  Building — Main  Floor — University  of  Illinois 335 

Lincoln  Park  Vistas,  Chicago     120 

Map  of  Burned  District,  Chicago  Fire,  1871  276 

Map  of  Grounds,  World's  Columbian  Exposition,  1893 600 

Map  of  Illinois : Following  Title  Page 

Map  of  Illinois  River  Valley " 

McCormick  Seminary,  Chicago 362 

Monuments  in  Lincoln  Park,  Chicago 90 

Monuments  in  Lincoln  Park,  Chicago 206 

Monuments  in  Lincoln  Park,  Chicago 207 

Natural  History  Hall,  University  of  Illinois 151 

Newberry  Library,  Chicago 394 

Northern  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  Elgin 402 

Old  Kaskaskia,  from  Garrison  Hill  (as  it  appeared  in  1893) 314 

Old  State  House,  Kaskaskia  (1900) 315 

Pierre  Menard  Mansion,  Kaskaskia  (1893) 314 

Remnant  of  Old  Kaskaskia  (as  it  appeared  in  1898) 315 

Scenes  in  South  Park,  Chicago     604 

Seiby,  Paul  (Protrait)     5 

Sheridan  Road  and  on  the  Boulevards,  Chicago     121 

Soldiers'  Widows'  Home,  Wilmington 439 

Southern  Illinois  Normal,  Carbondale 505 

Southern  Illinois  Penitentiary  and  Asylum  for  Incurable  Insane,  Chester 492 

University  Hall,  University  of  Illinois 150 

University  of  Chicago 363 

University  of  Illinois,  Urbana.     (Group  of  Buildings) 540 

University  of  Illinois,  Urbana.     (Group  of  Buildings) 541 

View  from  Engineering  Hall,  University  of  Illinois 281 

View  on  Principal  Street,  Old  Kaskaskia  (1891) 315 

Views  in  Lincoln  Park,  Chicago 91 

Views  of  Drainage  Canal 96 

Views  of  Drainage  Canal  97 

War  Eagle  (Portrait) 246 

Western  Hospital  for  the  Insane,  Watertown 403 

World's  Fair  Buildings    605 


FOREWORD 


SANGAMON  COUNTY. 

One  of  the  conspicuous  evidences  of  modern  progress  is  manifested  in  the 
increased  interest  in  local  and  personal  history.  In  a  general  sense,  real  his- 
tory is  the  record  of  past  events,  while  biography  is  the  history  of  individual 
life.  The  close  relationshp  of  these  two  branches  of  history  is  recognized  by  the 
brilliant  essayist  and  historian,  Carlyle,  in  the  statement  that  "History  is  the 
essence  of  innumerable  biographies,"  and  that,  "in  a  certain  sense,  all  men  are 
historians,"  in  the  fact  that  they  furnish  the  matter  which  constitutes  true 
history. 

In  the  formative  period  of  each  new  community  the  attention  of  its  mem- 
bers is  largely  absorbed  by  the  present — the  necessity  of  securing  means  for 
personal  and  family  support — the  study  of  natural  resources  and  planning  for 
future  development.  But  as  time  advances  and  conditions  change,  there  comes 
a  change  in  the  popular  mind  and  an  increased  interest  in  the  past.  That  such 
has  been  the  condition  within  the  last  century  in  Sangamon  County,  as  well  as 
in  the  Middle  West  generally,  is  apparent  to  the  general  observer. 

These  evidences  of  change  and  development  are  taken  note  of  in  the  portions 
of  the  second  volume  devoted  especially  to  the  local  history  of  Sangamon  County. 
In  the  preparation  of  the  fifty-one  chapters  composing  this  portion  of  the  work,  it 
has  been  the  object  to  present,  in  compact  form  and  under  appropriate  topical 
headings,  the  main  facts  of  county  history  from  the  date  of  settlement  and 
political  organization  to  the  present  time.  In  public  affairs  no  county  has  oc- 
cupied a  more  prominent  place  in  connection  with  general  State  history  than 
has  Sangamon,  embracing  within  its  limits,  for  three  quarters  of  a  century,  the 
State  capital  and  the  theatre  during  this  period  of  more  notable  events  than 
any  other  city  within  the  State.  The  military,  political,  professional,  church 
and  educational  topics  have  been  treated  with  especial  fulness  under  their  ap- 
propriate chapter  headings  by  contributors  especially  selected  for  that  purpose. 


Of  the  two  score  of  different  contributors  to  these  and  other  departments,  it  is 
not  necessary  here  to  make  special  mention,  as  their  names  are  attached  to  their 
respective  contributions  in  the  body  of  the  work.  For  the  value  of  the  aid  thus 
rendered  thanks  are  hereby  cordially  expressed. 

With  the  feeling  that  the  work,  as  a  whole,  has  been  prepared  with  special 
care  and  with  full  appreciation  of  the  interest  already  manifested  and  patronage 
pledged  by  the  citizens  of  Sangamon  County  in  its  success,  it  is  submitted  to  its 
many  patrons  and  the  general  public  in  the  hope  that  it  will  prove  of  permanent 
and  personal  value  to  a  large  class  of  readers,  not  only  in  Sangamon  County  but 
throughout  the  State  at  large. 


INDEX 


SANGAMON    COUNTY 

CHAPTER  I. 
INTRODUCTORY. 

Sangamon  County  the  Twenty-first  in  Order  of  Organization — Its  Im- 
portance Recognized  by  Early  Explorers — Pronounced  by  Gov.  John 
Reynolds  as  "The  Most  Beautiful  Country  in  the  Valley  of  the 
Mississippi " — Rev.  John  M.  Peck's  Forecast  of  Springfield  as  the 
Future  State  Capital 617-618 

CHAPTER  II. 
PREHISTORIC  ABORIGINES. 

Prehistoric  Conditions — No  Record  of  Discovery  Until  the  Coming  of 
the  "White  Man — Natural  Products — Uniform  Demands  of  the 
Human  Being — Prehistoric  Tribes  Who  Occupied  the  American 
Continent — Conditions  and  Modes  of  Life — Changes  That  Have  Been 
Wrought  by  Time — Indian  Relics  and  Monuments — Their  Religion, 
Legends  and  Traditions — Present  Day  Changes  and  a  Forecast  of 
the  Future 618-622 

CHAPTER  III. 
INDIANS  IN  SANGAMON  COUNTY. 

Evidence  of  Occupancy — Distribution  of  Tribes  on  Illinois  Soil  at  Dif- 
ferent Periods — The  Sangamon  Country  as  a  "Happy  Hunting 
Ground" — Kickapoo  Indian  Fort  in  McLean  County — Conditions 
in  the  Early  Part  of  the  Last  Century — Alexander  Robinson's  Story 
of  a  Kickapoo  Village  on  the  Sangamon — Gov.  John  Reynold's  March 


Through  the  Sangamon.  Country  in  1812 — The  Old  Indian  Trail  De- 
scribed by  Zimri  A.  Enos — Visit  of  Ferdinand  Ernst,  A  German  Ex- 
plorer, in  1819 — His  Discovery  of  an  Indian  Camp  on  Spring  Creek — 
Indian  Villages  in  Island  Grove  and  Curran  Townships — Acquisition 
of  Indian  Lands — The  Sangamon  Region  Included  in  the  Purchase 
at  Edwardsville  in  1818 622-627 

CHAPTER  IV. 
FIRST  GOVERNMENT  IN  ILLINOIS. 

First  Government  of  Illinois  Territory  Established  by  the  French  in 
1718 — Military  Character  and  Region  It  Occupied — Fort  Chartres 
Its  Headquarters — Cession  of  New  France  to  England  in  1763 — 
Kaskaskia  Becomes  the  Capital — War  of  the  Revolution — Capture  of 
Kaskaskia  by  Col.  George  Rogers  Clark — Territory  Northwest  of  the 
Ohio  Becomes  "Illinois  County"  and  is  Attached  to  Virginia — It  is 
Ceded  to  the  General  Government  and  Northwest  Territory  Organ- 
ized— Subsequent  Changes— Illinois  Territory  Organized  in  1809 — 
Kaskaskia  Remains  the  Capital — Constitutional  Convention  of  1818 
—Illinois  Admitted  as  a  State — Constitutional  Provision  Looking 
to  the  Selection  of  a  New  State  Capital 627-629 

CHAPTER  V. 

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EARLY  SETTLEMENTS. 

Primitive  Natural  Conditions — Lapse  of  Time  From  the  Coming  of 
Marquette  to  First  Settlement  in  Sangamon  County — Difficulties  of 
Travel — Arrival  of  the  Pulliam  Party  in  1817 — Later  Coming  of 
Zachariah  Peter — Rapid  Influx  of  Settlers  from  1818 — Character  of 
the  Pioneers — Domestic  Industries  and  Conditions — Rev.  J.  L. 
Crane's  Description  of  a  Log-Cabin  Home — Residents  of  Spring- 
field When  It  Became  the  County  Seat — First  Court  House  and  Jail  . 
—Elijah  lies  the  First  Merchant — Schools  and  Churches — Social  LitV 
and  Amusements — First  Fraternal  Organization — Food  Conditions — 
Wild  Game — Malarial  Diseases — Major  lies'  Testimony  as  to  Stand- 
ard of  First  Settlers— A  Pugilistic  Encounter 629-635 

CHAPTER  VI. 
COUNTY  ORGANIZATION  AND  GOVERNMENT. 

Sangamon  County  Organized  in  1821 — Original  Boundaries  and  Area — 
— Subsequent  Reductions  and  Present  Area — First  Election  and 
First  Officers — County  Seat  Located — First  Court  House  and  Jail 
— Land  Office  Established — County  Boundaries  Changed  in  1824 — A 
County  Seat  Contest — Springfield  Becomes  the  Permanent  Seat  of 
Justice — Donation  and  Sale  of  Lots — Second  and  Third  Court 
Houses — Location  of  State  Capital — Court  and  County  Offices  in 
Rented  Building — Fourth  Court  House  Erected  in  1845— New  State 
\  Capitol — Old  State  House  Becomes  Present  County  Building — En- 
largement and  Description — Courts  and  Public  Offices 635-638 


CHAPTER  VII. 
SOME  HISTORIC  REMINISCENCES. 

A  German  Traveler's  Tour  Through  Illinois  in  1819 — Translation  of 
His  Story  as  Told  in  the  German  Language — Trip  Prom  Vandalia 
to  the  Sangamon  Country — Enthusiastic  Description  of  ' '  The  Beauti- 
ful Land  of  the  Sangamon" — His  Visit  to  the  Sugar  Creek  Settle- 
ment— Discovery  of  an  Indian  Camp  Ground  on  Spring  Creek — 
Crosses  the  Sangamon  River  and  Reaches  Elkhart  Grove — Visits  the 
Latham  Family — An  Optimistic  View  of  the  Future  of  Illinois  and 
Its  "Waterway  Facilities — Navigability  of  the  Sangamon  River  is 
Tested— The  Steamer  "Talisman"  Reaches  Portland,  the  Local  Port 
of  Springfield — An  Enthusiastic  Reception  and  Celebration  of  the 
Event — Newspaper  Comment — The  Steamer  Backs  Out  and  the  Ex- 
periment is  Never  Repeated 638-642 


CHAPTER  VIII. 
THE  SECOND  STATE  CAPITAL. 

First  Session  of  the  General  Assembly  at  Kaskaskia — Petition  for  Site 
of  a  New  Capital  Granted  by  Congress — Commissioners  for  Selec- 
tion of  Site  and  Erection  of  State  House  Appointed  by  the  Legis- 
lature— Vandalia  Selected  and  Incorporated  in  1821 — Stories 
Regarding  Choice  of  Site  and  Name — Question  of  Navigability  of 
Kaskaskia  River — State  House  Burned  and  Third  Session  Held  in 
Church  Building  and  Private  Dwelling — Citizens  of  Vandalia  Erect 
a  Second  State  Capital— This  Gives  Place  to  a  New  Building  in  1836 . .  642-645 


CHAPTER  IX. 
MOVEMENT  FOR  A  THIRD  CAPITAL. 

Agitation  Begins  For  Selection  of  a  New  State  Capital — Question  Sub- 
mitted to  Popular  Vote  in  1834 — Alton  Receives  the  Largest  Vote  but 
no  Final  Action  is  Taken — The  "Long  Nine"  from  Sangamon 
County  in  the  Tenth  General  Assembly — The  Internal  Improvement 
Issue — Movement  for  Selection  of  a  New  State  Capital  Successful — 
Act  Providing  for  Vote  in  Joint  Session  of  the  Legislature — Spring- 
field "Wins  on  Fourth  Ballot — Supplemental  Act  Relating  to  Dona- 
tion of  Site  for  Capitol  Building  by  Citizens  of  Springfield  and 
Appointing  Commissioners  for  Erection  of  Same — Last  Days  of  the 
Capital  in  Vandalia  and  its  Decline  in  Population— The  Removal  to 
Springfield  Widely  Approved  by  the  Press  of  the  State — Enthusiastic 
Celebration  of  the  Event  in  Springfield 645-650 


CHAPTER  X. 
SPRINGFIELD  THE  PERMANENT  CAPITAL. 

Last  Session  of  the  General  Assembly  in  Vandalia — The  State  Archives 
Removed  to  Springfield — First  Meeting  of  the  Legislature  in  That 
City  in  December,  1839 — The  State  Capitol  Being  Unfinished,  the 
Sessions  are  Held  in  Different  Churches — -Abraham  Lincoln,  Joseph 
Gillespie  and  Stephen  A.  Douglas  as  Members — Contribution  of 
Springfield  Business  Men  to  Cost  of  Capitol  Building — Plans  and 
Cost  of  Structure — Laying  of  the  Corner-Stone  July  4,  1837 — -Col. 
E.  D.  Baker  Orator  of  the  Day — Description  of  the  Building — Dis- 
tinguished Men  who  Have  Addressed  Audiences  in  its  Halls 650-654 


CHAPTER  XI. 

PRESENT  CAPITOL  BUILDING. 

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Growth  of  Springfield — Agitation  for  Removal  of  the  State  Capital — 
Struggle  of  1865-67 — Proposed  Removal  to  Peoria — Other  Candidates 
— Bill  for  Erection  of  New  Building  in  Springfield  Adopted — Op- 
position of  Chicago  Papers — Act  Upheld  by  Supreme  Court — Citi- 
zens of  Springfield  Contribute  New  Site  and  County  Takes  Over  Old 
Building — Ground  Broken  and  Corner  Stone  Laid  in  1868 — Later 
Appropriations  and  Progress  of  Work — Plans  of  Architect — List  of 
State  House  Commissioners — Peoria  Renews  its  Struggle  in  1871— 
Projected  Temporary  Removal  to  Chicago  Defeated  by  the  Great 
Conflagration — Final  Appropriation  and  Completion  of  Building — 
Description  of  Present  State  Capitol — Statuary  and  Decorations. . .  654-659 


CHAPTER.  XII. 
STATE  PROPERTY. 

Property  Owned  by  the  State  in  Sangamon  County — Real  Estate,  Date 
and  Purpose  of  Acquisition — Sites  for  Two  State  Capitols  Contri- 
buted by  Citizens  of  Springfield — The  Governor's  Mansion — The  Old 
State  Arsenal — Construction  of  the  Present  State  Capitol  Begun 
in  1867— Total  Cost— Heating  Plant  and  Present  State  Arsenal- 
Supreme  Court  Building — Biological  Laboratory 659-660 


CHAPTER  XIII. 
POLITICAL  PARTIES  IN  ILLINOIS. 

Early  Party  Conditions— Anti-Slavery  Contest  of  1822-24— "Jackson 
Republicans"  the  Champions  of  Slavery  Extension  into  Illinois — 
They  Take  on  the  Name  Democratic — First  State  Convention  at  Van- 
dalia in  1832— Subsequent  Party  History— The  Whig  Party— Anti- 
Slavery  Organizations — -Annexation  of  Texas  and  the  Wilmot  Proviso 
— Compromise  Measures  of  1850 — The  Kansas-Nebraska  Act  and 
Development  of  the  Republican  Party — Organization  in  Illinois — 
Minor  Party  Organizations 660-667 


CHAPTER  XIV. 
NOTABLE  POLITICAL  CAMPAIGNS. 

Important  Campaigns  and  their  Influence  on  Future  National  and 
State  History— The  Pro-Slavery  Contest  of  1822-24— Sangamon 
County  Against  a  Pro-Slavery  State  Constitution — The  Jack- 
son Campaigns  of  1828  and  1832 — Log  Cabin  Mass  Meeting  at 
Springfield  in  1840 — Campaigns  of  1848-56 — Lincoln  Named  for 
United  States  Senator  in  1858 — Lincoln-Douglas  Debates — Lincoln 
Nominated  for  the  Presidency — His  Notification  and  Acceptance — 
Wide  Awake  Rally  in  Springfield — Election  and  Departure  for 
Washington — Vote  of  Sangamon  County  for  President  and  Governor 
from  1832  to  1908— Some  Notable  State  Conventions..  .  667-675  • 


CHAPTER  XV. 
POLITICAL  REPRESENTATION. 

Citizens  of  Sangamon  County  Who  Have  Occupied  Important  Positions 
of  Public  Trust — Abraham  Lincoln  in  Front  Rank — List  of  State 
Officers — United  States  Senators — Congressional  Apportionments 
and  Congressmen  who  were  Citizens  of  Sangamon  County — Former 
Citizens  of  the  County  who  Served  in  Other  States — Presidential 
Electors — Legislative  Apportionments — List  of  Senators  and  Rep- 
resentatives in  the  General  Assembly  from  1823  to  1912 — Some 
Most  Notable  Citizens— The  "Long  Nine"— Col.  E.  D.  Baker,  John 
T.  Stuart,  Judge  Stephen  T.  Logan,  Milton  Hay  and  Others — Dele- 
gates to  Constitutional  Conventions — Secretary  of  State,  John  Hay 
—Adjutant  Generals 676-681 


CHAPTER  XVI. 
BENCH  AND  BAR. 

Judicial  Powers  Under  Constitution  of  1818 — First  Supreme  Court — 
Election  of  Supreme  and  Circuit  Judges  by  the  General  Assembly 
— First  Circuit  Court  in  Sangamon  County — Subsequent  Changes 
— Abolition  of  Circuit  Judge  System — Supreme  Judges  Assume  Jur- 
isdiction— Creation  of  the  Fifth  Circuit — Later  Changes  in  Circuits 
of  Which  Sangamon  County  Formed  a  Part — Judiciary  Revolution 
of  1841 — Justices  Made  Elective  by  Popular  Vote  Under  Constitu- 
tion of  1847 — Occupants  of  the  Circuit  Bench  in  Sangamon  County 
at  Different  Periods — Probate  and  County  Courts — Bar  of  Sanga- 
mon County — Sketches  of  Prominent  Members — Noted  Lawyers  from 
Other  Counties  who  have  Practiced  in  Sangamon  County — Roster  of 
the  Sangamon  County  Bar,  1910 681-693 


CHAPTER  XVII. 
TOWNSHIP  HISTORY. 

Adoption  of  Township  Organization — List  of  Commissioners  and  First 
Subdivisions — New  Organization  Goes  Into  Effect  in  1861 — Subse- 
quent Changes — Individual  History  of  the  Twenty-seven  Townships 
Now  Constituting  Sangamon  County — Present  Area  and  Date  of  Or- 
ganization of  Each — Early  Settlers  and  Time  of  Arrival — Part 
Which  They  Played  in  Development  of  the  County — Personal 
Sketches — Some  First  Events — Industries  and  Public  Utilities — Vil- 
lages and  Railroads — Schools  and  Churches — Banks  and  Newspapers 
— Present  Population  of  Villages  and  Townships 693-741 


CHAPTER  XVIII. 
SANGAMON  COUNTY  PRESS. 

Influence  of  the  Public  Press — Its  Evolution  in  Illinois— Number  of 
Periodical  Publications  in  the  State  in  1911 — History  of  Springfield 
Papers — Sangamon  Spectator  the  First  Newspaper  Venture — Later 
Publications — The  Sangamo  Journal  Founded  by  Simeon  Francis 
in  1831 — Subsequent  Changes  and  Later  Editors  and  Publishers — 
Becomes  the  Illinois  State  Journal  in  1855 — Illinois  State  Register 
Removed  From  Vandalia  to  Springfield  in  1839 — Subsequent  His- 
tory— Later  and  Present  Daily  Papers — Campaign  Journals — Ger- 
man Papers — Fraternity  and  Professional  Publications — Summary 
of  County  Rural  Press — Total  of  Publications  in  Sangamon  Countv 
in  1911..  .  741-750 


CHAPTER  XIX. 
THE  MEDICAL  PROFESSION. 

Dr.  Gershom  Jayne  the  First  Physician  in  Sangamon  County- — List  of 
His  Early  Followers — Sangamon  County  Physicians  who  have  Won 
State  and  National  Reputations — Organization  of  the  State  Medical 
Society  in  1850 — Subsequent  Meetings  in  Springfield — Drs.  Boal 
and  Thompson — Sketches  of  Springfield  Physicians — Drs.  Lord. 
Buck,  Trapp  and  Others — Physicians  of  Civil  War  Time — St.  John's 
and  Springfield  Hospitals — Country  Physicians— The  Medical  Prac- 
tice Act — The  Career  of  Dr.  J.  H.  Rauch — A  Small-Pox  Epidemic — 
Female  Physicians — The  Prince  Sanitarium — Homeopathy,  Osteop- 
athy and  other  Modern  Cults — Organization  of  the  Sangamon 
County  Society — List  of  State  Society  Officers — Springfield  Board  of 
Health— Hospital  Treatment  for  the  Poor 750-764 


CHAPTER  XX. 
DENTISTRY. 

Increasing  Demand  for  Higher  Grades  of  Professional  Service — Modern 
Development  of  Dentistry — The  Dentist  Assigned  a  Special  Rank  in 
the  Medical  Profession — Some  of  the  Early  Dentists  of  Springfield — 
Recognition  of  their  Merits  and  Professional  Service — Springfield's 
Only  Lady  Dentist — Most  Notable  Members  of  the  Profession  in  1890 
— The  Sangamon-Menard  Dental  Society — List  of  Resident  Dentists 
in  Springfield  in  1910 764-766 


CHAPTER  XXI. 
FINANCIAL  INSTITUTIONS. 

Springfield  Banks — Early  Methods  of  Deposit  and  Beginning  of  Pri- 
vate Banks — First  State  Bank — Clark's  Exchange  Bank — History  of 
Present  Banks — Springfield  Marine  Bank  the  Oldest  in  the  State — 
First  United  States  Bank  Established  in  1863— Col.  John  Williams 
its  Founder — Date  of  Founding  Other  Institutions — Aggregate 
Banking  Capital  and  Deposits  in  1911 — Springfield  City  Savings  and 
Loan  Association — First  and  Present  Officers — Building  and  Loan 
Associations — Village  Banks  766-770 


CHAPTER  XXII. 
RAILROADS. 

Railway  History  in  Sangamon  County — Early  Conditions  and  Develop- 
ment of  Half  a  Century — Changes  Wrought  by  the  Introduction  of 
Railroads,  Steamboats  and  Telegraph  Lines — Progress  in  the  Prairies 
of  Illinois — Comparison  of  Prairie  Soil  and  California  Gold  Fields — 
Summary  of  Railroad  History — The  Northern  Cross  Railroad  the 
First  Constructed  in  Illinois — It  Becomes  the  Wahash  of  Today — 
The  Alton  &  Sangamon  the  Forerunner  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton — The 
Gilman,  Clinton  &  Springfield  Now  a  Part  of  the  Illinois  Central — 
Other  Lines  of  a  Later  Period — Eight  Steam  Railroad  Lines  Enter 
Sangamon  County  Territory — Interurban  Lines 770-778 


CHAPTER  XXIII. 
AGRICULTURE— FARMING  LANDS. 

Primeval  Conditions  in  Sangamon  County — First  Farming  Lands  Lim- 
ited to  the  Timber  Tracts — Delay  in  Improvement  of  the  Prairie 
Soil — Principal  Products — Domestic  Conditions  and  Industries — 
First  Prairie  Plow — Its  Final  Success  and  Subsequent  Agricultural 


Development — Early  Farming  Implements  and  Methods — Change 
Produced  by  the  Improvement  of  Prairie  Lands — -Introduction  of  the 
Reaping  Machine — Conditions  at  the  Close  of  the  Civil  War — A  Pe- 
riod of  Development — Improvement  Wrought  by  Tile-Drainage — 
Era  of  Scientific  Farming  and  a  Forecast  of  Results — Farming  and 
Farm  Land  Statistics,  1910 778-783 

CHAPTER  XXIV. 
MANUFACTURES. 

Springfield  as  a  Manufacturing  Center — Influence  of  Transportation 
Facilities — Some  Early  Manufacturing  Enterprises — Those  of  the 
Present  Day — Illinois  Watch  Company — Its  Founders  and  Present 
Officers — Racine-Sattley  Manufacturing  Company — Shoe  Manufac- 
turing— The  Ide  Machine  Works — William  Fetzer  Company — 
United  Zinc  &  Chemical  Company — Capital  Foundry  &  Machine 
Works — Springfield  Bridge  &  Iron  Company — Rayfield  Motor  Car 
Company — Dawson  Brick  &  Tile  Company — Boiler  Manufacturing 
Company — Other  Manufacturing  Enterprises  Now  in  Operation...  783-786 


CHAPTER  XXV. 
STATE  AND  COUNTY  FAIRS. 

Organization  of  Illinois  State  Agricultural  Society  in  1853 — First  Of- 
ficers and  First  Fair — Prof.  Jonathan  B.  Turner,  Promoter  of  the 
System  of  Industrial  Education,  Delivers  the  First  Address — Second 
Fair  at  Springfield  in  1854 — Receipts,  Premiums  and  Expenses — 
Location  of  Fairs  Under  a  One  Year  System — Change  of  System  in 
1863 — Subsequent  Locations  up  to  1893 — Movement  for  Permanent 
Location — Springfield,  Bloomington,  Decatur  and  Peoria  Competing 
Cities — Decision  in  Favor  of  Springfield,  January  11,  1894 — Value 
of  Grounds  and  other  Gifts — Success  of  First  Fair  under  New  Ar- 
rangement— Subsequent  Growth  in  Attendance  and«Exhibits — Build- 
ings and  other  Improvements  on  Fair  Grounds — Present  Conditions 
of  Administration  and  Recent  Improvements 786-790 


CHAPTER  XXVI. 
EDUCATIONAL— PUBLIC  SCHOOLS. 

Primitive  Educational  Conditions — Early  Schools  in  Sangamon  County 
— Quality  of  Teachers  and  Text-Books — -First  Schools  in  Different 
Townships — Description  of  School  Buildings — County  Superintend- 
ents—Statistics of  Pupils,  Teachers  and  Expenditures — Early 
Springfield  Schools  and  Subsequent  Development — -Teachers  and 
Principals — Springfield  Academy  and  Female  Seminary — -Present 
City  Schools  and  List  of  Superintendents — Enrollment  and  Property 
Valuations — City  High  School  and  Principals— Teachers '  Tra4-  ing 
School  .  790-803 


CHAPTER  XXVII. 
EDUCATIONAL— HIGHER  INSTITUTIONS. 

Concordia  Theological  Seminary — Early  Efforts  to  Secure  Means  of 
Theological  Training — Establishment  of  the  Seminary  at  Fort 
Wayne,  Ind.,  in  1846 — Its  Removal  to  St.  Louis  in  1861  and  to 
Springfield  in  1871 — Subsequent  Struggles  and  Development — The 
Notable  Career  of  Prof.  Craemer — Its  Termination  in  1891 — Pres- 
ent Force,  Number  of  Graduates  and  Fields  in  Which  They  Have 
Labored— Bettie  Stuart  Institute..  .  804-808 


CHAPTER  XXVIII. 
LIBRARIES. 

Public  and  Private  Libraries  in  Sangamon  County — Illinois  State  Lib- 
rary— Original  Establishment  in  1839 — Subsequent  Changes  and 
Present  Management — State  Historical  Library  Organized  in  1889 — 
Extent  and  Character  of  its  Collections — Lincoln  Records — The  Lib- 
rary Made  a  Department  of  the  State  Historical  Society  in  1903 — 
Librarians — State  Law  Library — Springfield  Public  Library — First 
Organization  and  Present  Extent — List  of  Librarians — Institu- 
tional, Fraternity,  Benificiary  and  District  School  Libraries 808-813 


CHAPTER  XXIX. 
GEOLOGY. 

Prehistoric  Conditions — Illinois  Territory  at  One  Period  Within  Oceanic 
Limits — Natural  Resources  Due  to  Geologic  Development — Thick- 
ness and  Kind  of  Rocks — Geological  Formations — Origin  of  the  Rocks 
— Some  Characteristic  Fossils..  .  814-819 


CHAPTER  XXX. 
MINERAL  RESOURCES. 

Building  Stone  and  Other  Resources — Sand  and  Clay — Tile  and  Brick 
Manufactures — Coal  Deposits — Sangamon  the  Second  County  in 
the  State  in  Coal  Production — Soil  Varieties — Water  Resources — 
Natural  Streams  and  Wells — Surface  Elevation — Highest  and  Low- 
est Points  in  the  County — Wealth  of  Coal  and  Soil  Products 819-822 


CHAPTER  XXXI. 
COAL  MINING  AND  PRODUCTION. 

Importance  of  the  Coal  Mining  Industry— Its  Growth — Illinois  the  Sec- 
ond Coal  A  lining  State  in  the  Union — -First  Discoveries  and  Develop- 
ment in  Sangaruon  County — Total  Production  of  the  State  Between 
1833  and  1910 — Sangamon  Now  the  Second  Mining  County  in  the 
State — -Production  of  the  County  by  Years  from  1882 — Location  of 
Mines,  Number  of  Employes,  Product  and  Value  of  the  Same  for  the 
Year  1910 — Influence  of  Mining  Products  on  Manufactures 822-825 

CHAPTER  XXXII. 
STATE  MUSEUM  OF  NATURAL  HISTORY. 

Beginning  of  Geological  Investigation  in  Illinois — Dr.  J.  G.  Norwood 
the  First  State  Geologist— His  Successors  and  the  Difficulties  by 
Which  They  Have  All  Been  Confronted — Prof.  "Worthen's  Zealous 
Labors  and  His  Sad  Experience — Legislative  Indifference  or  Incom- 
petency — Prof.  Lindahl  and  Other  Incumbents — Inadequacy  of  the 
Museum  Quarters — Museum  Moved  Into  the  State  Arsenal  in  1905 
—Prof.  A.  R.  Crook  Appointed'  Curator  in  1906 — Project  for  More 
Ample  Building  Accommodations — Illinois  Surpassed  by  Other  and 
Younger  States — Possibilities  of  the  Museum  as  an  Aid  to  Scientific 
and  General  Educational  Training  825-828 

CHAPTER  XXXIII. 
MUNICIPAL  HISTORY. 

Springfield  as  a  Municipal  Organization — Abraham  Lincoln  an  Early 
Village  Trustee — The  Village  Incorporated  in  1832 — Charles  R 
Matheny,  President  of  the  First  Village  Board — City  Incorporation 
Adopted  in  1840 — First  Mayor  and  Councilmen — List  of  Mayors 
from  1840  to  1911— Late  Mayor  David  S.  Griffiths— Adoption  of 
Commission  Form  of  Government  in  1911 — Present  City  Officials 
and  Municipal  Boards — Growth  in  Population — Electric  Lighting 
Plant  and  Water  Works  Owned  by  the  City — Park  System  and  Rail- 
way Facilities — Lincoln  Monument — Public  Buildings — Financial 
Institutions — Factories  and  Coal  Fields — Recent  Development — 
Educational  Advantages 828-832 

CHAPTER  XXXIV. 
THE  JUVENILE  COURT. 

Changes  Wrought  by  Time  and  Increasing  Population — Advanced  Civil- 
ization and  the  Demands  on  Patriotic  Citizenship — The  Problem  Pre- 
sented by  Dependent  and  Delinquent  Children — Its  Recognition  in 
the  Juvenile  Court  Law  of  1S99 — Important  Work  Accomplished 


under  This  Act  in  Illinois  and  Sangamon  County — Sangamon  County 
Juvenile  "Annex"  and  "Home  for  the  Friendless" — Number  of 
Dependent  Children  Brought  Before  the  Sangamon  County  Juvenile 
Court  in  Twelve  Years — Only  a  Small  Proportion  Sent  to  State  Re- 
formatories and  Home  for  Girls. . .  .  832-835 


CHAPTER  XXXV. 
PUBLIC  HEALTH  AND  WATER  SUPPLY. 

Springfield  Sanitary  Conditions  in  1820 — The  Old  Town  Branch — 
Street  Platting — Sanitary  Problems  of  a  Later  Period — Cholera 
Visitation  of  1832— Sanitary  Ordinances  of  1840— First  Health 
Board — Subsequent  Changes — Public  Wells — Another  Cholera  Vis- 
itation in  1854— Smallpox  and  other  Pestilential  Diseases — Sewerage 
Problem  and  Water  Supply — Artesian  Well  Project  Proves  a  Fail- 
ure, but  Results  in  Coal  Discovery — First  Water  Works  Plant  Pro- 
jected in  1860 — Its  Partial  Realization  in  1866 — Subsequent  Develop- 
ment and  Present  Condition — Enlargement  Made  Necessary  by 
Increase  of  Population — Report  of  Sanitary  Survey  of  1910 835-842 

CHAPTER  XXXVI. 
POLICE  AND  FIRE  DEPARTMENT. 

Their  Relationship  as  Agents  for  Protection  of  Life  and  Property- 
Duties  of  the  Policeman  as  Prescribed  by  State  Law — Identical,  under 
Special  Restrictions,  with  Those  of  the  Sheriff,  Constable,  Mayor 
and  City  Marshal — Springfield  the  County  Seat  in  1821 — Incorpo- 
rated as  a  Town  in  1832  and  as  a  City  in  1840 — City  Marshal  Ap- 
pointed by  the  Mayor — Present  Strength  of  Police  Force — Spring- 
field Fire  Department — The  Volunteer  Bucket  Brigade  and  How  it 
Performed  its  Duties — Coming  of  the  Hand  Engine — Method  of 
Operation — First  Steam  Engine  and  Subsequent  Additions — Present 
Number  of  Engines  and  Stations — Value  of  Equipment  and 
other  Property — Fire  Statistics  of  1909 — Present  Force— A  Notable 
Fire  of  1858..  .  842-844 


CHAPTER  XXXVII. 

• 

CITY  PARKS. 

Artificial  and  Natural  Parks  of  Springfield — Progress  of  Eighty  Years — 
Springfield  as  the  "Flower  City" — Advent  of  the  Park  System  in 
1900 — First  Park  Board  and  Subsequent  Members — Washington  and 
Lincoln  Parks  Established — Others  of  a  Later  Period — Present  Park 
System  with  Area  of  Each  Park — Nine  Springfield  Parks  Occupy  an 
Area  of  372%  Acres — Influence  Upon  City's  Growth  and  Property 
Values  .  .  844-846 


CHAPTER  XXXVIII. 
REAL  ESTATE  VALUES. 

Stability  of  Real  Estate — Growth  in  Value — Land  Ownership  as  a  Basis 
of  Patriotism — Changes  of  Forty  Years — Advancement  in  Agricul- 
tural Methods — County  Organization — Springfield  the  County  Seat 
—First  Sale  of  Public  Lands— Value  of  Early  Town  Lots— Phe- 
nomenal Development  of  Later  Years — Some  Noted  Business  Loca- 
tions— Reminiscences  by  Real  Estate  Owners  of  Today — Assessment 
Valuations  of  Real  Estate  and  Personal  Property  in  Sangamon 
County  from  1877  to  1909 846-853 

CHAPTER  XXXIX. 
COMMERCIAL  ASSOCIATION. 

Various  Business  Associations  Which  Have  Existed  in  Springfield — 
The  Springfield  Board  of  Trade — Its  Organization  in  1869,  First 
Members  and  Officers — Its  Influence  in  Establishing  the  Springfield 
Watch  Company — Merchants'  and  Shippers'  Association— Begin- 
ning of  Business  Men's  Association — New  Manufacturing  Enterprises 
-The  Ad  Men's  Club— Its  Development  Into  the  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce— Consolidation  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and  Business 
Men's  Association — Present  Officers  of  the  Springfield  Commercial 
Association  and  its  Outlook  for  the  Future 853-856 

' 

CHAPTER  XL. 
CHURCH  HISTORY. 

Sangamon  County  Churches— Methodist  Evangelists  of  1819-20— Subse- 
quent M.  E.  Church  Organizations  in  Springfield  and  Sangamon 
County — First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Springfield  Established  in 
1828 — Later  Organizations  in  City  and  Country  Districts,  With  List 
of  Pastors — Second  Presbyterian  Church  Jubilee  of  1910— First  Cele- 
bration of  Catholic  Mass  on  Sugar  Creek  in  1829 — Present  Catholic 
Churches  in  Springfield  and  Sangamon  County — Ursuline  Convent 
and  Sacred  Heart  Academy — First  Baptist  Organization  in  1830— 
Patriotism  of  the  Civil  War  Period — Christian  Church  Founded  in 
1833 — Christian  Fellowship  Celebration  in  1901 — Episcopal 
Churches,  Rectors  and  Present  Membership — Lutheran  Churches, 
Congregational  and  United"  Brethren  Church  Organizations 856-893 

CHAPTER  XLI. 
OLD  SETTLERS'  SOCIETY. 

Old  Settlers'  Society  of  Sangamon  County — Its  Organization  in  1859 — 
Promoters  of  the  Organization  and  First  Officers — Constitution  and 
Qualifications  for  Membership — The  Original  Members  Known  as 


"Snow  Birds"  from  the  Period  of  the  "Deep  Snow"— First  Meet- 
ing Held  at  Site  of  First  Cabin  Built  in  Sangamon  County  by  Robert 
Pulliam  in  1817 — Reorganization  and  Regular  Annual  Meeting  Held 
in  1868 — Reports  of  Subsequent  Reunions — Celebration  of  Fiftieth 
Anniversary  of  Society  Organization  in  1909 — Officers  and  Principal 
Speakers  up  to  1911 893-904 


CHAPTER  XLII. 
INDIAN  AND  MEXICAN  WARS. 

The  Part  Borne  by  Citizens  of  Sangaraon  County  in  Various  War  Strug- 
gles—Winnebago  War  Scare  of  1827— The  Black  Hawk  War  of 
1831-32 — Prominent  Men  from  Sangamon  County  who  Participated 
in  That  Conflict — Career  of  Gen.  James  D.  Henry — Injustice  to 
Which  He  was  Subjected — The  Mexican  War — Col.  E.  D.  Baker  and 
Other  Prominent  Soldiers  from  Sangamon  County — Principal  Bat- 
tles in  Which  the  Fourth  Illinois  Regiment  Took  Part 904-911 


CHAPTER  XLIII. 
CIVIL  AND  SPANISH-AMERICAN  WARS. 

Occupation  of  Cairo  by  State  Militia  After  the  Fall  of  Fort  Sumter — 
President  Lincoln's  First  Call  for  Troops — Prompt  Response  from. 
Sangamon  County — The  Seventh  Illinois  the  First  Regiment  Sworn 
Into  the  Service — Roll  of  Volunteers  from  Sangamon  County  who 
Served  in  Three  Months  Regiments — Gen.  Grant's  Reminiscence — 
Later  Organizations  and  General  Roster  of  Officers  and  Privates  with 
Regiments  in  Which  They  Served — The  Roll  of  Honor — List  of  Dead 
from  Sangamon  During  the  War  Period — The  Spanish-American 
War — Roster  of  Volunteers  from  Sangamon  County 9H-951 


CHAPTER  XLIV. 
THE  LINCOLN  CENTENNIAL. 

Celebration  of  the  One  Hundredth  Anniversary  of  the  Birth  of  Abraham 
Lincoln — Some  Preliminary  Exercises  of  the  Day — Planting  of  the 
Lincoln  Grand  Army  Tree  and  Dedication  of  the  Law  Office  Tablet — 
Reception  at  the  Governor's  Mansion — Some  Distinguished  Guests 
— Rev.  T.  D.  Logan's  Address  in  the  Old  Lincoln  Church — Gather- 
ing at  the  Lincoln  Monument — Immense  Assemblage  at  the  Taber- 
nacle— Ambassadors  Jusserand  and  Bryce  and  Senator  Dolliver  and 
W.  J.  Bryan  the  Speakers — Evening  Banquet  and  Imposing  Exer- 
cises in  the  Armory  Building — Messrs.  Jusserand,  Bryce,  Dolliver 
and  Bryan  Orators  on  this  Occasion — Quotations  from  Their  Ad- 
dresses— The  Lincoln  Monument — Its  History  and  Description 951-956 


CHAPTEK— XLV. 
PATRIOTIC  ORGANIZATIONS. 

Grand  Army  of  the  Republic — Its  Origin  Identified  with  Sangamon 
County — Dr.  B.  F.  Stephenson  its  Principal  Founder — Others  As- 
sociated with  its  Organization — G.  A.  R.  Posts  in  the  County — Num- 
ber of  Posts,  Membership  and  Death  Roll  of  the  State  in  1910 — 
Establishment  of  Memorial  Day  by  Gen.  John  A.  Logan — Auxiliary 
Organizations — Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution — Springfield 
Chapter  Organized  in  1894 — Its  Patriotic  Purposes  and  Results — 
Preservation  of  Historic  Sites — The  Fort  Massac  Monument — Past 
and  Present  Officers  of  the  Springfield  Chapter — Celebration  of  the 
Surrender  of  Cornwallis — Soldiers  of  the  Revolution  Buried  in  San- 
gamon County — Unveiling  of  Tablet  in  Their  Memory — Program  and 
List  of  Heroes  Honored . .  .  956-960 


CHAPTER  XLVI. 

PUBLIC  CHARITIES. 

Early  Charity  Organizations  in  Springfield  and  Sangamon  County — 
The  Dorcas  Society — Aid  for  Destitute  Immigrants — Later  Organ- 
izations— Home  for  the  Friendless — Buildings  and  Managing  Officers 
— Generous  Gift  of  Col.  Henry  Davis — Home  for  Aged  Women — 
Now  Known  as  the  "Carrie  Post  King's  Daughters  Home" — Endow- 
ment and  Methods  of  Support — St.  Joseph's  Home  for  the  Aged — 
Lincoln  Home  for  Old  People  ajid  Lincoln  Manual  Training  School 
for  the  Benefit  of  Colored  People — Public  Charities  Association — • 
The  "Rescue  Home"  and  Other  Benevolent  Enterprises — Sketch  of 
the  St.  Joseph's  Home  by  Mother  Superior  Philomina,  of  Sisters  of 
St.  Francis. .  .  960-963 


CHAPTER  XLVII. 
SOCIAL,  LITERARY  AND  RELIGIOUS  ASSOCIATIONS. 

The  Springfield  Woman's  Club — Organized  in  1894  as  Successor  to  Phys- 
ical Culture  Club — Its  Aims  and  Results  in  Educational  and  Phil- 
anthropic Lines — Benevolent  Institutions  Which  Have  Been  Aided 
— Support  of  the  Movement  for  "City  Beautiful" — Liberal  Contri- 
bution to  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Building — Heads  of  Departments  and  Officers 
from  1894  to  1910 — Young  Men's  Christian  Association — Its  Early 
History — Movement  for  the  Erection  of  First  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Building 
— Service  of  William  F.  Bischoff — New  Building  Movement  in  1907 
and  Enthusiasm  Which  Secured  its  Accomplishment — List  of  Active 
Supporters  and  Principal  Donations — Description  of  Building — 
Principal  Officers  and  Lines  of  Work  in  Which  the  Association  is  En- 
gaged— Young  Women's  Christian  Association 963-972 


CHAPTER  XL VIII. 
FRATERNITIES— MUTUAL  BENEFIT  SOCIETIES. 

Extraordinary  Growth  of  Fraternal  Organizations  in  the  United  States 
—Estimated  Annual  Increase  of  Masonic  Fraternities — Introduction 
of  Odd  Fellowship  in  Sangamon  County — Lodges  and  Membership 
— Order  of  Rebekahs — Knights  of  Pythias  and  Auxiliaries — Im- 
proved Order  of  Red  Men — Hibernians  and  Foresters — Order  of  Elks 
—Early  History  of  Masonry  in  Sangamon  County — Modern  Wood- 
men— Knights  of  Columbus — Court  of  Honor — Royal  Benefit  Society 
— B'nai  Brith— Other  Fraternal  and  Social  Orders  in  Springfield. .  972-983 


CHAPTER  XLIX. 
PHENOMENAL  EVENTS. 

The  Deep  Snow  of  1830-31— Hardships  Endured  by  the  Pioneer  Set- 
tlers— Destruction  of  Bird  and  Animal  Life — The  Shooting  Stars — 
Sudden  Freeze  of  1836 — A  Snow  Blockade  and  Violent  Gale — De- 
structive Rain  Storms — The  Tornadoes  of  1858  and  1859 — Destruc- 
tion of  Property  Near  Williamsville  and  Rochester — Sleet  Storm  of 
1883— The  Tornado  of  September,  1911 983-986 


CHAPTER  L. 
CASUALTIES— CRIME  RECORD. 

A  Series  of  Fatal  Railroad  Accidents — Death  of  Former  Mayor  J.  W. 
Smith — Disastrous  Explosion  in  Springfield  Iron  Company  Works 
— A  Second  Railroad  Accident — Boiler  Explosions — Children  Killed 
by  Lightning — Sangamon  County  Crime  Record — First  Murder  and 
Prompt  Punishment  of  the  Murderer — Other  Noted  Murders — The 
Anderson  Mystery — Mechanicsburg  and  Chatham  Killings — Camp 
Butler  Tragedies — A  Young  Desperado's  Tragic  End — The  Sharon 
Tyndale  Murder — The  Slater  Saloon  Affair — An  Illiopolis  Riot — A 
Pair  of  Double  Tragedies — The  Springfield  Race  Riot  and  Lynchings 
of  1908  .  986-993 


CHAPTER  LI. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 

Temperance  Organizations — First  Temperance  Society  in  Central  Illi- 
nois Organized  in  Springfield  in  1829 — The  Washingtonians — First 


Officers  and  Promoters  of  the  Movement — Abraham  Lincoln's 
Speech  of  1842 — Sons  of  Temperance  and  Women's  Christian 
Temperance  Union — Other  Temperance  Societies — The  Long  Nine 
—The  Ill-Fated  Reed  and  Donner  Party  of  1846— Disastrous 
Experience  of  Early  Emigrants  to  California — Twelve  FornuT 
Citizens  of  Sangarnon  County  Perish  from  Exposure  and  Starvation 
— A  Mormon  Settlement — Gold  Seekers  of  1849 — A  Fugitive  Slave 
Case — The  Portuguese  Colony — Its  Coming  to  the  United  States  in 
1849 — Settlements  Established  at  Springfield,  Jacksonville  and 
AVaverly  '. 993-999 


CHAPTER  LII. 
BIOGRAPHICAL. 

The  Part  of  Biography  in   General  History — Citizens  of   Sangamon 

County — Personal  Sketches  Arranged  in  Encyclopedic  Order. ..  .1001-1756 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


SANGAMON  COUNTY. 

Artillery,   Illinois   National   Guards 659 

Bunn  School   803 

Camp   Lincoln    659 

Carpenter 's    Mill    626 

Church  of  the  Immaculate  Conception 868 

Church  of  the  Sacred  Heart 870 

City   Hall    828 

Coliseum  Building,  State  Fair  Grounds 788 

Concordia  College    805 

Country  Club    627 

Dairy  Building,  State  Fair  Grounds 789 

David  Prickett  Homestead 666 

Dome  Building,  State  Fair  Grounds 788 

Douglas  Avenue  M.  E.  Church 856 

East  Side  Public  Square  in  1860 632 

Elks  Club  Rooms  977 

Elliott  Avenue  Baptist  Church    857 

Feitshans  School    797 

First  Congregational  Church  883 

First  Presbyterian   Church    862 

Geology  and  Mineral  Resources   814 

Geology  and  Mineral  Resources   815 

Gibson  Coat  of  Arms   667 

Government  Building   829 

Governor  'a  Mansion    (Exterior)     660 

Governor 's  Mansion   (Interior)    660 

Grand  Stand,  State  Fair  Grounds 787 

High  School  Building    (Old)    790 

High  School  Building    (New)    791 

Home  of  the  Friendless  804 

House  Where  Lyman  Trumbull  was  Married 627 

Illinois  Supreme  Court  Building 637 

Illinois  Watch  Factory   784 

Johnstone  Coat  of  Arms 667 

Keedy's   Distillery    627 

Lawrence  School    797 

Lcland    Hotel    661 

Lincoln 's  Early  Home,  Salem,  111 622 

Lincoln 's  Grocery,  Salem,  111 623 

Lincoln    Library    808 

Lincoln   Mounment  618 


Lincoln  Residence    619 

Machinery  Hall,  State  Fair  Grounds 787 

Main  Entrance,  State  Fair  Grounds 786 

Majestic    Theatre    977 

Map  of  Illinois  Following  Title  Page,  Vol.  1 

Map  of  Sangamon  County   616 

Masonic    Temple    976 

New  Edwards  School   802 

North  Side  Public  Square  in  1860 630 

Officers  Headquarters,  Illinois  National  Guards 659 

Old  Mill  near  Salem 622 

Peter  Cartwright  Church   132 

Plat  of  Land  (Patrick  Howard)   392 

Post  Office    829 

Prickett  Coat  of  Arms    667 

Revolutionary  Tablet    863 

Ruins  of  Salem  Hotel   623 

Sacred  Heart  Academy   871 

Saugamon  County  Court    House    636 

Sangamon  County  Poor    Farm    753 

Saugamon   River    626 

Scene  in  North  Park 845 

Scene  in  Oak  Ridge  Cemetery 849 

Second  M.  E.  Church  856 

Sixth  Street— East  Side  Public  Square 809 

South  Side  Public  Square  in  1860  ^ 631 

South  Springfield  Baptist  Mission 857 

Springfield  Hospital   752 

SS.  Peter  and  Paul  Church  870 

St.  Agnes  Catholic  Church   882 

State  Arsenal  and  Armory   658 

State   Capitol  Building    ( 240 

St.  John 's  Hospital    752 

St.  Joseph's   Catholic   Church    868 

St.  Vincent  de  Paul  Church  (Exterior)    869 

Sr.  Vincent  de  Paul  Church   (Interior)    869 

Teachers '  Training  School   796 

TJrsuline  Convent  Chapel   876 

TJrsuline  Academy  877 

View  of  Clear  Lake 848 

Washington  Park  Pavilion    844 

West-Side  Christian  Church   882 

West  Side  Public  Square  in  1860   633 

Woman  's  Building,  State  Fair  Grounds 789 

Y   M.  C.  A.  Building 9"7 


PORTRAITS 


SANGAMON  COUXTY. 


Allen,  Alfred  M 14 

Anderson,   Martha   20 

Anderson,   Tavner    18 

Anderson,   Mrs.   Tavner    18 

Anderson,  Thomas  F 20 

Arnold,  John  H.  (Group) 24 

Barkley,  James  H 28 

Barnes.  Carey  E 32 

Barnes,  George  C 40 

Barnes,  Mary  Jane   40 

Barnes,  Eobert  A 38 

Barnes,  Mrs.  Eobert  A 38 

Barnes,  Susan  40 

Barnett,  Alexander  M 44 

Barnett,  Mary  J 44 

Bateman,   Xewton    3 

Baxter,  Albert  C 48 

Bennett,  Charles  W 52 

Bennett,  Mrs.  Charles  W 54 

Bergner,  Herman  F 58 

Biesenthal,   Fred    62 

Biesenthal,  Sophie   62 

Bird,  Jacob  F 66 

Bird,  Anna  E 68 

Bradford,  William  A 74 

Brooks,  James  F 78 

Brooks,  Mrs.  James  F 80 

Brooks,  James  W 82 

Brooks,  Martha  E 82 

Brownback,  Charles  E 86 

Brownback,  Mrs.  Eliza  A 88 

Buckley,  Henry  P 98 

Buckley,  Ella  G 100 

Bunting,  William  C 104 

Bunting,  Mrs.  William  C 104 

Bunting.  Charlotte  106 

Burkhardt,  John  M 110 

Burkhardt,  Mary  E 112 

Burton,  John  D 116 


Burton,  Mrs.  John  D 116 

Butler,  William  J 120 

Caldwell,   Otho  L 124 

Cartmel,  Marion   (Group)    128 

Cartwright,   Peter    132 

Carver,  Felix 136 

Cary,  Samuel  H 40 

Catlin,  Malcolm  (Group)    140 

Clapp,  Charles  F 144 

Clark,  James  L 152 

Clark,  Mary  E 154 

Clendenin,  Henry  W 158 

Coe,  Samuel  J 162 

Coe,  Mrs.  Samuel  J 164 

Coe,    William    168 

Coe,  Elizabeth    168 

Collins,  Joseph  H 172 

Conkling,  Clinton  L 176 

Connolly,  James  A 180 

Creighton,  James  A 184 

Crook,  Alija  E 188 

Croivder,  James  H 192 

Crowder,  Mary  A 194 

Currier,  Silas  W 198 

Currier,  Mary  P 200 

Damkus,  Joseph   208 

Damkus,  Mrs.  Joseph  208 

Deneen,  Charles  S 10 

DeSylver,  Ernest    214 

DeSylver,   John    212 

DeSylver,   Mrs.   John    214 

Dickmann,  Casper    218 

Dickmann,  Anna  E 218 

Diller,  Isaac  B 222 

Dillon,  Thomas  M 226 

Dillon.  Caroline   226 

Dodd,  James  E 230 

Dodd,  Mrs.  James  E 232 


Eldred,  Elon   960 

Eldrcd,  Jane  8 960 

Ermann,   Anton    242 

Ermann,  Mary   244 

Faussauer,  Frederick 248 

Faussauer,  Margaret  250 

Feuerbach,   John    254 

Feuerbach,  Lizzie 254 

Fletcher,  Euffin  D 258 

Forster,  Thomas 262 

Forster,  Mrs.  Thomas  264 

Forthman,  William  H 268 

Fowler,  Charles  C 272 

Fowler,  Matilda   272 

Fox,  Charles  W 278 

Fox,  Mrs.  Charles  W 278 

Freitag,  Charles  H 282 

Freitag,  Mrs.  Charles  H 282 

Frey,  John 290 

Frey,  Mrs.  John 292 

Fry,  Dominiek  (Group)    286 


Gardner,  John    

Gardner,  Mary  C 

Gardner,  William  P 

Gardner,  Mrs.  William  P. 
Garvey,  J.  Walter 


298 

298 

296 

296 

302 

Gehlman,  Samuel  H 308 

Goodson,  L.  Jay 312 

Graham,  James  M 316 

Greenawalt,  Leroy  320 

Griesser,   Conrad    324 

Griffith,  Benjamin  M 328 

Griffith,  Alice  A 330 

Groth,   Wilhelm    (Group)     336 

Haegele,  Patrick    340 

Haegele,  Elizabeth   342 

Hall,  David  S 346 

Hall,  Elizabeth  J.  F 348 

Harrison,    Simeon    298 

Harrison,  Mrs.  Simeon  298 

Hatcher,  Mary  C 200 

Henkel,  Henry  B 352 

Herring,  Harold  S 358 

Herring,  Henry    356 

Hesser,  John  L 346 

Hickey,  Timothy   368 

Hicks,  La  Fayette  W 372 

Hicks,  Louisa   374 

Horn,  James  W 378 

Horn,  Mrs.  James  W 380 

Houston,  Miletus  C 384 

Houston,  Mrs.  Miletus  C 384 

Houston,  Samuel   386 


Houston,  Lucretia  " 386 

Howard,  Patrick  (Group)    390 

Howenstine,  Henry    395 

Howenstine,  Mrs.  Henry 393 

Humphrey,  J  Otis   506 

Humphrey,   William    508 

Hunter,  Peter  J.   (Group)    404 

Jarrett,  Thomas  L 408 

Tayne,  William  412 

Johnson,  James  D 416 

Johnson,  Mrs.  James  D 416 

Kabureck,  George    420 

Kabureck,  Margaret  M 422 

Kane,  Charles  P 426 

Kaylor,  John    430 

Kaylor,  Mrs.  John 430 

Kelly,  James  Y 434 

Kessberger,  August  W 440 

Ladage,  Henry  G 448B 

Ladage,   Louisa    450 

Laird,  Florus  A 454 

Lambert,  Edmund   444 

Lincoln,   Abraham    ....  *Frontispiece,   Vol.   1 

Long,  Fred  W 458 

Loomis,  Leverett  W.  462 

Loomis,  Webner  E 462 

Lord,  John  H 466 

Lucas,   Reuben    470 

Lucas,  Mrs.  Eeuben 472 

Lyon,  Harrison  D 476 

Lyon,  Mrs.  Harrison  D 478 

Maloney,  John  D.    (Group)    482 

Mann,  John  H 486 

Mann,  Mrs.  John  H 486 

Martin,  Green  W 494 

Martin,  Emma  P 496 

May,  Elizabeth  J 500 

McCoy,  William  F 512 

McCoy,  William  F.   514 

McCoy,  Mrs.  William  F 512 

McDole,  John 518 

MeDole,  Jane   520 

McEwen,  Jacob  H 524 

McEwen,  Mrs.  Jacob  H 524 

McKee,  James  L 528 

McKee,  Levina  1 530 

Mt-Ivenzie,  Joseph   534 

McKenzie,  Mrs.  Joseph   534 

Metcalf ,  Samuel  T 542 

Metcalf,  Hattie    544 

Metz,  Irving  W 548 

Miller,  Polly  0 386 


Milligan,  Clarence  W 552 

Mills,  Charles  F 556 

Mohr,  Anthony  560 

Mohr,  Maria  A 560 

Mohr,  William  A 560 

Moore,  William  E 564 

Morris,  James  F 568 

Mortimer,  C.  Fred    572 

Murray,  George  W 576 

Neleh,  Adam  580 

Northcott,  William  A 584 

Nottingham,  John   590 

Nottingham,  Mary  A 590 

Nottingham,  Walter    588 

Nottingham,  Amy  E 588 

O  'Conner,  Eev.  Father  594 

0  'Crowley,  Daniel   598 

Orendorff,  Alfred 602 

Osenton,  John  S 606 

Palmer,  George  T 610 

Palmer,  John  M 640 

Palmer,  Mrs.  John  M 642 

Paul,  Henry    648 

Paul,  Mary    648 

Phelps,  Adna  Emerson   652 

Phelps,  H.  Emerson 652 

Phelps,  Mrs.  H.  Emerson  652 

Prickett,   David    664 

Prickett,  Charlotte  G 664 

Prickett,  Thomas  G 668 

Prickett,   Margaret    670 

Priest,  John  W 202 

Purvines,  Achilles  N 674 

Purvines,  Elijah  A 678 

Purvines,  Mrs.  Elijah  A 680 

Purvines,  Green  Lee   684 

Purvines,  Louisa    686 

E«es,  Thomas   690 

Eeiseh,  Frank  694 

Beisch,  Frank,  Jr 694 

Belseh,  Frank,    Sr 694 

Eeisch,  George,    Jr 694 

Eeisch,  George,  Sr 694 

Eeisch,  Joseph  694 

Rhodes,  Clarence  M 700 

Rhodes,  Eichard  B 932 

Rhodes,  Mrs.  Bichard  B 932 

Eoberts,  William  P 706 

Roberts,  Mrs.  William  P 706 

Robertson,  Marcus  B 710 

Robertson,  Mrs.  Marcus  B 710 

Robinson,  John  W 714 


Eumsey,  Aaron   B 840 

Ramsey,  Lucetta  C 842 

Ryan,  Charles  J 718 

Ryan,  Mrs.  Charles  J 718 

Eyan,  James   722 

Sangamon  County  Supervisors 726 

Sanner,  John  A 82 

Sanner,  Anna  M 82 

Sarver,  James  P 730 

Schamel,  Albert    734 

Schamel,  Mrs.   Maria    734 

Schnepp,  John  S 738 

Schroyer,  Moses   742 

Schroyer,  Mrs.    Moses    742 

Selby,  Paul  5 

Sevier,  John  W .746 

Sevier,  Hannah  L 748 

Seward,  Charles  H 754 

Seward,  Carrie    756 

Sherman,  Lawrence  Y 760 

Sidener,  George  P 764 

Sidener,  Hannah  E 766 

Simon,  John  S 770 

Sims,  George  W.  (Group) 774 

Smith,  Andrew  V 778 

Smith,  Mrs.  Andrew  V 780 

Smith,  Frederick  E 800 

Smith,  DeWitt   W 794 

Smith,  J.  Taylor   800 

Smith,  Sarah  Taylor  800 

Smith,  Vincent  G 800 

Starkweather,  Daniel  H 812 

Starkweather,  Mrs.  Daniel  H 812 

Stout,  Philemon  818 

Stout,  Louisa  P.  B 820 

Stout,  Penelope  A 822 

Strode,  John  A.   (Group) 826 

Tarbet,  William  L 830 

Tarbet,  Mrs.  William  L 832 

Taylor,  A.  J 852 

Taylor,  Francis    836 

Taylor,  Harriet  E 838 

Taylor,  Francis  1 852 

Templeman,  James  W 860 

Thayer,  Edward  E 864 

Thoma,  Frank    874 

Thoma,  Hugo   880 

Thompson,  Franklin   C 886 

Thompson,  Mrs.  Franklin  C 888 

Tobin,  Samuel  A 892 

Trimble,   Eugene    S.    (Group)     896 

Vancil,  Burke  900 

Van  Da  Walker,  Charles   904 


Van   Da  Walker.  John  L 004 

Van  Da  Walker,  John  L.,  Jr 904 

Van    M PUT,  Abraham  D ill:.' 

Van  Meter,  Nancy  A 912 

Van  Meter,  James   B 908 

Van   .Meter.   .Mrs.   James   B 910 

Venueman,  Theodore 916 

Veniieman,  Catharine 918 

Vose,  John »22 

Wade,  Samuel   G 926 

Wade,  Mrs.  Samuel  G 926 

Watts,  Albert  B 20 

Watts,  Lydia  A 20 

Webster,  Mary  A 930 

White,  Frank    936 

White,  Marian  B .938 

White,  Thomas    942 

White,  Mrs.    Thomas    942 


Whitiiiore,   Oliver   ......................  946 

Wilcox,    Thomas    M  ....................  <i.~ti 

\Vilpy,   Lewis   D  .......................  954 

Willis,  Ann  C.  R  ......................  960 

Willis,  Claude  J  .......................  958 

Willis,  Jane   E  ........................  ii.'s 

Wilson,    Harry    W  .....................  964 

Wilson,    Thomas   W  ....................  968 

Wilson.   Kiltie     .........................  968 

W  .....  Icock,  John  R  .....................  972 

Woodcock,   Mrs.  John  E  ................  972 

Woodruff,  Cornelius  ....................  980 


Yates,  Richard 
Young,  James   (Group) 


Zuckswerth,  Henry  .....................  992 

Zuekswertli,  Mrs.  Henry   ................  '.i'i2 


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ABBOTT,  (Lient.-Gov.)  Edward,  a  British 
officer,  who  was  commandant  at  Post  Vincennes 
(called  by  the  British,  Fort  Sackville)  at  the 
time  Col.  George  Rogers  Clark  captured  Kaskas- 
kia  in  1778.  Abbott's  jurisdiction  extended,  at 
least  nominally,  over  a  part  of  the  "Illinois 
Country. "  Ten  days  after  the  occupation  of  Kas- 
kaskia,  Colonel  Clark,  having  learned  that 
Abbott  had  gone  to  the  British  headquarters  at 
Detroit,  leaving  the  Post  without  any  guard 
except  that  furnished  by  the  inhabitants  of  the 
village,  took  advantage  of  his  absence  to  send 
Pierre  Gibault.  the  Catholic  Vicar-General  of  Illi- 
nois, to  win  over  the  people  to  the  American 
cause,  which  he  did  so  successfully  that  they  at 
once  took  the  oath  of  allegiance,  and  the  Ameri- 
can flag  was  run  up  over  the  fort.  Although 
Fort  Sackville  afterwards  fell  into  the  hands  of 
the  British  for  a  time,  the  manner  of  its  occupa- 
tion was  as  much  of  a  surprise  to  the  British  as 
that  of  Kaskaskia  itself,  and  contributed  to  the 
completeness  of  Clark's  triumph.  (See  Clark, 
Col.  George  Rogers,  also,  Gibault,  Pierre.)  Gov- 
ernor Abbott  seems  to  have  been  of  a  more 
humane  character  than  the  mass  of  British 
officers  of  his  day,  as  he  wrote  a  letter  to  General 
Carleton  about  this  time,  protesting  strongly 
against  the  employment  of  Indians  in  carrying 
on  warfare  against  the  colonists  on  the  frontier, 
on  the  ground  of  humanity,  claiming  that  it  was 
a  detriment  to  the  British  cause,  although  he 
was  overruled  by  his  superior  officer,  Colonel 
Hamilton,  in  the  steps  soon  after  taken  to  recap- 
ture Vincennes. 

ABINGDON,  second  city  in  size  in  KnoxCounty, 
at  the  junction  of  the  Iowa  Central  and  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroads;  10 
miles  soutli  of  Galesburg,  with  which  it  is  con- 
nected by  electric  car  line ;  has  city  waterworks, 
electric  light  plant,  wagon  works,  brick  and  tile 
works,  sash,  blind  and  swing  factories,  two  banks, 


three  weekly  papers,  public  library,  fine  high 
school  building  and  two  ward  schools.  Hedding 
College,  a  flourishing  institution,  under  auspices 
of  the  M.  E.  Church,  is  located  here.  Population 
(1900),  2,022;  (1910),  2,464. 

ACCAULT,  Michael  (Ak-ko),  French  explorer 
and  companion  of  La  Salle,  who  came  to  the 
"Illinois  Country"  in  1780,  and  accompanied 
Hennepin  when  the  latter  descended  the  Illinois 
River  to  its  mouth  and  then  ascended  the  Mis- 
sissippi to  the  vicinity  of  the  present  city  of  St. 
Paul,  where  they  were  captured  by  Sioux.  They 
were  rescued  by  Greysolon  Dulhut  (for  whom 
the  city  of  Duluth  was  named),  and  having  dis- 
covered the  Falls  of  St.  Anthony,  returned  to 
Green  Bay.  (See  Hennepin.) 

ACKERMAN,  William  K.,  Railway  President 
and  financier,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  Jan. 
29,  1832,  of  Knickerbocker  and  Revolutionary 
ancestry,  his  grandfather,  Abraham  D.  Acker- 
man,  having  served  as  Captain  of  a  company  of 
the  famous  "Jersey  Blues,"  participating  with 
"Mad"  Anthony  Wayne  in  the  storming  of  Stony 
Point  during  the  Revolutionary  War,  while  his 
father  served  as  Lieutenant  of  Artillery  in  the 
War  of  1812.  After  receiving  a  high  school  edu- 
cation in  New  York,  Mr.  Ackerman  engaged  in 
mercantile  business,  but  in  1852  became  a  clerk 
in  the  financial  department  of  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad.  Coining  to  Chicago  in  the  service  of 
the  Company  in  1860,  he  successively  filled  the 
positions  of  Secretary,  Auditor  and  Treasurer, 
until  July,  1876,  when  he  was  elected  Vice-Presi- 
dent and  a  year  later  promoted  to  the  Presidency, 
voluntarily  retiring  from  this  position  in  August, 
1883,  though  serving  some  time  longer  in  the 
capacity  of  Vice-President.  During  the  progress 
of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  at  Chicago 
(1892-93)  Mr.  Ackerman  served  as  Auditor  of  the 
Exposition,  and  was  City  Comptroller  of  Chicago 
under  the  administration  of  Mayor  Hopkins 


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(1893-95).  He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Chicago 
Historical  Society,  and  rendered  valuable  service  to 
railroad  history  by  the  issue  of  two  brochures  on 
the  "Early  History  of  Illinois  Railroads,"  and  a 
"Historical  Sketch  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad." 
Died  Feb.  7,  1905. 

ADAMS,  John,  LL.D.,  educator  and  philan- 
thropist, was  born  at  Canterbury,  Conn.,  Sept.  18, 
1772;  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1795;  taught 
for  several  years  in  his  native  place,  in  Plain- 
field,  N.  J.,  and  at  Colchester,  Conn.  In  1810  he 
became  Principal  of  Phillips  Academy  at  An- 
dover,  Mass.,  remaining  there  twenty-three 
years.  In  addition  to  his  educational  duties  he 
participated  in  the  organization  of  several  great 
charitable  associations  which  attained  national 
importance.  On  retiring  from  Phillips  Academy 
in  1833,  he  removed  to  Jacksonville,  111.,  where, 
four  years  afterward,  he  became  the  third  Prin- 
cipal of  Jacksonville  Female  Academy,  remaining 
six  years.  He  then  became  Agent  of  the  Ameri- 
can Sunday  School  Union,  in  the  course  of  the 
next  few  years  founding  several  hundred  Sunday 
Schools  in  different  parts  of  the  State.  He  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  Yale  College  in 
1854.  Died  in  Jacksonville,  April  24,  1863.  The 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  father  of  Dr.  William 
Adams,  for  forty  years  a  prominent  Presbyterian 
clergyman  of  New  York  and  for  seven  years  (1873- 
80)  President  of  Union  Theological  Seminary. 

ADAMS,  John  McGregor,  manufacturer,  was 
born  at  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  March  11,  1834,  the 
son  of  Rev.  John  R.  Adams,  who  served  as  Chap- 
lain of  the  Fifth  Maine  and  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty-first  New  York  Volunteers  during  the 
Civil  War.  Mr.  Adams  was  educated  at  Gorham, 
Me.,  and  Andover,  Mass.,  after  which,  going  to 
New  York  City,  he  engaged  as  clerk  in  a  dry- 
goods  house  at  §150  a  year.  He  next  entered  the 
office  of  Clark  &  Jessup,  hardware  manufacturers, 
and  in  1858  came  to  Chicago  to  represent  the 
house  of  Morris  K.  Jessup  &  Co.  He  thus  became 
associated  with  the  late  John  Crerar,  the  firm  of 
Jessup  &  Co.  being  finally  merged  into  that  of 
Crerar,  Adams  &  Co.,  which,  with  the  Adams  & 
Westlake  Co.,  have  done  a  large  business  in  the 
manufacture  of  railway  supplies.  After  the  death 
of  Mr.  Crerar,  Mr.  Adams  became  principal  manager 
of  the  concern's  vast  manufacturing  business. 
Died  Sept.  18,  1904. 

ADAMS,  (Dr.)  Samuel,  physician  and  edu- 
cator, was  born  at  Brunswick,  Me.,  Dec.  19,  1806, 
and  educated  at  Bowdoin  College,  where  he 
graduated  in  both  the  departments  of  literature 
and  of  medicine.  Then,  having  practiced  as  a 


physician  several  years,  in  1838  he  assumed  the 
chair  of  Natural  Philosophy,  Chemistry  and 
Natural  History  in  Illinois  College  at  Jackson- 
ville, 111.  From  1843  to  1845  he  was  also  Pro- 
fessor of  Materia  Medica  and  Therapeutics  in  the 
Medical  Department  of  the  same  institution,  and, 
during  his  connection  with  the  College,  gave 
instruction  at  different  times  in  nearly  every 
branch  embraced  in  the  college  curriculum, 
including  the  French  and  German  languages. 
Of  uncompromising  firmness  and  invincible  cour- 
age in  his  adherence  to  principle,  he  was  a  man 
of  singular  modesty,  refinement  and  amiability 
in  private  life,  winning  the  confidence  and  esteem 
of  all  with  whom  he  came  in  contact,  especially 
the  students  who  came  under  his  instruction.  A 
profound  and  thorough  scholar,  he  possessed  a 
refined  and  exalted  literary  taste,  which  was 
illustrated  in  occasional  contributions  to  scien- 
tific and  literary  periodicals.  Among  productions 
of  his  pen  on  philosophic  topics  may  be  enumer- 
ated articles  on  "The  Natural  History  of  Man  in 
his  Scriptural  Relations;"  contributions  to  the 
"Biblical  Repository"  (1844);  "Auguste  Comte 
and  Positivism"  ("New  Englander,"  1873),  and 
"Herbert  Spencer's  Proposed  Reconciliation  be- 
tween Religion  and  Science"  ("New  Englander," 
1875).  His  connection  with  Illinois  College  con- 
tinued until  his  death,  April,  1877 — a  period  of 
more  than  thirty-eight  years.  A  monument  to 
his  memory  has  been  erected  through  the  grate- 
ful donations  of  his  former  pupils. 

ADAMS,  George  Everett,  lawyer  and  ex-Con- 
gressman, born  at  Keene,  N.  H.,  June  18,  1840; 
was  educated  at  Harvard  College,  and  at  Dane 
Law  School,  Cambridge,  Mass. ,  graduating  at  the 
former  in  1860.  Early  in  life  he  settled  in  Chi- 
cago, where,  after  some  time  spent  as  a  teacher 
in  the  Chicago  High  School,  he  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  His  first  post  of  pub- 
lic responsibility  was  that  of  State  Senator,  to 
which  he  was  elected  in  1880.  In  1882  he  was 
chosen,  as  a  Republican,  to  represent  the  Fourth 
Illinois  District  in  Congress,  and  re-elected  in 
1884,  '86  and  '88.  In  1890  he  was  again  a  candi- 
date, but  was  defeated  by  Walter  C.  Newberry. 
He  is  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Newberry 
Library. 

ADAMS,  James,  pioneer  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  Jan.  26,  1803;  taken  to  Oswego 
County,  N.  Y.,  in  1809,  and,  in  1821,  removed  to 
Springfield,  111.,  being  the  first  lawyer  to  locate 
in  the  future  State  capital.  He  enjoyed  an  ex- 
tensive practice  for  the  time;  in  1823  was  elected 
a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  took  part  in  the  Winne- 


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bago  and  Black  Hawk  wars,  was  elected  Probate 
Judge  in  1841,  and  died  in  office,  August  11,  1843. 

ADAMS  COUNTY,  an  extreme  westerly  county 
of  the  State,  situated  about  midway  between  its 
northern  and  southern  extremities,  and  bounded 
on  the  west  by  the  Mississippi  River.  It  was 
organized  in  1825  and  named  in  honor  of  John 
Quincy  Adams,  the  name  of  Quincy  being  given 
to  the  county  seat.  The  United  States  Census  of 
1890  places  its  area  at  830  sq.  m.  and  its  popula- 
tion at  61,888.  The  soil  of  the  county  is  fertile 
and  well  watered,  the  surface  diversified  and 
hilly,  especially  along  the  Mississippi  bluffs,  and 
its  climate  equable.  The  wealth  of  the  county  is 
largely  derived  from  agriculture,  although  a 
large  amount  of  manufacturing  is  carried  On  in 
Quincy.  Pop.  (1900),  67,058;  (1910),  64,488. 

ADDAMSj  John  liny,  legislator,  was  born  at 
Sinking  Springs,  Berks  County,  Pa.,  July  12, 
1822;  educated  at  Trappeand  Upper  Dublin,  Pa., 
and  learned  the  trade  of  a  miller  in  his  youth, 
which  he  followed  in  later  life.  In  1844,  Mr. 
Addams  came  to  Illinois,  settling  at  Cedarville, 
Stephenson  County,  purchased  a  tract  of  land 
and  built  a  saw  and  grist  mill  on  Cedar  Creek. 
In  1854  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate"  from 
Stenhenson  County,  serving  continuously  in  that 
body  by  successive  re-elections  until  1870 — first  as 
a  Whig  and  afterwards  as  a  Republican.  In  1865 
he  established  the  Second  National  Bank  of  Free- 
port,  of  which  he  continued  to  be  the  president 
until  his  death,  August  17,  1881. — Miss  Jane 
( Addams),  philanthropist,  the  founder  of  the  "Hull 
House,"  Chicago,  is  a  daughter  of  Mr.  Addams. 

ADDISON,  village,  Du  Page  County;  seat  of 
Evangelical  Lutheran  College,  Normal  School 
and  Orphan  Asylum;  lias  State  Bank,  stores  and 
public  school.  Pop-  (1900),  591;  (1910),  579. 

ADJUTANTS-GENERAL.  The  office  of  Adju- 
tant-General for  the  State  of  Illinois  was  first 
created  by  Act  of  the  Legislature,  Feb.  2,  1865. 
Previous  to  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  the  position 
was 'rather  honorary  than  otherwise,  its  duties 
^except  during  the  Black  Hawk  War)  and  its 
emoluments  being  alike  unimportant.  The  in- 
cumbent was  simply  the  Chief  of  the  Governor's 
Staff.  In  1861,  the  post  became  one  of  no  small 
importance.  Those  who  held  the  office  during 
the  Territorial  period  were:  Elias  Rector,  Robert 
Morrison,  Benjamin  Stephenson  and  Wm.  Alex- 
ander. After  the  admission  of  Illinois  as  a  State 
up  to  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War,  the  duties 
(which  were  almost  wholly  nominal)  were  dis- 
charged by  Wm.  Alexander,  1819-21 ;  Elijah  C. 
Berry,  1821-28;  James  W.  Berry,  1828-39;  Moses 


K.  Anderson,  1839-57;  Thomas  S.  Mather,  1858-61. 
Col  nit'l  Mather  having  resigned  to  enter  active  service, 
Judge  A.  C.  Fuller  filled  the  office  until  January 
1,  1865.  The  first  appointee,  under  the  act  of 
1865,  was  Isham  N.  Haynie,  who  held  office  until 
his  death  in  1869.  The  Legislature  of  1869,  taking 
into  consideration  that  all  the  Illinois  volunteers 
had  been  mustered  out,  and  that  the  duties  of  the 
Adjutant-General  had  been  materially  lessened, 
reduced  the  proportions  of  the  department  and 
curtailed  the  appropriation  for  its  support.  Since 
the  adoption  of  the  military  code  of  1877,  the 
Adjutant-General's  office  has  occupied  a  more 
important  and  conspicuous  position  among  the 
departments  of  the  State  government.  The  follow- 
ing is  a  list  of  those  who  have  held  office  since 
General  Haynie,  with  the  date  and  duration  of 
their  respective  terms  of  office:  Hubert  Dilger, 
1869-73;  Edwin  L.  Biggins,  1873-75;  Hiram 
Billiard,  1875-81;  Isaac  H.  Elliot,  1881-84,  Joseph 
W.  Vance,  1884-91;  Jasper  N.  Reece,  1891-93; 
Albert  Orendorff,  1893-96,  C  C.  Hilton,  1896-97; 
Jasper  N.  Rcece,  1897-1902  (deceased);  James  B. 
Smith,  1902-03;  Thomas  W.  Scott,  1903-09 
(deceased);  Frank  S.  Dickson  (acting),  1909 — . 

AGRICULTURE.  Illinois  ranks  high  as  an 
agricultural  State.  A  large  area  in  the  eastern 
portion  of  the  State,  because  of  the  absence  of 
timber,  was  called  by  the  early  settlers  "the 
Grand  Prairie."  Upon  and  along  a  low  ridge 
beginning  in  Jackson  County  and  running  across 
the  State  is  the  prolific  fruit-growing  district  of 
Southern  Illinois.  The  bottom  lands  extending 
from  Cairo  to  the  mouth  of  the  Illinois  River  are 
of  a  fertility  seemingly  inexhaustible.  The  cen- 
tral portion  of  the  State  is  best  adapted  to  corn, 
and  the  southern  and  southwestern  to  the  culti- 
vation of  winter  wheat.  Nearly  three-fourths  of 
the  entire  State — some  42,000  square  miles — is  up- 
land prairie,  well  suited  to  the  raising  of  cereals. 
In  1909  Illinois  surpassed  all  other  States  in  the 
production  of  oats  and  corn,  the  former  amounting 
to  159,064,000  bushels  (from  4,346,000  acres,  value 
$60,441,000),  and  the  latter  to  369,770,000 
bushels  (from  10,300,000  acres,  value  $192,280,- 
000),  Iowa  being  second  in  both  of  these  lines. 
In  wheat  raising  Illinois  ranked  eighth,  the 
total  amounting  to  1,810,000  acres  and  31,- 
494,000  bushels,  value  $32,754,000.  As  a  live-stock 
producing  State  for  many  years  it  held  the  highest 
rank,  especially  in  horses  and  cattle,  but  while  it 
is  now  surpassed  by  some  of  the  younger  grazing 
States,  more  attention  proportionally  is  given  in 
Illinois  to  breeding  the  higher  classes  of  stock  with 
great  success. 


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HISTORICAL   ENCYCLOPEDIA   OF   ILLINOIS. 


A<;KICt  LTHUL  DEPARTMENT.  The  Illi- 
nois State  Agricultural  Society  organized  in  1853 
with  James  N.  Brown,  of  Sangamon,  first  President ; 
Simeon  Francis,  Recording  Secretary;  William 
Kennicott,  Corresponding  Secretary,  and  John 
Williams,  Treasurer;  by  act  of  the  Legislature, 
April  15,  1872,  became  The  Illinois  State  Agri- 
cultural Department.  For  forty  years  State  Fairs 
were  held  annually  (except  two  years  during  the 
Civil  War),  at  different  points,  usually  at  the  same 
place  for  two  successive  years.  In  January,  1894, 
the  State  Board  decided  to  locate  the  Fair  per- 
manently on  grounds  just  north  of  the  city  of 
Springfield,  donated  by  the  city  and  Sangamon 
County,  and  all  Fairs  have  since  been  held  there. 
These  grounds,  embracing  an  area  of  156  acres,  are 
supplied  with  substantial  buildings  constructed  of 
stone,  brick,  steel  and  glass,  to  which  additions  have 
been  made  every  year,  until  they  are  the  most 
extensive  and  best  equipped  of  their  kind  in  the 
country,  the  increase  in  receipts  and  attendance,  as 
well  as  exhibits  of  agricultural  products,  live  stock, 
implements  and  mechanic  arts  keeping  pace  with 
other  improvements.  The  administrative  Board 
consists  of  the  President  and  a  Vice  President  from 
each  Congressional  District  (now  25  in  number), 
chosen  by  delegates  from  the  County  Societies 
within  the  respective  districts,  with  a  Secretary  and 
a  Treasurer,  elected  biennially  but  not  members  of 
the  Board.  It  has  ample  office  room  in  the  State 
Capitol, wheretherecordsanda  large  library  are  kept, 
and  liberal  appropriations  are  made  for  its  support. 
Nearly  fifty  volumes  of  annual  reports  of  Trans- 
actions of  the  Board  (1911)  have  been  published. 

AKERS,  Peter,  D.  D.,  Methodist  Episcopal 
clergyman,  born  of  Presbyterian  parentage,  in 
Campbell  County,  Va.,  Sept.  1,  1790;  was  edu- 
cated in  the  common  schools,  and,  at  the  age 
of  16,  began  teaching,  later  pursuing  a  classical 
course  in  institutions  of  Virginia  and  North 
Carolina.  Having  removed  to  Kentucky,  after  a 
brief  season  spent  in  teaching  at  Mount  Sterling 
in  that  State,  he  began  the  study  of  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1817.  Two  years  later  he 
began  the  publication  of  a  paper  called  "The 
Star,"  which  was  continued  for  a  short  time.  In 
1821  he  was  converted  and  joined  the  Methodist 
church,  and  a  few  months  later  began  preaching. 
In  1832  he  removed  to  Illinois,  and,  after  a  year 
spent  in  work  as  an  evangelist,  he  assumed  the 
Presidency  of  McKendree  College  at  Lebanon, 
remaining  during  -1833-34;  then  established  a 
"manual  labor  school"  near  Jacksonville,  which 
he  maintained  for  a  few  years.  '  From  1837  to 
1852  was  spent  as  stationed  minister  or  Presiding 


Elder  at  Springfield,  Quincy  and  Jacksonville.  In 
the  latter  year  lie  was  again  appointed  to  the 
Presidency  of  McKendree  College,  where  he 
remained  five  years.  He  was  then  (1857)  trans- 
ferred to  the  Minnesota  Conference,  but  a  year 
later  was  compelled  by  declining  health  to  assume 
a  superannuated  relation.  Returning  to  Illinois 
about  1865,  he  served  as  Presiding  Elder  of  the 
Jacksonville  and  Pleasant  Plains  Districts,  but 
was  again  compelled  to  accept  a  superannuated 
relation,  making  Jacksonville  his  home,  where 
he  died,  Feb.  21,  1886.  While  President  of  Mc- 
Kendree College,  he  published  his  work  on  "Bib- 
lical Chronology,"  to  which  he  had  devoted  many 
previous  years  of  his  life,  and  which  gave  evi- 
dence of  great  learning  and  vast  research.  Dr. 
Akers  was  a  man  of  profound  convictions,  exten- 
sive learning  and  great  eloquence.  As  a  pulpit 
orator  and  logician  he  probably  had  no  superior 
in  the  State  during  the  time  of  his  most  active 
service  in  the  denomination  to  which  he  belonged. 

AKIN,  Edward  C.,  lawyer  and  Attorney-Gen- 
eral, was  born  in  Will  County,  111.,  in  1852,  and 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Joliet  and  at  Ann 
Arbor,  Mich.  For  four  years  he  was  paying  and 
receiving  teller  in  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Joliet,  but  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1878  and 
has  continued  in  active  practice  since.  In  1887  he 
entered  upon. his  political  career  as  the  Republi- 
can candidate  for  City  Attorney  of  Joliet,  and  was 
elected  by  a  majority  of  over  700  votes,  although 
the  city  was  usually  Democratic.  The  follow- 
ing year  he  was  the  candidate  of  his  party  for 
State's  Attorney  of  Will  County,  and  was  again 
elected,  leading  the  State  and  county  ticket  by 
800  votes — being  re-elected  to  the  same  office  in 
1892.  In  1895  he  was  the  Republican  nominee 
for  Mayor  of  Joliet,  and,  although  opposed  by  a 
citizen's  ticket  headed  by  a  Republican,  was 
elected  over  his  Democratic  competitor  by  a  deci- 
sive majority.  His  greatest  popular  triumph  was 
in  1896,  when  he  was  elected  Attorney-General 
on  the  Republican  State  ticket  by  a  plurality 
over  his  Democratic  opponent  of  132,248  and  a 
majority  over  all  competitors  of  111,255.  His 
legal  abilities  are  recognized  as  of  a  very  high 
order,  while  his  personal  popularity  is  indicated 
by  his  uniform  success  as  a  candidate,  in  the 
face,  at  times,  of  strong  political  majorities. 

ALBANY,  a  village  of  Whiteside  County,  lo- 
cated on  the  Mississippi  River  and  the  Chicago, 
Milwaukee  &  St.  Pavil  Railway  (Rock  Island 
branch).  Pop.  (1890),  611;  (1900),  621;  (1910),  618. 

ALBION,  county-seat  of  Edwards  County, 
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and  Louisville;  seat  of  Southern  Collegiate  In- 
stitute; has  plant  for  manufacture  of  vitrilied 
shale  paving  brick,  two  newspapers,  creamery, 
flouring  mills,  and  is  important  shipping  point 
for  live  stock;  is  in  a  rich  fruit-growing  district; 
has  five  churches  and  splendid  public  schools. 
Population  (1900),  1,162;  (1910);  1,281. 

ALCORN,  James  Lusk,  was  born  near  Gol- 
conda,  111.,  Nov.  4,  1816;  early  went  South  and 
held  various  offices  in  Kentucky  and  Mississippi, 
including  member  of  the  Legislature  in  each; 
was  a  member  of  the  Mississippi  State  Conven- 
tions of  1851  and  1861,  and  by  the  latter  appointed 
a  Brigadier-General  in  the  Confederate  service, 
but  refused  a  commission  by  Jefferson  Davis 
because  his  fidelity  to  the  rebel  cause  was 
doubted.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he  was  one  of 
the  first  to  accept  the  reconstruction  policy ;  was 
elected  United  States  Senator  from  Mississippi  in 
1865,  but  not  admitted  to  his  seat.  In  1869  he 
was  chosen  Governor  as  a  Republican,  and  two 
years,  later  elected  United  States  Senator,  serving 
until  1877.  Died,  Dec.  20,  1894. 

ALDRICH,  J.  Frank,  Congressman,  was  born 
at  Two  Rivers,  Wis.,  April  6,  1853,  the  son  of 
William  Aldrich,  who  afterwards  became  Con- 
gressman from  Chicago ;  was  brought  to  Chicago 
in  1861,  attended  the  public  schools  and  the  Chi- 
cago University,  and  graduated  from  the  Rensse- 
laer  Polytechnic  Institute,  Troy,  N.  Y.,  in  1877, 
receiving  the  degree  of  Civil  Engineer.  Later  he 
engaged  in  the  linseed  oil  business  in  Chicago. 
Becoming  interested  in  politics,  he  was  elected  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  County  Commissioners 
of  Cook  County,  serving  as  President  of  that  body 
during  the  reform  period  of  1887;  was  also  a 
member  of  the  County  Board  of  Education  and 
Chairman  of  the  Chicago  Citizens'  Committee, 
appointed  from  the  various  clubs  and  commer- 
cial organizations  of  the  city,  to  promote  the  for- 
mation of  the  Chicago  Sanitary  District.  From 
May  1,  1891,  to  Jan.  1,  1893,  he  was  Commissioner 
of  Public  Works  for  Chicago,  when  he  resigned 
his  office,  having  been  elected  (Nov.,  1892)  a 
member  of  the  Fifty-third  Congress,  on  the 
Republican  ticket,  from  the  First  Congressional 
District;  was  re-elected  in  1894,  retiring  at  the 
close  of  the  Fifty-fourth  Congress.  In  1898  he 
was  appointed  to  a  position  in  connection  with 
the  office  of  Comptroller  of  the  Currency  at 
Washington. 

ALDRICH,  William,  merchant  and  Congress- 
man, was  born  at  Greenfield,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  20,  1820. 
His  early  common  school  training  was  supple- 
mented by  private  tuition  in  higher  branches  of 


mathematics  and  in  surveying,  and  by  a  term  in 
an  academy.  Until  he  had  reached  the  age  of  26 
years  he  was  engaged  in  farming  and  teaching, 
but,  in  1846,  turned  his  attention  to  mercantile 
pursuits.  In  1851  he  removed  to  Wisconsin, 
where,  in  addition  to  merchandising,  he  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  furniture  and  wooden  ware, 
and  where  he  also  held  several  important  offices, 
being  Superintendent  of  Schools  for  three  years, 
Chairman  of  the  County  Board  of  Supervisors 
one  year,  besides  serving  one  term  in  the  Legisla- 
ture. In  1860  he  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he 
embarked  in  the  wholesale  grocery  business.  In 
1875  he  was  elected  to  the  City  Council,  and,  in 
1876,  chosen  to  represent  his  district  (the  First)  in 
Congress,  as  a  Republican,  being  re-elected  in  1878, 
and  again  in  1880.  Died  in  Fond  du  Lao,  Wis., 
Dec.  3,  1885. 

ALEDO,  county-seat  of  Mercer  County;  is  in 
the  midst  of  a  rich  farming  and  bituminous  coal 
region;  fruit-growing  and  stock-raising  are  also 
extensively  carried  on,  and  large  quantities  of 
these  commodities  are  shipped  here;  has  two 
newspapers  and  ample  school  facilities.  Popula- 
tion (1890),  1,601;  (1900),  2,081;  (1910),  2,144. 

ALEXANDER,  John  T.,  agriculturist  and 
stock-grower,  was  born  in  Western  Virginia, 
Sept.  15,  1820;  removed  with  his  father,  at  six 
years  of  age,  to  Ohio,  and  to  Illinois  in  1848. 
Here  he  bought  a  tract  of  several  thousand  acres 
of-  land  on  the  Wabash  Railroad,  10  miles  east  of 
Jacksonville,  which  finally  developed  into  one  of 
the  richest  stock-farms  in  the  State.  After  the 
war  he  became  the  owner  of  the  celebrated 
"Sullivant  farm,"  comprising  some  20,000  acres 
on  the  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Western  Railroad  in 
Champaign  County,  to  which  he  transferred  his 
stock  interests,  and  although  overtaken  by  re- 
verses, left  a  large  estate.  Died,  August  22,  1876. 

ALEXANDER,  Milton  K.,  pioneer,  was  born  in 
Elbert  County,  Ga.,  Jan.  23,  1796;  emigrated 
with  his  father,  in  1804,  to  Tennessee,  and,  while 
still  a  boy,  enlisted  as  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812, 
serving  under  the  command  of  General  Jackson 
until  the  capture  of  Pensacola,  when  he  entered 
upon  the  campaign  against  the  Seminoles  in 
Florida.  In  1823  he  removed  to  Edgar  County, 
111.,  and  engaged  in  mercantile  and  agricultural 
pursuits  at  Paris;  serving  also  as  Postmaster 
there  some  twenty-five  years,  and  as  Clerk  of  the 
County  Commissioners'  Court  from  1826  to  '37. 
In  1826  he  was  commissioned  by  Governor  Coles, 
Colonel  of  the  Nineteenth  Regiment,  Illinois 
State  Militia ;  in  1830  was  Aide-de-Camp  to  Gov- 
ernor Reynolds,  and,  in!832,  took  part  in  the  Black 


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Hawk  War  as  Brigadier-General  of  the  Second 
Brigade,  Illinois  Volunteers.  On  the  inception  of 
the  internal  improvement  scheme  in  1837  he  was 
elected  by  the  Legislature  a  member  of  the  first 
Board  of  Commissioners  of  Public  Works,  serving 
until  the  Board  was  abolished.  Died,  July  7,  1856. 
ALEXANDER,  (Dr.)  William  M.,  pioneer, 
came  to  Southern  Illinois  previous  to  the  organi- 
zation of  Union  County  (1818),  and  for  some  time, 
while  practicing  his  profession  as  a  physician, 
acted  as  agent  of  the  proprietors  of  the  town  of 
America,  which  was  located  on  the  Ohio  Eiver, 
on  the  first  high  ground  above  its  junction  with 
the  Mississippi.  It  became  the  first  county-seat 
of  Alexander  County,  which  was  organized  in 

1819,  and  named  in  his  honor.     In  1820  we  find 
him  a   Representative  in    the    Second    General 
Assembly  from  Pope  County,  and  two  years  later 
Representative  from  Alexander  County,  when  he 
became  Speaker  of  the  House  during  the  session 
of    the    Third    General    Assembly.     Later,    he 
removed  to  Kaskaskia,  but  finally  went  South, 
where  he  died,  though  the  date  and  place  of  his 
death  are  unknown. 

ALEXANDER  COUNTY,  the  extreme  southern 
county  of  the  State,  being  bounded  on  the  west 
by  the  Mississipppi,  and  south  and  east  by  the 
Ohio  and  Cache  rivers.  Its  area  is  about  220 
square  miles  and  its  population,  in  1890,  was  16,- 
563.  The  first  American  settlers  were  Tennessee- 
ans  named  Bird,  who  occupied  the  delta  and  garve 
it  the  name  of  Bird's  Point,  which,  at  the  date  of 
the  Civil  War  (1861-65),  had  been  transferred  to 
the  Missouri  shore  opposite  the  mouth  of  the  Ohio. 
Other  early  settlers  were  Clark,  Kennedy  and 
Philips  (at  Mounds),  Conyer  and  Terrel  (at  Amer- 
ica), and  Humphreys  (near  Caledonia).  In  1818 
Shadrach  Bond  (afterwards  Governor),  John  G. 
Corny ges  and  others  entered  a  claim  for  1800  acres 
in  the  central  and  northern  part  of  the  county, 
and  incorporated  the  "City  and  Bank  of  Cairo." 
The  history  of  this  enterprise  is  interesting.  In 
1818  (on  Comyges'  death)  the  land  reverted  to  the 
Government ;  but  in  1835  Sidney  Breese,  David  J. 
Baker  and  Miles  A.  Gilbert  re-entered  the  for- 
feited bank  tract  and  the  title  thereto  became 
vested  in  the  "Cairo  City  and  Canal  Company," 
which  was  chartered  in  1837,  and,  by  purchase, 
extended  its  holdings  to  10,000  acres.  The 
county  was  organized  in  1819;  the  first  county- 
seat  being  America,  which  was  incorporated  in 

1820.  Pop.  (1900),  19,384;  (1910),  22,741. 
ALEXIAN   BROTHERS'   HOSPITAL,  located 

at  Chicago;   established  in  I860,  and  under  the 
management  of  the  Alexian  Brothers,  a  monastic 


order  of  the  Roman  Catholic  Church.  It  was 
originally  opened  in  a  small  frame  building,  but  a 
better  edifice  was  erected  in  1868,  only  to  be  de- 
stroyed in  the  great  fire  of  1871.  The  following 
year,  through  the  aid  of  private  benefactions  and 
an  appropriation  of  $18,000  from  the  Chicago  Re- 
lief and  Aid  Society,  a  larger  and  better  hospital 
was  built.  In  1888  an  addition  was  made,  increas- 
ing the  accommodation  to  150  beds.  Only  poor 
male  patients  are  admitted,  and  these  are  received 
without  reference  to  nationality  or  religion,  and 
absolutely  without  charge.  The  present  medical 
staff  (1896)  comprises  fourteen  physicians  and  sur- 
geons. In  1895  the  close  approach  of  an  intra- 
mural transit  line  having  unfitted  the  building  for 
hospital  uses,  the  Northwestern  Railway  Company 
purchased  the  site  and  buildings  for  $250,000.  The 
present  location  is  Racine  and  Beldcn  Avenues. 

ALEXIS,  in  Mercer  and  Warren  Counties,  on  the 
Rock  Island  &  St.  Louis  Division  of  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Railway,  12  miles  east  of 
north  from  Monmouth.  It  has  manufactures  of 
brick,  drain-tile,  pottery  and  agricultural  imple- 
ments; is  also  noted  for  its  Clydesdale  horses. 
Pop.  (1890),  562;  (1900),  915;  (1910),  829. 

ALGONQUINS,  a  group  of  Indian  tribes. 
Originally  their  territory  extended  from  about 
latitude  37°  to  53°  north,  and  from  longitude  25° 
east  to  15°  west  of  the  meridian  of  Washington. 
Branches  of  the  stock  were  found  by  Cartier  in 
Canada,  by  Smith  in  Virginia,  by  the  Puritans  in 
New  England  and  by  Catholic  missionaries  in  the 
great  basin  of  the  Mississippi.  One  of  the  prin- 
cipal of  their  five  confederacies  embraced  the 
Illinois  Indians,  who  were  found  within  the 
State  by  the  French  when  the  latter  discovered 
the  country  in  1673.  They  were  hereditary  foes 
of  the  warlike  Iroquois,  by  whom  their  territory 
was  repeatedly  invaded.  Besides  the  Illinois, 
other  tribes  of  the  Algonquin  family  who  origi- 
nally dwelt  within  the  present  limits  of  Illinois, 
were  the  Foxes,  Kickapoos,  Miamis,  Menominees, 
and  Sacs.  Although  nomadic  in  their  mode  of 
life,  and  subsisting  largely  on  the  spoils  of  the 
chase,  the  Algonquins  were  to  some  extent  tillers 
of  the  soil  and  cultivated  large  tracts  of  maize. 
Various  dialects  of  their  language  have  been 
reduced  to  grammatical  rules,  and  Eliot's  Indian 
Bible  is  published  in  their  tongue.  The  entire 
Algonquin  stock  extant  is  estimated  at  about 
95,000,  of  whom  some  35,000  are  within  the  United 
States. 

ALLEN,  William  Joshua,  jurist,  was  born 
June  9,  1829,  in  Wilson  County,  Tenn. ;  of  Vir- 
ginia ancestry  of  Scotch-Irish  descent.  In  early 


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infancy  he  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  South- 
ern Illinois,  where  his  father,  Willis  Allen,  be- 
came a  Judge  and  member  of  Congress.  After 
reading  law  with  his  father  and  at  the  Louisville 
Law  School,  young  Allen  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  settling  at  Metropolis  and  afterward  (1853) 
at  his  old  home,  Marion,  in  Williamson  County. 
In  1855  he  was  appointed  United  States  District 
Attorney  for  Illinois,  but  resigned  in  1859  and  re- 
sumed private  practice  as  partner  of  John  A. 
Logan.  The  same  year  he  was  elected  Circuit 
Judge  to  succeed  his  father,  who  had  died,  but  he 
declined  a  re-election.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Constitutional  Conventions  of  1862  and  1869,  serv- 
ing in  both  bodies  on  the  Judicial  Committee  and 
as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  the  Bill  of 
Rights.  From  1864  to  1888  he  was  a  delegate  to 
every  National  Democratic  Convention,  being 
chairman  of  the  Illinois  delegation  in  1876.  He 
has  been  four  times  a  candidate  for  Congress,  and 
twice  elected,  serving  from  1862  to  1865.  During 
this  period  he  was  an  ardent  opponent  of  the  wai 
policy  of  the  Government.  In  1874-75,  at  the 
solicitation  of  Governor  Beveridge,  he  undertook 
the  prosecution  of  the  leaders  of  a  bloody  "ven- 
detta" which  had  broken  out  among  his  former 
neighbors  in  Williamson  County,  and,  by  his  fear- 
less and  impartial  efforts,  brought  the  offenders  to 
justice  and  assisted  in  restoring  order.  In  1886, 
Judge  Allen  removed  to  Springfield,  and  in  1887 
was  appointed  by  President  Cleveland  to  succeed 
Judge  Samuel  H.  Treat  (deceased)  as  Judge  of  the 
United  States  District  Court  for  the  Southern 
District  of  Illinois.  Died  Jan.  26,  1901. 

ALLEN,  Willis,  a  native  of  Tennessee,  who 
removed  to  Williamson  County,  111.,  in  1829  and 
engaged  in  farming.  In  1834  he  was  chosen 
Sheriff  of  Franklin  County,  in  1838  elected  Rep- 
resentative in  the  Eleventh  General  Assembly, 
and,  in  1844,  became  State  Senator.  In  1841, 
although  not  yet  a  licensed  lawyer,  he  was  chosen 
Prosecuting  Attorney  for  the  old  Third  District, 
and  was  shortly  afterward  admitted  to  the  bar. 
He  was  chosen  Presidential  Elector  in  1844,  a 
member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1847, 
and  served  two  terms  in  Congress  (1851-55).  On 
March  2,  1859,  he  was  commissioned  Judge  of  the 
Twenty-sixth  Judicial  Circuit,  but  died  three 
months  later.  His  son,  William  Joshua,  suc- 
ceeded him  in  the  latter  office. 

ALLERTON,  Samuel  Waters,  stock-dealer  and 
capitalist,  was  born  of  Pilgrim  ancestry  in 
Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.,  May  26,  1829.  His 
youth  was  spent  with  his  father  on  a  farm  in 
Yates  County,  N.  Y.,  but  about  1852  he  engaged 


in  the  live-stock  business  in  Central  and  Western 
New  York.  In  1856  he  transferred  his  operations 
to  Illinois,  shipping  stock  from  various  points  to 
New  York  City,  finally  locating  in  Chicago.  He 
was  one  of  the  earliest  projectors  of  the  Chicago 
Stock-Yards,  later  securing  control  of  the  Pitts- 
burg  Stock- Yards,  also  becoming  interested  in 
yards  at  Baltimore,  Philadelphia,  Jersey  City  and 
Omaha.  Mr.  Allerton  is  one  of  the  founders  and 
a  Director  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Chicago, 
a  Director  and  stockholder  of  the  Chicago  City 
Railway  (the  first  cable  line  in  that  city),  the 
owner  of  an  extensive  area  of  highly  improved 
farming  lands  in  Central  Illinois,  as  also  of  large 
tracts  in  Nebraska  and  Wyoming,  and  of  valuable 
and  productive  mining  properties  in  the  Black 
Hills.  A  zealous  Republican  in  politics,  he  is  a 
liberal  supporter  of  the  measures  of  that  party, 
and,  in  1893,  was  the  unsuccessful  Republican  can- 
didate for  Mayor  of  Chicago  in  opposition  to 
Carter  H.  Harrison. 

ALLOUEZ,  Claude  Jean,  sometimes  called 
"The  Apostle  of  the  West,"  a  Jesuit  priest,  was 
born  in  France  in  1620.  He  reached  Quebec  in 
1658,  and  later  explored  the  country  around 
Lakes  Superior  and  Michigan,  establishing  the 
mission  of  La  Pointe,  near  where  Ashland,  Wis., 
now  stands,  in  1665,  and  St.  Xavier,  near  Green 
Bay,  in  1669.  He  learned  from  the  Indians  the 
existence  and  direction  of  the  upper  Mississippi, 
and  was  the  first  to  communicate  the  informa- 
tion to  the  authorities  at  Montreal,  which  report 
was  the  primary  cause  of  Joliet's  expedition.  He 
succeeded  Marquette  in  charge  of  the  mission  at 
Kaskaskia,  on  the  Illinois,  in  1677,  where  he 
preached  to  eight  tribes.  From  that  date  to  1690 
he  labored  among  the  aborigines  of  Illinois  and 
Wisconsin.  Died  at  Fort  St.  Joseph,  in  1690. 

ALLTN,  (Rev.)  Robert,  clergyman  and  edu- 
cator, was  born  at  Ledyard,  New  London  County, 
Conn.,  Jan.  25,  1817,  being  a  direct  descend- 
ant in  the  eighth  generation  of  Captain  Robert 
Allyn,  who  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  New 
London.  He  grew  up  on  a  farm,  receiving  his 
early  education  in  a  country  school,  supple- 
mented by  access  to  a  small  public  library,  from 
which  he  acquired  a  good  degree  of  familiarity 
with  standard  English  writers.  In  1837  lie 
entered  the  Wesleyan  University  at  Middletown, 
Conn.,  where  he  distinguished  himself  as  a 
mathematician  and  took  a  high  rank  as  a  linguist 
and  rhetorician,  graduating  in  1841.  He  im- 
mediately engaged  as  a  teacher  of  mathematics 
in  the  Wesleyan  Academy  at  Wilbraham,  Mass., 
and,  in  1846,  was  elected  principal  of  the  school, 


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meanwhile  (1843)  becoming  a  licentiate  of  the 
Providence  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.  From  1848  to  1854  lie  served  as  Princi- 
pal of  the  Providence  Conference  Seminary  at 
East  Greenwich,  R.  I.,  when  he  was  appointed 
Commissioner  of  Public  Schools  of  Rhode  Island 
— also  serving  the  same  year  as  a  Visitor  to  West 
Point  Military  Academy.  Between  1857  and  1859 
he  filled  the  chair  of  Ancient  Languages  in  the 
State  University  at  Athens,  Ohio,  when  he  ac- 
cepted the  Presidency  of  the  Wesleyan  Female 
College  at  Cincinnati,  four  years  later  (1863) 
becoming  President  of  McKendree  College  at 
Lebanon,  111.,  where  he  remained  until  1874. 
That  position  he  resigned  to  accept  the  Presi- 
dency of  the  Southern  Illinois  Normal  University 
at  Carbondale,  whence  he  retired  in  1892.  Died 
at  Carbondale,  Jan.  7,  1894. 

ALTAMONT,  Effingham  County,  is  intersecting 
point  of  the  Vandalia,  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois, 
Baltimore  &  Ohio  S.  W.,  and  Wabash  Railroads, 
being  midway  and  highest  point  between  St. 
Louis  and  Terre  Haute,  Ind. ;  was  laid  out  in 
1870.  The  town  is  in  the  center  of  a  grain,  fruit- 
growing and  stock-raising  district ;  has  a  bank, 
two  grain  elevators,  flouring  mill,  tile  works,  a 
large  creamery,  wagon,  furniture  and  other  fac- 
tories, besides  churches,  good  schools  and  one  news- 
paper. Population  (1900),  1,335;  (1910),  1,328. 

ALTGELD,  John  Peter,  ex-Judge  and  ex-Gov- 
ernor, was  born  in  Prussia  in  1848,  and  in  boy- 
hood accompanied  his  parents  to  America,  the 
family  settling  in  Ohio.  At  the  age  of  16  he 
enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Sixty-fourth 
Ohio  Infantry,  serving  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
His  legal  education  was  acquired  at  St.  Louis  and 
Savannah,  Mo.,  and  from  1874  to  '78  he  was 
Prosecuting  Attorney  for  Andrew  County  in  that 
State.  In  1878  he  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he 
devoted  himself  to  professional  work.  In  1884  he 
led  the  Democratic  forlorn  hope  as  candidate  for 
Congress  in  a  strong  Republican  Congressional 
district,  and  in  1886  was  elected  to  the  bench  of 
the  Superior  Court  of  Cook  County,  but  resigned 
in  August,  1891.  The  Democratic  State  conven- 
tion of  1892  nominated  him  for  Governor,  and  he 
was  elected  the  following  November,  being  the 
first  foreign-born  citizen  to  hold  that  office  in  the 
history  of  the  State,  and  the  first  Democrat 
elected  since  1852.  In  1896  he  was  a  prominent 
factor  in  the  .Democratic  National  Convention 
which  nominated  William  J.  Bryan  for  Presi- 
dent, and  was  also  a  candidate  for  re-election  as 
Governor,  but  was  defeated  by  John  R.  Tanner,  the 
Republican  nominee.  Died  March  12,  1902. 


ALTON,  principal  city  in  Madison  County 
and  important  commercial  and  manufacturing 
point  on  Mississippi  River,  25  miles  north  of. 
St.  Louis;  site  was  first  occupied  as  a  French 
trading-post  about  1807,  the  town  proper  being 
laid  out  by  Col.  Rufus  Easton  in  1817;  principal 
business  houses  are  located  in  the  valley  along 
the  river,  while  the  residence  portion  occupies 
the  bluffs  overlooking  the  river,  sometimes  rising 
to  the  height  of  nearly  250  feet.  The  city  has 
extensive  glass  works  employ'ng  (1903)  4,000 
hands,  flouring  mills,  iron  foundries,  manufac- 
tories of  agricultural  implements,  coal  cars,  min 
ers'  tools,  shoes,  tobacco,  lime,  etc.,  besides 
several  banks,  numerous  churches,  schools,  and 
four  newspapers,  three  of  them  daily.  A  monu- 
ment to  the  memory  of  Elijah  P  Lovejoy,  who 
fell  while  defending  his  press  against  a  pro-slav- 
ery mob  in  1837,  was  erected  in  Alton  Cemetery, 
1896-7,  at  a  cost  of  $30,000,  contributed  by  the  State 
and  citizens  of  Alton.  Has  3  daily  and  4  weekly 
papers.  Pop.  (1900),  14,210;  (1910),  17,528. 

ALTON  PENITENTIARY.  The  earliest  pun- 
ishments imposed  upon  public  offenders  in  Illi- 
nois were  by  public  flogging  or  imprisonment  for 
a  short  time  in  jails  rudely  constructed  of  logs, 
from  which  escape  was  not  difficult  for  a  prisoner 
of  nerve,  strength  and  mental  resource.  The 
inadequacy  of  such  places  of  confinement  was 
soon  perceived,  but  popular  antipathy  to  any 
increase  of  taxation  prevented  the  adoption  of 
any  other  policy  until  1827.  -  A  grant  of  40,000 
acres  of  saline  lands  was  made  to  the  State  by 
Congress,  and  a  considerable  portion  of  the  money 
received  from  their  sale  was  appropriated  to  the 
establishment  of  a  State  penitentiary  at  Alton. 
The  sum  set  apart  proved  insufficient,  and,  in  1831, 
an  additional  appropriation  of  $10,000  was  made 
from  the  State  treasury.  In  1833  the  prison  was 
ready  to  receive  its  first  inmates.  It  was  built  of 
stone  and  had  but  twenty-four  cells.  Additions 
were  made  from  time  to  time,  but  by  1857  the 
State  determined  upon  building  a  new  peniten- 
tiary, which  was  located  at  Joliet  (see  Northern 
Penitentiary),  and,  in  1860,  the  last  convicts  were 
transferred  thither  from  Alton.  The  Alton  prison 
was  conducted  on  what  is  known  as  "the  Auburn 
plan"  —  associated  labor  in  silence  by  day  and 
separate  confinement  by  night.  The  manage- 
ment was  in  the  hands  of  a  "lessee,"  who  fur- 
nished supplies,  employed  guards  and  exercised 
the  general  powers  of  a  warden  under  the  super- 
vision of  a  Commissioner  appointed  by  the  State, 
and  who  handled  all  the  products  of  convict 
labor. 


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ALTON  RIOTS.  (See  Lovejoy,  Elijah  Par- 
risk.  ) 

ALTONA,  town  of  Knox  County,  on  C. ,  B.  &  Q. 
R.  R.,  16  miles  northeast  of  Galesburg;  lias  an 
endowed  public  library,  electric  light  system, 
cement  sidewalks,  broom  factory,  several  churches 
and  good  schools.  Pop.  (1900),  633;  (1910),  528. 

ALTON  &  SAN(JAMON  RAILROAD.  (See 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad.) 

AMBOY,  city  in  Lee  County  on  Green  River,  at 
junction  of  Illinois  Central  and  C.,  B.  &  Q.  Rail- 
roads, 95  miles  south  by  west  from  Chicago ;  has 
artesian  water  with  waterworks  and  fire  protec- 
tion, city  park,  two  telephone  systems,  electric 
lights,  railroad  repair  shops,  two  banks,  two 
newspapers,  seven  churches,  graded  and  high 
schools;  is  on  line  of  Northern  Illinois  Electric 
Ry.  from  De  Kalb  to  Dixon;  has  extensive  bridge 
and  iron  works.  Pop.  (1900),  -1,826;  (1910),  1,749. 

AMES,  Edward  Raymond,  Methodist  Episcopal 
Bishop,  born  at  Amesville,  Athens  County,  Ohio, 
May  30,  1806;  was  educated  at  the  Ohio  State 
University,  where  lie  joined  the  M.  E.  Church. 
In  1828  he  left  college  and  became  Principal  of 
the  Seminary  at  Lebanon,  111.,  which  afterwards 
became  McKendree  College.  While  there  he 
received  a  license  to  preach,  and,  after  holding 
various  charges  and  positions  in  the  church,  in- 
cluding membership  in  the  General  Conference 
of  1840,  '44  and  '52,  in  the  latter  year  was  elected 
Bishop,  serving  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
in  Baltimore,  April  25,  1879. 

ANDERSON,  (ialnslia,  clergyman  and  edu- 
cator, was  born  at  Bergen,  N.  Y.,  March  7,  1832; 
graduated  at  Rochester  University  in  1854  and  at 
the  Theological  Seminary  there  in  1856;  spent 
ten  years  in  Baptist  pastoral  work  at  Janesville, 
Wis.,  and  at  St.  Louis,  and  seven  as  Professor  in 
Newton  Theological  Institute,  Mass.  From  1873 
to  '80  he  preached  in  Brooklyn  and  Chicago;  was 
then  chosen  President  of  the  old  Chicago  Univer- 
sity, remaining  eight  years,  when  he  again  be- 
came a  pastor  at  Salem,  Mass.,  but  soon  after 
assumed  the  Presidency  of  Denison  University, 
Ohio.  On  the  organization  of  the  new  Chicago 
University,  he  accepted  the  chair  of  Homiletics 
and  Pastoral  Theology,  which  he  now  holds 

ANDERSON,  George  A.,  lawyer  and  Congress- 
man, was  born  in  Botetourt  County,  Va.,  March 
11,  1853.  When  two  years  old  he  was  brought  by 
his  parents  to  Hancock  County,  111  He  re- 
ceived a  collegiate  education,  and,  after  studying 
law  at  Lincoln,  Neb.,  and  at  Sedalia,  Mo.,  settled 
at  Quincy,  HI.,  where  he  began  practice  in  1880. 
In  1884  he  was  elected  City  Attorney  on  the 


Democratic  ticket,  and  re-elected  in  1885  without 
opposition.  The  following  year  he  was  the  suc- 
cessful candidate  of  his  party  for  Congress,  which 
was  his  last  public  service.  Died  at  Quincy, 
Jan.  31,  1896. 

ANDERSON,  James  C.,  legislator,  was  born  in 
Henderson  County,  111.,  August  1,  1845;  raised  on 
a  farm,  and  after  receiving  a  common-school 
education,  entered  Monmouth  College,  but  left 
early  in  the  Civil  War  to  enlist  in  the  Twentieth 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  in  which  he  attained 
the  rank  of  Second  Lieutenant.  After  the  war  he 
served  ten  years  as  Sheriff  of  Henderson  County, 
was  elected  Representative  in  the  General 
Assembly  in  1888,  '90,  '92  and  '96,  and  served  on 
the  Republican  "steering  committee"  during  the 
session  of  1893.  He  also  served  as  Sergeant-at- 
Arrns  of  the  Senate  for  the  session  of  1895,  and 
was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Con- 
vention of  1896.  His  home  is  at  Decorra. 

ANDERSON,  Stinson  H.,  Lieutenant-Gover- 
nor, was  born  in  Sumner  County,  Tenn.,  in  1800; 
came  to  Jefferson  County,  111.,  in  his  youth,  and, 
at  an  early  age,  began  to  devote  his  attention  to 
breeding  fine  stock;  served  in  the  Black  Hawk 
War  as  a  Lieutenant  in  1832,  and  .the  same  year 
was  elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  Eighth 
General  Assembly,  being  re-elected  in  1834.  In 
1838  he  was  chosen  Lieutenant-Governor  on  the 
ticket  with  Gov.  Thomas  Carlin,  and  soon  after 
the  close  of  his  term  entered  the  United  States 
Army  as  Captain  of  Dragoons,  in  this  capacity 
taking  part  in  the  Seminole  War  in  Florida. 
Still  later  he  served  under  President  Polk  as 
United  States  Marshal  for  Illinois,  and  also  held 
the  position  of  Warden  of  the  State  Penitentiary 
at  Alton  for  several  years.  Died,  September,  1857.  — 
William  B.  (Anderson),  son  of  the  preceding, 
was  born  at  Mount  Vernon,  111.,  April  30,  1830; 
attended  the  common  schools  and  later  studied 
surveying,  being  elected  Surveyor  of  Jefferson 
County,  in  1851.  He  studied  law  and  was  admit- 
ted to  the  bar  in  1858,  but  never  practiced,  pre- 
ferring the  more  quiet  life  of  a  farmer.  In  1856 
he  was  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  General 
Assembly  and  re-elected  in  1858.  In  1861  he 
entered  the  volunteer  service  as  a  private,  was 
promoted  through  the  grades  of  Captain  and 
Lieutenant-Colonel  to  a  Colonelcy,  and,  at  the 
close  of  the  war,  was  brevetted  Brigadier-Gen- 
eral. In  1868  he  was  a  candidate  for  Presidential 
Elector  on  the  Democratic  ticket,  was  a  member 
of  the  State  Constitutional  Convention  of  1869-70, 
and,  in  1871,  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  to 
fill  a  vacancy.  In  1874  he  was  elected  to  the  Forty- 


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fourth  Congress  on  the  Democratic  ticket.  In 
1893  General  Anderson  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Cleveland  Pension  Agent  for  Illinois,  con- 
tinuing in  that  position  four  years,  when  he 
retired  to  private  life.  Died  August  28,  1901. 

ANDRUS,  Rev.  Reuben,  clergyman  and  edu- 
cator, was  born  at  Rutland,  Jefferson  County, 
N.  Y.,  Jan.  29,  1824;  early  came  to  Fulton 
County,  111.,  and  spent  three  years  (1844-47)  as  a 
student  at  Illinois  College,  Jacksonville,  but 
graduated  at  McKendree  College,  Lebanon,  in 
1849 ;  taught  for  a  time  at  Greenfield,  entered  the 
Methodist  ministry,  and,  in  1850,  founded  the  Illi- 
nois Wesleyan  University  at  Bloomington,  of 
which  he  became  a  Professor;  later  re-entered 
the  ministry  and  held  charges  at  Beardstown, 
Decatur,  Quincy,  Springfield  and  Bloomington, 
meanwhile  for  a  time  being  President  of  Illinois 
Conference  Female  College  at  Jacksonville,  and 
temporary  President  of  Quincy  College.  In  1867 
he  was  transferred  to  the  Indiana  Conference  and 
stationed  at  Evansville  and  Indianapolis;  from 
1872  to  '75  was  President  of  Indiana  Asbury  Uni- 
versity at  Greencastle.  Died  at  Indianapolis, 
Jan.  17,  1887. 

ANNA,  a  city  in  Union  County,  on  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad,  36  miles  from  Cairo;  is  center 
of  extensive  fruit  and  vegetable-growing  district, 
and  largest  shipping-point  for  these  commodities 
on  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad.  It  has  an  ice 
plant,  pottery  and  lime  manufactories,  two  banks 
and  two  newspapers.  The  Southern  (111. )  Hos- 
pital for  the  Insane  is  located  here.  Population 
(1890),  2,295;  (1900),  2,618;  (1910),  2,809. 

ANTHONY,  Elliott,  jurist,  was  born  of  New 
England  Quaker  ancestry  at  Spafford,  Onondaga 
County,  N.  Y.,  June  10,  1827;  was  related  on 
the  maternal  side  to  the  Chases  and  Phelps  (dis- 
tinguished lawyers)  of  Vermont.  His  early  years 
were  spent  in  labor  on  a  farm,  but  after  a  course 
of  preparatory  study  at  Cortland  Academy,  in 
1847  he  entered  the  sophomore  class  in  Hamilton 
College  at  Clinton,  graduating  with  honors  in 
1850.  The  next  year  he  began  the  study  of  law, 
at  the  same  time  giving  instruction  in  an  Acad- 
emy at  Clinton,  where  he  had  President  Cleve- 
land as  one  of  his  pupils.  After  admission  to  the 
bar  at  Oswego,  in  1851,  he  removed  West,  stop- 
ping for  a  time  at  Sterling,  111.,  but  the  following 
year  located  in  Chicago.  Here  he  compiled  "A 
Digest  of  Illinois  Reports" ;  in  1858  was  elected 
City  Attorney,  and,  in  1863,  became  solicitor  of 
the  Galena  &  Chicago  Union  Railroad  (now  the 
Chicago  &  Northwestern).  Judge  Anthony 
served  in  two  State  Constitutional  Conventions — 


those  of  1862  and  1869-70— being  chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Executive  Department  and  mem- 
ber of  the  Committee  on  Judiciary  in  the  latter. 
He  was  delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Con- 
vention of  1880,  and  was  the  same  year  elected  a 
Judge  of  the  "Superior  Court  of  Chicago,  and  was 
re-elected  in  1886,  retiring  in  1892,  after  which  he 
resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession,  being 
chiefly  employed  as  consulting  counsel.  Judge 
Anthony  was  one  of  the  founders  and  incorpo- 
rators  of  the  Chicago  Law  Institute  and  a  member 
of  the  first  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Chicago 
Public  Library;  also  served  as  President  of  the 
State  Bar  Association  (1894-95),  and  delivered 
several  important  historical  addresses  before  that 
body.  His  other  most  important  productions 
are  volumes  on  "The  Constitutional  History  of 
Illinois,"  "The  Story  of  the  Empire  State"  and 
"Sanitation  and  Navigation."  Near  the  close  of 
his  last  term  upon  the  bench,  he  spent  several 
months  in  an  extended  tour  through  the  princi- 
pal countries  of  Europe.  His  death  occurred, 
after  a  protracted  illness,  at  his  home  at  Evans- 
ton,  Feb.  24,  1898. 

ANTI-NEBRASKA  EDITORIAL  CONVEN- 
TION, a  political  body,  which  convened  at 
Decatur,  Feb.  22,  1856,  pursuant  to  the  suggestion 
of  "The  Morgan  Journal,"  then  a  weekly  paper 
published  at  Jacksonville,  for  the  purpose  of  for- 
mulating a  policy  in  opposition  to  the  principles 
of  the  Kansas-Nebraska  bill.  Twelve  editors 
were  in  attendance,  as  follows:  Charles  H.  Ray 
of  "The  Chicago  Tribune";  V.  Y.  Ralston  of 
"The  Quincy  Whig";  O.  P.  Wharton  of  "The 
Rock  Island  Advertiser" ;  T.  J.  Pickett  of  "The 
Peoria  Republican";  George  Schneider  of  "The 
Chicago  Staats  Zeitung";  Charles  Faxon  of  "The 
Princeton  Post";  A.  N.  Ford  of  "The  Lacon  Ga- 
zette"; B.  F.  Shaw  of  "The  Dixon  Telegraph" ;  E. 
C.  Daughertyof  "The  Rockford  Register";  E.  W. 
Blaisdell  of  "The  Rockford  Gazette";  W.  J. 
Usrey  of  "The  Decatur  Chronicle";  and  Paul 
Selby  of '  'The  Jacksonville  Journal. "  Paul  Selby 
was  chosen  Chairman  and  W.  J.  Usrey,  Secre- 
tary. The  convention  adopted  a  platform  and 
recommended  the  calling  of  a  State  convention 
at  Bloomington  on  May  29,  following,  appointing 
the  following  State  Central  Committee  to  take  the 
matter  in  charge:  W.  B.  Ogflen,  Chicago;  S.  M. 
Church,  Rockford;  G.  D.  A.  Parks,  Joliet;  T.  J. 
Pickett,  Peoria;  E.  A.  Dudley,  Quincy;  William 
H.  Herndon,  Springfield;  R.  J.  Oglesby,  Doca- 
tur;  Joseph  Gillespie,  Edwardsville ;  D.  L.  Phil- 
lips, Jonesboro;  and  Ira  O.  Wilkinson  and 
Gustavus  Koerner  for  the  State-at-large.  Abra- 


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nam  Lincoln  was  present  and  participated  in  the 
consultations  of  the  committees.  All  of  these 
served  except  Messrs.  Ogden,  Oglesby  and  Koer- 
ner,  the  two  former  declining  on  account  of  ab- 
sence from  the  State.  Ogden  was  succeeded  by 
the  late  Dr.  John  Evans,  afterwards  Territorial 
Governor  of  Colorado,  and  Oglesby  by  Col.  Isaac 
C.  Pugh  of  Decatur.  (See  Bloomington  Conven- 
tion of  1856. ) 

APPLE  RIVER,  a  village  of  Jo  Daviess 
County,  on  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  21  miles 
east-northeast  from  Galena.  Population  (1880), 
626;  (1890),  572;  (1900),  576;  (1910),  581, 

APPLINGTON,  (Maj.)  Zenas,  soldier,  was  born 
in  Broome  County,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  24,  1815;  in  1837 
emigrated  to  Ogle  County,  111.,  where  he  fol- 
lowed successively  the  occupations  of  farmer, 
blacksmith,  carpenter  and  merchant,  finally 
becoming  the  founder  of  the  town  of  Polo.  Here 
he  became  wealthy,  but  lost  much  of  his  property 
in  the  financial  revulsion  of  1857.  In  1858  he 
was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  and,  during  the 
session  of  1859,  was  one  of  the  members  of  that 
body  appointed  to  investigate  the  "canal  scrip 
fraud"  (which  see),  and  two  years  later  was  one  of 
the  earnest  supporters  of  the  Government  in  its 
preparation  for  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  The 
latter  year  he  assisted  in  organizing  the  Seventh 
Illinois  Cavalry,  of  which  he  was  commissioned 
Major,  being  some  time  in  command  at  Bird's 
Point,  and  later  rendering  important  service  to 
General  Pope  at  New  Madrid  and  Island  No.  10. 
He  was  killed  at  Corinth,  Miss.,  May  8,  1862, 
while  obeying  an  order  to  charge  upon  a  band  of 
rebels  concealed  in  a  wood. 

APPORTIONMENT,  a  mode  of  distribution  of 
the  counties  of  the  State  into  Districts  for  the 
election  of  members  of  the  General  Assembly 
and  of  Congress,  which  will  be  treated  under 
separate  heads: 

LEGISLATIVE. — The  first  legislative  apportion- 
ment was  provided  for  by  the  Constitution  of 
1818.  That  instrument  vested  the  Legislature 
with  power  to  divide  the  State  as  follows:  To 
create  districts  for  the  election  of  Representatives 
not  less  than  twenty-seven  nor  more  than  thirty- 
six  in  number,  until  the  population  of  the  State 
should  amount  to  100,000;  and  to  create  sena- 
torial districts,  in  number  not  less  than  one-third 
nor  more  than  one-half  of  the  representative  dis- 
tricts at  the  time  of  organization. 

The  schedule  appended  to  the  first  Constitution 
contained  the  first  legal  apportionment  of  Sena- 
tors and'  Representatives.  The  first  fifteen 
Counties  were  allowed  fourteen  Senators  and 


twenty-nine  Representatives.  Each  county 
formed  a  distinct  legislative  district  for  repre- 
sentation in  the  lower  house,  with  the  number  of 
members  for  each  varying  from  one  to  three; 
while  Johnson  and  Franklin  were  combined  in 
one  Senatorial  district,  the  other  counties  being 
entitled  to  one  Senator  each.  Later  apportion- 
ments were  made  in  1821,  '26,  '31,  '36,  '41  and  '47. 
Before  an  election  was  held  under  the  last,  how- 
ever, the  Constitution  of  1848  went  into  effect, 
and  considerable  changes  were  effected  in  this 
regard.  The  number  of  Senators  was  fixed  at 
twenty-five  and  of  Representatives  at  seventy- 
five,  until  the  entire  population  should  equal 
1,000,000,  when  five  members  of  the  House  were 
added  and  five  additional  members  for  each  500,- 
000  increase  in  population  until  the  whole  num- 
ber of  Representatives  reached  100.  Thereafter 
the  number  was  neither  increased  nor  dimin- 
ished, but  apportioned  among  the  several  coun- 
ties according  to  the  number  of  white  inhabit- 
ants. Should  it  be  found  necessary,  a  single 
district  might  be  formed  out  of  two  or  more 
counties. 

The  Constitution  of  1848  established  fifty-four 
Representative  and  twenty-five  Senatorial  dis- 
tricts. By  the  apportionment  law  of  1854,  the 
number  of  the  former  was  increased  to  fifty-eight, 
and,  in  1861,  to  sixty-one.  The  number  of  Sen- 
atorial districts  remained  unchanged,  but  their 
geographical  limits  varied  under  each  act,  while 
the  number  of  members  from  Representative 
districts  varied  according  to  population. 

The  Constitution  of  1870  provided  for  an  im- 
mediate reapportionment  (subsequent  to  its 
adoption)  by  the  Governor  and  Secretary  of 
State  upon  the  basis  of  the  United  States  Census 
of  1870.  Under  the  apportionment  thus  made, 
as  prescribed  by  the  schedule,  the  State  was 
divided  into  twenty-five  Senatorial  districts  (each 
electing  two  Senators)  and  ninety-seven  Repre- 
sentative districts,  with  an  aggregate  of  177  mem- 
bers varying  from  one  to  ten  for  the  several 
districts,  according  to  population.  This  arrange- 
ment continued  in  force  for  only  one  Legislature 
—that  chosen  in  1870. 

In  1872  this  Legislature  proceeded  to  reappor- 
tion  the  State  in  accordance  with  the  principle  of 
"minority  representation,"  which  had  been  sub- 
mitted as  an  independent  section  of  the  Constitu- 
tion and  adopted  on  a  separate  vote.  This 
provided  for  apportioning  the  State  into  fifty-one 
districts,  each  being  entitled  to  one  Senator  and 
three  Representatives.  The  ratio  of  representa- 
tion in  the  lower  house  was  ascertained  by  divid- 


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HISTORICAL   ENCYCLOPEDIA   OF   ILLINOIS. 


ing  the  entire  population  by  153  and  each  county 
to  be  allowed  one  Representative,  provided  its 
population  reached  three-fifths  of  the  ratio ;  coun- 
ties having  a  population  equivalent  to  one  and 
three-fifths  times  the  ratio  were  entitled  to  two 
Representatives ;  while  each  county  with  a  larger 
population  was  entitled  to  one  additional  Repre- 
sentative for  each  time  the  full  ratio  was  repeated 
in  the  number  of  inhabitants.  Apportionments 
were  made  on  this  principle  in  1872,  '82  and  '93. 
Members  of  the  lower  house  are  elected  bienni- 
ally; Senators  for  four  years,  those  in  odd  and 
even  districts  being  chosen  at  each  alternate 
legislative  election.  The  election  of  Senators  for 
the  even  (numbered)  districts  takes  place  at  the 
same  time  with  that  of  Governor  and  other  State 
officers,  and  that  for  the  odd  districts  at  the  inter- 
mediate periods. 

CONGRESSIONAL.— For  the  first  fourteen  years 
of  the  State's  history,  Illinois  constituted  but  one 
Congressional  district.  The  census  of  1830  show- 
ing sufficient  population,  the  Legislature  of  1831 
(by  act,  approved  Feb.  13)  divided  the  State  into 
three  districts,  the  first  election  under  this  larv 
being  held  on  the  first  Monday  in  August,  1832. 
At  that  time  Illinois  comprised  fifty-five  coun- 
ties, which  were  apportioned  among  the  districts 
as  follows:  First  —  Gallatin,  Pope,  Johnson, 
Alexander,  Union,  Jackson,  Franklin,  Perry, 
Randolph,  Monroe,  Washington,  St.  Clair,  Clin- 
ton, Bond,  Madison,  Macoupin;  Second — White, 
Hamilton,  Jefferson,  Wayne,  Edwards,  Wabash, 
Clay,  Marion,  Lawrence,  Fayette,  Montgomery, 
Shelby,  Vermilion,  Edgar,  Coles,  Clark,  Craw- 
ford; Third  —  Greene,  Morgan,  Sangamon, 
Macon,  Tazewell,  McLean,  Cook,  Henry,  La 
Salle,  Putnam,  Peoria,  Knox,  Jo  Daviess,  Mercer, 
McDonough,  Warren,  Fulton,  Hancock,  Pike, 
Schuyler,  Adams,  Calhoun. 

The  reapportionment  following  the  census  of 
1840  was  made  by  Act  of  March  1,  1843,  and  the 
first  election  of  Representatives  thereunder 
occurred  on  the  first  Monday  of  the  following 
August.  Forty-one  new  counties  had  been  cre- 
ated (making  ninety-six  in  all)  and  the  number 
of  districts  was  increased  to  seven  as  follows: 
First  —  Alexander,  Union,  Jackson,  Monroe, 
Perry,  Randolph,  St.  Clair,  Bond,  Washington, 
Madison;  Second  —  Johnson,  Pope,  Hardin, 
Williamson,  Gallatin,  Franklin,  White,  Wayne, 
Hamilton,  Wabash,  Massac,  Jefferson,  Edwards, 
Marion ;  Third  —  Lawrence,  Richland,  Jasper, 
Fayette,  Crawford,  Effingham,  Christian,  Mont- 
gomery, Shelby,  Moultrie,  Coles,  Clark,  Clay, 
Edgar,  Piatt,  Macon,  De  Witt;  Fourth— Lake, 


McHenry,  Boone,  Cook,  Kane,  De  Kalb,  Du  Page. 
Kendall,  Will,  Grundy,  La  Salle,  Iroquois, 
Livingston,  Champaign,  Vermilion,  McLean, 
Bureau;  Fifth  —  Greene,  Jersey,  Calhoun,  Pike, 
Adams,  Marquette  (a  part  of  Adams  never  fully 
organized),  Brown,  Schuyler,  Fulton  Peoria, 
Macoupin;  Sixth  —  Jo  Daviess,  Stephenson, 
Winnebago,  Carroll,  Ogle,  Whiteside,  Henry, 
Lee,  Rock  Island,  Stark,  Mercer,  Henderson, 
Warren,  Knox,  McDonough,  Hancock;  Seventh 
— Putnam,  Marshall,  Woodford,  Cass,  Tazewell, 
Mason,  Menard,  Scott,  Morgan,  Logan,  Sangamon. 

The  next  Congressional  apportionment  (August 
22,  1852)  divided  the  State  into  nine  districts,  as 
follows — the  first  election  under  it  being  held  the 
following  November:  First  —  Lake,  McHenry, 
Boone,  Winnebago,  Stephenson,  Jo  Daviess,  Car- 
roll, Ogle ;  Second  —  Cook,  Du  Page,  Kane,  Oe 
Kalb,  Lee,  Whiteside,  Rock  Island;  Third  — 
Will,  Kendall,  Grundy,  Livingston,  La  Salle, 
Putnam,  Bureau,  Vermilion,  Iroquois,  Cham- 
paign, McLean,  De  Witt;  Fourth  —  Fulton, 
Peoria,  Knox,  Henry,  Stark,  Warren,  Mercer, 
Marshall,  Mason,  Woodford,  Tazewell;  Fifth 
— Adams,  Calhoun,  Brown,  Schuyler,  Pike,  Mc- 
Donough, Hancock,  Henderson;  Sixth — Morgan, 
Scott,  Sangamon,  Greene,  Macoupin,  Montgom- 
ery, Shelby,  Christian,  Cass,  Menard,  Jersey; 
Seventh — Logan,  Macon,  Piatt,  Coles,  Edgar, 
Moultrie,  Cumberland,  Crawford,  Clark,  Effing- 
ham,  Jasper,  Clay,  Lawrence,  Richland,  Fayette; 
Eighth  —  Randolph,  Monroe,  St.  Clair,  Bond, 
Madison,  Clinton,  Washington,  Jefferson,  Mar- 
ion; Ninth — Alexander,  Pulaski,  Massac,  Union, 
Johnson,  Pope,  Hardin,  Gallatin,  Saline,  Jack- 
son, Perry,  Franklin,  Williamson,  Hamilton, 
Edwards,  White,  Wayne,  Wabash. 

The  census  of  1860  showed  that  Illinois  was 
entitled  to  fourteen  Representatives,  but  through 
an  error  the  apportionment  law  of  April  24,  1861, 
created  only  thirteen  districts.  This  was  com- 
pensated for  by  providing  for  the  election  of  one 
Congressman  for  the  State -at- large.  The  districts 
were  as  follows:  First — Cook,  Lake;  Second — 
McHenry,  Boone,  Winnebago,  De  Kalb,  and 
Kane;  Third — Jo  Daviess,  Stephenson,  White- 
side,  Carroll,  Ogle,  Lee;  Fourth — Adams.  Han- 
cock, Warren,  Mercer,  Henderson,  Rock  Island; 
Fifth — Peoria,  Knox,  Stark,  Marshall,  Putnam, 
Bureau,  Henry;  Sixth — La  Salle,  Grundy,  Ken- 
dall, Du  Page,  Will,  Kankakee;  Seventh  — 
Macon,  Piatt,  Champaign,  Douglas,  Moultrie. 
Cumberland,  Vermilion,  Coles,  Edgar,  Iroquois, 
Ford;  Eighth — Sangamon,  Logan,  De  Witt,  Mc- 
Lean, Tazewell,  Woodford,  Livingston;  Ninth — 


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Fulton,  Mason,  Menard,  Cass,  Pike,  McDonough, 
Schuyler,  Brown ;  Tenth  —  Bond,  Morgan,  Cal- 
houn,  Macoupin,  Scott,  Jersey,  Greene,  Christian, 
Montgomery,  Shelby ;  Eleventh  —  Marion,  Fay- 
ette,  Richland,  Jasper,  Clay,  Clark,  Crawford, 
Franklin,  Lawrence,  Hamilton,  Effingham, 
Wayne,  Jefferson;  Twelfth — St.  Clair,  Madison, 
Clinton,  Monroe,  Washington,  Randolph; 
Thirteenth — Alexander,  Pulaski,  Union,  Perry, 
Johnson,  Williamson,  Jackson,  Massac,  Pope, 
Hardin,  Gallatin,  Saline,  White,  Edwards, 
Wabash. 

The  next  reapportionment  was  made  July  1, 
1872.  The  Act  created  nineteen  districts,  as  fol- 
lows: First — The  first  seven  wards  in  Chicago 
and  thirteen  towns  in  Cook  County,  with  the 
county  of  Du  Page;  Second — Wards  Eighth  to 
Fifteenth  (inclusive)  in  Chicago;  Third — Wards 
Sixteenth  to  Twentieth  in  Chicago,  the  remainder 
of  Cook  County,  and  Lake  County;  Fourth — 
Kane,  De  Kalb,  McHenry,  Boone,  and  Winne- 
bago;  Fifth — Jo  Daviess,  Stephenson,  Carroll, 
Ogle,  Whiteside;  Sixth  — Henry,  Rock  Island, 
Putnam,  Bureau,  Lee;  Seventh — La  Salle,  Ken- 
dall, Grundy,  Will;  Eighth — Kankakee,  Iroquois, 
Ford,  Marshall,  Livingston,  Woodford;  Ninth — 
Stark,  Peoria,  Knox,  Fulton;  Tenth  —  Mercer, 
Henderson,  Warren,  McDonough,  Hancock, 
Schuyler;  Eleventh  —  Adams,  Brown,  Calhoun, 
Greene,  Pike,  Jersey;  Twelfth — Scott,  Morgan, 
Menard,  Sangamon,  Cass,  Christian ;  Thirteenth — 
Mason,  Tazewell,  McLean,  Logan,  De  Witt ;  Four- 
teenth— Macon,  Piatt,  Champaign,  Douglas,  Coles, 
Vermilion;  Fifteenth — Edgar,  Clark,  Cumber- 
land, Shelby,  Moultrie,  Effingham,  Lawrence, 
Jasper,  Crawford;  Sixteenth  —  Montgomery, 
Fayette,  Washington,  Bond,  Clinton,  Marion, 
Clay;  Seventeenth  —  Macoupin,  Madison,  St. 
Clair,  Monroe ;  Eighteenth  —  Randolph,  Perry, 
Jackson,  Union,  Johnson,  Williamson,  Alex- 
ander, Pope,  Massac,  Pulaski;  Nineteenth — 
Richland,  Wayne,  Edwards,  White,  Wabash, 
Saline,  Gallatin,  Hardin,  Jefferson,  Franklin, 
Hamilton. 

In  1882  (by  Act  of  April  29)  the  number  of  dis- 
tricts was  increased  to  twenty,  and  the  bound- 
aries determined  as  follows :  First — Wards  First 
to  Fourth  (inclusive)  in  Chicago  and  thirteen 
towns  in  Cook  County;  Second — Wards  5th  to 
7th  and  part  of  8th  in  Chicago;  Third — Wards 
9th  to  14th  and  part  of  8th  in  Chicago ;  Fourth 
— The  remainder  of  the  City  of  Chicago  and  of 
the  county  of  Cook;  Fifth — Lake,  McHenry, 
Boone,  Kane,  and  De  Kalb;  Sixth — Winnebago, 
Stephenson,  Jo  Daviess,  Ogle,  and  Carroll; 


Seventh  —  Lee,  Whiteside,  Henry,  Bureau,  Put- 
nam; Eighth — La  Salle,  Kendall,  Grundy,  Du 
Page,  and  Will ;  Ninth  —  Kankakee,  Iroquois, 
Ford,  Livingston,  Woodford,  Marshall;  Tenth — 
Peoria,  Knox,  Stark,  Fulton;  Eleventh— Rock 
Island,  Mercer,  Henderson,  Warren,  Hancock, 
McDonough,  Schuyler;  Twelfth — Cass,  Brown, 
Adams,  Pike,  Scott,  Greene,  Calhoun,  Jersey; 
Thirteenth  —  Tazewell,  Mason,  Menard,  Sanga- 
mon, Morgan,  Christian;  Fourteenth  —  McLean, 
De  Witt,  Piatt,  Macon,  Logan ;  Fifteenth  — 
Coles,  Edgar,  Douglas,  Vermilion,  Champaign; 
Sixteenth  —  Cumberland,  Clark,  Jasper,  Clay, 
Crawford,  Richland,  Lawrence,  Wayne,  Edwards, 
Wabash;  Seventeenth  —  Macoupin,  Montgomery, 
Moultrie,  Shelby,  Effingham,  Fayette;  Eight- 
eenth— Bond,  Madison,  St.  Clair,  Monroe,  Wash- 
ington; Nineteenth  —  Marion,  Clinton,  Jefferson, 
Saline,  Franklin,  Hamilton,  White,  Gallatin,  Har- 
din ;  Twentieth  — •  Perry,  Randolph,  Jackson, 
Union,  Williamson,  Johnson,  Alexander,  Pope, 
Pulaski,  Massac. 

The  census  of  1890  showed  the  State  to  be  entit- 
led to  twenty-two  Representatives.  No  reap- 
portionment, however,  was  made  until  June, 
1893,  two  members  from  the  State-at-large  being 
elected  in  1892.  The  existing  twenty-two  Con- 
gressional districts  are  as  follows:  The  first 
seven  districts  comprise  the  counties  of  Cook  and 
Lake,  the  latter  lying  wholly  in  the  Seventh  dis- 
trict; Eighth  —  McHenry,  De  Kalb,  Kane,  Du 
Page,  Kendall,  Grundy;  Ninth — Boone,  Winne- 
bago, Stephenson,  Jo  Daviess,  Carroll,  Ogle,  Lee; 
Tenth — Whiteside,  Rock  Island,  Mercer,  Henry, 
Stark,  Knox ;  Eleventh  —  Bureau,  La  Salle, 
Livingston,  Woodford;  Twelfth— Will,  Kanka- 
kee, Iroquois,  Vermilion;  Thirteenth — Ford,  Mc- 
Lean, DeWitt,  Piatt,  Champaign,  Douglas;  Four- 
teenth —  Putnam,  Marshall,  Peoria,  Fulton, 
Tazewell,  Mason;  Fifteenth — Henderson,  War- 
ren, Hancock,  McDonough,  Adams,  Brown, 
Schuyler;  Sixteenth  —  Cass,  Morgan,  Scott, 
Pike,  Greene,  Macoupin,  Calhoun,  Jersey; 
Seventeenth — Menard,  Logan,  Sangamon,  Macon, 
Christian;  Eighteenth — Madison,  Montgomery, 
Bond,  Fayette,  Shelby,  Moultrie;  Nineteenth — 
Coles,  Edgar,  Clark,  Cumberland,  Effingham. 
Jasper,  Crawford,  Richland,  Lawrence;  Twenti- 
eth —  Clay,  Jefferson,  Wayne,  Hamilton,  Ed- 
wards, Wabash,  Franklin,  White,  Gallatin, 
Hardin;  Twenty-first — Marion,  Clinton,  Wash- 
ington, St.  Clair,  Monroe,  Randolph,  Perry; 
Twenty -second  —  Jackson,  Union,  Alexander, 
Pulaski,  Johnson,  Williamson,  Saline,  Pope, 
Massac.  (See  also  Representatives  in  Congress. ) 


HISTORICAL   ENCYCLOPEDIA   OF   ILLINOIS. 


ARCHER,  William  B.,  pioneer,  was  born  in 
Warren  County,  Ohio,  in  1792,  and  taken  to  Ken- 
tucky at  an  early  day,  where  he  remained  until 
1817,  when  his  family  removed  to  Illinois,  finally 
settling  in  what  is  now  Clark  County.  Although 
pursuing  the  avocation  of  a  farmer,  he  became 
one  of  the  most  prominent  and  influential  men  in 
that  part  of  the  State.  On  the  organization  of 
Clark  County  in  1819,  he  was  appointed  the  first 
County  and  Circuit  Clerk,  resigning  the  former 
office  in  1820  and  the  latter  in  1822.  In  1824  he 
was  elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  General 
Assembly,  and  two  years  later  to  the  State 
Senate,  serving  continuously  in  the  latter  eight 
years.  He  was  thus  a  Senator  on  the  breaking 
out  of  the  Black  Hawk  War  (1832),  in  which  he 
served  as  a  Captain  of  militia.  In  1834  he  was  an 
unsuccessful  candidate  for  Lieutenant-Governor; 
was  appointed  by  Governor  Duncan,  in  1835,  a 
member  of  the  first  Board  of  Commissioners  of 
the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal;  in  1838  was 
returned  a  second  time  to  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives and  re-elected  in  1840  and  '46  to  the 
same  body.  Two  years  later  (1848)  he  was  again 
elected  Circuit  Clerk,  remaining  until  1852,  and 
in  1854  was  an  Anti-Nebraska  Whig  candidate 
for  Congress  in  opposition  to  James  C.  Allen. 
Although  Allen  received  the  certificate  of  elec- 
tion, Archer  contested  his  right  to  the  seat,  with 
the  result  that  Congress  declared  the  seat  vacant 
and  referred  the  question  back  to  the  people.  In 
A  new  election  held  in  August,  1856,  Archer  was 
defeated  and  Allen  elected.  He  held  no  public 
office  of  importance  after  this  date,  but  in  1856 
was  a  delegate  to  the  first  Republican  National 
Convention  at  Philadelphia,  and  in  that  body  was 
an  enthusiastic  supporter  of  Abraham  Lincoln, 
whose  zealous  friend  and  admirer  he  was,  for  the 
office  of  Vice-President.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
active  promoters  of  various  railroad  enterprises 
m  that  section  of  the  State,  especially  the  old 
Chicago  &  Vincennes  Road,  the  first  projected 
•southward  from  the  City  of  Chicago.  His  con- 
nection with  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal  was 
the  means  of  giving  his  name  to  Archer  Avenue, 
a  somewhat  famous  thoroughfare  in  Chicago. 
fle  was  of  tall  stature  and  great  energy  of  char- 
acter, with  a  tendency  to  enthusiasm  that  com- 
municated itself  to  others.  A  local  history  has 
said  of  him  that  "he  did  more  for  Clark  County 
than  any  man  in  his  day  or  since,"  although  "no 
consideration,  pecuniary  or  otherwise,  was  ever 
given  him  for  his  services."  Colonel  Archer  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  Marshall,  the  county-seat 
of  Clark  County,  Governor  Duncan  being  associ- 


ated with  him  in  the  ownership  of  the  land  on 
which  the  town  was  laid  out.  His  death  oc- 
curred in  Clark  County,  August  9,  1870,  at  the 
age  of  78  years. 

ARCOLA,incorporated  city  in  Douglas  County, 
158  miles  south  of  Chicago,  at  junction  of  Illinois 
Central  and  Terre  Haute  branch  Vandalia  Rail- 
road ;  is  center  of  largest  broom-corn  producing 
region  in  the  world;  has  city  waterworks,  with 
efficient  volunteer  fire  department,  electric  lights, 
telephone  system,  grain  elevators  and  broom- 
corn  warehouses,  two  banks,  two  newspapers,  nine 
churches,  library  building  and  excellent  free  school 
system.  Pop.  (1900),  1,995;  (1910),  2,100. 

ARENZ,  Francis  A.,  pioneer,  was  born  at 
Blankenberg,  in  the  Province  of  the  Rhein, 
Prussia,  Oct.  31,  1800;  obtained  a  good  education 
and,  while  a  young  man,  engaged  in  mercantile 
business  in  his  native  country.  In  1827  he  came 
to  the  United  States  and,  after  spending  two 
years  in  Kentucky,  in  1829  went  to  Galena,  where 
he  was  engaged  for  a  short  time  in  the  lead 
trade.  He  took  an  early  opportunity  to  become 
naturalized,  and  coming  to  Beardstown  a  few 
months  later,  went  into  merchandising  and  real 
estate;  also  became  a  contractor  for  furnishing 
supplies  to  the  State  troops  during  the  Black  Hawk 
War,  Beardstown  being  at  the  time  a  rendezvous 
and  shipping  point.  In  1834  he  began  the  publi- 
cation of  "The  Beardstown  Chronicle  and  Illinois 
Bounty  Land  Register,"  and  was  the  projector  of 
the  Beardstown  &  Sangamon  Canal,  extending 
from  the  Illinois  River  at  Beardstown  to  Miller's 
Ferry  on  the  Sangamon,  for  which  he  secured  a 
special  charter  from  the  Legislature  in  1836.  He 
had  a  survey  of  the  line  made,  but  the  hard  times 
prevented  the  beginning  of  the  work  and  it  was 
finally  abandoned.  Retiring  from  the  mercantile 
business  in  1835,  he  located  on  a  farm  six  miles 
southeast  of  Beardstown,  but  in  1839  removed  to 
a  tract  of  land  near  the  Morgan  County  line 
which  he  had  bought  in  1833,  and  on  which  the 
present  village  of  Arenzville  now  stands.  This 
became  the  center  of  a  thrifty  agricultural  com- 
munity composed  largely  of  Germans,  among 
whom  he  exercised  a  large  influence.  Resuming 
the  mercantile  business  here,  he  continued  it 
until  about  1853,  when  he  sold  out  a  considerable 
part  of  his  possessions.  An  ardent  Whig,  he  was 
elected  as  such  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  Four- 
teenth General  Assembly  (1844)  from  Morgan 
County,  and  during  the  following  session  suc- 
ceeded in  securing  the  passage  of  an  act  by  which 
a  strip  of  territory  three  miles  wide  in  the  north- 
ern part  of  Morgan  County,  including  the  village 


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or  Arenzville,  and  which  had  been  in  dispute, 
was  transferred  by  vote  of  the  citizens  to  Cass 
County.  In  1852  Mr.  Arenz  visited  his  native 
land,  by  appointment  of  President  Fillmore,  as 
bearer  of  dispatches  to  the  American  legations  at 
Berlin  and  Vienna.  He  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Illinois  State  Agricultural  Society  of  1853, 
and  served  as  the  Vice- President  for  his  district 
until  his  death,  and  was  also  the  founder  and 
President  of  the  Cass  County  Agricultural  Soci- 
ety. Died,  April  2,  1856. 

AREN/VILLE,  a  village  of  Cass  County  on  the 
Rock  Island-Beardstown  Division  of  the  C.,  B.  &  Q. 
Ry.,  about  10  miles  south  of  Beardstown;  first 
settlers  German.  Pop.  (1910),  518. 

ARLINGTON  HEIGHTS  (formerly  Dunton),  a 
village  of  Cook  County,  on  the  Chicago  &  North- 
western Railway,  22  miles  northwest  of  Chicago ; 
is  in  a  dairying  district,  has  cheese  and  can  factories, 
besides  a  sewing  machine  factory,  hotels  and 
churches,  a  graded  school,  a  bank  and  one  news- 
paper. Population  (1880),  995;  (1890),  1,424; 
(1900),  1,380;  (1910),  1,943. 

ARMOUR,  Philip  Danforth,  packer,  Board  of 
Trade  operator  and  capitalist,  was  born  at  Stock- 
bridge,  Madison  County,  N.  Y.,  May  16,  1832. 
After  receiving  the  benefits  of  such  education  as 
the  village  academy  afforded,  in  1852  he  set  out 
across  the  Plains  to  California,  where  he  re- 
mained four  years,  achieving  only  moderate  suc- 
cess as  a  miner.  Returning  east  in  1856,  he  soon 
after  embarked  in  the  commission  business  in 
Milwaukee,  continuing  until  1863,  when  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  Mr.  John  Plankinton 
in  the  meat-packing  business.  Later,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  his  brothers — H.  O.  Armour  having 
already  built  up  an  extensive  grain  commission 
trade  in  Chicago — he  organized  the  extensive 
packing  and  commission  firm  of  Armour  & 
Co.,  with  branches  in  New  York,  Kansas  City 
and  Chicago,  their  headquarters  being  removed 
to  the  latter  place  from  Milwaukee  in  1875. 
Mr.  Armour  is  a  most  industrious  and  me- 
thodical business  man,  giving  as  many  hours 
to  the  superintendence  of  business  details  as  the 
most  industrious  day-laborer,  the  result  being 
seen  in  the  creation  of  one  of  the  most  extensive 
and  prosperous  firms  in  the  country.  Mr. 
Armour's  practical  benevolence  has  been  demon- 
strated in  a  munificent  manner  by  his  establish- 
ment and  endowment  of  the  Armour  Institute 
(a  manual  training  school)  in  Chicago,  at  a  cost 
of  over  $2,250,000,  as  an  offshoot  of  the  Armour 
Mission  founded  on  the  bequest  of  his  deceased 
brother,  Joseph  F.  Armour.  Died  Jan.  6,  1901. 


ARMSTRONG,  John  Strawn,  pioneer,  born  in 
Somerset  County,  Pa.,  May  29,  1810,  the  oldest  of 
a  family  of  nine  sons ;  was  taken  by  his  parents 
in  1811  to  Licking  County,  Ohio,  where  he  spent 
his  childhood  and  early  youth.  His  father  was  a 
native  of  Ireland  and  his  mother  a  sister  of  Jacob 
Strawn.  afterwards  a  wealthy  stock-grower  and 
dealer  in  Morgan  County.  In  1829,  John  S.  came 
to  Tazewell  County,  111.,  but  two  years  later 
joined  the  rest  of  his  family  in  Putnam  (now 
Marshall)  County,  all  finally  removing  to  La 
Salle  County,  where  they  were  among  the  earli- 
est settlers.  Here  he  settled  on  a  farm  in  1834, 
where  he  continued  to  reside  over  fifty  years, 
when  he  located  in  the  village  of  Sheridan,  but 
early  in  1897  went  to  reside  with  a  daughter  in 
Ottawa.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Black  Hawk 
War,  has  been  a  prominent  and  influential  farm- 
er, and,  in  the  later  years  of  his  life,  has  been 
a  leader  in  "Granger"  politics,  being  Master  of  his 
local  "Grange,"  and  also  serving  as  Treasurer  of 
the  State  Grange. — George  Washington  (Arm- 
strong), brother  of  the  preceding,  was  born  upon 
the  farm  of  his  parents,  Joseph  and  Elsie  (Strawn) 
Armstrong,  in  Licking  County,  Ohio,  Dec.  9, 
1812;  learned  the  trade  of  a  weaver  with  his 
father  (who  was  a  woolen  manufacturer),  and  at 
the  age  of  18  was  in  charge  of  the  factory. 
Early  in  1831  he  came  with  his  mother's  family 
to  Illinois,  locating  a  few  months  later  in  La 
Salle  County.  In  1832  he  served  with  his  older 
brother  as  a  soldier  in  the  Black  Hawk  War,  was 
identified  with  the  early  steps  for  the  construc- 
tion of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal,  finally  be- 
coming a  contractor  upon  the  section  at  Utica, 
where  he  resided  several  years.  He  then  returned 
.  to  the  farm  near  the  present  village  of  Seneca, 
where  he  had  located  in  1833,  and  where  (with 
the  exception  of  his  residence  at  Utica)  he 
resided  continuously  over  sixty-five  years.  In 
1844  Mr.  Armstrong  was  elected  to  the  lower 
branch  of  the  Fourteenth  General  Assembly, 
also  served  in  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1847  and,  in  1858,  was  the  unsuccessful  Democratic 
candidate  for  Congress  in  opposition  to  Owen 
Lovejoy.  Re-entering  the  Legislature  in  1860  as 
Representative  from  La  Salle  County,  he  served 
in  that  body  until  1868,  proving  one  of  its  ablest 
and  most  influential  members,  as  well  as  an 
accomplished  parliamentarian.  Mr.  Armstrong 
was  one  of  the  original  promoters  of  the  Kan- 
kakee  &  Seneca  Railroad.  Died  Jan.  29,  1902.— 
William  E.  (Armstrong),  third  brother  of  this 
family,  was  born  in  Licking  County,  Ohio,  Oct. 
25,  1814;  came  to  Illinois  with  the  rest  of  the 


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family  in  1831,  and  resided  in  La  Salle  County 
until  1841,  meanwhile  serving  two  or  three  terms 
as  Sheriff  of  the  county.  The  latter  year  he  was 
appointed  one  of  the  Commissioners  to  locate  the 
county-seat  of  the  newly-organized  county  of 
Grundy,  finally  becoming  one  of  the  founders  and 
the  first  permanent  settler  of  the  town  of  Grundy 
— later  called  Morris,  in  honor  of  Hon.  I.  N.  Mor- 
ris, of  Quincy,  111,  at  that  time  one  of  the  Com- 
missioners of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal. 
Here  Mr.  Armstrong  was  again  elected  to  the 
office  of  Sheriff,  serving  several  terms.  So  ex- 
tensive was  his  influence  in  Grundy  County,  that 
he  was  popularly  known  as  "The  Emperor  of 
Grundy."  Died,  Nov.  1,  1850.— Joel  W.  (Arm- 
strong), a  fourth  brother,  was  born  in  Licking 
County,  Ohio,  Jan.  6,  1817;  emigrated  in  boyhood 
to  La  Salle  County,  111. ;  served  one  term  as 
County  Recorder,  was  member  of  the  Board  of 
Supervisors  for  a  number  of  years  and  the  first 
Postmaster  of  his  town.  Died,  Dec.  3,  1871. — 
Perry  A.  (Armstrong),  the  seventh  brother  of 
this  historic  family,  was  born  near  Newark,  Lick- 
ing County,  Ohio,  April  15,  1823,  and  came  to  La 
Salle  County,  111.,  in  1831.  His  opportunities  for 
acquiring  an  education  in  a  new  country  were 
limited,  but  between  work  on  the  farm  and  serv- 
ice as  a  clerk  of  his  brother  George,  aided  by  a 
short  term  in  an  academy  and  as  a  teacher  in 
Kendall  County,  he  managed  to  prepare  himself 
for  college,  entering  Illinois  College  at  Jackson- 
ville in  1843.  Owing  to  failure  of  health,  he  was 
compelled  to  abandon  his  plan  of  obtaining  a  col- 
legiate education  and  returned  home  at  the  end 
of  his  Freshman  year,  but  continued  his  studies, 
meanwhile  teaching  district  schools  in  the  winter 
and  working  on  his  mother's  farm  during  the 
crop  season,  until  1845,  when  he  located  in  Mor- 
ris, Grundy  County,  opened  a  general  store  and 
was  appointed  Postmaster.  He  has  been  in  pub- 
lic position  of  some  sort  ever  since  he  reached  his 
majority,  including  the  offices  of  School  Trustee, 
Postmaster,  Justice  of  the  Peace,  Supervisor, 
County  Clerk  (two  terms),  Delegate  to  the  Con- 
stitutional Convention  of  1862,  and  two  terms  as 
Representative  in  the  General  Assembly  (1862-64 
and  1872-74).  During  his  last  session  in  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  he  took  a  conspicuous  part  in  the 
revision  of  the  statutes  under  the  Constitution  of 
1870,  framing  some  of  the  most  important  laws 
on  the  statute  book,  while  participating  in  the 
preparation  of  others.  At  an  earlier  date  it  fell 
K>  his  lot  to  draw  up  the  original  charters  of  the 
Chicago  &  Rock  Island,  the  Illinois  Central,  and 
the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroads.  He 


has  also  been  prominent  in  Odd  Fellow  and 
Masonic  circles,  having  been  Grand  Master  of  the 
first  named  order  in  the  State  and  being  the  old- 
est 32d  degree  Mason  in  Illinois ;  was  admitted  to 
the  State  bar  in  1864  and  to  that  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States  in  1868,  and  has  been 
Master  in  Chancery  for  over  twenty  consecutive 
years.  Mr.  Armstrong  has  also  found  time  to  do 
some  literary  work,  as  shown  by  his  history  of 
"The  Sauks  and  Black  Hawk  War,"  and  a  num- 
ber of  poems.  He  takes  much  pleasure  in  relat- 
ing reminiscences  of  pioneer  life  in  Illinois,  one 
of  which  is  the  story  of  his  first  trip  from 
Ottawa  to  Chicago,  in  December,  1831,  when  he 
accompanied  his  oldest  brother  (William  E. 
Armstrong)  to  Chicago  with  a  sled  and  ox- 
team  for  salt  to  cure  their  mast-fed  pork,  the 
trip  requiring  ten  days.  His  recollection  is,  that 
there  were  but  three  white  families  in  Chicago 
at  that  time,  but  a  large  number  of  Indians 
mixed  with  half-breeds  of  French  and  Indian 
origin. 

ARNOLD,  Isaac  N.,  lawyer  and  Congressman, 
was  born  near  Cooperstown,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  30,  1813, 
being  descended  from  one  of  the  companions  of 
Roger  Williams.  Thrown  upon  his  own  resources 
at  an  early  age,  he  was  largely  "self-made." 
He  read  law  at  Cooperstown,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1835.  The  next  year  he  removed  to 
Chicago,  was  elected  the  first  City  Clerk  in  1837, 
but  resigned  before  the  close  of  the  year  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  Illinois  in  1841.  He  soon 
established  a  reputation  as  a  lawyer,  and  served 
for  three  terms  (the  Thirteenth,  Fourteenth  and 
Twentieth)  in  the  lower  house  of  the  Legisla- 
ture. In  1844  he  was  a  Presidential  Elector  on 
the  Polk  ticket,  but  the  repeal  of  the  Missouri 
Compromise,  with  the  legislation  regarding  Kan- 
sas and  Nebraska,  logically  forced  him,  as  a  free- 
soiler,  into  the  ranks  of  the  Republican  part3r,  by 
which  he  was  sent  to  Congress  from  18(51  to  1865. 
While  in  Congress  he  prepared  and  delivered  an 
exhaustive  argument  in  support  of  the  right  of 
confiscation  by  the  General  Government.  After 
the  expiration  of  his  last  Congressional  term,  Mr. 
Arnold  returned  to  Chicago,  where  he  resided 
until  his  death,  April  24,  1884.  He  was  of  schol- 
arly instincts,  fond  of  literature  and  an  author  of 
repute.  Among  his  best  known  works  are  Ins 
"Life  of  Abraham  Lincoln"  and  his  "Life  of 
Benedict  Arnold. " 

ARRINGTON,  Alfred  W.,  clergyman,  lawyer 
and  author,  was  born  in  Iredell  County,  N.  C., 
September,  1810,  being  the  son  of  a  Whig  mem- 
ber of  Congress  from  that  State.  In  1829  he  was 


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received  on  trial  as  a  Methodist  preacher  and 
became  a  circuit-rider  in  Indiana ;  during  1832-33 
served  as  an  itinerant  in  Missouri,  gaining  much 
celebrity  by  his  eloquence.  In  1834  he  began  the 
study  of  law,  and  having  been  admitted  to  the 
bar,  practiced  for  several  years  in  Arkansas, 
where  he  was  sent  to  the  Legislature,  and,  in  1844, 
was  the  Whig  candidate  for  Presidential  Elec- 
tor. Later  he  removed  to  Texas,  where  lie  served 
as  Judge  for  six  years.  In  1856  he  removed  to 
Madison,  Wis.,  but  a  year  later  came  to  Chicago, 
where  he  attained  distinction  as  a  lawyer,  dying 
in  that  city  Dec.  31,  1867.  He  was  an  accom- 
plished scholar  and  gifted  writer,  having  written 
much  for  "The  Democratic  Review"  and  "The 
Southern  Literary  Messenger,"  over  the  signature 
of  "Charles  Summerfleld,"  and  was  author  of  an 
"Apostrophe  to  Water,"  which  he  put  in  the 
mouth  of  an  itinerant  Methodist  preacher,  and 
which  John  B.  Gough  was  accustomed  to  quote 
with  great  effect.  A  volume  of  his  poems  with  a 
memoir  was  published  in  Chicago  in  1869. 

ARROWSMITH,  a  village  of  McLean  County, 
on  the  Lake  Erie  &  Western  Railway,  20  miles 
east  of  Bloomington;  is  in  an  agricultural  and 
stock  region;  has  one  newspaper.  Population 
(1890),  420;  (1900),  317;  (1910),  366. 

ARTHUR,  village  in  Moultrie  and  Douglas 
Counties,  at  junction  of  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illi- 
nois and  Terre  Haute  &  Peoria  Division  Vandalia 
Line;  is  center  of  broom-corn  belt;  has  two 
banks,  a  weekly  newspaper.  Population  (1900), 
858;  (1910),  1,080. 

ASAY,  Edward  (i.,  lawyer,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, Sept.  17,  1825;  was  educated  in  private 
schools  and  entered  the  ministry  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church ;  later  spent  some  time  in  the 
South,  but  in  1853  retired  from  the  ministry  and 
began  the  study  of  law,  meantime  devoting  a  part 
of  his  time  to  mercantile  business  in  New  York 
City.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1856,  remov- 
ing the  same  year  to  Chicago,  where  he  built  up 
a  lucrative  practice.  He  was  a  brilliant  speaker 
and  became  eminent,  especially  as  a  criminal 
lawyer.  Politically  he  was  a  zealous  Democrat 
and  was  the  chief  attorney  of  Buckner  S.  Morris 
and  others  during  their  trial  for  conspiracy  in 
connection  with  the  Camp  Douglas  affair  of  No- 
vember, 1864.  During  1871-72  he  made  an  ex- 
tended trip  to  Europe,  occupying  some  eighteen 
months,  making  a  second  visit  in  1882.  His  later 
years  were  spent  chiefly  on  a  farm  in  Ogle 
County.  Died  in  Chicago,  Nov.  24,  1898. 

ASBURY,  Henry,  lawyer,  was  born  in  Harri- 
son (now  Robertson)  County,  Ky.,  August  10, 


1810;  came  to  Illinois  in  1834,  making  the  jour- 
ney on  horseback  and  final) y  locating  in  Quinoy, 
where  he  soon  after  began  the  study  of  law  with 
the  Hon.  O.  H.  Browning;  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1837,  being  tor  a  time  the  partner  of  Col. 
Edward  D.  Baker,  afterwards  United  States 
Senator  from  Oregon  and  finally  killed  at  Ball's 
Bluff  in  1862.  In  1849  Mr.  Asbury  was  appointed 
by  President  Taylor  Register  of  the  Quincy  Land 
Office,  and,  in  1864-65,  served  by  appointment  of 
President  Lincoln  (who  was  his  close  personal 
friend)  as  Provost-Marshal  of  the  Quincy  dis- 
trict, thereby  obtaining  the  title  of  "Captain," 
by  which  he  was  widely  known  among  his 
friends.  Later  he  served  for  several  years  as 
Registrar  in  Bankruptcy  at  Quincy,  which  was 
his  last  official  position.  Originally  a  Kentucky 
Whig,  Captain  Asbury  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  Republican  party  in  Illinois,  acting  in  co- 
operation with  Abram  Jonas,  Archibald  Williams, 
Nehemiah  Bushnell,  O.  H.  Browning  and  others 
of  his  immediate  neighbors,  and  with  Abraham 
Lincoln,  with  whom  he  was  a  frequent  corre- 
spondent at  that  period.  Messrs.  Nicolay  and 
Hay,  in  their  Life  of  Lincoln,  award  him  the 
credit  of  having  suggested  one  of  the  famous 
questions  propounded  by  Lincoln  to  Douglas 
which  gave  the  latter  so  much  trouble  during 
the  memorable  debates  of  1858.  In  1886  Captain 
Asbury  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  continued 
to  reside  until  his  death,  Nov.  19,  1896. 

ASHLAND,  a  town  in  Cass  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  and  the 
Baltimore  &  Ohio  South-Western  Railroad,  21 
miles  west-northwest  of  Springfield  and  200 
miles  southwest  of  Chicago.  It  is  in  the  midst  of 
a  rich  agricultural  region,  and  is  an  important 
shipping  point  for  grain  and  stock.  It  has  a 
bank,  three  churches  and  a  weekly  newspaper. 
Coal  is  mined  in  the  vicinity.  Population  (1880), 
609;  (1890),  1,015;  (1900),  1,201;  (1910),  1,096. 

ASHLEY,  a  city  of  Washington  County,  at 
intersection  of  Illinois  Central  and  Louisville  & 
Nashville  Railways,  62  miles  east  by  southeast  of 
St.  Louis;  is  in  an  agricultural  and  fruit  growing 
region;  has  some  manufactures,  electric  light 
plant  and  excellent  granitoid  sidewalks.  Popu- 
kuicm  (KS90),  1,035;  (1900),  953;  (1910),  913. 

ASHMORE,  a  village  of  Coles  County,  on  the 
Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Rail- 
way, 9  miles  east  of  Charleston ;  has  a  newspaper 
and  considerable  local  trade.  Population  (1890), 
446;  (1900),  487;  (1910),  511. 

ASHTOX,  a  village  of  Lee  County,  on  the  Chi- 
cago &  North-Western  Railroad,  84  miles  west  of 


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Chicago ;  has  one  newspaper.     Population  (1880), 
646;  (1890),  680;  (1900),  756;  (1910),  779. 

ASPINWALL,  Homer  F.,  farmer  and  legisla- 
tor, was  born  in  Stephenson  County,  111.,  Nov.  15, 
1846,  educated  in  the  Freeport  high  school,  and, 
in  early  life,  spent  two  years  in  a  wholesale 
notion  store,  later  resuming  the  occupation  of  a 
farmer.  After  holding  various  local  offices,  in- 
cluding that  of  member  of  the  Board  of  Supervis- 
ors of  Stephenson  County,  in  1892  Mr.  Aspinwall 
was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  and  re-elected  in 
1896.  Soon  after  the  beginning  of  the  Spanish- 
American  War  in  1898,  he  was  appointed  by 
President  McKinley  Captain  and  Assistant 
Quartermaster  in  the  Volunteer  Army,  but 
before  being  assigned  to  duty  accepted  the  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonelcy of  the  Twelfth  Illinois  Pro- 
visional Regiment.  When  it  became  evident  that 
the  regiment  would  not  be  called  into  the  service, 
he  was  assigned  to  the  command  of  the  "Mani- 
toba," a  large  transport  steamer,  which  carried 
some  12,000  soldiers  to  Cuba  and  Porto  Rico  with- 
out a  single  accident.  In  view  of  the  approach- 
ing session  of  the  Forty -first  General  Assembly, 
it  being  apparent  that  the  war  was  over,  Mr. 
Aspinwall  applied  for  a  discharge,  which  was 
refused,  a  20-days'  leave  of  absence  being  granted 
instead.  A  discharge  was  finally  granted  about 
the  middle  of  February,  when  he  resumed  his 
seat  in  the  Senate.  Mr.  Aspinwall  owns  and 
operates  a  large  farm  near  Freeport. 

ASSUMPTION,  a  town  in  Christian  County,  on 
the  Illinois  Ceniral  Railroad,  23  miles  south  by 
west  from  Decatur  and  9  miles  north  of  Pana. 
It  is  situated  in  a  rich  agricultural  and  coal  min- 
ing district,  and  has  two  banks,  five  churches,  a 
public  school,  one  weekly  paper  and  several  manu- 
factories. Pop.  (1900),  1,702;  (1910),  1,918. 

ASTORIA,  town  in  Fulton  County,  on  Rock 
Island  &  St.  Louis  Division  C.,  B.  &  Q.  R.  R. ; 
has  city  waterworks,  electric  light  plant,  tele- 
phone texohange,  three  large  grain  elevators, 
pressed  brick  works;  six  churches,  two  banks, 
one  weekly  paper,  city  hall  and  park,  and  good 
schools;  is  in  a  coal  region;  has  some  manufacturing. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,357;  (1900),  1,684;  (1910),  1,357. 

ATCHISON,  TOPEKA  &  SANTA  FE  RAIL- 
WAY COMPANY.  This  Company  operates  three 
subsidiary  lines  in  Illinois— the  Chicago,  Santa 
Fe  &  California,  the  Atchison,  Topeka  and  Santa 
Fe  in  Chicago,  and  the  Mississippi  River  Rail- 
road &  Toll  Bridge,  which  are  operated  as  a 
through  line  between  Chicago  and  Kansas  City, 
with  a  branch  from  Ancona  to  Pekin,  111.,  hav- 
ing an  aggregate  operated  mileage  of  515  miles,  of 


which  295  are  in  Illinois.  The  total  earnings  and 
income  -for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1895,  were 
§1,298,600,  while  the  operating  expenses  and  fixed 
charges  amounted  to  $2,360,706.  The  accumu- 
lated deficit  on  the  whole  line  amounted,  June  30, 
1894,  to  more  than  §4,500,000.  The  total  capitali- 
zation of  the  whole  line  in  1895  was  $52,775,2~>1. 
The  parent  road  was  chartered  in  1859  under  the 
name  of  the  Atchison  &  Topeka  Railroad ;  but  in 
1863  was  changed  to  the  Atchison,  Topeka  & 
Santa  Fe  Railroad.  The  construction  of  the  main 
line  was  begun  in  1859  and  completed  in  1873. 
The  largest  number  of  miles  operated  was  in 
1893,  being  7,481.65.  January  1,  1896,  the  road 
was  reorganized  under  the  name  of  The  Atchison, 
Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railway  Company  (its  present 
name),  which  succeeded  by  purchase  under  fore- 
closure (Dec.  10,  1895)  to  the  property  and  fran- 
chises of  the  Atchison,  Topeka  and  Santa  Fe 
Railroad  Company.  Its  mileage,  in  1895,  was 
6,481.65  miles.  The  executive  and  general  officers 
of  the  system  (1898)  are: 

Aldace  F.  Walker,  Chairman  of  the  Board, 
New  York ;  E.  P.  Ripley,  President,  Chicago ;  C. 
M.  Higginson,  Ass't  to  the  President,  Chicago; 
E.  D.  Kenna,  1st  Vice-President  and  General 
Solicitor,  Chicago;  Paul  Morton,  2d  Vice-Presi- 
dent, Chicago;  E.  Wilder,  Secretary  and  Treas- 
urer, Topeka;  L.  C.  Deming,  Assistant  Secretary, 
New  York ;  H.  W.  Gardner,  Assistant  Treasurer, 
New  York;  Victor  Morawetz,  General  Counsel, 
New  York;  Jno.  P.  Whitehead,  Comptroller, 
New  York;  H.  C.  Whitehead,  General  Auditor, 
Chicago ;  W.  B.  Biddle,  Freight  Traffic  Manager, 
Chicago;  J.  J.  Frey,  General  Manager,  Topeka; 
H.  W.  Mudge,  General  Superintendent,  Topeka; 
W.  A.  Bissell,  Assistant  Freight  Traffic  Manager, 
Chicago;  W.  F.  White,  Passenger  Traffic 
Manager,  Chicago;  Geo.  T.  Nicholson,  Assistant 
Passenger  Traffic  Manager,  Chicago;  W.  E. 
Hodges,  General  Purchasing  Agent,  Chicago; 
James  A.  Davis,  Industrial  Commissioner,  Chi- 
cago; James  Dun,  Chief  Engineer,  Topeka,  Kan. ; 
John  Player,  Superintendent  of  Machinery, 
Topeka,  Kan. ;  C.  W.  Kouns,  Superintendent  Car 
Service,  Topeka,  Kan. ;  J.  S.  Hobson,  Signal 
Engineer,  Topeka;  C.  G.  Sholes,  Superintendent 
of  Telegraph,  Topeka,  Kan. ;  C.  W.  Ryus,  General 
Claim  Agent,  Topeka ;  F.  C.  Gay,  General  Freight 
Agent,  Topeka;  C.  R.  Hudson,  Assistant  General 
Freight  Agent,  Topeka;  W.  J.  Black,  General 
Passenger  Agent,  Chicago;  P.  Walsh,  General 
Baggage  Agent,  Chicago. 

ATHENS,  an  incorporated  city  and  coal-mining 
town  in  Menard  County,  on  the  Chicago,  Peoria 


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&  St.  Louis  R.  E.,  north  by  northwest  of  Spring- 
field. It  is  also  the  center  of  a  prosperous  agri- 
cultural and  stock-raising  district,  and  large 
numbers  of  cattle  are  shipped  there  for  the  Chi- 
cago market.  The  place  has  an  electric  lighting 
plant,  brickyards,  two  machine  shops,  two  grain 
elevators,  five  churches,  one  newspaper,  and  good 
schools.  Athens  is  one  of  the  oldest  towns  in 
Central  Illinois.  Pop.  (1900),  1,535;  (1910),  1,340. 

ATKINS,  Smith  D.,  soldier  and  journalist,  was 
born  near  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  June  9,  1836;  came  with 
his  father  to  Illinois  in  1846,  and  lived  on  a  farm 
till  1850 ;  was  educated  at  Rock  River  Seminary, 
Mount  Morris,  meanwhile  learning  the  printer's 
trade,  and  afterwards  established  "The  Savanna 
Register"  in  Carroll  County.  In  1854  he  began 
the  study  of  law,  and  in  1860,  while  practicing  at 
Freeport,  was  elected  Prosecuting  Attorney,  but 
resigned  in  1861,  being  the  first  man  to  enlist  as  a 
private  soldier  in  Stephenson  County.  He  served 
as  a  Captain  of  the  Eleventh  Illinois  Volunteers 
(three-months'  men),  re-enlisted  with  the  same 
rank  for  three  years  and  took  part  in  the  capture 
of  Fort  Donelson  and  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  serv- 
ing at  the  latter  on  the  staff  of  General  Hurlbut. 
Forced  to  retire  temporarily  on  account  of  his 
health,  he  next  engaged  in  raising  volunteers  in 
Northern  Illinois,  was  finally  commissioned  Col- 
onel of  the  Ninety-second  Illinois,  and,  in  June, 
1863,  was  assigned  to  command  of  a  brigade  in 
the  Army  of  Kentucky,  later  serving  in  the  Army 
of  the  Cumberland.  On  the  organization  of  Sher- 
man's great  "March  to  the  Sea,"  he  efficiently 
cooperated  in  it,  was  brevetted  Brigadier-General 
for  gallantry  at  Savannah,  and  at  the  close  of  the 
war,  by  special  order  of  President  Lincoln,  was 
brevetted  Major-General.  Since  the  war,  Gen- 
eral Atkins'  chief  occupation  has  been  that  of 
editor  of  "The  Freeport  Journal,"  though,  for 
nearly  twenty-four  years,  he  served  as  Post- 
master of  that  city.  He  took  a  prominent  part 
in  the  erection  of  the  Stephenson  County  Sol- 
diers' Monument  at  Freeport,  has  been  President 
of  the  Freeport  Public  Library  since  its  organiza- 
tion, member  of  the  Board  of  Education,  and  since 
1895,  by  appointment  of  the  Governor  of  Illinois, 
one  of  the  Illinois  Commissioners  of  the  Chicka- 
mauga  and  Chattanooga  Military  Park. 

ATKINSON,  village  of  Henry  County,  on  the 
Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railway,  39  miles 
east  of  Rock  Island ;  has  an  electric  light  plant,  a 
bankand  a  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  762;  (1910),  805. 

ATLANTA,  a  city  of  Logan  County,  on  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad,  20  miles  southwest  of 
Bloomington.  It  stands  on  a  high,  fertile  prairie 


and  the  surrounding  region  is  rich  in  coal,  as. 
well  as  a  productive  agricultural  and  stock-rais- 
ing district.  It  lias  a  water-works  system,  elec- 
tric light  plant,  five  churches,  a  graded  school,  a 
weekly  paper,  two  banks,  a  flouring  mill,  and  is 
the  headquarters  of  the  Union  Agricultural  Society 
established  1860.  Pop.  (1900),  1,270;  (1910),  1,367. 

ATLAS,  a  hamlet  in  the  southwestern  part  of 
Pike  County,  10  miles  southwest  of  Pittsfield  and 
three  miles  from  Rockport,  the  nearest  station  on 
the  Quincy  &  Louisiana  Division  of  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad.  Atlas  has  an  in- 
teresting history.  It  was  settled  by  Col.  William 
Ross  and  four  brothers,  who  came  here  from 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  in  the  latter  part  of  1819,  or 
early  in  1820,  making  there  the  first  settlement 
within  the  present  limits  of  Pike  County.  The 
town  was  laid  out  by  the  Rosses  in  1823,  and  the 
next  year  the  county-seat  was  removed  thither 
from  Coles  Grove — now  in  Calhoun  County — but 
which  had  been  the  first  county-seat  of  Pike 
County,  when  it  comprised  all  the  territory  lying 
north  and  west  of  the  Illinois  River  to  the  Mis- 
sissippi River  and  the  Wisconsin  State  line. 
Atlas  remained  the  county-seat  until  1833,  when 
the  seat  of  justice  was  removed  to  Pittsfield. 
During  a  part  of  that  time  it  was  one  of  the 
most  important  points  in  the  western  part  of  the 
State,  and  was,  for  a  time,  a  rival  of  Quincy. 
It  now  has  only  a  postoffice  and  general  store. 
The  population,  according  to  the  census  of  1890, 
was  52. 

ATTORNEYS-GENERAL.  The  following  is  a 
list  of  the  Attorneys-General  of  Illinois  under  the 
Territorial  and  State  Governments,  down  to  the 
present  time  (1899),  with  the  date  and  duration  of 
the  term  of  each  incumbent : 

TERRITORIAL — Benjamin  H.  Doyle,  July  to  De- 
cember, 1809;  John  J.  Crittenden,  Dec.  30  to 
April,  1810;  Thomas  T.  Crittenden,  April  to 
October,  1810;  Benj.  M.  Piatt,  October,  1810-13; 
William  Mears,  1813-18. 

STATE — Daniel  Pope  Cook,  March  5  to  Dec.  14, 
1819;  William  Mears,  1819-21;  Samuel  D.  Lock- 
wood,  1821-23;  James  Turney,  1823-29;  George 
Forquer,  1829-33;  James  Semple,  1833-34;  Ninian 
W.  Edwards,  1834-35;  Jesse  B.  Thomas,  Jr., 
1835-36;  Walter  B.  Scates,  1836-37;  Usher  F. 
Linder,  1837-38;  George  W.  Olney,  1838-39;  Wick- 
liffe  Kitchell,  1839-40;  Josiah  Lamborn,  1840-43; 
James  Allen  McDougal,  1843-46;  David  B.  Camp- 
bell, 1846-48. 

The  Constitution  of  1848  made  no  provision  for 
the  continuance  of  the  office,  and  for  nineteen 
years  it  remained  vacant.  It  was  re-created, 


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however,  by  legislative  enactment  in  1867,  and 
on  Feb.  28  of  that  year  Governor  Oglesby 
appointed  Robert  G.  Ingersoli,  of  Peoria,  to  dis 
charge  the  duties  of  the  position,  which  he  con- 
tinued to  do  until  1869.  Subsequent  incumbents 
of  the  office  have  been:  Washington  Bushnell, 
1869-73;  James  K.  Edsall,  1873-81;  James  McCart- 
ney, 1881  85;  George  Hunt,  1885-93  ;M.  T.  Moloney, 
1893-97;  Edward  C.  Akin,  1897-1901;  Rowland  J. 
Hamlin,  1901-05;  Wm.  H.  Stead,  1905—.  Under 
the  Constitution  of  1818  the  office  was  filled  by 
appointment  by  the  Legislature;  under  that  of 
1848,  it  ceased  to  exist  until  re-created  by  act  of 
the  Legislature  of  1867,  but,  in  1870,  it  was  made 
a  constitutional  office  to  be  filled  by  popular 
election  for  a  term  of  four  years. 

ATWOOD,  a  village  lying  partly  in  Piatt  and 
partly  in  Douglas  County,  on  the  Cincinnati, 
Hamilton  &  Dayton  R.  R.,  27  miles  east  of  Deca- 
tur.  The  region  is  agricultural  and  fruit-grow- 
ing; the  town  has  two  banks,  an  excellent  school 
and  a  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  698;  (1910),  659. 

ATWOOD,  Charles  B.,  architect,  was  born  at 
Millbury,  Mass.,  May  18,  1849;  at  17  began  a  full 
course  in  architecture  at  Harvard  Scientific 
School,  and,  after  graduation,  received  prizes  for 
public  buildings  at  San  Francisco,  Hartford  and 
a  number  of  other  cities,  besides  furnishing 
designs  for  some  of  the  finest  private  residences 
in  the  country.  He  was  associated  with  D.  H. 
Burnham  in  preparing  plans  for  the  Columbian 
Exposition  buildings,  at  Chicago,  for  the  World's 
Fair  of  1893,  and  distinguished  himself  by  pro- 
ducing plans  for  the  "Art  Building,"  the  "Peri- 
style," the  "Terminal  Station"  and  other 
prominent  structures.  Died,  in  the  midst  of  his 
highest  successes  as  an  architect,  at  Chicago, 
Dec.  19,  1895. 

AUBURN,  a  village  of  Sangamon  County,  on 
the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad,  15  miles  south  of 
Springfield  ;  has  some  manufactories  of  flour  and 
farm  implements,  besides  tile  and  brick  works, 
two  coal  mines,  electric,  light  plant,  two  banks, 
several  chiuvhrs,  a  graded  school  and  a  weekly 
newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  1,281;  (1910),  I,M  1. 

AUDITORS  OF  PUBLIC  ACCOUNTS.  The 
Auditors  of  Public  Accounts  under  the  Terri- 
torial Government  were  H.  H.  Maxwell.  IsiO-lfi; 
Daniel  P.  Cook,  1816  17;  Robert  Blackwell,  (April 
to  August),  1817;  Elijah  C.  Berry,  1817-18.  Under 
the  Constitution  of  1818  the  Auditor  of  Public 
Accounts  was  made  appointive  by  the  legislature, 
without  limitation  of  term;  but  by  the  Constitu- 
tions of  1848  and  1870  the  office  was  made 
elective  by  the  people  for  a  term  of  four  years. 


The  following  is  a  list  of  the  State  Auditors 
from  the  date  of  the  admission  of  the  State  into 
the  Union  down  to  the  present  time  (1899),  with 
the  date  and  duration  of  the  tenn  of  each: 
Elijah  C.  Berry,  1818-31;  James  T.  B.  Stapp, 
183135;  Levi  Davis,  1835-41;  James  Shields, 
1841-43;  William  Lee  D.  Ewiug  ,843  46;  Thomas 
H  Campbell,  1846-57;  Jesse  K.  Dubois,  1857  C4; 
Orlin  H.  Minei,  1864-69;  Charles  E.  Lippincott, 
186977;  Thomas  B.  Needles,  1877-81;  Charles  P. 
Swigert,  1881-89-  C.  W.  Pavey,  1889-93;  David 
Gore,  1893-97;  James  S  McCullough,  1897  — . 

AUGUSTA,  a  village  in  Augusta  township, 
Hancock  County,  on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  Railroad,  36  miles  northeast  of  Quincy. 
Wagons  and  brick  are  the  principal  manufac- 
tures. The  town  has  one  newspaper,  two  banks, 
three  churches  and  a  graded  school.  The  sur 
rounding  country  is  a  fertile  agricultural  region 
and  abounds  in  a  good  quality  of  bituminous 
coal.  Fine  qualities  of  potter's  clay  and  mineral 
paint  are  obtained  here.  Population  (1890), 
1,077;  (1900),  1,H9;  (1910),  1,146. 

AUGUSTANA  COLLEGE,  an  educational  insti- 
tution controlled  by  the  Evangelical  Lutheran 
denomination,  located  at  Rock  Island  and  founded 
in  1863.  Besides  preparatory  and  collegiate  de- 
partments, a  theological  school  is  connected  with 
the  institution.  To  the  two  first  named,  young 
women  are  admitted  on  an  equality  with 
men.  More  than  500  students  were  reported  in 
attendance  in  1896,  about  one-fourth  being 
women.  A  majority  of  the  latter  were  in  the 
preparatory  (or  academic)  department.  The  col- 
lege is  not  endowed,  but  owns  property  (real 
and  personal)  to  the  value  of  §250,000.  It  has  a 
library  of  12,000  volumes. 

AURORA,  a  city  and  important  railroad  cen- 
ter, Kane  County,  on  Fox  River,  39  miles  south- 
west of  Chicago;  is  location  of  principal  shops  of 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  R.  R.,  has  fine 
water-power  and  many  successful  manufactories, 
including  extensive  toiler  works,  iron  foundries, 
cotton  and  woolen  mills,  flour  mills,  silver-plat- 
ing works,  corset,  sash  and  door  and  carriage 
factories,  stove  and  smelting  works,  establish- 
ments for  turning  out  road-scrapers,  buggy  tops, 
and  wood-working  machinery.  The  city  owns 
water-works  and  electric  light  plant;  has  six 
banks,  three  daily  and  several  weekly  papers, 
some  twenty-five  churches,  excellent  schools  and 
handsome  public  library  building;  is  connected 
by  interurban  electric  lines  with  the  principal 
towns  and  villages  in  the  Fox  River  valley. 
Pop.  (1890),  19,f)S8;  (1900),  24,1-17:  (HMO),  29,807. 


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AUSTIN,  a  former  western  suburb  of  the  city  of 
Chicago  on  the  line  of  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern 
R.  !>.;  was  annexed  to  the  city  of  Chicago  in  1899. 

AYERYYILLE,  a  village  of  Peoria  County,  lying 
north  of  the  city  of  Peoria  and  on  the  Illinois  River; 
is  an  important  manufacturing  point,  especially  in 
the  line  of  agricultural  implements.  Population 
(1900),  1,573;  (1910),  2,668. 

AUSTIN  COLLEUK.aco-educational  institution, 
was  founded  at  Efringham  in  1890,  by  Edward 
Austin  and  brother,  but  about  1904  the  property 
came  into  possession  of  Prof.  Lewis  H.  Bissell,  and 
now  constitutes  a  part  of  the  Bissell  Photo-engrav- 
ing College. 

AUSTRALIAN  BALLOT,  a  form  of  ballot  for 
popular  elections,  thus  named  because  it  was 
first  brought  into  use  in  Australia.  It  was 
adopted  by  act  of  the  Legislature  of  Illinois  in 
1891,  and  is  applicable  to  the  election  of  all  public 
officers  except  Trustees  of  Schools,  School  Direct- 
ors, members  of  Boards  of  Education  and  officers 
of  road  districts  in  counties  not  under  township 
organization.  Under  it,  all  ballots  for  the  elec- 
tion of  c  flficers  (except  those  just  enumerated) 
are  required  to  be  printed  and  distributed  to  the 
election  officers  for  use  on  the  day  of  election,  at 
public  cost.  These  ballots  contain  the  names, 
on  the  same  sheet,  of  all  candidates  to  be  voted 
for  at  such  election,  such  names  having  been 
formally  certified  previously  to  the  Secretary  of 
State  (in  the  case  of  candidates  for  offices  to  be 
voted  for  by  electors  of  the  entire  State  or  any 
district  greater  than  a  single  county)  or  to  the 
County  Clerk  (as  to  all  others),  by  the  presiding 
officer  and  secretary  of  the  convention  or  caucus 
making  such  nominations,  when  the  party  repre- 
sented cast  at  least  two  per  cent  of  the  aggregate 
vote  of  the  State  or  district  at  the  preceding  gen- 
eral election.  Other  names  may  be  added  to  the 
ballot  on  the  petition  of  a  specified  number  of  the 
legal  voters  under  certain  prescribed  conditions 
named  in  the  act.  The  duly  registered  voter,  on 
presenting  himself  at  the  poll,  is  given  a  copy  of 
the  official  ticket  by  one  of  the  judges  of  election, 
upon  which  lie  proceeds  to  indicate  his  prefer- 
ence in  a  temporary  booth  or  closet  set  apart  for 
his  use,  by  making  a  cross  at  the  head  of  the  col- 
umn of  candidates  for  whom  he  wishes  to  vote,  if 
he  desires  to  vote  for  all  of  the  candidates  of  the 
same  party,  or  by  a  similar  mark  before  the  name 
of  each  individual  for  whom  he  wishes  to  vote,  in 
case  he  desires  to  distribute  his  support  among 
the  candidates  of  different  parties.  The  object  of 
the  law  is  to  secure  for  the  voter  secrecy  of  the 
ballot,  with  independence  and  freedom  from  dic- 


tation or  interference  by  others  in  the  exercise  of 
his  right  of  suffrage. 

AYA,atown  in  Jackson  County  (incorporated 
as  a  city,  1901),  on  the  Mobile  &  Ohio  Railroad 
(Cairo  &  Su.  Louis  Division),  75  miles  south- 
southeast  from  St.  Louis.  It  has  two  banks  and 
a  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  984;  (1910),  780. 

AYOXj  village  of  Fulton  County,  on  C.,  B.  &  Q. 
R.  R.,  20  miles  south  of  Calesburg;  has  drainpipe 
works,  flouring  mill,  factories  of  steam  and  hot- 
water  heaters,  two  banks  and  one  newspaper; 
agricultural  fair  held  here  annually.  Population 
(1900),  809;  (1910),  805. 

AYKR,  Benjamin  F.,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Kingston,  N.  H.,  April  22,  1825,  graduated  at 
Dartmouth  College  in  1846,  studied  law  at  Dane 
Law  School  (Harvard  University),  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  and  began  practice  at  Manchester, 
N.  H.  After  serving  one  term  in  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Legislature,  and  as  Prosecuting  Attorney 
f  or  Hillsborough  County,  in  1857  he  came  to  Chica- 
go, soon  advancing  to  the  front  rank  of  lawyers 
then  in  practice  there ;  became  Corporation  Counsel 
in  1861,  and,  two  years  later,  drafted  the  revised 
city  charter.  After  the  close  of  his  official  career, 
he  was  a  member  for  eight  years  of  the  law  firm  of 
Beckwith,  Ayer  &  Kales,  and  afterwards  of  the 
firm  of  Ayer  &  Kales,  until,  retiring  from  general 
practice,  Mr.  Ayer  became  Solicitor  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad,  then  a  Director  of  the  Company, 
finally  becoming  General  Counsel  and  a  potent  factor 
in  its  management.  Dieil  April  6,  1903. 

AYERS,  Marshall  Paul,  banker,  Jacksonville, 
was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  July  27,  1823; 
came  to  Jacksonville,  111.,  with  his  parents,  in 
1830,  and  was  educated  there,  graduating  from 
Illinois  College,  in  1843,  as  the  classmate  of  Dr. 
Newton  Bateman,  afterwards  President  of  Knox 
College  at  Galesburg,  and  Rev.  Thomas  K. 
Beecher,  now  of  Elmira,  N.Y.  After  leaving  col- 
lege he  became  the  partner  of  his  father  (David 
B.  Ayers)  as  agent  of  Mr.  John  Grigg,  of  Philadel- 
phia, who  was  the  owner  of  a  large  body  of  Illi- 
nois lands.  His  father  dying  in  1850,  Mr.  Ayers 
succeeded  to  the  management  of  the  business, 
about  75,000  acres  of  Mr.  Grigg's  unsold  lands 
coming  under  his  charge.  In  December,  1852, 
with  the  assistance  of  Messrs.  Page  &  Bacon,  bank- 
ers, of  St.  Louis,  he  opened  the  first  bank  in  Jack- 
sonville, for  the  sale  of  exchange,  but  which 
finally  grew  into  a  bank  of  deposit  and  lias  been 
continued  ever  since,  being  recognized  as  one  of 
the  most  solid  institutions  in  Central  Illinois.  In 
1870-71,  aided  by  Philadelphia  and  New  York 
capitalists,  he  built  the  "Illinois  Farmers'  Rail- 


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road"  between  Jacksonville  and  Waverly.  after- 
wards extended  to  Virden  and  finally  to  Centralia 
and  Mount  Vernon.  This  was  the  nucleus  of  the 
Jacksonville  Southeastern  Railway,  though  Mr. 
Avers  had  no  connection  with  it  in  his  later 
years.  Other  business  enterprises  with  which 
he  was  connected  were  the  JcaksonviBe  Gas  Com- 
pany (now  including  an  electric  fight  and 
power  plant),  of  which  he  was  President  for  forty 
years:  the  -Home  Woolen  Mills"  (early  wiped 
oat  by  fire),  sugar  and  paper-barrel  manufacture, 
coal-mining,  etc.  About  1877  he  purchased  a 
body  of  23,600  acres  of  land  in  Champaign  County, 
known  as  "Broadlands, "  from  John  T.  Alexander, 
an  extensive  cattle-dealer,  who  had  become 
heavily  involved  daring  the  years  of  financial 
revulsion.  As  a  result  of  this  transaction,  Mr. 
Alexanders  debts,  which  aggregated  $1,000,000, 
were  discharged  within  the  next  two  years.  Mr. 
Avers  had  been  an  earnest  Republican  since  the 
organization  of  that  party  and,  during  the  war, 
rendered  valuable  service  in  assisting  to  raise  funds 
for  the  support  of  the  operations  of  the  Christian 
Commission  in  the  field.  He  was  also  active  in 
Sunday  School,  benevolent  and  educational  work, 
having  been  for  twenty  years  a  Trustee  of  Illinois 
College,  of  which  he  had  been  an  ardent  friend. 
In  1&46  he  was  married  to  Miss  Laura  Allen, 
daughter  of  Rev.  John  Allen,  D.D.,  of  Huntsville. 
Ala.,  and  was  father  of  four  sons  and  four  daughters. 
Died  Sept.  30,  1902. 

BABCOCK,  \mm  (X,  was  born  at  Penn  Tan, 
X.  T.,  Jan.20,  1888,  the  son  of  a  member  of  Con- 
gress from  that  State;  at  the  age  of  18,  having 
lost  his  father  by  death,  came  West,  and  soon 
after  engaged  in  mercantile  business  in  partner- 
ship with  a  brother  at  Canton,  DL  In  1854  he 
was  elected  by  a  majority  of  one  vote,  as  an  Anti- 
Xebraska  Whig,  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  Nine- 
teenth General  Assembly,  and.  in  the  following 
•!•«»•»»,  took  part  in  the  election  of  United  States 
Senator  which  resulted  in  the  choice  of  Lyman 
TrumbulL  Although  a  personal  and  political 
friend  of  Mr.  Lincoln.  Mr.  Babcock,  as  a  matter 
of  policy,  cast  his  vote  for  his  townsman,  William 
KVIlnqT  afterwards  Congressman  from  that  dis- 
trict, until  it  was  apparent  that  a  concentration 
of  the  Anti-Nebraska  vote  on  Trnmbull  was 
necessary  to  defeat  the  election  of  a  Democrat. 
In  1888  he  was  appointed  by  President  Lincoln 
the  first  A»M^IW  of  Internal  Revenue  for  the 
Fourth  District,  and,  in  1563.  was  commissioned 
by  Governor  Tales  Colonel  of  the  One  Hundred 
and  Third  Illinois  Volunteers,  but  soon  resigned. 
Colonel  Babcock  served  as  Delegate-at-large  in 


the  Republican  National  Convention  of  1868, 
which  nominated  General  Grant  for  the  Presi- 
dency, and  the  same  year  was  made  Chairman  of 
the  Republican  State  Central  Committee,  also 
conducting  the  campaign  two  years  later.  He 
identified  himself  with  the  Greeley  movement  in 
1^72.  but.  in  1876,  was  again  in  line  with  his 
party  and  restored  to  his  old  position  on  the  State 
Central  Committee,  serving  until  187$.  Among 
business  enterprises  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected was  the  extension,  about  1854.  of  the  Buda 
branch  of  the  Chicago.  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railroad  from  Yates  City  to  Canton,  and  the 
erection  of  the  State  Capitol  at  Austin.  Tex., 
which  was  undertaken,  in  conjunction  with 
Abner  Taylor  and  J.  V.  and  C.  B.  Farwell,  about 
1881  and  completed  in  1888,  for  which  the  firm 
received  over  3,000,000  acres  of  State  lands  in  the 
"Pan  Handle"  portion  of  Texas.  In  1889  Colonel 
Babcock  took  up  his  residence  in  Chicago,  which 
continued  to  be  his  home  until  his  death  from 
apoplexy,  Feb.  25,  1899. 

BABCOCK.  Andrew  J.,  soldier,  was  born  at 
Dorchester,  Norfolk  County,  Mass.,  July  19,  1830; 
began  life  as  a  coppersmith  at  Lowell;  in  1851 
went  to  Concord,  N.  H.,  and,  in  1856,  removed  to 
Springfield.  DL,  where,  in  1859,  he  joined  a  mili- 
tary company  called  the  Springfield  Greys,  com- 
manded by  Capt .  (afterwards  Gen. )  John  Cook,  of 
which  he  was  First  Lieutenant.  This  company 
became  the  nucleus  of  Company  L  Seventh  Illi- 
nois Volunteers,  which  enlisted  on  Mr.  Lincoln's 
first  call  for  troops  in  April,  1861.  Captain  Cook 
having  been  elected  Colonel,  Babcock  succeeded 
him  as  Captain,  on  the  re-enlistment  of  the  regi- 
ment in  July  following  becoming  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  and,  in  March,  1862,  being  promoted  to 
the  Colonelcy  "for  gallant  and  meritorious  service 
rendered  at  Fort  Donelson. "  A  year  later  he  was 
compelled  to  resign  on  account  of  impaired 
health.  Died  at  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  Jan.  12,  1911. 

BACOX,  Geors*  E.,  lawyer  and  legislator,  born 
at  Madison,  Ind.,  Feb.  4,  1851;  was  brought  to 
Illinois  by  his  parents  at  three  years  of  age,  and. 
in  1876,  located  at  Paris,  Edgar  County :  in  1879 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  held  various  minor 
offices,  including  one  term  as  State's  Attorney. 
In  1886  he  was  elected  as  a  Republican  to  the 
State  Senate  and  re-elected  four  years  later,  but 
finally  removed  to  Aurora,  where  he  died.  July 
6,  1896.  Mr.  Bacon  was  a  man  of  recognized 
ability,  as  shown  by  the  fact  that,  after  the  death 
of  Senator  John  A.  Logan,  he  was  selected  by  his 
colleagues  of  the  Senate  to  pronounce  the  eulogy 
on  the  deceased  statesman. 


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BAGBY,  John  C..  jurist  and  Congressman,  was 
bora  at  Glasgow,  Ky  ,  Jan.  24,  1*19.  After  pas- 
sing through  the  common  schools  of  Barren 
County,  Ky.,  he  studied  civil  engineering  at 
Bacon  College,  graduating  in  1840.  Later  he 
read  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1845. 
In  1846  he  commenced  practice  at  Rnshville,  I1L, 
confining  himself  exclusively  to  professional  work 
until  nominated  and  elected  to  Congress  in  1874, 
by  the  Democrats  of  the  (old)  Tenth  District.  In 
1885  he  was  elected  to  the  Circuit  Bench  for  the 
Sixth  Circuit.  Died,  April  4,  1896. 

BAILEY,  Joseph  Mead,  legislator  and  jurist, 
was  born  at  Middlebury.  Wyoming  County,  X.  Y., 
June  22,  1833,  graduated  from  Rochester  (X.  Y.) 
University  in  1854,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  that  city  in  1855.  In  August,  1856,  he 
removed  to  Freeport,  I1L,  where  he  soon  built  up 
a  profitable  practice.  In  1866  he  was  elected  a 
Representative  in  the  Twenty-fifth  General 
Assembly,  being  re-elected  in  1868.  Here  he  was 
especially  prominent  in  securing  restrictive  legis- 
lation concerning  railroads.  In  1876  he  was 
chosen  a  Presidential  Elector  for  his  district  on 
the  Republican  ticket  In  1877  he  was  elected  a 
Judge  of  the  Thirteenth  judicial  district,  and 
re-elected  in  1879  and  in  1885.  In  January, 
1878,  and  again  in  June.  1879,  he  was  assigned  to 
the  bench  of  the  Appellate  Court,  being  presiding 
Justice  from  June,  1879.  to  June,  1880,  and  from 
June,  1881,  to  June.  1882.  In  1879  he  received 
the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  the  Universities  of 
Rochester  and  Chicago.  In  1888  he  was  elected 
to  the  bench  of  the  Supreme  Court.  Died  in 
office.  Oct.  16.  1895. 

BAILHACHE.  John,  pioneer  journalist,  was 
born  in  the  Island  of  Jersey,  May  8.  1787;  after 
gaining  the  rudiments  of  an  education  in  his 
mother  tongue  (the  French),  he  acquired  a  knowl- 
edge of  English  and  some  proficiency  in  Greek 
and  Latin  in  an  academy  near  his  paternal  home, 
when  he  spent  five  years  as  a  printer's  apprentice. 
In  1810  he  came  to  the  United  States,  first  locat- 
ing at  Cambridge,  Ohio,  but,  in  1812,  purchased  a 
half  interest  in  "The  Fredonian"  at  Chillicothe 
(then  the  State  Capital  i.  soon  after  becoming  sole 
owner.  In  1815  he  purchased  "The  Scioto  Ga- 
zette'' and  consolidated  the  two  papers  under  the 
name  of  "The  Scioto  Gazette  and  Fredonian 
Chronicle."  Here  he  remained  until  1828,  mean- 
time engaging  temporarily  in  the  banking  busi- 
ness, also  serving  one  term  in  the  Legislature 
(1S20),  and  being  elected  Associate  Justice  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  for  Ross  County.  In 
1828  he  removed  to  Columbus,  assuming  charge 


of  "The  Ohio  State  Journal."  served  one  term  as 
Mayor  of  the  city,  and  for  three  consecutive 
years  was  State  Printer.  Selling  out  "The  Jour- 
nal" in  1836,  he  came  west,  the  neit  year  becom- 
ing part  owner,  and  finally  sole  proprietor,  of  "The 
Telegraph"  at  Alton,  IIL,  which  he  conducted 
alone  or  in  association  with  various  partners  until 
1S54,  when  he  retired,  giving  his  attention  to  the 
book  and  job  branch  of  the  business.  He  served  as 
Representative  from  Madison  County  in  the  Thir- 
teenth General  Assembly  (1842-44).  As  a  man 
and  a  journalist  Judge  Bailhache  commanded  the 
highest  respect,  and  did  much  to  elevate  the 
standard  of  journalism  in  TniimM^  "The  Tele- 
graph," during  the  period  of  his  connection  with 
it,  being  one  of  the  leading  papers  of  the  State. 
His  death  occurred  at  Alton,  Sept.  3,  1357,  as  the 
result  of  injuries  received  the  day  previous,  by 
being  thrown  from  a  carriage  in  which  he  was 
riding.— Xaj.  William  Henry  (Bailhache),  son  of 
the  preceding,  was  born  at  Chillicothe,  Ohio, 
August  14, 1826,  removed  with  his  father  to  Alton, 
EL.  in  1836,  was  educated  at  Shnrtleff  College, 
and  learned  the  printing  trade  in  the  office  of 
"The  Telegraph,"  under  the  direction  of  his 
father,  afterwards  being  associated  with  the 
business  department.  In  1855,  in  partnership 
with  Edward  L,  Baker,  he  became  one  of  the 
proprietors  and  business  manager  of  "The  State 
Journal"  at  Springfield.  During  the  Civil  War 
he  received  from  President  TJncoln  the  appoint- 
ment of  Captain  and  Assistant  Quartermaster, 
serving  to  its  close  and  receiving  the  brevet  rank 
of  Major.  After  the  war  he  returned  to  journal- 
ism and  was  associated  at  different  times  with 
"The  State  Journal"  and  "The  Quincy  Whig," 
as  business  manager  of  each,  but  retired  in  1873; 
in  1881  was  appointed  by  President  Arthur, 
Receiver  of  Public  Moneys  at  Santa  Fe..  X.  ML, 
remaining  four  years.  Prior  to  1899  he  removed 
to  San  Diego,  CaL.  there  engaged  in  newspaper 
work,  and,  under  the  administration  of  President 
McKmley.  was  Special  Agent  of  the  Treasury 
Department.  Died  March  12,  1905.— Pr*ste> 
Heatk  (Bailhache),  another  son.  was  born 
in  Columbus,  Ohio,  February  21,  1S35:  served  as 
a  Surgeon  during  the  Civil  War,  later  became  a 
Surgeon  in  the  regular  army  and  has  held  posi- 
tions in  marine  hospitals  at  Baltimore,  Washing- 
ton and  New  York,  and  has  visited  Europe  in  the 
interest  of  sanitary  and  hospital  service.  At 
present  (1899)  he  occupies  a  prominent  position 
at  the  headquarters  of  the  United  States  Marine 
Hospital  Service  in  Washington. — Arthur  Le* 
(Bailhache),  a  third  son,  born  at  Alton,  ILL,  April 


HISTOKICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA   OF   ILLINOIS. 


12,  1839;  at  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War  was 
employed  in  the  State  commissary  service  at 
Camp  Yates  and  Cairo,  became  Adjutant  of  the 
Thirty-eighth  Illinois  Volunteers,  and  died  at 
Pilot  Knob,  Mo.,  Jan.  9,  1862,  as  the  result  of 
disease  and  exposure  in  the  service. 

BAKER,  David  Jewett,  lawyer  and  United 
States  Senator,  was  born  at  East  Haddam,  Conn. , 
Sept.  7,  1792.  His  family  removed  to  New  York 
in  1800,  where  he  worked  on  a  farm  during  boy- 
hood, but  graduated  from  Hamilton  College  in 
1816,  and  three  years  later  was  admitted  to  the 
bar.  In  1819  he  came  to  Illinois  and  began  prac- 
tice at  Kaskaskia,  where  he  attained  prominence 
in  his  profession  and  was  made  Probate  Judge  of 
Randolph  County.  His  opposition  to  the  intro- 
duction of  slavery  into  the  State  was  so  aggres- 
sive that  his  life  was  frequently  threatened.  In 
1830  Governor  Edwards  appointed  him  United 
States  Senator,  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  of 
Senator  McLean,  but  he  served  only  one  month 
when  he  was  succeeded  by  John  M.  Robinson, 
who  was  elected  by  the  Legislature.  He  was 
United  States  District  Attorney  from  1833 
to  1841  (the  State  then  constituting  but 
one  district),  and  thereafter  resumed  private 
practice.  Died  at  Alton,  August  6,  1869. 
—Henry  Southard  (Baker),  son  of  the  pre- 
ceding, was  born  at  Kaskaskia,  111.,  Nov.  10, 
1824,  received  his  preparatory  education  at  Shurt- 
leff  College,  Upper  Alton,  and,  in  1843,  entered 
Brown  University,  R.  I.,  graduating  therefrom 
in  1847 ;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1849,  begin- 
ning practice  at  Alton,  the  home  of  his  father, 
Hon.  David  J  Baker.  In  1854  he  was  elected  as  an 
Anti-Nebraska  candidate  to  the  lower  branch  of 
the  Nineteenth  General  Assembly,  and,  at  the 
subsequent  session  of  the  General  Assembly,  was 
one  of  the  five  Anti-Nebraska  members  whose 
uncompromising  fidelity  to  Hon.  Lyman  Trum- 
bull  resulted  in  the  election  of  the  latter  to  the 
United  States  Senate  for  the  first  time — the  others 
being  his  colleague.  Dr.  George  T.  Allen  of  the 
House,  and  Hon.  John  M.  Palmer,  afterwards 
United  States  Senator,  Burton  C.  Cook  and  Nor- 
man B.  Judd  in  the  Senate.  He  served  as  one  of  the 
Secretaries  of  the  Republican  State  Convention 
held  at  Bloomington  in  May,  1856,  was  a  Repub- 
lican Presidential  Elector  in  1864,  and,  in  1865, 
became  Judge  of  the  Alton  City  Court,  serving 
until  1881.  In  1876  he  presided  over  the  Repub- 
lican State  Convention,  served  as  delegate  to  the 
Republican  National  Convention  of  the  same 
year  and  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for 
Congress  in  opposition  to  William  R.  Morrison. 


Judge  Baker  was  the  orator  selected  to  deliver 
the  address  on  occasion  of  the  unveiling  of  the 
statue  of  Lieut. -Gov.  Pierre  Menard,  on  the 
capitol  grounds  at  Springfield,  in  January,  1888. 
About  1888  he  retired  from  practice,  dying  at 
Alton,  March  5,  1897.  —  Edward  L.  (Baker), 
second  son  of  David  Jewett  Baker,  was  born  at 
Kaskaskia,  111.,  June  3,  1829;  graduated  at  Sliurt- 
leff  College  in  1847;  read  law  with  his  father  two 
years,  after  which  he  entered  Harvard  Law 
School  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Spring- 
field in  1855.  Previous  to  this  date  Mr.  Baker  had 
become  associated  with  William  H.  Bailhache,  in 
the  management  of  "The  Alton  Daily  Telegraph," 
and,  in  July,  1855,  they  purchased  "The  Illinois 
State  Journal,"  at  Springfield,  of  which  Mr. 
Baker  assumed  the  editorship,  remaining  until 
1874.  In  1869  he  was  appointed  United  States 
Assessor  for  the  Eighth  District,  serving  until 
the  abolition  of  the  office.  In  1873  he  received 
the  appointment  from  President  Grant  of  Consul 
to  Buenos  Ayres,  South  America,  and,  assuming 
the  duties  of  the  office  in  1874,  remained  there 
for  twenty-three  years,  proving  himself  one  of 
the  most  capable  and  efficient  officers  in  the  con- 
sular service.  On  the  evening  of  the  20th  of 
June,  1897,  when  Mr.  Baker  was  about  to  enter  a 
railway  train  already  in  motion  at  the  station  in 
the  city  of  Buenos  Ayres,  he  fell  under  the  cars, 
receiving  injuries  which  necessitated  the  ampu- 
tation of  his  right  arm,  finally  resulting  in  his 
death  in  the  hospital  at  Buenos  Ayres,  July  8, 
following.  His  remains  were  brought  home  at 
the  Government  expense  and  interred  in  Oak 
Ridge  Cemetery,  at  Springfield,  where  a  monu- 
ment has  since  been  erected  in  his  honor,  bearing 
a  tablet  contributed  by  citizens  of  Buenos  Ayres 
and  foreign  representatives  in  that  city  express- 
ive of  their  respect  for  his  memory.  —  David 
Jewett  (Baker),  Jr.,  a  third  son  of  David  Jawett 
Baker,  Sr.,  was  born  at  Kaskaskia,  Nov.  20,1834; 
graduated  from  Shurtleff  College  in  1854,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1856.  In  November  of 
that  year  he  removed  to  Cairo  and  began  prac- 
tice. He  was  Mayor  of  that  city  in  1864-65,  and, 
in  1869,  was  elected  to  the  bench  of  the  Nineteenth 
Judicial  Circuit.  The  Legislature  of  1873  (by  Act 
of  March  28)  having  divided  the  State  into 
twenty-six  circuits,  he  was  elected  Judge  of  the 
Twenty -sixth,  on  June  2,  1873.  In  August,  1878, 
he  resigned  to  accept  an  appointment  on  the 
Supreme  Bench  as  successor  to  Judge  Breese, 
deceased,  but  at  the  close  of  his  term  on  the 
Supreme  Bench  (1879),  was  re-elected  Circuit 
Judge,  and  again  in  1885.  During  this  period  he 


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served  for  several  years  on  the  Appellate  Bench. 
Tn  1888  he  retired  from  the  Circuit  Bench  by 
resignation  and  was  elected  a  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  for  a  term  of  nine  years.  Again, 
in  1897,  he  was  a  candidate  for  re-election,  but 
was  defeated  by  Carroll  C.  Boggs.  Soon  after 
retiring  from  the  Supreme  Bench  lie  removed  to 
Chicago  and  engaged  in  general  practice,  in 
partnership  with  his  son,  John  W.  Baker.  He 
fell  dead  almost  instantly  in  his  office,  March  13, 
1899.  In  all,  Judge  Baker  had  spent  some  thirty 
years  almost  continuously  on  the  bench,  and  had 
attained  eminent  distinction  both  as  a  lawyer  and 
a  jurist. 

BAKER,  Edward  Dickinson,  soldier  and 
United  States  Senator,  was  born  in  London, 
Eng. ,  Feb.  24,  1811;  emigrated  to  Illinois  while 
yet  in  his  minority,  first  locating  at  Belleville, 
afterwards  removing  to  Carrollton  and  finally  to 
Sangamon  County,  the  last  of  which  he  repre- 
sented in  the  lower  house  of  the  Tenth  General 
Assembly,  and  as  State  Senator  in  the  Twelfth 
and  Thirteenth.  He  was  elected  to  Congress  as 
a  Whig  from  the  Springfield  District,  but  resigned 
in  December,  1846,  to  accept  the  colonelcy  of  the 
Fourth  Regiment,  Illinois  Volunteers,  in  the 
Mexican  War,  and  succeeded  General  Shields  in 
command  of  the  brigade,  when  the  latter  was 
wounded  at  Cerro  Gordo.  In  1848  he  was  elected 
to  Congress  from  the  Galena  District;  was  also 
identified  with  the  construction  of  the  Panama 
Railroad;  went  to  San  Francisco  in  1852,  but 
*ater  removed  to  Oregon,  where  he  was  elected 
to  the  United  States  Senate  in  1860.  In  1861  he 
resigned  the  Senatorship  to  enter  the  Union 
army,  commanding  a  brigade  at  the  battle  of 
Ball's  Bluff,  where  he  was  killed,  October  21, 1861. 

BAKER,  Jehu,  lawyer  and  Congressman,  was 
born  in  Fayette  County,  Ky.,  Nov.  4,  1822.  At 
an  early  age  he  removed  to  Illinois,  making  his 
home  in  Belleville,  St.  Clair  County.  He  re- 
ceived his  early  education  in  the  common  schools 
and  at  McKendree  College.  Although  he  did 
not  graduate  from  the  latter  institution,  he 
received  therefrom  the  honorary  degree  of  A.  M. 
in  1858,  and  that  of  LL.  D.  in  1882.  For  a  time 
he  studied  medicine,  but  abandoned  it  for  the 
study  of  law.  From  1861  to  1865  he  was  Master 
in  Chancery  for  St.  Clair  County.  From  1865  to 
1869  he  represented  the  Belleville  District  as  a 
Republican  in  Congress.  From  1876  to  1881  and 
from  1882  to  1885  he  was  Minister  Resident  in 
Venezuela,  during  the  latter  portion  of  his  term 
of  service  acting  also  as  Consul-General.  Return- 
ing home,  he  was  again  elected  to  Congress  (1886) 


from  the  Eighteenth  District,  but  was  defeated 
for  re-election,  in  1888,  by  William  S.  Forman, 
Democrat.  Again,  in  1896,  having  identified 
himself  with  the  Free  Silver  Democracy  and 
People's  Party,  he  was  elected  to  Congress  from 
the  Twentieth  District  over  Everett  J.  Murphy, 
the  Republican  nominee,  serving  until  March  3, 
1899.  He  was  author  of  an  annotated  edition 
of  Montesquieu's  "Grandeur  and  Decadence  of 
the  Romans."  Died  March  1,  1903. 

BALDWIN,  Elmer,  agriculturist  and  legisla- 
tor, was  born  in  Litchfield  County,  Conn.,  March 
8,  1806;  at  16  years  of  age  began  teaching  a  coun- 
try school,  continuing  this  occupation  for  several 
years  during  the  winter  months,  while  working 
on  his  father's  farm  in  the  summer.  He  then 
started  a  store  at  New  Milford,  which  he  man- 
aged for  three  years,  when  he  sold  out  on  account 
of  his  health  and  began  farming.  In  1833  he 
came  west  and  purchased  a  considerable  tract  of 
Government  land  in  La  Salle  County,  where  the 
village  of  Farm  Ridge  is  now  situated,  removing 
thither  with  his  family  the  following  year.  He 
served  as  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  fourteen  con- 
secutive terms,  as  Postmaster  twenty  years  and 
as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  of  La 
Salle  County  six  years.  In  1856  he  was  elected 
as  a  Republican  to  the  House  of  Representatives, 
was  re-elected  to  the  same  office  in  1866,  and  to 
the  State  Senate  in  1872,  serving  two  years.  He 
was  also  appointed,  in  1869,  a  member  of  the  first 
Board  of  Public  Charities,  serving  as  President  of 
the  Board.  Mr.  Baldwin  is  author  of  a  "His- 
tory of  La  Salle  County,"  which  contains  much 
local  and  biographical  history.  Died,  Nov.  18, 
1895. 

BALDWIN,  Theron,  clergyman  and  educa- 
tor, was  born  in  Goshen,  Conn.,  July  21,  1801; 
graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1827;  after  two 
years'  study  in  the  theological  school  there,  was 
ordained  a  home  missionary  in  1829,  becoming 
one  of  the  celebrated  "Yale  College  Band,"  or 
"Western  College  Society,"  of  which  he  was  Cor- 
responding Secretary  during  most  of  his  life.  He 
was  settled  as  a  Congregationalist  minister  at 
Vandalia  for  two  years,  and  was  active  in  pro- 
curing the  charter  of  Illinois  College  at  Jackson- 
ville, of  which  he  was  a  Trustee  from  its 
organization  to  his  death.  He  served  for  a 
number  of  years,  from  1831,  as  Agent  of  the 
Home  Missionary  Society  for  Illinois,  and,  in 
1838,  became  the  first  Principal  of  Monticello 
Female  Seminary,  near  Alton,  which  he  con- 
ducted five  years.  Died  at  Orange,  N.  J.,  April 
10,  1870. 


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BALI, A  U  I),  Addison,  merchant,  was  born  of 
Quaker  parentage  in  Warren  County,  Ohio,  No- 
vember, 1822.  He  located  at  La  Porte,  Ind., 
about  1841,  where  he  learned  and  pursued  the 
carpenter's  trade;  in  1849  went  to  California, 
remaining  two  years,  when  he  returned  to  La 
Porte;  in  1853  removed  to  Chicago  and  embarked 
in  the  lumber  trade,  which  he  prosecuted  until 
1887,  retiring  with  a  competency.  Mr.  Ballard 
served  several  years  as  one  of  the  Commissioners 
of  Cook  County,  and,  from  1876  to  1882,  as  Alder- 
man of  the  City  of  Chicago,  and  again  in  the 
latter  office,  1894-96.  Died  June  27,  1905. 

BALTES,  Peter  Joseph,  Roman  Catholic  Bishop 
of  Alton,  was  born  at  Ensheim,  Rhenish  Ba- 
varia, April  7,  1827 ;  was  educated  at  the  colleges 
of  the  Holy  Cross,  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  of  St. 
Ignatius,  at  Chicago,  and  at  Lavalle  University, 
Montreal,  and  was  ordained  a  priest  in  1853,  and 
consecrated  Bishop  in  1870.  His  diocesan  admin- 
istration was  successful,  but  regarded  by  his 
priests  as  somewhat  arbitrary.  He  wrote  numer- 
ous pastoral  letters  and  brochures  for  the  guidance 
of  clergy  and  laity.  His  most  important  literary 
work  was  entitled  "Pastoral  Instruction,"  first 
edition,  N.  Y.,  1875;  second  edition  (revised  and 
enlarged),  1880.  Died  at  Alton,  Feb.  15,  1886. 

BALTIMORE  &  OHIO  SOUTHWESTERN 
RAILWAY.  This  road  (constituting  a  part  of  the 
Baltimore  &  Ohio  system)  is  made  up  of  two 
principal  divisions,  the  first  extending  across  the 
State  from  East  St.  Louis  to  Belpre,  Ohio,  and  the 
second  (known  as  the  Springfield  Division)  extend- 
ing from  Beardstown  to  Shawneetown.  The  total 
mileage  of  the  former  (or  main  line)  is  537 
miles,  of  which  147^  are  in  Illinois,  and  of  the 
latter  (wholly  within  Illinois)  228  miles.  The 
main  line  (originally  known  as  the  Ohio  &  Mis- 
sissippi Railway)  was  chartered  in  Indiana  in 
1848,  in  Ohio  in  1849,  and  in  Illinois  in  1851.  It 
was  constructed  by  two  companies,  the  section 
from  Cincinnati  to  the  Indiana  and  Illinois  State 
line  being  known  as  the  Eastern  Division,  and 
that  in  Illinois  as  the  Western  Division,  the 
gauge,  as  originally  built,  being  six  feet,  but 
reduced  in  1871  to  standard.  The  banking  firm 
of  Page  &  Bacon,  of  St.  Louis  and  San  Francisco, 
were  the  principal  financial  backers  of  the  enter- 
prise. The  line  was  completed  and  opened  for 
traffic,  May  1,  1857.  The  following  year  the  road 
became  financially  embarrassed ;  the  Eastern  Di- 
vision was  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  receiver  in 
1860.  while  the  Western  Division  was  sold  under 
foreclosure,  in  1862,  and  reorganized  as  the  Ohio 
&  Mississippi  Railway  under  act  of  the  Illinois 


Legislature  passed  in  February,  1861.  The  East- 
ern Division  was  sold  in  January,  1867;  and,  in 
November  of  the  same  year,  the  two  divisions 
were  consolidated  under  the  title  of  the  Ohio  & 
Mississippi  Railway. — The  Springfield  Division 
was  the  result  of  the  consolidation,  in  December, 
1869,  of  the  Pana,  Springfield  &  Northwestern 
and  the  Illinois  &  Southeastern  Railroad — each 
having  been  chartered  in  1867 — the  new  corpo- 
ration taking  the  name  of  the  Springfield  &  Illi- 
nois Southeastern  Railroad,  under  which  name 
the  road  was  built  and  opened  in  March,  1871.  In 
1873,  it  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  receivers;  in 
1874  was  sold  under  foreclosure,  and,  on  March 
1,  1875,  passed  into  the  hands  of  the  Ohio  &  Mis- 
sissippi Railway  Company.  In  November,  1876, 
the  road  was  again  placed  in  the  hands  of  a 
receiver,  but  was  restored  to  the  Company  in  1884. 
— In  November,  1893,  the  Ohio  &  Mississippi  was 
consolidated  with  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  South- 
western Railroad,  which  was  the  successor  of  the 
Cincinnati,  Washington  &  Baltimore  Railroad, 
the  reorganized  Company  taking  the  name  of  the 
Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern  Railway  Com- 
pany. The  total  capitalization  of  the  road,  as 
organized  in  1898,  was  $84,770,531.  Several 
branches  of  the  main  line  in  Indiana  and  Ohio  go 
to  increase  the  aggregate  mileage,  but  being 
wholly  outside  of  Illinois  are  not  taken  into  ac- 
count in  this  statement. 

BALTIMORE  &  OHIO  &  CHICAGO  RAIL- 
ROAD, part  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railroad 
System,  of  which  only  8.21  out  of  265  miles  are  in 
Illinois.  The  principal  object  of  the  company's 
incorporation  was  to  secure  entrance  for  the 
Baltimore  &  Ohio  into  Chicago.  The  capital 
stock  outstanding  exceeds  $1,500,000.  The  total 
capital  (including  stock,  funded  and  floating  debt) 
is  §20,329,166  or  $76,728  per  mile.  The  gross 
earnings  for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1898,  were 
$3,383,016  and  the  operating  expenses  §2,493,452. 
The  income  and  earnings  for  the  portion  of  the 
line  in  Illinois  for  the  same  period  were  $209,208 
and  the  expenses  $208,096. 

BANGS,  Mark,  lawyer,  was  born  in  Franklin 
County,  Mass.,  Jan.  9,  1822;  spent  his  boy- 
hood on  a  farm  in  Western  New  York,  and,  after 
a  year  in  an  institution  at  Rochester,  came  to 
Chicago  in  1844,  later  spending  two  years  in  farm 
work  and  teaching  in  Central  Illinois.  Return- 
ing east  in  1847,  he  engaged  in  teaching  for 
two  years  at  Springfield,  Mass.,  then  spent 
a  year  in  a  dry  goods  store  at  Lacon,  111., 
meanwhile  prosecuting  his  legal  studies.  In 
1851  he  began  practice,  was  elected  a  Judg» 


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of  the  Circuit  Court  in  1859 ;  served  one  session 
as  State  Senator  (1870-72);  in  1873  was  ap- 
pointed Circuit  Judge  to  fill  the  unexpired 
term  of  Judge  Richmond,  deceased,  and,  in  1875, 
was  appointed  by  President  Grant  United  States 
District  Attorney  for  the  Northern  District, 
remaining  in  office  four  years.  Judge  Bangs  was 
also  a  member  of  the  first  Anti-Nebraska  State 
Convention  of  Illinois,  held  at  Springfield  in  1854; 
in  1862  presided  over  the  Congressional  Conven- 
tion which  nominated  Owen  Lovejoy  for  Congress 
for  the  first  time ;  was  one  of  the  charter  members 
of  the  "Union  League  of  America,"  serving  as  its 
President,  and,  in  1868,  was  a  delegate  to  the 
National  Convention  which  nominated  General 
Grant  foi  President  for  the  first  time.  After 
retiring  from  the  office  of  District  Attorney  in 
1879,  he  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  was  engaged 
in  practice  until  his  death,  June  23,  1902. 

BANKSOy,  Andrew,  pioneer  and  early  legis- 
lator, a  native  of  Tennessee,  settled  on  Silver 
Creek,  in  St.  Clair  County,  111.,  four  miles  south 
of  Lebanon,  about  1808  or  1810,  and  subsequently 
removed  to  Washington  County.  He  was  a  Col- 
onel of  "Rangers"  during  the  War  of  1812,  and  a 
Captain  in  the  Black  Hawk  War  of  1832.  In 
1822  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  from 
Washington  County,  serving  four  years,  and  at 
the  session  of  1822-23  was  one  of  those  who  voted 
against  the  Convention  resolution  which  had  for 
its  object  to  make  Illinois  a  slave  State.  He  sub- 
sequently removed  to  Iowa  Territory,  but  died,  in 
1853,  while  visiting  a  son-in-law  in  Wisconsin. 

BAPTISTS.  The  first  Baptist  minister  to  set- 
tle in  Illinois  was  Elder  James  Smith,  who 
located  at  New  Design,  in  1787.  He  was  fol- 
lowed, about  1796-97,  by  Revs.  David  Badgley  and 
Joseph  Chance,  who  organized  the  first  Baptist 
church  within  the  limits  of  the  State.  Five 
churches,  having  four  ministers  and  111  mem- 
bers, formed  an  association  in  1807.  Several 
causes,  among  them  a  difference  of  views  on  the 
slavery  question,  resulted  in  the  division  of  the 
denomination  into  factions.  Of  these  perhaps 
the  most  numerous  was  the  Regular  (or  Mission- 
ary) Baptists,  at  the  head  of  which  was  Rev.  John 
M.  Peck,  a  resident  of  the  State  from  1822  until 
his  death  (1858).  By  1835  the  sect  had  grown, 
until  it-  had  some  250  churches,  with  about  7,500 
members.  These  were  under  the  ecclesiastical 
care  of  twenty-two  Associations.  Rev.  Isaac 
McCoy,  a  Baptist  Indian  missionary,  preached  at 
Fort  Dearborn  on  Oct.  9,  1825,  and,  eight  years 
later,  Rev.  Allen  B.  Freeman  organized  the  first 
Baptist  society  in  what  was  then  an  infant  set- 


tlement. By  1890  the  number  of  Associations 
had  grown  to  forty,  with  1010  churches,  891 
ministers  and  88,884  members.  A  Baptist  Theo- 
logical Seminary  was  for  some  time  supported  at 
Morgan  Park,  but,  in  1895,  was  absorbed  by  the 
University  of  Chicago,  becoming  the  divinity 
school  of  that  institution.  The  chief  organ  of  the 
denomination  in  Illinois  is  "The  Standard,"  pub- 
lished at  Chicago. 

BARBER,  Hiram,  was  born  in  Warren  County, 
N.  Y.,  March  24,  1835.  At  11  years  of  age  he 
accompanied  his  family  to  Wisconsin,  of  which 
State  he  was  a  resident  until  1866.  After  gradu- 
ating at  the  State  University  of  Wisconsin,  at 
Madison,  he  studied  law  at  the  Albany  Law 
School,  and  was  admitted  to  practice.  After 
serving  one  term  as  District  Attorney  of  his 
county  in  Wisconsin  (1861-62),  and  Assistant 
Attorney-General  of  the  State  for  1865-66,  in 
the  latter  year  he  came  to  Chicago  and,  in  1878, 
was  elected  to  Congress  by  the  Republicans  of 
the  old  Second  Illinois  District.  His  home  is  in 
Chicago,  where  he  holds  the  position  of  Master  in 
Chancery  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Cook  County. 

BARCLAY,  a  village  in  Sangamon  County,  on 
the  line  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  9  miles 
northeast  of  the  city  of  Springfield;  in  a  coal-mining 
district.  Population  (1910),  252. 

BARJfSBACK,  George  Frederick  Julius,  pio- 
neer, was  born  in  Germany,  July  25,  1781 ;  came 
to  Philadelphia  in  1797,  and  soon  after  to  Ken- 
tucky, where  he  became  an  overseer;  two  or 
three  years  later  visited  his  native  country,  suf- 
fering shipwreck  en  route  in  the  English  Channel ; 
returned  to  Kentucky  in  1802,  remaining  until 
1809,  when  he  removed  to  what  is  now  Madison 
(then  a  part  of  St.  Clair)  County,  111. ;  served  in 
the  War  of  1812,  farmed  and  raised  stock  until 
1824,  when,  after  a  second  visit  to  Germany,  he 
bought  a  plantation  in  St.  Francois  County,  Mo. 
Subsequently  becoming  disgusted  with  slavery, 
he  manumitted  his  slaves  and  returned  to  Illinois, 
locating  on  a  farm  near  Edwardsville,  where  he 
resided  until  his  death  in  1869.  Mr.  Barnsback 
served  as  Representative  in  the  Fourteenth  Gen- 
eral Assembly  (1844-46)  and,  after  returning  from 
Springfield,  distributed  his  salary  among  the  poor 
of  Madison  County. — Julius  A.  (Barnsback),  his 
son,  was  born  in  St.  Francois  County,  Mo.,  May 
14,  1826;  in  1846  became  a  merchant  at  Troy, 
Madison  County;  was  elected  Sheriff  in  1860;  in 
1864  entered  the  service  as  Captain  of  a  Company 
in  the  One  Hundred  and  Fortieth  Illinois  Volun- 
teers (100-days'  men) ;  also  served  as  a  member  of 
the  Twenty-fourth  General  Assembly  (1865). 


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BARNUM,  William  H.,  lawyer  and  ex-Judge, 
was  born  in  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  13, 
1840.  When  he  was  but  two  years  old  his  family 
removed  to  St.  Clair  County,  111.,  where  he  passed 
his  boyhood  and  youth.  His  preliminary  educa- 
tion was  obtained  at  Belleville,  111.,  Ypsilanti, 
Mich.,  and  at  the  Michigan  State  University  at 
Ann  Arbor.  After  leaving  the  institution  last 
named  at  the  end  of  the  sophomore  year,  he 
taught  school  at  Belleville,  still  pursuing  his  clas- 
sical studies.  In  1862  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
at  Belleville,  and  soon  afterward  opened  an  office 
at  Chester,  where,  for  a  time,  he  held  the  office 
of  Master  in  Chancery.  He  removed  to  Chicago 
in  1867,  and,  in  1879,  was  elevated  to  the  bench 
of  the  Cook  County  Circuit  Court.  At  the  expi- 
ration of  his  term  he  resumed  private  practice. 

BARRERE,  GranYille,  was  born  in  Highland 
County,  Ohio.  After  attending  the  common 
schools,  he  acquired  a  higher  education  at  Au- 
gusta, Ky. ,  and  Marietta,  Ohio.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  his  native  State,  but  began  the  prac- 
tice of  law  in  Fulton  County,  111.,  in  1856.  In 
1872  he  received  the  Republican  nomination  for 
Congress  and  was  elected,  representing  his  dis- 
trict from  1873  to  1875,  at  the  conclusion  of  his 
term  retiring  to  private  life.  Died  at  Canton, 
HI.,  Jan.  13,  1889. 

BARRINGTON,  a  village  located  on  the  north- 
ern border  of  Cook  County,  and  partly  in  Lake, 
at  the  intersection  of  the  Chicago  &  North  western 
and  the  Elgin,  Joliet  &  Eastern  Railway,  32  miles 
northwest  of  Chicago.  It  has  banks,  a  local  paper, 
several  cheese  factories  and  a  milk-bottling  plant. 
Pop.  (1890),  848;  (1900),  1,162;  (1910),  1,444. 

BARROWS,  John  Henry,  D.  D.,  clergyman 
and  educator,  was  born  at  Medina,  Mich.,  July 
11,  1847;  graduated  at  Mount  Olivet  College  in 
1867,  and  studied  theology  at  Yale,  Union  and 
Andover  Seminaries.  In  1869  he  went  to  Kansas, 
where  he  spent  two  and  a  half  years  in  mission- 
ary and  educational  work.  He  then  (in  1872) 
accepted  a  call  to  the  First  Congregational 
Church  at  Springfield,  111.,  where  he  remained  a 
year,  after  which  he  gave  a  year  to  foreign  travel, 
visiting  Europe,  Egypt  and  Palestine,  during  a 
part  of  the  time  supplying  the  American  chapel 
in  Paris.  On  his  return  to  the  United  States  he 
spent  six  years  in  pastoral  work  at  Lawrence  and 
East  Boston,  Mass.,  when  (in  November,  1881)  he 
assumed  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Chicago.  Dr.  Barrows  achieved  a 
world-wide  celebrity  by  his  services  as  Chairman 
of  the  "Parliament  of  Religions,"  a  branch  of  the 
"World's  Congress  Auxiliary,"  held  during  the 


World's  Columbian  Exposition  in  Chicago  in 
1893.  Later,  he  was  appointed  Professorial  Lec- 
turer on  Comparative  Religions.under  lectureships 
in  connection  with  the  University  of  Chicago  en- 
dowed by  Mrs.  Caroline  E.  Haskell.  One  of  these, 
established  in  Dr.  Barrows'  name,  contemplated 
a  series  of  lectures  in  India,  to  be  delivered  on 
alternate  years  with  a  similar  course  at  the  Uni- 
versity. Courses  were  delivered  at  the  University 
in  1895-96,  and,  in  order  to  carry  out  the  purposes 
of  the  foreign  lectureship,  Dr.  Barrows  found  it 
necessary  to  resign  his  pastorate,  which  he  did  in 
the  spring  of  1896.  After  spending  the  summer 
in  Germany,  the  regular  itinerary  of  the  round- 
the-world  tour  began  at  London  in  the  latter  part 
of  November,  1896,  ending  with  his  return  to  the 
United  States  by  way  of  San  Francisco  in  May, 
1897.  Dr.  Barrows  was  accompanied  by  a  party 
of  personal  friends  from  Chicago  and  elsewhere, 
the  tour  embracing  visits  to  the  principal  cities 
of  Southern  Europe,  Egypt,  Palestine,  China  and 
Japan,  with  a  somewhat  protracted  stay  in  India 
during  the  winter  of  1896-97.  After  his  return  to 
the  United  States  he  lectured  at  the  University 
of  Chicago  and  in  many  of  the  principal  cities  of 
the  country,  on  the  moral  and  religious  condition 
of  Oriental  nations,  but,  in  1898,  was  offered 
the  Presidency  of  Oberlin  College,  Ohio,  which 
he  accepted,  entering  upon  his  duties  early  in 
1899.  Died  June  3,  1902. 

BARRY,  a  city  in  Pike  County,  founded  in 
1836,  on  the  Wabash  Railroad,  18  miles  east  of 
Hannibal,  Mo.,  and  30  miles  southeast  of  Quincy. 
The  surrounding  country  is  agricultural.  The 
city  contains  flouring  mills,  pork-packing  plant'  a 
large  creamery;  also  has  two  local  papers,  two 
banks,  three  churches  and  a  high  school,  besides 
schools  of  lower  grade.  Population  (1890),  1,354; 
(1900),  1,643;  (1910),  1,647. 

BARTLETT,  Adolphus  Clay,  merchant,  was 
born  of  Revolutionary  ancestry  at  Stratford, 
Fulton  County,  N.  Y.,  June  22,  1844;  was  educated 
in  the  common  schools  and  at  Danville  Academy 
and  Clinton  Liberal  Institute,  N.  Y.,  and,  coming 
to  Chicago  in  1863,  entered  into  the  employment 
of  the  hardware  firm  of  Tuttle,  Hibbard  &  Co., 
now  Hibbard,  Spencer,  Bartlett  &  Co.,  of  which, 
a  few  years  later,  he  became  a  partner,  and  later 
Vice-President  of  the  Company.  Mr.  Bartlett 
has  also  been  a  Trustee  of  Beloit  College,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Chicago  Home  for  the  Friendless  and 
a  Director  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad  and 
the  Metropolitan  National  Bank,  besides  being 
identified  with  various  other  business  and  benevo- 
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IUSCOM,  (Rev.)  Flavel,  D.  D.,  clergyman, 
was  born  at  Lebanon,  Conn.,  June  8,  1804;  spent 
his  boyhood  on  a  farm  until  17  years  of  age,  mean- 
while attending  the  common  schools;  prepared 
for  college  under  a  private  tutor,  and,  in  1824, 
entered  Yale  College,  graduating  in  1828.  After  a 
year  as  Principal  of  the  Academy  at  New  Canaan, 
Conn.,  he  entered  upon  the  study  of  theology 
at  Yale,  was  licensed  to  preach  in  1831  and,  for 
the  next  two  years,  served  as  a  tutor  in  the  liter- 
ary department  of  the  college.  Then  coming  to 
Illinois  (1833),  he  cast  his  lot  with  the  "Yale 
Band,"  organized  at  Yale  College  a  few  years 
previous;  spent  five  years  in  missionary  work  in 
Tazewell  County  and  two  years  iu  Northern  Illi- 
nois as  Agent  of  the  Home  Missionary  Society, 
exploring  new  settlements,  founding  churches 
and  introducing  missionaries  to  new  fields  of 
labor.  In  1839  he  became  pastor  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago,  remaining  until 
1849,  when  he  assumed  the  pastorship  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  at  Galesburg,  this  relation 
continuing  until  1856.  Then,  after  a  year's  serv- 
ice as  the  Agent  of  the  American  Missionary 
Association  of  the  Congregational  Church,  he 
accepted  a  call  to  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Princeton,  where  he  remained  until  1869,  when 
he  took  charge  of  the  Congregational  Church  at 
Hinsdale.  From  1878  he  served  for  a  consider- 
able period  as  a  member  of  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee of  the  Illinois  Home  Missionary  Society; 
was  also  prominent  in  educational  work,  being 
one  of  the  founders  and,  for  over  twenty-five 
years,  an  officer  of  the  Chicago  Theological 
Seminary,  a  Trustee  of  Knox  College  and  one  of 
the  founders  and  a  Trustee  of  Beloit  College, 
Wis.,  from  which  he  received  the  degree  of  D.  D. 
in  1869.  Dr.  Bascom  died  at  Princeton,  111., 
August  8,  1890. 

BATAVIA,  a  city  in  Kane  County,  on  Fox 
River  and  branch  lines  of  the  Chicago  &  North- 
western and  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railroads,  35  miles  west  of  Chicago;  has  water 
power  and  several  prosperous  manufacturing 
establishments  employing  over  1,000  operatives. 
The  city  has  fine  water-works  supplied  from  an 
artesian  well,  electric  lighting  plant,  electric 
street  car  lines  with  interurban  connections,  two 
weekly  papers,  eight  churches,  two  public 
schools,  and  private  hospital  for  insane  women. 
Population  (1900),  3,871;  (1910),  4,436. 

BATEMAN,  Newton,  A.  M.,  LL.D.,  educator 
and  Editor-in-Chief  of  the  "Historical  Encyclo- 
pedia of  Illinois,"  was  born  at  Fairfield,  N.  J., 
July  27,  1822.  of  mixed  English  and  Scotch  an- 


cestry ;  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Illinois  in 
1833;  in  his  youth  enjoyed  only  limited  educa- 
tional advantages,  but  graduated  from  Illinois 
College  at  Jacksonville  in  1843,  supporting  him- 
self during  his  college  course  who']y  by  his  own 
labor.  Having  contemplated  entering  the  Chris- 
tian ministry,  he  spent  the  following  year  at  Lane 
Theological  Seminary,  but  was  compelled  to 
withdraw  on  account  of  failing  health,  when  he 
gave  a  year  to  travel.  He  then  entered  upon  his 
life-work  as  a  teacher  by  engaging  as  Principal 
of  an  English  and  Classical  School  in  St.  Louis, 
remaining  there  two  years,  when  he  accepted  the 
Professorship  of  Mathematics  in  St.  Charles  Col- 
lege, at  St.  Charles,  Mo.,  continuing  in  that 
position  four  years  (1847-51).  Returning  to  Jack- 
sonville, 111.,  in  the  latter  year,  he  assumed  the 
principalship  of  the  main  public  school  of  that 
city.  Here  he  remained  seven  years,  during  four 
of  them  discharging  the  duties  of  County  Super- 
intendent of  Schools  for  Morgan  County.  In  the 
fall  of  1857  he  became  Principal  of  Jacksonville 
Female  Academy,  but  the  following  year  was 
elected  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion, having  been  nominated  for  the  office  by  the 
Republican  State  Convention  of  1858,  which  put 
Abraham  Lincoln  in  nomination  for  the  United 
States  Senate.  By  successive  re-elections  he  con- 
tinued in  this  office  fourteen  years,  serving  con- 
tinuously from  1859  to  1875,  except  two  years 
(1863-65),  as  the  result  of  his  defeat  for  re-election 
in  1862.  He  was  also  endorsed  for  the  same  office 
by  the  State  Teachers'  Association  in  1856,  but 
was  not  formally  nominated  by  a  State  Conven- 
tion. During  his  incumbency  the  Illinois  com- 
mon school  system  was.  developed  and  brought  to 
the  state  of  efficiency  which  it  has  so  well  main- 
tained. He  also  prepared  some  seven  volumes  of 
biennial  reports,  portions  of  which  have  been 
republished  in  five  different  languages  of  Europe, 
besides  a  volume  of  "Common  School  Decisions," 
originally  published  by  authority  of  the  General 
Assembly,  and  of  which  several  editions  have 
since  been  issued.  This  volume  has  been  recog- 
nized by  the  courts,  and  is  still  regarded  as 
authoritative  on  the  subjects  to  which  it  relates. 
In  addition  to  his  official  duties  during  a  part  of 
this  period,  for  three  years  he  served  as  editor  of 
"The  Illinois  Teacher,"  and  was  one  of  a  com- 
mittee of  three  which  prepared  the  bill  adopted 
by  Congress  creating  the  National  Bureau  of 
Education.  Occupying  a  room  in  the  old  State 
Capitol  at  Springfield  adjoining  that  used  as  an 
office  by  Abraham  Lincoln  during  the  first  candi- 
dacy of  the  latter  for  the  Presidency,  in  1860,  a 


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close  intimacy  sprang  up  between  the  two  men, 
which  enabled  the  "School-master,"  as  Mr.  Lin- 
coln playfully  called  the  Doctor,  to  acquire  an 
insight  into  the  character  of  the  future  emanci- 
pator of  a  race,  enjoyed  by  few  men  of  that  time, 
and  of  which  he  gave  evidence  by  his  lectures 
full  of  interesting  reminiscence  and  eloquent 
appreciation  of  the  high  character  of  the  "Martyr 
President."  A  few  months  after  his  retirement 
from  the  State  Superintendency  (1875),  Dr.  Bate- 
man  was  offered  and  accepted  the  Presidency  of 
Knox  College  at  Galesburg,  remaining  until  1893, 
when  he  voluntarily  tendered  his  resignation. 
This,  after  having  been  repeatedly  urged  upon 
the  Board,  was  finally  accepted ;  but  that  body 
immediately,  and  by  unanimous  vote,  appointed 
him  President  Emeritus  and  Professor  of  Mental 
and  Moral  Science,  under  which  he  continued  to 
discharge  his  duties  as  a  special  lecturer  as  his 
health  enabled  him  to  do  so.  During  his  incum- 
bency as  President  of  Knox  College,  he  twice 
received  a  tender  of  the  Presidency  of  Iowa  State 
University  and  the  Chancellorship  of  two  other 
important  State  institutions.  He  also  served,  by 
appointment  of  successive  Governors  between  1877 
and  1891,  as  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of 
Health,  for  four  years  of  this  period  being  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board.  In  February,  1878,  Dr.  Bate- 
man,  unexpectedly  and  without  solicitation  on  his 
part,  received  from  President  Hayes  an  appoint- 
ment as  "Assay  Commissioner"  to  examine  and 
test  the  fineness  and  weight  of  United  States 
coins,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the 
act  of  Congress  of  June  22,  1874,  and  discharged 
the  duties  assigned  at  the  mint  in  Philadelphia. 
Never  of  a  very  strong  physique,  which  was 
rather  weakened  by  his  privations  while  a  stu- 
dent and  his  many  years  of  close  confinement  to 
mental  labor,  towards  the  close  of  his  life  Dr. 
Bateman  suffered  much  from  a  chest  trouble 
which  finally  developed  into  "angina  pectoris, " 
or  heart  disease,  from  which,  as  the  result  of  a 
most  painful  attack,  he  died  at  his  home  in  Gales- 
burg,  Oct.  21,  1897.  The  event  produced  the 
most  profound  sorrow,  not  only  among  his  associ- 
ates in  the  Faculty  and  among  the  students  of 
Knox  College,  but  a  large  number  of  friends 
throughout  the  State,  who  had  known  him  offi- 
cially or  personally,  and  had  learned  to  admire 
his  many  noble  and  beautiful  traits  of  character. 
His  funeral,  which  occurred  at  Galesburg  on 
Oct.  25,  called  out  an  immense  concourse  of 
sorrowing  friends.  Almost  the  last  labors  per- 
formed by  Dr.  Bateman  were  in  the  revision  of 
matter  for  this  volume,  in  which  he  manifested 


the  deepest  interest  from  the  time  of  his  assump- 
tion of  the  duties  of  its  Editor-in-Chief.  At  the 
time  of  his  death  he  had  the  satisfaction  of  know- 
ing that  his  work  in  this  field  was  practically 
complete.  Dr.  Bateman  had  been  twice  married, 
first  in  1850  to  Miss  Sarah  Dayton  of  Jacksonville, 
who  died  in  1857,  and  a  second  time  in  October, 
1859,  to  Miss  Annie  N.  Tyler,  of  Massachusetts 
(but  for  some  time  a  teacher  in  Jacksonville 
Female  Academy),  who  died,  May  28,  1878. — 
Clifford  Rush  (Bateman),  a  son  of  Dr.  Bateman 
by  his  first  marriage,  was  born  at  Jacksonville, 
March  7,  1854,  graduated  at  Amherst  College  and 
later  from  the  law  department  of  Columbia  Col- 
lege, New  York,  afterwards  prosecuting  his 
studies  at  Berlin,  Heidelberg  and  Paris,  finally 
becoming  Professor  of  Administrative  Law  and 
Government  in  Columbia  College — a  position 
especially  created  for  him.  He  had  filled  this 
position  a  little  over  one  year  when  his  career — 
which  was  one  of  great  promise — was  cut  short  by 
death,  Feb.  6,  1883.  Three  daughters  of  Dr.  Bate- 
man survive — all  the  wives  of  clergymen. — P.  S. 

BATES,  Clara  Doty,  author,  was  born  at  Ann 
Arbor,  Mich.,  Dec.  22,  1838;  published  her  first 
book  in  1868;  the  next  year  married  Morgan 
Bates,  a  Chicago  publisher;  wrote  much  for 
juvenile  periodicals,  besides  stories  and  poems, 
some  of  the  most  popular  among  the  latter  being 
"Blind  Jakey"  (1868)  and  "^Esop's  Fables"  in 
verse  (1873).  She  was  the  collector  of  a  model 
library  for  children,  for  the  World's  Columbian 
Exposition,  1893.  Died  in  Chicago,  Oct.  14,  1895. 

BATES,  Erastus  Newton,  soldier  and  State 
Treasurer,  was  born  at  Plainfield,  Mass. ,  Feb.  29, 
1828,  being  descended  from  Pilgrims  of  the  May- 
flower. When  8  years  of  age  he  was  brought  by 
his  father  to  Ohio,  where  the  latter  soon  after- 
ward died.  For  several  years  he  lived  with  an 
uncle,  preparing  himself  for  college  and  earning 
money  by  teaching  and  manual  labor.  He  gradu- 
ated from  Williams  College,  Mass.,  in  1853,  and 
commenced  the  study  of  law  in  New  York  City, 
but  later  removed  to  Minnesota,  where  he  served 
as  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1856  and  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  in  1857. 
In  1859  he  removed  to  Centralia,  111.,  and  com- 
menced practice  there  in  August,  1862 ;  was  com- 
missioned Major  of  the  Eightieth  Illinois 
Volunteers,  being  successively  promoted  to  the 
rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  Colonel,  and 
finally  brevetted  Brigadier-General.  For  fifteen 
months  he  was  a  prisoner  of  war,  escaping  from 
Libby  Prison  only  to  be  recaptured  and  later 
exposed  to  the  fire  of  the  Union  batteries  at  Mor- 


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ris  Island,  Charleston  harbor.  In  1866  he  was 
elected  to  the  Legislature,  and,  in  1868,  State 
Treasurer,  being  re-elected  to  the  latter  office 
under  the  new  Constitution  of  1870,  and  serving 
until  January,  1873.  Died  at  Minneapolis, 
Minn.,  May  29,  1898,  and  was  buried  at  Spring- 
field. 

BATES,  George  C.,  lawyer  and  politician,  was 
born  in  Canandaigua,  N.  Y.,  and  removed  to 
Michigan  in  1834;  in  1849  was  appointed  United 
States  District  Attorney  for  that  State,  but  re- 
moved to  California  in  1850,  where  he  became  a 
member  of  the  celebrated  "Vigilance  Committee" 
at  San  Francisco,  and,  in  1856,  delivered  the  first 
Republican  speech  there.  From  1861  to  1871,  he 
practiced  law  in  Chicago;  the  latter  year  was 
appointed  District  Attorney  for  Utah,  serving 
two  years,  in  1878  removing  to  Denver,  Colo., 
where  he  died,  Feb.  11,  1886.  Mr.  Bates  was  an 
orator  of  much  reputation,  and  was  selected  to 
express  the  thanks  of  the  citizens  of  Chicago  to 
Gen.  B.  J.  Sweet,  commandant  of  Camp  Douglas, 
after  the  detection  and  defeat  of  the  Camp  Doug- 
las conspiracy  in  November,  1864 — a  duty  which 
he  performed  in  an  address  of  great  eloquence. 
At  an  early  day  he  married  the  widow  of  Dr. 
Alexander  Wolcott,  for  a  number  of  years  previ- 
ous to  1830  Indian  Agent  at  Chicago,  his  wife 
being  a  daughter  of  John  Kinzie,  the  first  white 
settler  of  Chicago. 

BATH,  a  village  of  Mason  County,  on  the 
Jacksonville  branch  of  the  Chicago,  Peoria  &  St. 
Louis  Railway,  8  miles  south  of  Havana.  Popu- 
lation (1890),  384;  (1900),  330;  (1910),  475. 

BAYLIS,  a  corporate  village  of  Pike  County,  on 
the  main  line  of  the  Wabash  Railway,  40  miles 
southeast  of  Quincy;  has  one  newspaper  and  wagon 
factory.  Pop.  (1900),-  340;  (1910),  385. 

BAYLISS,  Alfred,  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction,  was  born  about  1846,  served  as  a 
private  in  the  First  Michigan  Cavalry  the  last 
two  years  of  the  Civil  War,  and  graduated  from 
Hillsdale  College  (Mich.),  in  1870,  supporting 
himself  during  his  college  course  by  work  upon  a 
farm  and  teaching.  After  serving  three  years  as 
County  Superintendent  of  Schools  in  La  Grange 
County,  Ind.,  in  1874  he  came  to  Illinois  and 
entered  upon  the  vocation  of  a  teacher  in  the 
northern  part  of  the  State.  He  served  for  some 
time  as  Superintendent  of  Schools  for  the  city  of 
Sterling,  afterwards  served  as  Principal  of  the 
Township  High  School  until  1898,  when  he  was 
elected  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction 
and  re-elected  in  1902,  serving  two  consecutive  terms. 
On  retirement  from  the  Superintendent's  office  in 


1907,  he  became  Principal  of  the  State  Normal 
School  at  Macomb,  111.,  but  died  August  26,  1911. 

BEARD,  Thomas,  pioneer  and  founder  of  the 
city  of  Beardstown,  111.,  was  born  in  Granville, 
Washington  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1795,  taken  to 
Northeastern  Ohio  in  1800,  and,  in  1818,  removed 
to  Illinois,  living  for  a  time  about  Edwardsville 
and  Alton.  In  1820  he  went  to  the  locality  of 
the  present  city  of  Beardstown,  and  later  estab- 
lished there  the  first  ferry  across  the  Illinois 
River.  In  1827,  in  conjunction  with  Enoch 
March  of  Morgan  County,  he  entered  the  land  on 
which  Beardstown  was  platted  in  1829.  Died,  at 
Beardstown,  in  November,  1849. 

BEARDSTOWN,  a  city  in  Cass  County,  on  the 
Illinois  River,  being  the  intersecting  point  for 
the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern  and  the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  Railways,  and  the 
northwestern  terminus  of  the  former.  It  is  111 
miles  north  of  St.  Louis  and  90  miles  south  of 
Peoria.  Thomas  Beard,  for  whom  the  town  was 
named,  settled  here  about  1820  and  soon  after- 
wards established  the  first  ferry  across  the  Illi- 
nois River.  In  1827  the  land  was  patented  by 
Beard  and  Enoch  March,  and  the  town  platted, 
and,  during  the  Black  Hawk  War  of  1832,  it 
became  a  principal  base  of  supplies  for  the  Illi- 
nois volunteers.  The  city  has  six  churches  and 
three  schools  (including  a  high  school),  two  banks 
and  two  daily  newspapers.  Several  branches  of 
manufacturing  are  carried  on  here — flouring  and 
saw  mills,  cooperage  works,  extensive  fishing  and 
packing  interests,  two  button  factories,  one  shoe 
factory,  large  machine  shops,  and  others  of  less 
importance.  The  river  is  spanned  here  by  a  fine 
railroad  bridge,  costing  some  $300,000.  Pop.  (1890), 
4,226;  (1900),  4,827;  (1910),  6,107. 

BEAUBIEN,  Jean  Baptiste,  the  second  per- 
manent settler  on  the  site  of  Chicago,  was  born 
at  Detroit  in  1780,  became  clerk  of  a  fur-trader  on 
Grand  River,  married  an  Ottawa  woman  for  his 
first  wife,  and,  in  1800,  had  a  trading-post  at  Mil- 
waukee, which  he  maintained  until  1818.  Ho 
visited  Chicago  as  early  as  1804,  bought  a  cabin 
there  soon  after  the  Fort  Dearborn  massacre  ot 
1812,  married  the  daughter  of  Francis  La  Fram- 
boise, a  French  trader,  and,  in  1818,  became 
agent  of  the  American  Fur  Company,  having 
charge  of  trading  posts  at  Mackinaw  and  else- 
where. After  1823  he  occupied  the  building 
known  as  "the  factory,"  just  outside  of  Fort  Dear- 
born,  which  had  belonged  to  the  Government, 
but  removed  to  a  farm  on  the  Des  Plaines  in  1840. 
Out  of  the  ownership  of  this  building  grew  his 
claim  to  the  right,  in  1835,  to  enter  seventy-five 


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acres  of  land  belonging  to  the  Fort  Dearborn 
reservation.  The  claim  was  allowed  by  the  Land 
Office  officials  and  sustained  by  the  State  courts, 
but  disallowed  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  after  long  litigation.  An  attempt 
was  made  to  revive  this  claim  in  Congress  in 
1878,  but  it  was  reported  upon  adversely  by  a 
Senate  Committee  of  which  the  late  Senator 
Thomas  F.  Bayard  was  chairman.  Mr.  Beaubien 
was  evidently  a  man  of  no  little  prominence  in 
his  day.  He  led  a  company  of  Chicago  citizens 
to  the  Black  Hawk  War  in  1832,  was  appointed 
by  the  Governor  the  first  Colonel  of  Militia  for 
Cook  County,  and,  in  1850,  was  commissioned 
Brigadier-General.  In  1858  he  removed  to  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.,  and  died  there,  Jan.  5,  1863. — Mark 
(Beaubien),  a  younger  brother  of  Gen.  Beaubien, 
was  born  in  Detroit  in  1800,  came  to  Chicago  in 
1826,  and  bought  a  log  house  of  James  Kinzie,  in 
which  he  kept  a  hotel  for  some  time.  Later,  he 
erected  the  first  frame  building  in  Chicago,  which 
was  known  as  the  "Sauganash,"  and  in  which  he 
kept  a  hotel  until  1834.  He  also  engaged  in  mer- 
chandising, but  was  not  successful,  ran  the  first 
ferry  across  the  South  Branch  of  the  Chicago 
River,  and  served  for  many  years  as  lighthouse 
keeper  at  Chicago.  About  1834  the  Indians  trans- 
ferred to  him  a  reservation  of  640  acres  of  land  on 
the  Calumet,  for  which,  some  forty  years  after- 
wards, he  received  a  patent  which  had  been 
signed  by  Martin  Van  Buren — he  having  previ- 
ously been  ignorant  of  its  existence.  He  was 
married  twice  and  had  a  family  of  twenty -two 
children.  Died,  at  Kankakee,  111.,  April  16,  1881. 
— Matlor<>  B.  (Beaubien),  the  second  son  of 
General  Beaubien  by  his  Indian  wife,  was  born 
on  Grand  River  in  Michigan,  July  15,  1809,  joined 
his  father  in  Chicago,  was  educated  in  a  Baptist 
Mission  School  where  Niles,  Mich.,  now  stands; 
was  licensed  as  a  merchant  in  Chicago  in  1831, 
but  failed  as  a  business  man;  served  as  Second 
Lieutenant  of  the  Naperville  Company  in  the 
Black  Hawk  War,  and  later  was  First  Lieutenant 
of  a  Chicago  Company.  His  first  wife  was  a 
white  woman,  from  whom  he  separated,  after- 
wards marrying  an  Indian  woman.  He  left  Illi- 
nois with  the  Pottawatomies  in  1840,  resided  at 
Council  Bluffs  and,  later,  in  Kansas,  being  for 
many  years  the  official  interpreter  of  the  tribe 
and,  for  some  time,  one  of  six  Commissioners 
employed  by  the  Indians  to  look  after  their 
affairs  with  the  United  States  Government. — 
Alexander  (Beaubien),  son  of  General  Beau- 
bien by  his  white  wife,  was  born  in  one  of  the 
buildings  belonging  to  Fort  Dearborn,  Jan.  28, 


1822.  In  1840  he  accompanied  his  father  to  his 
farm  on  the  Des  Plaines,  but  returned  to  Chicago 
in  1862,  and  for  years  past  has  been  employed  on 
the  Chicago  police  force. 

BEBB,  William,  Governor  of  Ohio,  was  born 
in  Hamilton  County  in  that  State  in  1802 ;  taught 
school  at  North  Bend,  the  home  of  William  Henry 
Harrison,  studied  law  and  practiced  at  Hamilton ; 
served  as  Governor  of  Ohio,  1846-48;  later  led  a 
Welsh  colony  to  Tennessee,  but  left  at  the  out- 
break of  the  Civil  War,  removing  to  Winnebago 
County,  111.,  where  he  had  purchased  a  large 
body  of  land.  He  was  a  man  of  uncompromising 
loyalty  and  high  principle ;  served  as  Examiner 
of  Pensions  by  appointment  of  President  Lincoln 
and,  in  1868,  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  cam- 
paign which  resulted  in  Grant's  first  election  to 
the  Presidency.  Died  at  Rockford,  Oct.  23,  1873. 
A  daughter  of  Governor  Bebb  married  Hon. 
John  P.  Reynolds,  for  many  years  the  Secretary 
of  the  Illinois  State  Agricultural  Society,  and, 
during  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition, 
Director-in-Chief  of  the  Illinois  Board  of  World's 
Fair  Commissioners. 

BECKER,  Charles  St.  N.,  ex-State  Treasurer, 
was  born  in  Germany,  June  14,  1840,  and  brought 
to  this  country  by  his  parents  at  the  age  of  11 
years,  the  family  settling  in  St.  Clair  County,  111. 
Early  in  the  Civil  War  he  enlisted  in  the  Twelfth 
Missouri  regiment,  and,  at  the  battle  of  Pea 
Ridge,  was  so  severely  wounded  that  it  was 
found  necessary  to  amputate  one  of  his  legs.  In 
1866  he  was  elected  Sheriff  of  St.  Clair  County, 
and,  from  1872  to  1880,  he  served  as  clerk  of  the 
St.  Clair  Circuit  Court.  He  also  served  several 
terms  as  a  City  Councilman  of  Belleville.  In  1888 
he  was  elected  State  Treasurer  on  the  Republican 
ticket.  Died  Jan.  2,  1908. 

BECKWITH,  Corydon,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was 
born  in  Vermont  in  1823,  and  educated  at  Provi- 
dence, R.  I.,  and  Wrentham,  Mass.  He  read  law 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  St.  Albans,  Vt., 
where  he  practiced  for  two  years.  In  1853  he 
removed  to  Chicago,  and,  in  January,  1864,  was 
appointed  by  Governor  Yates  a  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  to  fill  the  five  remaining  months 
of  the  unexpired  term  of  Judge  Caton,  who  had 
resigned.  On  retiring  from  the  bench  he  re- 
sumed private  practice.  Died,  August  18,  1890. 

BECKWITH,  Hiram  Williams,  lawyer  and 
author,  was  born  at  Danville,  111.,  March  5,  1833. 
Mr.  Beckwith's  father,  Dan  W.  Beckwith,  a  pio- 
neer settler  of  Eastern  Illinois  and  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  city  of  Danville,  was  a  native  of 
Wyalusing,  Pa.,  where  he  was  born  about  1789, 


GEORGE  C.  BARNES 


MARY  J.  (MYERS)  BARNES 


MRS.  SUSAN  (MUTTON)  BARNES 


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his  mother  being,  in  her  girlhood,  Hannah  York, 
one  of  the  survivors  of  the  famous  Wyoming 
massacre  of  1778.  In  1817,  the  senior  Beckwith, 
in  company  with  his  brother  George,  descended 
the  Ohio  River,  afterwards  ascending  the  Wabash 
to  where  Terre  Haute  now  stands,  but  finally 
locating  in  what  is  now  a  part  of  Edgar  County, 
111.  A  year  later  he  removed  to  the  vicinity  of 
the  present  site  of  the  city  of  Danville.  Having 
been  employed  for  a  time  in  a  surveyor's 
corps,  he  finally  became  a  surveyor  himself,  and, 
on  the  organization  of  Vermilion  County,  served 
for  a  time  as  County  Surveyor  by  appointment  of 
the  Governor,  and  was  also  employed  by  the 
General  Government  in  surveying  lands  in  the 
eastern  part  of  the  State,  some  of  the  Indian 
reservations  in  that  section  of  the  State  being 
set  off  by  him.  In  connection  witli  Guy  W. 
Smith,  then  Receiver  of  Public  Moneys  in  the 
Land  Office  at  Palestine,  111.,  he  donated  the 
ground  on  which  the  county-seat  of  Vermilion 
County  was  located,  and  it  took  the  name  of  Dan- 
ville from  his  first  name— "Dan."  In  1830  he 
was  elected  Representative  in  the  State  Legisla- 
ture for  the  District  composed  of  Clark,  Edgar, 
and  Vermilion  Counties,  then  including  all  that 
section  of  the  State  between  Crawford  County 
and  the  Kankakee  River.  He  died  in  1835. 
Hiram,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  thus  left 
fatherless  at  less  than  three  years  of  age,  received 
only  such  education  as  was  afforded  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  that  period.  Nevertheless,  he 
began  the  study  of  law  in  the  Danville  office  of 
Lincoln  &  Lamon,  and  was  admitted  to  practice 
in  1854,  about  the  time  of  reaching  his  majority. 
He  continued  in  their  office  and,  on  the  removal 
of  Lamon  to  Bloomington  in  1859,  he  succeeded 
to  the  business  of  the  firm  at  Danville.  Mr. 
Lamon — who,  on  Mr.  Lincoln's  accession  to  the 
Presidency  in  1861,  became  Marshal  of  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia — was  distantly  related  to  Mr. 
Beckwith  by  a  second  marriage  of  the  mother  of 
the  latter.  While  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession,  Mr.  Beckwith  was  for  over  thirty 
years  a  zealous  collector  of  records  and  other 
material  bearing  upon  the  early  history  of  Illinois 
and  the  Northwest,  probably  becoming  the  owner 
of  one  of  the  most  complete  and  valuable 
collections  of  Americana  in  Illinois;  was  also 
the  author  of  several  monographs  on  historic 
themes,  including  "The  Winnebago  War,"  "The 
Illinois  and  Indiana  Indians,"  and  "Historic 
Notes  of  the  Northwest,"  published  in  the  "Fer- 
gus Series,"  besides  having  edited  an  edition  of 
"Reynolds'  History  of  Illinois"  (published  by  the 


same  firm),  which  he  had  enriched  by  the  addition 
of  valuable  notes.  During  1895-96  he  contributed 
a  series  of  valuable  articles  to  "The  Chicago 
Tribune"  on  various  features  of  early  Illinois  and 
Northwest  history.  In  1890  he  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Fifer  a  member  of  the  first  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  Illinois  State  Historical  Library, 
serving  until  the  expiration  of  his  term  in  1894, 
and  was  re-appointed  to  the  same  position  by 
Governor  Tanner  in  1897,  in  each  case  being 
chosen  President  of  the  Board."  Died  Dec.  22,  1903. 
BEECHER,  Charles  A.,  attorney  and  railway 
solicitor,  was  born  in  Herkimer  County,  N.  Y., 
August  27,  1829,  but,  in  1836,  removed  with  his 
family  to  Licking  County,  Ohio,  where  he  lived 
upon  a  farm  until  he  reached  the  age  of  18  years. 
Having  taken  a  course  in  the  Ohio  Wesleyan 
University  at  Delaware,  in  1854  he  removed  to 
Illinois,  locating  at  Fairfield,  Wayne  County, 
and  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  his 
brother,  Edwin  Beecher,  being  admitted  to  prac- 
tice in  1855.  In  1867  he  united  with  others  in  the 
organization  of  the  Illinois  Southeastern  Rail- 
road projected  from  Shawneetown  to  Edgewood 
on  the  Illinois  Central  in  Effingham  County. 
This  enterprise  was  consolidated,  a  year  or  two 
later,  with  the  Pana,  Springfield  &  Northwest- 
ern, taking  the  name  of  the  Springfield  &  Illinois 
Southeastern,  under  which  name  it  was  con- 
structed and  opened  for  traffic  in  1871.  (This 
line — which  Mr.  Beecher  served  for  some  time 
as  Vice- President — now  constitutes  the  Beards- 
town  &  Shawneetown  Division  of  the  Baltimore 
&  Ohio  Southwestern.)  The  Springfield  &  Illi- 
nois Southeastern  Company  having  fallen  into 
financial  difficulty  in  1873,  Mr.  Beecher  was 
appointed  receiver  of  the  road,  and,  for  a  time, 
had  control  of  its  operation  as  agent  for  the  bond- 
holders. In  1875  the  line  was  conveyed  to  the 
Ohio  &  Mississippi  Railroad  (now  a  part  of  the 
Baltimore  &  Ohio),  when  Mr.  Beecher  became 
General  Counsel  of  the  controlling  corporation, 
so  remaining  until  1888.  From  that  date  he  con- 
tinued to  be  one  of  the  assistant  counsel  of  the 
Baltimore  &  Ohio  system.  His  later  home  was  in 
Cincinnati,  although  for  over  a  quarter  of  a  century 
he  had  been  prominently  identified  with  one  of  the 
most  important  railway  enterprises  in  Southern 
Illinois.  In  politics  Mr.  Beecher  had  always  been 
a  Republican,  and  was  one  of  the  few  in  Wayne 
County  who  voted  for  Fremont  in  1856,  and  for 
Lincoln  in  1860.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Republican  State  Central  Committee  of  Illinois 
from  1860  for  a  period  of  ten  or  twelve  years. 
Died  April  11,  1904. 


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BEECHER,  Edward,  D.  D.,  clergyman  and 
educator,  was  born  at  East  Hampton,  L.  I., 
August  27,  1803 — the  son  of  Rev.  Lyman  Beecher 
and  the  elder  brother  of  Henry  Ward ;  graduated 
at  Yale  College  in  1822,  taught  for  over  a  year  at 
Hartford,  Conn.,  studied  theology,  and  after  a 
year's  service  as  tutor  in  Yale  College,  in 
1826  was  ordained  pastor  of  the  Park  Street 
Congregational  Church  in  Boston.  In  1830 
he  became  President  of  Illinois  College  at 
Jacksonville,  remaining  until  1844,  when  he 
resigned  and  returned  to  Boston,  serving  as 
pastor  of  the  Salem  Street  Church  in  that 
city  until  1856,  also  acting  as  senior  editor  of 
"The  Congregationalist"  for  four  years.  In  1856 
he  returned  to  Illinois  as  pastor  of  the  First  Con- 
gregational Church  at  Galesburg,  continuing 
until  1871,  when  he  removed  to  Brooklyn,  where 
he  resided  without  pastoral  charge,  except  1885- 
89,  when  he  was  pastor  of  the  Parkville  Congre- 
gational Church.  While  President  of  Illinois 
College,  that  institution  was  exposed  to  much 
hostile  criticism  on  account  of  his  outspoken 
opposition  to  slavery,  as  shown  by  his  participa- 
tion in  founding  the  first  Illinois  State  Anti- 
Slavery  Society  and  his  eloquent  denunciation  of 
the  murder  of  Elijah  P.  Lovejoy.  Next  to  his 
brother  Henry  Ward,  he  was  probably  the  most 
powerful  orator  belonging  to  that  gifted  family, 
and,  in  connection  with  his  able  associates  in  the 
faculty  of  the  Illinois  College,  assisted  to  give 
that  institution  a  wide  reputation  as  a  nursery 
of  independent  thought.  Up  to  a  short  time 
before  his  death,  he  was  a  prolific  writer,  his 
productions  (besides  editorials,  reviews  and  con- 
tributions on  a  variety  of  subjects)  including 
nine  or  ten  volumes,  of  which  the  most  impor- 
tant are:  "Statement  of  Anti-Slavery  Principles 
and  Address  to  the  People  of  Illinois"  (1837); 
"A  Plea  for  Illinois  College";  "History  of  the 
Alton  Riots"  (1838);  "The  Concord  of  Ages" 
(1853);  "The  Conflict  of  Ages"  (1854);  "Papal 
Conspiracy  Exposed"  (1854),  besides  a  number 
of  others  invariably  on  religious  or  anti-slavery 
topics.  Died  in  Brooklyn,  July  28,  1895. 

BEECHER,  William  H.,  clergyman  —  oldest 
son  of  Rev.  Lyman  Beecher  and  brother  of 
Edward  and  Henry  Ward — was  born  at  East 
Hampton,  N.  Y.,  educated  at  home  and  at  An- 
dover,  became  a  Congregationalist  clergyman, 
occupying  pulpits  at  Newport,  R.  I.,  Batavia, 
N.  Y.,  and  Cleveland,  Ohio ;  came  to  Chicago  in 
his  later  years,  dying  at  the  home  of  his  daugh- 
ters in  that  city,  June  23,  1889. 

BEGGS,  (Rev.)  Stephen  R.,  pioneer  Methodist 


Episcopal  preacher,  was  born  in  Buckingham 
County,  Va.,  March  30,  1801.  His  father,  who 
was  opposed  to  slavery,  moved  to  Kentucky  in 
1805,  but  remained  there  only  two  years,  when  he 
removed  to  Clark  County,  Ind.  The  son  enjoyed 
but  poor  educational  advantages  here,  obtaining 
his  education  chiefly  by  his  own  efforts  in  what 
he  called  "Brush  College."  At  the  age  of  21  he 
entered  the  ministry  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  during  the  next  ten  years  traveling 
different  circuits  in  Indiana.  In  1831  he  was 
appointed  to  Chicago,  but  the  Black  Hawk  War 
coming  on  immediately  thereafter,  he  retired  to 
Plainfield.  Later  he  traveled  various  circuits  in 
Illinois,  until  1868,  when  he  was  superannuated, 
occupying  his  time  thereafter  in  writing  remi- 
niscences of  his  early  history.  A  volume  of  this 
character  published  by  him,  was  entitled  "Pages 
from  the  Early  History  of  the  West  and  North- 
west." He  died  at  Plainfield,  111.,  Sept.  9,  1895, 
in  the  95th  year  of  his  age. 

BEIDLER,  Henry,  early  settler,  was  born  of 
German  extraction  in  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  Nov. 
27,  1812 ;  came  to  Illinois  in  1843,  settling  first  at 
Springfield,  where  he  carried  on  the  grocery 
business  for  five  years,  then  removed  to  Chicago 
and  engaged  in  the  lumber  trade  in  connection 
with  a  brother,  afterwards  carrying  on  a  large 
lumber  manufacturing  business  at  Muskegon, 
Mich.,  which  proved  very  profitable.  In  1871 
Mr.  Beidler  retired  from  the  lumber  trade,  in- 
vesting largely  in  west  side  real  estate  in  the  city 
of  Chicago,  which  appreciated  rapidly  in  value, 
making  him  one  of  the  most  wealthy  real  estate 
owners  in  Chicago.  Died,  March  16,  1893. — Jacob 
(Beidler),  brother  of  the  preceding,  was  born  in 
Bucks  County,  Penn.,  in  1815;  came  west  in 
1842,  first  began  working  as  a  carpenter,  but 
later  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  with  his 
brother  at  Springfield,  111. ;  in  1844  removed  to 
Chicago,  where  he  was  joined  by  his  brother  four 
years  later,  when  they  engaged  largely  in  the 
lumber  trade.  Mr.  Beidler  retired  from  business 
in  1891,  devoting  his  attention  to  large  real  estate 
investments.  He  was  a  liberal  contributor  to 
religious,  educational  and  benevolent  institutions. 
Died  in  Chicago,  March  15,  1898. 

BELEIELD,  Henry  Holmes,  educator,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Nov.  17,  1837 ;  was  educated 
at  an  Iowa  College,  and  for  a  time  was  tutor  in 
the  same ;  during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  served 
in  the  army  of  the  Cumberland,  first  as  Lieuten- 
ant and  afterwards  as  Adjutant  of  the  Eighth 
Iowa  Cavalry,  still  later  being  upon  the  staff  of 
Gen.  E.  M.  McCook,  and  taking  part  in  the 


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Atlanta  and  Nashville  campaigns.  While  a 
prisoner  in  the  hands  of  the  rebels  he  was  placed 
under  fire  of  the  Union  batteries  at  Charleston. 
Coming  to  Chicago  in  1866,  he  served  as  Principal 
in  various  public  schools,  including  the  North 
Division  High  School.  He  was  one  of  the  earli- 
est advocates  of  manual  training,  and,  on  the 
establishment  of  the  Chicago  Manual  Training 
School  in  1884,  was  appointed  its  Director — a 
position  which  he  has  continued  to  occupy. 
During  1891-92  he  made  a  trip  to  Europe  by 
appointment  of  the  Government,  to  investigate 
the  school  systems  in  European  countries. 

BELKXAP,  Hugh  Reid,  ex-Member  of  Congress, 
was  born  in  Keokuk,  Iowa,  Sept.  1,  1860,  being 
the  son  of  W.  W.  Belknap,  for  some  time  Secre- 
tary of  War  under  President  Grant.  After 
attending  the  public  schools  of  his  native  city, 
he  took  a  course  at  Adams  Academy,  Quincy, 
Mass.,  and  at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  when 
he  entered  the  service  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
Railroad,  where  he  remained  twelve  years  in 
various  departments,  finally  becoming  Chief 
Clerk  of  the  General  Manager.  In  1892  he  retired 
from  this  position  to  become  Superintendent  of 
the  South  Side  Elevated  Railroad  of  Chicago. 
He  never  held  any  political  position  until  nomi- 
nated (1894)  as  a  Republican  for  the  Fifty-fourth 
Congress,  in  the  strongly  Democratic  Third  Dis- 
trict of  Chicago.  Although  the  returns  showed 
a  plurality  of  thirty -one  votes  for  his  Democratic 
opponent  (Lawrence  McGann),  a  recount  proved 
him  elected,  when,  Mr.  McGann  having  volun- 
tarily withdrawn,  Mr.  Belknap  was  unanimously 
awarded  the  seat.  In  1896  he  was  re-elected 
from  a  District  usually  strongly  Democratic, 
receiving  a  plurality  of  590  votes,  but  was 
defeated  by  his  Democratic  opponent  in  1898,  retir- 
ing from  Congress,  March  3,  1899,  when  he  re- 
ceived an  appointment  as  Paymaster  in  the  Army 
from  President  McKinley,  with  the  rank  of  Major. 
BELL,  Robert,  lawyer,  was  born  in  Lawrence 
County,  111.,  in  1829,  educated  at  Mount  Carmel 
and  Indiana  State  University  at  Bloomington, 
graduating  from  the  law  department  of  the 
latter  in  1855 ;  while  yet  in  his  minority  edited 
"The  Mount  Carmel  Register,"  during  1851-52 
becoming  joint  owner  and  editor  of  the  same 
with  his  brother,  Victor  D.  Bell.  After,  gradu- 
ation he  opened  an  office  at  Fairfield,  Wayne 
County,  but,  in  1857,  returned  to  Mount  Carmel 
and  from  1864  was  the  partner  of  Judge  E.  B. 
Green,  until  the  appointment  of  the  latter  Chief 
Justice  of  Oklahoma  by  President  Harrison  in 
1890.  In  1869  Mr.  Bell  was  appointed  County 


Judge  of  Lawrence  County,  being  elected  to  the 
same  office  in  1894.  He  was  also  President 
of  the  Illinois  Southern  Railroad  Company 
until  it  was  merged  into  the  Cairo  &  Vincennes 
Road  in  1867 ;  later  became  President  of  the  St. 
Louis  &  Mt.  Carmel  Railroad,  now  a  part  of  the 
Louisville,  Evansville  &  St.  Louis  line,  and 
secured  the  construction  of  the  division  from 
Princeton,  Ind.,  to  Albion,  111.  In  1876  he  visited 
California  as  Special  Agent  of  the  Treasury 
Department  to  investigate  alleged  frauds  in  the 
Revenue  Districts  on  the  Pacific  Coast ;  in  1878 
was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  Congress  on 
the  Republican  ticket  in  the  strong  Democratic 
Nineteenth  District;  was  appointed,  the  same 
year,  a  member  of  the  Republican  State  Central 
Committee  for  the  State-at-large,  and,  in  1881, 
officiated  by  appointment  of  President  Garfield, 
as  Commissioner  to  examine  a  section  of  the 
Atlantic  &  Pacific  Railroad  in  New  Mexico. 
Judge  Bell  is  a  gifted  stump-speaker  and  is  known 
in  the  southeastern  part  of  the  State  as  the 
"Silver-tongued  Orator  of  the  Wabash." 

BELLEVILLE,  the  county-seat  of  St.  Clair 
County,  a  city  and  railroad  center,  14  miles  south 
of  east  from  St.  Louis.  It  is  one  of  the  oldest 
towns  in  the  State,  having  been  selected  as  the 
county-seat  in  1814  and  platted  in  1815.  It  lies 
in  the  center  of  a  rich  agricultural  and  coal-bear- 
ing district  and  contains  numerous  factories,  includ- 
ing agricultural  implements,  flouring  mills,  a  nail 
mill,  glass  works  and  shoe  factories.  It  has  five 
newspaper  establishments,  of  which  four  issue  both 
daily  and  weekly  editions.  Its  commercial  and 
educational  facilities  are  exceptionally  good.  Its 
population  is  largely  of  German  descent.  Popula- 
tion (1890),  15,361;  (1900),  17,484,  (1910),  21,122 
BELLEVILLE,  CENTRALIA  &  EASTERN 
RAILROAD.  (See  Louisville,  Evansville  <fc  St. 
Louis  (Consolidated)  Railroad.) 

BELLEVILLE  &  CARONDELET  RAILROAD, 
a  short  line  of  road  extending  from  Belleville  to 
East  Carondelet,  111.,  17.3  miles.  It  was  chartered 
Feb.  20,  1881,  and  leased  to  the  St.  Louis,  Alton 
&  Terre  Haute  Railroad  Company,  June  1,  1883. 
The  annual  rental  is  $30,000,  a  sum  equivalent  to 
the  interest  on  the  bonded  debt.  The  capital 
stock  (1895)  is  $500,000  and  the  bonded  debt  $485,- 
000.  In  addition  to  these  sums  the  floating  debt 
swells  the  entire  capitalization  to  $9195,054  or  $57,- 
317  per  mile. 

BELLEVILLE  &  ELDORADO  RAILROAD, 
a  road  50.4  miles  in  length  running  from  Belle- 
ville to  Duquoin,  111.  It  was  chartered  Feb.  22, 
1861,  and  completed  Oct.  31,  1871.  On  July  1, 


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1880,  it  was  leased  to  the  St  Louis,  Alton  & 
Terre  Haute  Railroad  Company  for  486  years,  and 
has  since  been  operated  by  that  corporation  in 
connection  with  its  Belleville  branch,  from  East 
St.  Louis  to  Belleville.  At  Eldorado  the  road 
intersects  the  Cairo  &  Vincennes  Railroad  and 
the  Shawneetown  branch  of  the  St.  Louis  & 
Southeastern  Railroad,  operated  by  the  Louisville 
&  Npshville  Railroad  Company.  Its  capital 
stock  (1895)  is  $1,000,000  and  its  bonded  debt 
$550,000.  The  corporate  office  is  at  Belleville. 

BELLEVILLE  &  ILL1NOISTOWN  RAILROAD. 
(See  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute  Railroad.') 

BELLEVILLE  &  SOUTHERN  ILLINOIS 
RAILROAD,  a  road  (laid  with  steel  rails)  run- 
ning from  Belleville  to  Duquoin,  111.,  56.4  miles 
in  length.  It  was  chartered  Feb.  15,  1857,  and 
completed  Dec.  15,  1873.  At  Duquoin  it  connects 
with  the  Illinois  Central  and  forms  a  short  line 
between  St.  Louis  and  Cairo.  Oct.  1,  1866,  it  was 
leased  to  the  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute 
Railroad  Company  for  999  years.  The  capital 
stock  is  $1,693,000  and  the  bonded  debt  $1,000,- 
000.  The  corporate  office  is  at  Belleville. 

BELLMONT,  a  village  of  Wabash  County,  on 
the  Louisville,  Evansville  &  St.  Louis  Railway,  9 
miles  west  of  Mount  Carmel.  Population  (1880), 
350;  (1890),  487,  (1900),  624;  (1910),  550. 

BELT  RAILWAY  COMPANY  OF  CHICAGO, 
THE,  a  corporation  chartered,  Nov.  22,  1882,  and 
the  lessee  of  the  Belt  Division  of  the  Chicago  & 
Western  Indiana  Railroad  (which  see).  Its  total 
trackage  (all  of  standard  gauge  and  laid  with  66- 
pound  steel  rails)  is  93.36  miles,  distributed  as  fol- 
lows: Auburn  Junction  to  Chicago,  Milwaukee  & 
St.  PaulJunction,  15.9  miles;  branches  from  Pull- 
man Junction  to  Irondale,  111.,  etc.,  5.41  miles; 
second  track,  14.1  miles;  sidings,  57.85  miles. 
The  cost  of  construction  has  been  $524,549;  capi- 
tal stock,  $1,200,000.  It  has  no  funded  debt. 
The  earnings  for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1895, 
were  $556,847,  the  operating  expenses  $378,012, 
and  the  taxes  $51,009. 

BELVIDERE,an  incorporated  city,  the  county- 
seat  of  Boone  County,  situated  on  the  Kishwau- 
kee  River,  and  on  two  divisions  of  the  Chicago  & 
Northwestern  Railroad,  78  miles  west-northwest 
of  Chicago  and  14  miles  east  of  Rockford ;  is  con- 
nected with  the  latter  city  by  electric  railroad. 
The  city  has  twelve  churches,  five  graded  schools, 
and  three  banks  (two  national).  One  daily  and 
one  semi-weekly  paper  are  published  here.  Bel- 
videre  also  has  very  considerable  manufacturing 
interests,  including  manufactories  of  sewing  ma- 
chines, bicycles,  automobiles,  besides  a  large 


milk-condensing    factory  and    two    creameries. 
Pop.  (1890),  3,867;  (1900),  6,937;  (1910),  7,253. 

BEMENT,  a  village  in  Piatt  County,  at  inter- 
section of  main  line  and  Chicago  Division  of 
Wabash  Railroad,  20  miles  east  of  Decatur  and 
166  miles  south-southwest  of  Chicago;  in  agri- 
cultural and  stock-raising  district;  has  three 
grain  elevators,  broom  factory,  water-works,  elec- 
tric-light plant,  four  churches,  two  banks  and 
a  weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  1,484;  (1910),  1,530. 

BENJAMIN,  Reuben  Moore,  lawyer,  born  at 
Chatham  Centre,  Columbia  County,  N.  Y. ,  June 
29,  1833 ;  was  educated  at  Amherst  College,  Am- 
herst,  Mass. ;  spent  one  year  in  the  law  depart- 
ment of  Harvard,  another  as  tutor  at  Amherst 
and,  in  1856,  came  to  Bloomington,  111.,  where,  on 
an  examination  certificate  furnished  by  Abraham 
Lincoln,  he  was  licensed  to  practice.  The  first 
public  office  held  by  Mr.  Benjamin  was  that  of 
Delegate  to  the  State  Constitutional  Convention 
of  1869-70,  in  which  he  took  a  prominent  part  in 
shaping  the  provisions  of  the  new  Constitution 
relating  to  corporations.  In  1873  he  was  chosen 
County  Judge  of  McLean  County,  by  repeated 
re-elections  holding  the  position  until  1886,  when 
he  resumed  private  practice.  For  more  than 
twenty  years  he  has  been  connected  with  the  law 
department  of  Wesleyan  University  at  Blooming- 
ton,  a  part  of  the  time  being  Dean  of  the  Faculty ; 
is  also  the  author  of  several  volumes  of  legal 
text-books. 

BENNETT  MEDICAL  COLLEGE,  an  Eclectic 
Medical  School  of  Chicago,  incorporated  by 
special  charter  and  opened  in  the  autumn  of 
1868.  Its  first  sessions  were  held  in  two  large 
rooms;  its  faculty  consisted  of  seven  professors, 
and  there  were  thirty  matriculates.  More  com- 
modious quarters  were  secured  the  following 
year,  and  a  still  better  home  after  the  fire  of  1871, 
in  which  all  the  college  property  was  destroyed. 
Another  change  of  location  was  made  in  1874. 
In  1890  the  property  then  owned  was  sold  and  a 
new  college  building,  in  connection  with  a  hos- 
pital, erected  in  a  more  quiet  quarter  of  the  city. 
A  free  dispensary  is  conducted  by  the  college. 
The  teaching  faculty  (1896)  consists  of  nineteen 
professors,  with  four  assistants  and  demonstra- 
tors. Women  are  admitted  as  pupils  on  equal 
terms  with  men. 

BENT,  Charles,  journalist,  was  born  in  Chi- 
cago, Dec.  8,  1844,  but  removed  with  his  family, 
in  1856,  to  Morrison,  Whiteside  County,  where, 
two  years  later,  he  became  an  apprentice  to  the 
printing  business  in  the  office  of  "The  Whiteside 
Sentinel."  In  June,  1864,  he  enlisted  as  a  soldier 


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in  the  One  Hundred  and  Fortieth  Illinois  (100- 
days'  regiment)  and,  on  the  expiration  of  his  term 
of  service,  re-enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred  and 
Forty -seventh  Illinois,  being  mustered  out  at 
Savannah,  Ga.,  in  January,  1866,  with  the  rank 
of  Second  Lieutenant.  Then  resuming  his  voca- 
tion as  a  printer,  in  July,  1867,  he  purchased  the 
office  of  "The  Whiteside  Sentinel,"  in  which  he 
learned  his  trade,  and  has  since  been  the  editor  of 
that  paper,  except  during  1877-79  while  engaged 
in  writing  a  "History  of  Whiteside  County." 
He  is  a  charter  member  of  the  local  Grand  Army 
Post  and  served  on  the  staff  of  the  Department 
Commander ;  was  Assistant  Assessor  of  Internal 
Revenue  during  1870-73,  and,  in  1878,  was  elected 
as  a  Republican  to  the  State  Senate  for  White- 
side  and  Carroll  Counties,  serving  four  years. 
Other  positions  held  by  him  include  the  office  of 
City  Alderman,  member  of  the  State  Board  of 
Canal  Commissioners  (1883-85)  and  Commissioner 
of  the  Joliet  Penitentiary  (1889-93),  member  of 
the  Republican  State  Central  Committee  and  (1911) 
is  serving  as  U.  S.  Pension  Agent. 

BENTOiV,  county  seat  of  Franklin  County,  on 
111.  Cent,  and  Chi.  &  E.  111.  railroads;  has  electric- 
light  plant,  water-works,  saddle  and  harness  fac- 
tory, two  banks,  two  flouring  mills,  shale  brick  and 
tile  works,  extensive  coal  mines  in  vicinity;  has  two 
weekly  papers.  Pop.  (1900),  1,341;  (1910),  2,675. 

BERDAN,  James,  lawyer  and  County  Judge, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  July  4,  1805,  and 
educated  at  Columbia  and  Yale  Colleges,  gradu- 
ating from  the  latter  in  the  class  of  1824.  His 
father,  James  Berdan,  Sr. ,  came  west  in  the  fall 
of  1819  as  one  of  the  agents  of  a  New  York 
Emigration  Society,  and,  in  January,  1820,  visited 
the  vicinity  of  the  present  site  of  Jacksonville, 
111.,  but  died  soon  after  his  return,  in  part  from 
exposure  incurred  during  his  long  and  arduous 
winter  journey.  Thirteen  years  later  (1832)  his 
son,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  came  to  the  same 
region,  and  Jacksonville  became  his  home  for  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  Mr.  Berdan  was  a  well- 
read  lawyer,  as  well  as  a  man  of  high  principle 
and  sound  culture,  with  pure  literary  and  social 
tastes.  Although  possessing  unusual  capabilities, 
his  refinement  of  character  and  dislike  of  osten- 
tation made  him  seek  rather  the  association  and 
esteem  of  friends  than  public  office.  In  1849  he 
was  elected  County  Judge  of  Morgan  County, 
serving  by  a  second  election  until  1857.  Later 
he  was  Secretary  for  several  years  of  the  Tonica 
&  Petersburg  Railroad  (at  that  time  in  course  of 
construction),  serving  until  it  was  merged  into 
the  St.  Louis,  Jacksonville  &  Chicago  Railroad, 


now  constituting  a  part  of  the  Jacksonville  di- 
vision of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad;  also 
served  for  many  years  as  a  Trustee  of  Illinois 
College.  In  the  latter  years  of  his  life  he  was,  for 
a  considerable  period,  the  law  partner  of  ex-Gov- 
ernor and  ex-Senator  Richard  Yates.  Judge 
Berdan  was  the  ardent  political  friend  and 
admirer  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  as  well  as  an  inti- 
mate friend  and  frequent  correspondent  of  the 
poet  Longfellow,  besides  being  the  correspondent, 
during  a  long  period  of  his  life,  of  a  number  of 
other  prominent  literary  men.  Pierre  Irving, 
the  nephew  and  biographer  of  Washington  Irving, 
was  his  brother-in-law  through  the  marriage  of  a 
favorite  sister.  Judge  Berdan  died  at  Jackson- 
ville, August  24,  1884. 

BERGEN,  (Rev.)  John  G.,  pioneer  clergyman, 
was  born  at  Hightstown,  N.  J.,  Nov.  27,  1790; 
studied  theology,  and,  after  two  years'  service  as 
tutor  at  Princeton  and  sixteen  years  as  pastor  of 
a  Presbyterian  church  at  Madison,  N.  J.,  in  1828 
came  to  Springfield,  111.,  and  assisted  in  the 
erection  of  the  first  Protestant  church  in  the 
central  part  of  the  State,  of  which  he  remained 
pastor  until  1848.  Died,  at  Springfield,  Jan. 
17,  1872. 

BERGGREN,  Augustus  W.,  legislator,  born  in 
Sweden,  August  17,  1840;  came  to  the  United 
States  at  16  years  of  age  and  located  at  Oneida, 
Knox  County,  111. ,  afterwards  removing  to  Gales- 
burg;  held  various  offices,  including  that  of 
Sheriff  of  Knox  County  (1873-81),  State  Senator 
(1881-89) — serving  as  President  pro  tern,  of  the 
Senate  1887-89,  and  was  Warden  of  the  State 
penitentiary  at  Joliet,  1888-91.  He  was  for  many 
years  the  very  able  and  efficient  President  of  the 
Covenant  Mutual  Life  Association  of  Illinois,  and 
is  now  its  Treasurer. 

BERGIER,  (Rev.)  J,  a  secular  priest,  born  in 
France,  and  an  early  missionary  in  Illinois.  He 
labored  among  the  Tamaroas,  being  in  charge  of  the 
mission  at  Cahokia  from  1700  to  his  death  in  1710. 

BERRY,  Orville  F.,  lawyer  and  legislator,  was 
born  in  McDonough  County,  111.,  Feb.  16,  1852; 
earl}'  left  an  orphan  and,  after  working  for  some 
time  on  a  farm,  removed  to  Carthage,  Hancock 
County,  where  he  read  law  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1877;  in  1883  was  elected  Mayor  of 
Carthage  and  twice  re-elected ;  was  elected  to  the 
State  Senate  in  1888  and  '92,  and,  in  1891,  took  a 
prominent  part  in  securing  the  enactment  of  the 
compulsory  education  clause  in  the  common 
school  law.  Mr.  Berry  presided  over  the  Repub- 
lican State  Convention  of  1896,  the  same  year  was 
a  candidate  for  re-election  to  the  State  Senate, 


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but  the  certificate  was  awarded  to  his  Democratic 
competitor,  who  was  declared  elected  by  164 
plurality.  On  a  contest  before  the  Senate  at  the 
first  session  of  the  Fortieth  General  Assembly, 
the  seat  was  awarded  to  Mr.  Berry  on  the  ground 
of  illegality  in  the  rulings  of  the  Secretary  of 
State  affecting  the  vote  of  his  opponent. 

BERRY,  (Col.)  William  W.,  lawyer  and.  sol- 
dier, was  born  in  Kentucky,  Feb.  22,  1834,  and 
educated  at  Oxford,  Ohio.  His  home  being  then 
in  Covington,  he  studied  law  in  Cincinnati,  and, 
at  the  age  of  23,  began  practice  at  Louisville,  Ky., 
being  married  two  years  later  to  Miss  Georgie 
Hewitt  of  Frankfort.  Early  in  1861  he  entered 
the  Civil  War  on  the  Union  side  as  Major  of  the 
Louisville  Legion,  and  subsequently  served  in 
the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  marching  to  the 
sea  with  Sherman  and,  during  the  period  of  his 
service,  receiving  four  wounds.  After  the  close 
of  the  war  he  was  offered  the  position  of  Gov- 
ernor of  one  of  the  Territories,  but,  determining 
not  to  go  further  west  than  Illinois,  declined. 
For  three  years  he  was  located  and  in  practice  at 
Winchester,  111.,  but  removed  to  Quincy  in  1874, 
where  he  afterwards  resided.  He  always  took  a 
warm  interest  in  politics  and,  in  local  affairs, 
was  a  leader  of  his  party.  He  was  an  organizer  of 
the  G.  A.  R.  Post  at  Quincy  and  its  first  Com- 
mander, and,  in  1884-85,  served  as  Commander  of 
the  State  Department  of  the  G.  A.  R.  He  organ- 
ized a  Young  Men's  Republican  Club,  as  he 
believed  that  the  young  minds  should  take  an 
active  part  in  politics.  He  was  one  of  the  com- 
mittee of  seven  appointed  by  the  Governor  to 
locate  the  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home  for  Illinois, 
and,  after  spending  six  months  inspecting  vari- 
ous sites  offered,  the  institution  was  finally 
located  at  Quincy;  was  also  Trustee  of  Knox 
College,  at  Galesburg,  for  several  years.  He  was 
frequently  urged  by  his  party  friends  to  run  for 
public  office,  but  it  was  so  much  against  his 
nature  to  ask  for  even  one  vote,  that  he  would 
not  consent.  He  died  at  his  home  in  Quincy, 
much  regretted,  May  6,  1895. 

BESTOR,  George  C.,  legislator,  born  in  Wash- 
ington City,  April  11,  1811;  was  assistant  docu- 
ment clerk  in  the  House  of  Representatives  eight 
years;  came  to  Illinois  in  1835  and  engaged  in 
real-estate  business  at  Peoria;  was  twice  ap- 
pointed Postmaster  of  that  city  (1842  and  1861) 
and  three  times  elected  Mayor ;  served  as  finan- 
cial agent  of  the  Peoria  &  Oquawka  (now  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad),  and  a  Director  of 
the  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Warsaw ;  a  delegate  to  the 
Whig  National  Convention  of  1852;  a  State 


Senator  (1858-62),  and  an  ardent  friend  of  Abra- 
ham  Lincoln.     Died,    in    Washington,  May  14, 

1872,  while    prosecuting  a    claim    against    the 
Government  for  the    construction  of    gunboats 
during  the  war. 

BERWYJf,  a  city  (suburb  of  Chicago)  on  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  and  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral Railroads;  is  a  popular  residence  section;  has 
one  local  paper.  Pop.  (1910),  5,841. 

BETHANY,  a  village  of  Moultrie  County,  on 
Peoria  Division  111.  Cent.  Railroad,  18  miles  south- 
east of  Decatur ;  in  farming  district ;  has  one  news- 
paper and  four  churches.  Pop. ,  mostly  American 
born,  (1890),  688;  (1900),  873;  (1910),  859. 

BETTIE  STUART  INSTITUTE,  an  institu- 
tion for  young  ladies  at  Springfield,  111.,  founded 
in  1868  by  Mrs.  Mary  McKee  Homes,  who  con- 
ducted it  for  some  twenty  years,  until  her  death. 
Its  report  for  1898  shows  a  faculty  of  ten  instruct- 
ors and  125  pupils.  Its  property  is  valued  at 
$23,500.  Its  course  of  instruction  embraces  the 
preparatory  and  classical  branches,  together  with 
music,  oratory  and  fine  arts. 

BEVERIDGE,  James  H.,  State  Treasurer, 
was  born  in  Washington  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1828; 
served  as  State  Treasurer,  1865-67,  later  acted  as 
Secretary  of  the  Commission  which  built  the 
State  Capitol.  His  later  years  were  spent  in 
superintending  a  large  dairy  farm  near  Sandwich, 
De  Kalb  County,  where  he  died  in  January,  1896. 

BEVERIDGE,  John  L.,  ex-Governor,  was  born 
in  Greenwich.  N.  Y.,  July  6,  1824;  came  to  Illi- 
nois, 1842,  and,  after  spending  some  two  years  in 
Granville  Academy  and  Rock  River  Seminary, 
went  to  Tennessee,  where  he  engaged  in  teaching 
while  studying  law.  Having  been  admitted  to 
the  bar,  he  returned  to  Illinois  in  1851,  first  locat- 
ing at  Sycamore,  but  three  years  later  established 
himself  in  Chicago.  During  the  first  year  of  the 
war  he  assisted  to  raise  the  Eighth  Regiment  Illi- 
nois Cavalry,  and  was  commissioned  first  as  Cap- 
tain and  still  later  Major;  two  years  later 
became  Colonel  of  the  Seventeenth  Cavalry, 
which  he  commanded  to  the  close  of  the  'war, 
being  mustered  out,  February,  1866,  with  the 
rank  of  brevet  Brigadier-General.  After  the  war 
he  held  the  office  of  Sheriff  of  Cook  County  four 
years;  in  1870  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate, 
and,  in  the  following  year,  Congressman-at-large 
to  succeed  General  Logan,  elected  to  the  United 
States  Senate;  resigned  this  office  in  January, 

1873,  having  been  elected  Lieutenant-Governor, 
and  a  few  weeks  later  succeeded  to  the  govern- 
orship by  the  election  of  Governor  Oglesby  to  fhe 
United  States  Senate.    In  1881  he  was  appointed. 


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by  President  Arthur,  Assistant  United  States 
Treasurer  for  Chicago,  serving  until  after  Cleve- 
land's first  election.  His  last  home  was  near  Los 
Angeles,  Cal.,  where  he  died  May  3,  1910. 

BIENVILLE,  Jean  Baptiste  le  Moyne,  Slenr 
de,  was  borii  at  Montreal,  Canada,  Feb.  23,  1680, 
and  was  the  French  Governor  of  Louisiana  at  the 
time  the  Illinois  country  was  included  in  that 
province.  He  had  several  brothers,  a  number  of 
whom  played  important  parts  in  the  early  history 
of  the  province.  Bienville  first  visited  Louisi- 
ana, in  company  with  his  brother  Iberville,  in 
1698,  their  object  being  to  establish  a  French 
colony  near  the  mouth  of  the  Mississippi.  The 
first  settlement  was  made  at  Biloxi,  Dec.  6,  1699, 
and  Sanvolle,  another  brother,  was  placed  in 
charge.  The  latter  was  afterward  made  Governor 
of  Louisiana,  and,  at  his  death  (1701),  he  was 
succeeded  by  Bienville,  who  transferred  the  seat 
of  government  to  Mobile.  lu  1704  he  was  joined 
by  his  brother  Chateaugay,  who  brought  seven- 
teen settlers  from  Canada.  Soon  afterwards 
Iberville  died,  and  Bienville  was  recalled  to 
France  in  1707,  but  was  reinstated  the  following 
year.  Finding  the  Indians  worthless  as  tillers  of 
the  soil,  he  seriously  suggested  to  the  home  gov- 
ernment the  expediency  of  trading  off  the  copper- 
colored  aborigines  for  negroes  from  the  West 
Indies,  three  Indians  to  be  reckoned  as  equiva- 
lent to  two  blacks.  In  1713  Cadillac  was  sent  out 
as  Governor,  Bienville  being  made  Lieutenant- 
Governor.  The  two  quarreled.  Cadillac  was 
superseded  by  Epinay  in  1717,  and,  in  1718,  Law's 
first  expedition  arrived  (see  Company  of  the 
West),  and  brought  a  Governor's  commission  for 
Bienville.  The  latter  soon  after  founded  New 
Orleans,  which  became  the  seat  of  government 
for  the  province  (which  then  included  Illinois),  in 
1723.  In  January,  1724,  he  was  again  summoned 
to  France  to  answer  charges;  was  removed  in 
disgrace  in  1726,  but  reinstated  in  1733  and  given 
the  rank  of  Lieutenant-General.  Failing  in  vari- 
ous expeditions  against  the  Chickasaw  Indians, 
he  was  again  superseded  in  1743,  returning  to 
France,  where  he  died  in  1768. 

BIGGS,  William,  pioneer,  Judge  and  legislator, 
was  born  in  Maryland  in  1753,  enlisted  in  the 
Revolutionary  army,  and  served  as  an  officer 
under  Colonel  George  Rogers  Clark  in  the  expe- 
dition for  the  capture  of  Illinois  from  the  British 
in  1778.  He  settled  in  Bellefontaine  (now  Monroe 
County)  soon  after  the  close  of  the  war.  He  was 
Sheriff  of  St.  Clair  County  for  many  years,  and 
later  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  Judge  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas.  He  also  represented  his 


county  in  the  Territorial  Legislatures  of  In- 
diana and  Illinois.  Died,  in  St.  Clair  County, 
in  1827. 

BIGGSVILLE,  a  village  of  Henderson  County, 
on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad, 
15  miles  northeast  of  Burlington ;  has  a  bank  and 
one  newspaper  and  a  brick  yard;  considerable  grain 
and  live-stock  are  shipped  here.  Population  (1890), 
487;  (1900),  417;  (1910),  400. 

BIG  MUDDY  RIVER,  a  stream  formed  by  the 
union  of  two  branches  which  rise  in  Jefferson 
County.  It  runs  south  and  southwest  through 
Franklin  and  Jackson  Counties,  and  enters  the 
Mississippi  about  five  miles  below  Grand  Tower. 
Its  length  is  estimated  at  140  miles. 

BILLINGS,  Albert  Merritt,  capitalist,  was 
born  in  New  Hampshire,  April  19,  1814,  educated 
in  the  common  schools  of  his  native  State  and 
Vermont,  and,  at  the  age  of  22,  became  Sheriff  of 
Windsor  County,  Vt.,  Later  he  was  proprietor 
for  a  time  of  the  mail  stage-coach  line  between 
Concord,  N.  H. ,  and  Boston,  but,  having  sold  out, 
invested  his  means  in  the  securities  of  the  Chi- 
cago, Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway  and  became 
identified  with  the  business  interests  of  Chicago. 
In  the  '50's  he  became  associated  with  Cornelius 
K.  Garrison  in  the  People's  Gas  Company  of  Chi- 
cago, of  which  he  served  as  President  from  1859 
to  1888.  In  1890  Mr.  Billings  became  extensively 
interested  in  the  street  railway  enterprises  of  Mr. 
C.  B.  Holmes,  resulting  in  his  becoming  the  pro- 
prietor of  the  street  railway  system  at  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  valued,  in  1897,  at  $3,000,000.  In  early 
life  he  had  been  associated  with  Commodore 
Vanderbilt  in  the  operation  of  the  Hudson  River 
steamboat  lines  of  the  latter.  In  addition  to  his 
other  business  enterprises,  he  was  principal 
owner  and,  during  the  last  twenty-five  years  of 
his  life,  President  of  the  Home  National  and 
Home  Savings  Banks  of  Chicago.  Died,  Feb.  7, 
1897,  leaving  an  estate  valued  at  several  millions 
of  dollars. 

BILLINGS,  Henry  W.,  was  born  at  Conway, 
Mass.,  July  11,  1814,  graduated  at  Amherst  Col- 
lege at  twenty  years  of  age,  and  began  the  study 
of  law  with  Judge  Foote,  of  Cleveland,  Ohio,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  two  years  later  and  practiced 
there  some  two  years  longer.  He  then  removed 
to  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  later  resided  for  a  time  at 
Waterloo  and  Cairo,  111.,  but,  in  1845,  settled  at 
Alton;  was  elected  Mayor  of  that  city  in  1851, 
and  the  first  Judge  of  the  newly  organized  City 
Court,  in  1859,  serving  in  this  position  six  years. 
In  1869  he  was  elected  a  Delegate  from  Madison 
County  to  the  State  Constitutional  Convention  of 


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1869-70,  but  died  before  the  expiration  of  the  ses- 
sion, on  April  19,  1870. 

BIRKBECK,  Morris,  early  colonist,  was  born 
in  England  about  1762  or  1763,  emigrated  to 
America  in  1817,  and  settled  in  Edwards  County, 
111.  He  purchased  a  large  tract  of  land  and  in- 
duced a  large  colony  of  English  artisans,  laborers 
and  farmers  to  settle  upon  the  same,  founding 
the  town  of  New  Albion.  He  was  an  active,  un- 
compromising opponent  of  slavery,  and  was  an 
important  factor  in  defeating  the  scheme  to  make 
Illinois  a  slave  State.  He  was  appointed  Secre- 
tary of  State  by  Governor  Coles  in  October,  1824, 
but  resigned  at  the  end  of  three  months,  a  hostile 
Legislature  having  refused  to  confirm  him.  A 
strong  writer  and  a  frequent  contributor  to  the 
press,  his  letters  and  published  works  attracted 
attention  both  in  this  country  and  in  Europe. 
Principal  among  the  latter  were:  "Notes  on  a 
Journey  Through  France"  (1815);  "Notes  on  a 
Journey  Through  America"  (1818),  and  "Letters 
from  Illinois"  (1818).  Died  from  drowning  in 
1825,  aged  about  63  years.  (See  Slavery  and 
Slave  Laws.) 

BISSELL,  William  H.,  first  Republican  Gov- 
ernor of  Illinois,  was  born  near  Cooperstown, 
N.  Y.,  on  April  25,  1811,  graduated  in  medicine  at 
Philadelphia  in  1835,  and,  after  practicing  a  short 
time  in  Steuben  County,  N.  Y.,  removed  to  Mon- 
roe County,  111.  In  1840  he  was  elected  a  Repre- 
sentative in  the  General  Assembly,  where  he  soon 
attained  high  rank  as  a  debater.  He  studied  law 
and  practiced  in  Belleville,  St.  Clair  County,  be- 
coming Prosecuting  Attorney  for  that  county  in 
1844.  He  served  as  Colonel  of  the  Second  Illinois 
Volunteers  during  the  Mexican  War,  and  achieved 
distinction  at  Buena  Vista.  He  represented  Illi- 
nois in  Congress  from  1849  to  1855,  being  first 
elected  as  an  Independent  Democrat.  On  the  pas- 
sage of  the  Kansas-Nebraska  Bill,  he  left  the  Demo- 
cratic party  and,  in  1856,  was  elected  Governor  on 
the  Republican  ticket.  While  in  Congress  he  was 
challenged  by  Jefferson  Davis  after  an  inter- 
change of  heated  words  respecting  the  relative 
courage  of  Northern  and  Southern  soldiers, 
spoken  in  debate.  Bissell  accepted  the  challenge, 
naming  muskets  at  thirty  paces.  Mr.  Davis's 
friends  objected,  and  the  duel  never  occurred. 
Died  in  office,  at  Springfield,  111.,  March  18,  1860. 

BLACK,  John  Charles,  lawyer  and  soldier, 
born  at  Lexington,  Miss.,  Jan.  29,  1839,  at  eight 
years  of  age  came  with  his  widowed  mother  to 
Illinois ;  while  a  student  at  Wabash  College,  Ind., 
in  April,  1861,  enlisted  in  the  Union  army,  serv- 
ing gallantly  and  with  distinction  until  Aug.  15, 


1865,  when,  as  Colonel  of  the  37th  111.  Vol.  Inf.,  he 
retired  with  the  rank  of  BrevetBrigadier-General ; 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1857,  and  after  practic- 
ing at  Danville,  Champaign  and  Urbana,  in  1885 
was  appointed  Commissioner  of  Pensions,  serving 
until  1889,  when  he  removed  to  Chicago;  served  as 
Congressman-at-large  ( 1893-95),  and  U.  S.  District 
Attorney  (1895-99);  Commander  of  the  Loyal 
Legion  and  of  the  G.  A.  R.  (Department  of 
Illinois);  was  elected  Commander-in-Chief  of  the 
Grand  Army  at  the  Grand  Encampment,  1903. 
Gen.  Black  received  the  honorary  degree  of  A.M. 
from  his  Alma  Mater  and  that  of  LL.  D.  from  Knox 
College;  in  January,  1904,  was  appointed  by 
President  Roosevelt  member  of  the  U.  S.  Civil 
Service  Commission,  and  chosen  its  President. 

BLACKBURN  UNIVERSITY,  located  at  Car- 
linville,  Macoupin  County.  It  owes  its  origin  to 
the  efforts  of  Dr.  Gideon  Blackburn,  who,  having 
induced  friends  in  the  East  to  unite  with  him  in 
the  purchase  of  Illinois  lands  at  Government 
price,  in  1837  conveyed  16,656  acres  of  these 
lands,  situated  in  ten  different  counties,  in  trust 
for  the  founding  of  an  institution  of  learning, 
intended  particularly  "to  qualify  young  men  for 
the  gospel  ministry."  The  citizens  of  Carlinville 
donated  funds  wherewith  to  purchase  eighty 
acres  of  land,  near  that  city,  as  a  site,  which  was 
included  in  the  deed  of  trust.  The  enterprise 
lay  dormant  for  many  years,  and  it  was  not  until 
1857  that  the  institution  was  formally  incorpo- 
rated, and  ten  years  later  it  was  little  more  than 
a  high  school,  giving  one  course  of  instruction 
considered  particularly  adapted  to  prospective 
students  of  theology.  At  present  (1898)  there 
are  about  110  students  in  attendance,  a  faculty 
of  twelve  instructors,  and  a  theological,  as  well  as 
preparatory  and  collegiate  departments.  The 
institution  owns  property  valued  at  $110,000,  of 
which  $50,000  is  represented  by  real  estate  and 
$40,000  by  endowment  funds. 

BLACK  HAWK,  a  Chief  of  the  Sac  tribe  of 
Indians,  reputed  to  have  been  born  at  Kaskaskia 
in  1767.  (It  is  also  claimed  that  he  was  born  on 
Rock  River,  as  well  as  within  the  present  limits 
of  Hancock  County.)  Conceiving  that  his  people 
had  been  wrongfully  despoiled  of  lands  belonging 
to  them,  in  1832  he  inaugurated  what  is  com- 
monly known  as  the  Black  Hawk  War.  His 
Indian  name  was  Makabaimishekiakiak,  signify- 
ing Black  Sparrow  Hawk.  He  was  ambitious,  but 
susceptible  to  flattery,  and  while  having  many  of 
the  qualities  of  leadership,  was  lacking  in  moral 
force.  He  was  always  attached  to  British  inter- 
ests, and  unquestionably  received  British  aid  of  a 


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substantial  sort.  After  his  defeat  he  was  made 
the  ward  of  Keokuk,  another  Chief,  which 
humiliation  of  his  pride  broke  his  heart.  He  died 
on  a  reservation  set  apart  for  him  in  Iowa,  in 
1838,  aged  71.  His  body  is  said  to  have  been 
exhumed  nine  months  after  death,  and  his  articu- 
lated skeleton  is  alleged  to  have  been  preserved 
in  the  rooms  of  the  Burlington  (la.)  Historical 
Society  until  1855,  when  it  was  destroyed  by  fire. 
(See  also  Black  Hawk  War:  Appendix.) 

BLACKSTONE,  Timothy  B.,  Railway  Presi- 
dent, was  born  at  Branford,  Conn.,  March  28, 
1829.  After  receiving  a  common  school  educa- 
tion, supplemented  by  a  course  in  a  neighboring 
academy,  at  18  he  began  the  practical  study  of 
engineering  in  a  corps  employed  by  the  New 
York  &  New  Hampshire  Railway  Company,  and 
the  same  year  became  assistant  engineer  on  the 
Stockbridge  &  Pittsfield  Railway.  While  thus 
employed  he  applied  himself  diligently  to  the 
study  of  the  theoretical  science  of  engineering, 
and,  on  coming  to  Illinois  in  1851,  was  qualified 
to  accept  and  fill  the  position  of  division  engineer 
(from  Bloomington  to  Dixon)  on  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral Railway.  On  the  completion  of  the  main 
line  of  that  road  in  1855,  he  was  appointed  Chief 
Engineer  of  the  Joliet  &  Chicago  Railroad,  later 
becoming  financially  interested  therein,  .and 
being  chosen  President  of  the  corporation  on  the 
completion  of  the  line.  In  January,  1864,  the 
Chicago  &  Joliet  was  leased  in  perpetuity  to  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad  Company.  Mr.  Black- 
stone  then  became  a  Director  in  the  latter  organi- 
zation and,  in  April  following,  was  chosen  its 
President.  This  office  he  filled  uninterruptedly 
until  April  1,1899,  when  the  road  passed  into  the 
hands  of  a  syndicate  of  other  lines.  He  was  also 
one  of  the  original  incorporators  of  the  Union 
Stock  Yards  Company,  and  was  its  President  from 
1864  to  1868.  His  career  as  a  railroad  man  was  con- 
spicuous for  its  long  service,  the  uninterrupted 
success  of  his  management  of  the  enterprises 
entrusted  to  his  hands  and  his  studious  regard  for 
the  interests  of  stockholders.  This  was  illustrated 
by  the  fact  that,  for  some  thirty  years,  the  Chicago 
&  Alton  Railroad  paid  dividends  on  its  preferred 
and  common  stock,  ranging  from  6  to  8X  percent 
per  annum,  and,  on  disposing  of  his  stock  conse- 
quent on  the  transfer  of  the  line  to  a  new  corpora- 
tion in  1899,  Mr.  Blackstone  rejected  offers  for  his 
stock — aggregating  nearly  one-third  of  the  whole 
—which  would  have  netted  him  $1,000,000  in 
excess  of  the  amount  received,  because  he  was 
unwilling  to  use  his  position  to  reap  an  advantage 
over  smaller  stockholders.  Died,  May  21,  1900. 


BLACKWELL,  Robert  S.,  lawyer,  was  born 
at  Belleville,  111.,  in  1823.  He  belonged  to  a 
prominent  family  in  the  early  history  of  the 
State,  his  father,  David  Blackwell,  who  was  also 
a  lawyer  and  settled  in  Belleville  about  1819, 
having  been  a  member  of  the  Second  General 
Assembly  (1820)  from  St.  Glair  County,  and  also 
of  the  Fourth  and  Fifth.  In  April,  1823,  he  was 
appointed  by  Governor  Coles  Secretary  of  State, 
succeeding  Judge  Samuel  D.  Lockwood,  after- 
wards a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  who  had 
just  received  from  President  Monroe  the  appoint- 
ment of  Receiver  of  Public  Moneys  at  the 
Edwardsville  Land  Office.  Mr.  Blackwell  served 
in  the  Secretary's  office  to  October,  1824,  during 
a  part  of  the  time  acting  as  editor  of  "The  Illinois 
Intelligencer,"  which  had  been  removed  from 
Kaskaskia  to  Vandalia,  and  in  which  he  strongly 
opposed  the  policy  of  making  Illinois  a  slave 
State.  He  finally  died  in  Belleville.  Robert 
Blackwell,  a  brother  of  David  and  the  uncle  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  joint  owner  with 
Daniel  P.  Cook,  of  "The  Illinois  Herald" — after- 
wards "The  Intelligencer''  —  at  Kaskaskia,  in 
1816,  and  in  April,  1817,  succeeded  Cook  in  the 
office  of  Territorial  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts, 
being  himself  succeeded  by  Elijah  C.  Berry,  who 
had  become  his  partner  on  "The  Intelligencer," 
and  served  as  Auditor  until  the  organization  of 
the  State  Government  in  1818.  Blackwell  &  Berry 
were  chosen  State  Printers  after  the  removal  of 
the  State  capital  to  Vandalia  in  1820,  serving  in 
this  capacity  for  some  years.  Robert  Blackwell 
located  at  Vaudalia  and  served  as  a  member  of 
the  House  from  Fayette  County  in  the  Eighth 
and  Ninth  General  Assemblies  (1832-36)  and  in 
the  Senate,  1840-42.  Robert  S.— the  son  of  David, 
and  the  younger  member  of  this  somewhat 
famous  and  historic  family — whose  name  stands  at 
the  head  of  this  paragraph,  attended  the  common 
schools  at  Belleville  in  his  boyhood,  but  in  early 
manhood  removed  to  Galena,  where  he  engaged 
in  mercantile  pursuits.  He  later  studied  law 
with  Hon.  O.  H.  Browning  at  Quincy,  beginning 
practice  at  Rushville,  where  he  was  associated 
for  a  time  with  Judge  Minshall.  In  1852  he 
removed  to  Chicago,  having  for  his  first  partner 
Corydon  Beckwith,  afterwards  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  still  later  being  associated  with  a  number 
of  prominent  lawyers  of  that  day.  He  is  de- 
scribed by  his  biographers  as  "an  able  lawyer,  an 
eloquent  advocate  and  a  brilliant  scholar." 
"Blackwell  on  Tax  Titles,"  from  his  pen,  has  been 
accepted  by  the  profession  as  a  high  authority  on 
that  branch  of  law.  He  also  published  a  revision 


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of  the  Statutes  in  1858,  and  began  an  "Abstract 
of  Decisions  of  the  Supreme  Court,"  which  had 
reached  the  third  or  fourth  volume  at  his  death, 
May  16,  1863. 

BLAIR,  William,  merchant,  was  born  at 
Homer,  Cortland  County,  N.  Y.,  May  20,  1818, 
being  descended  through  five  generations  of  New 
England  ancestors.  After  attending  school  in 
the  town  of  Cortland,  which  became  his  father's 
residence,  at  the  age  of  14  he  obtained  employ- 
ment in  a  stove  and  hardware  store,  four  years 
later  (1836)  coming  to  Joliet,  111.,  to  take  charge 
of  a  branch  store  which  the  firm  had  established 
there.  The  next  year  he  purchased  the  stock  and 
continued  the  business  on  his  own  account.  In 
August,  1842,  he  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he 
established  the  earliest  and  one  of  the  most 
extensive  wholesale  hardware  concerns  in  that 
city,  with  which  he  remained  connected  nearly 
fifty  years.  During  this  period  he  was  associated 
with  various  partners,  including  C.  B.  Nelson, 
E.  G.  Hall,  O.  W.  Belden,  James  H.  Horton  and 
others,  besides,  at  times,  conducting  the  business 
alone.  He  suffered  by  the  fire  of  1871  in  common 
with  other  business  men  of  Chicago,  but  promptly 
resumed  business  and,  within  the  next  two  or 
three  years,  had  erected  business  blocks,  succes- 
sively, on  Lake  and  Randolph  Streets,  but  retired 
from  business  in  1888.  He  was  a  Director  of  the 
Merchants'  National  Bank  of  Chicago  from  its 
organization  in  1865,  as  also  for  a  time  of  the 
Atlantic  &  Pacific  Telegraph  Company  and  the 
Chicago  Gaslight  &  Coke  Company,  a  Trustee  of 
Lake  Forest  University,  one  of  the  Managers  of 
the  Presbyterian  Hospital  and  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  Historical  Society.  Died  in  Chicago, 
May  10,  1899. 

BLAKELT,  David,  journalist,  was  born  in 
Franklin  County,  Vt.,  in  1834;  learned  the  print- 
er's trade  and  graduated  from  the  University  of 
Vermont  in  1857.  He  was  a  member  of  a  musical 
family  which,  under  the  name  of  "The  Blakely 
Family,"  made  several  successful  tours  of  the 
West.  He  engaged  in  journalism  at  Rochester, 
Minn.,  and,  in  1862,  was  elected  Secretary  of 
State  and  ex-officio  Superintendent  of  Schools, 
serving  until  1865,  when  he  resigned  and,  in 
partnership  with  a  brother,  bought  "The  Chicago 
Evening  Post,"  with  which  he  was  connected  at 
the  time  of  the  great  fire  and  for  some  time  after- 
ward. Later,  he  returned  to  Minnesota  and 
became  one  of  the  proprietors  and  a  member  of 
the  editorial  staff  of  "The  St.  Paul  Pioneer-Press." 
In  his  later  years  Mr.  Blakely  was  President  of 
the  Blakely  Printing  Company,  of  Chicago,  also 


conducting  a  large  printing  business  in  New 
York,  which  was  his  residence.  He  was  manager 
for  several  years  of  the  celebrated  Gilmore  Band 
of  musicians,  and  also  instrumental  in  organizing 
the  celebrated  Sousa's  Band,  of  which  he  was 
manager  iip  to  the  time  of  his  decease  in  New 
York,  Nov.  7,  1896. 

BLAKEMAN,  Curtiss,  sea-captain,  and  pioneer 
settler,  came  from  New  England  to  Madison 
County,  111.,  in  1819,  and  settled  in  what  was 
afterwards  known  as  the  "Marine  Settlement,"  of 
which  he  was  one  of  the  founders.  This  settle- 
ment, of  which  the  present  town  of  Marine  (first 
called  Madison)  was  the  outcome,  took  its  name 
from  the  fact  that  several  of  the  early  settlers,  like 
Captain  Blakeman,  were  sea-faring  men.  Captain 
Blakeman  became  a  prominent  citizen  and  repre- 
sented Madison  County  in  the  lower  branch  of 
the  Third  and  Fourth  General  Assemblies  (1822 
and  1824),  in  the  former  being  one  of  the  opponents 
of  the  pro-slavery  amendment  of  the  Constitution. 
A  son  of  his,  of  the  same  name,  was  a  Represent- 
ative in  the  Thirteenth,  Fifteenth  and  Sixteenth 
General  Assemblies  from  Madison  County. 

BLAJfCHARD,  Jonathan,  clergyman  and  edu 
cator,  was  born  in  Rockingham,  Vt.,  Jan.  19, 
1811;  graduated  at  Middlebury  College  in  1832; 
then,  after  teaching  some  time,  spent  two  years 
in  Andover  Theological  Seminary,  finally  gradu- 
ating in  theology  at  Lane  Seminary,  Cincinnati, 
in  1838,  where  he  remained  nine  years  as  pastor 
of  the  Sixth  Presbyterian  Church  of  that  city. 
Before  this  time  he  had  become  interested  in 
various  reforms,  and,  in  1843,  was  sent  as  a 
delegate  to  the  second  World's  Anti-Slavery 
Convention  in  London,  serving  as  the  American 
Vice- President  of  that  body.  In  1846  he  assumed 
the  Presidency  of  Knox  College  at  Galesburg, 
remaining  until  1858,  during  his  connection 
with  that  institution  doing  much  to  increase  its 
capacity  and  resources.  After  two  years  spent  in 
pastoral  work,  he  accepted  (1860)  the  Presidency 
of  Wheaton  College,  which  he  continued  to  fill 
until  1882,  when  he  was  chosen  President  Emer- 
itus, remaining  in  this  position  until  his  death, 
May  14,  1892. 

BLAJTDINSYILLE,  a  town  in  McDonough 
County,  on  the  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Warsaw  Rail- 
road, 26  miles  southeast  of  Burlington,  Iowa,  and 
64  miles  west  by  south  from  Peoria.  It  is  a  ship- 
ping point  for  the  grain  grown  in  the  surround- 
ing country,  and  has  a  grain  elevatoi  and  steam 
flour  and  saw  mills.  It  also  has  banks,  onf  weekly 
newspaper  and  several  churches.  Population 
(1890),  877;  (1900),  995;  (1910),  987. 


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BLANEY,  Jerome  Van  Zandt,  early  physician, 
born  at  Newcastle,  Del.,  May  1,  1820;  was  edu- 
cated at  Princeton  and  graduated  in  medicine  at 
Philadelphia  when  too  young  to  receive  his 
diploma ;  in  1842  came  west  and  joined  Dr.  Daniel 
Brainard  in  founding  Rush  Medical  College  at 
Chicago,  for  a  time  filling  three  chairs  in  that 
institution ;  also,  for  a  time,  occupied  the  chair  of 
Chemistry  and  Natural  Philosophy  in  Northwest- 
ern University.  In  1861  he  was  appointed  Sur- 
geon, and  afterwards  Medical  Director,  in  the 
army,  and  was  Surgeon -in-Chief  on  the  staff  of 
General  Sheridan  at  the  time  of  the  battle  of 
Winchester ;  after  the  war  was  delegated  by  the 
Government  to  pay  off  medical  officers  in  the 
Northwest,  in  this  capacity  disbursing  over  §600,- 
000;  finally  retiring  with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant- 
Colonel.  Died.  Dec.  11.  1874. 

BLATCHFORD,  Eliphalet  Wickes,  LL.D., 
son  of  Dr.  John  Blatchford,  was  born  at  Stillwater, 
N.  Y. ,  May  31,  1826;  being  a  grandson  of  Samuel 
Blatchford,  D.D.,who  came  to  New  York  from 
England,  in  1795.  He  prepared  for  college  at  Lan- 
singburg  Academy.  New  York,  and  at  Marion 
College,  Mo.,  finally  graduating  at  Illinois  College, 
Jacksonville,  in  the  class  of  1845.  After  graduat- 
ing, he  was  employed  for  several  years  in  the  law 
offices  of  his  uncles,  R.  M.  and  E.  H.  Blatchford, 
New  York.  For  considerations  of  health  he  re- 
turned to  the  West,  and,  in  1850,  engaged  in  busi- 
ness for  himself  as  a  lead  manufacturer  in  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  afterwards  associating  with  him  the 
late  Morris  Collins,  under  the  firm  name  of  Blatch- 
ford &  Collins.  In  1854  a  branch  was  established 
in  Chicago,  known  as  Collins  &  Blatchford.  -After 
a  few  years  the  firm  was  dissolved,  Mr.  Blatch- 
ford taking  the  Chicago  business,  which  has 
continued  as  E.  W.  Blatchford  &  Co.  to  the  pres- 
ent time.  While  Mr.  Blatchford  has  invariably 
declined  political  offices,  he  has  been  recognized 
as  a  staunch  Republican,  and  the  services  of  few 
men  have  been  in  more  frequent  request  for 
positions  of  trust  in  connection  with  educational 
and  benevolent  enterprises.  Among  the  numer- 
ous positions  of  this  character  which  he  has  been 
called  to  fill  are  those  of  Treasurer  of  the  North- 
western Branch  of  the  United  States  Sanitary 
Commission,  during  the  Civil  War,  to  which  he 
devoted  a  large  part  of  his  time ;  Trustee  of  Illi- 
nois College  (1866-75) ;  President  of  the  Chicago 
Academy  of  Sciences ;  a  member,  and  for  seven- 
teen years  President,  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
the  Chicago  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary;  Trustee  of 
the  Chicago  Art  Institute;  Executor  and  Trustee 
of  the  late  Walter  L.  Newberry,  and,  since  its 


incorporation,  President  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  The  Newberry  Library;  Trustee  of  the  John 
Crerar  Library;  one  of  the  founders  and  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Chicago 
Manual  Training  School;  life  member  of  the 
Chicago  Historical  Society;  for  nearly  forty 
years  President  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the 
Chicago  Theological  Seminary;  during  his  resi- 
dence in  Chicago  an  officer  of  the  New  England 
Congregational  Church;  a  corporate  member  of 
the  American  Board  of  Commissioners  for  For- 
eign Missions,  and  for  fourteen  years  its  Vice- 
President;  a  charter  member  of  the  City 
Missionary  Society,  and  of  the  Congregational 
Club  of  Chicago;  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Union  League,  the  University,  the  Literary  and 
the  Commercial  Clubs,  of  which  latter  he  has 
been  President.  Oct.  7,  1858,  Mr.  Blatchford  was 
married  to  Miss  Mary  Emily  Williams,  daughter 
of  John  C.  Williams,  of  Chicago.  Seven  children — 
four  sons  and  three  daughters— have  blessed  this 
union,  the  eldest  son,  Paul,  being  to-day  one  of 
Chicago's  valued  business  men.  Mr.  Blatchford's 
life  has  been  one  of  ceaseless  and  successful 
activity  in  business,  and  to  him  Chicago  owes 
much  of  its  prosperity.  In  the  giving  of  time 
and  money  for  Christian,  educational  and  benevo- 
lent enterprises,  he  has  been  conspicuous  for  his 
generosity,  and  noted  for  his  valuable  counsel  and 
executive  ability  in  carrying  these  enterprises  to 
success. 

BLATCHFORD,  John,  D.D.,  was  born  at  New- 
field  (now  Bridgeport),  Conn.,  May  24,  1799; 
removed  in  childhood  to  Lansingburg,  N.  Y., 
and  was  educated  at  Cambridge  Academy  and 
Union  College  in  that  State,  graduating  in  1820. 
He  finished  his  theological  course  at  Princeton, 
N.  J.,  in  1823,  after  which  he  ministered  succes- 
sively to  Presbyterian  churches  at  Pittstown  and 
Stillwater,  N.  Y.,  in  1830  accepting  the  pastorate 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church  of  Bridge- 
port, Conn.  In  1836  he  came  to  the  West,  spend- 
ing the  following  winter  at  Jacksonville,  111.,  and, 
in  1837,  was  installed  the  first  pastor  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago,  where  he 
remained  until  compelled  by  failing  health  to 
resign  and  return  to  the  East.  In  1841  lie  ac- 
cepted the  chair  of  Intellectual  and  Moral  Phi- 
losophy at  Marion  College,  Mo.,  subsequently 
assuming  the  Presidency.  The  institution  having 
been  purchased  by  the  Free  Masons,  in  1844,  he 
removed  to  West  Ely,  Mo.,  and  thence,  in  1847, 
to  Quincy,  111.,  where  he  resided  during  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  His  death  occurred  in  St. 
Louis,  April  8,  1855.  The  churches  he  served 


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testified  strongly  to  Dr.  Blatchford's  faithful, 
acceptable  and  successful  performance  of  tois 
ministerial  duties.  He  was  married  in  1825  to 
Frances  Wickes,  daughter  of  Eliphalet  Wickes, 
Esq. ,  of  Jamaica,  Long  Island,  N.  Y. 

BLEDSOE,  Albert  Taylor,  teacher  and  law- 
yer, was  born  in  Frankfort,  Ky.,  Nov.  9,  1809; 
graduated  at  West  Point  Military  Academy  in 
1830,  and,  after  two  years'  service  at  Fort  Gib- 
son, Indian  Territory,  retired  from  the  army  in 
1832.  During  1833-34  he  was  Adjunct  Professor 
of  Mathematics  and  teacher  of  French  at  Kenyon 
College,  Ohio,  and,  in  1835-36,  Professor  of 
Mathematics  at  Miami  University.  Then,  hav- 
ing studied  theology,  he  served  for  several  years 
as  rector  of  Episcopal  churches  in  Ohio.  In  1838 
lie  settled  at  Springfield,  111.,  and  began  the  prac- 
tice of  law,  remaining  several  years,  when  he 
removed  to  Washington,  D.  C.  Later  he  became 
Professor  of  Mathematics,  first  (1848-54)  in  the 
University  of  Mississippi,  and  (1854-61)  in  the 
University  of  Virginia.  He  then  entered  the 
Confederate  service  with  the  rank  of  Colonel, 
but  soon  became  Acting  Assistant  Secretary  of 
War;  in  1863  visited  England  to  collect  material 
for  a  work  on  the  Constitution,  which  was  pub- 
lished in  1866,  when  he  settled  at  Baltimore, 
where  he  began  the  publication  of  "The  Southern 
Review,"  which  became  the  recognized  organ  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South.  Later 
he  became  a  minister  of  the  Methodist  Church. 
He  gained  considerable  reputation  for  eloquence 
during  his  residence  in  Illinois,  and  was  the 
author  of  a  number  of  works  on  religious  and 
political  subjects,  the  latter  maintaining  the 
right  of  secession;  was  a  man  of  recognized 
ability,  but  lacked  stability  of  character.  Died 
at  Alexandria,  Va. ,  Dec.  8,  1877. 

BLODGETT,  Henry  Williams,  jurist,  was  born 
at  Amherst,  Mass.,  in  1821.  At  the  age  of  10 
years  he  removed  with  his  parents  to  Illinois, 
where  he  attended  the  district  schools,  later 
returning  to  Amherst  to  spend  a  year  at  the 
Academy.  Returning  home,  he  spent  the  years 
1839-42  in  teaching  and  surveying.  In  1842  he 
began  the  study  of  law  at  Chicago,  being 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1845,  and  beginning  prac- 
tice at  Waukegan,  111.,  where  he  has  continued 
to  reside.  In  1852  he  was  elected  to  the  lower 
house  of  the  Legislature  from  Lake  County,  as 
an  anti-slavery  candidate,  and,  in  1858,  to  the 
State  Senate,  in  the  latter  serving  four  years. 
He  gained  distinction  as  a  railroad  solicitor,  being 
employed  at  different  times  by  the  Chicago  & 
Northwestern,  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St. 


Paul,  the  Michigan  Southern  and  the  Pittsburg 
&  Fort  Wayne  Companies.  Of  the  second  named 
road  lie  was  one  of  the  projectors,  procuring  its 
charter,  and  being  identified  with  it  in  the  sev- 
eral capacities  of  Attorney,  Director  and  Presi- 
dent. In  1870  President  Grant  appointed  him 
Judge  of  the  United  States  District  Court  for  the 
Northern  District  of  Illinois.  This  position  he 
continued  to  occupy  for  twenty-two  years,  resign- 
ing it  in  1892  to  accept  an  appointment  by  Presi- 
dent Cleveland  as  one  of  the  counsel  for  the 
United  States  before  the  Behring  Sea  Arbitrators 
at  Paris, .his  last  official  service.  Died  Feb.  9,  1905. 

BLOOMINGDALE,  a  village  of  Du  Page  County, 
30  miles  west  by  north  from  Chicago.  Pop.  (1880), 
226;  (1890),  463;  (1900),  235;  (1910),  462. 

BLOOMINGTON,  the  county-seat  of  McLean 
County,  a  flourishing  city  and  railroad  center,  59 
miles  northeast  of  Springfield ;  is  in  a  rich  agri- 
cultural and  coal-mining  district.  Besides  car 
shops  and  repair  works  employing  some  2,000 
hands,  there  are  manufactories  of  stoves,  fur- 
naces, plows,  flour,  etc.  Nurseries  are  numerous 
in  the  vicinity  and  horse  breeding  receives  much 
attention.  The  city  is  the  seat  of  Illinois  Wee- 
leyan  University,  has  fine  public  schools,  several 
newspapers  (two  published  daily),  besides  educa- 
tional and  other  publications.  The  business  sec- 
tion suffered  a  disastrous  fire  in  1900,  but  has  been 
rebuilt  more  substantially  than  before.  The  prin- 
cipal streets  are  paved  and  electric  street  cars  con- 
nect with  Normal  (two  miles  distant),  the  site  of 
the  "State  Normal  University"  and  "Soldiers'  Or- 
phans' Home."  Pop.  (1900),  23,286;  (1910),  25,768. 

BLOOMINGTON  CONVENTION  OF  1856. 
Although  not  formally  called  as  such,  this  was 
the  first  Republican  State  Convention  held  in 
Illinois,  out  of  which  grew  a  permanent  Repub- 
lican organization  in  the  State.  A  mass  conven- 
tion of  those  opposed  to  the  repeal  of  the  Missouri 
Compromise  (known  as  an  "Anti-Nebraska 
Convention")  was  held  at  Springfield  during  the 
week  of  the  State  Fair  of  1854  (on  Oct.  4  and  5), 
and,  although  it  adopted  a  platform  in  harmony 
with  the  principles  which  afterwards  became  the 
foundation  of  the  Republican  party,  and  appointed 
a  State  Central  Committee,  besides  putting  in 
nomination  a  candidate  for  State  Treasurer — the 
only  State  officer  elected  that  year — the  organi- 
zation was  not  perpetuated,  the  State  Central 
Committee  failing  to  organize.  The  Bloomington 
Convention  of  1856  met  in  accordance  with  a  call 
issued  by  a  State  Central  Committee  appointed 
by  the  Convention  of  Anti-Nebraska  editors  held 
at  Decatur  on  February  22.  1856.  (See  Anti-Neb- 


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raska  Editorial  Convention.)  The  call  did  not 
even  contain  the  word  "Republican,"  but  was 
addressed  to  those  opposed  to  the  principles  of 
the  Nebraska  Bill  and  the  policy  of  the  existing 
Democratic  administration.  The  Convention 
met  on  May  29,  1856,  the  date  designated  by  the 
Editorial  Convention  at  Decatur,  but  was  rather 
in  the  nature  of  a  mass  than  a  delegate  conven- 
tion, as  party  organizations  existed  in  few  coun- 
ties of  the  State  at  that  time.  Consequently 
representation  was  very  unequal  and  followed  no 
systematic  rule.  Out  of  one  hundred  counties 
into  which  the  State  was  then  divided,  only 
seventy  were  represented  by  delegates,  ranging 
from  one  to  twenty-five  each,  leaving  thirty 
counties  (embracing  nearly  the  whole  of  the 
southern  part  of  the  State)  entirely  unrepre- 
sented. Lee  County  had  the  largest  representa- 
tion (twenty-five),  Morgan  County  (the  home  of 
Richard  Yates)  coming  next  with  twenty  dele- 
gates, while  Cook  County  had  seventeen  and 
Sangamon  had  five.  The  whole  number  of 
delegates,  as  shown  by  the  contemporaneous 
record,  was  269.  Among  the  leading  spirits  in 
the  Convention  were  Abraham  Lincoln,  Archi- 
bald Williams,  O.  H.  Browning,  Richard  Yates, 
John  M.  Palmer,  Owen  Lovejoy,  Norman  B. 
Judd,  Burton  C.  Cook  and  others  who  afterwards 
became  prominent  in  State  politics.  The  delega- 
tion from  Cook  County  included  the  names  of 
John  Wentworth,  Grant  Goodrich,  George 
Schneider,  Mark  Skinner,  Charles  H.  Ray  and 
Charles  L.  Wilson.  The  temporary  organization 
was  effected  with  Archibald  Williams  of  Adams 
County  in  the  chair,  followed  by  the  election  of 
John  M.  Palmer  of  Macoupin,  as  Permanent 
President.  The  other  officers  were:  Vice-Presi- 
dents—John A.  Davis  of  Stephenson;  William 
Ross  of  Pike;  James  McKee  of  Cook;  John  H. 
Bryant  of  Bureau;  A.  C.  Harding  of  Warren; 
Richard  Yates  of  Morgan;  Dr.  H.  C.  Johns  of 
Macon;  D.  L.  Phillips  of  Union;  George  Smith 
of  Madison;  Thomas  A.  Marshall  of  Coles;  J.  M. 
Ruggles  of  Mason ;  G.  D.  A.  Parks  of  Will,  and  John 
Clark  of  Schuyler.  Secretaries — Henry  S.  Baker 
of  Madison ;  Charles  L.  Wilson  of  Cook ;  John 
Tillson  of  Adams;  Washington  Bushnell  of  La 
Salle,  and  B.  J.  F.  Hanna  of  Randolph.  A  State 
ticket  was  put  in  nomination  consisting  of 
William  H.  Bissell  for  Governor  (by  acclama- 
tion); Francis  A.  Hoffman  of  Du  Page  County, 
for  Lieutenant-Governor ;  Ozias  M.  Hatch  of 
Pike,  for  Secretary  of  State ;  Jesse  K.  Dubois  of 
Lawrence,  for  Auditor ;  James  Miller  of  McLean, 
for  Treasurer,  and  William  H.  Powell  of  Peoria, 


for  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction.  Hoff- 
man, having  been  found  ineligible  by  lack  of  resi- 
dence after  the  date  of  naturalization,  withdrew, 
and  his  place  was  subsequently  filled  by  the 
nomination  of  John  Wood  of  Quincy.  The  plat- 
form adopted  was  outspoken  in  its  pledges  of 
unswerving  loyalty  to  the  Union  and  opposition 
to  the  extension  of  slavery  into  new  territory.  A 
delegation  was  appointed  to  the  National  Con- 
vention to  be  held  in  Philadelphia  on  June  17, 
following,  and  a  State  Central  Committee  was 
named  to  conduct  the  State  campaign,  consisting 
of  James  C.  Conkling  of  Sangamon  County; 
Asahel  Gridley  of  McLean;  Burton  C.  Cook  of 
La  Salle,  and  Charles  H.  Ray  and  Norman  B. 
Judd  of  Cook.  The  principal  speakers  of  the 
occasion,  before  the  convention  or  in  popular 
meetings  held  while  the  members  were  present  in 
Bloomington,  included  the  names  of  O.  H.  Brown- 
ing, Owen  Lovejoy,  Abraham  Lincoln,  Burton 
C.  Cook,  Richard  Yates,  the  venerable  John 
Dixon,  founder  of  the  city  bearing  his  name,  and 
Governor  Reeder  of  Pennsylvania,  who  had  been 
Territorial  Governor  of  Kansas  by  appointment 
of  President  Pierce,  but  had  refused  to  carry  out 
the  policy  of  the  administration  for  making 
Kansas  a  slave  State.  None  of  the  speeches 
were  fully  reported,  but  that  of  Mr.  Lincoln  has 
been  universally  regarded  by  those  who  heard  it 
as  the  gem  of  the  occasion  and  the  most  brilliant 
of  his  life,  foreshadowing  his  celebrated  "house- 
divided-against-itself"  speech  of  June  17,  1858. 
John  L.  Scripps,  editor  of  "The  Chicago  Demo- 
cratic Press,"  writing  of  it,  at  the  time,  to  his 
paper,  said:  "Never  has  it  been  our  fortune  to 
listen  to  a  more  eloquent  and  masterly  presenta- 
tion of  a  subject.  .  .  .  For  an  hour  and  a  half  he 
(Mr.  Lincoln)  held  the  assemblage  spellbound  by 
the  power  of  his  argument,  the  intense  irony  of 
his  invective,  and  the  deep  earnestness  and  fervid 
brilliancy  of  his  eloquence.  When  he  concluded, 
the  audience  sprang  to  their  feet  and  cheer  after 
cheer  told  how  deeply  their  hearts  had  been 
touched  ^and  their  souls  warmed  up  to  a  generous 
enthusiasm."  At  the  election,  in  November 
following,  although  the  Democratic  candidate 
for  President  carried  the  State  by  a  plurality  of 
over  9,000  votes,  the  entire  State  ticket  put  in 
nomination  at  Bloomington  was  successful  by 
majorities  ranging  from  3,000  to  20,000  for  the 
several  candidates. 

BLUE  ISLAND,  a  village  of  Cook  County,  on 
the  Calumet  River  and  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island 
&  Pacific,  the  Chicago  &  Grand  Trunk  and 
the  Illinois  Central  Railways,  15  miles  south  of 


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Chicago.  It  has  a  high  school,  churches  and  two 
newspapers,  besides  brick,  smelting  and  oil  works. 
Pop.  (1910),  8,043;  annexed  to  city  of  Chicago,  1911. 

BLUE  ISLAM)  RAILROAD,  a  short  line  3.96 
miles  in  length,  lying  wholly  within  Illinois; 
capital  stock  §25,000;  operated  by  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad  Company.  Its  funded  debt 
(1895)  was  $100,000  and  its  floating  debt,  $3,779. 

BLUE  MOUND,  a  town  of  Macon  County,  on 
the  Wabash  Railway,  14  miles  southeast  of  De- 
catur;'  in  rich  grain  and  live-stock  region;  has 
three  grain  elevators,  two  banks,  tile  factory  and 
one  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  714,  (1910),  900. 

BLUFFS,  a  village  of  Scott  County,  at  the 
junction  of  the  Quincy  and  Hannibal  branches  of 
the  Wabasli  Railway,  52  miles  west  of  Spring- 
field; has  a  bank  and  a  newspaper.  Population 
(1880),  162;  (1890),  421,  (1900),  539;  (1910),  766. 

BOAL,  Robert,  M.I).,  physician  and  legis- 
lator, born  near  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  in  1806;  was 
brought  by  his  parents  to  Ohio  when  five  years 
old  and  educated  at  Cincinnati,  graduating  from 
the  Ohio  Medical  College  in  1838;  settled  at 
Lacon,  111.,  in  1836,  practicing  there  until  1862, 
when,  having  been  appointed  Surgeon  of  the 
Board  of  Enrollment  for  that  District,  he  re- 
moved to  Peoria.  Other  public  positions  held  by 
Dr.  Boal  have  been  those  of  Senator  in  the 
Fourteenth  and  Fifteenth  General  Assemblies 
(1844-48),  Representative  in  the  Nineteenth  and 
Twentieth  (1854-58),  and  Trustee  of  the  Institu- 
tion for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  at  Jacksonville, 
remaining  in  the  latter  position  seventeen  years 
under  the  successive  administrations  of  Gov- 
ernors Bissell,  Yates,  Oglesby,  Palmer  and  Bever- 
idge — the  last  five  years  of  his  service  being 
President  of  the  Board.  He  was  also  President 
of  the  State  Medical  Board  in  1882.  Dr.  Boal 
continued  to  practice  at  Peoria  until  about  1890, 
when  he  retired,  and,  in  1893,  returned  to  Lacon 
to  reside  with  his  daughter,  the  widow  of  the 
late  Colonel  Greenbury  L.  Fort,  for  eight  years 
Representative  in  Congress  from  the  Eighth 
District.  Died  June  12,  1903. 

BOARD  OF  ARBITRATION,  a  Bureau  of  the 
State  Government,  created  by  an  act  of  the  Legis- 
lature, approved  August  2,  1895.  It  is  appointed 
by  the  Executive  and  is  composed  of  three  mem- 
bers (not  more  than  two  of  whom  can  belong  to 
the  same  political  party),  one  of  whom  must  be 
an  employer  of  labor  and  one  a  member  of  some 
labor  organization.  The  term  of  office  for  the 
members  first  named  was  fixed  at  two  years; 
after  March  1,  1897,  it  became  three  years,  one 
member  retiring  annually.  A  compensation  of 


8 1 . 500  per  annum  is  allowed  to  each  member  of 
the  Board,  while  the  Secretary,  who  must  also  be 
a  stenographer,  receives  a  salary  of  $1,200  per 
annum.  When  a  controversy  arises  between  an 
individual,  firm  or  corporation  employing  not  less 
than  twenty-five  persons,  and  his  or  its  employes, 
application  may  be  made  by  the  aggrieved 
party  to  the  Board  for  an  inquiry  into  the 
nature  of  the  disagreement,  or  both  parties  may 
unite  in  the  submission  of  a  case.  The  Board  is 
required  to  visit  the  locality,  carefully  investi- 
gate the  cause  of  the  dispute  and  render  a  deci- 
sion as  soon  as  practicable,  the  same  to  be  at  once 
made  public.  If  the  application  be  filed  by  the 
employer,  it  must  be  accompanied  by  a  stipula- 
tion to  continue  in  business,  and  order  no  lock-out 
for  the  space  of  three  weeks  after  its  date.  In 
like  manner,  complaining  employes  must  promise 
to  continue  peacefully  at  work,  under  existing 
conditions,  for  a  like  period.  The  Board  is 
granted  power  to  send  for  persons  and  papers  and 
to  administer  oaths  to  witnesses.  Its  decisions 
are  binding  upon  applicants  for  six  months  after 
rendition,  or  until  either  party  shall  have  given 
the  other  sixty  days'  notice  in  writing  of  his  or 
their  intention  not  to  be  bound  thereby.  In  case 
the  Board  shall  learn  that  a  disagreement  exists 
between  employes  and  an  employer  having  less 
than  twenty-five  persons  in  his  employ,  and  that 
a  strike  or  lock-out  is  seriously  threatened,  it  is 
made  the  duty  of  the  body  to  put  itself  into 
communication  with  both  employer  and  employes 
and  endeavor  to  effect  an  amicable  settlement 
between  them  by  mediation.  The  absence  of  any 
provision  in  the  law  prescribing  penalties  for  its 
violation  leaves  the  observance  of  the  law,  in  its 
present  form,  dependent  upon  the  voluntary 
action  of  the  parties  interested. 

BOARD  OF  ADMINISTRATION  (STATE). 
By  act  of  the  General  Assembly,  passed  June  15, 
1909,  the  Governor  was  authorized  to  appoint  a 
State  Board  of  Administration,  with  power  to 
assume  control  of  the  State  charitable  institutions 
which  had  been  under  supervision  of  the  Board  of 
Public  Charities  since  1869.  The  first  members  of 
the  new  Board,  with  periods  for  which  they  were 
appointed,  were:  L.  Y.  Sherman,  President 
(1909-11);  Thomas  O'Connor  and  Benj.  R.  Bur- 
roughs (1909-13);  James  L.  Greene  and  Frank  D. 
Whipp  (1909-15),  their  successors  being  appointive 
for  terms  of  six  years  each.  Members  of  the  Com- 
mission are  required  to  give  all  their  time  to  the 
duties  of  the  office,  receiving  a  salary  of  $6,000  per 
annum,  with  traveling  expenses  while  on  duty, 
and  are  authorized  to  exercise  executive  and  admin 


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istrative  control  over  all  State  charitable  institu- 
tions, to  assume  property  rights  of  previous  Boards 
over  such  institutions  and  expend  money  appro- 
priated by  the  Legislature  for  the  same;  to  accept 
and  hold  in  trust,  on  behalf  of  the  State,  grants, 
gifts  or  bequests  of  money  or  property  for  the  benefit 
of  the  insane  in  State  hospitals,  etc.  They  are 
charged  with  the  duty  of  inspecting,  investigating 
and  licensing  all  institutions  where  persons  are  under 
treatment  for  mental  or  nervous  diseases;  have 
power  of  appointment  or  removal  of  superinten- 
dents or  managers  of  the  same;  are  authorized  to 
inspect  county  jails,  city  prisons  and  houses  of 
correction,  to  examine  sanitary  conditions  and 
regulate  the  admission  of  patients  to  the  same;  and 
to  this  end  it  is  required  that  each  State  institu- 
tion under  their  supervision  shall  be  visited  at 
least  once  per  quarter  by  some  member  of  the 
Board.  The  institutions  coming  under  their  juris- 
diction by  this  act  are:  Schools  for  the  Blind  and 
Deaf,  Jacksonville;  Industrial  Home  for  the  Blind, 
and  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary,  Chicago;  Institution 
for  Feeble-Minded,  Lincoln;  Hospitals  for  the  In- 
sane at  Jacksonville,  Kankakee,  Elgin,  Anna, 
Peoria,  Watertown  and  Chester;  Soldiers'  and  Sail- 
ors' Home,  Quincy;  Soldiers'  Widows'  Home,  Wil- 
mington; Soldiers'  Orphans'  Home,  Normal;  State 
Training  School  for  Girls,  Geneseo;  and  St.  Charles 
School  for  Boys. 

AUXILIAEY  BOARDS. — Two  auxiliary  bodies, 
appointive  by  the  Governor,  are  provided  for  to 
act  in  co-operation  with  the  Board  of  Administra- 
•tion:  First,  a  Charities  Commission  consisting  of 
five  members,  with  practically  the  same  power  as 
the  former  Board  of  Public  Charities.  This  com- 
mission serves  without  compensation,  except  for 
traveling  expenses  while  on  duty,  is  required  to 
investigate  the  whole  system  of  State  charitable 
institutions,  examine  into  their  condition  and 
management  and  report  their  findings  and  recom- 
mendations to  the  Governor. 

The  second  is  a  system  of  Boards  of  Visitors, 
each  Board  consisting  of  three  members  for  each 
State  charitable  institution,  and  appointive  under 
the  same  conditions  as  members  of  the  Charities 
Commission,  for  a  term  of  six  years.  These  Boards 
are  required  to  make  an  inspection  of  the  institu- 
tions under  their  supervision,  for  this  purpose  a 
majority  of  each  Board,  at  least  once  each  quarter, 
visiting  such  institutions  as  have  the  whole  State 
for  a  district,  in  other  cases  at  least  once  a  month, 
and  report  thereon  to  the  Charities  Commission. 

PSYCHOPATHIC  INSTITUTE. — It  is  also  made  the 
duty  of  the  Board  of  Administration  to  establish 
and  maintain  a  State  Psychopathic  Institute,  appoint 


a  Director  and  a  Psychologist,  who  shall  perform 
their  duties  under  direction  of  the  Board,  and  all 
State  institutions  are  required  to  co-operate  with  the 
Institute  in  such  manner  as  the  Board  may  direct — 
the  object  being  to  secure  information  in  reference 
to  mental  diseases  for  the  benefit  of  managers  of 
institutions  for  the  insane.  All  the  employes  of  the 
Board  of  Administration,  the  Charities  Commission 
and  the  Psychopathic  Institute,  except  the  manag- 
ing officers,  are  placed  under  the  civil  service  law. 

OTHER  BOARDS.  — Sketches  of  other  Boards  con- 
nected with  the  administration  of  State  affairs  will 
be  found  on  page  448a  of  this  volume,  viz. :  Boards 
of  Civil  Service,  of  Equalization,  of  Health,  of 
Pharmacy,  of  Pardons  and  Food  Commission. 

BOGARDUS,  Charles,  legislator,  was  born 
in  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y.,  March  28,  1841,  and 
left  an  orphan  at  six  years  of  age ;  was  educated 
in  the  common  schools,  began  working  in  a  store 
at  13,  and.  in  1862,  enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred 
and  Fifty-first  New  York  Infantry,  being  elected 
First  Lieutenant,  and  retiring  from  the  service 
as  Lieutenant-Colonel  "for  gallant  and  meritori- 
ous service"  before  Petersburg.  While  in  the 
service  he  participated  in  some  of  the  most 
important  battles  in  Virginia,  and  was  once 
wounded  and  once  captured.  In  1872  he  located 
in  Ford  County,  111.,  where  he  has  been  a  success- 
ful operator  in  real  estate.  He  has  been  twice 
elected  to  the  House  of  Representatives  (1884  and 
'86)  and  three  times  to  the  State  Senate  (1888, 
'92  and  "96),  and  has  served  on  the  most  important 
committees  in  each  house,  and  has  proved  him- 
self one  of  the  most  useful  members.  At  the 
session  of  1895  he  was  chosen  President  pro  tern. 
of  the  Senate. 

BOGGS,  Carroll  C.,  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  was  born  in  Fairfield,  Wayne  County, 
111.,  Oct.  19,  1844,  and  still  resides  in  his  native 
town;  has  held  the  offices  of  State's  Attorney, 
County  Judge  of  Wayne  County,  and  Judge  of 
the  Circuit  Court  for  the  Second  Judicial  Circuit, 
being  assigned  also  to  Appellate  Court  duty.  In 
June,  1897,  Judge  Boggs  was  elected  a  Justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court  to  succeed  Judge  David  J. 
Baker,  his  term  to  continue  until  1906. 

BOLTWOOD,  Henry  L.,  the  son  of  William 
and  Electa  (Stetson)  Boltwood,  was  born  at  Am- 
herst,  Mass.,  Jan.  17,  1831;  fitted  for  college  at 
Amherst  Academy  and  graduated  from  Amherst 
College  in  1853.  While  in  college  he  taught 
school  every  winter,  commencing  on  a  salary  of 
$4  per  week  and  "boarding  round"  among  the 
scholars.  After  graduating  he  taught  in  acad- 
emies at  Limerick,  Me.,  and  at  Pembroke  and 


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Deny,  N.  H.,  and  in  the  high  school  at  Law- 
rence, Mass. ;  also  served  as  School  Commissioner 
for  Rockingham  County,  N.  H.  In  1864  he  went 
into  the  service  of  the  Sanitary  Commission  in 
the  Department  of  the  Gulf,  remaining  until  the 
close  of  the  war;  was  also  ordained  Chaplain  of  a 
colored  regiment,  but  was  not  regularly  mustered 
in.  After  the  close  of  the  war  lie  was  employed 
as  Superintendent  of  Schools  at  Griggsville,  111. , 
for  two  years,  and,  while  there,  in  1867,  organ- 
ized the  first  township  high  school  ever  organized 
in  the  State,  where  he  remained  eleven  years.  He 
afterwards  organized  the  township  high  school  at 
Ottawa,  remaining  there  five  years,  after  which, 
in  1883,  he  organized  and  took  charge  of  the 
township  high  school  at  Evanston,  where  he  has 
since  been  employed  in  his  profession  as  a  teacher. 
Professor  Boltwood  has  been  a  member  of  the  State 
Board  of  Education  and  has  served  as  President 
of  the  State  Teachers'  Association.  As  a  teacher 
he  has  given  special  attention  to  English  language 
and  literature,  and  to  history,  being  the  author 
of  an  English  Grammar,  a  High  School  Speller 
and  "Topical  Outlines  of  General  History," 
besides  many  contributions  to  educational  jour- 
nals. He  did  a  great  deal  of  institute  work,  both 
in  Illinois  and  Iowa,  and  was  known  somewhat  as 
a  tariff  reformer.  Died  Jan.  23,  1906. 

BOND,  Lester  I...  lawyer,  was  born  at  Ravenna, 
Ohio,  Oct.  27,  1829;  educated  in  the  common 
schools  and  at  an  academy,  meanwhile  laboring 
in  local  factories;  studied  law  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1853,  the  following  year  coming  to 
Chicago,  where  he  gave  his  attention  chiefly  to 
practice  in  connection  with  patent  laws.  Mr. 
Bond  served  several  terms  in  the  Chicago  City 
Council,  was  Republican  Presidential  Elector  in 
1868,  and  served  two  terms  in  the  General  Assem- 
bly—1866-70.  Died  April  15,  1903. 

BOND,  Shadrach,  first  Territorial  Delegate  in 
Congress  from  Illinois  and  first  Governor  of  the 
State,  was  born  in  Maryland,  and,  after  being 
liberally  educated,  removed  to  Kaskaskia  while 
Illinois  was  a  part  of  the  Northwest  Territory. 
He  served  as  a  member  of  the  first  Territorial 
Legislature  (of  Indiana  Territory)  and  was  the 
first  Delegate  from  the  Territory  of  Illinois  in 
Congress,  serving  from  1812  to  1814.  In  the 
latter  year  he  was  appointed  Receiver  of  Public 
Moneys ;  he  also  held  a  commission  as  Captain  in 
the  War  of  1812.  On  the  admission  of  the  State, 
in  1818,  he  was  elected  Governor,  and  occupied 
the  executive  chair  until  1822.  Died  at  Kaskas- 
kia, April  13, 1832.— Shadrach  Bond,  Sr.,  an  uncle 
of  the  preceding,  came  to  Illinois  in  1781  and  was 


elected  Delegate  from  St.  Clair  County  (then 
comprehending  all  Illinois)  to  the  Territorial 
Legislature  of  Northwest  Territory,  in  1799,  and, 
in  1804,  to  the  Legislative  Council  of  the  newly 
organized  Territory  of  Indiana. 

BOND  COUNTY,  a  small  county  lying  north- 
east from  St.  Louis,  having  an  area  of  380  square 
miles  and  a  population  (1910)  of  17,075.  The  first 
American  settlers  located  here  in  1807,  com- 
ing from  the  South,  and  building  Hill's  and 
Jones's  forts  for  protection  from  the  Indians. 
Settlement  was  slow,  in  1816  there  being  scarcely 
twenty-five  log  cabins  in  the  county.  The 
county-seat  is  Greenville,  where  the  first  cabin 
was  erected  in  1815  by  George  Davidson.  The 
county  was  organized  in  1817,  and  named  in 
honor  of  Gov.  Shadrach  Bond.  Its  original 
limits  included  the  present  counties  of  Clinton, 
Fayette  and  Montgomery.  The  first  court  was 
held  at  Perryville,  and,  in  May,  1817,  Judge 
Jesse  B.  Thomas  presided  over  the  first  Circuit 
Court  at  Hill's  Station.  The  first  court  house 
was  erected  at  Greenville  in  1822.  The  county 
contains  good  timber  and  farming  lands,  and  at 
some  points,  coal  is  found  near  the  surface. 

BONNET,  Charles  Carroll,  lawyer  and  re- 
former, was  born  in  Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  4, 
1831 ;  educated  at  Hamilton  Academy  and  settled 
in  Peoria,  111.,  in  1850,  where  he  pursued  the 
avocation  of  a  teacher  while  studying  law ;  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1853,  but  removed  to  Chi- 
cago in  1860,  where  he  was  afterwards  engaged  in 
practice;  served  as  President  of  the  National 
Law  and  Order  League  in  New  York  in  1885, 
being  repeatedly  re-elected,  and  had  also  been 
President  of  the  Illinois  State  Bar  Association, 
as  well  as  a  member  of  the  American  Bar  Associa- 
tion. Among  the  reforms  which  he  advocated 
were  the  constitutional  prohibition  of  special  legis- 
lation; an  extension  of  equity  practice  to  bank- 
ruptcy and  other  law  proceedings;  civil  service 
pensions;  State  Boards  of  labor  and  capital,  etc. 
He  also  published  some  treatises  in  book  form, 
chiefly  on  legal  questions,  besides  editing  a  volume 
of  "Poems  by  Alfred  W.  Arlington,  with  a  sketch 
of  his  Character"  (1869).  As  President  of  the 
World's  Congresses  Auxiliary,  in  1893,  Mr.  Bonney 
contributed  largely  to  the  success  of  that  very 
interesting  and  important  feature  of  the  great 
Columbian  Exposition.  Died  Aug.  23,  1903. 

BOONE,  Lev!  D.,  M.  D.,  early  physician,  was 
born  near  Lexington,  Ky.,  December,  1808 — a 
descendant  of  the  celebrated  Daniel  Boone;  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  Transylvania 
University  and  came  to  Edwardsville,  111.,  at  an 


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early  day,  afterwards  locating  at  Hillsboro  and 
taking  part  in  the  Black  Hawk  War  as  Captain  of 
a  cavalry  company;  came  to  Chicago  in  1836  and 
engaged  in  the  insurance  business,  later  resuming 
the  practice  of  his  profession;  served  several 
terms  as  Alderman  and  was  elected  Mayor  in 
1855  by  a  combination  of  temperance  men  and 
Know-Nothings ;  acquired  a  large  property  by 
operations  in  real  estate.  Died,  February, 
1882 

BOONE  COUNTY,  the  smallest  of  the  "north- 
ern tier"  of  counties,  having  an  area  of  only  288 
square  miles,  and  a  population  (1910)  of  15,481. 
Its  surface  is  chiefly  rolling  prairie,  and  the 
principal  products  are  oats  and  corn.  The  earli- 
est settlers  came  from  New  York  and  New  Eng- 
land, and  among  them  were  included  Medkiff, 
Dunham,  Caswell,  Cline,  Towner,  Doty  and 
Whitney.  Later  (after  the  Pottawattomies  had 
evacuated  the  country),  came  the  Shattuck 
brothers,  Maria  Hollenbeok  and  Mrs.  Bullard, 
Oliver  Hale,  Nathaniel  Crosby,  Dr.  Whiting,  H. 
C.  Walker,  and  the  Neeley  and  Mahoney  families. 
Boone  County  was  cut  off  from  Winnebago,  and 
organized  in  1837,  being  named  in  honor  of  Ken- 
tucky's pioneer.  The  first  frame  house  in  the 
county  was  erected  by  S.  F.  Doty  and  stood  for 
fifty  years  in  the  village  of  Belvidere  on  the  north 
side  of  the  Kishwaukee  River.  The  county-seat 
(Belvidere)  was  platted  in  1837,  and  an  academy 
built  soon  after.  The  first  Protestant  church 
was  a  Baptist  society  under  the  pastorate  of  Rev. 
Dr.  King. 

BOURBONNAIS,  a  village  of  Kankakee  County, 
on  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  5  miles  north  of 
Kankakee.  Pop.  (1900),  595;  (1910),  611. 

BOUTELL,  Henry  Sherman,  lawyer  and  Con- 
gressman, was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  March  14, 
1856,  graduated  from  the  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity at  Evanston,  111.,  in  1874,  and  from  Harvard 
in  1876;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Illinois  in 
1879,  and  to  that  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  in  1885.  In  1884  Mr.  Boutell  was 
elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  Thirty-fourth 
General  Assembly  and  was  one  of  the  "103"  who, 
in  the  long  struggle  during  the  following  session, 
participated  in  the  election  of  Gen.  John  A. 
Logan  to  the  United  States  Senate  for  the  last 
time.  At  a  special  election  held  in  the  Sixth 
Illinois  District  in  November,  1897,  he  was 
elected  Representative  in  Congress  to  fill  the 
vacancy  caused  by  the  sudden  death  of  his  pred- 
ecessor, Congressman  Edward  D.  Cooke,  and  at 
the  regular  election  of  1898  was  re-elected  to  the 
same  position,  receiving  a  plurality  of  1,116  over 


his  Democratic  competitor  and  a  majority  of  719 
over  all. 

BOUTON,  Nathaniel  S.,  manufacturer,  was 
born  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  May  14,  1828;  in  his 
youth  farmed  and  taught  school  in  Connecticut, 
but  in  1852  came  to  Chicago  and  was  employed 
by  a  foundry  firm,  of  which  he  soon  afterwards 
became  a  partner,  in  the  manufacture  of  car- 
wheels  and  railway  castings.  Later  he  became 
associated  with  the  American  Bridge  Company's 
works,  which  was  sold  to  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad  Company  in  1857,  when  he  bought  the 
Union  Car  Works,  which  he  operated  until  1863. 
He  then  became  the  head  of  the  Union  Foundry 
Works,  which  having  been  consolidated  with 
the  Pullman  Car  Works  in  1886,  he  retired, 
organizing  the  Bouton  Foundry  Company.  Mr. 
Bouton  was  a  Republican,  was  Commissioner  of 
Public  Works  for  the  city  of  Chicago  two  terms 
before  the  Civil  War,  and  served  as  Assistant 
Quartermaster  in  the  Eighty-eighth  Illinois  In- 
fantry from  1862  until  after  the  battle  of  Chick- 
amauga.  Died  April  3,  1908. 

BOYD,  Thomas  A.,  was  born  in  Adams  County, 
Pa.,  June  25,  1830,  and  graduated  at  Marshall 
College,  Mercersburg,  Pa.,  at  the  age  of  18; 
studied  law  at  Chambersburg  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  at  Bedford  in  his  native  State,  where 
he  practiced  until  1856,  when  he  removed  to  Illi- 
nois. In  1861  he  abandoned  his  practice  to  enlist 
in  the  Seventeenth  Illinois  Infantry,  in  which  lie 
held  the  position  of  Captain.  At  the  close  of  the 
war  he  returned  to  his  home  at  Lewistown,  and, 
in  1866,  was  elected  State  Senator  and  re-elected 
at  the  expiration  of  his  term  in  1870,  serving  in 
the  Twenty-fifth,  Twenty-sixth  and  Twenty- 
seventh  General  Assemblies.  He  was  also  a 
Republican  Representative  from  his  District  in 
the  Forty-fifth  and  Forty-sixth  Congresses 
(1877-81).  Died,  at  Lewistown,  May  28,  1897. 

BRACEVILLE,  a  town  In  Grundy  County,  61 
miles  by  rail  southwest  of  Chicago.  Coal  mining 
is  the  principal  industry.  The  town  has  two 
banks,  two  churches  and  good  public  schools. 
Pop.  (1890),  2,150;  (1900),  1,669;  (1910),  971. 

BRADFORD,  village  of  Stark  County,  on  Buda 
and  Rushville  branch  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  Railway ;  is  in  excellent  farming  region 
and  has  large  grain  and  live-stock  trade,  excel- 
lent high  school  building,  fine  churches,  good 
hotels  and  one  newspaper.  Pop.  (1910),  770. 

BRADSBY,  William  H.,  pioneer  and  Judge, 
was  born  in  Bedford  County,  Va.,  July  12,  1787. 
He  removed  to  Illinois  early  in  life,  and  was  the 
first  postmaster  in  Washington  County  (at  Cov- 


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ington),  the  first  school-teacher  and  the  first 
Circuit  and  County  Clerk  and  Recorder.  At  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  Probate  and  County 
Judge.  Besides  being  Clerk  of  all  the  courts,  he 
was  virtually  County  Treasurer,  as  he  had  cus- 
tody of  all  the  county's  money.  For  several 
years  he  was  also  Deputy  United  States  Surveyor, 
and  in  that  capacity  surveyed  much  of  the  south 
part  of  the  State,  as  far  east  as  Wayne  and  Clay 
Counties.  Died  at  Nashville,  111,  August  21, 
1839. 

BRADWELL,  James  Bolesworth,  lawyer  and 
editor,  was  born  at  Loughborough,  England,  April 
16,  1828,  and  brought  to  America  in  infancy,  his 
parents  locating  in  1829  or  '30  at  Utica,  N.  Y.  In 
1833  they  emigrated  to  Jacksonville,  111.,  but  the 
following  year  removed  to  Wheeling,  Cook 
County,  settling  on  a  farm,  where  the  younger 
Bradwell  received  his  first  lessons  in  breaking 
prairie,  splitting  rails  and  tilling  the  soil.  His 
first  schooling  was  obtained  in  a  country  log- 
school-house,  but,  later,  he  attended  the  Wilson 
Academy  in  Chicago,  where  he  had  Judge  Lo- 
renzo Sawyer  for  an  instructor.  He  also  took  a 
course  in  Knox  College  at  Galesburg,  then  a 
manual-labor  school,  supporting  himself  by  work- 
ing in  a  wagon  and  plow  shop,  sawing  wood, 
etc.  In  May,  1852,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Myra 
Colby,  a  teacher,  with  whom  he  went  to  Mem- 
phis, Tenn.,  the  same  year,  where  they  engaged 
in  teaching  a  select  school,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  meanwhile  devoting  some  attention  to 
reading  law.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  there, 
but  after  a  stay  of  less  than  two  years  in  Mem- 
phis, returned  to  Chicago  and  began  practice. 
In  1861  he  was  elected  County  Judge  of  Cook 
County,  and  re-elected  four  years  later,  but 
declined  a  re-election  in  1869.  The  first  half  of 
his  term  occurring  during  the  progress  of  the 
Civil  War,  he  had  the  opportunity  of  rendering 
some  vigorous  decisions  which  won  for  him  the 
reputation  of  a  man  of  courage  and  inflexible 
independence,  as  well  as  an  incorruptible  cham- 
pion of  justice.  In  1872  he  was  elected  to  the 
lower  branch  of  the  Twenty-eighth  General 
Assembly  from  Cook  County,  and  re-elected  in 
1874.  He  was  again  a  candidate  in  1882,  and  by 
many  believed  to  have  been  honestly  elected, 
though  his  opponent  received  the  certificate.  He 
made  a  contest  for  the  seat,  and  the  majority  of 
the  Committee  on  Elections  reported  in  his 
favor ;  but  he  was  defeated  through  the  treach- 
ery and  suspected  corruption  of  a  professed  polit- 
ical friend.  He  is  the  author  of  the  law  making 
women  eligible  to  school  offices  in  Illinois  and 


allowing  them  to  become  Notaries  Public,  and 
had  always  been  a  champion  for  equal  rights  for 
women  in  the  professions  and  as  citizens.  He  was 
a  Second  Lieutenant  of  the  One  Hundred  and 
Fifth  Regiment,  Illinois  Militia,  in  1848;  presided 
over  the  American  Woman's  Suffrage  Association 
at  its  organization  in  Cleveland;  served  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  Chicago  Press  Club,  of  the  Chicago 
Bar  Association,  and,  for  a  number  of  years, 
as  Historian  of  the  latter;  was  one  of  the  founders 
and  President  of  the  Union  League  Club,  besides 
being  associated  with  many  other  social  and  busi- 
ness organizations.  He  was  identified  in  a  business 
capacity  with  "The  Chicago  Legal  News,"  founded 
by  his  wife  in  1868,  and  after  her  death  became 
its  editor.  Judge  Bradwell's  death  occurred  Nov. 
29,  1907.— Myra  Colby  (Bradwell),  the  wife 
of  Judge  Bradwell,  was  born  at  Manchester,  Vt., 
Feb.  12,  1831— being  descended  on  her  mother's 
side  from  the  Chase  family  to  which  Bishop 
Philander  Chase  and  Salmon  P.  Chase,  the  latter 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury  and  Chief  Justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court  by  appointment  of  Abraham 
Lincoln,  belonged.  In  infancy  she  was  brought 
to  Portage,  N.  Y.,  where  she  remained  until  she 
was  twelve  years  of  age,  when  her  family  re- 
moved west.  She  attended  school  in  Kenosha, 
Wis. ,  and  a  seminary  at  Elgin,  afterwards  being 
engaged  in  teaching.  On  May  18,  1852,  she  was 
married  to  Judge  Bradwell,  almost  immediately 
going  to  Memphis,  Tenn.,  where,  with  the  assist- 
ance of  her  husband,  she  conducted  a  select  school 
for  some  time,  also  teaching  in  the  public  schools, 
when  they  returned  to  Chicago.  In  the  early 
part  of  the  Civil  War  she  took  a  deep  interest  in 
the  welfare  of  the  soldiers  in  the  field  and  their 
families  at  home,  becoming  President  of  the 
Soldiers'  Aid  Society,  and  was  a  leading  spirit  in 
the  Sanitary  Fairs  held  in  Chicago  in  1863  and  in 
1865.  After  the  war  she  commenced  the  study 
of  law  and,  in  1868,  began  the  publication  of 
"The  Chicago  Legal  News,"  with  which  she  re- 
mained identified  until  her  death — also  publishing 
biennially  an  edition  of  the  session  laws  after 
each  session  of  the  General  Assembly.  After 
passing  a  most  creditable  examination,  applica- 
tion was  made  for  her  admission  to  the  bar  in 
1871,  but  denied  in  an  elaborate  decision  rendered 
by  Judge  C.  B.  Lawrence  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  State,  on  the  sole  ground  of  sex,  as 
was  also  done  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  in  1873,  on  the  latter  occasion 
Chief  Justice  Chase  dissenting.  She  was  finally 
admitted  to  the  bar  on  March  28,  1892,  and  was 
the  first  lady  member  of  the  State  Bar  Associ- 


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ation.  Other  organizations  with  which  she  was 
identified  embraced  the  Illinois  State  Press 
Association,  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Sol- 
diers' Home  (in  war  time),  the  "Illinois  Industrial 
School  for  Girls"  at  Evanston,  the  Washingtonian 
Home,  the  Board  of  Lady  Managers  of  the 
World's  Columbian  Exposition,  and  Chairman  of 
the  Woman's  Committee  on  Jurisprudence  of  the 
World's  Congress  Auxiliary  of  1893.  Although 
much  before  the  public  during  the  latter  years  of 
her  life,  she  never  lost  the  refinement  and  graces 
which  belong  to  a  true  woman.  Died,  at  her 
home  in  Chicago,  Feb.  14,  1894. 

BRAIDTVOOD,  a  city  in  Will  County,  incorpo- 
rated in  1860 ;  is  58  miles  from  Chicago,  on  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad;  an  important  coal- 
mining point,  and  in  the  heart  of  a  rich 
agricultural  region.  It  has  a  bank  and  a  weekly 
newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  3,279;  (1910),  1,958. 

BRANSON,  Nathaniel  W.,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Jacksonville,  111.,  May  29,  1837;  was  educated  in 
the  private  and  public  schools  of  that  city  and  at 
Illinois  College,  graduating  from  the  latter  in 
1857 ;  studied  law  with  David  A.  Smith,  a  promi- 
nent and  able  lawyer  of  Jacksonville,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  January,  1860,  soon  after 
establishing  himself  in  practice  at  Petersburg, 
Menard  County,  where  he  continued  to  reside. 
In  1867  Mr.  Branson  was  appointed  Register  in 
Bankruptcy  for  the  Springfield  District  —  a  po- 
sition which  he  held  thirteen  years.  He  was  also 
elected  Representative  in  the  General  Assembly 
in  1872,  by  re-election  in  1874  serving  four  years 
in  the  stormy  Twenty-eighth  and  Twenty-ninth 
General  Assemblies ;  was  a  Delegate  from  Illinois 
to  the  National  Republican  Convention  of  1876, 
and  served  for  several  years  most  efficiently  as  a 
Trustee  of  the  State  Institution  for  the  Blind  at 
Jacksonville,  part  of  the  time  as  President  of  the 
Board.  Politically  a  conservative  Republican, 
and  in  no  sense  an  office-seeker,  the  official 
positions  assigned  to  him  came  unsought  and  in 
recognition  of  his  fitness  and  qualifications.  Died 
Feb.  27,  1907. 

BRAYMAN,  Mason,  lawyer  and  soldier,  was 
born  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  May  23,  1813;  brought  up 
as  a  farmer,  became  a  printer  and  edited  "The 
Buffalo  Bulletin,"  1834-35;  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1836;  removed  west  in 
1837,  was  City  Attorney  of  Monroe,  Mich.,  in  1838 
and  became  editor  of  "The  Louisville  Adver- 
tiser" in  1841.  In  1842  he  opened  a  law  office  in 
Springfield,  111.,  and  the  following  year  was 
appointed  by  Governor  Ford  a  commissioner  to 
adjust  the  Mormon  troubles,  in  which  capacity 


he  rendered  valuable  service.  In  1844-45  he  was 
appointed  to  revise  the  statutes  of  the  State. 
Later  he  devoted  much  attention  to  railroad 
enterprises,  being  attorney  of  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad,  1851-55;  then  projected  the  construc- 
tion of  a  railroad  from  Bird's  Point,  opposite 
Cairo,  into  Arkansas,  which  was  partially  com- 
pleted before  the  war,  and  almost  wholly  de- 
stroyed during  that  period.  In  1861  he  entered 
the  service  as  Major  of  the  Twenty-ninth  Illinois 
Volunteers,  taking  part  in  a  number  of  the  early 
battles,  including  Fort  Donelson  and  Shiloh; 
was  promoted  to  a  colonelcy  for  meritorious  con- 
duct at  the  latter,  and  for  a  time  served  as 
Adjutant-General  on  the  staff  of  General  McCler- 
nand;  was  promoted  Brigadier-General  in  Sep- 
tember, 1862,  at  the  close  of  the  war  receiving 
the  brevet  rank  of  Major-General.  After  the 
close  of  the  war  he  devoted  considerable  atten- 
tion to  reviving  his  railroad  enterprises  in  the 
South;  edited  "The  Illinois  State  Journal," 
1872-73;  removed  to  Wisconsin  and  was  ap- 
pointed Governor  of  Idaho  in  1876,  serving  four 
years,  after  which  he  returned  to  Ripon,  Wis. 
Died,  in  Kansas  City,  Feb.  27,  1895. 

BREESE,  a  village  in  Clinton  County,  on 
Baltimore  &  Ohio  S.  W.  Railway,  39  miles  east  of 
St.  Louis;  has  coal  mines,  water  system,  bank  and 
weekly  newspaper.  Pop.  (1910),  2,128. 

BREESE.  Sidney,  statesman  and  jurist,  was 
born  at  Whitesboro,  N  Y.,  (according  to  the 
generally  accepted  authority)  July  15,  1800. 
Owing  to  a  certain  sensitiveness  about  his  age  in 
his  later  years,  it  has  been  exceedingly  difficult 
to  secure  authentic  data  on  the  subject ;  but  his 
arrival  at  Kaskaskia  in  1818,  after  graduating  at 
Union  College,  and  his  admission  to  the  bar  in 
1820,  have  induced  many  to  believe  that  the  date 
of  his  birth  should  be  placed  somewhat  earlier. 
He  was  related  to  some  of  the  most  prominent 
families  in  New  York,  including  the  Livingstons 
and  the  Morses,  and,  after  his  arrival  at  Kaskas- 
kia, began  the  study  of  law  with  his  friend  Elias 
Kent  Kane,  afterwards  United  States  Senator. 
Meanwhile,  having  served  as  Postmaster  at  Kas- 
kaskia, he  became  Assistant  Secretary  of  State, 
and,  in  December,  1820,  superintended  the  re- 
moval of  the  archives  of  that  office  to  Vandalia, 
the  new  State  capital.  Later  he  was  appointed 
Prosecuting  Attorney,  serving  in  that  position 
from  1822  till  1827,  when  he  became  United 
States  District  Attorney  for  Illinois.  He  was 
the  first  official  reporter  of  the  Supreme  Court, 
issuing  its  first  volume  of  decisions;  served  as 
Lieutenant-Colonel  of  volunteers  during  the 


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Black  Hawk  War  (1832);  in  1835  was  elected  to 
the  circuit  bench,  and,  in  1841,  was  advanced  to 
the  Supreme  bench,  serving  less  than  two  years, 
when  he  resigned  to  accept  a  seat  in  the  United 
States  Senate,  to  which  he  was  elected  in  1843  as 
the  successor  of  Richard  M.  Young,  defeating 
Stephen  A.  Douglas  in  the  first  race  of  the  latter 
for  the  office.  While  in  the  Senate  (1843-49)  he 
served  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Public 
Lands,  and  was  one  of  the  first  to  suggest  the 
construction  of  a  transcontinental  railway  to  the 
Pacific.  He  was  also  one  of  the  originators  and 
active  promoters  in  Congress  of  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral Railroad  enterprise.  He  was  Speaker  of  the 
Illinois  House  of  Representatives  in  1851 ;  again 
became  Circuit  Judge  in  1855  and  returned  to 
the  Supreme  bench  in  1857  and  served  more  than 
one  term  as  Chief  Justice,  the  last  being  in 
1873-74.  His  home  during  most  of  his  public  life 
in  Illinois  was  at  Carlyle.  His  death  occurred 
at  Pinckneyville,  June  28,  1878. 

BREJfTANO,  Lorenzo,  was  born  at  Mannheim, 
in  the  Grand  Duchy  of  Baden,  Germany,  Nov. 
14,  1813;  was  educated  at  the  Universities  of 
Heidelberg  and  Freiburg,  receiving  the  degree  of 
LL.D.,  and  attaining  high  honors,  both  profes- 
sional and  political.  He  was  successively  a 
member  of  the  Baden  Chamber  of  Deputies  and 
of  the  Frankfort  Parliament,  and  always  a  leader 
of  the  revolutionist  party.  In  1849  he  became 
President  of  the  Provisional  Republican  Gov- 
ernment of  Baden,  but  was,  before  long,  forced 
to  find  an  asylum  in  the  United  States.  He  first 
settled  in  Kalamazoo  County,  Mich.,  as  a  farmer, 
but,  in  1859,  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  was 
admitted  to  the  Illinois  bar,  but  soon  entered  the 
field  of  journalism,  becoming  editor  and  part 
proprietor  of  "The  Illinois  Staats  Zeitung."  He 
held  various  public  offices,  being  elected  to  the 
Legislature  in  1862,  serving  five  years  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Education,  was  a 
Republican  Presidential  Elector  in  18G8,  and 
United  States  Consul  at  Dresden  in  1872  (a  gen- 
eral amnesty  having  been  granted  to  the 
participants  in  the  revolution  of  1848),  and 
Representative  in  Congress  from  1877  to  1879. 
Died,  in  Chicago,  Sept.  17,  1891. 

BRIDGEPORT,  a  town  of  Lawrence  County, 
on  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  S.  W.  Railroad,  14  miles 
west  of  Vincennes,  Ind.,  in  oilfield;  has  a  bank  and 
one  weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  487;  (1910),  2,703. 

BRIDGEPORT,  a  former  suburb  (now  a  part  of 
the  city)  of  Chicago,  located  at  the  junction  of 
the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal  with  the  South 
Branch  of  the  Chicago  River.  It  is  now  the 


center  of  the  large  slaughtering  and  packing 
industry. 

BRIDGEPORT  &  SOUTH  CHICAGO  RAIL- 
WAY. (See  Chicago  &  Northern  Pacific  Railroad.} 

BRIGHTON,  a  village  of  Macoupin  County,  at 
the  intersection  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  and  the 
Rock  Island  and  St.  Louis  branch  of  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Railways;  coal  is  mined 
here;  has  a  newspaper.  Population  (1880),  691; 
(1890),  742;  (1900),  660;  (1910),  595. 

BRIMFIELD,  a  town  of  Peoria  County,  on  the 
Buda  and  Rushville  branch  of  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Quincy  Railway,  38  miles  south  of 
Buda;  coal-mining  and  farming  are  the  chief 
industries.  It  has  one  weekly  paper  and  a  bank. 
Pop.  (1890),  719;  (1900),  677;  (1910),  576. 

BRISTOL,  Frank  Milton,  clergyman,  was  born 
in  Orleans  County,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  4,  1851;  came 
to  Kankakee,  111.,  in  boyhood,  and  having  lost 
his  father  at  12  years  of  age,  spent  the  following 
years  in  various  manual  occupations  until  about 
nineteen  years  of  age,  when,  having  been  con- 
verted, he  determined  to  devote  his  life  to  the 
ministry.  Through  the  aid  of  a  benevolent  lady, 
he  was  enabled  to  get  two  years'  (1870-72)  instruc- 
tion at  the  Northwestern  University,  at  Evans- 
ton,  afterwards  supporting  himself  by  preaching 
at  various  points,  meanwhile  continuing  his 
studies  at  the  University  until  1877.  After  com- 
pleting his  course  he  served  as  pastor  of  some  of 
the  most  prominent  Methodist  churches  in  Chi- 
cago, his  last  charge  in  the  State  being  at  Evans- 
ton.  In  1897  he  was  transferred  to  Washington 
City,  becoming  pastor  of  the  Metropolitan  M.  E. 
Church,  attended  by  President  McKinley  Dr. 
Bristol  is  an  author  of  some  repute  and  an  orator 
of  recognized  ability. 

BROADWELL,  Norman  M.,  lawyer,  was  born 
in  Morgan  County,  111.,  August  1,  1825;  was  edu- 
cated in  the  common  schools  and  at  McKendree 
and  Illinois  Colleges,  but  compelled  by  failing 
health  to  leave  college  without  graduating ;  spent 
some  time  in  the  book  business,  then  began  the 
study  of  medicine  with  a  view  to  benefiting  his 
own  health,  but  finally  abandoned  this  and,  about 
1850,  commenced  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of 
Lincoln  &  Herndon  at  Springfield.  Having  been 
admitted  to  the  bar,  he  practiced  for  a  time  at 
Pekin,  but,  in  1854,  returned  to  Springfield, 
where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  In  1860 
he  was  elected  as  a  Democrat  to  the  House  of 
Representatives  from  Sangamon  County,  serving 
in  the  Twenty-second  General  Assembly.  Other 
offices  held  by  him  included  those  of  County 
Judge  (1863-65)  and  Mayor  of  the  city  of  Spring- 


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field,  to  which  last  position  he  was  twice  elected 
(1867  and  again  in  1869).  Judge  Broadwell  was 
one  of  the  most  genial  of  men,  popular,  high- 
minded  and  honorable  in  all  his  dealings.  Died, 
in  Springfield,  Feb.  28,  1893. 

BROOKS,  John  Flavel,  educator,  was  born 
in  Oneida  County,  New  York,  Dec.  3,  1801; 
graduated  at  Hamilton  College,  1828;  studied 
three  years  in  the  theological  department  of  Yale 
College ;  was  ordained  to  the  Presbyterian  min- 
istry in  1831,  and  came  to  Illinois  in  the  service 
of  the  American  Home  Missionary  Society. 
After  preaching  at  Collinsville,  Belleville  and 
other  points,  Mr.  Brooks,  who  was  a  member  of 
the  celebrated  "Yale  Band,"  in  1837  assumed  the 
principalship  of  a  Teachers'  Seminary  at  Waverly, 
Morgan  County,  but  three  years  later  removed  to 
Springfield,  where  he  established  an  academy  for 
both  sexes.  Although  finally  compelled  to 
abandon  this,  he  continued  teaching  with  some 
interruptions  to  within  a  few  years  of  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1886.  He  was  one  of  the  Trus- 
tees of  Illinois  College  from  its  foundation  up  to 
his  death. 

BROSS,  William,  journalist,  was  born  in  Sus- 
sex County,  N.  J.,  Nov.  14,  1813,  and  graduated 
with  honors  from  Williams  College  in  1838,  hav- 
ing previously  developed  his  physical  strength 
by  much  hard  work  upon  the  Delaware  and 
Hudson  Canal,  and  in  the  lumbering  trade.  For 
five  years  after  graduating  he  was  a  teacher,  and 
settled  in  Chicago  in  1848.  Th  3re  he  first  engaged 
in  bookselling,  but  later  embarked  in  journalism. 
His  first  publication  was  "The  Prairie  Herald,"  a 
religious  paper,  which  was  discontinued  after 
two  years.  In  1852,  in  connection  with  John  L. 
Scripps,  he  founded  "The  Democratic  Press," 
which  was  consolidated  with  "The  Tribune"  in 
1858,  Mr.  Bross  retaining  his  connection  with  the 
new  concern.  He  was  always  an  ardent  free- 
soiler,  and  a  firm  believer  in  the  great  future  of 
Chicago  and  the  Northwest.  He  was  an  enthusi- 
astic Republican,  and,  in  1856  and  1860,  served  as 
an  effective  campaign  orator.  In  1864  he  was 
the  successful  nominee  of  his  party  for  Lieuten- 
ant-Governor.  This  was  his  only  official  position 
outside  of  a  membership  in  the  Chicago  Common 
Council  in  1855.  As  a  presiding  officer,  he  was 
dignified  yet  affable,  and  his  impartiality  was 
shown  by  the  fact  that  no  appeals  were  taken 
from  his  decisions.  After  quitting  public  life  he 
devoted  much  time  to  literary  pursuits,  deliver- 
ing lectures  in  various  parts  of  the  country. 
Among  his  best  known  works  are  a  brief  "His- 
tory of  Chicago,"  "History  of  Camp  Douglas," 


and  "Tom  Quick."  Died,  in  Chicago,  Jan.  27, 
1890. 

BROWN,  Henry,  lawyer  and  historian,  was 
born  at  Hebron,  Tolland  County,  Conn.,  May  13, 
1789 — the  son  of  a  commissary  in  the  army  of 
General  Greene  of  Revolutionary  fame;  gradu- 
ated at  Yale  College,  and,  when  of  age,  removed 
to  New  York,  later  studying  law  at  Albany, 
Canandaigua  and  Batavia,  and  being  admitted  to 
the  bar  about  1813,  when  he  settled  down  in 
practice  at  Cooperstown ;  in  1816  was  appointed 
Judge  of  Herkimer  County,  remaining  on  the 
bench  until  about  1824.  He  then  resumed  prac- 
tice at  Cooperstown,  continuing  until  1836,  when 
he  removed  to  Chicago.  The  following  year  he 
was  elected  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  serving  two 
years,  and,  in  1842,  became  Prosecuting  Attorney 
of  Cook  County.  During  this  period  he  was 
engaged  in  writing  a  "History  of  Illinois,"  which 
was  published  in  New  York  in  1844  This  was 
regarded  at  the  time  as  the  most  voluminous  and 
best  digested  work  on  Illinois  history  that  had  as 
yet  been  published.  In  1846,  on  assuming  the 
Presidency  of  the  Chicago  Lyceum,  he  delivered 
an  inaugural  entitled  "Chicago,  Present  and 
Future,"  which  is  still  preserved  as  a  striking 
prediction  of  Chicago's  future  greatness.  Origi- 
nally a  Democrat,  he  became  a  Freesoiler  in  1848. 
Died  of  cholera,  in  Chicago,  May  16,  1849. 

BROWN,  James  B.,  journalist,  was  born  in 
Gilmanton,  Belknap  County,  N.  H.,  Sept.  1, 
1833 — his  father  being  a  member  of  the  Legisla- 
ture and  Selectman  for  his  town.  The  son  was 
educated  at  Gilmanton  Academy,  after  which  he 
studied  medicine  for  a  time,  but  did  not  gradu- 
ate. In  1857  he  removed  West,  first  settling  at 
Dunleith,  Jo  Daviess  County,  111.,  where  he 
became  Principal  of  the  public  schools;  in  1861 
was  elected  County  Superintendent  of  Schools 
for  Jo  Daviess  County,  removing  to  Galena  two 
years  later  and  assuming  the  editorship  of  "The 
Gazette"  of  that  city.  Mr.  Brown  also  served  as 
Postmaster  of  Galena  for  several  years.  Died, 
Feb.  13,  1896. 

BROWN,  James  N.,  agriculturist  and  stock- 
man, was  born  in  Fayette  County,  Ky.,  Oct.  1, 
1806;  came  to  Sangamon  County,  111.,  in  1833, 
locating  at  Island  Grove,  where  he  engaged 
extensively  in  farming  and  stock-raising.  He 
served  as  Representative  in  the  General  Assem- 
blies of  1840,  '42,  '46,  and  '52,  and  in  the  last  was 
instrumental  in  securing  the  incorporation  of  the 
Illinois  State  Agricultural  Society,  of  which  he 
was  chosen  the  first  President,  being  re-elected  in 
1854.  He  was  one  of  the  most  enterprising  grow- 


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ers  of  blooded  cattle  in  the  State  and  did  much  to 
introduce  them  in  Central  Illinois ;  was  also  an 
earnest  and  influential  advocate  of  scientific 
education  for  the  agricultural  classes  and  an 
efficient  colaborer  with  Prof.  J.  B.  Turner,  of 
Jacksonville,  in  securing  the  enactment  by  Con- 
gress, in  1862,  of  the  law  granting  lands  for  the 
endowment  of  Industrial  Colleges,  out  of  which 
grew  the  Illinois  State  University  and  institu- 
tions of  like  character  in  other  States.  Died, 
Nov.  16,  1868. 

BROWN,  William,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was  born 
June  1,  1819,  in  Cumberland,  England,  his  par- 
ents emigrating  to  this  country  when  he  was 
eight  years  old,  and  settling  in  Western  New 
York.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Rochester, 
in  October,  1845,  and  at  once  removed  to  Rock- 
ford,  111.,  where  he  commenced  practice.  In  1852 
he  was  elected  State's  Attorney  for  the  Four- 
teenth Judicial  Circuit,  and,  in  1857,  was  chosen 
Mayor  of  Rockford.  In  1870  he  was  elected  to 
the  bench  of  the  Circuit  Court  as  successor  to 
Judge  Sheldon,  later  was  promoted  to  the  Su- 
preme Court,  and  was  re-elected  successively  in 
1873,  in  '79  and  '85.  Died,  at  Rockford,  Jan.  15, 
1891. 

BROWN,  William  H.,  lawyer  and  financier, 
was  born  in  Connecticut,  Dec.  20,  1796;  spent 
his  boyhood  at  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  studied  law,  and, 
in  1818,  came  to  Illinois  with  Samuel  D.  Lock- 
wood  (afterwards  a  Justice  of  the  State  Supreme 
Court),  descending  the  Ohio  River  to  Shawnee- 
town  in  a  flat-boat.  Mr.  Brown  visited  Kaskas- 
kia  and  was  soon  after  appointed  Clerk  of  the 
United  States  District  Court  by  Judge  Nathaniel 
Pope,  removing,  in  1820,  to  Vandalia,  the  new 
State  capital,  where  he  remained  until  1835.  He 
then  removed  to  Chicago  to  accept  the  position  of 
Cashier  of  the  Chicago  branch  of  the  State  Bank 
of  Illinois,  which  he  continued  to  fill  for  many 
years.  He  served  the  city  as  School  Agent  for 
thirteen  years  (1840-53),  managing  the  city's 
school  fund  through  a  critical  period  with  great 
discretion  and  success.  He  was  one  of  the  group 
of  early  patriots  who  successfully  resisted  the 
attempt  to  plant  slavery  in  Illinois  in  1823-24; 
was  also  one  of  the  projectors  of  the  Chicago  & 
Galena  Union  Railroad,  was  President  of  the 
Chicago  Historical  Society  for  seven  years  and 
connected  with  many  other  local  enterprises. 
He  was  an  ardent  personal  friend  of  President 
Lincoln  and  served  as  Representative  in  the 
Twenty-second  General  Assembly  (1860-62). 
While  making  a  tour  of  Europe  he  died  of  paraly- 
sis at  Amsterdam,  June  17,  1867. 


BROWN  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  western 
part  of  the  State,  with  an  area  of  306  square 
miles,  and  a  population  (1890)  of  11,951;  was  cut 
off  from  Schuyler  and  made  a  separate  county  in 
May,  1839,  being  named  in  honor  of  Gen.  Jacob 
Brown.  Among  the  pioneer  settlers  were  the 
Vandeventers  and  Hambaughs,  John  and  David 
Six,  William  McDaniel,  Jeremiah  Walker, 
Willis  O'Neil,  Harry  Lester,  John  Ausmus  and 
Robert  H.  Curry.  The  county-seat  is  Mount 
Sterling,  a  town  of  no  little  attractiveness. 
Other  prosperous  villages  are  Mound  Station  and 
Ripley.  The  chief  occupation  of  the  people  is 
farming,  although  there  is  some  manufacturing 
of  lumber  and  a  few  potteries  along  the  Illinois 
River.  Pop.  (1900),  11,557;  (1910),  10,397. 

BROWNE,  Francis  Fisher,  editor  and  author, 
was  born  in  South  Halifax,  Vt.,  Dec.  1,  1843,  the 
son  of  William  Goldsmith  Browne,  who  was  a 
teacher,  editor  and  author  of  the  song  "A  Hun- 
dred Years  to  Come."  In  childhood  he  was 
brought  by  his  parents  to  Western  Massachusetts, 
where  he  attended  the  public  schools  and  learned 
the  printing  trade  in  his  father's  newspaper 
office  at  Chicopee,  Mass.  Leaving  school  in  1862, 
he  enlisted  in  the  Forty-sixth  Regiment  Massa- 
chusetts Volunteers,  in  which  he  served  one 
year,  chiefly  in  North  Carolina  and  in  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac.  On  the  discharge  of  his  regi- 
ment he  engaged  in  the  study  of  law  at  Roches- 
ter, N.  Y.,  entering  the  law  department  of  the 
University  of  Michigan  in  1806,  but  abandoning 
his  intenton  of  entering  the  legal  profession, 
removed  to  Chicago  in  1867,  where  he  engaged  in 
journalistic  and  literary  pursuits.  Between  1869 
and  '74  he  was  editor  of  '"fhe  Lakeside  Monthly, " 
when  he  became  literary  editor  of  "The  Alliance, ' ' 
but,  in  1880,  he  established  and  assumed  the 
editorship  of  "The  Dial,"  a  purely  literary  pub- 
lication-which  has  gained  a  high  reputation,  and 
of  which  he  has  remained  in  control  continuously 
ever  since,  meanwhile  serving  as  the  literary 
adviser,  for  many  years,  of  the  well-known  pub- 
lishing house  of  McClurg  &  Co.  Besides  his 
journalistic  work,  Mr.  Browne  has  contributed 
to  the  magazines  and  literary  anthologies  a  num- 
ber of  short  lyrics,  and  is  the  author  of  "The 
Everyday  Life  of  Abraham  Lincoln"  (1886),  and 
a  volume  of  poems  entitled,  "Volunteer  Grain" 
(1893).  He  also  compiled  and  edited  "Golden 
Poems  by  British  and  American  Authors"  (1881); 
"The  Golden  Treasury  of  Poetry  and  Prose" 
(1886),  and  the  "Laurel  Crowned"series  of  stand- 
ard poetry  (1891-92).  Mr.  Browne  was  Chairman 
of  the  Committee  of  the  Congress  of  Authors  in 


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the  World's  Congress  Auxiliary  held  in  con- 
nection with  The  Columbian  Exposition  in 
1893. 

BROWNE,  Thomas  C.,  early  jurist,  was  born  in 
Kentucky,  studied  law  there  and,  coming  to 
Shawneetown  in  1812,  served  in  the  lower  branch 
of  the  Second  Territorial  Legislature  (1814-16) 
and  in  the  Council  (1816-18),  being  the  first  law- 
yer to  enter  that  body.  In  1815  he  was  appointed 
Prosecuting  Attorney  and,  on  the  admission  of 
Illinois  as  a  State,  was  promoted  to  the  Supreme 
bench,  being  re-elected  by  joint  ballot  of  the 
Legislature  in  1825,  and  serving  continuously 
until  the  reorganization  of  the  Supreme  Court 
under  the  Constitution  of  1848,  a  period  of  over 
thirty  years.  Judge  Browne's  judicial  character 
and  abilities  have  been  differently  estimated. 
Though  lacking  in  industry  as  a  student,  he  is 
represented  by  the  late  Judge  John  D.  Caton, 
who  knew  him  personally,  as  a  close  thinker  and 
a  good  judge  of  men.  While  seldom,  if  ever, 
accustomed  to  argue  questions  in  the  conference 
room  or  write  out  his  opinions,  he  had  a  capacity 
for  expressing  himself  in  short,  pungent  sen- 
tences, which  indicated  that  he  was  a  man  of  con- 
siderable ability  and  had  clear  and  distinct  views 
of  his  own.  An  attempt  was  made  to  impeach 
him  before  the  Legislature  of  1843  "for  want  of 
capacity  to  discharge  the  duties  of  his  office," 
but  it  failed  by  an  almost  unanimous  vote.  He 
was  a  Whig  in  politics,  but  had  some  strong  sup- 
porters among  Democrats.  In  1822  Judge  Browne 
was  one  of  the  four  candidates  for  Governor — in 
the  final  returns  standing  third  on  the  list  and,  by 
dividing  the  vote  of  the  advocates  of  a  pro-slavery 
clause  in  the  State  Constitution,  contributing  to 
the  election  of  Governor  Coles  and  the  defeat  of 
the  pro-slavery  party.  (See  Coles,  Edward,  and 
Slavery  and  Slave  Laws. )  In  the  latter  part  of 
his  official  term  Judge  Browne  resided  at  Ga- 
lena, but,  in  1853,  removed  with  his  son-in-law, 
ex-Congressman  Joseph  P.  Hoge,  to  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal.,  where  he  died  a  few  years  later — 
probably  about  1856  or  1858. 

BROWNING,  Orville  Hickman,  lawyer,  United 
States  Senator  and  Attorney-General,  was  born 
in  Harrison  County,  Ky.,  in  1810.  After  receiv- 
ing a  classical  education  at  Augusta  in  his  native 
State,  he  removed  to  Quincy,  111.,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1831.  In  1832  he  served 
in  the  Black  Hawk  War,  and  from  1836  to  1843, 
was  a  member  of  the  Legislature,  serving  in  both 
houses.  A  personal  friend  and  political  adherent 
of  Abraham  Lincoln,  he  aided  in  the  organization 
of  the  Republican  party  at  the  memorable 


Bloomington  Convention  of  1856.  As  a  delegate 
to  the  Chicago  Convention  in  1860,  he  aided  in 
securing  Mr.  Lincoln's  nomination,  and  was  a 
conspicuous  supporter  of  the  Government  in  the 
Civil  War.  In  1861  he  was  appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Yates  United  States  Senator  to  fill  Senator 
Douglas'  unexpired  term,  serving  until  1863.  In 
1866  he  became  Secretary  of  the  Interior  by  ap- 
pointment of  President  Johnson,  also  for  a  time 
discharging  the  duties  of  Attorney-General. 
Returning  to  Illinois,  he  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1869-70,  which 
was  his  last  participation  in  public  affairs,  his 
time  thereafter  being  devoted  to  his  profession. 
He  died  at  his  home  in  Quincy,  111.,  August  10, 
1881. 

BRYAX,  Silas  Lillard,  legislator  and  jurist, 
born  in  Culpepper  County,  Va.,  Nov  4,  1822;  was 
left  an  orphan  at  an  early  age,  and  came  west  in 
1840,  living  for  a  time  with  a  brother  near  Troy, 
Mo.  The  following  year  he  came  to  Marion 
County,  111.,  where  he  attended  school  and 
worked  on  a  farm;  in  1845  entered  McKendree 
College,  graduating  in  1849,  and  two  years  later 
was  admitted  to  the  bar,  supporting  himself 
meanwhile  by  teaching.  He  settled  at  Salem 
111.,  and,  in  1852,  was  elected  as  a  Democrat  to 
the  State  Senate,  in  which  body  he  served  for 
eight  years,  being  re-elected  in  1856.  In  1861  he 
was  elected  to  the  bench  of  the  Second  Judicial 
Circuit,  and  again  chosen  in  1867,  his  second 
term  expiring  in  1873.  While  serving  as  Judge, 
lie  was  also  elected  a  Delegate  to  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  of  1869-70.  He  was  an  unsuc- 
cessful candidate  for  Congress  on  the  Greeley 
ticket  in  1872.  Died  at  Salem,  March  30,  1880.— 
William  Jennings  (Bryan),  son  of  the  preceding, 
was  born  at  Salem,  111. ,  March  19, 1860.  The  early 
life  of  young  Bryan  was  spent  on  his  father's 
farm,  but  at  the  age  of  ten  years  he  began  to 
attend  the  public  school  in  town ;  later  spent  two 
years  in  Whipple  Academy,  .the  preparatory 
department  of  Illinois  College  at  Jacksonville, 
and,  in  1881,  graduated  from  the  college  proper  as 
the  valedictorian  of  his  class.  Then  he  devoted 
two  years  to  the  study  of  law  in  the  Union  Law 
School  at  Chicago,  meanwhile  acting  as  clerk  and 
studying  in  the  law  office  of  ex-Senator  Lyman 
Trumbull.  Having  graduated  in  law  in  1883,  he 
soon  entered  upon  the  practice  of  his  profession 
at  Jacksonville  as  the  partner  of  Judge  E.  P. 
Kirby,  a  well-known  lawyer  and  prominent 
Republican  of  that  city.  Four  years  later  (1887) 
found  him  a  citizen  of  Lincoln,  Neb.,  which  has 
since  been  his  home.  He  took  a  prominent  part 


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in  the  politics  of  Nebraska,  stumping  the  State 
for  the  Democratic  nominees  in  1888  and  '89,  and 
in  1890  received  the  Democratic  nomination  for 
Congress  in  a  district  which  had  been  regarded 
as  strongly  Republican,  and  was  elected  by  a 
large  majority.  Again,  in  1892,  he  was  elected 
by  a  reduced  majority,  but  two  years  later 
declined  a  renomination,  though  proclaiming 
himself  a  free-silver  candidate  for  the  United 
States  Senate,  meanwhile  officiating  as  editor  of 
"The  Omaha  World-Herald."  In  Jury,  1896,  he 
received  the  nomination  for  President  from  the 
Democratic  National  Convention  at  Chicago,  on 
a  platform  declaring  for  the  "free  and  unlimited 
coinage  of  silver"  at  the  ratio  of  sixteen  of  silver 
(in  weight)  to  one  of  gold,  and  a  few  weeks  later 
was  nominated  by  the  "Populists"  at  St.  Louis 
for  the  same  office — being  the  youngest  man  ever 
put  in  nomination  for  the  Presidency  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  Government.  He  conducted  an 
active  personal  campaign,  speaking  in  nearly 
every  Northern  and  Middle  Western  State,  but 
was  defeated  by  his  Republican  opponent,  Maj. 
William  McKinley.  Mr.  Bryan  is  an  easy  and 
fluent  speaker,  possessing  a  voice  of  unusual 
compass  and  power,  and  is  recognized,  even  by 
his  political  opponents,  as  a  man  of  pure  personal 
character. 

BRYAN,  Thomas  Barbour,  lawyer  and  real 
estate  operator,  was  born  at  Alexandria,  Va., 
Dec.  22,  1828,  being  descended  on  the  maternal 
side  from  the  noted  Barbour  family  of  that 
State;  graduated  in  law  at  Harvard,  and,  at  the 
age  of  twenty-one,  settled  in  Cincinnati.  In 
1852  he  came  to  Chicago,  where  he  acquired  ex- 
tensive real  estate  interests  and  built  Bryan 
Hall,  which  became  a  popular  place  for  en- 
tertainments. Being  a  gifted  speaker,  as  well 
as  a  zealous  Unionist,  Mr.  Bryan  was  chosen 
to  deliver  the  address  of  welcome  to  Senator 
Douglas,  when  that  statesman  returned  to 
Chicago  a  few  weeks  before  his  death  in  1861. 
During  the  progress  of  the  war  he  devoted  his 
time  and  his  means  most  generously  to  fitting  out 
soldiers  for  the  field  and  caring  for  the  sick  and 
wounded.  His  services  as  President  of  the  great 
Sanitary  Fair  in  Chicago  (1865),  where  some 
§300,000  were  cleared  for  disabled  soldiers,  were 
especially  conspicuous.  At  this  time  he  became 
the  purchaser  (at  $3,000)  of  the  original  copy  of 
President  Lincoln's  Emancipation  Proclamation, 
which  had  been  donated  to  the  cause.  He  also 
rendered  valuable  service  after  the  fire  of  1871, 
though  a  heavy  sufferer  from  that  event,  and  was 
a  leading  factor  in  securing  the  location  of  the 


World's  Columbian  Exposition  in  Chicago  in  1890, 
later  becoming  Vice -President  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  and  making  a  visit  to  Europe  in  the 
interest  of  the  Fair.  After  the  war  Mr.  Bryan 
resided  in  Washington  for  some  time,  and,  by 
appointment  of  President  Hayes,  served  as  Com- 
missioner of  the  District  of  Columbia.  Possessing 
refined  literary  and  artistic  tastes,  he  has  done 
much  for  the  encouragement  of  literature  and 
art  in  Chicago.  His  home  was  at  Elmhurst,  111. 
Died  Jan.  25,  1906. — Charles  Page  (Bryan),  son 
of  the  preceding,  lawyer  and  foreign  minister, 
was  born  in  Chicago,  Oct.  2,  1855,  and  educated 
at  the  University  of  Virginia  and  Columbia  Law 
School;  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1878,  and 
the  following  year  removed  to  Colorado,  where 
he  remained  four  years,  while  there  serving  in 
both  Houses  of  the  State  Legislature.  In  1883  he 
returned  to  Chicago  and  became  a  member  of  the 
First  Regiment  of  the  Illinois  National  Guard, 
serving  upon  the  staff  of  both  Governor  Oglesby 
and  Governor  Fifer;  in  1890,  was  elected  to  the 
State  Legislature  from  Cook  County,  being  re- 
elected  in  1892,  and  in  1894;  was  also  the  first 
Commissioner  to  visit  Europe  in  the  interest  of 
the  World's  Columbian  Exposition,  on  his  return 
serving  as  Secretary  of  the  Exposition  Commis- 
sioners in  1891-92.  In  the  latter  part  of  1897  he 
was  appointed  by  President  McKinley  Minister 
to  China,  but  before  being  confirmed,  early  in 
1898,  was  assigned  as  Minister  to  Brazil,  serving 
until  1902;  has  since  served  in  similar  capacity  in 
Switzerland  (1902-03),  Portugal  (1903-10),  Belgium 
(1910-11);  in  1911  was  appointed  Envoy  Extra- 
ordinary and  Minister  Plenipotentiary  to  Japan. 

BRYAJfT,  John  Howard,  pioneer,  brother  of 
William  Cullen  Bryant,  the  poet,  was  born  in 
Cummington,  Mass.,  July  22,  1807,  educated  at 
the  Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute  in  Troy, 
N.  Y, ;  removed  to  Illinois  in  1831,  and  held  vari- 
ous offices  in  Bureau  County,  including  that  of 
Representative  in  the  General  Assembly,  to  which 
he  was  elected  in  1842,  and  again  in  1858.  A 
practical  and  enterprising  farmer,  he  was  identi- 
fied with  the  Illinois  State  Agricultural  Society 
in  its  early  history,  as  also  with  the  movement 
which  resulted  in  the  establishment  of  industrial 
colleges  in  the  various  States.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Republican  party  and  a  warm 
personal  friend  of  President  Lincoln,  being  a 
member  of  the  first  Republican  State  Convention 
at  Bloomington  in  1856,  and  serving  as  Collector 
of  Internal  Revenue  by  appointment  of  Mr.  Lin- 
coln in  1862-64.  In  1872  Mr.  Bryant  joined  in  the 
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years  later  was  identified  with  the  "Independent 
Reform"  party,  but  later  co-operated  with  th« 
Democratic  party.  He  produced  two  volumes  of 
poems,  published,  respectively,  in  1855  and  1885, 
besides  a  number  of  public  addresses.  Died  at  his 
home  at  Princeton,  111.,  Jan.  14,  1902. 

BUCK,  Hiram,  clergyman,  was  born  in  Stew- 
ben  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1818;  joined  the  Illinois 
Methodist  Episcopal  Conference  in  1843,  and  con- 
tinued in  its  service  for  nearly  fifty  years,  being 
much  of  the  time  a  Presiding  Elder.  At  his 
death  he  bequeathed  a  considerable  sum  to  the 
endowment  funds  of  the  Wesleyan  University  at 
Bloomington  and  the  Illinois  Conference  College 
at  Jacksonville.  Died  at  Decatur,  111.,  August 
22,  1892. 

BUD  A,  a  village  in  Bureau  County,  at  the  junc- 
tion of  the  main  line  with  the  Buda  and  Rush- 
ville  branch  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railroad,  and  the  Sterling  and  Peoria  branch  of 
the  Chicago  &  Northwestern,  12  miles  southwest 
of  Princeton  and  117  miles  west-southwest  of 
Chicago;  has  excellent  water- works,  electric- 
light  plant,  brick  and  tile  factory,  fine  churches, 
graded  school,  a  bank  and  one  newspaper 
Dairying  is  carried  on  quite  extensively  and  a 
good-sized  creamery  is  located  here.  Population 
(1890),  990;  (1900),  873;  (1910),  887. 

BUFOR1),  Napoleon  Bonaparte,  banker  and 
soldier,  was  born  in  Woodford  County,  Ky.,  Jan. 
13,  1807 ;  graduated  at  West  Point  Military  Acad- 
emy, 1827,  and  served  for  some  time  as  Lieutenant 
of  Artillery;  entered  Harvard  Law  School  in 
1831,  served  as  Assistant  Professor  of  Natural  and 
Experimental  Philosophy  there  (1834-35),  then 
resigned  his  commission,  and,  after  some  service 
as  an  engineer  upon  public  works  in  Kentucky, 
established  himself  as  an  iron- founder  and  banker 
at  Rock  Island,  111.,  in  1857  becoming  President 
of  the  Rock  Island  &  Peoria  Railroad.  In  1861 
he  entered  the  volunteer  service,  as  Colonel  of 
the  Twenty-seventh  Illinois,  serving  at  various 
points  in  Western  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  as 
also  in  the  siege  of  Vicksburg,  and  at  Helena, 
Ark.,  where  he  was  in  command  from  Septem- 
ber, 1863,  to  March,  1865.  In  the  meantime,  by 
promotion,  he  attained  to  the  rank  of  Major- 
General  by  brevet,  being  mustered  out  in  August, 
1865.  He  subsequently  held  the  post  of  Special 
United  States  Commissioner  of  Indian  Affairs 
(1868),  and  that  of  Inspector  of  the  Union  Pacific 
Railroad  (1867-69).  Died,  March  28,  1883. 

BULKLEY,  (Rev.)  Justus,  educator,  was  born 
at  Leicester,  Livingston  County,  N.  Y.,  July  23, 
1819,  taken  to  Allegany  County,  N.  Y.,  at  3 


years  of  age,  where  he  remained  until  17,  attend- 
ing school  in  a  log  school-house  in  the  winter  and 
working  on  a  farm  in  the  summer.  His  family 
then  removed  to  Illinois,  finally  locating  at 
Barry,  Pike  County.  In  1842  he  entered  the 
preparatory  department  of  Shurtleff  College  at 
Upper  Alton,  graduating  there  in  1847.  He  was 
immediately  made  Principal  of  the  preparatory 
department,  remaining  two  years,  when  he  was 
ordained  to  the  Baptist  ministry  and  became 
pastor  of  a  church  at  Jerseyville.  Four  years 
later  he  was  appointed  Professor  of  Mathematics 
in  Shurtleff  College,  but  remained  only  two 
years,  when  he  accepted  the  pastorship  of  a 
church  at  Carrollton,  which  he  continued  to  fill 
nine  years,  when,  in  1864,  he  was  called  to  a 
church  at  Upper  Alton.  At  the  expiration  of 
one  year  he  was  again  called  to  a  professorship 
in  Shurtleff  College,  this  time  taking  the  chair  of 
Church  History  and  Church  Polity,  which  he 
continued  to  fill  for  a  period  of  thirty- four  years; 
also  serving  for  a  time  as  Acting  President  dur- 
ing a  vacancy  in  that  office.  During  this  period 
he  was  frequently  called  upon  to  preside  as  Mod- 
erator at  General  Associations  of  the  Baptist 
Church,  and  he  became  widely  known,  not  only 
in  that  denomination,  but  elsewhere.  Died  at 
Upper  Alton,  Jan.  16,  1899. 

BULL,  Lorenzo,  banker,  Quincy,  111.,  was  born 
in  Hartford,  Conn.,  March  21,  1819,  being  the 
eldest  son  of  Lorenzo  and  Elizabeth  Goodwin 
Bull.  His  ancestors  on  both  sides  were  of  the 
party  who,  under  Thomas  Hooker,  moved  from 
the  vicinity  of  Boston  and  settled  Hartford  in 
1634.  Leaving  Hartford  in  the  spring  of  1833,  he 
arrived  at  Quincy,  111.,  entirely  without  means, 
but  soon  after  secured  a  position  with  Judge 
Henry  H.  Snow,  who  then  held  most  of  the 
county  offices,  being  Clerk  of  the  County  Com- 
missioners' Court,  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court, 
Recorder,  Judge  of  Probate,  Notary  Public  and 
Justice  of  the  Peace.  Here  the  young  clerk 
made  himself  acquainted  with  the  people  of  the 
county  (at  that  time  few  in  number),  with  the 
land-system  of  the  country  and  with  the  legal 
forms  and  methods  of  procedure  in  the  courts. 
He  remained  with  Judge  Snow  over  two  years, 
receiving  for  his  services,  the  first  year,  six  dol- 
lars per  month,  and,  for  the  second,  ten  dollars 
per  month,  besides  his  board  in  Judge  Snow's 
family.  He  next  accepted  a  situation  with 
Messrs.  Holmes,  Brown  &  Co.,  then  one  of  the 
most  prominent  mercantile  houses  of  the  city, 
remaining  through  various  changes  of  the  firm 
until  1844,  when  he  formed  a  partnership  with 


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his  brother  under  the  firm  name  of  L.  &  C.  II. 
Bull,  and  opened  a  store  for  the  sale  of  hardware 
and  crockery,  which  was  the  first  attempt  made 
in  Quincy  to  separate  the  mercantile  business 
into  different  departments.  Disposing  of  their 
business  in  1861,  the  firm  of  L.  &  C.  H.  Bull 
embarked  in  the  private  bank-ing  business,  which 
they  continued  in  one  location  for  about  thirty 
years,  when  they  organized  the  State  Savings 
Loan  &  Trust  Company,  in  which  he  held  the 
position  of  President  until  1898,  when  he  retired 
Mr.  Bull  has  always  been  active  in  promoting  the 
improvement  and  growth  of  the  city ,  was  one  of 
the  five  persons  who  built  most  of  the  horse  rail- 
roads in  Quincy,  and  was,  for  about  twenty  years, 
President  of  the  Company.  The  Quincy  water- 
works were  sometime  owned  entirely  by  himself 
and  his  son.  He  never  sought  or  held  political 
office,  but  at  one  time  was  the  active  President  of 
five  distinct  business  corporations.  He  was  also 
for  some  five  years  one  of  the  Trustees  of  Illinois 
College  at  Jacksonville.  He  was  married  in  1844 
to  Miss  Margaret  H.  Benedict,  daughter  of  Dr. 
Win.  M.  Benedict,  of  Milbury,  Mass.,  and  they 
had  five  children.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republi- 
can, and  in  religious  associations  a  Congrega- 
tionalist.  Died  Mar.  2,  1905. —  Charles  Henry 
(Bull),  brother  of  the  preceding,  was  born  in 
Hartford,  Conn.,  Dec.  16,  1822,  and  removed 
to  Quincy,  111.,  in  June,  1837.  He  commenced 
business  as  a  clerk  in  a  general  store,  where 
he  remained  for  seven  years,  when  he  entered 
into  partnership  with  his  brother,  Lorenzo  Bull, 
in  the  hardware  and  crockery  business,  to 
which  was  subsequently  added  dealing  in 
agricultural  implements.  This  business  was 
continued  until  the  year  1861,  when  it  was 
sold  out,  and  the  brothers  established  them- 
selves as  private  bankers  under  the  same  firm 
name.  A  few  years  later  they  organized  the 
Merchants'  and  Farmers'  National  Bank,  which 
was  mainly  owned  and  altogether  managed  by 
them.  Five  or  six  years  later  this  bank  was 
wound  up,  when  they  returned  to  private  bank- 
ing, continuing  in  this  business  until  1891,  when 
it  was  merged  in  the  State  Savings  Loan  & 
Trust  Company,  organized  under  the  laws  of 
Illinois  with  a  capital  of  $300,000,  held  equally 
by  Lorenzo  Bull,  Charles  H.  Bull  and  Edward  J. 
Parker,  respectively,  as  President,  Vice-Presi- 
dent and  Cashier.  Near  the  close  of  1898  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Quincy  was  merged  into 
the  State  Savings  Loan  &  Trust  Company  with 
J.  H.  Warfield,  the  President  of  the  former,  as 
President  of  the  consolidated  concern.  Mr.  Bull 


was  one  of  the  parties  who  originally  organized 
the  Quincy,  Missouri  &  Pacific  Railroad  Com- 
pany in  1869 -a  road  intended  to  be  built  from 
Quincy,  111.,  across  the  State  of  Missouri  to 
Brownsville,  Neb.,  and  of  which  he  was  (1898) 
the  President,  the  name  having  been  changed  to 
the  Quincy,  Omaha  &  Kansas  City  Railway.  He 
was  also  identified  with  the  construction  of  the 
system  of  street  railways  in  Quincy,  and  con- 
tinued active  in  their  management  for  about 
twenty  years.  He  was  also  active  in  various  other 
public  and  private  enterprises,  and  has  done  much 
to  advance  the  growth  and  prosperity  of  the  city. 
Died  Nov.  27,  1908. 

BUNKER  HILL, a  city  of  Macoupin  County,  on 
the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis 
Railroad,  37  miles  northeast  of  St.  Louis;  has 
electric-lighting  plant,  telephone  service,  coal 
mine,  flouring  mill,  wagon  and  various  other 
manufactories,  two  banks,  two  newspapers,  opera 
house,  numerous  churches,  public  library,  a  mili- 
tary academy  and  fine  public  schools,  and  many 
handsome  residences;  is  situated  on  high  ground 
in  a  rich  agricultural  and  dairying  region  and  an 
important  shipping-point.  Pop.  (1910),  1,046. 

BUNN,  Jacob,  banker  and  manufacturer,  was 
born  in  Hunterdon  County,  N.  J.,  in  1814.  came 
to  Springfield  in  1836,  and,  four  years  later,  began 
business  as  a  grocer,  to  which  he  afterwards 
added  that  of  private  banking,  continuing  until 
1878.  During  a  part  of  this  time  his  bank  was 
one  of  the  best  known  and  widely  regarded  as 
one  of  the  most  solid  institutions  of  its  kind  in 
the  State.  Though  crippled  by  the  financial 
revulsion  of  1873-74  and  forced  investments  in 
depreciated  real  estate,  he  paid  dollar  for  dollar. 
After  retiring  from  banking  in  1878,  he  assumed 
charge  of  the  Springfield  Watch  Factory,  in 
which  he  was  a  large  stockholder,  and  of  which 
he  became  the  President.  Mr.  Bunn  was,  be- 
tween 1866  and  1870,  a  principal  stockholder  in 
"The  Chicago  Republican"  (the  predecessor  of 
"The  Inter-Ocean"),  and  was  one  of  the  bankers 
who  came  to  the  aid  of  the  State  Government  with 
financial  assistance  at  the  beginning  of  the  Civil 
War.  Died  at  Springfield,  Oct.  16,  1897.— John  W. 
(Bunn),  brother  of  the  preceding  and  successor 
to  the  grocery  business  of  J.  &  J.  W.  Bunn,  has 
been  a  prominent  business  man  of  Springfield. 
Served  many  years  as  Treasurer  of  the  State  Agri- 
cultural Board  and  of  Illinois  State  University;  is 
now  President  of  the  Marine  Bank,  Springfield. 

BUNSEN,  Geoi-ge,  German  patriot  and  educa- 
tor, was  born  at  Frankfort-on-the-Maine,  Ger- 
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city  and  at  Berlin  University;  while  still  a 
student  took  part  in  the  Peninsular  War  which 
resulted  in  the  downfall  of  Napoleon,  but  resum- 
ing his  studies  in  1816,  graduated  three  years 
later.  He  then  founded  a  boys'  school  at  Frank- 
fort, which  he  maintained  fourteen  years,  when, 
having  been  implicated  in  the  republican  revolu  • 
tion  of  1833,  he  was  forced  to  leave  the  country, 
locating  the  following  year  on  a  farm  in  St.  Clair 
County,  111.  Here  he  finally  became  a  teacher  in 
the  public  schools,  served  in  the  State  Constitu- 
tional Convention  of  1847,  was  elected  School 
Commissioner  of  St.  Clair  County,  and,  having 
removed  to  Belleville  in  1855,  there  conducted  a 
private  school  for  the  instruction  of  teachers 
while  discharging  the  duties  of  his  office -,  later 
was  appointed  a  member  of  the  first  State  School 
Board,  serving  until  1860,  and  taking  part  in  the 
establishment  of  the  Illinois  State  Normal  Uni 
versity,  of  which  he  was  a  zealous  advocate.  He 
was  also  a  contributor  to  "The  Illinois  Teacher," 
and,  for  several  years  prior  to  his  death,  served 
as  Superintendent  of  Schools  at  Belleville  without 
compensation.  Died,  November,  1872. 

BURCHARD,  Horatio  C.,  ex -Congressman,  was 
born  at  Marshall,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  22, 
1825;  graduated  at  Hamilton  College,  N.  Y.,  in 
1850,  and  later  removed  to  Stephenson  County, 
111.,  making  his  home  at  Freeport.  By  profes- 
sion he  was  a  lawyer,  but  had  also  been  largely 
interested  in  mercantile  pursuits.  From  1857  to 
1860  he  was  School  Commissioner  of  Stephenson 
County;  from  1863  to  1866  a  member  of  the  State 
Legislature,  and  from  1869  to  1879  a  Representa- 
tive in  Congress,  being  each  time  elected  as  a 
Republican,  for  the  first  time  as  the  successor  of 
E.  B.  Washburne.  After  retiring  from  Congress, 
he  served  for  six  years  (1879-85)  as  Director  of  the 
United  States  Mint  at  Philadelphia,  with  marked 
ability.  During  the  World's  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion at  Chicago  (1893),  Mr.  Burchard  was  in 
charge  of  the  Bureau  of  Awards  in  connection 
with  the  Mining  Department,  afterwards  resum- 
ing practice  of  his  profession.  Died  Mar.  14,  1908. 

BURDETTE,  Robert  Jones,  journalist  and 
humorist,  was  born  in  Greensborough,  Pa. ,  July 
30,  1844,  and  taken  to  Peoria,  111. ,  in  early  life, 
where  he  was  educated  in  the  public  schools.  In 
1862  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Forty-seventh 
Illinois  Volunteers  and  served  to  the  end  of  the 
war;  adopted  journalism  in  1869,  being  employed 
upon  "The  Peoria  Transcript"  and  other  papers 
of  that  city.  Later  he  became  associated  with 
"The  Burlington  (Iowa)  Hawkeye, "  upon  which 
he  gained  a  wide  reputation  as  a  genial  humor- 


ist. Several  volumes  of  his  sketches  have  been 
published,  but  in  recent  years  he  has  devoted  hia 
attention  chiefly  to  lecturing  with  occasional 
contributions  to  the  literary  press. 

BUREAU  COUNTY,  set  off  from  Putnam 
County  in  1837,  near  the  center  of  the  northern 
half  of  the  State,  Princeton  being  made  the 
county-seat.  Coal  had  been  discovered  in  1834, 
there  being  considerable  quantities  mined  at 
Mineral  and  Selby.  Sheffield  also  has  an  impor- 
tant coal  trade.  Public  lands  were  offered  for  sale 
as  early  as  1835,  and  by  1844  had  been  nearly  all 
sold.  Princeton  was  platted  in  1832,  and,  in  1890, 
contained  a  population  of  3,396.  The  county  has 
an  area  of  846  square  miles,  and,  according  to  the 
census  of  1910,  a  population  of  43,975.  The  pio- 
neer settler  was  Henry  Thomas,  who  erected  the 
first  cabin,  in  Bureau  township,  in  1828.  He  was 
soon  followed  by  the  Ament  brothers  (Edward, 
Justus  and  John  L. ) ,  and  for  a  time  settlers  came 
in  rapid  succession,  among  the  earliest  being 
Amos  Leonard,  Daniel  Dimmick,  John  Hall, 
William  Hoskins,  Timothy  Perkins,  Leonard 

Roth,  Bulbona  and  John  Dixon.  Serious 

Indian  disturbances  in  1831  caused  a  hegira  of 
the  settlers,  some  of  whom  never  returned.  In 
1833  a  fort  was  erected  for  the  protection  of  the 
whites,  and,  in  1836,  there  began  a  new  and  large 
influx  of  immigrants.  Among  other  early  set- 
tlers were  John  H.  and  Arthur  Bryant,  brothers 
of  the  poet,  William  Cullen  Bryant. 

BUREAU  OF  LABOR  STATISTICS,  estab- 
lished in  1879,  being  an  outgrowth  of  the  agitation 
and  discontent  among  the  laboring  classes,  which 
culminated  in  1877-78.  The  Board  consists  of 
five  Commissioners,  who  serve  for  a  nominal 
compensation,  their  term  of  office  being  two 
years.  They  are  nominated  by  the  Executive 
and  confirmed  by  the  Senate.  The  law  requires 
that  three  of  them  shall  be  manual  laborers  and 
two  employers  of  manual  labor.  The  Bureau  is 
charged  with  the  collection,  compilation  and 
tabulation  of  statistics  relative  to  labor  in  Illi- 
nois, particularly  in  its  relation  to  the  commer- 
cial, industrial,  social,  educational  and  sanitary 
conditions  of  the  working  classes.  The  Com- 
mission is  required  to  submit  biennial  reports. 
Those  already  published  contain  much  informa- 
tion of  value  concerning  coal  and  lead  mines, 
convict  labor,  manufactures,  strikes  and  lock- 
outs, wages,  rent,  cost  of  living,  mortgage 
indebtedness,  and  kindred  topics. 

BUROESS,  Alexander,  Protestant  Episcopal 
Bishop  of  the  diocese  of  Quincy,  was  born  at 
Providence,  R.  I.,  Oct.  31,  1819.  He  graduated 


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from  Brown  University  in  1838  and  from  the 
General  Theological  Seminary  (New  York)  in 
1841.  He  was  made  a  Deacon,  Nov.  3,  1842,  and 
ordained  a  priest,  Nov.  1,  1843.  Prior  to  his  ele- 
vation to  the  episcopate  he  was  rector  of  various 
parishes  in  Maine,  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  at 
Springfield,  Mass.  He  represented  the  dioceses 
of  Maine,  Long  Island  and  Massachusetts  in  the 
General  Conventions  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  from  1844  to  .1877,  and,  in  the  latter  year, 
was  President  of  the  House  of  Deputies.  Upon 
the  death  of  his  brother  George,  Bishop  of  Maine, 
he  was  chosen  by  the  clergy  of  the  diocese  to  suc- 
ceed him  but  declined.  When  the  diocese  of 
Quincy.  111.  was  created,  he  was  elected  its  first 
Bishop,  and  consecrated  at  Christ  Church,  Spring- 
field, Mass.,  on  May  15,  1878.  Besides  publishing 
a  memoir  of  his  brother.  Bishop  Burgess  is  the 
author  of  several  Sunday-school  question  books, 
carols  and  hymns,  and  has  been  a  contributor  to 
periodical  church  literature.  His  residence  is  at 
Peoria. 

BURLEY,  Arthur  Oilman,  merchant,  was  born 
at  Exeter,  N.  H..  Oct.  4,  1812,  received  his  edu- 
cation in  the  local  schools,  and,  in  1835,  came 
West,  locating  in  Chicago.  For  some  two  years 
he  served  as  clerk  in  the  boot,  shoe  and  clothing 
store  of  John  Holbrook,  after  which  he  accepted 
a  position  with  his  half-brother,  Stephen  F.  Gale, 
the  proprietor  of  the  first  book  and  stationery 
store  in  Chicago.  In  1838  he  invested  his  savings 
in  a  bankrupt  stock  of  crockery,  purchased  from 
the  old  State  Bank,  and  entered  upon  a  business 
career  which  was  continued  uninterruptedly  for 
nearly  sixty  years.  In  that  time  Mr.  Burley 
built  up  a  business  which,  for  its  extent  and 
success,  wTas  unsurpassed  in  its  time  in  the  West. 
His  brother  in-law,  Mr.  John  Tyrrell,  became  a 
member  of  the  firm  in  1852,  the  business  there- 
after being  conducted  under  the  name  of  Burley 
&  Tyrrell,  with  Mr.  Burley  as  President  of  the 
Company  until  his  death,  which  occurred,  August 

27,  1897. — Augustus  Harris  (Burley),  brother  of 
the  preceding,  was  born  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  March 

28,  1819 ;  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  his  native 
State,  and,  in  his  youth,  was  employed    for  a 
time  as  a  clerk  in  Boston.     In  1837  he  came  to 
Chicago  and  took  a  position  as  clerk  or  salesman 
in  the  book  and  stationery  store  of   his  half- 
brother,  Stephen  F.  Gale,  subsequently  became  a 
partner,  and,  on   the  retirement  of  Mr.  Gale  a 
few  years  later,  succeeded  to  the  control  of  the 
business.     In  1857  he  disposed  of  his  book  and 
stationery  business,    and  about    the  same  time 
became  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Merchants' 


Loan  and  Trust  Company,  with  which  he  was 
connected  as  a  Director  several  years.  Mr.  Burley 
was  a  member  of  the  volunteer  fire  depart- 
ment organized  in  Chicago  in  1841.  Among  the 
numerous  public  positions  held  by  him  may  be 
mentioned,  member  of  the  Board  of  Public  Works 
(1867-70),  the  first  Superintendent  of  Lincoln  Park 
(1869),  Representative  from  Cook  County  in  the 
Twenty-seventh  General  Assembly  (1870-72).  City 
Comptroller  during  the  administration  of  Mayor 
Medill  (1872-73),  and  again  under  Mayor  Roche 
(1887),  and  member  of  the  City  Council  (1881-82). 
Politically,  Mr.  Burley  had  been  a  zealous  Repub- 
lican and  served  on  the  Chicago  Union  Defense 
Committee  in  the  first  year  of  the  Civil  War,  and 
was  a  delegate  from  the  State-at-large  to  the 
National  Republican  Convention  at  Baltimore  in 
1864,  which  nominated  Abraham  Lincoln  for  the 
Presidency  a  second  time.  Died  Nov.  27,  1903. 

BURNHAM,  Daniel  Hudson,  architect,  was 
born  at  Henderson,  N.  Y. ,  Sept.  4,  1846;  came  to 
Chicago  at  9  years  of  age;  attended  private 
schools  and  the  Chicago  High  School,  after  which 
he  spent  two  years  at  Waltham,  Mass.,  receiving 
special  instruction ;  returning  to  Chicago  in  1867, 
he  was  afterwards  associated  with  various  firms. 
About  1873  he  formed  a  business  connection  with 
J.  W.  Root,  architect,  which  extended  to  the 
death  of  the  latter  in  1891.  The  firm  of  Burnham 
&  Root  furnished  the  plans  of  a  large  number  of 
the  most  conspicuous  business  buildings  in  Chi- 
cago, but  won  their  greatest  distinction  in  con- 
nection writh  the  construction  of  buildings  for  the 
World's  Columbian  Exposition,  of  which  Mr. 
Root  was  Supervising  Architect  previous  to  his 
death,  while  Mr.  Burnham  was  made  Chief  of 
Construction  and,  later.  Director  of  Works.  In 
this  capacity  his  authority  was  almost  absolute, 
but  was  used  with  a  discretion  that  contributed 
greatly  to  the  success  of  the  enterprise. 

BURR,  Albert  G.,  former  Congressman,  was 
born  in  Genesee  County,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  8,  1829; 
came  to  Illinois  about  1832  with  his  widowed 
mother,  who  settled  in  Springfield.  In  early  life 
he  became  a  citizen  of  Winchester,  where  he  read 
law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  also,  for  a  time, 
following  the  occupation  of  a  printer.  Here  he 
was  twice  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  (1860  and  1862),  meanwhile  serving 
as  a  member  of  the  State  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion of  1862.  Having  removed  to  Carrollton, 
Greene  County,  he  was  elected  as  a  Democrat  to 
the  Fortieth  and  Forty-first  Congresses  (1866  and 
1868),  serving  until  March  4,  1871.  In  August, 
1877,  he  was  elected  Circuit  Judge  to  fill  a 


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vacancy  and  was  re-elected  for  the  regular  term 
in  June,  1879,  but  died  in  office,  June  10,  1882. 

BURRELL,  Orlando,  member  of  Congress,  was 
born  in  Bradford  County,  Pa. ;  removed  with  his 
parents  to  White  County,  111.,  in  1834,  growing 
up  on  a  farm  near  Carmi;  received  a  common 
school  education;  in  1850  went  to  California, 
driving  an  ox-team  across  the  plains.  Soon  after 
the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War  (1861)  he  raised  a 
company  of  cavalry,  of  which  he  was  elected 
Captain,  and  which  became  a  part  of  the  First 
Regiment  Illinois  Cavalry;  served  as  County 
Judge  from  1873  to  1881,  and  was  elected  Sheriff 
in  1886.  In  1894  he  was  elected  Representative 
in  Congress  as  a  Republican  from  the  Twentieth 
District,  composed  of  counties  which  formerly 
constituted  a  large  part  of  the  old  Nineteenth 
District,  and  which  had  uniformly  been  repre- 
sented by  a  Democrat.  He  suffered  defeat  as  a 
candidate  for  re-election  in  1896. 

BURROUGHS,  John  Curtis,  clergyman  and 
educator,  was  born  in  Stamford,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  7, 
1818;  graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1843,  and 
Madison  Theological  Seminary  in  1846.  After 
five  years  spent  as  pastor  of  Baptist  churches  at 
Waterford  and  West  Troy,  N.  Y.,  in  1853  he 
assumed  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Baptist  Church 
of  Chicago;  about  1856  was  elected  to  the  presi- 
dency of  the  Chicago  University,  then  just 
established,  having  previously  declined  the 
presidency  of  Shurtleff  College  at  Upper  Alton. 
Resigning  his  position  in  1874,  he  soon  after 
became  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Edu- 
cation, and,  in  1884,  was  elected  Assistant  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Schools  of  that  city,  serving 
until  his  death,  April  21,  1892. 

BUSEY,  Samncl  T.,  banker  and  ex-Congress- 
man, was  born  at  Greencastle,  Ind.,  Nov.  16, 
1835 ;  in  infancy  was  brought  by  his  parents  to 
Urbana,  111.,  where  he  was  educated  and  has 
since  resided.  From  1857  to  1859  he  was  engaged 
in  mercantile  pursuits,  but  during  1860-61 
attended  a  commercial  college  and  read  law.  In 
1862  he  was  chosen  Town  Collector,  but  resigned 
to  enter  the  Union  Army,  being  commissioned 
Second  Lieutenant  by  Governor  Yates,  and 
assigned  to  recruiting  service.  Having  aided  in 
the  organization  of  the  Seventy-sixth  Illinois 
Volunteers,  he  was  commissioned  its  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  August  12,  1862 ;  was  afterward  promoted 
to  the  colonelcy,  and  mustered  out  of  service  at 
Chicago,  August  6,  1865,  with  the  rank  of  Brevet 
Brigadier-General.  In  1866  he  was  an  unsuccess- 
ful candidate  for  the  General  Assembly  on  the 
Democratic  ticket,  and  for  Trustee  of  the  State 


University  in  1888.  From  1880  to  1889  he  was 
Mayor  and  President  of  the  Board  of  Education 
of  Urbaiia.  In  1867  he  opened  a  private  bank, 
which  he  conducted  for  twenty-one  years.  In 
1890  he  was  elected  to  Congress  from  the  Fif- 
teenth Illinois  District,  defeating  Joseph  G.  Can 
non,  Republican,  by  whom  he  was  in  turn  defeated 
for  the  same  office  in  1892.  Died  Aug.  12,  1909. 

BUSHNELL,  a  flourishing  city  and  manufac- 
turing center  in  McDonough  County,  11  miles 
northeast  of  Macomb,  at  the  junction  or  two 
branches  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
with  the  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Western  Railroads;  fias 
numerous  manufactories,  including  wooden 
pumps,  flour,  agricultural  implements,  wagons 
and  carriages,  tank  and  fence-work,  rural  mail- 
boxes, mattresses,  brick,  besides  egg  and  poultry 
packing  houses ;  also  has  water-works  and  elec- 
tric lights,  grain  elevators,  three  banks,  several 
churches,  graded  public  and  high  schools,  two 
newspapers  and  a  public  library.  Pop.  (1910),  2,619. 

BUSHNELL,  Nehemiah,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
the  town  of  Westbrook,  Conn.,  Oct.  9,  1813, 
graduated  at  Yale  College  in  1835,  studied  law 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1837,  coming  in 
December  of  the  same  year  to  Quincy,  111.,  where, 
for  a  time,  he  assisted  in  editing  "The  Whig" 
of  that  city,  later  forming  a  partnership  with 
O.  H.  Browning,  which  was  never  fully  broken 
until  his  death.  In  his  practice  he  gave  much 
attention  to  land  titles  in  the  "Military  Tract" ; 
in  1851  was  President  of  the  portion  of  the  North- 
ern Cross  Railroad  between  Quincy  and  Gales- 
burg  (now  a  part  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy),  and  later  of  the  Quincy  Bridge  Company 
and  the  Quincy  &  Palmyra  (Mo.)  Railroad.  In 
1872  he  was  elected  by  the  Republicans  the 
"minority"  Representative  from  Adams  County 
in  the  Twenty-eighth  General  Assembly,  but 
died  during  the  succeeding  session,  Jan.  31,  1873. 
He  was  able,  high-minded  and  honorable  in  public 
and  private  life. 

BUSHNELL,  Washington,  lawyer  and  Attor- 
ney-General, was  born  in  Madison  County,  N.  Y., 
Sept.  30,  1825;  in  1837  came  with  his'  father  to 
Lisbon,  Kendall  County,  111.,  where  he  worked  on 
a  farm  and  taught  at  times ;  studied  law  at  Pough- 
keepsie,  N.  Y.,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and 
established  himself  in  practice  at  Ottawa,  I1L 
The  public  positions  held  by  him  were  those  of 
State  Senator  for  La  Salle  County  (1861-69)  and 
Attorney-General  (1869-73) ;  was  also  a  member 
of  the  Republican  National  Convention  of  1864, 
besides  being  identified  with  various  business 
enterprises  at  Ottawa.  Died,  June  30,  1885. 


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BUTLER,  William,  State  Treasurer,  was  born 
in  Aclair  County,  Ky.,  Dec.  15,  1797;  during  the 
war  of  1812,  at  the  age  of  16  years,  served  as  the 
messenger  of  the  Governor  of  Kentucky,  carrying 
dispatches  to  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison  in 
the  field;  removed  to  Sangamon  County,  111.,  in 
1828,  and,  in  1836,  was  appointed  Clerk  of  the 
Circuit  Court  by  Judge  Stephen  T.  Logan.  In 
1859  lie  served  as  foreman  of  the  Grand  Jury 
which  investigated  the  "canal  scrip  frauds" 
charged  against  ex-Governor  Matteson,  and  it 
was  largely  through  his  influence  that  the  pro- 
ceedings of  that  body  were  subsequently  pub- 
lished in  an  official  form.  During  the  same  year 
Governor  Bissell  appointed  him  State  Treasurer 
to  fill  a  vacancy  caused  by  the  resignation  of 
James  Miller,  and  he  was  elected  to  the  same 
office  in  1860.  Mr.  Butler  was  an  ardent  sup- 
porter of  Abraham  Lincoln,  whom  he  efficiently 
befriended  in  the  early  struggles  of  the  latter 
in  Springfield.  He  died  in  Springfield,  Jan.  11, 
1876. 

BUTTERFIELD,  Justin,  early  lawyer,  was 
born  at  Keene,  N.  EL,  in  1790.  He  studied  at 
Williams  College,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
at  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  in  1812.  After  some  years 
devoted  to  practice  at  Adams  and  at  Sackett's 
Harbor,  N.  Y.,  he  removed  to  New  Orleans,  where 
he  attained  a  high  rank  at  the  bar.  In  1835  he 
settled  in  Chicago  and  soon  became  a  leader  in 
his  profession  there  also.  In  1841  he  was  appointed 
by  President  Harrison  United  States  District  At- 
torney for  the  District  of  Illinois,  and,  in  1849,  by 
President  Taylor  Commissioner  of  the  General 
Land  Office,  one  of  his  chief  competitors  for  the 
latter  place  being  Abraham  Lincoln.  This  dis- 
tinction he  probably  owed  to  the  personal  influ- 
ence of  Daniel  Webster,  then  Secretary  of  State, 
of  whom  Mr.  Butterfield  was  a  personal  friend 
and  warm  admirer.  While  Commissioner,  he 
rendered  valuable  service  to  the  State  in  securing 
the  canal  land  grant.  As  a  lawyer  he  was  logical 
and  resourceful,  as  well  as  witty  and  quick  at 
repartee,  yet  his  chief  strength  lay  before  the 
Court  rather  than  the  jury.  Numerous  stories 
are  told  of  his  brilliant  sallies  at  the  bar  and 
elsewhere.  One  of  the  former  relates  to  his 
address  before  Judge  Nathaniel  Pope,  of  the 
United  States  Court  at  Springfield,  in  a  habeas- 
corpus  case  to  secure  the  release  of  Joseph  Smith, 
the  Mormon  prophet,  who  was  under  arrest  under 
the  charge  of  complicity  in  an  attempt  to  assassin- 
ate Governor  Boggs  of  Missouri.  Rising  to  begin 
his  argument,  Mr.  Butterfield  said:  "I  am  to 
address  the  Pope"  (bowing  to  the  Court);  "sur- 


rounded by  angels"  (bowing  still  lower  to  a  party 
of  ladies  in  the  audience),  "in  the  presence  of 
the  holy  apostles,  in  behalf  of  the  prophet  of 
the  Lord."  On  another  occasion,  being  asked  if 
he  was  opposed  to  the  war  with  Mexico,  he 
replied,  "I  opposed  one  war" — meaning  his 
opposition  as  a  Federalist  to  the  War  of  1812 — 
"but  learned  the  folly  of  it.  Henceforth  I  am  for 
war,  pestilence  and  famine."  He  died,  Oct.  25, 
1855. 

BYFORD,  William  H.,  physician  and  author, 
was  born  at  Eaton,  Ohio,  March  20,  1817;  in  1830 
came  with  his  widowed  mother  to  Crawford 
County,  111.,  and  began  learning  the  tailor's 
trade  at  Palestine;  later  studied  medicine  at 
Vincennes  and  practiced  at  different  points  in 
Indiana.  Meanwhile,  having  graduated  at  the 
Ohio  Medical  College,  Cincinnati,  in  1850,  he 
assumed  a  professorship  in  a  Medical  College  at 
Evansville,  Ind.,  also  editing  a  medical  journal. 
In  1857  he  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  ac- 
cepted a  chair  in  Rush  Medical  College,  but  two 
years  later  became  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Chicago  Medical  College,  where  he  remained 
twerty  years.  He  then  (1879)  returned  to  Rush, 
assuming  the  chair  of  Gynecology.  In  1870  he 
assisted  in  founding  the  Woman's  Medical  Col- 
lege of  Chicago,  remaining  President  of  the 
Faculty  and  Board  of  Trustees  until  his  death, 
May  21,  1890.  He  published  a  number  of  medical 
works  which  are  regarded  as  standard  by  the 
profession,  besides  acting  as  associate  of  Dr.  N.  S. 
Davis  in  the  editorship  of  "The  Chicago  Medical 
Journal"  and  as  editor-in-chief  of  "The  Medical 
Journal  and  Examiner,"  the  successor  of  the 
former.  Dr.  Byford  was  held  in  the  highest 
esteem  as  a  physician  and  a  man,  both  by  the 
general  public  and  his  professional  associates. 

BYRON,  a  village  of  Ogle  County,  in  a  pictur- 
esque region  on  Rock  River,  at  junction  of  the 
Chicago  Great  Western  and  the  Chicago,  Mil- 
waukee &  St.  Paul  Railways,  83  miles  west-north- 
west from  "Chicago;  is  in  rich  farming  and 
dairying  district;  has  two  banks  and  one  weekly 
paper.  Population  (1890),  698;  (1900),  1,015; 
(1910),  932. 

CABLE,  a  town  in  Mercer  County,  on  the  Rock 
Island  &  Peoria  Railroad,  26  miles  south  by  east 
from  Rock  Island.  Coal-mining  is  the  principal 
industry,  but  there  are  also  tile  works,  a  good 
quality  of  clay  for  manufacturing  purposes  being 
found  in  abundance.  Population  (1880),  572, 
(1890),  1,276;  (1900),  697;  (1910),  360. 

CABLE,  Benjamin  T.,  capitalist  and  politician, 
was  born  in  Georgetown,  Scott  County,  Ky.. 


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August  11,  1853.  When  he  was  three  years  old 
his  father's  family  removed  to  Rock  Island,  111., 
where  he  has  since  resided.  After  passing 
through  the  Rock  Island  public  schools,  he  matric- 
ulated at  the  University  of  Michigan,  graduating 
in  June,  1876.  He  owns  extensive  ranch  and 
manufacturing  property,  and  is  reputed  wealthy ; 
is  also  an  active  Democratic  politician,  and  influ- 
ential in  his  party,  having  been  a  member  of  both 
the  National  and  State  Central  Committees.  In 
1890  he  was  elected  to  Congress  from  the  Eleventh 
Illinois  District,  but  since  1893  has  held  no  public 
office. 

CABLE,  Ransom  R.,  railway  manager,  was 
born  in  Athens  County,  Ohio,  Sept.  23,  1834. 
His  early  training  was  mainly  of  the  practical 
sort,  and  by  the  time  he  was  17  years  old  he  was 
actively  employed  as  a  lumberman.  In  1857  he 
removed  to  Illinois,  first  devoting  his  attention 
to  coal  mining  in  the  neighborhood  of  Rock 
Island.  Later  he  became  interested  in  the  pro- 
jection and  management  of  railroads,  being  in 
turn  Superintendent,  Vice-President  and  Presi- 
dent of  the  Rock  Island  &  Peoria  Railroad.  His 
next  position  was  that  of  General  Manager  of  the 
Rockford,  Rock  Island  &  St.  Louis  Railroad.  His 
experience  in  these  positions  rendered  him  famil- 
iar with  both  the  scope  and  the  details  of  railroad 
management,  while  his  success  brought  him  to 
the  favorable  notice  of  those  who  controlled  rail- 
way interests  all  over  the  country.  In  1876  he 
was  elected  a  Director  of  the  Chicago,  Rock 
Island  &  Pacific  Railway.  In  connection  with 
this  company  he  also  held,  successively,  the  offices 
of  Vice-President,  Assistant  to  the  President,  Gen- 
eral Manager  and  President,  being  chief  executive 
officer  from  1880.  Died  Nov.  12,  1909.  (See 
Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railway,} 

C.VHOKI  A,  the  first  permanent  white  settle- 
ment in  Illinois,  and,  in  French  colonial  times, 
one  of  its  principal  towns.  French  Jesuit  mis- 
sionaries established  the  mission  of  the  Tamaroas 
here  in  1700,  to  which  they  gave  the  name  of 
"Sainte  Famille  de  Caoquias,"  antedating  the 
settlement  at  Kaskaskia  of  the  same  year  by  a 
few  months.  Cahokia  and  Kaskaskia  were 
jointly  made  the  county -seats  of  St.  Clair  County, 
when  that  county  was  organized  by  Governor  St. 
Clair  in  1790.  Five  years  later,  when  Randolph 
County  was  set  off  from  St.  Clair,  Cahokia  was 
continued  as  the  county-seat  of  the  parent 
county,  so  remaining  until  the  removal  of  the 
seat  of  justice  to  Belleville  in  1814.  Like  its 
early  rival,  Kaskaskia,  it  has  dwindled  in  impor- 
tance until,  in  1890,  its  population  was  estimated 


at  100.  Descendants  of  the  early  French  settlers 
make  up  a  considerable  portion  of  the  present 
population.  The  site  of  the  old  town  is  on  the 
line  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern  Rail- 
road, about  four  miles  from  East  St.  Louis. 
Some  of  the  most  remarkable  Indian  mounds  in 
the  Mississippi  Valley,  known  as  "the  Cahokia 
Mounds, "  are  located  in  the  vicinity.  (See  Mound- 
Builders,  Works  of  the. ) 

CAIRJfES,  Abraham,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  in 
.1816  settled  in  that  part  of  Crawford  County,  111., 
which  was  embraced  in  Lawrence  County  on  the 
organization  of  the  latter  in  1821.  Mr.  Cairnes 
was  a  member  of  the  House  for  Crawford  Count}' 
in  the  Second  General  Assembly  (1820-22),  and 
for  Lawrence  County  in  the  Third  (1822-24),  in 
the  latter  voting  against  the  pro-slavery  Conven- 
tion scheme.  He  removed  from  Lawrence 
County  to  some  point  on  the  Mississippi  River  in 
1826,  but  further  details  of  his  history  are  un- 
known. 

-  CAIRO,  the  county-seat  of  Alexander  County, 
and  the  most  important  river  point  between  St. 
Louis  and  Memphis.  Its  first  charter  was  ob- 
tained from  the  Territorial  Legislature  by  Shad- 
rach  Bond  (afterwards  Governor  of  Illinois),  John 
G.  Comyges  and  others,  who  incorporated  the 
"City  and  Bank  of  Cairo. ''  The  company  entered 
about  1,800  acres,  but  upon  the  death  of  Mr.  Comy- 
ges, the  land  reverted  to  the  Government.  The 
forfeited  tract  was  re-entered  in  1835  by  Sidney 
Breese  and  others,  who  later  transferred  it  to  the 
"Cairo  City  and  Canal  Company,"  a  corporation 
chartered  in  1837,  which,  by  purchase,  increased 
its  holdings  to  10,000  acres.  Peter  Stapleton  is 
said  to  have  erected  the  first  house,  and  John 
Hawley  the  second,  within  the  town  limits.  In 
consideration  of  certain  privileges,  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad  has  erected  around  the  water 
front  a  substantial  levee,  eighty  feet  wide.  Dur- 
ing the  Civil  War  Cairo  was  an  important  base 
for  military  operations;  is  an  important  shipping 
point;  has  flouring  mills  and  other  factories;  2  daily 
and  3  weekly  papers.  Pop.  (1910),  14,548. 

CAIRO  BRIDGE,  THE,  one  of  the  triumphs  of 
modern  engineering,  erected  by  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral Railroad  Company  across  the  Ohio  River, 
opposite  the  city  of  Cairo.  It  is  the  longest 
metallic  bridge  across  a  river  in  the  world,  being 
thirty-three  feet  longer  than  the  Tay  Bridge,  in 
Scotland.  The  work  of  construction  was  begun, 
July  1,  1887,  and  uninterruptedly  prosecuted  for 
twenty-seven  months,  being  completed,  Oct.  29, 
1889.  The  first  train  to  cross  it  was  made  up  of 
ten  locomotives  coupled  together.  The  ap- 


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preaches  from  both  the  Illinois  and  Kentucky 
shores  consist  of  iron  viaducts  and  well-braced 
timber  trestles.  The  Illinois  viaduct  approach 
consists  of  seventeen  spans  of  150  feet  each,  and 
one  span  of  106K  feet.  All  these  rest  on  cylin- 
der piers  filled  with  concrete,  and  are  additionally 
supported  by  piles  driven  within  the  cylinders. 
The  viaduct  on  the  Kentucky  shore  is  of  similar 
general  construction.  The  total  number  of  spans 
is  twenty-two — twenty-one  being  of  150  feet  each, 
and  one  of  106^  feet.  The  total  length  of  the. 
metal  work,  from  end  to  end,  is  10,650  feet, 
including  that  of  the  bridge  proper,  which  is 
4.644  feet.  The  latter  consists  of  nine  through 
spans  and  three  deck  spans.  The  through  spans 
rest  on  ten  first-class  masonry  piers  on  pneumatic 
foundations.  The  total  length  of  the  bridge, 
including  the  timber  trestles,  is  20,461  feet — about 
3#j  miles.  [Four-fifths  of  the  Illinois  trestle 
work  has  been  filled  in  with  earth,  while  that  on 
the  southern  shore  has  been  virtually  replaced  by 
an  embankment  since  the  completion  of  the 
bridge.  The  bridge  proper  stands  104.42  feet  in 
the  clear  above  low  water,  and  from  the  deepest 
foundation  to  the  top  of  the  highest  iron  work  is 
248.94  feet.  The  total  cost  of  the  work,  including 
the  filling  and  embankment  of  the  trestles,  has 
been  (1895)  between  $3,250,000  and  §3,500,000. 

CAIRO,  VINCENNES  &  CHICAGO  RAIL- 
ROAD,  a  division  of  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati, 
Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway,  extending  from 
Danville  to  Cairo  (261  miles),  with  a  branch  nine 
miles  in  length  from  St.  Francisville,  111.,  to  Vin- 
cennes,  Ind.  It  was  chartered  as  the  Cairo  & 
Vincennes  Railroad  in  1867,  completed  in  1872, 
placed  in  the  hands  of  a  receiver  in  1874,  sold 
under  foreclosure  in  January,  1880,  and  for  some 
time  operated  as  the  Cairo  Division  of  the 
Wabash,  St.  Louis  &  Pacific  Railway.  In  1889, 
having  been  surrendered  by  the  Wabash,  St. 
Louis  &  Pacific  Railway,  it  was  united  with  the 
Danville  &  Southwestern  Railroad,  reorganized  as 
the  Cairo,  Vincennes  &  Chicago  Railroad,  and, 
in  1890,  leased  to  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chi- 
cago &  St.  Louis  Railway,  of  which  it  is  known 
as  the  "Cairo  Division. "  (See  Cleveland,  Cincin- 
nati, Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway.) 

CAIRO  &  ST.  LOUIS  RAILROAD.  (See  St. 
Louis  &  Cairo  Railroad  and  Mobile  <fc  Ohio  Rail- 
way.) 

CAIRO  &  VIIVCEN1VES  RAILROAD.  (See 
Cairo,  Vincennes  &  Chicago  Railroad.) 

CALDWELL,  (Dr.)  George,  early  physician 
and  legislator  (the  name  is  spelled  both  Cadwell 
and  Caldwell  in  the  early  records),  was  born  at 


Wethersfield,  Conn.,  Feb.  21,  1773,  and  received 
his  literary  education  at  Hartford,  and  his  pro- 
fessional at  Rutland,  Vt.  He  married  a  daughter 
of  Hon.  Matthew  Lyon,  who  was  a  native  of 
Ireland,  and  who  served  two  terms  in  Congress 
from  Vermont,  four  from  Kentucky  (1803-11), 
and  was  elected  the  first  Delegate  in  Congress 
from  Arkansas  Territory,  but  died  before  taking 
his  seat  in  August,  1822.  Lyon  was  also  a  resi- 
dent for  a  time  of  St.  Louis,  and  was  a  candidate 
for  Delegate  to  Congress  from  Missouri  Territory, 
but  defeated  by  Edward  Hempstead  (see  Hemp- 
stead,  Edward).  Dr.  Caldwell  descended  the 
Ohio  River  in  1799  in  company  with  Lyon's 
family  and  his  brother-in-law,  John  Messinger 
(see  Messinger,  John),  who  afterwards  became  a 
prominent  citizen  of  St.  Clair  County,  the  party 
locating  at  Eddyville,  Ky.  In  1802,  Caldwell 
and  Messinger  removed  to  Illinois,  landing  near 
old  Fort  Chartres,  and  remained  some  time  in 
the  American  Bottom.  The  former  finally 
located  on  the  banks  of  the  Mississippi  a  few 
miles  above  St.  Louis,  where  he  practiced  his 
profession  and  held  various  public  offices,  includ- 
ing those  of  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  County 
Judge  for  St.  Clair  County,  as  also  for  Madison 
County  after  the  organization  of  the  latter.  He 
served  as  State  Senator  from  Madison  County 
in  the  First  and  Second  General  Assemblies 
(1818-22),  and,  having  removed  in  1820  within  the 
limits  of  what  is  now  Morgan  County  (but  still 
earlier  embraced  in  Greene),  in  1822  was  elected 
to  the  Senate  for  Greene  and  Pike  Counties — 
the  latter  at  that  time  embracing  all  the  northern 
and  northwestern  part  of  the  State,  including 
the  county  of  Cook.  During  the  following  ses- 
sion of  the  Legislature  he  was  a  sturdy  opponent 
of  the  scheme  to  make  Illinois  a  slave  State.  His 
home  in  Morgan  County  was  in  a  locality  known 
as  "Swinerton's  Point,"  a  few  miles  west  of 
Jacksonville,  where  he  died,  August  1,  1826. 
(See  Slavery  and  Slave  Laws. )  Dr.  Caldwell  (or 
Cadwell,  as  he  was  widely  known;  commanded 
a  high  degree  of  respect  among  early  residents  of 
Illinois.  Governor  Reynolds,  in  his  "Pioneer 
History  of  Illinois,"  says  of  him:  "He  was 
moral  and  correct  in  his  public  and  private  life, 
.  .  .  was  a  respectable  physician,  and  always 
maintained  an  unblemished  character." 

CALHOUJf,  John,  pioneer  printer  and  editor, 
was  born  at  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  April  14,  1808; 
learned  the  printing  trade  and  practiced  it  in  his 
native  town,  also  working  in  a  type-foundry  in 
Albany  and  as  a  compositor  in  Troy.  In  the  fall 
of  1833  he  came  to  Chicago,  bringing  with  him 


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an  outfit  for  the  publication  of  a  weekly  paper, 
and,  on  Nov.  26,  began  the  issue  of  "The  Chicago 
Democrat" — the  first  paper  ever  published  in  that 
city.  Mr.  Calhoun  retained  the  management  of 
the  paper  three  years,  transferring  it  in  Novem- 
ber, 1836,  to  John  Wentworth,  who  conducted  it 
until  its  absorption  by  "The  Tribune"  in  July, 
1861.  Mr.  Calhoun  afterwards  served  as  County 
Treasurer,  still  later  as  Collector,  and,  finally,  as 
agent  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  in  procur- 
ing right  of  way  for  the  construction  of  its  lines. 
Died  in  Chicago,  Feb.  20,  1859. 

CALHOUN,  John,  surveyor  and  politician,  was 
born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Oct.  14,  1806;  removed  to 
Springfield,  111.,  in  1830,  served  in  the  Black 
Hawk  War  and  was  soon  after  appointed  County 
Surveyor.  It  was  under  Mr.  Calhoun,  and  by  his 
appointment,  that  Abraham  Lincoln  served  for 
some  time  as  Deputy  Surveyor  of  Sangamon 
County.  In  1838  Calhoun  was  chosen  Represent- 
ative in  the  General  Assembly,  but  was  defeated 
in  1840,  though  elected  Clerk  of  the  House  at  the 
following  session.  He  was  a  Democratic  Presi- 
dential Elector  in  1844,  was  an  unsuccessful 
candidate  for  the  nomination  for  Governor  in 
1846,  and,  for  three  terms  (1849,  '50  and  '51), 
served  as  Mayor  of  the  city  of  Springfield.  In 
1852  he  was  defeated  by  Richard  Yates  (after- 
wards Governor  and  United  States  Senator),  as  a 
candidate  for  Congress,  but  two  years  later  was 
appointed  by  President  Pierce  Surveyor-General 
of  Kansas,  where  he  became  discreditably  con- 
spicuous by  his  zeal  in  attempting  to  carry  out 
the  policy  of  the  Buchanan  administration  for 
making  Kansas  a  slave  State — especially  in  con- 
nection with  the  Lecompton  Constitutional  Con- 
vention, with  the  election  of  which  he  had  much 
to  do,  and  over  which  he  presided.  Died  at  St. 
Joseph,  Mo.,  Oct.  25,  1859. 

CALHOUN,  William  J.,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Pittsburg,  Pa.,  Oct.  5,  1847.  After  residing  at 
various  points  in  that  State,  his  family  removed 
to  Ohio,  where  he  worked  on  a  farm  until  1864, 
when  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Nineteenth 
Ohio  Volunteer  Infantry,  serving  to  the  end  of 
the  war.  He  participated  in  a  number  of  severe 
battles  while  with  Sherman  on  the  march  against 
Atlanta,  returning  with  General  Thomas  to  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.  During  the  last  few  months  of  the 
war  he  served  in  Texas,  being  mustered_  out  at 
San  Antonio  in  that  State,  though  receiving  his 
final  discharge  at  Columbus,  Ohio.  After  the 
war  he  entered  the  Poland  Union  Seminary, 
where  he  became  the  intimate  personal  friend  of 
Maj.  William  McKinley,  who  was  elected  to  the 


Presidency  in  1896.  Having  graduated  at  the 
seminary,  he  came  to  Arcola,  Douglas  County, 
111.,  and  began  the  study  of  law,  later  taking  a 
course  in  a  law  school  in  Chicago,  after  which  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  (1875)  and  established 
himself  in  practice  at  Danville  as  the  partner  of 
the  Hon.  Joseph  B.  Mann.  In  1882  Mr.  Calhoun 
was  elected  as  a  Republican  to  the  lower  branch 
of  the  Thirty -third  General  Assembly  and,  during 
the  following  session,  proved  himself  one  of  the 
ablest  members  of  that  body.  In  May,  1897,  Mr. 
Calhoun  was  appointed  by  President  McKinley  a 
special  envoy  to  investigate  the  circumstances 
attending  the  death  of  Dr.  Ricardo  Ruiz,  a  nat- 
uralized citizen  of  the  United  States  who  had 
died  while  a  prisoner  in  the  hands  of  the  Spaniards 
during  the  rebellion  then  in  progress  in  Cuba. 
In  1898  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Inter- 
State  Commerce  Commission,  is  now  (1911)  Envoy 
Extraordinary  andMinister  Plenipotentiary  to  China. 

CALHOUN  COUNTY,  situated  between  the 
Mississippi  and  Illinois  Rivers,  just  above  their 
junction.  It  has  an  area  of  254  square  miles, 
with  a  population  (1910)  of  8,610;  was  organized 
in  1825  and  named  for  John  C.  Calhoun.  Origi- 
nally, the  county  was  well  timbered  and  the 
early  settlers  were  largely  engaged  in  lumbering, 
which  tended  to  give  the  population  more  or  less 
of  a  migratory  character.  Much  of  the  timber 
has  been  cleared  off,  and  the  principal  business 
in  later  years  has  been  agriculture,  although  coal 
is  foun^  and  mined  in  paying  quantities  along 
Silver  Creek.  Tradition  has  it  that  the  aborig- 
ines found  the  precious  metals  in  the  bed  of  this 
stream.  It  was  originally  included  within  the 
limits  of  the  Military  Tract  set  apart  for  the 
veterans  of  the  War  of  1812.  The  physical  con- 
formation of  the  county's  surface  exhibits  some 
peculiarities.  Limestone  bluffs,  rising  some- 
times to  the  height  of  200  feet,  skirt  the  banks  of 
both  rivers,  while  through  the  center  of  the 
county  runs  a  ridge  dividing  the  two  watersheds. 
The  side  valleys  and  the  top  of  the  central  ridge 
are  alike  fertile.  The  bottom  lands  are  very 
rich,  but'  are  liable  to  inundation.  The  county- 
seat  and  principal  town  is  Hardin,  with  a  popula- 
tion (1890)  of  811. 

CALLAHAN,  Ethelbert,  lawyer  and  legislator, 
was  born  near  Newark,  Ohio,  Dec.  17,  1829; 
came  to  Crawford  County,  111.,  in  1849,  where  he 
farmed,  taught  school  and  edited,  at  different 
times,  "The  Wabash  Sentinel"  and  "The  Marshall 
Telegraph."  He  early  identified  himself  with 
the  Republican  party,  and,  in  1864,  was  the 
Republican  candidate  for  Congress  in  his  dis- 


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trict ;  became  a  member  of  the  first  State  Board 
of  Equalization  by  appointment  of  Governor 
Oglesby  in  1867;  served  in  the  lower  house  of  the 
General  Assembly  during  the  sessions  of  1875,  '91, 
'93  and  '95,  and,  in  1893-95,  on  a  Joint  Committee 
to  revise  the  State  Revenue  Laws.  He  was  also 
Presidential  Elector  in  1880,  and  again  in  1888. 
Mr.  Callahan  was  admitted  to  the  bar  when  past 
30  years  of  age,  and  was  President  of  the  State 
Bar  Association  in  1889.  His  home  is  at  Robinson. 
CALUMET  RIVER,  a  short  stream  the  main 
body  of  which  is  formed  by  the  union  of  two 
branches  which  come  together  at  the  southern 
boundary  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  which  flows 
into  Lake  Michigan  a  short  distance  north  of  the 
Indiana  State  line.  The  eastern  branch,  known 
as  the  Grand  Calumet,  flows  in  a  westerly  direc- 
tion from  Northwestern  Indiana  and  unites  with 
the  Little  Calumet  from  the  west,  3}4  miles  from 
the  mouth  of  the  main  stream.  From  the  south- 
ern limit  of  Chicago  the  general  course  of  the 
stream  is  north  between  Lake  Calumet  and  Wolf 
Lake,  which  it  serves  to  drain.  At  its  mouth, 
Calumet  Harbor  has  been  constructed,  which 
admits  of  the  entrance  of  vessels  of  heavy 
draught,  and  is  a  shipping  and  receiving 
point  of  importance  for  heavy  freight  for 
the  Illinois  Steel  Works,  the  Pullman  Palace 
Car  Works  and  other  manufacturing  establish- 
ments in  that  vicinity.  The  river  is  regarded  as 
a  navigable  stream,  and  has  been  dredged  by  the 
General  Government  to  a  depth  of  twenty  feet 
and  200  feet  wide  for  a  distance  of  two  miles, 
with  a  depth  of  sixteen  feet  for  the  remainder  of 
the  distance  to  the  forks.  The  Calumet  feeder 
for  the  Illinois  and  Michigan  Canal  extends  from 
the  west  branch  (or  Little  Calumet)  to  the  canal 
in  the  vicinity  of  Willow  Springs.  The  stream 
was  known  to  the  early  French  explorers  as  "the 
Calimic,"  and  was  sometimes  confounded  by 
them  with  the  Chicago  River. 

CALUMET  RIVER  RAILROAD,  a  short  line, 
4.43  miles  in  length,  lying  wholly  within  Cook 
County.  The  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company 
is  the  lessee,  but  the  line  is  not  operated  at  present 
(1898).  Its  outstanding  capital  stock  is  §68,700. 
It  has  no  funded  debt,  but  has  a  floating  debt  of 
$116,357,  making  a  total  capitalization  of  $185,087. 
This  road  extends  from  One  Hundredth  Street  in 
Chicago  to  Hegewisch,  and  was  chartered  in  1883. 
(See  Pennsylvania  Railroad.) 

CAMBRIDGE,  the  county-seat  of  Henry 
County,  about  160  miles  southwest  of  Chicago, 
on  the  Rock  Island  &  Peoria  Railroad.  It  is  situ- 
ated in  a  fertile  region  chiefly  devoted  to 


agriculture  and  stock-raising.  The  city  is  a  con- 
siderable grain  market  and  has  some  manufac- 
tories. Some  coal  is  also  mined.  It  has  a  public 
library,  three  newspapers,  three  banks,  good 
schools,  and  handsome  public  (county)  buildings. 
Population  (1880),  1,203;  (1890),  United  States 
census  report,  940;  (1900),  1,345;  (1910),  1,272. 

CAMERON,  James,  Cumberland  Presbyterian 
minister  and  pioneer,  was  born  in  Kentucky  in 
1791,  came  to  Illinois  in  1815,  and,  in  1818,  settled 
in  Sangamon  County.  In  1829  he  is  said  to  have 
located  where  the  town  of  New  Salem  (after- 
wards associated  with  the  early  history  of  Abra- 
ham Lincoln)  was  built,  and  of  which  he  and 
James  Rutledge  were  the  founders.  He  is  also 
said  to  have  officiated  at  the  funeral  of  Ann 
Rutledge,  with  whose  memory  Mr.  Lincoln's 
name  has  been  tenderly  associated  by  his  biog- 
raphers. Mr.  Cameron  subsequently  removed 
successively  to  Fulton  County,  111.,  to  Iowa  and 
to  California,  dying  at  a  ripe  old  age,  in  the  latter 
State,  about  1878. 

CAMP  DOUGLAS,  a  Federal  military  camp 
established  at  Chicago  early  in  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion,  located  between  Thirty -first  Street  and 
College  Place,  and  Cottage  Grove  and  Forest 
Avenues.  It  was  originally  designed  and  solely 
used  as  a  camp  of  instruction  for  new  recruits. 
Afterwards  it  was  utilized  as  a  place  of  confine- 
ment for  Confederate  prisoners  of  war.  (For 
plot  to  liberate  the  latter,  together  with  other 
similar  prisoners  in  Illinois,  see  Camp  Douglas 
Conspiracy. ) 

CAMP  DOUGLAS  CONSPIRACY,  a  plot  formed 
in  1864  for  the  liberation  of  the  Confederate 
prisoners  of  war  at  Chicago  (in  Camp  Douglas), 
Rock  Island,  Alton  and  Springfield.  It  was  to  be 
but  a  preliminary  step  in  the  execution  of  a 
design  long  cherished  by  the  Confederate  Gov- 
ernment, viz.,  the  seizing  of  the  organized  gov- 
ernments of  Ohio,  Indiana  and  Illinois,  and  the 
formation  of  a  Northwestern  Confederacy, 
through  the  cooperation  of  the  "Sons  of  Lib- 
erty." (See  Secret  Treasonable  Societies.)  Three 
peace  commissioners  (Jacob  Thompson,  C.  C. 
Clay  and  J.  P.  Holcomb),  who  had  been  sent 
from  Richmond  to  Canada,  held  frequent 
conferences  with  leaders  of  the  treasonable 
organizations  in  the  North,  including  Clement  L. 
Vallandigham,  Bowles,  of  Indiana,  and  one 
Charles  Walsh,  who  was  head  of  the  movement 
in  Chicago,  with  a  large  number  of  allies  in  that 
city  and  scattered  throughout  the  States.  The 
general  management  of  the  affair  was  entrusted 
to  Capt.  Thomas  H.  Hines,  who  had  been  second 


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in  command  to  the  rebel  Gen.  John  Morgan  dur- 
ing his  raid  north  of  the  Ohio  River,  while  Col. 
Vincent  Marmaduke,  of  Missouri,  and  G.  St.  Leger 
Grenfell  (an  Englishman)  were  selected  to 
carry  out  the  military  program.  Hines  followed 
out  his  instructions  with  great  zeal  and  labored 
indefatigably.  Thompson's  duty  was  to  dis- 
seminate incendiary  treasonable  literature,  and 
strengthen  the  timorous  "Sons  of  Liberty"  by 
the  use  of  argument  and  money,  both  he  and  his 
agents  being  lavishly  supplied  with  the  latter. 
There  was  to  be  a  draft  in  July,  1864,  and  it  was 
determined  to  arm  the  "Sons  of  Liberty"  for 
resistance,  the  date  of  uprising  being  fixed  for 
July  20.  This  part  of  the  scheme,  however,  was 
finally  abandoned.  Captain  Hines  located  him- 
self at  Chicago,  and  personally  attended  to  the 
distribution  of  funds  and  the  purchase  of  arms. 
The  date  finally  fixed  for  the  attempt  to  liberate 
the  Southern  prisoners  was  August  29,  1864,  when 
the  National  Democratic  Convention  was  to 
assemble  at  Chicago.  On  that  date  it  was 
expected  the  city  would  be  so  crowded  that  the 
presence  of  the  promised  force  of  "Sons"  would 
not  excite  comment.  The  program  also  included 
an  attack  on  the  city  by  water,  for  which  pur- 
pose reliance  was  placed  upon  a  horde  of  Cana- 
dian refugees,  under  Capt.  John  B.  Castleman. 
There  were  some  26,500  Southern  prisoners  in  the 
State  at  this  time,  of  whom  about  8,000  were  at 
Chicago,  6,000  at  Rock  Island,  7,500  at  Spring- 
field, and  5,000  at  Alton.  It  was  estimated  that 
there  were  4,000  "Sons  of  Liberty"  in  Chicago, 
who  would  be  largely  reenforced.  With  these 
and  the  Canadian  refugees  the  prisoners  at  Camp 
Douglas  were  to  be  liberated,  and  the  army  thus 
formed  was  to  march  upon  Rock  Island,  Spring- 
field and  Alton.  But  suspicions  were  aroused, 
and  the  Camp  was  reenforced  by  a  regiment  of 
infantry  and  a  battery.  The  organization  of  the 
proposed  assailing  force  was  very  imperfect,  and 
the  great  majority  of  those  who  were  to  compose 
it  were  lacking  in  courage.  Not  enough  of  the 
latter  reported  for  service  to  justify  an  attack, 
and  the  project  was  postponed.  In  the  meantime 
a  preliminary  part  of  the  plot,  at  least  indirectly 
connected  with  the  Camp  Douglas  conspiracy, 
and  which  contemplated  the  release  of  the  rebel 
officers  confined  on  Johnson's  Island  in  Lake 
Erie,  had  been  "nipped  in  the  bud"  by  the  arrest 
of  Capt.  C.  H.  Cole,  a  Confederate  officer  in  dis- 
guise, on  the  19th  of  September,  just  as  he  was 
on  the  point  of  putting  in  execution  a  scheme  for 
seizing  the  United  States  steamer  Michigan  at 
Sandusky,  and  putting  on  board  of  it  a  Confeder- 


ate crew.  November  8  was  the  date  next  selected 
to  carry  out  the  Chicago  scheme — the  day  of  Presi- 
dent Lincoln's  second  election.  The  same  pre- 
liminaries were  arranged,  except  that  no  water 
attack  was  to  be  made.  But  Chicago  was  to  be 
burned  and  flooded,  and  its  banks  pillaged. 
Detachments  were  designated  to  apply  the  torch, 
to  open  fire  plugs,  to  levy  arms,  and  to  attack 
banks.  But  representatives  of  the  United  States 
Secret  Service  had  been  initiated  into  the  "Sons 
of  Liberty,"  and  the  plans  of  Captain  Hines  and 
his  associates  were  well  known  to  the  authori- 
ties. An  efficient  body  of  detectives  was  put 
upon  their  track  by  Gen.  B.  J.  Sweet,  the  com- 
mandant at  Camp  Douglas,  although  some  of  the 
most  valuable  service  in  running  down  the  con- 
spiracy and  capturing  its  agents,  was  rendered 
by  Dr.  T.  Winslow  Ayer  of  Chicago,  a  Colonel 
Langhorne  (an  ex-Confederate  who  had  taken 
the  oath  of  allegiance  without  the  knowledge  of 
some  of  the  parties  to  the  plot),  and  Col.  J.  T. 
Shanks,  a  Confederate  prisoner  who  was  known 
as  "The  Texan."  Both  Langhorne  and  Shanks 
were  appalled  at  the  horrible  nature  of  the  plot 
as  it  was  unfolded  to  them,  and  entered  with 
zeal  into  the  effort  to  defeat  it.  Shanks  was 
permitted  to  escape  from  Camp  Douglas,  thereby 
getting  in  communication  with  the  leaders  of  the 
plot  who  assisted  to  conceal  him,  while  he  faith- 
fully apprised  General  Sweet  of  their  plans.  On 
the  night  of  Nov.  6— or  rather  after  midnight  on 
the  morning  of  the  7th — General  Sweet  caused 
simultaneous  arrests  of  the  leaders  to  be  made  at 
their  hiding-places.  Captain  Hines  was  not 
captured,  but  the  following  conspirators  were 
taken  into  custody:  Captains  Cantrill  and  Trav- 
erse; Charles  Walsh,  the  Brigadier-General  of 
the  "Sons  of  Liberty,"  who  was  sheltering  them, 
and  in  whose  barn  and  house  was  found  a  large 
quantity  of  arms  and  military  stores;  Cols.  St. 
Leger  Grenfell,  W.  R.  Anderson  and  J.  T. 
Shanks;  R.  T.  Semmes,  Vincent  Marmaduke, 
Charles  T.  Daniel  and  Buckner  S.  Morris,  the 
Treasurer  of  the  order.  They  were  tried  by 
Military  Commission  at  Cincinnati  for  conspir- 
acy. Marmaduke  and  Morris  were  acquitted; 
Anderson  committed  suicide  during  the  trial; 
Walsh,  Semmes  and  Daniels  were  sentenced  to 
the  penitentiary,  and  Grenfell  was  sentenced  to 
be  hung,  although  his  sentence  was  afterward 
commuted  to  life  imprisonment  at  the  Dry  Tortu- 
gas,  where  he  mysteriously  disappeared  some 
years  afterward,  but  whether  he  escaped  or  was 
drowned  in  the  attempt  to  do  so  has  never  been 
known.  The  British  Government  had  made 


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t  to  that  Slate  in  186^,  1 
position  about  1S»  to  engage  in 
In  189  he  made  an  extended  visit   to  Europe 
with  his  family,  and,  on  his  return,  located  in 
Chicago,  the  following  rear 
for  Presidential  Elector^  large  on  the 
ridge  ticket:  in  1861  returned  to  Ca 


on  the  breaking  oat  of  the  Civil  War, 

of  the  Union  cause,  by  his 
'  a  powerful  mflnenoe  npon  the 
destiny  of  the  State-  He  abo  serred  in  the  Cali- 
fornia'Legishtfore  during  the  war.  and,  in  18*1 
was  a  member  of  the  Baltimore  Convention 
which  nominated  Mr.  Lincoln  for  the  Pieaidnncy  np 
a  second  rime,  assisting  most  abh- in  the  snhsfr-  by  the 


lican  ticket     Died  in  San  Francisco,  Dec.  C.  18R. 

CAMPBELL.  William  J.,  lawyer  and 
cian.  was  born  in  Philadelphia  in  1830. 
he  was  two  years  old  his 
Illinois.  «*tlin?  in  Cook  County.    After 
ifciM^fc  the  Chicago  public  schools,  MIL 
bell  attended  the  University  of 
two  years,  after  which  he 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1873. 
was  in  active  practice 
at  the  Chicago  bar.    In  1878  he 
Senator,  and  was  re-elected  in  188%  serving  in  aU 
eight  years.     At  the  sessions  of  1881.  ^S3  and  ^85 
he  was   rfmgc-*  President    pro  tenpore  of 
Senate,  and,  on  Feb.  6.  1333,  he 
ant-Governor  npon  the 
Governor  Hamilton  to  the 
succeed  Shelby  M.  CnDom.  who  had 
United  States  Senator.    In  1888  he 
the  First  Illinois  District  in 
Bean  Convention,  and  was  the 
a  member  of 

for  minofc  and  was  re-elected  in  J8HL 
Chicago.    March    4,    1396.    For 
immediately  preceding  his  ilialli.  Mr. 
was  the  chief  attorney  of  the  Armour  Packing 
Company  of  Chicago. 

CAXP  POI5T,  a  village  in  Adams  County,  at 
the  intersection  of  the  Chicago.  Butliagtom  * 
Quincyand  the  Wabash  RaUroads. 
northeast  of  Quincy.    It 
one  flour  mill,  two  feed  mills,  one 
brink 


(1S90),  1,150;  (1900), 

CAXAL  SCRIP  FRAUD. 
of  the  HUnois  General  Assembly  of  1S5*\ 
Jacob  Fry.  who.  as  ( 

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indemnify  the  State,  in  which  he  stated  that  he 
had  "unconsciously  and  innocently  been  made 
the  instrument  through  whom  a  gross  fraud  upon 
the  State  had  been  attempted."  He  therefore 
gave  to  the  State  mortgages  and  an  indemnifying 
bond  for  the  sum  shown  to  have  been  funded  by 
him  of  this  class  of  indebtedness,  upon  which  the 
State,  on  foreclosure  a  few  years  later,  secured 
judgment  for  §255,000,  although  the  property  on 
being  sold  realized  only  $238,000.  A  further 
investigation  by  the  Legislature,  in  1861,  revealed 
the  fact  that  additional  issues  of  bonds  for  similar 
scrip  had  been  made  amounting  to  §165,346,  for 
which  the  State  never  received  any  compensa- 
tion. A  search  through  the  State  House  for  the 
trunk  and  box  placed  in  the  hands  of  Governor 
Matteson  in  1853,  while  the  official  investigation 
was  in  progress,  resulted  in  the  discovery  of  the 
trunk  in  a  condition  showing  it  had  been  opened, 
but  the  box  was  never  found.  The  fraud  was 
made  the  subject  of  a  protracted  investigation 
by  the  Grand  Jury  of  Sangamon  County  in  May, 
1859,  and,  although  the  jury  twice  voted  to  indict 
Governor  Matteson  for  larceny,  it  as  often  voted 
to  reconsider,  and,  on  a  third  ballot,  voted  to 
"ignore  the  bill." 

CANBY,  Richard  Spriirir.  jurist,  was  born  in 
Green  County  ,'Ohio,  Sept.  30,  1808 ;  was  educated 
at  Miami  University  and  admitted  to  the  bar, 
afterwards  serving  as  Prosecuting  Attorney, 
member  of  the  Legislature  and  one  term  (1847-49) 
in  Congress.  In  1863  he  removed  to  Illinois, 
locating  at  Olney,  was  elected  Judge  of  the 
Twenty-fifth  Judicial  Circuit  in  1867,  resuming 
practice  at  the  expiration  of  his  term  in  1873. 
Died  in  Richland  County,  July  27,  1895.  Judge 
Canby  was  a  relative  of  Gen.  Edward  Richard 
Spriggs  Canby,  who  was  treacherously  killed  by 
the  Modocs  in  California  in  1873. 

CANNON,  Joseph  G-,  Congressman,  was  born 
at  Guilford,  N.  C.,  May  7,  1836,  and  removed  to 
Illinois  in  early  youth,  locating  at  Danville,  Ver- 
milion County.  By  profession  he  is  a  lawyer, 
and  served  as  State's  Attorney  of  Vermilion 
County  for  two  terms  (1861-68).  Incidentally, 
he  is  conducting  a  large  banking  business  at 
Danville.  In  1872  he  was  elected  as  a  Republican 
to  the  Forty-third  Congress  for  the  Fifteenth  Dis- 
trict, and  has  been  re-elected  biennially  ever 
since,  except  in  1890,  when  he  was  defeated  for 
the  Fifty-second  Congress  by  Samuel  T.  Busey, 
his  Democratic  opponent.  He  is  now  (1898) 
serving  his  twelfth  term  as  the  Representative 
for  the  Twelfth  Congressional  District,  and  has 
been  re-elected  for  a  thirteenth  term  in  the  Fifty- 


sixth  Congress  (1899-1901).  Mr.  Cannon  has  been 
an  influential  factor  in  State  and  National  poli- 
tics, as  shown  by  the  fact  that  he  has  been  Chair- 
man of  the  House  Committee  on  Appropriations 
during  the  important  sessions  of  the  Fifty-fourth 
and  Fifty-fifth  Congresses. 

CANTON,  a  flourishing  city  in  Fulton  County, 
12  miles  from  the  Illinois  River,  and  28  miles 
southwest  of  Peoria.  It  is  the  commercial  me- 
tropolis of  one  of  the  largest  and  richest  counties 
in  the  "corn  belt";  also  has  abundant  supplies 
of  timber  and  clay  for  manufacturing  purposes. 
There  are  coal  mines  within  the  municipal  limits, 
and  various  manufacturing  establishments. 
Among  the  principal  outputs  are  agricultural 
implements,  flour,  brick  and  tile,  cigars,  cigar 
boxes,  foundry  and  machine-shop  products,  fire- 
arms, brooms,  and  marble.  The  city  is  lighted 
by  gas  and  electricity,  has  water-works,  fire  de- 
partment, a  public  library,  six  ward  schools  and 
one  high  schoo'.,  and  three  newspapers.  Popula- 
tion (1890),  5,604;  (1900),  6,564;  (1910),  10,453. 

CAPPS,  Jabez,  pioneer,  was  born  in  London, 
England,  Sept.  9,  1796;  came  to  the  United  States 
in  1817,  and  to  Sangamon  County,  111.,  in  1819. 
For  a  time  he  taught  school  in  what  is  now 
called  Round  Prairie,  in  the  present  County  of 
Sangamon,  and  later  in  Calhoun  (the  original 
name  of  a  part  of  the  city  of  Springfield),  having 
among  his  pupils,  a  number  of  those  who  after- 
wards became  prominent  citizens  of  Central 
Illinois.  In  1836,  in  conjunction  with  two  part- 
ners, he  laid  out  the  town  of  Mount  Pulaski,  the 
original  county-seat  of.  Logan  County,  where  he 
continued  to  live  for  the  remainder  of  his  life, 
and  where,  during  its  later  period,  he  served  as 
Postmaster  some  fifteen  years.  He  also  served  as 
Recorder  of  Logan  County  four  years.  Died, 
April  1,  1896,  in  the  100th  year  of  his  age. 

CARBONDALE,  a  city  in  Jackson  County, 
founded  in  1852,  57  miles  north  of  Cairo,  and  91 
miles  from  St.  Louis.  Three  lines  of  railway 
center  here.  The  chief  industries  are  coal-min- 
ing, farming,  stock-raising,  fruit-growing  and 
lumbering.  It  has  two  preserving  plants,  eight 
churches,  one  daily  and  two  weekly  papers,  public 
schools,  and  is  the  seat  of  the  Southern  Illinois 
Normal  University.  Pop.  (1910),  5,441. 

CARBONDALE  &  SHAWNEETOWN  RAIL- 
ROAD, a  short  line  17^  miles  in  length,  ex- 
tending from  Marion  to  Carbondale,  and  operated 
by  the  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute  Railroad 
Company,  as  lessee.  It  was  incorporated  as  the 
Murphysboro  &  Shawneetown  Railroad  in  1867 ; 
its  name  changed  in  1869  to  The  Carbondale  & 


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Shawneetown,  was  opened  for  business,  Dec.  31, 
1871,  and  leased  in  1886  for  980  years  to  the  St. 
Louis  Southern,  through  which  it  passed  into  the 
hands  of  the  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute  Rail- 
road, and  by  lease  from  the  latter,  in  1896,  became 
a  part  of  the  Illinois  Central  System  (which  see). 

CAREY,  William,  lawyer,  was  born  in  the  town 
of  Turner,  Maine,  Dec.  29,  1826;  studied  law  with 
General  Fessenden  and  at  Yale  Law  School,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  of  the  Supreme  Court  of 
Maine  in  1856,  the  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois  in 
1857,  and  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States,  on  motion  of  Hon.  Lynian  Trumbull,  in 
1873.  Judge  Carey  was  a  member  of  the  State 
Constitutional  Convention  of  1869-70  from  Jo 
Daviess  County,  and  the  choice  of  the  Republicans 
in  that  body  for  temporary  presiding  officer; 
was  elected  to  the  next  General  Assembly  (the 
Twenty-seventh),  serving  as  Chairman  of  the 
House  Judiciary  Committee  through  its  four  ses- 
sions ;  from  1873  to  1876  was  United  States  Dis- 
trict Attorney  for  Utah,  still  later  occupying 
various  offices  at  Deadwood,  Dakota,  and  in  Reno 
County,  Kan.  The  first  office  held  by  Judge 
Carey  in  Illinois  (that  of  Superintendent  of 
Schools  for  the  city  of  Galena)  was  conferred 
upon  him  through  the  influence  of  John  A.  Raw- 
lins,  afterwards  General  Grant's  chief-of-staff 
during  the  war,  and  later  Secretary  of  War — 
although  at  the  time  Mr.  Rawlins  and  lie  were 
politically  opposed.  Mr.  Carey's  present  resi- 
dence is  in  Chicago. 

CARLIN,  Thomas,  former  Governor,  was  born 
of  Irish  ancestry  in  Fayette  County,  Ky.,  July 
18,  1789;  emigrated  to  Illinois  in  1811,  and  served 
as  a  private  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  as  a  Captain 
in  the  Black  Hawk  War.  While  not  highly  edu- 
cated, he  was  a  man  of  strong  common  sense, 
high  moral  standard,  great  firmness  of  character 
and  unfailing  courage.  In  1818  he  settled  in 
Greene  County,  of  which  he  was  the  first  Sheriff ; 
was  twice  elected  State  Senator,  and  was  Regis- 
ter of  the  Land  Office  at  Quincy,  when  he  was 
elected  Governor  on  the  Democratic  ticket  in 
1838.  An  uncompromising  partisan,  he  never- 
theless commanded  the  respect  and  good-will  of 
his  political  opponents.  Died  at  his  home  in 
Carrollton,  Feb.  14,  1852. 

CARLIN,  William  Passmore,  soldier,  nephew  of 
Gov.  Thomas  Carlin,  was  born  at  Rich  Woods, 
Greene  County,  111.,  Nov.  24,  1829.  At  the  age 
of  21  he  graduated  from  the  United  States  Mili- 
tary Academy  at  West  Point,  and,  in  1855,  was 
attached  to  the  Sixth  United  States  Infantry  as 
Lieutenant.  After  several  years  spent  in  Indian 


fighting,  he  was  ordered  to  California,  where  he 
was  promoted  to  a  captaincy  and  assigned  to 
recruiting  duty.  On  August  15,  1861,  he  was 
commissioned  Colonel  of  the  Thirty-eighth  Illi- 
nois Volunteers.  His  record  during  the  war  was 
an  exceptionally  brilliant  one.  He  defeated  Gen. 
Jeff.  Thompson  at  Fredericktown,  Mo.,  Oct.  21, 
1861 ;  commanded  the  District  of  Southeast  Mis- 
souri for  eighteen  months;  led  a  brigade  under 
Slocum  in  the  Arkansas  campaign ;  served  with 
marked  distinction  in  Kentucky  and  Mississippi ; 
took  a  prominent  part  in  the  battle  of  Stone 
River,  was  engaged  in  the  Tullahoma  campaign, 
at  Chattanooga,  Lookout  Mountain  and  Mission- 
ary Ridge,  and,  on  Feb.  8,  1864,  was  commis- 
sioned Major  in  the  Sixteenth  Infantry.  He  also 
took  part  in  the  Georgia  campaign,  aiding  in  the 
capture  of  Atlanta,  and  marching  with  Sherman 
to  the  sea.  For  gallant  service  in  the  assault  at 
Jonesboro,  Tenn.,  Sept.  1,  1864,  he  was  cnade 
Colonel  in  the  regular  army,  and,  on  March  13, 
1865,  was  brevetted  Brigadier-General  for  meritori- 
ous service  at  Bentonville,  N.  C.,  and  Major- 
General  for  service  during  the  war,  retiring  with 
rank  of  Brigadier-General  in  1893.  Died  in  Mon- 
tana, Oct.  4,  1903,  on  way  home  at  Carrollton,  111. 
CARLIN  YILLE,  the  county-seat  of  Macoupin 
County;  a  city  and  railroad  junction,  57  miles  north- 
east of  St.  Louis  and  38  miles  southwest  of  Spring- 
field. Blackburn  University  (which  see)  is  located 
here.  Three  coal  mines  are  operated,  and  there 
are  brick  works,  tile  works,  and  one  daily  and  two 
weekly  newspapers.  The  city  is  an  important  trade 
center,  has  banks,  gas  and  electric  light  plants  and 
water-works.  Pop.  (1900),  3,502;  (1910),  3,616. 

CARLYLE,  the  county-seat  of  Clinton  County, 
48  miles  east  of  St.  Louis,  located  on  the  Kaskaskia 
River  and  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern 
Railroad.  The  town  has  churches,  parochial  and 
public  schools,  water-works,  lighting  plant,  and 
manufactures.  It  has  a  flourishing  seminary  for 
young  ladies,  two  weekly  papers,  and  a  public 
library  connected  with  the  high  school.  Population 
(1890),  1,784;  (1900),  1,874;  (1910),  1,982. 

C.VKM  I,  the  county-seat  of  White  County,  on  the 
Little  Wabash  River,  124  miles  east  of  St.  Louis 
and  38  west  of  Evansville,  Ind.  The  surrounding 
country  is  fertile,  yielding  both  cereals  and  fruit. 
Flouring  mills  and  lumber  manufacturing,  includ- 
ing the  making  of  staves,  are  the  chief  industries, 
though  the  city  has  brick  and  tile  works,  a  plow 
factory  and  foundry.  Population  (1890),  2,785; 
(1900),  2,939;  (1910),  2,833. 

CARPENTER,  Hilton,  legislator  and  State 
Treasurer;  entered  upon  public  life  in  Illinois  as 


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Representative  in  the  Ninth  General  Assembly 
(1834)"  from  Hamilton  County,  serving  by  succes- 
sive re-elections  in  the  Tenth,  Eleventh  and 
Twelfth.  While  a  member  of  the  latter  (1841) 
he  was  elected  by  the  Legislature  to  the  office  of 
State  Treasurer,  retaining  this  position  until  the 
adoption  of  the  Constitution  of  1848,  when  he  was 
chosen  his  own  successor  by  popular  vote,  but 
died  a  few  days  after  the  election  in  August, 
1848.  He  was  buried  in  what  is  now  known  as 
the  "Old  Hutchinson  Cemetery" — a  burying 
ground  in  the  west  part  of  the  city  of  Springfield, 
long  since  abandoned — where  his  remains  still  lie 
(1897)  in  a  grave  unmarked  by  a  tombstone. 

CARPENTER,  Philo,  pioneer  and  early  drug- 
gist, was  born  of  Puritan  and  Revolutionary 
ancestry  in  the  town  of  Savoy,  Mass.,  Feb.  27, 
1805 ;  engaged  as  a  druggist's  clerk  at  Troy,  N.  Y. , 
in  1828,  and  came  to  Chicago  in  1832,  where  he 
established  himself  in  the  drug  business,  which 
was  later  extended  into  other  lines.  Soon  after 
his  arrival,  he  began  investing  in  lands,  which 
have  since  become  immensely  valuable.  Mr. 
Carpenter  was  associated  with  the  late  Rev. 
Jeremiah  Porter  in  the  organization  of  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago,  but,  in  1851, 
withdrew  on  account  of  dissatisfaction  with  the 
attitude  of  some  of  the  representatives  of  that 
denomination  on  the  subject  of  slavery,  identify- 
ing himself  with  the  Congregationalist  Church, 
in  which  he  had  been  reared.  He  was  one  of  the 
original  founders  and  most  liberal  benefactors  of 
the  Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  to  which  he 
gave  in  contributions,  during  his  life-time,  or  in 
bequests  after  his  death,  sums  aggregating  not 
far  from  §100,000.  One  of  the  Seminary  build- 
ings was  named  in  his  honor,  "Carpenter  Hall." 
He  was  identified  with  various  other  organiza- 
tions, one  of  the  most  important  being  the  Relief 
and  Aid  Society,  which  did  such  useful  work 
after  the  fire  of  1871.  By  a  life  of  probity,  liber- 
ality and  benevolence,  he  won  the  respect  of  all 
classes,  dying,  August  7,  1886. 

CARPENTER,  (Mrs.)  Sarah  L.  Warren,  pio- 
neer teacher,  born  in  Fredonia,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  1, 
1813 ;  at  the  age  of  13  she  began  teaching  at  State 
Line,  N.  Y. ;  in  1833  removed  with  her  parents 
(Mr.  and  Mrs.  Daniel  Warren)  to  Chicago,  and 
soon  after  began  teaching  in  what  was  called  the 
"Yankee  settlement,"  now  the  town  of  Lockport, 
Will  County.  She  came  to  Chicago  the  following 
year  (1834)  to  take  the  place  of  assistant  of  Gran- 
ville  T.  Sproat  in  a  school  for  boys,  and  is  said  to 
have  been  the  first  teacher  paid  out  of  the  public 
funds  in  Chicago,  though  Miss  Eliza  Chappell 


(afterwards  Mrs.  Jeremiah  Porter)  began  teach- 
ing the  children  about  Fort  Dearborn  in  1833. 
Miss  Warren  married  Abel  E.  Carpenter,  whom 
she  survived,  dying  at  Aurora,  Kane  County, 
Jan.  10,  1897. 

CARPENTERSYILLE,  a  village  of  Kane 
County  and  manufacturing  center,  on  Lake  Ge- 
neva branch  of  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Rail- 
road,6  miles  north  of  East  Elgin  and  about  48  miles 
from  Chicago.  Pop.  (1900),  1,002;  (1910),  1,128. 

CARR,  Clark  E.,  lawyer,  politician  and  diplo- 
mat, was  born  at  Boston,  Erie  County,  N.  Y. , 
May  20,  1836;  at  13  years  of  age  accompanied  his 
father's  family  to  Galesburg,  111.,  where  he  spent 
several  years  at  Knox  College.  In  1857  he  gradu- 
ated from  the  Albany  Law  School,  but  on  return- 
ing to  Illinois,  soon  embarked  in  politics,  his 
affiliations  being  uniformly  with  the  Republican 
party.  His  first  office  was  that  of  Postmaster  at 
Galesburg,  to  which  he  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Lincoln  in  1861  and  which  lie  held  for 
twenty-four  years.  He  was  a  tried  and  valued 
assistant  of  Governor  Yates  during  the  War  of 
the  Rebellion,  serving  on  the  staff  of  the  latter 
with  the  rank  of  Colonel.  He  was  a  delegate  to 
the  National  Convention  of  his  party  at  Baltimore 
in  1864,  which  renominated  Lincoln,  and  took  an 
active  part  in  the  campaigns  of  that  year,  as  well 
as  those  of  1868  and  1872.  In  1869  he  purchased 
"The  Galesburg  Republican,"  which  he  edited 
and  published  for  two  years.  In  1880  he  was  an 
unsuccessful  candidate  for  the  Republican  nomi- 
nation for  Governor ;  in  1884  was  a  delegate  to  the 
Republican  National  Convention,  from  the  State- 
at-large,  and,  in  1887,  a  candidate  for  the  caucus 
nomination  for  United  States  Senator,  which  was 
given  to  Charles  B.  Farwell.  In  1888  he  was 
defeated  in  the  Republican  State  Convention  as 
candidate  for  Governor  by  Joseph  W.  Fifer.  In 
1889  President  Harrison  appointed  him  Minister 
to  Denmark,  which  post  he  filled  with  marked 
ability  and  credit  to  the  country  until  his  resig- 
nation was  accepted  by  President  Cleveland, 
when  he  returned  to  his  former  home  at  Gales- 
burg. While  in  Denmark  he  did  much  to 
promote  American  trade  with  that  country, 
especially  in  the  introduction  of  American  corn 
as  an  article  of  food,  which  has  led  to  a  large 
increase  in  the  annual  exportation  of  this  com- 
modity to  Scandinavian  markets. 

CARR,  Eugene  A.,  soldier,  was  born  in  Erie 
County,  N.  Y.,  May  20,  1830,  and  graduated  at 
West  Point  in  1850,  entering  the  Mounted  Rifles. 
Until  1861  he  was  stationed  in  the  Far  West,  and 
engaged  in  Indian  fighting,  earning  a  First  Lieu- 


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tenancy  through  his  gallantry.  In  1861  he 
entered  upon  active  service  under  General  Lyon, 
in  Southwest  Missouri,  taking  part  in  the  engage- 
ments of  Dug  Springs  and  Wilson's  Creek, 
winning  the  brevet  of  Lieutenant-Colonel.  In 
September,  1861,  he  was  commissioned  Colonel  of 
the  Third  Illinois  Cavalry.  He  served  as  acting 
Brigadier-General  in  Fremont's  hundred-day 
expedition,  for  a  time  commanding  the  Fourth 
Division  of  the  Army  of  the  Southwest.  On  the 
second  day  at  Pea  Ridge,  although  three  times 
wounded,  he  remained  on  the  field  seven  hours, 
and  materially  aided  in  securing  a  victory,  for 
his  bravery  being  made  Brigadier-General  of 
Volunteers.  In  the  summer  of  1862  he  was 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Major  in  the  Regular 
Army.  During  the  Vicksburg  campaign  lie  com- 
manded a  division,  leading  the  attack  at  Magnolia 
Church,  at  Port  Gibson,  and  at  Big  Black  River, 
and  winning  a  brevet  Lieutenant-Colonelcy  in 
the  United  States  Army.  He  also  distinguished 
himself  for  a  first  and  second  assault  upon  taking 
Vicksburg,  and,  in  the  autumn  of  1862,  com- 
manded the  left  wing  of  the  Sixteenth  Corps  at 
Corinth.  In  December  of  that  year  he  was 
transferred  to  the  Department  of  Arkansas, 
where  he  gained  new  laurels,  being  brevetted 
Brigadier-General  for  gallantry  at  Little  Rock, 
and  Major-General  for  services  during  the  war. 
After  the  close  of  the  Civil  War,  he  was  stationed 
chiefly  in  the  West,  where  he  rendered  good  serv- 
ice in  the  Indian  campaigns.  In  1894  he  was 
retired  with  the  rank  of  Brigadier-General,  and 
died  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  Dec.  2,  1910. 

CARRIEL,  Henry  F.,  M.D.,  alienist,  was  born 
at  Charlestown,  N.  H.,  and  educated  at  Marlow 
Academy,  N.  H.,  and  Wesleyan  Seminary,  Vt. ; 
graduated  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  New  York  City,  in  1857,  and  immedi- 
ately accepted  the  position  of  Assistant  Physician 
in  the  New  Jersey  State  Lunatic  Asylum, 
remaining  until  1870.  Meanwhile,  however,  he 
visited  a  large  number  of  the  leading  hospitals 
and  asylums  of  Europe.  In  1870,  Dr.  Carriel 
received  the  appointment  of  Superintendent  of 
the  Illinois  Central  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at 
Jacksonville,  a  position  which  he  continued  to 
fill  until  1893,  when  he  tendered  his  resignation  to 
Gov.  Altgeld,  retiring  July  1  of  that  year.  Died 
June  21,  1908.— Mrs.  Mary  Turner  (Carriel), 
wife  of  Dr.  Carriel,  and  a  daughter  of  Prof. 
Jonathan  B.  Turner  of  Jacksonville,  was  elected 
a  Trustee  of  the  University  of  Illinois  on  the  Repub- 
lican ticket  in  1896,  receiving  a  plurality  of  148,039 
over  Julia  Holmes  Smith,  her  highest  competitor. 


CARROLL  COUNTY,  originally  a  part  of  Jo 
Daviess  County,  but  set  apart  and  organized  in 
1839,  named  for  Charles  Carroll  of  Carrollton.  The 
first  settlements  were  in  and  around  Savanna, 
Cherry  Grove  and  Arnold's  Grove.  The  first 
County  Commissioners  were  Messrs.  L.  H.  Bor 
den,  Garner  Moffett  and  S.  M.  Jersey,  who  held 
their  first  court  at  Savanna,  April  13,  1839.  In 
1843  the  county-seat  was  changed  from  Savanna 
to  Mount  Carroll,  where  it  yet  remains.  Town- 
ships were  first  organized  in  1850,  and  the 
development  of  the  county  has  steadily  pro- 
gressed since  that  date.  The  surface  of  the  land 
is  rolling,  and  at  certain  points  decidedly  pictur- 
esque. The  land  is  generally  good  for  farming. 
It  is  well  timbered,  particularly  along  the  Mis- 
sissippi. Area  of  the  county,  450  square  miles; 
population,  18,035.  Mount  Carroll  is  a  pleasant, 
prosperous,  wide-awake  town,  of  about  2,000 
inhabitants,  and  noted  for  its  excellent  public 
and  private  schools. 

CARROLLTON,  the  county-seat  of  Greene 
County,  situated  on  the  west  branch  of  the  Chi- 
cago &  Alton  and  the  Quincy,  Carrollton  &  St. 
Louis  Railroads,  33  miles  north-northwest  of 
Alton,  and  34  miles  south  by  west  from  Jackson- 
ville. The  town  has  a  foundry,  carriage  and 
wagon  factory,  two  machine  shops,  two  flour 
mills,  two  banks,  six  churches,  a  high  school,  and 
two  weekly  newspapers.  Population  (1890), 
2,258;  (1900),  2,355;  (1910),  2,323. 

CARTER,  Joseph  N.,  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  was  born  in  Hardin  County,  Ky. ,  March 
12,  1843;  came  to  Illinois  in  boyhood,  and,  after 
attending  school  at  Tuscola  four  years,  engaged 
in  teaching  until  1863,  when  he  entered  Illinois 
College,  graduating  in  1866;  in  1868  graduated 
from  the  Law  Department  of  the  University  of 
Michigan,  the  next  year  establishing  himself  in 
practice  at  Quincy,  where  he  has  since  resided. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Thirty-first  and  Thirty- 
second  General  Assemblies  (1878-82),  and,  in 
June,  1894,  was  elected  to  the  seat  on  the  Supreme 
Bench,  which  he  now  occupies 

CARTER,  Thomas  Henry,  United  States  Sena 
tor,  born  in  Scioto  County,  Ohio,  Oct,  30,  1854; 
in  his  fifth  year  was  brought  to  Illinois,  his 
father  locating  at  Pana,  where  he  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools ;  was  employed  in  farming, 
railroading  and  teaching  several  years,  then 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and,  in 
1882,  removed  to  Helena,  Mont.,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  practice;  was  elected,  as  a  Republican 
the  last  Territorial  Delegate  to  Congress  from 
Idaho  and  the  first  Representative  from  the  new 


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State;  was  Commissioner  of  the  General  Land 
Office  (1891-92),  and,  in  1895,  was  elected  to  the 
United  States  Senate  for  the  term  ending  in  1901. 
In  1892  he  was  chosen  Chairman  of  the  Repub- 
lican National  Committee,  serving  until  the  St. 
Louis  Convention  of  1896. 

CARTERVILLE,  a  city  in  Williamson  County, 
10  miles  by  rail  northwest  of  Marion.  Coal  min- 
ing is  the  principal  industry.  It  has  a  bank,  five 
churches,  a  public  school,  and  two  weekly  news- 
papers Population  (1880),  692;  (1890),  969;  (1900), 
1,749;  (1910),  2,971. 

CARTHAGE,  a  city  and  the  county-seat  of 
Hancock  County,  13  miles  east  of  Keokuk,  Iowa, 
on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  and  the  Wa- 
bash  Railroads;  has  water- works,  electric  lights, 
three  banks,  four  trust  companies,  four  weekly 
papers,  and  is  the  seat  of  a  Lutheran  College.  Pop. 
(1890),  1,654;  (1900),  2,104;  (1910),  2,373. 

CARTHAGE  COLLEGE,  at  Carthage.  Hancock 
County,  incorporated  in  1871;  has  a  teaching 
faculty  of  twelve  members,  and  reports  158  pupils 
— sixty-eight  men  and  ninety  women — for  1897-98. 
It  has  a  library  of  5,000  volumes  and  endowment 
of  $32,000  Instruction  is  given  in  the  classical, 
scientific,  musical,  fine  arts  and  business  depart- 
ments, as  well  as  in  preparatory  studies.  In  1898 
this  institution  reported  a  property  valuation  of 
$41,000,  of  which  $35,000  was  in  real  estate. 

CARTHAGE  &  BURLINGTON  RAILROAD. 
(See  Chicago,  Burlington  <fc  Quincy  Railroad.) 

CARTWRIGHT,  James  Henry,  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  was  born  at  Maquoketa,  Iowa, 
Dec.  1,  1842  —  the  son  of  a  frontier  Methodist 
clergyman;  was  educated  at  Rock  River  Semi- 
nary and  the  University  of  Michigan,  graduating 
from  the  latter  in  1867 ;  began  practice  in  1870  at 
Oregon,  Ogle  County,  which  is  still  his  home ;  in 
1888  was  elected  Circuit  Judge  to  succeed  Judge 
Eustace,  deceased,  and  in  1891  assigned  to  Appel- 
late Court  duty;  in  December,  1895,  was  elected 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  to  succeed  Justice 
John  M.  Bailey,  deceased,  and  re-elected  in 
1897. 

CARTWRI6HT,  Peter,  pioneer  Methodist 
preacher,  was  born  in  Amherst  County,  Va., 
Sept.  1,  1785,  and  at  the  age  of  five  years  accom- 
panied his  father  (a  Revolutionary  veteran)  to 
Logan  County.  Ky.  The  country  was  wild  and 
unsettled,  there  were  no  schools,  the  nearest  mill 
was  40  miles  distant,  the  few  residents  wore 
homespun  garments  of  flax  or  cotton ;  and  coffee, 
tea  and  sugar  in  domestic  use  were  almost  un- 
known. Methodist  circuit  riders  soon  invaded 
the  district,  and.  at  a  camp  meeting  held  at  Cane 


Ridge  in  1801,  Peter  received  his  first  religious 
impressions.  A  few  months  later  he  abandoned 
his  reckless  life,  sold  his  race-horse  and  abjured 
gambling.  He  began  preaching  immediately 
after  his  conversion,  and,  in  1803,  was  regularly 
received  into  the  ministry  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church,  although  only  18  years  old.  In 
1823  he  removed  to  Illinois,  locating  in  Sangamon 
County,  then  but  sparsely  settled.  In  1828,  and 
again  in  1832,  he  was  elected  to  the  Legislature, 
where  his  homespun  wit  and  undaunted  courage 
stood  him  in  good  stead.  For  a  long  series  of 
years  he  attended  annual  conferences  (usually  as 
a  delegate),  and  was  a  conspicuous  figure  at 
camp-meetings.  Although  a  Democrat  all  his 
life,  lie  was  an  uncompromising  antagonist  of 
slavery,  and  rejoiced  at  the  division  of  his 
denomination  in  1844.  He  was  also  a  zealous 
supporter  of  the  Government  during  the  Civil 
War.  In  1846  he  was  a  candidate  for  Congress 
on  the  Democratic  ticket,  but  was  defeated  by 
Abraham  Lincoln.  He  was  a  powerful  preacher, 
a  tireless  worker,  and  for  fifty  years  served  as  a 
Presiding  Elder  of  his  denomination.  On  the 
lecture  platform,  his  quaintness  and  eccentricity, 
together  with  his  inexhaustible  fund  of  personal 
anecdotes,  insured  an  interested  audience. 
Numerous  stories  are  told  of  his  physical  prowess 
in  overcoming  unruly  characters  whom  he  had 
failed  to  convince  by  moral  suasion.  Inside  the 
church  he  was  equally  fearless  and  outspoken, 
and  his  strong  common  sense  did  much  to  pro- 
mote the  success  of  the  denomination  in  the 
West.  He  died  at  his  home  near  Pleasant  Plains, 
Sangamon  County,  Sept.  25,  1872.  His  principal 
published  works  are  "A  Controversy  with  the 
Devil"  (1853),  "Autobiography  of  Peter  Cart- 
wright"  (1856),  "The  Backwoods  Preacher" 
(London,  1869),  and  several  works  on  Methodism. 
GARY,  Engene,  lawyer  and  insurance  manager, 
was  born  at  Boston,  Erie  County,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  20, 
1835;  began  teaching  at  sixteen,  meanwhile 
attending  a  select  school  or  academy  at  intervals ; 
studied  law  at  Sheboygan,  Wis.,  and  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  1855-56;  served  as  City  Attorney  and 
later  as  County  Judge,  and,  in  1861,  enlisted  in 
the  First  Regiment  Wisconsin  Volunteers,  serv- 
ing as  a  Captain  in  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland, 
and  the  last  two  years  as  Judge- Advocate  on  the 
staff  of  General  Rousseau.  After  the  war  he 
settled  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  where  he  held  the 
office  of  Judge  of  the  First  District,  but  in  1871 
he  was  elected  to  the  City  Council,  and,  in  1883, 
was  the  High-License  candidate  for  Mayor  in 
opposition  to  Mayor  Harrison,  and  believed  by 


JAMES  W.   BROOKS 


MRS.  JAMES  W.  BROOKS 


JOHN  A.  SANNER 


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many  to  have  been  honestly  elected,  but  counted 
out  by  machine  methods.  Died  Mar.  9,  1901. 

CASAD,  Anthony  Wayne,  clergyman  and  phy- 
sician, was  born  in  Wantage  Township,  Sussex 
County,  N.  J.,  May  2,  1791 ;  died  at  Suinmerfield, 
111.,  Dec.  16,  1857.  His  father,  Rev.  Thomas 
Casad,  was  a  Baptist  minister,  who,  with  his 
wife,  Abigail  Tingley,  was  among  the  early 
settlers  of  Sussex  County.  He  was  descended 
from  Dutch-Huguenot  ancestry,  the  family  name 
being  originally  Cossart,  the  American  branch 
having  been  founded  by  Jacques  Cossart,  who 
emigrated  from  Leyden  to  New  York  in  1663. 
At  the  age  of  19  Anthony  removed  to  Greene 
County,  Ohio,  settling  at  Fairfleld,  near  the  site 
of  the  preseuo  city  of  Dayton,  where  some  of  his 
relatives  were  then  residing.  On  Feb.  6,  1811,  he 
married  Anna,  eldest  daughter  of  Captain  Samuel 
Stites  and  Martha  Martin  Stites,  her  mother's 
father  and  grandfather  having  been  patriot  sol- 
diers in  uie  War  of  the  Revolution.  Anthony 
Wayne  Casad  served  as  a  volunteer  from  Ohio  in 
the  War  of  1812,  being  a  member  of  Captain 
Wm.  Stephenson's  Company.  In  1818  he  re- 
moved with  his  wife's  father  to  Union  Grove,  St. 
Clair  County,  111.  A  few  years  later  he  entered 
the  ministry  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
and  during  1821-23  was  stationed  at  Kaskaskia 
and  Buffalo,  removing,  in  1823,  to  Lebanon, 
where  he  taught  school.  Later  lie  studied  medi- 
cine and  attained  considerable  prominence  as  a 
practitioner,  being  commissioned  Surgeon  of  the 
Forty-ninth  Illinois  Infantry  in  1835.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  McKendree  College  and  a 
liberal  contributor  to  its  support;  was  also  for 
many  years  Deputy  Superintendent  of  Schools  at 
Lebanon,  served  as  County  Surveyor  of  St. 
Clair  County,  and  acted  as  agent  for  Harper 
Brothers  in  the  sale  of  Southern  Illinois  lands. 
He  was  a  prominent  Free  Mason  and  an  influ- 
ential citizen.  His  youngest  daughter,  Amanda 
Keziah,  married  Rev.  Colin  D.  James  (which  see). 

CASEY,  a  city  of  Clark  County,  at  the  intersec- 
tion of  the  Vandalia  Line  and  the  Chicago  &  Ohio 
River  Railroad,  35  miles  southwest  of  Terra  Haute; 
in  oilfield.  Pop.  (1900),  1,500;  (1910),  2,157. 

CASEY,  Zadoc,  pioneer  and  early  Congressman, 
was  born  in  Georgia,  March  17,  1796,  the  young- 
est son  of  a  soldier  of  the  Revolutionary  War  who 
removed  to  Tennessee  about  1800.  The  subject 
of  this  sketch  came  to  Illinois  in  1817,  bringing 
with  him  his  widowed  mother,  and  settling  in 
the  vicinity  of  the  present  city  of  Mount  Vernon, 
in  Jefferson  County,  where  he  acquired  great 
prominence  as  a  politician  and  became  the  head 


of  an  influential  family.  He  began  preaching  at 
an  early  age,  and  continued  to  do  so  occasionally 
through  his  political  career.  In  1819,  he  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  organization  of  Jefferson 
County,  serving  on  the  first  Board  of  County 
Commissioners;  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate 
for  the  Legislature  in  1820,  but  was  elected 
Representative  in  1822  and  re-elected  two  years 
later;  in  1826  was  advanced  to  the  Senate,  serv- 
ing until  1830,  when  he  was  elected  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  and  during  his  incumbency  took  part 
in  the  Black  Hawk  War.  On  March  1,  1833,  he 
resigned  the  Lieutenant-Governorship  to  accept 
a  seat  as  one  of  the  three  Congressmen  from 
Illinois,  to  which  he  had  been  elected  a  few 
months  previous,  being  subsequently  re-elected 
for  four  consecutive  terms.  In  1842  he  was 
again  a  candidate,  but  was  defeated  by  John  A. 
McClernand.  Other  public  positions  held  by  him 
included  those  of  Delegate  to  the  Constitutional 
Conventions  of  1847  and  1862,  Representative  in 
the  Sixteenth  and  Seventeenth  General  Assem- 
blies (1848-52),  serving  as  Speaker  in  the  former. 
He  was  again  elected  to  the  Senate  in  I860,  but 
died  before  the  expiration  of  his  term,  Sept.  4, 
1862.  During  the  latter  years  of  his  life  he  was 
active  in  securing  the  right  of  way  for  the  Ohio 
&  Mississippi  Railroad,  the  original  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi division  of  the  Baltimore,  Ohio  &  South- 
western. He  commenced  life  in  poverty,  but 
acquired  a  considerable  estate,  and  was  the  donor 
of  the  ground  upon  which  the  Supreme  Court 
building  for  the  Southern  Division  at  Mount 
Vernon  was  erected. — Dr.  Newton  R.  (Casey), 
son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  in  Jefferson 
County,  111.,  Jan.  27,  1826,  received  his  pri- 
mary education  in  the  local  schools  and  at  Hills- 
boro  and  Mount  Vernon  Academies;  in  1842 
entered  the  Ohio  University  at  Athens  in  that 
State,  remaining  until  1845,  when  he  com- 
menced the  study  of  medicine,  taking  a  course 
of  lectures  the  following  year  at  the  Louisville 
Medical  Institute;  soon  after  began  practice, 
and,  in  Ib47,  removed  to  Benton,  111.,  returning 
the  following  year  to  Mount  Vernon.  In 
1856-57  he  attended  a  second  course  of  lectures  at 
the  Missouri  Medical  College,  St.  Louis,  the  latter 
year  removing  to  Mound  City,  where  he  filled  a 
number  of  positions,  including  that  of  Mayor 
from  1859  to  1864,  when  he  declined  a  re-election. 
In  1860,  Dr.  Casey  served  as  delegate  from  Illi- 
nois to  the  Democratic  National  Convention  at 
Charleston,  S.  C.,  and,  on  the  establishment  of 
the  United  States  Government  Hospital  at  Mound 
City,  in  1861,  acted  for  some  time  as  a  volunteer 


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surgeon,  later  serving  as  Assistant  Surgeon.  In 
1866,  he  was  elected  Kepresentative  in  the 
Twenty-fifth  General  Assembly  and  re-elected  in 
1868,  when  he  was  an  unsuccessful  Democratic 
candidate  for  Speaker  in  opposition  to  Hon.  S.  M. 
Cullom;  also  again  served  as  Representative  in 
the  Twenty-eighth  General  Assembly  (1872-74). 
Since  retiring  from  public  life  Dr.  Casey  has 
given  his  attention  to  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion.— Col.  Thomas  S.  (Casey),  another  son,  was 
born  in  Jefferson  County,  111.,  April  6,  1832, 
educated  in  the  common  schools  and  at  McKend- 
ree  College,  in  due  course  receiving  the  degree  of 
A.M.  from  the  latter;  studied  law  for  three 
years,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1854;  in  1860, 
was  elected  State's  Attorney  for  the  Twelfth 
Judicial  District;  in  September,  1862,  was  com- 
missioned Colonel  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Tenth 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  but  was  mustered  out 
May  16,  1863,  having  in  the  meantime  taken  part 
in  the  battle  of  Stone  River  and  other  important 
engagements  in  Western  Tennessee.  By  this 
time  his  regiment,  having  been  much  reduced 
in  numbers,  was  consolidated  with  the  Sixtieth 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry.  In  1864,  he  was 
again  elected  State's  Attorney,  serving  until 
1868;  in  1870,  was  chosen  Representative,  and,  in 
1872,  Senator  for  the  Mount  Vernon  District  for 
a  term  of  four  years.  In  1879,  he  was  elected  Cir- 
cuit Judge  and  was  immediately  assigned  to 
Appellate  Court  duty,  soon  after  the  expiration  of 
liis  term,  in  1885,  removing  to  Springfield,  where 
he  died,  March  1,  1891. 

CASS  COUNTY,  situated  a  little  west  of  the 
center  of  the  State,  with  an  area  of  460  square 
miles  and  a  population  (1910)  of  17,372 — named 
for  Gen.  Lewis  Cass.  French  traders  are  believed 
to  have  made  the  locality  of  Beardstown  their 
headquarters  about  the  time  of  the  discovery  of 
the  Illinois  country.  The  earliest  permanent 
white  settlers  came  about  1820,  and  among  them 
were  Thomas  Beard,  Martin  L.  Lindsley,  John 
Cetrough  and  Archibald  Job.  As  early  as  1821 
there  was  a  horse-mill  on  Indian  Creek,  and,  in 
1827,  M.  L.  Lindsley  conducted  a  school  on  the 
bluffs.  Peter  Cartwright,  the  noted  Methodist 
missionary  and  evangelist,  was  one  of  the  earliest 
preachers,  and  among  the  pioneers  may  be  named 
Messrs.  Robertson,  Toplo,  McDonald,  Downing, 
Davis,  Shepherd,  Penny,  Bergen  and  Hopkins. 
Beardstown  was  the  original  county-seat,  and 
during  both  the  Black  Hawk  and  Mormon 
troubles  was  a  depot  of  supplies  and  rendezvous 
for  troops.  Here  also  Stephen  A.  Douglas  made 
his  first  political  speech.  The  site  of  the  town, 


as  at  present  laid  out,  was  at  one  time  sold  by 
Mr.  Downing  for  twenty-five  dollars.  The 
county  was  set  off  from  Morgan  in  1837.  The 
principal  towns  are  Beardstown,  Virginia,  Chand- 
lerville,  Ashland  and  Arenzville.  The  county- 
seat,  formerly  at  Beardstown,  was  later  removed 
to  Virginia,  where  it  now  is.  Beardstown  was 
incorporated  in  1837,  with  about  700  inhabitants. 
Virginia  was  platted  in  1836,  but  not  incorporated 
until  1842. 

CASTLE,  Orlando  Lane,  educator,  was  born  at 
Jericho,  Vt.,  July  26,  1822;  graduated  at  Denison 
University,  Ohio,  1846;  spent  one  year  as  tutor 
there,  and,  for  several  years,  had  charge  of  the 
public  schools  of  Zanesville,  Ohio.  In  1858,  he 
accepted  the  chair  of  Rhetoric,  Oratory  and 
Belles-Lettres  in  Shurtleff  College,  at  Upper 
Alton,  111.,  remaining  until  his  death,  Jan.  81, 
1892.  Professor  Castle  received  the  degree  of 
LL.D.  from  Denison  University  in  1877. 

CATHEBWOOD,  Mary  Hartwell,  author,  was 
born  (Hartwell)  in  Luray,  Ohio,  Dec.  16,  1844, 
educated  at  the  Female  College,  Granville,  Ohio, 
where  she  graduated,  in  1868,  and,  in  1887,  was 
married  to  James  S.  Catherwood,  with  whom  she 
resided  at  Hoopeston,  111.  Mrs.  Catherwood  was  the 
author  of  a  number  of  works  of  fiction,  which 
have  been  accorded  a  high  rank.  Among  her 
earlier  productions  are  "Craque-o'-Doom"  (1881), 
"Rocky  Fork"  (1882),  "Old  Caravan  Days" 
(1884),  "The  Secrets  at  Roseladies"  (1888),  "The 
Romance  of  Dollard"  and  "The  Bells  of  St. 
Anne"  (1889).  During  her  last  few  years  she  had 
shown  a  predilection  for  subjects  connected  with 
early  Illinois  history,  and  had  published  popular 
romances  under  the  title  of  "The  Story  of  Tonty," 
l:The  White  Islander,"  "The  Lady  of  Fort  St. 
John,"  "Old  Kaskaskia"  and  "The  Chase  of  Sant 
Castin  and  other  Stories  of  the  French  in  the  New 
.  World."  Died  Dec.  26,  1902. 

CATOX,  John  Dean,  early  lawyer  and  jurist, 
was  born  in  Monroe  Count}",  N.  Y. ,  March  19, 
1812.  Left  to  the  care  of  a  widowed  mother  at 
an  early  age,  his  childhood  was  spent  in  poverty 
and  manual  labor.  At  15  he  was  set  to  learn  a 
trade,  but  an  infirmity  of  sight  compelled  him  to 
abandon  it.  After  a  brief  attendance  at  an 
academy  at  Utica,  where  he  studied  law  between 
the  ages  of  19  and  21,  in  1833  he  removed  to 
Chicago,  and  shortly  afterward,  on  a  visit  to 
Pekin,  was  examined  and  licensed  to  practice  by 
Judge  Stephen  T.  Logan.  In  1834,  he  was  elected 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  served  as  Alderman  in 
1837-38,  and  sat  upon  the  bench  of  the  Supreme 
Court  from  1842  to  1864,  when  he  resigned,  hav- 


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ing  served  nearly  twenty-two  years.  During 
this  period  he  more  than  once  occupied  the  posi- 
tion of  Chief  Justice.  Being  embarrassed  by  the 
financial  stringency  of  1837-38,  in  the  latter  year 
he  entered  a  tract  of  land  near  Plainfield,  and, 
taking  his  family  with  him,  began  farming. 
Later  in  life,  while  a  resident  of  Ottawa,  he 
became  interested  in  the  construction  of  telegraph 
lines  in  the  West,  which  for  a  time  bore  his  name 
and  were  ultimately  incorporated  in  the  "West- 
ern Union,"  laying  the  foundation  of  a  large 
fortune.  On  retiring  from  the  bench,  he  devoted 
himself  for  the  remainder  of  his  life  to  his  private 
affairs,  to  travel,  and  to  literary  labors.  Among 
his  published  works  are  "The  Antelope  and  Deer 
of  America,"  "A  Summer  in  Norway,"  "Miscel- 
lanies," and  "Early  Bench  and  Bar  of  Illinois." 
Died  in  Chicago,  July  30,  1895. 

CAY  ABLY,  Alfred  W.,  early  lawyer  and  legis- 
lator, was  born  in  Connecticut,  Sept.  15,  1793; 
served  as  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812,  and,  in 
1822,  came  to  Illinois,  first  settling  at  Edwards- 
ville,  and  soon  afterwards  at  Carrollton,  Greene 
County.  Here  he  was  elected  Representative  in 
the  Fifth  General  Assembly  (1826),  and  again  to 
the  Twelfth  (1840) ;  also  served  as  Senator  in  the 
Thirteenth,  Fourteenth  and  Fifteenth  Assemblies 
(1842-48),  acting,  in  1845,  as  one  of  the  Commis- 
sioners to  revise  the  statutes.  In  1844,  he  was 
chosen  a  Presidential  Elector,  and,  in  1846,  was  a 
prominent  candidate  for  the  Democratic  nomi- 
nation for  Governor,  but  was  defeated  in  conven- 
tion by  Augustus  C.  French.  Mr.  Cavarly  was 
prominent  both  in  his  profession  and  in  the 
Legislature  while  a  member  of  that  body.  In 
1853,  he  removed  to  Ottawa,  where  he  resided 
until  his  death,  Oct.  25,  1876. 

CENTRAL  CITY,  a  village  of  Marion  County,  on 
the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  just  north  of  Cen- 
tralia;  in  a  mining  region.  Pop.  (1910),  1,179. 

CENTRAL  HOSPITAL  FOR  THE  INSANE, 
established  under  act  of  the  Legislature  passed 
March  1,  1847,  and  located  at  Jacksonville,  Mor- 
gan County.  Its  founding  was  largely  due  to  the 
philanthropic  efforts  of  Miss  Dorothea  L.  Dix, 
who  addressed  the  people  from  the  platform  and 
appeared  before  the  General  Assembly  in  behalf 
of  this  class  of  unfortunates.  Construction  of 
the  building  was  begun  in  1848.  By  1851  two 
wards  were  ready  for  occupancy,  and  the  first 
patient  was  received  in  November  of  that  year. 
The  first  Superintendent  was  Dr.  J.  M.  Higgins, 
who  served  less  than  two  years,  when  lie  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Dr.  H.  K.  Jones,  who  had  been  Assist- 
ant Superintendent.  Dr.  Jones  remained  as 


Acting  Superintendent  for  several  months,  when 
the  place  was  filled  by  the  appointment  of  Dr. 
Andrew  McFarland  of  New  Hampshire,  his 
administration  continuing  until  1870,  when  he 
resigned  on  account  of  ill-health,  being  succeeded 
by  Dr.  Henry  F.  Carriel  of  New  Jersey.  Dr. 
Carriel  tendered  his  resignation  in  1893,  and, 
after  one  or  two  further  changes,  in  1897  Dr. 
F.  C.  Winslow,  who  had  been  Assistant  Superin- 
tendent under  Dr.  Carriel,  was  placed  in  charge 
of  the  institution.  The  original  plan  of  construc- 
tion provided  for  a  center  building,  five  and  a 
half  stories  high,  and  two  wings  with  a  rear 
extension  in  which  were  to  be  the  chapel,  kitchen 
and  employes'  quarters.  Subsequently  these 
wings  were  greatly  enlarged,  permitting  an 
increase  in  the  number  of  wards,  and  as  the 
exigencies  of  the  institution  demanded,  appropri- 
ations have  been  made  for  the  erection  of  addi- 
tional buildings.  Numerous  detached  buildings 
have  been  erected  within  the  past  few  years,  and 
the  capacity  of  the  institution  greatly  increased 
— "The  Annex"  admitting  of  the  introduction  of 
many  new  and  valuable  features  in  the  classifica- 
tion and  treatment  of  patients.  The  number  of 
inmates  of  late  years  has  ranged  from  1,200  to 
1,400.  The  counties  from  which  patients  are 
received  in  this  institution  embrace:  Rock 
Island,  Mercer,  Henry,  Bureau,  Putnam,  Mar- 
shall, Stark,  Knox,  Warren,  Henderson,  Hancock, 
McDonough,  Fulton,  Peoria,  Tazewell,  Logan, 
Mason,  Menard,  Cass,  Schuyler,  Adams,  Pike, 
Calhoun,  Brown,  Scott,  Morgan,  Sangamon, 
Christian,  Montgomery,  Macoupin,  Greene  and 
Jersey. 

CENTRALIA,  a  city 'and  railway  center  of 
Marion  County,  250  miles  south  of  Chicago.  It 
forms  a  trade  center  for  the  famous  "fruit  belt" 
of  Southern  Illinois ;  has  a  number  of  coal  mines, 
oil  and  gas  wells,  a  glass  plant,  iron  foundries,  rail- 
road repair  shops,  flour  and  rolling  mills,  and  an 
ice  plant;  also  has  water- works  and  sewerage  sys- 
tem, a  fire  department,  two  daily  and  weekly  papers, 
and  excellent  graded  schools.  Several  parks  afford 
splendid  pleasure  resorts.  Population  (1890), 
4,763;  (1900),  6,721;  (1910),  9,680. 

CENTRALIA  &  ALTAMONT  RAILROAD. 
(See  Centralia  &  Chester  Railroad.) 

CENTRALIA  &  CHESTER  RAILROAD,  a  rail- 
way line  wholly  within  the  State,  extending 
from  Salem,  in  Marion  County,  to  Chester,  on  the 
Mississippi  River  (91.6  miles),  with  a  lateral 
branch  from  Sparta  to  Roxborough  (.5  miles),  and 
trackage  facilities  over  the  Illinois  Central  from 
the  branch  junction  to  Centralia  (2.9  miles) — 


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total,  99.5  miles.  The  original  line  was  chartered 
as  the  Centralia  &  Chester  Railroad,  in  December, 
1887,  completed  from  Sparta  to  Coulterville  in 
1889,  and  consolidated  the  same  year  with  the 
Sparta  &  Evansville  and  the  Centralia  &  Alta- 
mont  Railroads  (projected);  line  completed 
from  Centralia  to  Evansville  early  in  1894.  The 
branch  from  Sparta  to  Rosborough  was  built  in 
1895,  the  section  of  the  main  line  from  Centralia 
to  Salem  (14.9  miles)  in  1896,  and  that  from 
Evansville  to  Chester  (17.6  miles)  in  1897-98. 
The  road  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  receiver, 
June  7,  1897,  and  the  expenditures  for  extension 
and  equipment  made  under  authority  granted  by 
the  United  States  Court  for  the  issue  of  Receiver's 
certificates.  The  total  capitalization  is  §2,374,- 
841,  of  which  $978,000  is  in  stocks  and  $948,000  in 
bonds. 

CENTRAL  MILITARY  TRACT  RAILROAD. 
(See  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad.) 

CERRO  GORDO,  a  town  in  Piatt  County,  12 
miles  by  rail  east-northeast  of  Decatur.  The  crop 
of  cereals  in  the  surrounding  country  is  sufficient 
to  support  two  elevators  at  Cerro  Gordo,  which 
has  also  a  flouring  mill,  brick  and  tile  factories, 
etc.  There  are  three  churches,  graded  schools,  a 
bank  and  one  weekly  newspaper.  Population 
(1890),  939;  (1900),  1,008;  (1910),  876. 

CHADDOCK  COLLEGE,  an  institution  under 
the  patronage  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church 
at  Quincy,  III.,  incorporated  in  1878;  is  co-educa- 
tional, has  a  faculty  of  ten  instructors,  and 
reports  127  students — 70  male  and  57  female — in 
the  classes  of  1895-96.  Besides  the  usual  depart- 
ments in  literature,  science  and  the  classics, 
instruction  is  given  to  classes  in  theology,  music, 
the  fine  arts,  oratory  and  preparatory  studies.  It 
has  property  valued  at  $110,000,  and  reports  an 
endowment  fund  of  $8,000. 

CHAMBERLIN,  Thomas  Crowder,  geologist 
and  educator,  was  born  near  Mattoon,  111. ,  Sept. 
25,  1845;  graduated  at  Beloit  College,  Wisconsin, 
in  1866:  took  a  course  in  Michigan  University 
(1868-69);  taught  in  various  Wisconsin  institu- 
tions, also  discharged  the  duties  of  State 
Geologist,  later  filling  the  chair  of  Geology  at 
Columbian  University,  Washington,  D.  C.  In 
1878,  he  was  sent  to  Paris,  in  charge  of  the  edu- 
cational exhibits  of  Wisconsin,  at  the  Interna- 
tional Exposition  of  that  year— during  his  visit 
making  a  special  study  of  the  Alpine  glaciers. 
In  1887,  he  was  elected  President  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Wisconsin,  serving  until  1892,  when  he 
became  Head  Professor  of  Geology  at  the  Univer- 
sity of  Chicago,  where  he  still  remains.  He  is 


also  editor  of  the  University  "Journal  of  Geol- 
ogy" and  President  of  the  Chicago  Academy  of 
Sciences.  Professor  Chamberlin  is  author  of  a 
number  of  volumes  on  educational  and  scientific 
subjects,  chiefly  in  the  line  of  geology.  He 
received  the  degree  of  LL.D.  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  Michigan,  Beloit  College  and  Columbian 
University,  all  on  the  same  date  (1887). 

CHAMPAIGN,  a  flourishing  city  in  Champaign 
County,  128  miles  southwest  of  Chicago  and  83 
miles  northeast  of  Springfield ;  is  the  intersecting 
point  of  three  lines  of  railway  and  connected 
with  the  adjacent  city  of  Urbana,  the  county- 
seat,  by  an  electric  railway.  The  University  of 
Illinois,  located  in  Urbana,  is  contiguous  to  the 
city.  Champaign  has  an  excellent  system  of 
water-works,  well-paved  streets,  and  is  lighted  by 
both  gas  and  electricity.  The  surrounding  coun- 
try is  agricultural,  but  the  city  has  manufac- 
tories of  carriages  and  machines.  Three  papers 
are  published  here,  besides  a  college  weekly  con- 
ducted by  the  students  of  the  University.  The 
Burnham  Hospital  and  the  Garwood  Old  Ladies' 
Home  are  located  in  Champaign.  In  the  resi- 
dence portion  of  the  city  there  is  a  handsome 
park,  covering  ten  acres  and  containing  a  notable 
piece  of  bronze  statuary,  and  several  smaller  parks 
in  other  sections.  There  are  several  handsome 
churches,  and  excellent  schools,  both  public  and 
private.  Pop.  (1900),  9,098;  (1910),  12,421. 

CHAMPAIGN  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  eastern 
half  of  the  central  belt  of  the  State;  area,  1,008 
square  miles;  population  (1910),  51,829.  The 
county  was  organized  in  1833,  and  named  for  a 
county  in  Ohio.  The  physical  conformation  is 
flat,  and  the  soil  rich.  The  county  lies  in  the 
heart  of  what  was  once  called  the  "Grand 
Prairie."  Workable  seams  of  bituminous  coal 
underlie  the  surface,  but  overlying  quicksands 
interfere  with  their  operation.  The  Sangamon 
and  Kaskaskia  Rivers  have  their  sources  in  this 
region,  and  several  railroads  cross  the  county. 
The  soil  is  a  black  muck  underlaid  by  a  yellow 
clay.  Urbana  (with  a  population  of  5,708  in 
1900)  is  the  county-seat.  Other  important  points 
in  the  county  are  Champaign  (9,000),  Tolono 
(1,000),  and  Rantoul  (1,200).  Champaign  and 
Urbana  adjoin  each  other,  and  the  grounds  of  the 
Illinois  State  University  extend  into  each  corpo- 
ration, 'being  largely  situated  in  Champaign. 
Large  drifted  masses  of  Niagara  limestone  are 
found,  interspersed  with  coal  measure  limestone 
and  sandstone.  Alternating  beds  of  clay,  gravel 
and  quicksand  of  the  drift  formation  are  found 
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CHAMPAIGN,  HAYANA  &  WESTERN  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  Illinois  Central  Railroad.) 

CHANDLER,  Charles,  physician,  was  born  at 
West  Woodstock,  Conn.,  July  2,  1806;  graduated 
with  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  Castleton,  Vt.,  and, 
in  1829,  located  in  Scituate,  R.  I. ;  in  1832,  started 
with  the  intention  of  settling  at  Fort  Clark  (now 
Peoria),  111.,  but  was  stopped  at  Beardstown  by 
the  "Black  Hawk  War,"  finally  locating  on  the 
Sangamon  River,  in  Cass  County,  where,  in  1848, 
he  laid  out  the  town  of  Chandlerville — Abraham 
Lincoln  being  one  of  the  surveyors  who  platted 
the  town.  Here  he  gained  a  large  practice, 
which  he  was  compelled,  in  his  later  years,  par- 
tially to  abandon  in  consequence  of  injuries 
received  while  prosecuting  his  profession,  after- 
wards turning  his  attention  to  merchandising 
and  encouraging  the  development  of  the  locality 
in  which  he  lived  by  promoting  the  construction 
of  railroads  and  the  building  of  schoolhouses  and 
churches.  Liberal  and  public-spirited,  big  influ- 
ence for  good  extended  over  a  large  region. 
Died,  April  7,  1879. 

CHANDLER,  Henry  B.,  newspaper  manager, 
was  born  at  Frelighsburg,  Quebec,  July  12,  1836; 
at  18  he  began  teaching,  and  later  took  charge  of 
the  business  department  of  "The  Detroit  Free 
Press" ;  in  1861,  came  to  Chicago  with  Wilbur  F. 
Storey  and  became  business  manager  of  "The 
Chicago  Times";  in  1870,  disagreed  with  Storey 
and  retired  from  newspaper  business.  Died,  at 
Yonkers,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  18,  1896. 

CHANDLERTILLE,  a  village  in  Cass  County, 
on  the  Chicago,  Peoria  &  St.  Louis  Railroad,  7 
miles  north  by  east  from  Virginia,  laid  out  in 
1848  by  Dr.  Charles  Chandler,  and  platted  by 
Abraham  Lincoln.  It  has  a  bank,  a  creamery, 
four  churches,  a  weekly  newspaper,  a  flour  and  a 
saw-mill.  Pop.  (1900),  940;  (1910),  884. 

CHAPINj  a  village  of  Morgan  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Wabash  and  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroads,  10  miles  west  of 
Jacksonville.  Pop.  (1900),  514;  (1910),  552. 

CHAPPELL,  Charles  H.,  railway  manager, 
was  born  in  Du  Page  County,  111.,  March  3,  1841. 
With  an  ardent  passion  for  the  railroad  business, 
at  the  age  of  16  he  obtained  a  position  as  freight 
brakeman  on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railroad,  being  steadily  promoted  through  the 
ranks  of  conductor,  train-master  and  dispatcher, 
until,  in  1865,  at  the  age  of  24,  he  was  appointed 
General  Agent  of  the  Eastern  Division  of  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy.  Other  railroad 
positions  which  Mr.  Chappell  later  held  were: 
Superintendent  of  a  division  of  the  Union  Pacific 


(1869-70) ;  Assistant  or  Division  Superintendent 
of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy,  or  some  of 
its  branches  (1870-74) ;  General  Superintendent 
of  the  Missouri,  Kansas  &  Texas  (1874-76); 
Superintendent  of  the  Western  Division  of  the 
Wabash  (1877-79).  In  1880,  he  accepted  the 
position  of  Assistant  General  Superintendent  of 
the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad,  being  advanced  in 
the  next  three  years  through  the  grades  of 
General  Superintendent  and  Assistant  General 
Manager,  to  that  of  General  Manager  of  the 
entire  system,  which  he  continued  to  fill  for  more 
than  twelve  years.  Quietly  and  without  show  or 
display,  Mr.  Chappell  continued  in  the  discharge  of 
his  duties,  assisting  to  make  the  system  with  which 
he  was  identified  one  of  the  most  successful  in  its 
operation  in  the  country.  Died  June  22,  1904. 

CHARLESTON,  the  county-seat  of  Coles 
County,  an  incorporated  city  and  a  railway  junc- 
tion, 46  miles  west  of  Terre  Haute,  Ind.  It  lies 
in  the  center  of  a  farming  region,  yet  has  several 
factories,  including  woolen  and  flouring  mills, 
broom,  plow  and  carriage  factories,  a  foundry 
and  a  canning  factory.  Three  newspapers  are 
published  here,  issuing  daily  editions.  The  Eastern 
State  Normal  School  was  located  here  in  1895. 
Pop.  (1900),  5,488;  (1900),  5,884. 

CHARLESTON,  NEOGA  &  ST.  LOUIS  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  Toledo,  St.  Louis  &  Kansas  City 
Railroad.) 

CHARLEVOIX,  Pierre  Francois  Xavier  de, 
a  celebrated  French  traveler  and  an  early 
explorer  of  Illinois,  born  at  St.  Quentin,  France, 
Oct.  29,  1682.  He  entered  the  Jesuit  Society, 
and  while  a  student  was  sent  to  Quebec 
(1695),  where  for  four  years  he  was  instructor  in 
the  college,  and  completed  his  divinity  studies. 
In  1709  he  returned  to  France,  but  came  again  to 
Quebec  a  few  years  later.  He  ascended  the  St. 
Lawrence,  sailed  through  Lakes  Ontario  and  Erie, 
and  finally  reached  the  Mississippi  by  way  of  the 
Illinois  River.  After  visiting  Cahokia  and  the 
surrounding  county  (1720-21),  he  continued  down 
the  Mississippi  to  New  Orleans,  and  returned  to 
France  by  way  of  Santo  Domingo.  Besides  some 
works  on  religious  subjects,  he  was  the  author  of 
histories  of  Japan,  Paraguay  and  San  Domingo. 
His  great  work,  however,  was  the  "History  of 
New  France,"  which  was  not  published  until 
twenty  years  after  his  death.  His  journal  of  his 
American  explorations  appeared  about  the  same 
time.  His  history  has  long  been  cited  by 
scholars  as  authority,  but  no  English  translation 
was  made  until  1865,  when  it  was  undertaken  bv 
Shea.  Died  in  France,  Feb.  1,  1761. 


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CHASE,  Philander,  Protestant  Episcopal 
Bishop,  was  born  in  Cornish,  Vt.,  Dec.  14,  1775, 
and  graduated  at  Dartmouth  in  1795.  Although 
reared  as  a  Congregationalist,  he  adopted  the 
Episcopal  faith,  and  was  ordained  a  priest  in 
1799,  for  several  years  laboring  as  a  missionary 
in  Northern  and  Western  New  York.  In  1805, 
he  went  to  New  Orleans,  but  returning  North  in 
1811,  spent  six  years  as  a  rector  at  New  Haven, 
Conn. ,  then  engaged  in  missionary  work  in  Ohio, 
organizing  a  number  of  parishes  and  founding  an 
academy  at  Worthington;  was  consecrated  a 
Bishop  in  1819,  and  after  a  visit  to  England  to 
raise  funds,  laid  the  foundation  of  Kenyon 
College  and  Gambier  Theological  Seminary, 
named  in  honor  of  two  English  noblemen  who 
had  contributed  a  large  portion  of  the  funds. 
Differences  arising  with  some  of  his  clergy  in 
reference  to  the  proper  use  of  the  funds,  he 
resigned  both  the  Bishopric  and  the  Presidency 
of  the  college  in  1831.  and  after  three  years  of 
missionary  labor  in  Michigan,  in  1835  was  chosen 
Bishop  of  Illinois.  Making  a  second  visit  to 
England,  he  succeeded  in  raising  additional 
funds,  and,  in  1838,  founded  Jubilee  College  at 
Robin's  Nest,  Peoria  County,  111.,  for  which  a 
charter  was  obtained  in  1847.  He  was  a  man  of 
great  religious  zeal,  of  indomitable  perseverance 
and  the  most  successful  pioneer  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  West.  He  was  Presiding  Bishop 
from  1843  until  his  death,  which  occurred  Sept, 
20,  1852.  Several  volumes  appeared  from  his  pen, 
the  most  important  being  "A  Plea  for  the  West" 
(1826),  and  "Reminiscences:  an  Autobiography, 
Comprising  a  History  of  the  Principal  Events  in 
the  Author's  Life"  (1848). 

CHATHAM,  a  village  of  Sangamon  County,  on 
the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad,  9  miles  south  of 
Springfield.  Pop.  (1900),  629;  (1910),  666. 

CHATSWORTH,  town  in  Livingston  County, 
on  111.  Cent,  and  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Western  Rail- 
ways, 79  miles  east  of  Peoria;  in  farming  and 
stock-raising  district;  has  two  banks,  three  grain 
elevators,  five  churches,  a  graded  school,  two 
weekly  papers,  water-works,  electric  lights,  paved 
streets,  cement  sidewalks,  brick  works,  and  other 
manufactories.  Pop.  (1900),  1,038;  (1910),  1,112. 

CHEBAXSE,  a  town  in  Iroquois  and  Kankakee 
Counties,  on  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  64  miles 
south-southwest  from  Chicago;  the  place  has  one 
bank  and  one  newspaper.  Population  (1880),  728; 
(1890),  616;  (1900),  555;  (1910),  590. 

CHENEY,  Charles  Edward,  Bishop  of  the  Re- 
formed Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  was  born  in 
Canandaigua,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  12,  1830;  graduated  at 


Hobart  in  1857,  and  began  study  for  the  ministry 
of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  Soon  after 
ordination  he  became  rector  of  Christ  Church, 
Chicago,  and  was  prominent  among  those  who, 
under  the  leadership  of  Assistant  Bishop  Cum- 
mins of  Kentucky,  organized  the  Reformed  Epis- 
copal Church  in  1873.  He  was  elected  Missionary 
Bishop  of  the  Northwest  for  the  new  organiza- 
tion, and  was  consecrated  in  Christ  Church, 
Chicago,  Dec.  14,  1873. 

CHEXEY,  John  Vance,  author  and  librarian, 
was  born  at  Groveland,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  29,  1848, 
though  the  family  home  was  at  Dorset,  Vt., 
where  he  grew  up  and  received  his  primary  edu- 
cation. He  acquired  his  academic  training  at 
Manchester,  Vt.,  and  Temple  Hill  Academy, 
Genesee,  N.  Y.,  graduating  from  the  latter  in 
1865,  later  becoming  Assistant  Principal  of  the 
same  institution.  Having  studied  law,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  successively  in  Massachusetts 
and  New  York;  but  meanwhile  having  written 
considerably  for  the  old  "Scribner's  Monthly" 
(now  "Century  Magazine"),  while  under  the 
editorship  of  Dr.  J.  G.  Holland,  he  gradually 
adopted  literature  as  a  profession.  Removing  to 
the  Pacific  Coast,  he  took  charge,  in  1887,  of  the 
Free  Public  Library  at  San  Francisco,  remaining 
until  1894,  when  he  accepted  the  position  of 
Librarian  of  the  Newberry  Library  in  Chicago, 
as  successor  to  Dr.  William  F.  Poole,  deceased. 
Besides  two  or  three  volumes  of  verse,  Mr.  Cheney 
is  the  author  of  numerous  essays  on  literary 
subjects.  His  published  works  include  "Thistle- 
Drift,"  poems  (1887);  "Wood-Blooms,"  poems 
(1888),  "Golden  Guess,"  essays  (1892);  "That 
Dome  in  Air,"  essays  (1895);  "Queen  Helen." 
poem  (1895)  and  "Out  of  the  Silence,'  poem 
(1897).  He  is  also  editor  of  "Wood  Notes  Wild,  " 
by  Simeon  Pease  Cheney  (1892),  and  Caxton  Club's 
edition  of  Derby's  Phoenixiana. 

CHEJfOA,  an  incorporated  city  of  McLean 
County,  at  the  intersecting  point  of  the  Toledo, 
Peoria  &  Western  and  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Rail- 
roads, 48  miles  east  of  Peoria,  23  miles  northeast 
of  Bloomington,  and  102  miles  south  of  Chicago. 
Agriculture,  dairy  farming,  fruit-growing  and 
coal-mining  are  the  chief  industries  of  the  sur- 
rounding region.  The  city  also  has  an  electric 
light  plant,  water-works,  canning  works  and  tile 
works,  besides  two  banks,  seven  churches,  a 
graded  school,  two  weekly  papers,  and  telephone 
systems  connecting  with  the  surrounding  coun- 
try. Pop.  (1900),  1,512;  (1910),  1,314. 

CHESBROUGH,  Ellis  Sylvester,  civil  engineer, 
was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  July  6,  1813;  at  the 


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age  of  thirteen  was  chainman  to  an  engineering 
party  on  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Railroad,  being 
later  employed  oil  other  roads.  In  1837,  he  was 
appointed  senior  assistant  engineer  in  the  con- 
struction of  the  Louisville,  Cincinnati  &  Charles- 
ton Railroad,  and,  in  1846,  Chief  Engineer  of  the 
Boston  Waterworks,  in  1850  becoming  sole  Com- 
missioner of  the  Water  Department  of  that  city. 
In  1855,  he  became  engineer  of  the  Chicago  Board 
of  Sewerage  Commissioners,  and  in  that  capacity 
designed  the  sewerage  system  of  the  city — also 
planning  the  river  tunnels.  He  resigned  the 
office  of  Commissioner  of  Public  Works  of 
Chicago  in  1879.  He  was  regarded  as  an  author- 
ity on  water-supply  and  sewerage,  and  was  con- 
sulted by  the  officials  of  New  York,  Boston, 
Toronto,  Milwaukee  and  other  cities.  Died, 
August  19,  1886. 

CHESXUT,  John  A.,  lawyer,  was  born  in  Ken- 
tucky, Jan.  19,  1816,  his  father  being  a  native  of 
South  Carolina,  but  of  Irish  descent.  John  A. 
was  educated  principally  in  his  native  State,  but 
came  to  Illinois  in  1836,  read  law  with  P.  H. 
Winchester  at  Carlinville,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1837,  and  practiced  at  Carlinville  until 
1855,  when  he  removed  to  Springfield  and  engaged 
in  real  estate  and  banking  business.  Mr.  Ches- 
nut  was  associated  with  many  local  business 
enterprises,  was  for  several  years  one  of  the 
Trustees  of  the  Institution  for  the  Deaf  and 
Dumb  at  Jacksonville,  also  a  Trustee  of  the 
Illinois  Female  College  (Methodist)  at  the  same 
place,  and  was  Supervisor  of  the  United  States 
Census  for  the  Sixth  District  of  Illinois  in  1880. 
Died,  Jan.  14,  1898. 

CHESTER,  the  county-seat  of  Randolph 
County,  situated  on  the  Mississippi  River,  76 
miles  south  of  St.  Louis.  It  is  the  seat  of  the 
Southern  Illinois  Penitentiary  and  of  the  State 
Asylum  for  Insane  Convicts  It  stands  in  the 
neart  of  a  region  abounding  in  bituminous  coal, 
and  is  a  prominent  shipping  point  for  this  com- 
modity; also  has  quarries  of  building  stone.  It 
has  a  grain  elevator,  flouring  mills,  rolling  mills 
and  foundries  and  two  weekly  papers.  Pop.  (1890), 
2,708;  (1900),  2,832;  (1910),  2,747. 

CHETLA1N,  Augustus  Louis,  soldier,  was  born 
in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Dec.  26,  1824,  of  French  Hugue- 
not stock — his  parents  having  emigrated  from 
Switzerland  in  1823,  at  first  becoming  members 
of  the  Selkirk  colony  on  Red  River,  in  Manitoba. 
Having  received  a  common  school  education,  he 
became  a  merchant  at  Galena,  and  was  the  first 
to  volunteer  there  in  response  to  the  call  for 
troops  after  the  bombardment  of  Fort  Sumter,  in 


1861,  being  chosen  to  the  captaincy  of  a  company 
in  the  Twelfth  Regiment  of  Illinois  Volunteers, 
which  General  Grant  had  declined;  participated 
in  the  campaign  on  the  Tennessee  River  which 
resulted  in  the  capture  of  Fort  Donelson  anu  the 
battle  of  Shiloh,  meanwhile  being  commissioned 
Lieutenant-Colonel ;  also  distinguished  himself  at 
Corinth,  where  he  remained  in  command  until 
May,  1863,  and  organized  the  first  colored  regi- 
ment raised  in  the  West.  In  December,  1863,  he 
was  promoted  Brigadier-General  and  placed  in 
charge  of  the  organization  of  colored  troops  in 
Tennessee,  serving  later  in  Kentucky  and  being 
brevetted  Major-General  in  January,  1864.  From 
January  to  October,  1865,  he  commanded  the 
post  at  Memphis,  and  later  the  District  of  Talla- 
dega,  Ala.,  until  January,  1866,  when  he  was 
mustered  out  of  the  service.  General  Chetlain 
was  Assessor  of  Internal  Revenue  for  the  District 
of  Utah  (1867-69),  then  appointed  United  States 
Consul  at  Brussels,  serving  until  1872,  on  his 
return  to  the  United  States  establishing  himself 
as  a  banker  and  broker  in  Chicago. 

CHICAGO,  the  county-seat  of  Cook  County, 
chief  city  of  Illinois  and  (1910)  second  city  in 
population  in  the  United  States. 

SITUATION. — The  city  is  situated  at  the  south- 
west bend  of  Lake  Michigan,  18  miles  north  of 
the  extreme  southern  point  of  the  lake,  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Chicago  River;  715  miles  west  of 
New  York,  590  miles  north  of  west  from  Wash- 
ington, and  260  miles  northeast  of  St.  Louis. 
From  the  Pacific  Coast  it  is  distant  2,417  miles. 
Latitude  41°  52'  north;  longitude  87"  35'  west  of 
Greenwich.  Area  (1910),  190.6  square  miles. 

TOPOGRAPHY. — Chicago  stands  on  the  dividing 
ridge  between  the  Mississippi  and  St.  Lawreice 
basins.  It  is  502  feet  above  sea-level,  and  its 
highest  point  is  some  18  feet  above  Lake  Michi- 
gan. The  Chicago  River  is  virtually  a  bayou, 
dividing  into  north  and  south  branches  about  a 
half-mile  west  of  the  lake.  The  surrounding 
country  is  a  low,  flat  prairie,  but  engineering 
science  and  skill  have  done  much  for  it  in  the 
way  of  drainage.  The  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal 
terminates  at  a  point  on  the  south  branch  of 
the  Chicago  River,  within  the  city  limits,  and 
unites  the  waters  of  Lake  Michigan  with  those 
of  the  Illinois  River. 

COMMERCE.—  The  Chicago  River,  with  its 
branches,  affords  a  water  frontage  of  nearly  60 
miles,  the  greater  part  of  which  is  utilized  for 
the  shipment  and  unloading  of  grain,  lumber, 
stone,  coal,  merchandise,  etc.  Another  navigable 
stream  (the  Calumet  River)  also  lies  within  the 


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HISTORICAL   ENCYCLOPEDIA   OF   ILLINOIS. 


corporate  limits.  Dredging  has  made  the  Chi- 
cago River,  with  its  branches,  navigable  for 
vessels  of  deep  draft.  The  harbor  has  also  been 
widened  and  deepened.  Well  constructed  break- 
waters protect  the  vessels  lying  inside,  and  the 
port  is  as  safe  as  any  on  the  great  lakes.  The 
city  is  a  port  of  entry,  and  the  tonnage  of  vessels 
arriving  there  exceeds  that  of  any  other  port  in 
the  United  States.  During  1897,  9,156  vessels 
arrived,  with  an  aggregate  tonnage  of  7,209,442, 
while  9,201  cleared,  representing  a  tonnage  of 
7,185,324.  It  is  the  largest  grain  market  in  the 
world,  its  elevators  (in  1897)  having  a  capacity 
of  32,550,000  bushels. 

According  to  the  reports  of  the  Board  of  Trade, 
the  total  receipts  and  shipments  of  grain  for 
the  year  1898 — counting  flour  as  its  grain  equiva- 
lent in  bushels — amounted  to  323,097,453  bushels 
of  the  former,  to  289,920,028  bushels  of  the  latter. 
The  receipts  and  shipments  of  various  products 
for  the  year  (1898)  were  as  follows: 


Receipts. 

Shipments. 

Flour  (bbls.)     . 

5,316,195 

5,032,236 

Wheat  (bu.)     .     . 

35,741,555 

38,094,900 

Corn        "    .     .     .     . 

127,426,374 

130,397,681 

Oats        "    .    .    .    . 

110,293,647 

85.057,636 

Rye         "    .     .    .    . 

4,935,308 

4,453.384 

Barley     "    .     .     .     . 

18,116.594 

6,755,247 

Cured  Meats  (Ibs.)    . 

229,005,246 

923,627,722 

Dressed  Beef    "   .     . 

110,286,652 

1,060,859,808 

Live-stock  —  Hogs     . 

9,360,968 

1,334.768 

Cattle    . 

2,480,632 

864,408 

Sheep    . 

3,502,378 

545,001 

Chicago  is  also  an  important  lumber  market, 
the  receipts  in  1895,  including  shingles,  being 
1,562,527  M.  feet.  As  a  center  for  beef  and  pork- 
packing,  the  city  is  without  a  rival  in  the  amount 
of  its  products,  there  having  been  92,459  cattle 
and  760,514  hogs  packed  in  1894-95.  In  bank 
clearings  and  general  mercantile  business  it 
ranks  second  only  to  New  York,  while  it  is  also 
one  of  the  chief  manufacturing  centers  of  the 
country.  The  census  of  1890  shows  9,959  manu- 
facturing establishments,  with  a  capital  of  $29?,- 
477,038;  employing  203,108  hands,  and  turning 
out  products  valued  at  §632,184,140.  Of  the  out- 
put by  far  the  largest  was  that  of  the  slaughter- 
ing and  meat-packing  establishments,  amounting 
to  $203,825,092;  men's  clothing  came  next  ($32,- 
517,226) ;  iron  and  steel,  831,419,854;  foundry  and 
machine  shop  products,  $29,928,616;  planed 
lumber,  $17,604,494.  Chicago  is  also  the  most 
important  live-stock  market  in  the  United  States. 
The  Union  Stock  Yards  (in  the  southwest  part  of 
the  city)  are  connected  with  all  railroad  lines 
entering  the  c'ty,  and  cover  many  hundreds  of 


acres.  In  1894,  there  were  received  8,788,049 
animals  (of  all  descriptions),  valued  at  $148,057,- 
626.  Chicago  is  also  a  primary  market  for  hides 
and  leather,  the  production  and  sales  being  both 
of  large  proportions,  and  the  trade  in  manufac- 
tured leather  (notably  in  boots  and  shoes) 
exceeds  that  of  any  other  market  in  the  country. 
Ship-building  is  a  leading  industry,  as  are  also 
brick-making,  distilling  and  brewing. 

TRANSPORTATION,  ETC.— Besides  being  the  chief 
port  on  the  great  lakes,  Chicago  ranks  second  to 
no  other  American  city  as  a  railway  center.  The 
old  "Galena  &  Chicago  Union,"  its  first  railroad, 
was  operated  in  1849,  and  within  three  years  a 
substantial  advance  had  been  scored  in  the  way 
of  steam  transportation.  Since  then  the  multi- 
plication of  railroad  lines  focusing  in  or  passing 
through  Chicago  has  been  rapid  and  steady.  In 
1895  not  less  than  thirty-eight  distinct  lines  enter 
the  city,  although  these  are  operated  by  only 
twenty-two  companies.  Some  2,600  miles  of 
railroad  track  are  laid  within  the  city  limits. 
The  number  of  trains  daily  arriving  and  depart- 
ing (suburban  and  freight  included)  is  about 
2,000.  Intramural  transportation  is  afforded  by 
electric,  steam,  cable  and  horse-car  lines.  Four 
tunnels  under  the  Chicago  River  and  its  branches, 
and  numerous  bridges  connect  the  various  divi- 
sions of  the  city. 

HISTORY.— Point  du  Sable  (a  native  of  San 
Domingo)  was  admittedly  the  first  resident  of 
Chicago  other  than  the  aborigines.  The  French 
missionaries  and  explorers — Marquette,  Joliet, 
La  Salle,  Hennepin  and  others — came  a  century 
earlier,  their  explorations  beginning  in  1673. 
After  the  expulsion  of  the  French  at  the  close  of 
the  French  and  Indian  War,  the  territory  passed 
under  British  control,  though  French  traders 
remained  in  this  vicinity  after  the  War  of  the 
Revolution.  One  of  these  named  Le  Mai  followed 
Point  du  Sable  about  1796,  and  was  himself  suc- 
ceeded by  John  Kinzie,  the  Indian  trader,  who 
came  in  1803.  Fort  Dearborn  was  built  near  the 
mouth  of  the  Chicago  River  in  1804  on  land 
acquired  from  the  Indians  by  the  treaty  of 
Greenville,  concluded  by  Gen.  Anthony  Wayne 
in  1795,  but  was  evacuated  in  1812,  when  most  of 
the  garrison  and  the  few  inhabitants  were  massa- 
cred by  the  savages.  (See  Fort  Dearborn. )  The 
fort  was  rebuilt  in  1816,  and  another  settlement 
established  around  it.  The  first  Government 
survey  was  made,  1829-30.  Early  residents  were 
the  Kinzies,  the  Wolcotts,  the  Beaubiens  and  the 
Millers.  The  Black  Hawk  War  (1832)  rather 
aided  in  developing  the  resources  and  increasing 


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the  population  of  the  infant  settlement  by  draw- 
ing to  it  settlers  from  the  interior  for  purposes  of 
mutual  protection.  Town  organization  was 
effected  on  August  10,  1832,  the  total  number  of 
votes  polled  being  28.  The  town  grew  rapidly 
for  a  time,  but  received  a  set-back  in  the  financial 
crisis  of  1837.  During  May  of  that  year,  how- 


ever, a  charter  was  obtained  and  Chicago  became 
a  city.  The  total  number  of  votes  cast  at  that 
time  was  703.  The  census  of  the  city  for  the  1st 
of  July  of  that  year  showed  a  population  of  4,180. 
The  following  table  shows  the  names  and  term 
of  office  of  the  chief  city  officers  from  1837  to 
1899: 


YKAR. 

MAYOR. 

CITY  CLERK. 

CTTY  ATTORNEY. 

CITY  TREASURER. 

1837 
1838 
1839 
1840 
1841 
1842 
1843 
1844 
1845 
1846 
1847 
1848 
1849 
1850 
1851 
1852 
1853 
1854 
1855 
1856 
1857 
1858 
1S59 
1860 
1861 
1862 
1863 
1864 
1865 
1866 
1867 
1868 
1869 
1870 
1871 
1872 
1873 
1874 
1875 
1876 

1877-78 
1879  80 
1881-82 
1883-84 
1885-86 
1887-88 
1889-90 
1891-92 
1893  94 

1895-96 
LW7-96 

1899-01 
1901-03 
1903-05 
1906-07 
1907-09 
1909-11 
1911- 

I.  N.  Arnold,  Geo.  Davis  (1). 
Geo.  Davis  

N   B  Judd 

Hiram  Pearsons. 
Hiram  Pearsons. 
Geo.  W.  Dole. 
W.  S.  Gurnee,  N.  H.  Bolles(2) 
N.  H.  Bolles. 
F.  C.  Sherman. 
Walters.  Gurnee. 
Walter  S.  Qurnee. 
Win.  L.  Church. 
Wm.  L.  Church. 
Andrew  Getzler. 
Wm.  L.  Church. 
Wm.  L.  Church. 
Edward  Manierre. 
Edward  Manierre. 
Edward  Manierre. 
Edward  Manierre. 
Uriah  P.  Harris. 
Wm.  F   De  Wolf. 
O.  J.  Rose. 
C.  N.  Holden. 
Alonzo  Harvey. 
Alonzo  Harvey. 
Alonzo  Harvey  ,C.W.Hunt(6) 
W.  H.  Rice. 
F.  H.  Cutting,  W.  H.  Rice(7) 
David  A.  Gage. 
David  A.  Gage. 
A.  Q.  Throop. 
A.  G.  Throop. 
Wm.  F.  Wentworth. 
Wm.  F.  Wentworth. 
Wm.  F.  Wentworth. 
David  A.  Gage. 
David  A.  Gage. 
David  A.  Gage. 
David  A.  Gage. 
Daniel  O'Hara. 
Daniel  O'Hara. 

Clinton  Briggs. 
Chas.  B.  Larrabee. 
W.  C.  Seipp. 
Rudolph  Brand. 
John  M.  Dunphy. 
Wm.  M.  Devine. 
C.  Herman  Plautz. 
Bernard  Roeaing. 
Peter  Kiolbassa. 

Michael  J.  Bransfield. 
Adam  Wolf. 
Krnst  Hummel. 
Adam  Ortseifen. 
Charles  F.  Gunther 
Adam  Ortseifer 
Fred  W.  Blocki 
John  A.  Traeger 
Isaac  N.  Powell 
Henrv  Ktuckart 

Buckner  8.  Morris  

N.  B.  Judd  

Thomas  Hoyne  
Thomas  Hoyne  
J.  Curtis  

Mark  Skinner  
Geo.  Manierre  
Henry  Brown  

G.  Manierre,  Henry  Brown(3) 

F.  C.  Sherman  
Benj.  W.  Raymond  

Aug.Garrett,Alson  S.Sherinau(4) 
Aug.Garrett.Alson  S.Sherman<4) 
John  P.  Chapin  
James  Curtiss    
James  H.  Woodworth  

E.  A.  Rucker,Wm.S.Brown(5) 
Henry  B.  Clarke  
Henry  B.  Clarke  
Sidney  Abe'il  
Sidney  Abell  

Henry  W.  Clarke     

Charles  H.  Larrabee  
Patrick  Balli  ngall  

Giles  Spring    

O   R.  W   Lull       

Walters.  Gurnee  
Walters.  Gurnee  
Charles  M.  Gray  

Henry  W.  Zimmerman  
Henry  W.  Zimmerman  
Henry  W.  Zimmerman  

Henry  H.  Clark  
Arno  Voss  
Arno  Voss  

Levi  D.  Boone  

Henry  W.Zimmerman  

J  L   Marsh                

John  Wentworth  
JohnC.  Haines  
John  C.  Haines  
John  Wentworth  
Julian  S.  Rumsey  

H.  Kreisman  
H.  Kreisman  
H.  Kreisman  
Abraham  Kohn  
A.  J.  Marble  

John  C.  Miller  

Geo.  F.  Crocker  

Ira  W.  Buel  

F.  C-  Sherman....  .   
JohnB.  Kice  
John  B.  Rice  
John  B.  Rice  

H.  W.  Zimmerman  
Albert  H.  Bodman  
Albert  H.  Bodman  
Albert  H.  Bodman  
Albert  H.  Bodman  
Albert  H.  Bodman  
Charles  T.  Hotchkiss  
Charles  T.  Hotchkiss  
Charles  T.  Hotchkiss  
Charles  T.  Hotchkiss  
Jos.  K.  C.  Forrest  
Jos.  K.  C.  Forrest  

Francis  Adams  
Daniel  D.  Driscoll  
Daniel  D.  Driscoll  

Hasbrouck  Davis  
Hashrouck  Dayis  
Israel  N.  Stiles..  
Israel  N.  Stiles  

John  B.  Rice  (8)  
R.B.  Mason  
R.  B.   Mason  
Joieph  Medill  
Joseph  Medill  
Harvey  D.  Colvin  
Harvey  D.  Colvin  
Monroe  Heath.  (9)   H.  D.  Colvin, 

Israel  N.  Stiles  

Egbert  Jamieson  
H.S  Tuthill  

Monroe  Heath  Caspar  Butz  

R  S.  Tuthill     

Julius  8.  Grinnell  

Carter  H.  Harrison  

P.  J.  Howard  

C.  Herman  Plautz  
D.  W.  Nickerson  
Franz  Amberg  
James  R.  B.  Van  Cleave  

Chas.  D.  Gastfield  
James  R.  B.  Van  Cleave  

Hemps  toad  Wasliburne  
Hempstead  Washburne  
Geo.  F.  Sugg  
Jacob  J.  Keru,  Q.A.Trude(lO) 

Geo.  A.  Trude  
Hoy  O.  West  

John  A.  Roche  
Dewitt  C.  Cregier  

Carter    H.    Harrison.    Geo.    B. 
8wift,(ll)  John  P.  Hopkins.(ll) 

Carter  H.  Harrison,  Jr  
Carter  H.  Harrison,  Jr  
Carter  H.  Harrison,  Jr  
Edward  F.  Dunne  
Fred   A.  Busse  
(Term  4  years)  
Carter  H.  Harrison  

William  Loeflier  
William  Loefier  
Fred  C.  Bender  

Andrew  J.  Ryan  
A.  J.  Ryan  (12)  
John  F.  Smulski  (13)  
Office    made    appointive 
(1905). 

A.  C.  Anson  
John  B.  McCabe  
F.  D.  Connery  
F.  D.  Connery  

(I)     I.  N.  Arnold  resigned,  and  Oeo.  Davis  appointed,  October,  1837, 
(2)    Gurnee  resigned,  Bollea  appointed  his  successor,  April,  1840. 
(3)     Manierre  resigned.  Brown  appointed  his  successor,  July,  1843. 
(4)    El  ection  of  Garrett  declared  illegal,  and  Sherman  elected  at  new  election,  held  April,  1844. 
(5»    Brown  appointed  to  fill  vacancy  caused  by  resignation,  of  Rucker. 
(6)     Harvey  resigned  and  Hunt  appointed  to  fill  vacancy. 
(7)    Cutting  having  failed  to  qualify,  Rice,  who  was  already  In  office,  held  over. 
(8)    Legislature  changed  date  of  election  from  April  to  November,  the  persons  in  office  at  beginning  of  1869  remaining  in  office 
to  December  of  that  year. 
(9)    City  organized  under  general  Incorporation  Act  in  1875,  and  no  city  election  held  until  April,  1876.    The  order  for  a  new 
election  omitted  the  office  of  Mayor,  yet  a  popular  vote  was  taken  which  gave  a  majority  to  Thomas  Hoyne.  The  Council 
then  in  office  refused  to  canvass  this  vote,  but  its  successor,  at  its  first  meeting,  did  so,  declaring  Hoyue  duly  elected. 
Colvin,  the  incumbent,  refused  to  surrender  the  office,  claiming  the  right  to  "  hold  over;"  Hoyne  then  made  a  contest 
for  the  office,  which  resulted  In  a  decision  by  the  Supreme  Court  denying  the  claims  of  both  contestants,  when  a  new 
election  was  ordered  by  the  City  Council,  July  12,  1876,  at  which  Monroe  Heath  was  elected,  serving  out  the  term. 
(10)    City  Attorney  Kern,  having  resigned  November  21,  1892,  Geo.  A.  Trude  was  appointed  to  serve  out  the  remainder  of  the 
term. 
(11)    Mayor  Harrison,  having  been  assassinated.  October  28,  1393,  the  City  Council  at  its  next   meeting  (November  6,  1893) 
elected  Geo.  B  Swift  (an  Alderman  from  the  Eleventh  Ward)  Mayor  ad  interim.    At  a  special  election  held  December  19, 
1893.  John  P.  Hopkins  was  elected  to  fill  out  the  unexpired  term  of  Mayor  Harrison. 

HISTOEICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA   OF  ILLINOIS. 


THE  FIRE  OF  1871. — The  city  steadily  grew  in 
beauty,  population  and  commercial  importance 
until  1871.  On  Oct.  9  of  that  year  occurred  the 
"great  fire"  the  story  of  which  has  passed  into 
history.  Recuperation  was  speedy,  and  the  2,100 
acres  burned  over  were  rapidly  being  rebuilt, 
when,  in  1874,  occurred  a  second  conflagration, 
although  by  no  means  so  disastrous  as  that  of 
1871.  The  city's  recuperative  power  was  again 
demonstrated,  and  its  subsequent  development 
has  been  phenomenal.  The  subjoined  statement 
shows  its  growth  in  population : 


1837 
1840 
1850 
1860 
1870 
1880 
1890 
1900 
1910 


4,179 

4,470 

28,269 

.      112,162 

.     298,977 

.     503,185 

.  1,099,850 

.  1,698,575 

.  2,185,283 


Notwithstanding  a  large  foreign  population  and 
a  constant  army  of  unemployed  men,  Chicago 
has  witnessed  only  three  disturbances  of  the 
peace  by  mobs — the  railroad  riots  of  1877,  the 
Anarchist  disturbance  of  1886,  and-  a  strike  of 
railroad  employes  in  1894. 

MUNICIPAL  ADMINISTRATION.  —  Chicago  long 
since  outgrew  its  special  charter,  and  is  now 
incorporated  under  the  broader  provisions  of  the 
law  applicable  to  "cities  of  the  first  class,"  under 
which  the  city  is  virtually  autonomous.  The 
personnel,  drill  and  equipment  of  the  police  and 
fire  departments  are  second  to  none,  if  not  supe- 
rior to  any,  to  be  found  in  other  American  cities. 
The  Chicago  River,  with  its  branches,  divides  the 
city  into  three  principal  divisions,  known  respec- 
tively as  North,  South  and  West.  Each  division 
has  its  statutory  geographical  boundaries,  and 
each  retains  its  own  distinct  township  organiza- 
tion. This  system  is  anomalous;  it  has,  how- 
ever, both  assailants  and  defenders. 

PUBLIC  IMPROVEMENTS. — Chicago  has  a  fine 
system  of  parks  and  boulevards,  well  developed, 
well  improved  and  well  managed.  One  of  the 
parks  (Jackson  in  the  South  Division)  was  the 
site  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition.  The 
water  supply  is  obtained  from  Lake  Michigan  by 
means  of  cribs  and  tunnels.  In  this  direction 
new  and  better  facilities  are  being  constantly 
introduced,  and  the  existing  water  system  will 
compare  favorably  with  that  of  any  other  Ameri- 
can city. 

ARCHITECTURE. — The  public  and  office  build- 
ings, as  well  as  the  business  blocks,  are  in  some 
instances  classical,  but  generally  severely  plain. 


Granite  and  other  varieties  of  stone  are  used  in 
the  City  Hall,  County  Court  House,  the  Board  of 
Trade  structure,  and  in  a  few  commercial  build- 
ings, as  well  as  in  many  private  residences.  In 
the  business  part  of  the  city,  however,  steel, 
iron,  brick  and  fire  clay  are  the  materials  most  ' 
largely  employed  in  construction,  the  exterior 
walls  being  of  brick.  The  most  approved 
methods  of  fire-proof  building  are  followed,  and 
the  "Chicago  construction"  has  been  recognized 
and  adopted  (with  modifications)  all  over  the 
United  States.  Office  buildings  range  from  ten 
to  sixteen,  and  even,  as  in  the  case  of  the  Masonic 
Temple,  twenty  stories  in  height.  Most  of  them 
are  sumptuous  as  to  the  interior,  and  many  of  the 
largest  will  each  accommodate  3,000  to  5,000 
occupants,  including  tenants  and  their  employes. 
In  the  residence  sections  wide  diversity  may  be 
seen ;  the  chaste  and  the  ornate  styles  being  about 
equally  popular.  Among  the  handsome  public, 
or  semi-public  buildings  may  be  mentioned  the 
Public  Library,  the  Newberry  Library,  the  Art 
Institute,  the  Armour  Institute,  the  Academy  of 
Sciences,  the  Auditorium,  the  Board  of  Trade 
Building,  the  Masonic  Temple,  and  several  of  the 
railroad  depots. 

EDUCATION  AND  LIBRARIES.  —  Chicago  has  a 
public  school  system  unsurpassed  for  excellence 
in  any  other  city  in  the  country.  According  to 
the  report  of  the  Board  of  Education  for  1898,  the 
city  had  a  total  of  221  primary  and  grammar 
schools,  besides  fourteen  high  schools,  employing 
5,268  teachers  and  giving  instruction  to  over 
236,000  pupils  in  the  course  of  the  year.  The 
total  expenditures  during  the  year  amounted  to 
§6,785,601,  of  which  nearly  $4,500,000  was  on 
account  of  teachers'  salaries.  The  city  has 
nearly  §7,500,000  invested  in  school  buildings. 
Besides  pupils  attending  public  schools  there  are 
about  100,000  in  attendance  on  private  and 
parochial  schools,  not  reckoning  students  at 
higher  institutions  of  learning,  such  as  medical, 
law,  theological,  dental  and  pharmaceutical 
schools,  and  the  great  University  of  Chicago. 
Near  the  city  are  also  the  Northwestern  and  the 
Lake  Forest  Universities,  the  former  at  Evanston 
and  the  latter  at  Lake  Forest.  Besides  an  exten- 
sive Free  Public  Library  for  circulating  and  refer- 
ence purposes,  maintained  by  public  taxation, 
and  embracing  (in  1898)  a  total  of  over  235,000 
volumes  and  nearly  50,000  pamphlets,  there 
are  the  Library  of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society 
and  the  Newberry  and  Crerar  Libraries — the  last 
two  the  outgrowth  of  posthumous  donations  by 
public-spirited  and  liberal  citizens — all  open  to 


DAY  AFTER   CHICAGO   FIRE. 


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the  public  for  purposes  of  reference  under  certain 
conditions.  This  list  does  not  include  the  exten- 
sive library  of  the  University  of  Chicago  and  those 
connected  with  the  Armour  Institute  and  the 
public  schools,  intended  for  the  use  of  the  pupils 
of  these  various  institutions. 

CHICAGO  BOARD  OF  TRADE,  one  of  the 
leading  commercial  exchanges  of  the  world.  It 
was  originally  organized  in  the  spring  of  1843  as 
a  voluntary  association,  with  a  membership  of 
eighty-two.  Its  primary  object  was  the  promo- 
tion of  the  city's  commercial  interests  by  unity 
of  action.  On  Feb.  8,  1849,  the  Legislature 
enacted  a  general  law  authorizing  the  establish- 
ment of  Boards  of  Trade,  and  under  its  provisions 
an  incorporation  was  effected — a  second  organi- 
zation being  effected  in  April,  1850.  For  several 
years  the  association  languished,  and  at  times  its 
existence  seemed  precarious.  It  was,  however, 
largely  instrumental  in  securing  the  introduction 
of  the  system  of  measuring  grain  by  weight, 
which  initial  step  opened  the  way  for  subsequent 
great  improvements  in  the  methods  of  handling, 
storing,  inspecting  and  grading  cereals  and  seeds. 
By  the  close  of  1856,  the  association  had  overcome 
the  difficulties  incident  to  its  earlier  years,  and 
the  feasibility  of  erecting  a  permanent  Exchange 
building  began  to  be  agitated,  but  the  project  lay 
dormant  for  several  years.  In  1856  was  adopted 
the  first  system  of  classification  and  grading  of 
wheat,  which,  though  crude,  formed  the  founda- 
tion of  the  elaborate  modern  system,  which  lias 
proved  of  such  benefit  to  the  grain-growing 
States  of  the  West,  and  has  done  so  much  to  give 
Chicago  its  commanding  influence  in  the  grain 
markets  of  the  world.  In  1858,  the  privilege  of 
trading  on  the  floor  of  the  Exchange  was  limited 
to  members.  The  same  year  the  Board  began 
to  receive  and  send  out  daily  telegraphic  market 
reports  at  a  cost,  for  the  first  year,  of  §500,000, 
which  was  defrayed  by  private  subscriptions. 
New  York  was  the  only  city  with  which  such 
communication  was  then  maintained.  In  Febru- 
ary, 1859,  a  special  charter  was  obtained,  confer- 
ring more  extensive  powers  upon  the  organization, 
and  correspondingly  increasing  its  efficiency.  An 
important  era  in  the  Board's  history  was  the 
Civil  War  of  1861-65.  During  this  struggle  its 
attitude  was  one  of  undeviating  loyalty  and  gener- 
ous patriotism.  Hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars 
were  contributed,  by  individual  members  and 
from  the  treasury  of  the  organization,  for  the  work 
of  recruiting  and  equipping  regiments,  in  caring 
for  the  wounded  on  Southern  battlefields,  and 
providing  for  the  families  of  enlisted  men.  In 


1864,  the  Board  waged  to  a  successful  issue  a  war 
upon  the  irredeemable  currency  with  which  the 
entire  West  was  then  flooded,  and  secured  such 
action  by  the  banks  and  by  the  railroad  and 
express  companies  as  compelled  its  replacement 
by  United  States  legal-tender  notes  and  national 
bank  notes.  In  1865,  handsome,  large  (and,  as 
then  supposed,  permanent)  quarters  were  occu- 
pied in  a  new  building  erected  by  the  Chicago 
Chamber  of  Commerce  under  an  agreement  with 
the  Board  of  Trade.  This  structure  was  destroyed 
in  the  fire  of  October,  1871,  but  at  once  rebuilt, 
and  made  ready  for  re-occupancy  in  precisely 
one  year  after  the  destruction  of  its  predecessor. 
Spacious  and  ample  as  these  quarters  were  then 
considered,  the  growing  membership  and  increas- 
ing business  demonstrated  their  inadequacy 
before  the  close  of  1877.  Steps  looking  to  the 
erection  of  a  new  building  were  taken  in  1881, 
and,  on  May  1,  1885,  the  new  edifice — then  the 
largest  and  most  ornate  of  its  class  in  the  world 
— was  opened  for  occupancy.  The  membership 
of  the  Board  for  the  year  1898  aggregated  con- 
siderably in  excess  of  1,800.  The  influence  of  the 
association  is  felt  in  every  quarter  of  the  com- 
mercial world. 

CHICAGO,  BURLINGTON  &  NORTHERN 
RAILROAD.  (See  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  Railroad.) 

CHICAGO,  BURLINGTON  &  QUINCY  RAIL- 
ROAD (known  as  the  "Burlington  Route")  is 
the  parent  organization  of  an  extensive  system 
which  operates  railroads  in  eleven  Western  and 
Northwestern  States,  furnishing  connections 
from  Chicago  with  Omaha,  Denver,  St.  Paul  and 
Minneapolis,  St.  Louis  and  Kansas  City,  Chey- 
enne (Wyo. ),  Billings  (Mont.),  Dead  wood  (So. 
Dak,),  and  intermediate  points,  and  having  con- 
nections by  affiliated  roads  with  the  Pacific  Coast. 
The  main  line  extends  from  Chicago  to  Denver 
(Colo.),  1,025.41  miles.  The  mileage  of  the 
various  branches  and  leased  proprietary  lines 
(1898)  aggregates  4,627.06  miles.  The  Company 
uses  207.23  miles  in  conjunction  with  other 
roads,  besides  subsidiary  standard-gauge  lines 
controlled  through  the  ownership  of  securities 
amounting  to  1,440  miles  more.  In  addition  to 
these  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  controls 
179  miles  of  narrow-gauge  road.  The  whole 
number  of  miles  of  standard-gauge  road  operated 
by  the  Burlington  system,  and  known  as  the 
Burlington  Route,  on  June  30,  1899,  is  estimated 
at  7,419,  of  which  1,509  is  in  Illinois,  all  but  47 
miles  being  owned  by  the  Company.  The  system 
in  Illinois  connects  many  important  commercial 


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points,  including  Chicago,  Aurora,  Galesburg, 
Quincy,  Peoria,  Streator,  Sterling,  Mendota,  Ful- 
ton, Lewistown,  Rushville,  Geneva,  Keithsburg, 
Rock  Island,  Beardstown,  Alton,  etc.  The  entire 
capitalization  of  the  line  (including  stock,  bonds 
and  floating  debt)  amounted,  in  1898,  to  §234,884,- 
600,  which  was  equivalent  to  about  §83,000  per 
mile.  The  total  earnings  of  the  road  in  Illinois, 
during  the  fiscal  year  ending  June  30,  1898, 
amounted  to  §8,724,997,  and  the  total  disburse- 
ments of  the  Company  within  the  State,  during 
the  same  period,  to  §7,469,456.  Taxes  paid  in 
1898,  $377,968.— (HISTORY).  The  first  section  of 
the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  was 
constructed  under  a  charter  granted,  in  1849,  to 
the  Aurora  Branch  Railroad  Company,  the  name 
being  changed  in  1852  to  the  Chicago  &  Aurora 
Railroad  Company.  The  line  was  completed  in 
1853,  from  the  junction  with  the  old  Galena  & 
Chicago  Union  Railroad,  30  miles  west  of  Chi- 
cago, to  Aurora,  later  being  extended  to  Mendota. 
In  1855  the  name  of  the  Company  was  changed 
by  act  of  the  Legislature  to  the  Chicago,  Burling- 
ton &  Quincy.  The  section  between  Mendota  and 
Galesburg  (80  miles)  was  built  under  a  charter 
granted  in  1851  to  the  Central  Military  Tract 
Railroad  Company,  and  completed  in  1854.  July 
9,  1856,  the  two  companies  were  consolidated 
under  the  name  of  the  former.  Previous  to  this 
consolidation  the  Company  had  extended  aid  to 
the  Peoria  &  Oquawka  Railroad  (from  Peoria  to 
the  Mississippi  River,  nearly  opposite  Burlington, 
Iowa),  and  to  the  Northern  Cross  Railroad  from 
Quincy  to  Galesburg,  both  of  which  were  com- 
pleted in  1855  and  operated  by  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Quincy.  In  1857  the  name  of  the 
Northern  Cross  was  changed  to  the  Quincy  & 
Chicago  Railroad.  In  1860  the  latter  was  sold 
under  foreclosure  to  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy,  and,  in  1863,  the  Peoria  &  Oquawka  was 
acquired  in  the  same  way — the  former  constitut- 
ing the  Quincy  branch  of  the  main  line  and  the 
latter  giving  it  its  Burlington  connection.  Up 
to  1863,  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  used 
the  track  of  the  Galena  &  Chicago  Union  Rail- 
road to  enter  the  city  of  Chicago,  but  that  year 
began  the  construction  of  its  line  from  Aurora  to 
Chicago,  which  was  completed  in  1864.  In  1872 
it  acquired  control,  by  perpetual  lease,  of  the 
Burlington  &  Missouri  River  Road  in  Iowa, 
and,  in  1880,  extended  this  line  into  Nebraska, 
now  reaching  Billings,  Mont.,  with  a  lateral 
branch  to  Deadwood,  So.  Dak.  Other  branches 
in  Illinois,  built  or  acquired  by  this  corporation, 
include  the  Peoria  &  Hannibal ;  Carthage  &  Bur- 


lington ;  Quincy  &  Warsaw ;  Ottawa,  Chicago  & 
Fox  River  Valley ;  Quincy,  Alton  &  St.  Louis, 
and  the  St.  Louis,  Rock  Island  &  Chicago.  The 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Northern — known  as  the 
Northern  Division  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  , 
Quincy  —  is  an  important  part  of  the  system, 
furnishing  a  connection  between  St.  Louis  on 
the  soutli  and  St.  Paul  and  Minneapolis  on  the 
north,  of  which  more  than  half  of  the  distance  of 
583  miles  between  terminal  points,  is  in  Illinois. 
The  latter  division  was  originally  chartered,  Oct. 
21,  1885,  and  constructed  from  Oregon,  111.,  to  St. 
Paul,  Minn.  (319  miles),  and  from  Fulton  to 
Savanna,  111.  (16.72  miles),  and  opened,  Nov.  1, 
1886.  It  was  formally  incorporated  into  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  line  irt  1899.  In 
June  of  the  same  year  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  also  acquired  by  purchase  the  Keokuk  & 
Western  Railroad  from  Keokuk  to  Van  Wert, 
Iowa  (143  miles),  and  the  Des  Moines  &  Kansas 
City  Railway,  from  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  to  Gaines- 
ville, Mo.  (112  miles). 

CHICAGO,  DANVILLE  &  VINCENNES  RAIL- 
ROAD.  (See  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois  Rail- 
road. ) 

CHICAGO  DRAINAGE  CANAL,  a  channel  or 
waterway,  in  course  of  construction  (1892-99) 
from  the  Chicago  River,  within  the  limits  of  the 
city  of  Chicago,  to  Joliet  Lake,  in  the  Des  Plaines 
River,  about  12  miles  above  the  junction  of  the 
Des  Plaines  with  the  Illinois.  The  primary  object 
of  the  channel  is  the  removal  of  the  sewage  of 
the  city  of  Chicago  and  the  proper  drainage  of 
the  region  comprised  within  what  is  called  the 
"Sanitary  District  of  Chicago."  The  feasibility 
of  connecting  the  waters  of  Lake  Michigan  by 
way  of  the  Des  Plaines  River  with  those  of  the 
Illinois,  attracted  the  attention  of  the  earliest 
French  explorers  of  this  region,  and  was  com- 
mented upon,  from  time  to  time,  by  them  and 
their  successors.  As  early  as  1808  the  subject  of 
a  canal  uniting  Lake  Michigan  with  the  Illinois 
was  discussed  in  a  report  on  roads  and  canals  by 
Albert  Gallatin,  then  Secretary  of  the  Treasury, 
and  the  project  was  touched  upon  in  a  bill  relat- 
ing to  the  Erie  Canal  and  other  enterprises,  intro- 
duced in  Congress  in  1811.  The  measure  continued 
to  receive  attention  in  the  press,  in  Western 
Territorial  Legislatures  and  in  official  reports, 
one  of  the  latter  being  a  report  by  John  C.  Cal- 
houn,  as  Secretary  of  War,  in  1819,  in  which  it  is 
spoken  of  as  "valuable  for  military  purposes." 
In  1822  Congress  passed  an  act  granting  the 
right  of  way  to  the  State  through  the  public 
lands  for  such  an  enterprise,  which  was  followed, 


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five  years  later,  by  a  grant  of  lands  for  the  pur- 
pose of  its  construction.     The  work  was  begun  in 
1836,  and  so  far  completed  in  1848  as  to  admit  of 
the  passage  of  boats  from  the  Chicago  basin  to  La 
Salle.    (See  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal. )     Under 
an  act  passed  by  the  Legislature  in  1865,  the  work 
of  deepening  the  canal  was  undertaken  by  the 
city  of  Chicago  with  a  view  to  furnishing  means 
to  relieve  the  city  of  its  sewage,  the  work  being 
completed  some  time  before  the  fire  of  1871.     This 
scheme  having  failed  to  accomplish  the  object 
designed,  other  measures  began  to  be  considered. 
Various  remedies  were  proposed,  but  in  all  the 
authorities  were  confronted  with  the  difficulty 
of  providing  a  fund,  under  the  provisions  of  the 
Constitution  of  1870,  to  meet  the  necessary  cost 
of  construction.     In  the  closing  months  of  the 
year  1885,  Hon.   H.   B.   Hurd,   who  had  been  a 
member  of  a  Board  of  "Drainage  Commission- 
ers,"  organized   in  1855,   was    induced  to    give 
attention  to  the  subject.     Having  satisfied  him- 
self   and  others  that  the  difficulties  were   not 
insurmountable  with  proper  action  by  the  Legis- 
lature, the  City  Council,  on  Jan.  27,  1886,  passed 
a  resolution  authorizing  the  Mayor  to  appoint  a 
Commission,  to  consist  of  "one  expert  engineer  of 
reputation  and  experience  in    engineering   and 
sanitary  matters,"  and  two  consulting  engineers, 
to  constitute  a  "drainage  and  water-supply  com- 
mission" for   the  purpose  of    investigating  and 
reporting  upon  the  matter  of  water-supply  and 
disposition    of    the    sewage  of    the  city.     As  a 
result  of  this  action,  Rudolph  Hering,  of  Philadel- 
phia, was  appointed    expert  engineer  by  Mayor 
Harrison,    with  Benezette  Williams  and  S.   G. 
Artingstall,  of  Chicago,  as  consulting  engineers. 
At  the  succeeding  session  of  the  General  Assem- 
bly (1887),  two  bills — one  known  as  the  "Hurd 
bill"  and  the  other  as  the  "Winston  bill,"  but 
both  drawn  by  Mr.  Hurd,  the  first  contemplating 
doing  the  work  by  general  taxation  and  the  issue 
of  bonds,  and  the  other  by  special  assessment — 
were  introduced  in  that  body.     As  it  was  found 
that  neither  of  these  bills  could  be  passed  at  that 
session,  a  new  and  shorter  one,   which  became 
known  as  the  "Roche-Winston  bill,"  was  intro- 
duced and  passed  near  the  close  of  the  session. 
A  resolution  was  also  adopted  creating  a  com- 
mission, consisting  of  two  Senators,  two  Repre- 
sentatives and  Mayor  Roche  of  Chicago,  to  further 
investigate    the    subject.     The     later    act,  just 
referred  to,  provided  for  the  construction  of  a  cut- 
off from   the   Des  Plaines  River,   which   would 
divert  the  flood-waters  of  that  stream  and  the 
North  Branch  into  Lake  Michigan  north  of  the 


city.  Nothing  was  done  under  this  act,  however. 
At  the  next  session  (1889)  the  commission  made  a 
favorable  report,  and  a  new  law  was  enacted 
embracing  the  main  features  of  the  Hurd  bill, 
though  changing  the  title  of  the  organization  to 
be  formed  from  the  "Metropolitan  Town,"  as 
proposed  by  Mr.  Hurd,  to  the  "Sanitary  Dis- 
trict." The  act,  as  passed,  provided  for  the 
election  of  a  Board  of  nine  Trustees,  their  powers 
being  confined  to  "providing  for  the  drainage  of 
the  district,"  both  as  to  surplus  water  and  sew- 
age. Much  opposition  to  the  measure  had  been 
developed  during  the  pendency  of  the  legislation 
on  the  subject,  especially  in  the  Illinois  valley, 
on  sanitary  grounds,  as  well  as  fear  of  midsum- 
mer flooding  of  the  bottom  lands  which  are 
cultivated  to  some  extent ;  but  this  was  overcome 
by  the  argument  that  the  channel  would,  when 
the  Des  Plaines  and  Illinois  Rivers  were  improved 
between  Joliet  and  La  Salle,  furnish  a  new  and 
enlarged  waterway  for  the  passage  of  vessels 
between  the  lake  and  the  Mississippi  River,  and 
the  enterprise  was  indorsed  by  conventions  held 
at  Peoria,  Memphis  and  elsewhere,  during  the 
eighteen  months  preceding  the  passage  of  the 
act.  The  promise  ultimately  to  furnish  a  flow  of 
not  less  than  600,000  cubic  feet  per  minute  also 
excited  alarm  in  cities  situated  upon  the  lakes, 
lest  the  taking  of  so  large  a  volume  of  water  from 
Lake  Michigan  should  affect  the  lake-level 
injuriously  to  navigation;  but  these  apprehen- 
sions were  quieted  by  the  assurance  of  expert 
engineers  that  the  greatest  reduction  of  the  lake- 
level  below  the  present  minimum  would  not 
exceed  three  inches,  and  more  likely  would  not 
produce  a  perceptible  effect. 

At  the  general  election,  held  Nov.  5,  1889, 
the  "Sanitary  District  of  Chicago"  was  organ- 
ized by  an  almost  unanimous  popular  vote 
— the  returns  showing  70,958  votes  for  the 
measure  to  242  against.  The  District,  as  thus 
formed,  embraces  all  of  the  city  of  Chicago 
north  of  Eighty-seventh  Street,  with  forty- 
three  square  miles  outside  of  the  city  limits 
but  within  the  area  to  be  benefited  by  the 
improvement.  Though  the  channel  is  located 
partly  in  Will  County,  the  district  is  wholly  in 
Cook  and  bears  the  entire  expense  of  construc- 
tion. The  first  election  of  Trustees  was  held  at  a 
special  election,  Dec.  12,  1889,  the  Trustees  then 
elected  to  hold  their  offices  for  five  years  and 
until  the  following  November.  The  second 
election  occurred,  Nov.  5,  1895,  when  the  Board, 
as  now  constituted  (1899),  was  chosen,  viz. : 
William  Boldenweck,  Joseph  C.  Braden,  Zina  R. 


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Carter,  Bernard  A.  Eckhart,  Alexander  J.  Jones, 
Thomas  Kelly,  James  P.  Mallette,  Thomas  A. 
Smyth  and  Frank  Wenter.  The  Trustees  have 
power  to  sell  bonds  in  order  to  procure  funds  to 
prosecute  the  work  and  to  levy  taxes  upon  prop- 
erty within  the  district,  under  certain  limitations 
as  to  length  of  time  the  taxes  run  and  the  rate 
per  cent  imposed.  Under  an  amendment  of  the 
Drainage  Act  adopted  by  the  Legislature  in  1897, 
the  rate  of  assessment  upon  property  within  the 
Drainage  District  is  limited  to  one  and  one-half 
per  cent,  up  to  and  including  the  year  1899,  but 
after  that  date  becomes  one-half  of  one  per  cent. 
The  bed  of  the  channel,  as  now  in  process  of 
construction,  commences  at  Robey  Street  and  the 
South  Branch  of  the  Chicago  River,  5.8  miles 
from  Lake  Michigan,  and  extends  in  a  south- 
westerly direction  to  the  vicinity  of  Summit, 
where  it  intersects  the  Des  Plaines  River.  From 
this  point  it  follows  the  bed  of  that  stream  to 
Lockport,  in  Will  County,  where,  in  consequence 
of  the  sudden  depression  in  the  ground,  the  bed  of 
the  channel  comes  to  the  surface,  and  where  the 
great  controlling  works  are  situated.  This  has  made 
necessary  the  excavation  of  about  thirteen  miles 
of  new  channel  for  the  river — which  runs  parallel 
with,  and  on  the  west  side  of,  the  drainage  canal 
— besides  the  construction  of  about  nineteen 
miles  of  levee  to  separate  the  waters  of  the 
canal  from  the  river.  The  following  statement 
of  the  quality  of  the  material  excavated  and  the 
dimensions  of  the  work,  is  taken  from  a  paper  by 
Hon.  H.  B.  Hurd,  under  the  title,  "The  Chicago 
Drainage  Channel  and  Waterway,"  published  in 
the  sixth  volume  of  "Industrial  Chicago"  (1896): 
"Through  that  portion  of  the  channel  between 
Chicago  and  Summit,  which  is  being  constructed 
to  produce  a  flow  of  300,000  cubic  feet  per  minute, 
which  is  supposed  to  be  sufficient  to  dilute  sew- 
age for  about  the  present  population  (of  Chicago), 
the  width  of  the  channel  is  110  feet  on  the  bot- 
tom, with  side  slopes  of  two  to  one.  This  portion 
of  the  channel  is  ultimately  to  be  enlarged  to  the 
capacity  of  600,000  cubic  feet  per  minute.  The 
bottom  of  the  channel,  at  Robey  Street,  is  34.448 
feet  below  Chicago  datum.  The  widtli  of  the 
channel  from  Summit  down  to  the  neighborhood 
of  Willow  Springs  is  202  feet  on  the  bottom,  with 
the  same  side  slope.  The  cut  through  the  rock, 
which  extends  from  the  neighborhood  of  Willow 
Springs  to  the  point  where  the  channel  runs  out 
of  ground  near  Lockport,  is  160  feet  wide  at  the 
bottom.  The  entire  depth  of  the  channel  is 
.substantially  the  same  as  at  Robey  Street,  with 
the  addition  of  one  foot  in  40,000  feet.  The  rock 


portion  of  the  channel  is  constructed  to  the  full 
capacity  of  600,000  cubic  feet  per  minute.  From 
the  point  where  the  channel  runs  out  of  ground 
to  Joliet  Lake,  there  is  a  rapid  fall;  over  thfe 
slope  works  are  to  be  constructed  to  let  the  water 
down  in  such  a  manner  as  not  to  damage  Joliet. " 

Ground  was  broken  on  the  rock-cut  near 
Lemont,  on  Sept.  3,  1892,  and  work  has  been  in 
progress  almost  constantlv  ever  since.  The  prog- 
ress of  the  work  was  greatly  obstructed  during 
the  year  1898,  by  difficulties  encountered  in  secur- 
ing the  right  of  way  for  the  discharge  of  the 
waters  of  the  canal  through  the  city  of  Joliet, 
but  these  were  compromised  near  the  close  of  the 
year,  and  it  was  anticipated  that  the  work  would 
be  prosecuted  to  completion  during  the  year 
1899.  From  Feb.  1,  1890,  to  Dec.  31,  1898,  the 
net  receipts  of  the  Board  for  the  prosecution  of 
the  work  aggregated  §28,257,707,  while  the  net 
expenditures  had  amounted  to  §28, 221 . 864. 57.  Of 
the  latter,  §20,099,284.67  was  charged  to  construc- 
tion account,  §3,156,903.12  to  "land  account" 
(including  right  of  way),  and  $1,222,092.82  to  the 
cost  of  maintaining  the  engineering  department. 
When  finished,  the  cost  will  reach  not  less  than 
§35,000,000.  These  figures  indicate  the  stupen- 
dous character  of  the  work,  which  bids  fair  to 
stand  without  a  rival  of  its  kind  in  modern 
engineering  and  in  the  results  it  is  expected  to 
achieve. 

CHICAGO  GREAT  WESTERN  RAILWAY. 
The  total  mileage  of  this  line,  June  30,  1898,  was 
1,008  miles,  of  which  152.52  miles  are  operated 
and  owned  in  Illinois.  The  line  in  this  State 
extends  west  from  Chicago  to  East  Dubuque,  the 
extreme  terminal  points  being  Chicago  and 
Minneapolis  in  the  Northwest,  and  Kansas  City 
in  the  Southwest.  It  has  several  branches  in  Illi 
nois,  Iowa  and  Minnesota,  and  trackage  arrange- 
ments with  several  lines,  the  most  important 
being  with  the  St.  Paul  &  Northern  Pacific  (10.56 
miles),  completing  the  connection  between  St. 
Paul  and  Minneapolis ;  with  the  Illinois  Central 
from  East  Dubuque  to  Portage  (12.23  miles),  and 
with  the  Chicago  &  Northern  Pacific  from  Forest 
Home  to  the  Grand  Central  Station  in  Chicago. 
The  company's  own  track  is  single,  of  standard 
gauge,  laid  with  sixty  and  seventy-five-pound 
steel  rails.  Grades  and  curvature  are  light,  and 
the  equipment  well  maintained.  The  outstand- 
ing capital  stock  (1898)  was  §52,019,054;  total 
capitalization,  including  stock,  bonds  and  miscel- 
laneous indebtedness,  §57,144,245.  (HISTORY).  The 
road  was  chartered,  Jan.  5,  1892,  under  the  laws 
of  Illinois,  for  the  purpose  of  reorganization  of 


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the  Chicago,  St.  Paul  &  Kansas  City  Railway 
Company  on  a  stock  basis.  During  1895,  the 
De  Kalb  &  Great  Western  Railroad  (5.81  miles) 
was  built  from  De  Kalb  to  Sycamore  as  a  feeder 
of  this  line. 

CHICAGO,  HARLEM  &  BATAVIA  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  Chicago  &  Northern  Pacific  Rail- 
road. ) 

CHICAGO,  HAYANA  &  WESTERN  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  Illinois  Central  Railroad.) 

CHICAGO  HISTORICAL  SOCIETY,  organized, 
April  24,  1856,  for  the  purposes  of  (1)  establishing 
a  library  and  a  cabinet  of  antiquities,  relics,  etc. ; 
(2)  the  collection  and  preservation  of  historical 
manuscripts,  documents,  papers  and  tracts;  (3) 
the  encouragement  of  the  discovery  and  investi- 
gation of  aboriginal  remains,  particularly  in  Illi- 
nois; (4)  the  collection  of  material  illustrating 
the  growth  and  settlement  of  Chicago.  By  1871 
the  Society  had  accumulated  much  valuable 
material,  but  the  entire  collection  was  destroyed 
in  the  great  Chicago  fire  of  that  year,  among  the 
manuscripts  consumed  being  the  original  draft 
of  the  emancipation  proclamation  by  Abraham 
Lincoln.  The  nucleus  of  a  second  collection  was 
consumed  by  fire  in  1874.  Its  loss  in  this  second 
conflagration  included  many  valuable  manu- 
scripts. In  1877  a  temporary  building  was 
erected,  which  was  torn  down  in  1892  to  make 
room  for  the  erection,  on  the  same  lot,  of  a 
thoroughly  fire-proof  structure  of  granite, 
planned  after  the  most  approved  modern  systems. 
The  new  building  was  erected  and  dedicated 
under  the  direction  of  its  late  President,  Ed- 
ward G.  Mason,  Esq.,  Dec.  12,  1896.  The  Society's 
third  collection  now  embraces  about  twenty-five 
thousand  volumes  and  nearly  fifty  thousand 
pamphlets;  seventy-five  portraits  in  oils,  with 
other  works  of  art;  a  valuable  collection  of 
mauuscript  documents,  and  a  large  museum  of 
local  and  miscellaneous  antiquities.  Mr.  Charles 
Evans  is  Secretary  and  Librarian. 

CHICAGO  HOMEOPATHIC  MEDICAL  COL- 
LEGE, organized  in  1876,  with  a  teaching  faculty 
of  nineteen  and  forty-five  matriculates.  Its  first 
term  opened  October  4,  of  that  year,  in  a  leased 
building.  By  1881  the  college  had  outgrown  its 
first  quarters  and  a  commodious,  well  appointed 
structure  was  erected  by  the  trustees,  in  a  more 
desirable  location.  The  institution  was  among 
the  first  to  introduce  a  graded  course  of  instruc- 
tion, extending  over  a  period  of  eighteen  years. 
In  1897,  the  matriculating  class  numbered  over  200. 

CHICAGO  HOSPITAL  FOR  WOMEN  AND 
CHILDREN,located  at  Chicago,  and  founded  in 


1865  by  Dr.  Mary  Harris  Thompson.  Its  declared 
objects  are:  "To  afford  a  home  for  women  and 
children  among  the  respectable  poor  in  need  of 
medical  and  surgical  aid;  to  treat  the  same 
classes  at  home  by  an  assistant  physician;  to 
afford  a  free  dispensary  for  the  same,  and  to 
train  competent  nurses."  At  the  outset  the 
hospital  was  fairly  well  sustained  through  pri- 
vate benefactions,  and,  in  1870,  largely  through 
Dr.  Thompson's  efforts,  a  college  was  organized 
for  the  medical  education  of  women  exclusively. 
(See  Northwestern  University  Woman's  Medical 
School.)  The  hospital  building  was  totally 
destroyed  in  the  great  fire  of  1871,  but  temporary 
accommodations  wrere  provided  in  another  section 
of  the  city.  The  following  year,  with  the  aid  of 
$25,000  appropriated  by  the  Chicago  Relief  and 
Aid  Society,  a  permanent  building  was  pur- 
chased, and,  in  1885,  a  new,  commodious  and  well 
planned  building  was  erected  on  the  same  site,  at 
a  cost  of  about  $75,000. 

CHICAGO,  MADISON  &  NORTHERN  RAIL- 
ROAD,  a  line  of  railway  231.3  miles  in  length,  140 
miles  of  which  lie  within  Illinois.  It  is  operated 
by  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  Company,  and  is 
known  as  its  "Freeport  Division."  The  par  value 
of  the  capital  stock  outstanding  is  $50,000  and  of 
bonds  $2,500,000,  while  the  floating  debt  is 
$3,620,698,  making  a  total  capitalization  of 
$6,170,698,  or  $26,698  per  mile.  (See  also  Illinois 
Central  Railroad.)  This  road  was  opened  from 
Chicago  to  Freeport  in  1888. 

CHICAGO  MEDICAL  COLLEGE.  (See  North- 
western University  Medical  College. ) 

CHICAGO,  MILWAUKEE  &  ST.  PAUL  RAIL- 
WAT,  one  of  the  great  trunk  lines  of  the  North- 
west, having  a  total  mileage  (1898)  of  6,153.83 
miles,  of  which  317.94  are  in  Illinois.  The  main 
line  extends  from  Chicago  to  Minneapolis,  420 
miles,  although  it  has  connections  with  Kansas 
City,  Omaha,  Sioux  City  and  various  points  in 
Wisconsin,  Iowa  and  the  Dakotas.  The  Chicago, 
Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railroad  Company  enjoys 
the  distinction  of  being  the  owner  of  all  the  lines 
operated  by  it,  though  it  operates  245  miles  of 
second  tracks  owned  jointly  with  other  lines. 
The  greater  part  of  its  track  is  laid  with 
60,  75  and  85-lb.  steel  rails.  The  total  capital 
invested  (1898)  is  $220,005,901,  distributed  as 
follows:  capital  stock,  $77,845,000;  bonded  debt, 
$135,285,500;  other  forms  of  indebtedness, 
$5,572,401.  Its  total  earnings  in  Illinois  for 
1898  were  $5,205,244,  and  the  total  expendi- 
tures, $3,320,248.  The  total  number  of  em- 
ployes in  Illinois  for  1898  was  2,293,  receiving 


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$1,746,827.70  in  aggregate  compensation.  Taxes 
paid  for  the  same  year  amounted  to  §151,285. — 
(HISTORY).  The  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &St.  Paul 
Railway  was  organized  in  1863  under  the  name 
of  the  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway.  The  Illi- 
nois portion  of  the  main  line  was  built  under  a 
charter  granted  to  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St. 
Paul  Railway  Company,  and  the  "Wisconsin  por- 
tion under  charter  to  the  Wisconsin  Union  Rail- 
road Company;  the  whole  built  and  opened  in 
1872  and  purchased  by  the  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul 
Railway  Company.  It  subsequently  acquired  by 
purchase  several  lines  in  Wisconsin,  the  whole 
receiving  the  present  name  of  the  line  by  act  of 
the  Wisconsin  Legislature,  passed,  Feb.  14,  1874. 
The  Chicago  &  Evanston  Railroad  was  chartered, 
Feb.  16,  1861,  built  from  Chicago  to  Calvary  (10.8 
miles),  and  opened,  May  1,  1885;  was  consolidated 
with  the  Chicago  &  Lake  Superior  Railroad, 
under  the  title  of  the  Chicago,  Evanston  &  Lake 
Superior  Railroad  Company,  Dec.  22,  1885,  opened 
to  Evanston,  August  1,  1886,  and  purchased,  in 
June,  1887,  by  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St. 
Paul  Railway  Company.  The  Road,  as  now 
organized,  is  made  up  of  twenty-two  divisions 
located  in  Illinois,  Wisconsin,  Iowa,  Minnesota, 
North  and  South  Dakota,  Missouri  and  Michigan. 

CHICAGO,  PADUCAH  &  MEMPHIS  RAIL- 
ROAD (Projected),  a  road  chartered,  Dec.  19, 
1893,  to  run  between  Altamont  and  Metropolis, 
111.,  152  miles,  with  a  branch  from  Johnston  City 
to  Carbondale,  20  miles — total  length,  172  miles. 
The  gauge  is  standard,  and  the  track  laid  with 
sixty-pound  steel  rails.  By  Feb.  1,  1895,  the  road 
from  Altamont  to  Marion  (100  miles)  was  com- 
pleted, and  work  on  the  remainder  of  the  line  has 
been  in  progress.  It  is  intended  to  connect  with 
the  Wabash  and  the  St.  Louis  Southern  systems. 
Capital  stock  authorized  and  subscribed.  $2,1500,- 
000;  bonds  issued,  §1,575,000.  Funded  debt, 
authorized,  $15,000  per  mile  in  five  per  cent  first 
mortgage  gold  bonds.  Cost  of  road  up  to  Feb.  1, 
1895,  $20,000  per  mile ;  estimated  cost  of  the  entire 
line,  $2,000,000.  In  December,  1896,  this  road 
passed  into  the  hands  of  the  Chicago  &  Eastern 
Illinois  Railroad  Company,  and  is  now  operated  to 
Marion,  in  Williamson  County.  (See  Chicago  & 
Eastern  Illinois  Railroad.) 

CHICAGO,  PEKIN  &  SOUTHWESTERN  RAIL- 
ROAD, a  division  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Rail- 
road, chartered  as  the  Chicago  &  Plainfield 
Railroad,  in  1859 ;  opened  from  Pekin  to  Streator 
in  1873,  and  to  Mazon  Bridge  in  1876 ;  sold  under 
foreclosure  in  1879,  and  now  constitutes  a  part  of 
the  Chicago  &  Alton  system. 


CHICAGO,  PEORIA  &  ST.  LOUIS  RAILROAD 
COMPANY  (of  Illinois),  a  corporation  operating 
two  lines  of  railroad,  one  extending  from  Peoria 
to  Jacksonville,  and  the  other  from  Peoria  to 
Springfield,  with  a  connection  from  the  latter 
place  (in  1895),  over  a  leased  line,  with  St.  Louis. 
The  total  mileage,  as  officially  reported  in  1895, 
was  208.66  miles,  of  which  166  were  owned  by 
the  corporation.  (1)  The  original  of  the  Jackson- 
ville Division  of  this  line  was  the  Illinois  River 
Railroad,  opened  from  Pekin  to  Virginia  in  1859. 
In  October,  1863,  it  was  sold  under  foreclosure, 
and,  early  in  1864,  was  transferred  by  the  pur- 
chasers to  a  new  corporation  called  the  Peoria, 
Pekin  &  Jacksonville  Railroad  Company,  by 
whom  it  was  extended  the  same  year  to  Peoria, 
and,  in  1869,  to  Jacksonville.  Another  fore- 
closure, in  1879,  resulted  in  its  sale  to  the 
creditors,  followed  by  consolidation,  in  1881, 
with  the  Wabash,  St.  Louis  &  Pacific  Railway. 
(2)  The  Springfield  Division  was  incorporated  in 
1869  as  the  Springfield  &  Northwestern  Railway ; 
construction  was  begun  in  1872,  and  road  opened 
from  Springfield  to  Havana  (45.20  miles)  in 
December,  1874,  and  from  Havana  to  Pekin  and 
Peoria  over  the  track  of  the  Peoria,  Pekin  & 
Jacksonville  line.  The  same  year  the  road  was 
leased  to  the  Indianapolis,  Bloomington  &  West- 
ern Railroad  Company,  but  the  lease  was  for- 
feited, in  1875,  and  the  road  placed  in  the  hands 
of  a  receiver.  In  1881,  together  with  the 
Jacksonville  Division,  it  was  transferred  to  the 
Wabash,  St.  Louis  &  Pacific  Railway,  and  by 
that  company  operated  as  the  Peoria  &  Spring- 
field Railroad.  The  Wabash,  St.  Louis  &  Pacific 
having  defaulted  and  gone  into  the  hands  of  a 
receiver,  both  the  Jacksonville  and  the  Spring- 
field Divisions  were  reorganized  in  February, 
1887,  under  the  name  of  the  Chicago,  Peoria  & 
St.  Louis  Railroad,  and  placed  under  control  of 
the  Jacksonville  Southeastern  Railroad.  A 
reorganization  of  the  latter  took  place,  in  1890, 
under  the  name  of  the  Jacksonville,  Louisville  & 
St.  Louis  Railway,  and,  in  1893,  it  passed  into  the 
hands  of  receivers,  and  was  severed  from  its 
allied  lines.  The  Chicago,  Peoria  &  St.  Louis 
Railroad  remained  under  the  management  of  a 
separate  receiver  until  January,  1896,  when  a 
reorganization  was  effected  under  its  present 
name — "The  Chicago,  Peoria  &  St.  Louis  Rail- 
road of  Illinois."  The  lease  of  the  Springfield 
&  St.  Louis  Division  having  expired  in  Decem- 
ber, 1895,  it  has  also  been  reorganized  as  an 
independent  corporation  under  the  name  of  the 
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CHICAGO  RIVER,  a  sluggish  stream,  draining 
a  narrow  strip  of  land  between  Lake  Michigan 
and  the  Des  Plaines  River,  the  entire  watershed 
drained  amounting  to  some  470  square  miles.  It 
is  formed  by  the  union  of  the  "North"  and 
the  "South  Branch,"  which  unite  less  than  a  mile 
and  a  half  from  the  mouth  of  the  main  stream. 
At  an  early  day  the  former  was  known  as  the 
"Guarie"  and  the  latter  as  "Portage  River."  The 
total  length  of  the  North  Branch  is  about  20  miles, 
only  a  small  fraction  of  which  is  navigable.  The 
South  Branch  is  shorter  but  offers  greater  facilities 
for  navigation,  being  lined  along  its  lower  por- 
tions with  grain-elevators,  lumber-yards  and 
manufactories.  The  Illinois  Indians  in  early  days 
found  an  easy  portage  between  it  and  the  Des 
Plaines  River.  The  Chicago  River,  with  its 
branches,  separates  Chicago  into  three  divisions, 
known,  respectively,  as  the  "North"  the  "South" 
and  the  "West  Divisions."  Drawbridges  have 
been  erected  at  the  principal  street  crossings 
over  the  river  and  both  branches,  and  four 
tunnels,  connecting  the  various  divisions  of  the 
city,  have  been  constructed  under  the  river  bed. 

CHICAGO,  ROCK  ISLAND  &  PACIFIC  RAIL- 
WAT,  formed  by  the  consolidation  of  various 
lines  in  1880.  The  parent  corporation  (The 
Chicago  &  Rock  Island  Railroad)  was  chartered 
in  Illinois  in  1851,  and  the  road  opened  from  Chi- 
cago to  the  Mississippi  River  at  Rock  Island  (181 
miles),  July  10,  1854.  In  1852  a  company  was 
chartered  under  the  name  of  the  Mississippi  & 
Missouri  Railroad  for  the  extension  of  the  road 
from  the  Mississippi  to  the  Missouri  River.  The 
two  roads  were  consolidated  in  1866  as  the  Chi- 
cago, Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railroad,  and  the 
extension  to  the  Missouri  River  and  a  junction 
with  the  Union  Pacific  completed  in  1869.  The 
Peoria  &  Bureau  Valley  Railroad  (an  important 
feeder  from  Peoria  to  Bureau  Junction  —  46. 7 
miles)  was  incorporated  in  1853,  and  completed 
and  leased  in  perpetuity  to  the  Chicago  &  Rock 
Island  Railroad,  in  1854.  The  St.  Joseph  &  Iowa 
Railroad  was  purchased  in  1889,  and  the  Kansas 
City  &  Topeka  Railway  in  1891.  The  Company 
has  financial  and  traffic  agreements  with  the 
Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Texas  Railway,  extending 
from  Terral  Station,  Indian  Territory,  to  Fort 
Worth,  Texas,  The  road  also  has  connections 
from  Chicago  with  Peoria;  St.  Paul  and  Minne- 
apolis; Omaha  and  Lincoln  (Neb.);  Denver,  Colo- 
rado Springs  and  Pueblo  (Colo.),  besides  various 
points  in  South  Dakota,  Iowa  and  Southwestern 
Kansas.  The  extent  of  the  lines  owned  and 
operated  by  the  Company  ( '  'Poor's  Manual, ' '  1898) , 


is  3,568.15  miles,  of  which  236.51  miles  are  in 
Illinois,  189.52  miles  being  owned  by  the  corpo- 
ration. All  of  the  Company's  owned  and 
leased  lines  are  laid  with  steel  rails.  The  total 
capitalization  reported  for  the  same  year  was 
8116,748,211,  of  which  $50,000,000  was  in  stock 
and  $58,830,000  in  bonds.  The  total  earnings  and 
income  of  the  line  in  Illinois,  for  the  year  ending 
June  30,  1898,  was  $5,851,875,  and  the  total 
expenses  $3,401,165,  of  which  $233,129  was  in  the 
form  of  taxes.  The  Company  has  received  under 
Congressional  grants  550, 194  acres  of  land,  exclu- 
sive of  State  grants,  of  which  there  had  been  sold, 
up  to  March  31,  1894,  548,609  acres. 

CHICAGO,  ST.  PAUL  &  FOND  DU  LAC  RAIL- 
ROAD.  (See  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway.) 

CHICAGO,  ST.  PAUL  &  KANSAS  CITY  RAIL- 
WAY. (See  Chicago  Great  Western  Railway.) 

CHICAGO,  ST.  LOUIS  &  PADUCAH  RAIL- 
WAY, a  short  road,  of  standard  gauge,  laid  with 
steel  rails,  extending  from  Marion  to  Brooklyn, 
111.,  53.64  miles.  It  was  chartered,  Feb.  7,  1887, 
and  opened  for  traffic,  Jan.  1,  1889.  The  St. 
Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute  Railroad  Company  is 
the  lessee,  having  guaranteed  principal  and  inter- 
est on  its  first  mortgage  bonds.  Its  capital  stock 
is  $1,000,000,  and  its  bonded  debt  $2,000,000, 
making  the  total  capitalization  about  $56,000  per 
mile.  The  cost  of  the  road  was  $2,950,000;  total 
incumbrance  (1895),  $3,016,715. 

CHICAGO  TERMINAL  TRANSFER  RAIL- 
ROAD,  the  successor  to  the  Chicago  &  Northern 
Pacific  Railroad.  The  latter  was  organized  in 
November,  1889,  to  acquire  and  lease  facilities  to 
other  roads  and  transact  a  local  business.  The 
Road  under  its  new  name  was  chartered,  June  4, 
1897,  to  purchase  at  foreclosure  sale  the  property 
of  the  Chicago  &  Northern  Pacific,  soon  after 
acquiring  the  property  of  the  Chicago  &  Calumet 
Terminal  Railway  also.  The  combination  gives 
it  the  control  of  84.53  miles  of  road,  of  which 
70.76  miles  are  in  Illinois.  The  line  is  used  for 
both  passenger  and  freight  terminal  purposes, 
and  also  a  belt  line  just  outside  the  city  limits. 
Its  principal  tenants  are  the  Chicago  Great  West- 
ern, the  Baltimore  &  Ohio,  the  Wisconsin  Central 
Lines,  and  the  Chicago,  Hammond  &  Western 
Railroad.  The  Company  also  has  control  of  the 
ground  on  which  the  Grand  Central  Depot  is 
located.  Its  total  capitalization  (1898)  was  $44,- 
553,044,  of  which  §30,000,000  was  capital  stock 
and  $13,394.000  in  the  form  of  bonds. 

CHICAGO  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY,  organ- 
ized, Sept.  26,  1854,  by  a  convention  of  Congre- 
gational ministers  and  laymen  representing  seven 


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Western  States,  among  which  was  Illinois.  A 
special  and  liberal  charter  was  granted,  Feb.  15, 
1855.  The  Seminary  has  always  been  under 
Congregational  control  and  supervision,  its 
twenty-four  trustees  being  elected  at  Triennial 
Conventions,  at  which  are  represented  all  the 
churches  of  that  denomination  west  of  the  Ohio 
and  east  of  the  Rocky  Mountains.  The  institu- 
tion was  formally  opened  to  students,  Oct.  6, 
1858,  with  two  professors  and  twenty-nine 
matriculates.  Since  then  it  has  steadily  grown 
in  both  numbers  and  influence.  Preparatory  and 
linguistic  schools  have  been  added  and  the 
faculty  (1896)  includes  eight  professors  and  nine 
minor  instructors.  The  Seminary  is  liberally 
endowed,  its  productive  assets  being  nearly 
$1,000,000,  and  the  value  of  its  grounds,  build- 
ings, library,  etc.,  amounting  to  nearly  $500,000 
more.  No  charge  is  made  for  tuition  or  room 
rent,  and  there  are  forty-two  endowed  scholar- 
ships, the  income  of  which  is  devoted  to  the  aid 
of  needy  students.  The  buildings,  including  the 
library  and  dormitories,  are  four  in  number,  and 
are  well  constructed  and  arranged. 

CHICAGO  &  ALTON  RAILROAD,  an  impor 
tant  railway  running  in  a  southwesterly  direc- 
tion from  Chicago  to  St.  Louis,  with  numerous 
branches,  extending  into  Missouri,  Kansas  and 
Colorado.  The  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad  proper 
was  constructed  under  two  charters — the  first 
granted  to  the  Alton  &  Sangamon  Railroad  Com- 
pany, in  1847,  and  the  second  to  the  Chicago  & 
Mississippi  Railroad  Company,  in  1852.  Con- 
struction of  the  former  was  begun  in  1852,  and 
the  line  opened  from  Alton  to  Springfield  in 
1853.  Under  the  second  corporation,  the  line  was 
opened  from  Springfield  to  Bloomington  in  1854, 
and  to  Joliet  in  1856.  In  1855  a  line  was  con- 
structed from  Chicago  to  Joliet  under  the  name 
of  the  Joliet  &  Chicago  Railroad,  and  leased  in 
perpetuity  to  the  present  Company,  which  was 
reorganized  in  1857  under  the  name  of  the  St. 
Louis,  Alton  &  Chicago  Railroad  Company.  For 
some  time  connection  was  had  between  Alton 
and  St.  Louis  by  steam-packet  boats  running  in 
connection  with  the  railroad ;  but  later  over  the 
line  of  the  Indianapolis  &  St.  Louis  Railroad— 
the  first  railway  line  connecting  the  two  cities — 
and,  finally,  by  the  Company's  own  line,  which 
was  constructed  in  1864,  and  formally  opened 
Jan.  1,  1865.  In  1861,  a  company  with  the 
present  name  (Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad  Com- 
pany) was  organized,  which,  in  1862,  purchased 
the  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Chicago  Road  at  fore- 
closure sale.  Several  branch  lines  have  since 


been  acquired  by  purchase  or  lease,  the  most 
important  in  the  State  being  the  line  from 
Bloomington  to  St.  Louis  by  way  of  Jacksonville. 
This  was  chartered  in  1851  under  the  name  of  the 
St.  Louis,  Jacksonville  &  Chicago  Railroad,  was 
opened  for  business  in  January,  1868,  and  having 
been  diverted  from  the  route  upon  which  it  was 
originally  projected,  was  completed  to  Blooming- 
ton  and  leased  to  the  Chicago  &  Alton  in  1868. 
In  1884  this  branch  was  absorbed  by  the  main 
line.  Other  important  branches  are  the  Kansas 
City  Branch  from  Roodhouse,  crossing  the  Mis- 
sissippi at  Louisiana,  Mo. ;  the  Washington 
Branch  from  Dwight  to  Washington  and  Lacon, 
and  the  Chicago  &  Peoria,  by  which  entrance  is 
obtained  into  the  city  of  Peoria  over  the  tracks 
of  the  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Western.  The  whole 
number  of  miles  operated  (1898;  is  843.54,  of 
which  580.73  lie  in  Illinois.  Including  double 
tracks  and  sidings,  the  Company  has  a  total 
trackage  of  1,186  miles.  The  total  capitalization, 
in  1898,  was  $32,793,972,  of  which  $22, 230, 600  was 
in  stock,  and  $6,694,850  in  bonds.  The  total 
earnings  and  income  for  the  year,  in  Illinois,  were 
So,  022, 315,  and  the  operating  and  other  expenses, 
$4,272,207.  This  road,  under  its  management  as 
it  existed  up  to  1898,  has  been  one  of  the  most  uni- 
formly successful  in  the  country.  Dividends 
have  been  paid  semiannually  from  1863  to  1884, 
and  quarterly  from  1884  to  1896.  For  a  number 
of  years  previous  to  1897,  the  dividends  had 
amounted  to  eight  per  cent  per  annum  on  both 
preferred  and  common  stock,  but  later  had  been 
reduced  to  seven  per  cent  on  account  of  short 
crops  along  the  line.  The  taxes  paid  in  1898 
were  $341,040.  The  surplus,  June  30,  1895, 
exceeded  two  and  three-quarter  million  dollars. 
The  Chicago  &  Alton  was  the  first  line  in  the 
world  to  put  into  service  sleeping  and  dining  cars 
of  the  Pullman  model,  which  have  since  been  so 
widely  adopted,  as  well  as  the  first  to  run  free 
reclining  chair-cars  for  the  convenience  and 
comfort  of  its  passengers.  At  the  time  the 
matter  embraced  in  this  volume  is  undergoing 
final  revision  (1899),  negotiations  are  in  progress 
for  the  purchase  of  this  historic  line  by  a  svndi- 
cate  representing  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio,  the 
Missouri  Pacific,  the  Union  Pacific,  and  the 
Missouri,  Kansas  &  Texas  systems,  in  whose 
interest  it  will  hereafter  be  operated. 

CHICAGO  &  AURORA  RAILROAD.  (See 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad.) 

CHICAGO  &  EASTERN  ILLINOIS  RAIL- 
ROAD. This  company  operates  a  line  516.3  miles 
in  length,  of  which  278  miles  are  within  Illinois. 


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The  main  line  in  this  State  extends  southerly 
from  Dol ton  Junction  (17  miles  south  of  Chicago) 
to  Danville.  Entrance  to  the  Polk  Street  Depot 
in  Chicago  is  secured  over  the  tracks  of  the 
Western  Indiana  Railroad.  The  company  owns 
several  important  branch  lines,  as  follows:  From 
Momence  Junction  to  the  Indiana  State  Line; 
from  Cissna  Junction  to  Cissna  Park ;  from  Dan- 
ville Junction  to  Shelbyville,  and  from  Sidell  to 
Rossville.  The  system  in  Illinois  is  of  standard 
gauge,  about  108  miles  being  double  track.  The 
right  of  way  is  100  feet  wide  and  well  fenced. 
The  grades  are  light,  and  the  construction 
(including  rails,  ties,  ballast  and  bridges),  is 
generally  excellent.  The  capital  stock  outstand- 
ing (1895)  is  $13,594, 400;  funded  debt,  §18,018,000; 
floating  debt,  $916,381;  total  capital  invested, 
$32,570,781;  total  earnings  in  Illinois,  $2,592,072; 
expenditures  in  the  State,  $2,595,631.  The  com- 
pany paid  the  same  year  a  dividend  of  six  per 
cent  on  its  common  stock  ($286,914),  and  reported 
a  surplus  of  §1,484,762.  The  Chicago  &  Eastern 
Illinois  was  originally  chartered  in  1865  as  the 
Chicago,  Danville  &  Vincennes  Railroad,  its  main 
line  being  completed  in  1872.  In  1873,  it  defaulted 
on  interest,  was  sold  under  foreclosure  in  1877, 
and  reorganized  as  the  Chicago  &  Nashville,  but 
later  in  same  year  took  its  present  name.  In 
1894  it  was  consolidated  with  the  Chicago  & 
Indiana  Coal  Railway.  Two  spurs  (5.27  miles  in 
length)  were  added  to  the  line  in  1895.  Early  in 
1897  this  line  obtained  control  of  the  Chicago, 
Paducah  &  Memphis  Railroad,  which  is  now 
operated  to  Marion,  in  Williamson  County.  (See 
Chicago,  Paducah  &  Memphis  Railroad.) 

CHICAGO  &  GRAND  TRUNK  RAILWAY.  Of 
the  335.27  miles  of  the  Chicago  &  Grand  Trunk 
Railroad,  only  30.65  are  in  Illinois,  and  of  the 
latter  9.7  miles  are  operated  under  lease.  That 
portion  of  the  line  within  the  State  extends  from 
Chicago  easterly  to  the  Indiana  State  line.  The 
Company  is  also  lessee  of  the  Grand  Junction 
Railroad,  four  miles  in  length.  The  Road  is 
capitalized  at  §6,600,000,  has  a  bonded  debt  of 
$12, 000, 000  and  a  floating  debt  (1895)  of  §2,271,425, 
making  the  total  capital  invested,  $20,871,425. 
The  total  earnings  in  Illinois  for  1895  amounted 
to  §660,393;  disbursements  within  the  State  for 
the  same  period,  $345,233.  The  Chicago  &  Grand 
Trunk  Railway,  as  now  constituted,  is  a  consoli- 
dation of  various  lines  between  Port  Huron, 
Mich.,  and  Chicago,  operated  in  the  interest  of 
the  Grand  Trunk  Railway  of  Canada.  The  Illi- 
nois section  was  built  under  a  charter  granted  in 
1878  to  the  Chicago  &  State  Line  Railway  Com- 


pany, to  form  a  connection  with  Valparaiso,  Ind. 
This  corporation  acquired  the  Chicago  &  South- 
ern Railroad  (from  Chicago  to  Dolton),  and  the 
Chicago  &  State  Line  Extension  in  Indiana,  all 
being  consolidated  under  the  name  of  the  North- 
western Grand  Trunk  Railroad.  In  1880,  a  final 
consolidation  of  these  lines  with  the  eastward 
connections  took  place  under  the  present  name — 
the  Chicago  &  Grand  Trvink  Railway. 

CHICAGO  &  GREAT  EASTERN  RAILWAY. 
(See  Pittsburg,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis 
Railway. ) 

CHICAGO  &  GREAT  SOUTHERN  RAILROAD. 
(See  Peoria,  Decatur  &  Evansville  Railway.) 

CHICAGO  &  ILLINOIS  SOUTHERN  RAIL- 
WAY. (See  Peoria,  Decatur  &  Evansville  Rail- 
way. ) 

CHICAGO  &  MISSISSIPPI  RAILROAD.  (See 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad. ) 

CHICAGO  &  NASHVILLE  RAILROAD.  (See 
Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois  Railroad.) 

CHICAGO  &  NORTHERN  PACIFIC  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  Chicago  Terminal  Transfer  Rail- 
road. ) 

CHICAGO  &  NORTHWESTERN  RAILWAY, 
one  of  the  great  trunk  lines  of  the  country,  pene- 
trating the  States  of  Illinois,  Wisconsin,  Michi- 
gan, Iowa,  Minnesota  and  North  and  South 
Dakota.  The  total  length  of  its  main  line, 
branches,  proprietary  and  operated  lines,  on  May 
1,  1899,  was  5,076.89  miles,  of  which  594  miles  are 
operated  in  Illinois,  all  owned  by  the  company. 
Second  and  side  tracks  increase  the  mileage 
to  a  total  of  7,217.91  miles.  The  Chicago  & 
Northwestern  Railway  (proper)  is  operated  in 
nine  separate  divisions,  as  follows:  The  Wis- 
consin, Galena,  Iowa,  Northern  Iowa,  Madison, 
Peninsula,  Winona  and  St.  Peter,  Dakota  and 
Ashland  Divisions  The  principal  or  main  lines 
of  the  "Northwestern  System,"  in  its  entirety, 
are  those  which  have  Chicago,  Omaha,  St.  Paul 
and  Minneapolis  for  their  termini,  though  their 
branches  reach  numerous  important  points 
within  the  States  already  named,  from  the  shore 
of  Lake  Michigan  on  the  east  to  Wyoming  on  the 
west,  and  from  Kansas  on  the  south  to  Lake 
Superior  on  the  north. — (HISTORY.)  The  Chi- 
cago &  Northwestern  Railway  Company  was 
organized  in  1859  under  charters  granted  by  the 
Legislatures  of  Illinois  and  Wisconsin  during 
that  year,  under  which  the  new  company  came 
into  possession  of  the  rights  and  franchises  of  the 
Chicago,  St.  Paul  &  Fond  du  Lac  Railroad  Com- 
pany. The  latter  road  was  the  outgrowth  o/ 
various  railway  enterprises  which  had  been  pro 


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jected,  chartered  and  partly  constructed  in  Wis- 
consin and  Illinois,  between  1848  and  1855, 
including  the  Madison  &  Beloit  Railroad,  the 
Rock  River  Valley  Union  Railroad,  and  the  Illi- 
nois &  Wisconsin  Railroad — the  last  named  com- 
pany being  chartered  by  the  Illinois  Legislature 
in  1851,  and  authorized  to  build  a  railroad  from 
Chicago  to  the  Wisconsin  line.  The  Wisconsin 
Legislature  of  1855  authorized  the  consolidation 
of  the  Rock  River  Valley  Union  Railroad  with  the 
Illinois  enterprise,  and,  in  March,  1855,  the  con- 
solidation of  these  lines  was  perfected  under  the 
name  of  the  Chicago,  St.  Paul  &  Fond  du  Lac 
Railroad.  During  the  first  four  years  of  its  exist- 
ence this  company  built  176  miles  of  the  road,  of 
which  seventy  miles  were  between  Chicago  and 
the  Wisconsin  State  line,  with  the  sections  con- 
structed in  Wisconsin  completing  the  connection 
between  Chicago  and  Fond  du  Lac.  As  the  result 
of  the  financial  revulsion  of  1857,  the  corporation 
became  financially  embarrassed,  and  the  sale  of  its 
property  and  franchises  under  the  foreclosure  of 
1859,  already  alluded  to,  followed.  This  marked 
the  beginning  of  the  present  corporation,  and,  in 
the  next  few  years,  by  the  construction  of  new 
lines  and  the  purchase  of  others  in  Wisconsin  and 
Northern  Illinois,  it  added  largely  to  the  extent 
of  its  lines,  both  constructed  and  projected.  The 
most  important  of  these  was  the  union  effected 
with  the  Galena  &  Chicago  Union  Railroad, 
which  was  formally  consolidated  with  the  Chi- 
cago &  Northwestern  in  1864.  The  history  of 
the  Galena  &  Chicago  Union  is  interesting  in 
view  of  the  fact  that  it  was  one  of  the  earliest 
railroads  incorporated  in  Illinois,  having  been 
chartered  by  special  act  of  the  Legislature  during 
the  "internal  improvement"  excitement  of  1836. 
Besides,  its  charter  was  the  only  one  of  that 
period  under  which  an  organization  was  effected, 
and  although  construction  was  not  begun  under 
it  until  1847  (eleven  years  afterward),  it  was  the 
second  railroad  constructed  in  the  State  and  the 
first  leading  from  the  city  of  Chicago.  In  the 
forty  years  of  its  history  the  growth  of  the  Chi- 
cago &  Northwestern  has  been  steady,  and  its 
success  almost  phenomenal.  In  that  time  it  has 
not  only  added  largely  to  its  mileage  by  the  con- 
struction of  new  lines,  but  has  absorbed  more 
lines  than  almost  any  other  road  in  the  country, 
until  it  now  reaches  almost  every  important  city 
in  the  Northwest.  Among  the  lines  in  Northern 
Illinois  now  constituting  a  part  of  it,  were  several 
which  had  become  a  part  of  the  Galena  &  Chicago 
Union  before  the  consolidation.  These  included 
a  line  from  Belvidere  to  Beloit,  Wis. ;  the  Fox 


River  Valley  Railroad,  and  the  St.  Charles  & 
Mississippi  Air  Line  Railroad— all  Illinois  enter- 
prises, and  more  or  less  closely  connected  with 
the  development  of  the  State.  The  total  capi- 
talization of  the  line,  on  June  30,  1898,  was 
§200,968,108,  of  which  $66,408,821  was  capi- 
tal stock  and  $101,603,000  in  the  form  of 
bonds.  The  earnings  in  the  State  of  Illinois, 
for  the  same  period,  aggregated  $4,374,923, 
and  the  expenditures  $8,712,593.  At  the  present 
time  (1899)  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  is  build- 
ing eight  or  ten  branch  lines  in  Wisconsin,  Iowa, 
Minnesota  and  South  Dakota.  The  Northwestern 
System,  as  such,  comprises  nearly  3,000  miles  of 
road  not  included  in  the  preceding  statements  of 
mileage  and  financial  condition.  Although  owned 
by  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Company,  they 
are  managed  by  different  officers  and  under  other 
names.  The  mileage  of  the  whole  system  covers 
nearly  8,000  miles  of  main  line. 

CHICAGO  &  SPRINGFIELD  RAILROAD. 
(See  Illinois  Central  Railroad. ) 

CHICAGO  &  TEXAS  RAILROAD,  a  line 
seventy-three  miles  in  length,  extending  from 
Johnston  City  by  way  of  Carbondale  westerly  to 
the  Mississippi,  thence  southerly  to  Cape  Girar- 
deau.  The  line  was  originally  operated  by  two 
companies,  under  the  names  of  the  Grand  Tower 
&  Carbondale  and  the  Grand  Tower  &  Cape  Girar- 
deau  Railroad  Companies.  The  former  was 
chartered  in  1882,  and  the  road  built  in  1885;  the 
latter,  chartered  in  1889  and  the  line  opened  the 
same  year.  They  were  consolidated  in  1893,  and 
operated  under  the  name  of  the  Chicago  &  Texas 
Railroad  Company.  In  October,  1897,  the  last 
named  line  was  transferred,  under  a  twenty-five 
year  lease,  to  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  Com- 
pany, by  whom  it  is  operated  as  its  St.  Louis  & 
Cape  Girardeau  division. 

CHICAGO  &  WESTERN  INDIANA  RAIL- 
ROAD. The  main  line  of  this  road  extends  from 
Chicago  to  Dolton,  111.  (17  miles),  and  affords  ter- 
minal facilities  for  all  lines  entering  the  Polk  St. 
Depot  at  Chicago.  It  has  brandies  to  Hammond, 
Ind.  (10.28  miles);  to  Cragin  (15.9  miles;,  and  to 
Soutli  Chicago  (5.41  miles) ;  making  the  direct 
mileage  of  its  branches  48.59  miles.  In  addition, 
its  second,  third  and  fourth  tracks  and  sidings 
increase  the  mileage  to  204.79  miles.  The  com- 
pany was  organized  June  9,  1879;  the  road  opened 
in  1880,  and,  on  Jan.  26,  1882,  consolidated  with 
the  South  Chicago  &  Western  Indiana  Railroad 
Company,  and  the  Chicago  &  Western  Indiana 
Belt  Railway.  It  also  owns  some  850  acres  in  fee 
in  Chicago,  including  wharf  property  on  the 


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Chicago  River,  right  of  way,  switch  and  transfer 
yards,  depots,  the  Indiana  grain  elevator,  etc. 
The  elevator  and  the  Belt  Division  are  leased  to 
the  Belt  Railway  Company  of  Chicago,  and  the 
rest  of  the  property  is  leased  conjointly  by  the 
Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois,  the  Chicago  &  Grand 
Trunk,  the  Chicago  &  Erie,  the  Louisville,  New 
Albany  &  Chicago,  and  the  Wabash  Railways 
(each  of  which  owns  §1,000,000  of  the  capital 
stock),  and  by  the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe. 
These  companies  pay  the  expense  of  operation 
and  maintenance  on  a  mileage  basis. 

CHICAGO  &  WISCONSIN  RAILROAD.  (See 
Wisconsin  Central  Lines.) 

CHILDS,  Robert  A.,  was  born  at  Malone, 
Franklin  County,  N.  Y.,  March  22,  1845,  the  son 
of  an  itinerant  Methodist  preacher,  who  settled 
near  Belvidere,  Boone  County,  111.,  in  1852.  His 
home  having  been  broken  up  by  the  death  of  his 
mother,  in  1854,  he  went  to  live  upon  a  farm.  In 
April,  1861,  at  the  age  of  16  years,  he  enlisted  in 
the  company  of  Captain  (afterwards  General) 
Stephen  A.  Hurlbut,  which  was  later  attached  to 
the  Fifteenth  Illinois  Volunteers.  After  being 
mustered  out  at  the  close  of  the  war,  he  entered 
school,  and  graduated  from  the  Illinois  State 
Normal  University  in  1870.  For  the  following  three 
years  he  was  Principal  and  Superintendent  of 
public  schools  at  Amboy,  Lee  County,  meanwhile 
studying  law,  and  being  admitted  to  the  bar.  In 
1873,  he  began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at 
Chicago,  making  his  home  at  Hinsdale.  After 
filling  various  local  offices,  in  1884  he  was 
chosen  Presidential  Elector  on  the  Republican 
ticket,  and,  in  1893,  was  elected  by  the  narrow 
majority  of  thirty-seven  votes  to  represent  the 
Eighth  Illinois  District  in  the  Fifty-third  Con- 
gress, as  a  Republican. 

CHILLICOTHE,  a  city  in  Peoria  County,  situ- 
ated on  the  Illinois  River,  at  the  head  of  Peoria 
Lake;  is  19  miles  northwest  of  Peoria,  on  the 
Peoria  branch  of  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  & 
Pacific  Railroad,  and  the  freight  division  of  the 
Atkinson,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad.  It  is  an 
important  shipping-point  for  grain ;  has  a  can- 
ning factory,  a  button  factory,  two  banks,  five 
churches,  a  high  school,  and  two  'veekly  news- 
papers. Pop.  (1900),  1.699;  (1910),  1?851. 

CHINIQUY,  (Rev.)  Charles,  clergyman  and 
reformer,  was  born  in  Canada,  July  30,  1809,  of 
mixed  French  and  Spanish  blood,  and  educated 
for  the  Romish  priesthood  at  the  Seminary  of  St. 
Nicholet,  where  he  remained  ten  years,  gaining  a 
reputation  among  his  fellow  students  for  extraor- 
dinary zeal  and  piety.  Having  been  ordained 


to  the  priesthood  in  1833,  he  labored  in  various 
churches  in  Canada  until  1851,  when  he  accepted 
an  invitation  to  Illinois  with  a  view  to  building 
up  the  church  in  the  Mississippi  Valley.  Locat- 
ing at  the  junction  of  the  Kankakee  and  Iroquois 
Rivers,  in  Kankakee  County,  he  was  the  means 
of  bringing  to  that  vicinity  a  colony  of  some 
5,000  French  Canadians,  followed  by  colonists 
from  France,  Belgium  and  other  European 
countries.  It  has  been  estimated  that  over 
50,000  of  this  class  of  emigrants  were  settled  in 
Illinois  within  a  few  years.  The  colony  em- 
braced a  territory  of  some  40  square  miles,  with 
the  village  of  St.  Ann's  as  the  center.  Here 
Father  Chiniquy  began  his  labors  by  erecting 
churches  and  schools  for  the  colonists.  He  soon 
became  dissatisfied  with  what  he  believed  to  be 
the  exercise  of  arbitrary  authority  by  the  ruling 
Bishop,  then  began  to  have  doubts  on  the  question 
of  papal  infallibility,  the  final  result  being  a 
determination  to  separate  himself  from  the 
Mother  Church.  In  this  step  he  appears  to  have 
been  followed  by  a  large  proportion  of  the  colo- 
nists who  had  accompanied  him  from  Canada,  but 
the  result  was  a  feeling  of  intense  bitterness 
between  the  opposing  factions,  leading  to  much 
litigation  and  many  criminal  prosecutions,  of 
which  Father  Chiniquy  was  the  subject,  though 
never  convicted.  In  one  of  these  suits,  in  which 
the  Father  was  accused  of  an  infamous  crime, 
Abraham  Lincoln  was  counsel  for  the  defense, 
the  charge  being  proven  to  be  the  outgrowth  of 
a  conspiracy.  Having  finally  determined  to 
espouse  the  cause  of  Protestantism,  Father 
Chiniquy  allied  himself  with  the  Canadian  Pres- 
bytery, and  for  many  years  of  his  active  clerical 
life,  divided  his  time  between  Canada  and  the 
United  States,  having  supervision  of  churches  in 
Montreal  and  Ottawa,  as  well  as  in  this  country. 
He  also  more  than  once  visited  Europe  by  special 
invitation  to  address  important  religious  bodies 
in  that  country.  He  died  at  Montreal,  Canada, 
Jan.  16,  1899,  in  the  90th  year  of  his  age. 

CHOUART,  Medard,  (known  also  as  Sieur  des 
Groseilliers),  an  early  French  explorer,  supposed 
to  have  been  born  at  Touraine,  France,  about 
1621.  Coming  to  New  France  in  early  youth,  he 
made  a  voyage  of  discovery  with  his  brother-in- 
law,  Radisson,  westward  from  Quebec,  about 
1654-56,  these  two  being  believed  to  have  been 
the  first  white  men  to  reach  Lake  Superior. 
After  spending  the  winter  of  1658-59  at  La 
Pointe,  near  where  Ashland,  Wis.,  now  stands, 
they  are  believed  by  some  to  have  discovered  the 
Upper  Mississippi  and  to  have  descended  that 


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stream  a  long  distance  towards  its  mouth,  as 
they  claimed  to  have  reached  a  much  milder 
climate  and  heard  of  Spanish  ships  on  the  salt 
water  (Gulf  of  Mexico).  Some  antiquarians 
credit  them,  about  this  time  (1659),  with  having 
visited  the  present  site  of  the  city  of  Chicago. 
They  were  the  first  explorers  of  Northwestern 
Wisconsin  and  Minnesota,  and  are  also  credited 
with  having  been  the  first  to  discover  an  inland 
route  to  Hudson's  Bay,  and  with  being  the 
founders  of  the  original  Hudson's  Bay  Company. 
Groseillier's  later  history  is  unknown,  but  he 
ranks  among  the  most  intrepid  explorers  of  the 
"New  World"  about  the  middle  of  the  seventh 
century. 

CHRISMAN,  a  city  of  Edgar  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chi- 
cago &  St.  Louis  and  the  Cincinnati,  Hamilton  & 
Dayton  Railroads,  24  miles  south  of  Danville ;  has 
a  pipe-wrench  factory,  grain  elevators,  and 
storage  cribs.  Pop.  (1900),  905;  (1910),  1,193. 

CHRISTIAN  COUNTY,  a  rich  agricultural 
county,  lying  in  the  "central  belt,"  and  organized 
in  1839  from  parts  of  Macon,  Montgomery, 
Sangamon  and  Shelby  Counties.  The  name  first 
given  to  it  was  Dane,  in  honor  of  Nathan  Dane, 
one  of  the  framers  of  the  Ordinance  of  1787,  but 
a  political  prejudice  led  to  a  change.  A  pre- 
ponderance of  early  settlers  having  come  from 
Christian  County,  Ky.,  this  name  was  finally 
adopted.  The  surface  is  level  and  the  soil  fertile, 
the  northern  half  of  the  county  being  best 
adapted  to  corn  and  the  southern  to  wheat.  Its 
area  is  about  702  square  miles,  and  its  population 
(1910),  was  34,594.  The  life  of  the. early  settlers 
was  exceedingly  primitive.  Game  was  abun- 
dant; wild  honey  was  used  as  a  substitute  for 
sugar;  wolves  were  troublesome;  prairie  fires 
were  frequent;  the  first  mill  (on  Bear  Creek) 
could  not  grind  more  than  ten  bushels  of  grain 
per  day,  by  horse-power.  The  people  hauled  their 
corn  to  St.  Louis  to  exchange  for  groceries.  The 
first  store  was  opened  at  Robertson's  Point,  but 
the  county-seat  was  established  at  Taylorville.  A 
great  change  was  wrought  in  local  conditions  by 
the  advent  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railway,  which 
passes  through  the  eastern  part  of  the  county. 
Two  other  railroads  now  pass  centrally  through 
the  county — the  "Wabash"  and  the  Baltimore  & 
Ohio  Southwestern.  The  principal  towns  are 
Taylorville  (a  railroad  center  and  thriving  town 
of  over  5,000  inhabitants),  Pana,  Morrisonville, 
Edinburg  and  Assumption. 

CHURCH,  Lawrence  S.,  lawyer  and  legislator, 
was  born  at  Nunda,  N.  Y.,  in  1820;  passed  his 


youth  on  a  farm,  but  having  a  fondness  for  study, 
at  an  early  age  began  teaching  in  winter  with  a 
view  to  earning  means  to  prosecute  his  studies  in 
law.  In  1843  he  arrived  at  McIIenry,  then  the 
county-seat  of  McIIenry  County,  111.,  having 
walked  a  part  of  the  way  from  New  York,  paying 
a  portion  of  his  expenses  by  the  delivery  of  lec- 
tures. He  soon  after  visited  Springfield,  and 
having  been  examined  before  Judge  S.  H.  Treat, 
was  admitted  to  the  bar.  On  the  removal  of  the 
county-seat  from  McIIenry  to  Woodstock,  he 
removed  to  the  latter  place,  where  he  continued 
to  reside  to  the  end  of  his  life.  A  member  of  the 
Whig  party  up  to  1856,  he  was  that  year  elected 
as  a  Republican  Representative  in  the  Twentieth 
General  Assembly,  serving  by  re-election  in  the 
Twenty.-first  and  Twenty-second ;  in  1860,  was 
supported  for  the  nomination  for  Congress  in  the 
Northwestern  District,  but  was  defeated  by  Hon. 
E.  B.  Washburne ;  in  1862,  aided  in  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Ninety-fifth  Illinois  Volunteers,  and 
was  commissioned  its  Colonel,  but  was  compelled 
to  resign  before  reaching  the  field  on  account  of 
failing  health.  In  1866  he  was-  elected  County 
Judge  of  McHenry  County,  to  fill  a  vacancy,  and, 
in  1869  to  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1869-70. 
Died,  July  23,  1870.  Judge  Church  was  a  man  of 
high  principle  and  a  speaker  of  decided  ability. 

CHURCH,  Selden  Marvin,  capitalist,  was  born 
at  East  Haddam,  Conn.,  March  4,  1804;  taken  by 
his  father  to  Monroe  County,  N.  Y.,  in  boyhood, 
and  grew  up  on  a  farm  there,  but  at  the  age  of 
21,  went  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he  engaged 
in  teaching,  being  one  of  the  earliest  teachers  in 
the  public  schools  of  that  city.  Then,  having 
spent  some  time  in  mercantile  pursuits  in  Roches- 
ter, N.  Y.,  in  1835  he  removed  to  Illinois,  first 
locating  at  Geneva,  but  the  following  year 
removed  to  Rockford,  where  he  continued  to 
reside  for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  In  1841,  he 
was  appointed  Postmaster  of  the  city  of  Rock- 
ford  by  the  first  President  Harrison,  remaining 
in  office  three  years.  Other  offices  held  by  him 
were  those  of  County  Clerk  (1843-47),  Delegate  to 
the  Second  Constitutional  Convention  (1847), 
Judge  of  Probate  (1849-57),  Representative  in 
the  Twenty-third  General  Assembly  (1863-65), 
and  member  of  the  first  Board  of  Public  Charities 
by  appointment  of  Governor  Palmer,  in  1869, 
being  re-appointed  by  Governor  Beveridge,  in 
1873,  and,  for  a  part  of  the  time,  serving  as  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board.  He  also  served,  by  appoint- 
ment of  the  Secretary  of  War,  as  one  of  the 
Commissioners  to  assess  damages  for  the  Govern- 
ment improvements  at  Rock  Island  and  to  locate 


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the  Government  bridge  between  Rock  Island  and 
Davenport.  During  the  latter  years  of  his  life  he 
was  President  for  some  time  of  the  Rockford 
Insurance  Company ;  was  also  one  of  the  origina- 
tors, and,  for  many  years,  Managing  Director  of 
the  Rockford  Water  Power  Company,  which  has 
done  so  much  to  promote  the  prosperity  of  that 
city,  and,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  was  one  of  the 
Directors  of  the  Winnebago  National  Bank.  Died 
at  Rockford,  June  23,  1892. 

CHURCHILL,  George,  early  printer  and  legis- 
lator, was  born  at  Hubbardtown,  Rutland 
County,  Vt.,  Oct.  11,  1789;  received  a  good  edu- 
cation in  his  youth,  thus  imbibing  a  taste  for 
literature  which  led  to  his  learning  the  printer's 
trade.  In  1806  he  became  an  apprentice  in  the 
office  of  the  Albany  (N.  Y.)  "Sentinel,"  and, 
after  serving  his  time,  worked  as  a  journeyman 
printer,  thereby  accumulating  means  to  purchase 
a  half-interest  in  a  small  printing  office.  Selling 
this  out  at  a  loss,  a  year  or  two  later,  he  went  to 
New  York,  and,  after  working  at  the  case  some 
five  months,  started  for  the  West,  stopping  en 
route  at  Philadelphia,  Pittsburg  and  Louisville. 
In  the  latter  place  he  worked  for  a  time  in  the 
office  of  "The  Courier,"  and  still  later  in  that  of 
"The  Correspondent,"  then  owned  by  Col.  Elijah 
C.  Berry,  who  subsequently  came  to  Illinois  and 
served  as  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts.  In  1817 
he  arrived  in  St.  Louis,  but,  attracted  by  the  fer- 
tile soil  of  Illinois,  determined  to  engage  in  agri- 
cultural pursuits,  finally  purchasing  land  some 
six  miles  southeast  of  Edwardsville,  in  Madison 
County,  where  he  continued  to  reside  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life. '  In  order  to  raise  means  to 
improve  his  farm,  in  the  spring  of  1819  he 
worked  as  a  compositor  in  the  office  of  "The 
Missouri  Gazette"— the  predecessor  of  "The  St. 
Louis  Republic."  While  there  he  wrote  a  series 
of  articles  over  the  signature  of  "A  Farmer  of  St. 
Charles  County,"  advocating  the  admission  of 
the  State  of  Missouri  into  the  Union  without 
slavery,  which  caused  considerable  excitement 
among  the  friends  of  that  institution.  During 
the  same  year  he  aided  Hooper  Warren  in 
establishing  his  paper,  "The  Spectator,"  at 
Edwardsville,  and,  still  later,  became  a  frequent 
contributor  to  its  columns,  especially  during  the 
campaign  of  1822-24,  which  resulted,  in  the  latter 
year,  in  the  defeat  of  the  attempt  to  plant  slavery 
in  Illinois.  In  1822  he  was  elected  Represent- 
ative in  the  Third  General  Assembly,  serving  in 
that  body  by  successive  re-elections  until  1832. 
His  re-election  for  a  second  term,  in  1824,  demon- 
strated that  his  vote  at  the  preceding  session,  in 


opposition  to  the  scheme  for  a  State  Convention 
to  revise  the  State  Constitution  in  the  interest  of 
slavery,  was  approved  by  his  constituents.  In 
1838,  he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  serving 
four  years,  and,  in  1844,  was  again  elected  to  the 
House — in  all  serving  a  period  in  both  Houses  of 
sixteen  years.  Mr.  Churchill  was  never  married. 
He  was  an  industrious  and  systematic  collector  of 
historical  records,  and,  at  the  time  of  his  death  in 
the  summer  of  1872,  left  a  mass  of  documents  and 
other  historical  material  of  great  value.  (See 
Slavery  and  Slave  Laws;  Warren,  Hooper,  and 
Coles,  Edward.) 

CLARK  (Gen.)  George  Rogers,  soldier,  was 
born  near  Monticello,  Albemarle  County,  Va., 
Nov.  19,  1752.  In  his  younger  life  he  was  a 
farmer  and  surveyor  on  the  upper  Ohio.  His 
first  experience  in  Indian  fighting  was  under 
Governor  Dunmore,  against  the  Shawnees  (1774). 
In  1775  he  went  as  a  surveyor  to  Kentucky,  and 
the  British  having  incited  the  Indians  against 
the  Americans  in  the  following  year,  he  was 
commissioned  a  Major  of  militia.  He  soon  rose 
to  a  Colonelcy,  and  attained  marked  distinction. 
Later  he  was  commissioned  Brigadier-General, 
and  planned  an  expedition  against  the  British 
fort  at  Detroit,  which  was  not  successful.  In 
the  latter  part  of  1777,  in  consultation  with  Gov. 
Patrick  Henry,  of  Virginia,  he  planned  an  expe- 
dition against  Illinois,  which  was  carried  out 
the  following  year.  On  July  4,  1778,  he  captured 
Kaskaskia  without  firing  a  gun,  and  other 
French  villages  surrendered  at  discretion.  The 
following  February  he  set  out  from  Kaskaskia  to 
cross  the  "Illinois  Country"  for  the  purpose  of 
recapturing  Vincennes,  which  had  been  taken  and 
was  garrisoned  by  the  British  under  Hamilton. 
'After  a  forced  march  characterized  by  incredible 
suffering,  his  ragged  followers  effected  the  cap- 
ture of  the  post.  His  last  important  military 
service  was  against  the  savages  on  the  Big 
Miami,  whose  villages  and  fields  he  laid  waste.. 
His  last  years  were  passed  in  sorrow  and  in  com- 
parative penury.  He  died  at  Louisville,  Ky., 
Feb.  18,  1818,  and  his  remains,  after  reposing  in  a 
private  cemetery  near  that  city  for  half  a  cen- 
tury, were  exhumed  and  removed  to  Cave  Hill 
Cemetery  in  1869.  The  fullest  history  of  General 
Clark's  expedition  and  his  life  will  be  found  in 
the  "Conquest  of  the  Country  Northwest  of  the 
Ohio  River,  1774-1783,  and  Life  of  Gen.  George 
Rogers  Clark"  (2  volumes,  1896),  by  the  late 
William  H.  English,  of  Indianapolis. 

CLARE,  Horace  S.,  lawyer  and  politician,  was 
born  at  Huntsburg,  Ohio,  August  12,  1840.  At 


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the  age  of  15,  coining  to  Chicago,  he  found 
employment  in  a  livery  stable ;  later,  worked  on 
a  farm  in  Kane  County,  attending  school  in  the 
winter.  After  a  year  spent  in  Iowa  Cit\r  attend- 
ing the  Iowa  State  University,  he  returned  to 
Kane  County  and  engaged  in  the  dairy  business, 
later  occupying  himself  with  various  occupations 
in  Illinois  and  Missouri,  but  finally  returning  to 
his  Ohio  home,  where  he  began  the  study  of  law 
at  Circleville.  In  1861  he  enlisted  in  an  Ohio 
regiment,  rising  from  the  ranks  to  a  captaincy, 
but  was  finally  compelled  to  leave  the  service  in 
consequence  of  a  wound  received  at  Gettysburg. 
In  1865  he  settled  at  Mattoon,  111.,  where  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1868.  In  1870  he  was  an 
unsuccessful  candidate  for  the  Legislature  on  the 
Republican  ticket,  but  was  elected  State  Senator 
in  1880,  serving  four  years  and  proving  himself 
one  of  the  ablest  speakers  on  the  floor.  In  1888 
he  was  chosen  a  delegate-at-large  to  the  National 
Republican  Convention,  and  was  long  a  con- 
spicuous figure  in  State  politics.  In  1896  he  was 
a  prominent  candidate  for  the  Republican  nomi- 
nation for  Governor.  Died  April  11,  1907. 

CLARE,  John  M.,  civil  engineer  and  merchant, 
was  born  at  White  Pigeon,  Mich:,  August  1,  1836; 
came  to  Chicago  with  his  widowed  mother  in 
1847,  and,  after  five  years  in  the  Chicago  schools, 
served  for  a  time  (1852)  as  a  rodman  on  the  Illi- 
nois Central  Railroad.  After  a  course  in  the 
Rensselaer  Polytechnic  Institute  at  Troy,  N.  Y., 
where  he  graduated  in  1856,  he  returned  to  the 
service  of  the  Illinois  Central.  In  1859  he  went  to 
Colorado,  where  he  was  one  of  the  original 
founders  of  the  city  of  Denver,  and  chief  engi- 
neer of  its  first  water  supply  company.  In  1862 
he  started  on  a  surveying  expedition  to  Arizona, 
but  was  in  Santa  Fe  when  that  place  was  captured' 
by  a  rebel  expedition  from  Texas;  was  also 
present  soon  after  at  the  battle  of  Apache  Caflon, 
when  the  Confederates,  being  defeated,  were 
driven  out  of  the  Territory.  Returning  to  Chi- 
cago in  1864,  he  became  a  member  of  the  whole- 
sale leather  firm  of  Gray,  Clark  &  Co.  The 
official  positions  held  by  Mr.  Clark  include  those 
of  Alderman  (1879-81),  Member  of  the  Board  of 
Education,  Collector  of  Customs,  to  which  he 
was  appointed  by  President  Harrison,  in  1889, 
and  President  of  the  Chicago  Civil  Service  Board 
by  appointment  of  Mayor  Swift,  under  an  act 
passed  by  the  Legislature  of  1895,  retiring  in  1897. 
In  1881  he  was  the  Republican  candidate  for  Mayor 
of  Chicago,  but  was  defeated  by  Carter  H.  Harri- 
son. Mr.  Clark  is  one  of  the  Directors  of  the  Crerar 
Library,  named  in  the  will  of  Mr.  Crerar. 


CLARK  COUNTY,  one  of  the  eastern  counties 
of  the  State,  south  of  the  middle  line  and  front- 
ing upon  the  Wabash  River;  area,  513  square 
miles,  and  population  (1910),  23,517;  named  for 
Col.  George  Rogers  Clark.  Its  organization  was 
effected  in  1819.  Among  the  earliest  pioneers 
were  John  Bartlett,  Abraham  Washburn,  James 
"Whitlock,  James  B.  Anderson,  Stephen  Archer 
and  Uri  Manly.  The  county-seat  is  Marshall,  the 
site  of  which  was  purchased  from  the  Govern- 
ment in  1833  by  Gov.  Joseph  Duncan  and  Col. 
William  B.  Archer,  the  latter  becoming  sole  pro- 
prietor in  1835,  in  which  year  the  first  log  cabin 
was  built.  The  original  county-seat  was  Darwin, 
and  the  change  to  Marshall  (in  1849)  was  made 
only  after  a  hard  struggle.  The  soil  of  the 
county  is  rich,  and  its  agricultural  products 
varied,  embracing  corn  (the  chief  staple),  oats, 
potatoes,  winter  wheat,  butter,  sorghum,  honey, 
maple  sugar,  wool  and  pork.  Woolen,  flouring 
and  lumber  mills  exist,  but  the  manufacturing 
interests  are  not  extensive.  Among  the  promi- 
nent towns,  besides  Marshall  and  Darwin,  are 
Casey  (population  2,157),  Martinsville  (1.500), 
Westfield  (927),  and  York  (109). 

CLAY,  Porter,  clergyman  and  brother  of  the 
celebrated  Henry  Clay,  was  born  in  Virginia, 
March,  1779 ;  in  early  life  removed  to  Kentucky, 
studied  law,  and  was,  for  a  time,  Auditor  of 
Public  Accounts  in  that  State;  in  1815,  was  con- 
verted and  gave  himself  to  the  Baptist  ministry, 
locating  at  Jacksonville,  111.,  where  he  spent 
most  of  his  life.  Died,  in  1850. 

CLAY  CITY,  a  village  of  Clay  County,  on  the 
Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern  Railroad,  12 
miles  west  of  Olney ;  has  one  newspaper,  a  bank, 
and  is  in  a  grain  and  fruit-growing  region. 
Pop.  (1900),  907;  (1910),  837. 

CLAY  COUXTY,  situated  in  the  southeastern 
quarter  of  the  State;  has  an  area  of  466  square 
miles  and  a  population  (1910)  of  18,661.  It  was 
named  for  Henry  Clay.  The  first  claim  in  the 
county  was  entered  by  a  Mr.  Elliot,  in  1818,  and 
soon  after  settlers  began  to  locate  homes  in  the 
county,  although  it  was  not  organized  until  1834. 
During  the  same  year  the  pioneer  settlement  of 
Maysville  was  made  the  county-seat,  but  immi- 
gration continued  inactive  until  1837,  when 
many  settlers  arrived,  headed  by  Judges  Apper- 
son  and  Hopkins  and  Messrs.  Stanford  and  Lee, 
who  were  soon  followed  by  the  families  of  Coch- 
ran,  McCullom  and  Tender.  The  Little  Wabash 
River  and  a  number  of  small  tributaries  drain 
the  county.  A  light-colored  sandy  loam  consti- 
tutes the  greater  part  of  the  soil,  although  "black 


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prairie  loam"  appears  here  and  there.  Railroad 
facilities  are  limited,  but  sufficient  to  accommo- 
date the  county's  requirements.  Fruits, 
especially  apples,  are  successfully  cultivated. 
Educational  advantages  are  fair,  although  largely 
confined  to  district  schools  and  academies  in 
larger  towns.  Louisville  was  made  the  county- 
seat  in  1842,  and,  in  1890,  had  a  population  of 
637.  Xenia  and  Flora  are  the  most  important 
towns. 

CLATTOJf ,  a  town  in  Adams  County,  on  the 
Wabash  Railway,  28  miles  east-northeast  of 
Quincy.  A  branch  of  the  Wabash  Railway  ex- 
tends from  this  point  northwest  to  Carthage,  111., 
and  Keokuk,  Iowa,  and  another  branch  to 
Quincy,  111.  The  industries  include  flour  and  feed 
mills,  machine  and  railroad  repair  shops,  grain 
elevator,  cigar  and  harness  factories.  It  has  a 
bank,  four  churches,  a  high  school,  and  a  weekly 
newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  996;  (1910),  940. 

CLEAVER,  William,  pioneer,  was  born  in  Lon- 
don, England,  in  1815:  came  to  Canada  with  his 
parents  in  1831,  and  to  Chicago  in  1834;  engaged 
in  business  as  a  chandler,  later  going  into  the 
grocery  trade ;  in  1849,  joined  the  gold-seekers  in 
California,  and,  six  years  afterwards,  established 
himself  in  the  southern  part  of  the  present  city 
of  Chicago,  then  called  Cleaverville,  where  he 
served  as  Postmaster  and  managed  a  general 
store.  He  was  the  owner  of  considerable  real 
estate  at  one  time  in  what  is  now  a  densely 
populated  part  of  the  city  of  Chicago.  Died  in 
Chicago,  Nov.  13,  1896. 

CLEMENTS,  Isaac,  ex-Congressman  and  Gov- 
ernor of  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home  at  Danville, 
111.,  was  born  in  Franklin  County,  Ind.,  in  1837; 
graduated  from  Asbury  University,  at  Green- 
castle,  in  1859,  having  supported  himself  during 
his  college  course  by  teaching.  After  reading 
law  and  being  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Greencastle, 
he  removed  to  Carbondale,  111.,  where  he  again 
found  it  necessary  to  resort  to  teaching  in  order 
to  purchase  law-books.  In  July,  1861,  he  enlisted 
in  the  Ninth  Illinois  Infantry,  and  was  commis- 
sioned Second  Lieutenant  of  Company  G.  He 
was  in  the  service  for  three  years,  was  three 
times  wounded  and  twice  promoted  "for  meri- 
torious service."  In  June,  1867,  he  was  ap- 
pointed Register  in  Bankruptcy,  and  from  1873 
to  1875  was  a  Republican  Representative  in  the 
Forty-third  Congress  from  the  (then)  Eighteenth 
District.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Repub- 
lican State  Convention  of  1880.  In  1889,  he 
became  Pension  Agent  for  the  District  of  Illinois, 
by  appointment  of  President  Harrison,  serving 


until  1893.  In  the  latter  part  of  1898,  he  was 
appointed  Superintendent  of  the  Soldiers' 
Orphans'  Home,  at  Normal,  but  served  only  a 
few  months,  when  he  accepted  the  position  of 
Governor  of  the  new  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home, 
at  Danville.  Died  May  31,  1909. 

CLEVELAND,  CINCINNATI,  CHICAGO  &  ST. 
LOUIS  RAILWAY.  The  total  length  of  this  sys- 
tem (1898)  is  1,807.34  miles,  of  which  478.39  miles 
are  operated  in  Illinois.  That  portion  of  the  main 
line  lying  within  the  State  extends  from  East  St. 
Louis,  northeast  to  the  Indiana  State  line,  181 
miles.  The  Company  is  also  the  lessee  of  the 
Peoria  &  Eastern  Railroad  (132  miles),  and  oper- 
ates, in  addition,  other  lines,  as  follows:  The 
Cairo  Division,  extending  from  Tilton,  on  the 
line  of  the  Wabash,  3  miles  southwest  of  Dan- 
ville, to  Cairo  (259  miles)  •  the  Chicago  Division, 
extending  from  Kankakee  southeast  to  the 
Indiana  State  line  (34  miles) ;  the  Alton  Branch, 
from  Wann  Junction,  on  the  main  line,  to  Alton 
(4  miles).  Besides  these,  it  enjoys  with  the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  joint  owner- 
ship of  the  Kankakee  &  Seneca  Railroad,  which 
it  operates.  The  system  is  uniformly  of  standard 
gauge,  and  about  280  miles  are  of  double  track. 
It  is  laid  with  heavy  steel  rails  (sixty-five,  sixty- 
seven  and  eighty  pounds),  laid  on  white  oak  ties, 
and  is  amply  ballasted  with  broken  stone  and 
gravel.  Extensive  repair  shops  are  located  at 
Mattoon  The  total  capital  of  the  entire  system 
on  June  30,  1898 — including  capital  stock  and 
bonded  and  floating  debt — was  §97,149,361.  The 
total  earnings  in  Illinois  for  the  year  were 
$3,773,193,  and  the  total  expenditures  in  the  State 
$3,611,437.  The  taxes  paid  the  same  year  were 
§124,196.  The  history  of  this  system,  so  far  as 
Illinois  is  concerned,  begins  with  the  consolida- 
tion, in  1889,  of  the  Cincinnati,  Indianapolis,  St. 
Louis  &  Chicago,  the  Cleveland,  Columbus,  Cin- 
cinnati &  Indianapolis,  and  the  Indianapolis  & 
St.  Louis  Railway  Companies.  In  1890,  certain 
leased  lines  in  Illinois  (elsewhere  mentioned) 
were  merged  into  the  system.  (For  history  of 
the  several  divisions  of  this  system,  see  St.  Louis, 
Alton  &  Terre  Haute,  Peoria  &  Eastern,  Cairo 
&  Vincennes,  and  Kankakee  &  Seneca  Railroads. ) 

CLIMATOLOGY.  Extending,  as  it  does,  through 
six  degrees  of  latitude,  Illinois  affords  a  great 
diversity  of  climate,  as  regards  not  only  the 
range  of  temperature,  but  also  the  amount  of 
rainfall.  In  both  particulars  it  exhibits  several 
points  of  contrast  to  States  lying  between  the 
same  parallels  of  latitude,  but  nearer  the  Atlan- 
tic. The  same  statement  applies,  as  well,  to  all 


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the  North  Central  and  the  Western  States. 
Warm  winds  from  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  come  up 
the  Mississippi  Valley,  and  impart  to  vegetation 
in  the  southern  portion  of  the  State,  a  stimulat- 
ing influence  which  is  not  felt  upon  the  seaboard. 
On  the  other  hand,  there  is  no  great  barrier  to 
the  descent  of  the  Arctic  winds,  which,  in 
winter,  sweep  down  toward  the  Gulf,  depressing 
the  temperature  to  a  point  lower  than  is  custom- 
ary nearer  the  seaboard  on  the  same  latitude. 
Lake  Michigan  exerts  no  little  influence  upon  the 
climate  of  Chicago  and  other  adjacent  districts, 
mitigating  both  summer  heat  and  winter  cold. 
If  a  comparison  be  instituted  between  Ottawa 
and  Boston — the  latter  being  one  degree  farther 
north,  but  570  feet  nearer  the  sea-level — the 
springs  and  summers  are  found  to  be  about  five 
degrees  warmer,  and  the  winters  three  degrees 
colder,  at  the  former  point.  In  comparing  the 
East  and  West  in  respect  of  rainfall,  it  is  seen 
that,  in  the  former  section,  the  same  is  pretty 
equally  distributed  over  the  four  seasons,  while 
in  the  latter,  spring  and  summer  may  be  called 
the  wet  season,  and  autumn  and  winter  the  dry. 
In  the  extreme  West  nearly  three-fourths  of  the 
yearly  precipitation  occurs  during  the  growing 
season.  This  is  a  climatic  condition  highly 
favorable  to  the  growth  of  grasses,  etc.,  but 
detrimental  to  the  growth  of  trees.  Hence  we 
find  luxuriant  forests  near  the  seaboard,  and,  in 
the  interior,  grassy  plains.  Illinois  occupies  a 
geographical  position  where  these  great  climatic 
changes  begin  to  manifest  themselves,  and  where 
the  distinctive  features  of  the  prairie  first  become 
fully  apparent.  The  annual  precipitation  of 
rain  is  greatest  in  the  southern  part  of  the  State, 
but,  owing  to  the  higher  temperature  of  that 
section,  the  evaporation  is  also  more  rapid.  The 
distribution  of  the  rainfall  in  respect  of  seasons 
is  also  more  unequal  toward  the  south,  a  fact 
which  may  account,  in  part  at  least,  for  the 
increased  area  of  woodlands  in  that  region. 
While  Illinois  lies  within  the  zone  of  southwest 
winds,  their  flow  is  affected  by  conditions  some- 
what abnormal.  The  northeast  trades,  after 
entering  the  Gulf,  are  deflected  by  the  mountains 
of  Mexico,  becoming  inward  breezes  in  Texas, 
southerly  winds  in  the  Lower  Mississippi  Valley, 
and  southwesterly  as  they  enter  the  Upper 
Valley.  It  is  to  this  aerial  current  that  the  hot, 
moist  summers  are  attributable.  The  north  and 
northwest  winds,  which  set  in  with  the  change 
of  the  season,  depress  the  temperature  to  a  point 
below  that  of  the  Atlantic  slope,  and  are 
attended  with  a  diminished  precipitation. 


CLINTON,  the  county -seat  of  De  Witt  County, 
situated  23  miles  south  of  Bloomington,  at  inter- 
section of  the  Springfield  and  the  Champaign- 
Havana  Divisions  with  the  main  line  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad ;  lies  in  a  productive  agricultural 
region;  has  machine  shops,  flour  and  planing 
mills,  brick  and  tile  works,  water  works,  electric 
lighting  plant,  piano-case  factory,  banks,  three 
newspapers,  six  churches,  and  two  public  schools. 
Pop.  (1890),  2,598;  (1900),  4,452;  (1910),  5,105. 

CLINTON  COUNTY,  organized  in  1824,  from 
portions  of  Washington,  Bond  and  Fayette  Coun- 
ties, and  named  in  honor  of  De  Witt  Clinton.  It  is 
situated  directly  east  of  St.  Louis,  has  an  area 
of  487  square  miles,  and  a  population  (1910)  of 
22,832.  It  is  drained  by  the  Kaskaskia  River  and 
by  Shoal,  Crooked,  Sugar  and  Beaver  Creeks.  Its 
geological  formation  is  similar  to  that  of  other 
counties  in  the  same  section.  Thick  layers  of 
limestone  lie  near  the  surface,  with  coal  seams 
underlying  the  same  at  varying  depths.  The 
soil  is  varied,  being  at  some  points  black  and 
loamy  and  at  others  (under  timber)  decidedly 
clayey.  The  timber  has  been  mainly  cut  for  fuel 
because  of  the  inherent  difficulties  attending 
coal-mining.  Two  railroads  cross  the  county 
from  east  to  west,  but  its  trade  is  not  important. 
Agriculture  is  the  chief  occupation,  corn,  wheat 
and  oats  being  the  staple  products. 

CLOUD,  Newton,  clergyman  and  legislator, 
was  born  in  North  Carolina,  in  1805,  and,  in  1827, 
settled  in  the  vicinity  of  Waverly,  Morgan 
County,  111.,  where  he  pursued  the  vocation  of  a 
farmer,  as  well  as  a  preacher  of  the  Methodist 
Church.  He  also  became  prominent  as  a  Demo- 
cratic politician,  and  served  in  no  less  than  nine 
sessions  of  the  General  Assembly,  besides  the 
Constitutional  Convention  of  1847,  of  which  he 
was  chosen  President.  He  was  first  elected 
Representative  in  the  Seventh  Assembly  (1830), 
and  afterwards  served  in  the  House  during  the 
sessions  of  the  Ninth,  Tenth,  Eleventh,  Thir- 
teenth, Fifteenth  and  Twenty-seventh,  and  as 
Senator  in  the  Sixteenth  and  Seventeenth.  He 
was  also  Clerk  of  the  House  in  1844-45,  and, 
having  been  elected  Representative  two  years 
later,  was  chosen  Speaker  at  the  succeeding  ses- 
sion. Although  not  noted  for  any  specially 
aggressive  qualities,  his  consistency  of  character 
won  for  him  general  respect,  while  his  frequent 
elections  to  the  Legislature  prove  him  to  have 
been  a  man  of  large  influence. 

CLOWRY,  Robert  C.,  Telegraph  Managar,  was 
born  in  ISHrt;  entered  the  service  of  the  Illinois  & 
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boy  at  Joliet  in  1852,  became  manager  of  the 
office  at  Lockport  six  months  later,  at  Springfield 
in  1853,  and  chief  operator  at  St.  Louis  in  1854. 
Between  1859  and  '63,  he  held  highly  responsible 
positions  on  various  Western  lines,  but  the  latter 
year  was  commissioned  by  President  Lincoln 
Captain  and  Assistant  Quartermaster,  and  placed 
in  charge  of  United  States  military  lines  with 
headquarters  at  Little  Rock,  Ark. ;  was  mustered 
out  in  May,  1866,  and  immediately  appointed 
District  Superintendent  of  Western  Union  lines 
in  the  Southwest.  From  that  time  his  promotion 
was  steady  and  rapid.  In  1875  he  became 
Assistant  General  Superintendent ;  in  1878,  Assist- 
ant General  Superintendent  of  the  Central  Divi- 
sion at  Chicago;  in  1880,  succeeded  General 
Stager  as  General  Superintendent,  and,  in  1885, 
was  elected  Director,  member  of  the  Execu- 
tive Committee  and  Vice-President,  his  terri- 
tory extending  from  the  Atlantic  to  the 
Pacific. 

COAL  AND  COAL-MINING.  Illinois  contains 
much  the  larger  portion  of  what  is  known  as  the 
central  coal  field,  covering  an  area  of  about 
37,000  square  miles,  and  underlying  sixty  coun- 
ties, in  but  forty -five  of  which,  however,  opera- 
tions are  conducted  on  a  commercial  scale.  The 
Illinois  field  contains  fifteen  distinct  seams. 
Those  available  for  commercial  mining  generally 
lie  at  considerable  depth  and  are  reached  by 
shafts.  The  coals  are  all  bituminous,  and  furnish 
an  excellent  steam-making  fuel.  Coke  is  manu- 
factured to  a  limited  extent  in  La  Salle  and  some 
of  the  southern  counties,  but  elsewhere  in  the 
State  the  coal  does  not  yield  a  good  marketable 
coke.  Neither  is  it  in  any  degree  a  good  gas 
coal,  although  used  in  some  localities  for  that 
purpose,  rather  because  of  its  abundance  than  on 
account  of  its  adaptability.  It  is  thought  that, 
with  the  increase  of  cheap  transportation  facili- 
ties, Pittsburg  coal  will  be  brought  into  the  State 
in  such  quantities  as  eventually  to  exclude  local 
coal  from  the  manufacture  of  gas.  In  the  report 
of  the  Eleventh  United  States  Census,  the  total 
product  of  the  Illinois  coal  mines  was  given  as 
12,104,272  tons,  as  against  6,115,377  tons  reported 
by  the  Tenth  Census.  The  value  of  the  output 
was  estimated  at  $11,735,203,  or  $0.97  per  ton  at 
the  mines.  The  total  number  of  mines  was 
stated  to  be  1,072,  and  the  number  of  tons  mined 
was  nearly  equal  to  the  combined  yield  of  the 
mines  of  Ohio  and  Indiana.  The  mines  are 
divided  into  two  classes,  technically  known  as 
"regular"  and  "local."  Of  the  former,  there 
were  358,  and  of  the  latter,  714.  These  358  regular 


mines  employed  23,934  men  and  boys,  of  whom 
21,350  worked  below  ground,  besides  an  office 
force  of  389,  and  paid,  in  wages,  $8,694,397.  The 
total  capital  invested  in  these  358  mines  was 
$17,630,351.  According  to  the  report  of  the  State 
Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics  for  1898,  881  mines 
were  operated  during  the  year,  employing  35,026 
men  and  producing  18,599,299  tons  of  coal,  which 
was  1,473,459  tons  less  than  the  preceding  year — 
the  reduction  being  due  to  the  strike  of  1897. 
Five  counties  of  the  State  produced  more  than 
1,000,000  tons  each,  standing  in  the  following 
order:  Sangamon,  1,763,863;  St.  Clair,  1,600,752; 
Vermilion,  1,520,099;  Macoupin,  1,264,926;  La 
Salle,  1,165,490. 

COAL  CITY,  a  town  in  Grundy  County,  on  the 
Chicago,  Hock  Island  &  Pacific  Railway,  29  miles 
by  rail  south-southwest  of  Joliet.  Large  coal 
mines  are  operated  here,  and  the  town  is  an  im- 
portant shipping  point  for  their  product.  It  has  a 
bank,  a  weekly  newspaper  and  five  churches. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,672;  (1900),  2,607;  (1910),  2,667. 

COBB,  Emery,  capitalist,  was  born  at  Dryden, 
Tompkins  County,  N.  Y.,  August  20,  1831;  at  16, 
began  the  study  of  telegraphy  at  Ithaca,  later 
acted  as  operator  on  Western  New  York  lines, 
but,  in  1852,  became  manager  of  the  office  at 
Chicago,  continuing  until  1865,  the  various  com- 
panies having  meanwhile  been  consolidated  into 
the  Western  Union.  He  then  made  an  extensive 
tour  of  the  world,  and,  although  he  had  intro- 
duced the  system  of  transmitting  money  by 
telegraph,  he  declined  all  invitations  to  return  to 
the  key-board.  Having  made  large  investments 
in  lands  about  Kankakee,  where  he  now  resides, 
he  has  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  agriculture 
and  stock-raising;  was  also,  for  many  years,  a 
member  of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture,  Presi- 
dent of  the  Short-Horn  Breeders'  Association, 
and,  for  twenty  years  (1873-93),  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  the  University  of  Illinois. 
He  has  done  much  to  improve  the  city  of  his 
adoption  by  the  erection  of  buildings,  the  con- 
struction of  electric  street-car  lines  and  the 
promotion  of  manufactures. 

COBB,  Silas  B.,  pioneer  and  real-estate  opera- 
tor, was  born  at  Montpelier,  Vt.,  Jan.  23,  1812; 
came  to  Chicago  in  1833  on  a  schooner  from  Buf- 
falo, the  voyage  occupying  over  a  month.  Being 
without  means,  he  engaged  as  a  carpenter  upon  a 
building  which  James  Kinzie,  the  Indian  trader, 
was  erecting ;  later  he  erected  a  building  of  his 
own  in  which  he  started  a  harness-shop,  which 
he  conducted  successfully  for  a  number  of  years. 
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of  business  enterprises  of  a  public  character, 
including  banks,  street  and  steam  railways,  but 
his  largest  successes  have  been  achieved  in  the  line 
of  improved  real  estate,  of  which  he  is  an  exten- 
sive owner.  He  is  also  one  of  the  liberal  bene- 
factors of  the  University  of  Chicago,  "Cobb 
Lecture  Hall,"  on  the  campus  of  that  institution, 
being  the  result  of  a  contribution  of  his  amount- 
ing to  $150,000.  Died  in  Chicago,  April  5,  1900. 

COBDEN,  a  village  in  Union  County,  on  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad,  42  miles  north  of  Cairo 
and  15  miles  south  of  Carbondale.  Fruits  and 
vegetables  are  extensively  cultivated  and  shipped 
to  northern  markets.  This  region  is  well  tim- 
bered, and  Cobden  has  two  box  factories  employ- 
ing a  considerable  number  of  men;  also  has 
several  churches,  schools  and  two  weekly  papers. 
Pop.  (1890),  994;  (1900),  1,034;  (1910),  988. 

COCHRAN,  William  Granville,  legislator  and 
jurist,  was  born  in  Ross  County,  Ohio,  Nov.  13, 
1844;  brought  to  Moultrie  County,  111.,  in  1849, 
and,  at  the  age  of  17,  enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred 
and  Twenty -sixth  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers, 
serving  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  three  years 
as  a  private.  Returning  home  from  the  war,  he 
resumed  life  as  a  farmer,  but  early  in  1873  began 
merchandising  at  Lovington,  continuing  this 
business  three  years,  when  he  began  the  study  of 
law;  in  1879,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  has 
since  been  in  active  practice.  In  1888  he  was 
elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  General 
Assembly,  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  the 
Senate  in  1890,  but  was  re-elected  to  the  House 
in  1894,  and  again  in  1896.  At  the  special  session 
of  1890,  he  was  chosen  Speaker,  and  was  similarly 
honored  in  1895.  He  is  an  excellent  parliamen- 
tarian, clear-headed  and  just  in  his  rulings,  and 
an  able  debater.  In  June,  1897,  he  was  elected 
for  a  six  years'  term  to  the  Circuit  bench.  He  is 
also  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Soldiers'  Orphans' 
Home  at  Normal. 

CODDING,  Ichabod,  clergyman  and  anti- 
slavery  lecturer,  was  born  at  Bristol,  N.  Y.,  in 
1811;  at  the  age  of  17  he  was  a  popular  temper- 
ance lecturer;  while  a  student  at  Middlebury, 
Vt.,  began  to  lecture  in  opposition  to  slavery; 
after  leaving  college  served  five  years  as  agent 
and  lecturer  of  the  Anti-Slavery  Society;  was 
often  exposed  to  mob  violence,  but  always  retain- 
ing his  self-control,  succeeded  in  escaping 
serious  injury.  In  1842  he  entered  the  Congrega- 
tional ministry  and  held  pastorates  at  Princeton, 
Lockport,  Joliet  and  elsewhere;  between  1854 
and  '58,  lectured  extensively  through  Illinois  on 
the  Kansas-Nebraska  issue,  and  was  a  power  in 


the  organization  of  the  Republican  party.  Died 
at  Baraboo,  Wis.,  June  17,  1866. 

CODY,  Him  in  Hitchcock,  lawyer  and  Judge; 
born  in  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  June  11,  1824;  was 
partially  educated  at  Hamilton  College,  and,  in 
1843,  came  with  his  father  to  Kendall  County, 
111.  In  1847,  he  removed  to  Naperville,  where 
for  six  years  he  served  as  Clerk  of  the  County 
Commissioners'  Court.  In  1851  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar;  in  1861,  was  elected  County  Judge 
with  practical  unanimity ,  served  as  a  member  of 
the  Constitutional  Convention  of  18G9-70,  and, 
in  1874,  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Twelfth  Judi- 
cial Circuit.  His  residence  (1896)  was  at  Pasa- 
dena, Cal.  Died  in  Chicago,  Dec.  16,  1907. 

COLCHESTER,  a  city  of  McDonough  County, 
on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad, 
midway  between  Galesburg  and  Quincy ;  is  the 
center  of  a  rich  farming  and  an  extensive  coal- 
mining region,  producing  more  than  100,000  tons 
of  coal  annually.  A  superior  quality  of  potter's 
clay  is  also  mined  and  shipped  extensively  to 
other  points.  The  city  has  brick  and  drain-tile 
works,  a  bank,  four  churches,  two  public  schools 
and  two  weekly  papers.  Population  (1890), 
1,643;  (1900),  1,635;  (1910),  1,445. 

COLES,  Edward,  the  second  Governor  of  the 
State  of  Illinois,  born  in  Albemarle  County,  Va. . 
Dec.  15,  1786,  the  son  of  a  wealthy  planter,  who 
had  been  a  Colonel  in  the  Revolutionary  War: 
was  educated  at  Hampden-Sidney  and  William 
and  Mary  Colleges,  but  compelled  to  leave  before 
graduation  by  an  accident  which  interrupted  his 
studies;  in  1809,  became  the  private  secretary  of 
President  Madison,  remaining  six  years,  after 
which  he  made  a  trip  to  Russia  as  a  special  mes- 
senger by  appointment  of  the  President.  He 
early  manifested  an  interest  in  the  emancipation 
of  the  slaves  of  Virginia.  In  1815  he  made  his 
first  tour  through  the  Northwest  Territory,  going 
as  far  west  as  St.  Louis,  returning  three  years 
later  and  visiting  Kaskaskia  while  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  of  1818  was  in  session.  In 
April  of  the  following  j'ear  he  set  out  from  his 
Virginia  home,  accompanied  by  his  slaves,  for 
Illinois,  traveling  by  wagons  to  Brownsville,  Pa., 
where,  taking  flat-boats,  he  descended  the  river 
with  his  goods  and  servants  to  a  point  below 
Louisville,  where  they  disembarked,  journeying 
overland  to  Edwardsville.  While  descending 
the  Ohio,  he  informed  his  slaves  that  they  were 
free,  and,  after  arriving  at  their  destination, 
gave  to  each  head  of  a  family  160  acres  of  land. 
This  generous  act  was,  in  after  years,  made  the 
ground  for  bitter  persecution  by  his  enemies.  At 


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Edwardsville  he  entered  upon  the  duties  of 
Register  of  the  Land  Office,  to  which  he  had 
been  appointed  by  President  Monroe.  In  1822 
he  became  the  candidate  for  Governor  of  those 
opposed  to  removing  the  restriction  in  the  State 
Constitution  against  the  introduction  of  slavery, 
and,  although  a  majority  of  the  voters  then 
favored  the  measure,  he  was  elected  by  a  small 
plurality  over  his  highest  competitor  in  conse- 
quence of  a  division  of  the  opposition  vote 
between  three  candidates.  The  Legislature 
chosen  at  the  same  time  submitted  to  the  people 
a  proposition  for  a  State  Convention  to  revise  the 
Constitution,  which  was  rejected  at  the  election 
of  1824  by  a  majority  of  1,668  in  a  total  vote  of 
11,612.  While  Governor  Coles  had  the  efficient 
aid  in  opposition  to  the  measure  of  such  men  as 
Judge  Samuel  D.  Lockwood,  Congressman  Daniel 
P.  Cook,  Morris  Birkbeck,  George  Forquer, 
Hooper  Warren,  George  Churchill  and  others,  he 
was  himself  a  most  influential  factor  in  protecting 
Illinois  from  the  blight  of  slavery,  contributing 
his  salary  for  his  entire  term  ($4,000)  to  that  end. 
In  1825  it  became  his  duty  to  welcome  La  Fay- 
ette  to  Illinois.  Retiring  from  office  in  1826,  he 
continued  to  reside  some  years  on  his  farm  near 
Edwardsville,  and,  in  1830,  was  a  candidate  for 
Congress,  but  being  a  known  opponent  of  Gen- 
eral Jackson,  was  defeated  by  Joseph  Duncan. 
Previous  to  1833,  he  removed  to  Philadelphia, 
where  he  married  during  the  following  year,  and 
continued  to  reside  there  until  his  death,  July  7, 
1868,  having  lived  to  see  the  total  extinction  of 
slavery  in  the  United  States.  (See  Slavery  and 
Slave  Laws.) 

COLES  COUNTY,  originally  a  part  of  Crawford 
County,  but  organized  in  1830,  and  named  in 
honor  of  Gov.  Edward  Coles,  lies  central  to  the 
eastern  portion  of  the  State,  and  embraces  520 
square  miles,  with  a  population  (1910)  of  34,517. 
The  Kaskaskia  River  (sometimes  called  the 
Okaw)  runs  through  the  northwestern  part  of  the 
county,  but  the  principal  stream  is  the  Embarras 
(Embraw).  The  chief  resource  of  the  people  is 
agriculture,  although  the  county  lies  within  the 
limits  of  the  Illinois  coal-belt.  To  the  north  and 
west  are  prairies,  while  timber  abounds  in  the 
southeast.  The  largest  crop  is  of  corn,  although 
wheat,  dairy  products,  potatoes,  hay,  tobacco, 
sorghum,  wool,  etc.,  are  also  important  products. 
Broom-corn  is  extensively  cultivated.  Manufac- 
turing is  carried  on  to  a  fair  extent,  the  output 
embracing  sawed  lumber,  carriages  and  wagons, 
agricultural  implements,  tobacco  and  snuff,  boots 
ind  shoes,  etc.  Charleston,  the  county -seat,  is 


centrally  located,  and  has  a  number  of  handsome 
public  buildings,  private  residences  and  business 
blocks.  It  was  laid  out  in  1831,  and  incorporated 
in  1865;  in  1900,  its  population  was  5,488. 
Mattoon  is  a  railroad  center,  situated  some  130 
miles  east  of  St.  Louis.  It  has  a  population  of 
9,622,  and  is  an  important  shipping  point  for 
grain  and  live-stock.  Other  principal  towns  are 
Ashmore,  Oakland  and  Lerna. 

COLFAX,  a  village  of  McLean  County,  on  the 
Kankakee  and  Bloomington  branch  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad,  23  miles  northeast  of  Blooming- 
ton.  Farming  and  stock-grow  ing  are  the  leading 
industries ;  has  two  banks,  one  newspaper,  three 
elevators,  and  a  coal  mine.  Pop.  (1910),  965. 

COLLEGE  OF  PHYSICIANS  AND  SURGEONS, 
located  at  Chicago,  and  organized  in  1881.  Its 
first  term  opened  in  September,  1882,  in  a  build- 
ing erected  by  the  trustees  at  a  cost  of  §60,000, 
with  a  faculty  embracing  twenty-five  professors, 
with  a  sufficient  corps  of  demonstrators,  assist- 
ants, etc.  The  number  of  matriculates  was  152. 
The  institution  ranks  among  the  leading  medical 
colleges  of  the  West.  Its  standard  of  qualifica- 
tions, for  both  matriculates  and  graduates,  is 
equal  to  those  of  other  first-class  medical  schools 
throughout  the  country.  The  teaching  faculty, 
of  late  years,  has  consisted  of  some  twenty-five 
professors,  who  are  aided  by  an  adequate  corps  of 
assistants,  demonstrators,  etc. 

COLLEGES,  EARLY.  The  early  Legislatures  of 
Illinois  manifested  no  little  unfriendliness  toward 
colleges.  The  first  charters  for  institutions  of 
this  character  were  granted  in  1833,  and  were  for 
the  incorporation  of  the  "Union  College  of  Illi- 
nois," in  Randolph  County,  and  the  "Alton  Col- 
lege of  Illinois,"  at  Upper  Alton.  The  first 
named  was  to  be  under  the  care  of  the  Scotch 
Covenanters,  but  was  never  founded.  The 
second  was  in  the  interest  of  the  Baptists,  but 
the  charter  was  not  accepted.  Both  these  acts 
contained  jealous  and  unfriendly  restrictions, 
notably  one  to  the  effect  that  no  theological 
department  should  be  established  and  no  pro- 
fessor of  theology  employed  as  an  instructor,  nor 
should  any  religious  test  be  applied  in  the  selec- 
tion of  trustees  or  the  admission  of  pupils.  The 
friends  of  higher  education,  however,  made  com- 
mon cause,  and,  in  1835,  secured  the  passage  of 
an  "omnibus  bill"  incorporating  four  private 
colleges — the  Alton ;  the  Illinois,  at  Jacksonville ; 
the  McKendree,  at  Lebanon,  and  the  Jonesboro. 
Similar  restrictive  provisions  as  to  theological 
teaching  were  incorporated  in  these  charters,  and 
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property  to  be  owned  by  any  institution,  but  in 
many  respects  the  law  was  more  liberal  than  its 
predecessors  of  two  years  previous.  Owing  to 
the  absence  of  suitable  preparatory  schools,  these 
institutions  were  compelled  to  maintain  prepara- 
tory departments  under  the  tuition  of  the  college 
professors.  The  college  last  named  above  ( Jones- 
boro)  was  to  have  been  founded  by  the  Christian 
denomination,  but  was  never  organized.  The 
three  remaining  ones  stand,  in  the  order  of  their 
formation,  McKendree,  Illinois,  Alton  (afterward 
Shurtleff ) ;  in  the  order  of  graduating  initial 
classes  —  Illinois,  McKendree,  Shurtleff.  Pre- 
paratory instruction  began  to  be  given  in  Illinois 
College  in  1829,  and  a  class  was  organized  in  the 
collegiate  department  in  1831.  The  Legislature 
of  1835  also  incorporated  the  Jacksonville  Female 
Academy,  the  first  school  for  girls  chartered  in 
the  State.  From  this  time  forward  colleges  and 
academies  were  incorporated  in  rapid  succession, 
many  of  them  at  places  whose  names  have  long 
since  disappeared  from  the  map  of  the  State.  It 
was  at  this  time  that  there  developed  a  strong 
party  in  favor  of  founding  what  were  termed, 
rather  euphemistically,  "Manual  Labor  Col- 
leges." It  was  believed  that  the  time  which  a 
student  might  be  able  to  "redeem"  from  study, 
could  be  so  profitably  employed  at  farm  or  shop- 
work  as  to  enable  him  to  earn  his  own  livelihood. 
Acting  upon  this  theory,  the  Legislature  of  1835 
granted  charters  to  the  "Franklin  Manual  Labor 
College,"  to  be  located  in  either  Cook  or  La  Salle 
County;  to  the  "Burnt  Prairie  Manual  Labor 
Seminary,"  in  White  County,  and  the  "Chatham 
Manual  Labor  School,"  at  Lick  Prairie,  Sanga- 
mon  County.  University  powers  were  conferred 
upon  the  institution  last  named,  and  its  charter 
also  contained  the  somewhat  extraordinary  pro- 
vision that  any  sect  might  establish  a  professor- 
ship of  theology  therein.  In  1837  six  more 
colleges  were  incorporated,  only  one  of  which 
(Knox)  was  successfully  organized.  By  1840, 
better  and  broader  views  of  education  had 
developed,  and  the  Legislature  of  1841  repealed 
all  prohibition  of  the  establishing  of  theological 
departments,  as  well  as  the  restrictions  previously 
imposed  upon  the  amount  and  value  of  property 
to  be  owned  by  private  educational  institutions. 
The  whole  number  of  colleges  and  seminaries 
incorporated  under  the  State  law  (1896)  is  forty- 
three.  (See  also  Illinois  College,  Knox  College, 
Lake  Forest  University,  McKendree  College,  Mon- 
mouth  College,  Jacksonville  Female  Seminary, 
Monticello  Female  Seminary,  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity, Shurtleff  College.) 


COLLIER,  Robert  Laird,  clergyman,  was  born 
in  Salisbury,  Md.,  August  7,  1837;  graduated  at 
Boston  University,  1858;  soon  after  became  an 
itinerant  Methodist  minister,  but,  in  1866,  united 
with  the  Unitarian  Church  and  officiated  as 
pastor  of  churches  in  Chicago,  Boston  and  Kan- 
sas City,  besides  supplying  pulpits  in  various 
cities  in  England  (1880-85).  In  1885,  he  was 
appointed  United  States  Consul  at  Leipsic,  but 
later  served  as  a  special  commissioner  of  the 
Johns  Hopkins  University  in  the  collection  of 
labor  statistics  in  Europe,  meanwhile  gaining  a 
wide  reputation  as  a  lecturer  and  magazine 
writer.  His  published  works  include:  "  Every  - 
Day  Subjects  in  Sunday  Sermons"  (1869)  and 
"Meditations  on  the  Essence  of  Christianity" 
(1876).  Died  near  his  birthplace,  July  27,  1890. 

COLLINS,  Frederick,  manufacturer,  was  born 
in  Connecticut,  Feb.  24,  1804.  He  was  the  young- 
est of  five  brothers  who  came  with  their  parents 
from  Litchfield,  Conn  ,  to  Illinois,  in  1822,  and 
settled  in  the  town  of  Unionville — now  Collins- 
ville  —  in  the  southwestern  part  of  Madison 
County.  They  were  enterprising  and  public- 
spirited  business  men,  who  engaged,  quite 
extensively  for  the  time,  in  various  branches  of 
manufacture,  including  flour  and  whisky.  This 
was  an  era  of  progress  and  development,  and 
becoming  convinced  of  the  injurious  character 
of  the  latter  branch  of  their  business,  it  was 
promptly  abandoned.  The  subject  of  this  sketch 
was  later  associated  with  his  brother  Michael  in 
the  pork-packing  and  grain  business  at  Naples, 
the  early  Illinois  River  terminus  of  the  Sangamon 
&  Morgan  (now  Wabash)  Railroad,  but  finally 
located  at  Quincy  in  1851,  where  he  was  engaged 
in  manufacturing  business  for  many  years.  He 
was  a  man  of  high  business  probity  and  religious 
principle,  as  well  as  a  determined  opponent  of  the 
institution  of  slavery,  as  shown  by  the  fact  that 
he  was  once  subjected  by  his  neighbors  to  the 
intended  indignity  of  being  hung  in  effigy  for  the 
crime  of  assisting  a  fugitive  female  slave  on  the 
road  to  freedom.  In  a  speech  made  in  1834,  in 
commemoration  of  the  act  of  emancipation  in  the 
West  Indies,  he  gave  utterance  to  the  following 
prediction :  "Methinks  the  time  is  not  far  distant 
when  our  own  country  will  celebrate  a  day  of 
emancipation  within  her  own  borders,  and  con- 
sistent songs  of  freedom  shall  indeed  ring 
throughout  the  length  and  breadth  of  the  land." 
He  lived  to  see  this  prophecy  fulfilled,  dying  at 
Quincy,  in  1878.  Mr.  Collins  was  the  candidate  of 
the  Liberty  Men  of  Illinois  for  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor  in  1842. 


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COLLINS,  James  H.,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was 
born  in  Cambridge,  Washington  County,  N.  Y., 
but  taken  in  early  life  to  Vernon,  Oneida  County, 
where  he  grew  to  manhood.  After  spending  a 
couple  of  years  in  an  academy,  at  the  age  of  18 
he  began  the  study  of  law,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1824,  and  as  a  counsellor  and  solicitor  in 
1827,  coming  to  Chicago  in  the  fall  of  1833,  mak- 
ing a  part  of  the  journey  by  the  first  stage-coach 
from  Detroit  to  the  present  Western  metropolis. 
After  arriving  in  Illinois,  he  spent  some  time  in 
exploration  of  the  surrounding  country,  but 
returning  to  Chicago  in  1834,  he  entered  into 
partnership  with  Judge  John  D.  Caton,  who  had 
been  his  preceptor  in  New  York,  still  later  being 
a  partner  of  Justin  Butterfield  under  the  firm 
name  of  Butterfield  &  Collins.  He  was  con- 
sidered an  eminent  authority  in  law  and  gained 
an  extensive  practice,  being  regarded  as  espe- 
cially strong  in  chancery  cases  as  well  as  an  able 
pleader.  Politically,  he  was  an  uncompromising 
anti-slavery  man,  and  often  aided  runaway 
slaves  in  securing  their  liberty  or  defended  others 
who  did  so.  He  was  also  one  of  the  original 
promoters  of  the  old  Galena  &  Chicago  Union 
Railroad  and  one  of  its  first  Board  of  Directors. 
Died,  suddenly  of  cholera,  while  attending  court 
at  Ottawa,  in  1854. 

COLLINS,  Loren  C.,  jurist,  was  born  at  Wind- 
sor, Conn.,  August  1,  1848;  at  the  age  of  18 
accompanied  his  family  to  Illinois,  and  was 
educated  at  the  Northwestern  University.  He 
read  law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  soon 
built  up  a  remunerative  practice.  He  was 
elected  to  the  Legislature  in  1878,  and  through 
his  ability  as  a  debater  and  a  parliamentarian, 
soon  became  one  of  the  leaders  of  his  party  on 
the  floor  of  the  lower  house.  He  was  re-elected 
in  1880  and  1882,  and,  in  1883,  was  chosen  Speaker 
of  the  Thirty-third  General  Assembly.  In 
December,  1884,  he  was  appointed  a  Judge  of  the 
Circuit  Court  of  Cook  County,  to  fill  the  vacancy 
created  by  the  resignation  of  Judge  Barnum,  was 
elected  to  succeed  himself  in  1885,  and  re-elected 
in  1891,  but  resigned  in  1894,  since  that  time 
devoting  his  attention  to  regular  practice  in  the 
city  of  Chicago. 

COLLINS,  William  H.,  retired  manufacturer, 
born  at  Collinsville,  111.,  March  20,  1831;  was 
educated  in  the  common  schools  and  at  Illinois 
College,  later  taking  a  course  in  literature, 
philosophy  and  theology  at  Yale  College ;  served 
as  pastor  of  a  Congregational  church  at  La  Salle 
several  years;  in  1858,  became  editor  and  propri- 
etor of  "The  Jacksonville  Journal,"  which  he 


conducted  some  four  years.  The  Civil  War  hav- 
ing begun,  he  then  accepted  the  chaplaincy  of 
the  Tenth  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers,  but 
resigning  in  1803.  organized  a  company  of  the 
One  Hundred  and  Fourth  Volunteers,  of  whicli 
he  was  chosen  Captain,  participating  in  the 
battles  of  Chickamauga,  Lookout  Mountain  and 
Missionary  Ridge.  Later  he  served  on  the  staff 
of  Gen.  John  M.  Palmer  and  at  Fourteenth  Army 
Corps  headquarters,  until  after  the  fall  of 
Atlanta.  Then  resigning,  in  November,  1864,  he 
was  appointed  by  Secretary  Stanton  Provost- 
Marshal  for  the  Twelfth  District  of  Illinois,  con- 
tinuing in  this  service  until  the  close  of  1865, 
when  he  engaged  in  the  manufacturing  business 
as  head  of  the  Collins  Plow  Company  at  Quincy. 
This  business  he  conducted  successfully  some 
twenty-five  years,  when  he  retired.  Mr.  Collins 
has  served  as  Alderman  and  Mayor,  ad  interim, 
of  the  city  of  Quincy;  Representative  in  the 
Thirty-fourth  and  Thirty-fifth  General  Assem- 
blies— during  the  latter  being  chosen  to  deliver 
the  eulogy  on  Gen.  John  A.  Logan ;  was  a  promi- 
nent candidate  for  the  nomination  for  Lieutenant 
Governor  in  1888,  and  the  same  year  Republican 
candidate  for  Congress  in  the  Quincy  District; 
in  1894,  was  the  Republican  nominee  for  State 
Senator  in  Adams  County,  and,  though  a  Repub- 
lican, was  twice  elected  Supervisor  in  a  strongly 
Democratic  city.  Died  July  29,  1910: 

COLLINSVILLE,  a  city  on  the  southern  border 
of  Madison  County,  13  miles  (by  rail)  east-north- 
east of  St.  Louis,  on  the  "Vandalia  Line"  (T.  H. 
&  I.  Ry.),  about  11  miles  south  of  Edwardsville. 
The  place  was  originally  settled  in  1817  by  four 
brothers  named  Collins  from  Litchfield,  Conn., 
who  established  a  tan-yard  and  erected  an  ox-mill 
for  grinding  corn  and  wheat  and  sawing  lumber 
The  town  was  platted  by  surviving  members  of 
this  family  in  1836.  Coal-mining  is  the  principal 
industry,  and  one  or  two  mines  are  operated 
within  the  corporate  limits.  The  city  has  zinc 
works,  as  well  as  flour  mills  and  brick  and  tile 
factories,  two  building  and  loan  associations,  a 
lead  smelter,  stock  bell  factory,  electric  street 
railways,  seven  churches,  two  banks,  a  high 
school,  and  a  newspaper  office.  Population 
(1890),  3,498;  (1900),  4,021;  (1910),  7,478. 

COLLYER,  Robert,  clergyman,  was  born  at 
Keighly,  Yorkshire,  England,  Dec.  8,  1823;  left 
school  at  eight  years  of  age  to  earn  his  living  in 
a  factory ;  at  fourteen  was  apprenticed  to  a  black- 
smith and  learned  the  trade  of  a  hammer-maker. 
His  only  opportunity  of  acquiring  an  education 
during  this  period,  apart  from  private  study,  was 


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in  a  night-school,  which  he  attended  two  winters. 
In  1849  he  became  a  local  Methodist  preacher, 
came  to  the  United  States  the  next  year,  settling 
in  Pennsylvania,  where  he  pursued  his  trade, 
preaching  on  Sundays.  His  views  on  the  atone- 
ment having  gradually  been  changed  towards 
Unitarianism,  his  license  to  preach  was  revoked 
by  the  conference,  and,  in  1859,  he  united  with 
the  Unitarian  Church,  having  already  won  a 
wide  reputation  as  an  eloquent  public  speaker. 
Coming  to  Chicago,  he  began  work  as  a  mission- 
ary, and,  in  1860,  organized  the  Unity  Church, 
beginning  with  seven  members,  though  it  has 
since  become  one  of  the  strongest  and  most  influ- 
ential churches  in  the  city.  In  1879  he  accepted 
a  call  to  a  church  in  New  York  City,  where  he 
still  remains.  Of  strong  anti-slavery  views  and 
a  zealous  Unionist,  he  served  during  a  part  of  the 
Civil  War  as  a  camp  inspector  for  the  Sanitary 
Commission.  Since  the  war  he  has  repeatedly 
visited  England,  and  has  exerted  a  wide  influence 
as  a  lecturer  and  pulpit  orator  on  both  sides  of 
the  Atlantic.  He  is  the  author  of  a  number  of 
volumes,  including  "Nature  and  Life"  (1866); 
"A  Man  in  Earnest :  Life  of  A.  H.  Conant"  (1868) ; 
"A  History  of  the  Town  and  Parish  of  likely" 
(1886) ,  and  "Lectures  to  Young  Men  and  Women" 
(1886). 

COLTON,  Chauncey  Sill,  pioneer,  was  born  at 
Springfield,  Pa.,  Sept.  31,  1800;  taken  to  Massachu- 
setts in  childhood  and  educated  at  Monson  in  that 
State,  afterwards  residing  for  many  years,  dur- 
ing his  manhood,  at  Monson,  Maine.  He  came  to 
Illinois  in  1836,  locating  on  the  site  of  the  present 
city  of  Galesburg,  where  he  built  the  first  store 
and  dwelling  house;  continued  in  general  mer- 
chandise some  seventeen  or  eighteen  years,  mean- 
while associating  his  sons  with  him  in  business 
under  the  firm  name  of  C.  S.  Colton  &  Sons.  Mr. 
Colton  was  associated  with  the  construction  of 
the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  from 
the  beginning,  becoming  one  of  the  Directors  of 
the  Company;  was  also  a  Director  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Galesburg,  the  first  organizer 
and  first  President  of  the  Farmers'  and  Mechan- 
ics' Bank  of  that  city,  and  one  of  the  Trustees  of 
Knox  College.  Died  in  Galesburg,  July  27,  1885. 
— Francis  (Colton),  son  of  the  preceding;  born 
at  Monson,  Maine,  May  24,  1834,  came  to  Gales- 
burg with  his  father's  family  in  1836,  and  -.<-as 
educated  at  Knox  College,  graduating  in  1855, 
and  receiving  the  degree  of  A.M  in  1858.  After 
graduation,  he  was  in  partnership  with  his  father 
some  seven  years,  also  served  as  Vice-President 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Galesburg,  and,  in 


1866,  was  appointed  by  President  Johnson  United 
States  Consul  at  Venice,  remaining  there  until 
1869.  The  latter  year  he  became  the  General 
Passenger  Agent  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad, 
continuing  in  that  position  until  1871,  meantime 
visiting  China,  Japan  and  India,  and  establishing 
agencies  for  the  Union  and  Central  Pacific  Rail- 
ways in  various  countries  of  Europe.  In  1872  he 
succeeded  his  father  as  President  of  the  Farmers' 
and  Mechanics'  Bank  of  Galesburg,  but  retired  in 
1884,  and  the  same  year  removed  to  Washington, 
D.  C.,  where  he  has  since  resided.  Mr.  Colton  is 
a  large  land  owner  in  some  of  the  Western  States, 
especially  Kansas  and  Nebraska. 

COLUMBIA,  a  town  of  Monroe  County,  on 
Mobile  &  Ohio  Railroad,  15  miles  south  of  St. 
Louis;  has  a  machine  shop,  large  flour  mill, 
brewery,  five  cigar  factories,  electric  light  plant, 
telephone  system,  stone  quarry,  five  churches, 
and  public  school.  Pop.  (1900),  1,197;  (1910),  2,076. 

COMPANY  OF  THE  WEST,  THE,  a  company 
formed  in  France,  in  August,  1717,  to  develop 
the  resources  of  "New  France,"  in  which  the 
"Illinois  Country"  was  at  that  time  included. 
At  the  head  of  the  company  was  the  celebrated 
John  Law,  and  to  him  and  his  associates  the 
French  monarch  granted  extraordinary  powers, 
both  governmental  and  commercial.  They  were 
given  the  exclusive  right  to  refine  the  precious 
metals,  as  well  as  a  monopoly  in  the  trade  in 
tobacco  and  slaves.  Later,  the  company  became 
known  as  the  Indies,  or  East  Indies,  Company, 
owing  to  the  king  having  granted  them  conces- 
sions to  trade  with  the  East  Indies  and  China. 
On  Sept.  27,  1717,  the  Royal  Council  of  France 
declared  that  the  Illinois  Country  should  form  a 
part  of  the  Province  of  Louisiana;  and,  under  the 
shrewd  management  of  Law  and  his  associates, 
immigration  soon  increased,  as  many  as  800 
settlers  arriving  in  a  single  year.  The  directors 
of  the  company,  in  the  exercise  of  their  govern- 
mental powers,  appointed  Pierre  Duque  de  Bois- 
briant  Governor  of  the  Illinois  District.  He 
proceeded  to  Kaskaskia,  and,  within  a  few  miles 
of  that  settlement,  erected  Fort  Chartres.  (See 
Fort  Chartres. )  The  policy  of  the  Indies  Company 
was  energetic,  and,  in  the  main,  wise.  Grants  of 
commons  were  made  to  various  French  villages, 
and  Cahokia  and  Kaskaskia  steadily  grew  in  size 
and  population.  Permanent  settlers  were  given 
grants  of  land  and  agriculture  was  encouraged. 
These  grants  (which  were  allodial  in  their  char- 
acter) covered  nearly  all  the  lands  in  that  part  of 
the  American  Bottom,  lying  between  the  Missis- 
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held  their  lands  in  one  great  common  field,  each 
proprietor  contributing,  pro  rata,  to  the  mainte* 
nance  of  a  surrounding  fence.  In  1721  the  Indies 
Company  divided  the  Province  of  Louisiana  into 
nine  civil  and  military  districts.  That  of  Illinois 
was  numerically  the  Seventh,  and  included  not 
only  the  southern  half  of  the  existing  State,  but 
also  an  immense  tract  west  of  the  Mississippi, 
extending  to  the  Rocky  Mountains,  and  embrac- 
ing the  present  States  of  Missouri,  Kansas,  Iowa 
and  Nebraska,  besides  portions  of  Arkansas  and 
Colorado.  The  Commandant,  with  his  secretary 
and  the  Company's  Commissary,  formed  the 
District  Council,  the  civil  law  being  in  force.  In 
1732,  the  Indies  Company  surrendered  its  charter, 
and  thereafter,  the  Governors  of  Illinois  were 
appointed  directly  by  the  French  crown. 

CONCORDIA  SEMINARY,  an  institution  lo- 
cated at  Springfield,  founded  in  1874 ;  the  succes- 
sor of  an  earlier  institution  under  the  name  of 
Illinois  University.  Theological,  scientific  and 
preparatory  departments  are  maintained,  al- 
though there  is  no  classical  course.  The  insti- 
tution is  under  control  of  the  German  Lutherans. 
The  institution  reports  $125,000  worth  of  real 
property.  The  members  of  the  Faculty  (1898) 
are  five  in  number,  and  there  were  about  171 
students  in  attendance. 

CONDEE,  Leander  D.,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Athens  County,  Ohio,  Sept.  26,  1847;  brought 
by  his  parents  to  Coles  County,  111.,  at  the  age  of 
seven  years,  and  received  his  education  in  the 
common  schools  and  at  St.  Paul's  Academy,  Kan- 
kakee,  taking  a  special  course  in  Michigan  State 
University  and  graduating  from  the  law  depart- 
ment of  the  latter  in  1868.  He  then  began  prac- 
tice at  Butler,  Bates  County,  Mo.,  where  he 
served  three  years  as  City  Attorney,  but,  in  1873, 
returned  to  Illinois,  locating  in  Hyde  Park  (now 
a  part  of  Chicago),  where  he  served  as  City 
Attorney  for  four  consecutive  terms  before  its 
annexation  to  Chicago.  In  1880,  he  was  elected 
as  a  Republican  to  the  State  Senate  for  the 
Second  Senatorial  District,  serving  in  the  Thirty- 
second  and  the  Thirty-third  General  Assemblies. 
In  1892,  he  was  the  Republican  nominee  for  Judge 
of  the  Superior  Court  of  Cook  County,  but  was 
defeated  with  the  National  and  the  State  tickets 
of  that  year,  since  when  he  has  given  his  atten- 
tion to  regular  practice,  maintaining  a  high  rank 
in  his  profession. 

COXGER,  Edwin  Kurd,  lawyer  and  diploma- 
tist, was  born  in  Knox  County,  111.,  March 7, 1843; 
graduated  at  Lombard  University,  Galesburg,  in 
1865.  and  immediately  thereafter  enlisted  as  a 


private  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Second  Illinois 
Volunteers,  serving  through  the  war  and  attain- 
ing the  rank  of  Captain,  besides  being  brevetted 
Major  for  gallant  service.  Later,  he  graduated 
from  the  Albany  Law  School  and  practiced  for  a 
time  in  Galesburg,  but,  in  1868,  removed  to  Iowa, 
where  he  engaged  in  farming,  stock-raising  and 
banking ;  was  twice  elected  County  Treasurer  of 
Dallas  County,  and,  in  1880,  State  Treasurer, 
being  re-elected  in  1882;  in  1886,  was  elected  to 
Congress  from  the  Des  Moines  District,  and  twice 
re-elected  (1888  and  '90),  but  before  the  close  of 
his  last  term  was  appointed  by  President  Harri- 
son Minister  to  Brazil,  serving  until  1893.  In 
1896,  he  served  as  Presidential  Elector  for  the 
State-at-large,  and,  in  1897,  was  re-appointed 
Minister  to  Brazil,  but,  in  1898,  was  transferred 
to  China,  where  (1899)  he  now  is.  He  was  suc- 
ceeded at  Rio  Janeiro  by  Charles  Page  Bryan  of 
Illinois.  Died  March  18,  1907. 

CONGREGATIONALISTS,  THE.  Two  Congre- 
gational ministers  —  Rev.  S.  J.  Mills  and  Rev. 
Daniel  Smith — visited  Illinois  in  1814,  and  spent 
some  time  at  Kaskaskia  and  Shawneetown,  but 
left  for  New  Orleans  without  organizing  any 
churches.  The  first  church  was  organized  at 
Mendon,  Adams  County,  in  1833,  followed  bj 
others  during  the  same  year,  at  Naperville,  Jack- 
sonville and  Quincy.  By  1836,  the  number  had 
increased  to  ten.  Among  the  pioneer  ministers 
were  Jabez  Porter,  who  was  also  a  teacher  at 
Quincy,  in  1828,  and  Rev.  Asa  Turner,  in  1830, 
who  became  pastor  of  the  first  Quincy  church, 
followed  later  by  Revs.  Julian  M.  Sturtevant 
(afterwards  President  of  Illinois  College),  Tru- 
man M.  Post,  Edward  Beecher  and  Horatio  Foci. 
Other  Congregational  ministers  who  came  to  t^e 
State  at  an  early  day  were  Rev.  Salmon  Gridley, 
who  finally  located  at  St.  Louis;  Rev.  John  M. 
Ellis,  who  served  as  a  missionary  and  was  instru- 
mental in  founding  Illinois  College  and  the  Jack- 
sonville Female  Seminary  at  Jacksonville;  Revs. 
Thomas  Lippincott,  Cyrus  L.  Watson,  Theron 
Baldwin,  Elisha  Jenney,  William  Kirby,  the  two 
Lovejoys  (Owen  and  Elijah  P.),  and  many  more 
of  whom,  either  temporarily  or  permanently, 
became  associated  with  Presbyterian  churches. 
Although  Illinois  College  was  under  the  united 
patronage  of  Presbyterians  and  Congregational- 
ists,  the  leading  spirits  in  its  original  establish- 
ment were  Congregationalists,  and  the  same  was 
true  of  Knox  College  at  Galesburg.  In  1835,  at 
Big  Grove,  in  an  unoccupied  log-cabin,  was 
convened  the  first  Congregational  Council,  known 
in  the  denominational  history  of  the  State  as 


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that  of  Fox  River.  Since  then  some  twelve  to 
fifteen  separate  Associations  have  been  organized. 
By  1890,  the  development  of  the  denomination 
had  been  such  that  it  had  280  churches,  support- 
ing 312  ministers,  with  33, 126  members.  During 
that  year  the  disbursements  on  account  of  chari- 
ties and  home  extension,  by  the  Illinois  churches, 
were  nearly  $1,000,000.  The  Chicago  Theological 
Seminary,  at  Chicago,  is  a  Congregational  school 
of  divinity,  its  property  holdings  being  worth 
nearly  5700,000.  "The  Advance"  (published  at 
Chicago)  is  the  chief  denominational  organ. 
(See  also  Religious  Denominations.) 

CONGRESSIONAL  APPORTIONMENT.  (See 
Apportionment,  Congressional;  also  Represent- 
atives in  Congress. ) 

CONKLING,  James  Cook,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  Oct.  13, 1816 ;  graduated  at  Prince- 
ton College  in  1835,  and,  after  studying  law  and 
being  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Morristown,  N.  J. ,  in 
1838,  removed  to  Springfield,  111.  Here  his  first 
business  partner  was  Cyrus  Walker,  an  eminent 
and  widely  known  lawyer  of  his  time,  while  at  a 
later  period  he  was  associated  with  Gen.  James 
Shields,  afterwards  a  soldier  of  the  Mexican  War 
and  a  United  States  Senator,  at  different  times, 
from  three  different  States.  As  an  original 
Whig,  Mr.  Conkling  early  became  associated 
with  Abraham  Lincoln,  whose  intimate  and 
trusted  friend  he  was  through  life.  It  was  to 
him  that  Mr.  Lincoln  addressed  his  celebrated 
letter,  which,  by  his  special  request,  Mr.  Conk- 
ling  read  before  the  great  Union  mass-meeting  at 
Springfield,  held,  Sept.  3,  1863,  now  known  as  the 
"Lincoln-Conkling  Letter."  Mr.  Conkling  was 
chosen  Mayor  of  the  city  of  Springfield  in  1844, 
and  served  in  the  lower  branch  of  the  Seven- 
teenth and  the  Twenty-fifth  General  Assemblies 
(1851  and  1867).  It  was  largely  due  to  his  tactful 
management  in  the  latter,  that  the  first  appropri- 
ation was  made  for  the  new  State  House,  which 
established  the  capital  permanently  in  that  city. 
At  the  Bloomington  Convention  of  1856,  where 
the  Republican  party  in  Illinois  may  be  said  to 
have  been  formally  organized,  with  Mr.  Lincoln 
and  three  others,  lie  represented  Sangamon 
County,  served  on  the  Committee  on  Resolutions, 
and  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  State  Central 
Committee  which  conducted  the  campaign  of 
that  year.  In  1860,  and  again  in  1864,  his  name 
was  on  the  Republican  State  ticket  for  Presiden- 
tial Elector,  and,  on  both  occasions,  it  became  his 
duty  to  cast  the  electoral  vote  of  Mr.  Lincoln's 
own  District  for  him  for  President.  The  intimacy 
of  personal  friendship  existing  between  him  and 


Mr.  Lincom  was  fittingly  illustrated  by  his  posi- 
tion for  over  thirty  years  as  an  original  member 
of  the  Lincoln  Monument  Association.  Other 
public  positions  held  by  him  included  those  of 
State  Agent  during  the  Civil  War  by  appointment 
of  Governor  Yates,  Trustee  of  the  State  University 
at  Champaign,  and  of  Blackburn  University  at 
Carlinville,  as  also  that  of  Postmaster  of  the  city 
of  Springfield,  to  which  he  was  appointed  in  1890, 
continuing  in  office  four  years.  High-minded 
and  honorable,  of  pure  personal  character  and 
strong  religious  convictions,  public-spirited  and 
liberal,  probably  no  man  did  more  to  promote 
the  growth  and  prosperity  of  the  city  of  Spring- 
field, during  the  sixty  years  of  his  residence  there, 
than  he.  His  death,  as  a  result  of  old  age, 
occurred  in  that  city,  March  1,  1899. — Clinton  L. 
(Conkling),  son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  in 
Springfield,  Oct.  16,  1843;  graduated  at  Yale 
College  in  1864,  studied  law  with  his  father,  and 
was  licensed  to  practice  in  the  Illinois  courts  in 
1866,  and  in  the  United  States  courts  in  1867. 
After  practicing  a  few  years,  he  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  manufacturing,  but,  in  1877,  resumed 
practice  and  has  proved  successful.  He  has 
devoted  much  attention  of  late  years  to  real 
estate  business,  and  has  represented  large  land 
interests  in  this  and  other  States.  For  many 
years  he  was  Secretary  of  the  Lincoln  Monument 
Association,  and  has  served  on  the  Board  of 
County  Supervisors,  which  is  the  only  political 
office  he  has  held.  In  1897  he  was  the  Repub- 
lican nominee  for  Judge  of  the  Springfield  Cir- 
cuit, but,  although  confessedly  a  man  of  the 
highest  probity  and  ability,  was  defeated  in  a 
district  overwhelmingly  Democratic. 

CONNOLLY,  James  Austin,  lawyer  and  Con- 
gressman, was  born  in  Newark,  N.  J.,  March  8, 
1842;  went  with  his  parents  to  Ohio  in  1850, 
where,  in  1858-59,  he  served  as  Assistant  Clerk  of 
the  State  Senate ;  studied  law  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  that  State  in  1861,  and  soon  after 
removed  to  Illinois;  the  following  year  (1862)  he 
enlisted  as  a  private  soldier  in  the  One  Hundred 
and  Twenty-third  Illinois  Volunteers,  but  was 
successively  commissioned  as  Captain  and  Major, 
retiring  with  the  rank  of  brevet  Lieutenant- 
Colonel.  In  1872  he  was  elected  Representative 
in  the  State  Legislature  from  Coles  County  and 
re-elected  in  1874;  was  United  States  District 
Attorney  for  the  Southern  District  of  Illinois 
from  1876  to  1885,  and  again  from  1889  to  1893 ; 
in  1886  was  appointed  and  confirmed  Solicitor  of 
the  Treasury,  but  declined  the  office;  the  same 
year  ran  as  the  Republican  candidate  for  Con- 


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gress  in  the  Springfield  (then  the  Thirteenth) 
District  in  opposition  to  Wm.  M.  Springer,  and 
was  defeated  by  less  than  1,000  votes  in  a  district 
usually  Democratic  by  3,000  majority.  He 
declined  a  second  nomination  in  1888,  but,  in  1894, 
was  nominated  for  a  third  time  (this  time  for  the 
Seventeenth  District),  and  was  elected,  as  he  was 
for  a  second  term  in  1896.  He  declined  a  renomina- 
tion  in  1898,  returning  to  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession at  Springfield  at  the  close  of  the  Fifty-fifth 
Congress. 

CONSTABLE,  Charles  H.,  lawyer,  was  born  at 
Chestertown,  Md.,July  6,  1817;  educated  at  Belle 
Air  Academy  and  the  University  of  Virginia, 
graduating  from  the  latter  in  1838.  Then,  having 
studied  law,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  came  to 
Illinois  early  in  1840,  locating  at  Mount  Carmel, 
Wabash  County,  and,  in  1844,  was  elected  to  the 
State  Senate  for  the  district  composed  of  Wabash, 
Edwards  and  Wayne  Counties,  serving  until  1848. 
He  also  served  as  a  Delegate  in  the  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1847.  Originally  a  Whig,  on  the 
dissolution  of  that  party  in  1854,  he  became  a 
Democrat;  in  1856,  served  as  Presidential 
Elector-at-large  on  the  Buchanan  ticket  and, 
during  the  Civil  War,  was  a  pronounced  oppo- 
nent of  the  policy  of  the  Government  in  dealing 
with  secession.  Having  removed  to  Marshall, 
Clark  County,  in  1852,  he  continued  the  practice 
of  his  profession  there,  but  was  elected  Judge  of 
the  Circuit  Court  in  1861,  serving  until  his  death, 
which  occurred,  Oct.  9,  1865.  While  holding 
court  at  Charleston,  in  March,  1863,  Judge  Con- 
stable was  arrested  because  of  his  release  of  four 
deserters  from  the  army,  and  the  holding  to  bail, 
on  the  charge  of  kidnaping,  of  two  Union  officers 
who  had  arrested  them.  He  was  subsequently 
released  by  Judge  Treat  of  the  United  States 
District  Court  at  Springfield,  but  the  affair  cul- 
minated in  a  riot  at  Charleston,  on  March  22,  in 
which  four  soldiers  and  three  citizens  were  killed 
outright,  and  eight  persons  were  wounded. 

CONSTITUTIONAL  CONVENTIONS.  Illinois 
has  had  four  State  Conventions  called  for  the 
purpose  of  formulating  State  Constitutions.  Of 
these,  three— those  of  1818,  1847  and  1869-70— 
adopted  Constitutions  which  went  into  effect, 
while  the  instrument  framed  by  the  Convention 
of  1862  was  rejected  by  the  people.  A  synoptical 
history  of  each  will  be  found  below: 

CONVENTION  OP  1818.— In  January,  1818,  the 
Territorial  Legislature  adopted  a  resolution 
instructing  the  Delegate  in  Congress  (Hon. 
Nathaniel  Pope)  to  present  a  petition  to  Congress 
requesting  the  passage  of  an  act  authorizing  the 


people  of  Illinois  Territory  to  organize  a  State 
Government.  A  bill  to  this  effect  was  intro- 
duced, April  7,  and  became  a  law,  April  18,  follow- 
ing. It  authorized  the  people  to  frame  a 
Constitution  and  organize  a  State  Government — 
apportioning  the  Delegates  to  be  elected  from 
each  of  the  fifteen  counties  into  which  the  Ter- 
ritory was  then  divided,  naming  the  first  Monday 
of  July,  following,  as  the  day  of  election,  and  the 
first  Monday  of  August  as  the  time  for  the  meet- 
ing of  the  Convention.  The  act  was  conditioned 
upon  a  census  of  the  people  of  the  Territory  (to 
be  ordered  by  the  Legislature),  showing  a  popu- 
lation of  not  less  than  40,000.  The  census,  as 
taken,  showed  the  required  population,  but,  as 
finally  corrected,  this  was  reduced  to  34,620 — 
being  the  smallest  with  which  any  State  was  ever 
admitted  into  the  Union.  The  election  took 
place  on  July  6,  1818,  and  the  Convention  assem- 
bled at  Kaskaskia  on  August  3.  It  consisted  of 
thirty-three  members.  Of  these,  a  majority  were 
farmers  of  limited  education,  but  with  a  fair 
portion  of  hard  common-sense.  Five  of  the 
Delegates  were  lawyers,  and  these  undoubtedly 
wielded  a  controlling  influence.  Jesse  B. 
Thomas  (afterwards  one  of  the  first  United 
States  Senators)  presided,  and  Elias  Kent  Kane, 
also  a  later  Senator,  was  among  the  dominating 
spirits.  It  has  been  asserted  that  to  the  latter 
should  be  ascribed  whatever  new  matter  was 
incorporated  in  the  instrument,  it  being  copied 
in  most  of  its  essential  provisions  from  the  Con- 
stitutions of  Ohio,  Kentucky  and  Indiana.  The 
Convention  completed  its  labors  and  adjourned, 
August  26,  the  Constitution  was  submitted  to 
Congress  by  Delegate  John  McLean,  without  the 
formality  of  ratification  by  the  people,  and  Illi- 
nois was  admitted  into  the  Union  as  a  State  by 
resolution  of  Congress,  adopted  Dec.  3,  1818. 

CONVENTION  OF  1847. — An  attempt  was  made  in 
1822  to  obtain  a  revision  of  the  Constitution  of 
1818,  the  object  of  the  chief  promoters  of  the 
movement  being  to  secure  the  incorporation  of  a 
provision  authorizing  the  admission  of  slavery 
into  Illinois.  The  passage  of  a  resolution,  by  the 
necessary  two-thirds  vote  of  both  Houses  of  the 
General  Assembly,  submitting  the  proposition  to 
a  vote  of  the  people,  was  secured  by  the  most 
questionable  methods,  at  the  session  of  1822,  but 
after  a  heated  campaign  of  nearly  two  years,  it 
was  rejected  at  the  election  of  1824.  (See 
Slavery  and  Slave  Laws;  also  Coles,  Edward.) 
At  the  session  of  1840-41,  another  resolution  on 
the  subject  was  submitted  to  the  people,  but  it 
was  rejected  by  the  narrow  margin  of  1,039 


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votes.  Again,  in  1845,  the  question  was  submit- 
ted, and,  at  the  election  of  184C,  was  approved. 
The  election  of  delegates  occurred,  April  19,  1847, 
and  the  Convention  met  at  Springfield,  June  19, 
following.  It  was  composed  of  162  members, 
ninety-two  of  whom  were  Democrats.  The  list 
of  Delegates  embraced  the  names  of  many  who 
afterwards  attained  high  distinction  in  public 
affairs,  and  the  body,  as  a  whole,  was  represent- 
ative in  character.  The  Bill  of  Rights  attached 
to  the  Constitution  of  1818  was  but  little  changed 
in  its  successor,  except  by  a  few  additions, 
among  which  was  a  section  disqualifying  any 
person  who  had  been  concerned  in  a  duel  from 
holding  office.  The  earlier  Constitution,  how- 
ever, was  carefully  revised  and  several  important 
changes  made.  Among  these  may  be  mentioned 
the  following:  Limiting  the  elective  franchise 
for  foreign-born  citizens  to  those  who  had 
become  naturalized ;  making  the  judiciary  elect- 
ive; requiring  that  all  State  officers  be  elected 
by  the  people ;  changing  the  time  of  the  election 
of  the  Executive,  and  making  him  ineligible  for 
immediate  re-election;  various  curtailments  of 
the  power  of  the  Legislature;  imposing  a  two- 
mill  tax  for  payment  of  the  State  debt,  and  pro- 
viding for  the  establishment  of  a  sinking  fund. 
The  Constitution  framed  was  adopted  in  conven- 
tion, August  31,  1847;  ratified  by  popular  vote, 
March  6,  1848,  and  went  into  effect,  April  1,  1848. 
CONVENTION  OF  1862.  —  The  proposition  for 
holding  a  third  Constitutional  Convention  was 
submitted  to  vote  of  the  people  by  the  Legislature 
of  1859,  endorsed  at  the  election  of  1860,  and  the 
election  of  Delegates  held  in  November,  1861.  In 
the  excitement  attendant  upon  the  early  events 
of  the  war,  people  paid  comparatively  little 
attention  to  the  choice  of  its  members.  It  was 
composed  of  forty-five  Democrats,  twenty-one 
Republicans,  seven  "fusionists"  and  two  classed 
as  doubtful.  The  Convention  assembled  at 
Springfield  on  Jan.  7,  1862,  and  remained  in  ses- 
sion until  March  24,  following.  It  was  in  many 
respects  a  remarkable  body.  The  law  providing 
for  its  existence  prescribed  that  the  members, 
before  proceeding  to  business,  should  take  an 
oath  to  support  the  State  Constitution.  This  the 
majority  .refused  to  do.  Their  conception  of 
their  powers  was  such  that  they  seriously  deliber- 
ated upon  electing  a  United  States  Senator, 
assumed  to  make  appropriations  from  the  State 
treasury,  claimed  the  right  to  interfere  with 
military  affairs,  anil  called  upon  the  Governor 
for  information  concerning  claims  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad,  which  the  Executive  refused  to 


lay  before  them.  The  instrument  drafted  pro- 
posed numerous  important  changes  in  the  organic 
law,  and  was  generally  regarded  as  objectionable. 
It  was  rejected  at  an  election  held,  June  17,  1862, 
by  a  majority  of  over  16,000  votes. 

CONVENTION  OF  1869-70. — The  second  attempt 
to  revise  the  Constitution  of  1848  resulted  in 
submission  to  the  people,  by  the  Legislature  of 
1867,  of  a  proposition  for  a  Convention,  which  was 
approved  at  the  election  of  1868  by  a  bare  major- 
ity of  704  votes.  The  election  of  Delegates  was 
provided  for  at  the  next  session  (1869),  the  elec- 
tion held  in  November  and  the  Convention 
assembled  at  Springfield,  Dec.  13.  Charles 
Hitchcock  was  chosen  President,  John  Q.  Har- 
mon, Secretary,  and  Daniel  Shepard  and  A.  H. 
Swain,  First  and  Second  Assistants.  There  were 
eighty-five  members,  of  whom  forty-four  were 
Republicans  and  forty-one  Democrats,  although 
fifteen  had  been  elected  nominally  as  "Independ- 
ents." It  was  an  assemblage  of  some  of  the 
ablest  men  of  the  State,  including  representatives 
of  all  the  learned  professions  except  the  clerical, 
besides  merchants,  farmers,  bankers  and  journal- 
ists. Its  work  was  completed  May  13,  1870,  and 
in  the  main  good.  Some  of  the  principal  changes 
made  in  the  fundamental  law,  as  proposed  by  the 
Convention,  were  the  following:  The  prohibi- 
tion of  special  legislation  where  a  general  la\v 
may  be  made  to  cover  the  necessities  of  the  case, 
and  the  absolute  prohibition  of  such  legislation 
in  reference  to  divorces,  lotteries  and  a  score  of 
other  matters ;  prohibition  of  the  passage  of  any 
law  releasing  any  civil  division  (district,  county, 
city,  township  or  town)  from  the  payment  of  its 
just  proportion  of  any  State  tax;  recommenda- 
tions to  the  Legislature  to  enact  laws  upon 
certain  specified  subjects,  such  as  liberal  home- 
stead and  exemption  rights,  the  construction  of 
drains,  the  regulation  of  charges  on  railways 
(which  were  declared  to  be  public  highways), 
etc.,  etc. ;  declaring  all  elevators  and  storehouses 
public  warehouses,  and  providing  for  their  legis- 
lative inspection  and  supervision.  The  mainte 
nance  of  an  "efficient  system  of  public  schools" 
was  made  obligatory  upon  the  Legislature,  and 
the  appropriation  of  any  funds — State,  municipal, 
town  or  district  —  to  the  support  of  sectarian 
schools  was  prohibited.  The  principle  of  cumu- 
lative voting,  or  "minority  representation,"  in 
the  choice  of  members  of  the  House  of  Represent- 
atives was  provided  for.  and  additional  safe 
guards  thrown  around  the  passage  of  bills.  The 
ineligibility  of  the  Governor  to  re-election  for  a 
second  consecutive  term  was  set  aside,  and  a 


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two-thirds  vote  of  the  Legislature  made  necessary 
to  override  an  executive  veto.  The  list  of  State 
officers  was  increased  by  the  creation  of  the 
offices  of  Attorney-General  and  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction,  these  having  been  previ- 
ously provided  for  only  by  statute.  The  Supreme 
Court  bench  was  increased  by  the  addition  of 
four  members,  making  the  whole  number  of 
Supreme  Court  judges  seven;  Appellate  Courts 
authorized  after  1874,  and  County  Courts  were 
made  courts  of  record.  The  compensation  of  all 
State  officers — executive,  judicial  and  legislative 
— was  left  discretionary  with  the  Legislature, 
and  no  limit  was  placed  upon  the  length  of  the 
sessions  of  the  General  Assembly.  The  instru- 
ment drafted  by  the  Convention  was  ratified  at 
an  election  held,  July  6, 1870,  and  went  into  force, 
August  8,  following.  Occasional  amendments 
have  been  submitted  and  ratified  from  time  to 
time.  (See  Constitutions,  Elections  and  Repre- 
sentation; also  Minority  Representation. ) 

CONSTITUTIONS.  Illinois  has  had  three  con- 
stitutions— that  of  1870  being  now  (1898)  in  force. 
The  earliest  instrument  was  that  approved  by 
Congress  in  1818,  and  the  first  revision  was  made 
in  1847 — the  Constitution  having  been  ratified  at 
an  election  held,  March  5,  1848,  and  going  into 
force,  April  1,  following.  The  term  of  State 
officers  has  been  uniformly  fixed  at  four  years, 
except  that  of  Treasurer,  which  is  two  years. 
Biennial  elections  and  sessions  of  the  General 
Assembly  are  provided  for,  Senators  holding  their 
seats  for  four  years,  and  Representatives  two 
years.  The  State  is  required  to  be  apportioned 
after  each  decennial  census  into  fifty-one  dis- 
tricts, each  of  which  elects  one  Senator  and  three 
Representatives.  The  principle  of  minority  rep- 
resentation has  been  incorporated  into  the 
organic  law,  each  elector  being  allowed  to  cast  as 
many  votes  for  one  legislative  candidate  as  there 
are  Representatives  to  be  chosen  in  his  district ; 
or  he  may  divide  his  vote  equally  among  all  the 
three  candidates  or  between  two  of  tl'em,  as  he 
may  see  fit.  One  of  the  provisions  of  the  Consti- 
tution of  1870  is  the  inhibition  of  the  General 
Assembly  from  passing  private  laws.  Munici- 
palities are  classified,  and  legislation  is  for  all 
cities  of  a  class,  not  for  an  individual  corpora- 
tion. Individual  citizens  with  a  financial  griev- 
ance must  secure  payment  of  their  claims  under 
the  terms  of  some  general  appropriation.  The 
sessions  of  the  Legislature  are  not  limited  as  to 
time,  nor  is  there  any  restriction  upon  the  power 
of  the  Executive  to  summon  extra  sessions. 
(See  also  Constitutional  Conventions;  Elections; 


Governors  and  other  State  Officers;  Judicial 
System;  Suffrage,  Etc. ) 

COOK,  Burton  C.,  lawyer  and  Congressman, 
was  born  in  Monroe  County,  N.  Y.,  May  11,  1819; 
completed  his  academic  education  at  the  Collegi- 
ate Institute  in  Rochester,  and  after  studying 
law,  removed  to  Illinois  (1835),  locating  first  at 
Hennepin  and  later  at  Ottawa.  Here  he  began 
the  practice  of  his  profession,  and,  in  1846,  was 
elected  by  the  Legislature  State's  Attorney  for 
the  Ninth  Judicial  District,  serving  two  years, 
when,  in  1848,  he  was  re-elected  by  the  people 
under  the  Constitution  of  that  year,  for  four 
years.  From  1853  to  1860,  he  was  State  Senator, 
taking  part  in  the  election  which  resulted  in 
making  Lyman  Trumbull  United  States  Senator 
in  1855.  In  1861  he  served  as  one  of  the  Peace 
Commissioners  from  Illinois  in  the  Conference 
which  met  at  Washington.  He  may  be  called 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Republican  party  in 
this  State,  having  been  a  member  of  the  State 
Central  Committee  appointed  at  Bloomington  in 
1856,  and  Chairman  of  the  State  Central  Com- 
mittee in  1863.  In  1864,  he  was  elected  to  Con- 
gress, and  re-elected  in  1866,  '68  and  '70,  but 
resigned  in  1871  to  accept  the  solicitorsliip  of  the 
Northwestern  Railroad,  which  he  resigned  in 
1886.  He  was  an  intimate  friend  of  Abraham 
Lincoln,  serving  as  a  delegate  to  both  the  National 
Conventions  which  nominated  him  for  the  Presi- 
dency, and  presenting  his  name  at  Baltimore  in 
1864.  His  death  occurred  at  Evanston,  August 
18,  1894. 

COOK,  Daniel  Pope,  early  Congressman,  was 
born  in  Scott  County,  Ky.,  in  1795,  removed  to 
Illinois  and  began  the  practice  of  law  at  Kaskas- 
kia  in  1815.  Early  in  1816,  he  became  joint  owner 
and  editor  of  "The  Illinois  Intelligencer,''  and  at 
the  same  time  served  as  Auditor  of  Public 
Accounts  by  appointment  of  Governor  Edwards ; 
the  next  year  (1817)  was  sent  by  President  Mon- 
roe as  bearer  of  dispatches  to  John  Quincy  Adams, 
then  minister  to  London,  and,  on  his  return,  was 
appointed  a  Circuit  Judge.  On  the  admission  of 
the  State  he  was  elected  the  first  Attorney- 
General,  but  almost  immediately  resigned  and, 
in  September,  1819,  was  elected  to  Congress,  serv- 
ing as  Representative  until  1837.  Having  married 
a  daughter  of  Governor  Edwards,  he  became  a 
resident  of  Edwardsville.  He  was  a  conspicuous 
opponent  of  the  proposition  to  make  Illinois  a 
slave  State  in  1833-34,  and  did  much  to  prevent 
the  success  of  that  scheme.  He  also  bore  a 
prominent  part  while  in  Congress  in  securing  the 
donation  of  lands  for  the  construction  of  the 


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Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal.  He  was  distinguished 
for  his  eloquence,  and  it  was  during  his  first 
Congressional  campaign  that  stump-speaking  was 
introduced  into  the  State.  Suffering  from 
consumption,  he  visited  Cuba,  and,  after  return- 
ing to  his  home  at  Edwardsville  and  failing  to 
improve,  he  went  to  Kentucky,  where  he  died, 
Oct.  16,  1827.— John  (Cook),  soldier,  born  at 
Edwardsville,  111.,  June  12,  1825,  the  son  of 
Daniel  P.  Cook,  the  second  Congressman  from 
Illinois,  and  grandson  of  Gov.  Ninian  Edwards, 
was  educated  by  private  tutors  and  at  Illinois 
College ;  in  1855  was  elected  Mayor  of  Springfield 
and  the  following  year  Sheriff  of  Sangamon 
County,  later  serving  as  Quartermaster  of  the 
State.  Raising  a  company  promptly  after  the 
firing  on  Fort  Sumter  in  1861,  he  was  commis- 
sioned Colonel  of  the  Seventh  Illinois  Volunteers 
— the  first  regiment  organized  in  Illinois  under 
the  first  call  for  troops  by  President  Lincoln ;  was 
promoted  Brigadier-General  for  gallantry  at  Fort 
Donelson  in  March,  1862 ;  in  1864  commanded  the 
District  of  Illinois,  with  headquarters  at  Spring- 
field, being  mustered  out,  August,  1865,  with  the 
brevet  rank  of  Major-Geueral.  General  Cook  was 
elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  General  Assem- 
bly from  Sangamon  County,  in  1868.  His  last  years 
were  spent  near  Ransom,  Mich.  Died  Aug.  11,  1910. 
COOK  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  northeastern 
section  of  the  State,  bordering  on  Lake  Michigan, 
and  being  the  most  easterly  of  the  second  tier  of 
counties  south  of  the  Wisconsin  State  line.  It  has 
an  area  of  890  square  miles;  population  (KOO), 
1,838,735;  population  (1910),  2,405,233;  county-seat 
Chicago.  The  county  was  organized  in  1831,  having 
originally  embraced  the  counties  of  Du  Page,  Will, 
Lake,  McHenry  and  Iroquois,  in  addition  to  its 
present  territorial  limits.  It  was  named  in 
honor  of  Daniel  P.  Cook,  a  distinguished  Repre-. 
sentative  of  Illinois  in  Congress.  (See  Cook, 
Daniel  P.)  The  first  County  Commissioners  were 
Samuel  Miller,  Gholson  Kercheval  and  James 
Walker,  who  took  the  oath  of  office  before  Justice 
John  S.  C.  Hogan,  on  March  8,  1831.  William 
Lee  was  appointed  Clerk  and  Archibald  Clybourne 
Treasurer.  Jedediah  Wormley  was  first  County 
Surveyor,  and  three  election  districts  (Chicago, 
Du  Page  and  Hickory  Creek)  were  created.  A 
scow  ferry  was  established  across  the  South 
Branch,  with  Mark  Beaubien  as  ferryman.  Only 
non-residents  were  required  to  pay  toll.  Geolo- 
gists are  of  the  opinion  that,  previous  to  the 
glacial  epoch,  a  large  portion  of  the  county  lay 
under  the  waters  of  Lake  Michigan,  which  was 
connected  with  the  Mississippi  by  the  Des  Plaines 


River.  This  theory  is  borne  out  by  the  finding 
of  stratified  beds  of  coal  and  gravel  in  the  eastern 
and  southern  portions  of  the  county,  either  under- 
lying the  prairies  or  assuming  the  form  of  ridges. 
The  latter,  geologists  maintain,  indicate  the  exist- 
ence of  an  ancient  key,  and  they  conclude  that, 
at  one  time,  the  level  of  the  lake  was  nearly  forty 
feet  higher  than  at  present.  Glacial  action  is 
believed  to  have  been  very  effective  in  establish- 
ing surface  conditions  in  this  vicinity.  Lime- 
stone and  building  stone  are  quarried  in  tolerable 
abundance.  Athens  marble  (white  when  taken 
out,  but  growing  a  rich  yellow  through  exposure) 
is  found  in  the  southwest.  Isolated  beds  of  peat 
have  also  been  found.  The  general  surface  is 
level,  although  undulating  in  some  portions.  The 
soil  near  the  lake  is  sandy,  but  in  the  interior 
becomes  a  black  mold  from  one  to  four  feet  in 
depth.  Drainage  is  afforded  by  the  Des  Plaines, 
Chicago  and  Calumet  Rivers,  which  has  been 
improved  by  the  construction  of  the  Drainage 
Canal.  Manufactures  and  agriculture  are  the 
principal  industries  outside  of  the  city  of  Chi- 
cago. (See  also  Chicago.) 

COOK  COUNTY  HOSPITAL,  located  in  Chi- 
cago and  under  control  of  the  Commissioners  of 
Cook  County.  It  was  originally  erected  by  the 
City  of  Chicago,  at  a  cost  of  §80,000,  and  was 
intended  to  be  used  as  a  hospital  for  patients 
suffering  from  infectious  diseases.  For  several 
years  the  building  was  unoccupied,  but,  in  1858, 
it  was  leased  by  an  association  of  physicians,  who 
opened  a  hospital,  with  the  further  purpose  of 
affording  facilities  for  clinical  instruction  to  the 
students  of  Rush  Medical  College.  In  1863  the 
building  was  taken  by  the  General  Government 
for  military  purposes,  being  used  as  an  eye  and 
ear  hospital  for  returning  soldiers.  In  1865  it 
reverted  to  the  City  of  Chicago,  and,  in  1866,  was 
purchased  by  Cook  County.  In  1874  the  County 
Commissioners  purchased  a  new  and  more  spa- 
cious site  at  a  cost  of  8145,000,  and  began  the  erec- 
tion of  buildings  thereon.  The  two  principal 
pavilions  were  completed  and  occupied  before  the 
close  of  1875;  the  clinical  amphitheater  and 
connecting  corridors  were  built  in  1876-77,  and  an 
administrative  building  and  two  additional 
pavilions  were  added  in  1882-84.  Up  to  that  date 
the  total  cost  of  the  buildings  had  been  §719,574, 
and  later  additions  and  improvements  have 
swelled  the  outlay  to  more  than  $1,000,000.  It 
accommodates  about  800  patients  and  constitutes 
a  part  of  the  county  machinery  for  the  care  of 
the  poor.  A  certain  number  of  beds  are  placed 
under  the  care  of  homeopathic  physicians.  The 


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present  (1896)  allopathic  medical  staff  consists  of 
fifteen  physicians,  fifteen  surgeons,  one  oculist 
and  aurist  and  one  pathologist ;  the  homeopathic 
staff  comprises  five  physicians  and  five  surgeons. 
In  addition,  there  is  a  large  corps  of  internes,  or 
house  physicians  and  surgeons,  composed  of 
recent  graduates  from  the  several  medical  col- 
leges, who  gain  their  positions  through  competi- 
tive examination  and  hold  them  for  eighteen 
months. 

COOKE,  Edward  Dean,  lawyer  and  Congress- 
man, born  in  Dubuque  County,  Iowa,  Oct.  17, 
1849;  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  and 
the  high  school  of  Dubuque ;  studied  law  in  that 
city  and  at  Columbian  University,  Washington, 
D.  C.,  graduating  from  that  institution  with  the 
degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  Washington  in  1873.  Coming  to  Chi- 
cago the  same  year,  he  entered  upon  the  practice 
of  his  profession,  which  he  pursued  for  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  In  1882  he  was  elected  a 
Representative  in  the  State  Legislature  from 
Cook  County,  serving  one  term ;  was  elected  as  a 
Republican  to  the  Fifty-fourth  Congress  for  the 
Sixth  District  (Chicago),  in  1894,  and  re-elected  in 
1896.  His  death  occurred  suddenly  while  in 
attendance  on  the  extra  session  of  Congress  in 
Washington,  June  24,  1897. 

COOLBAUGH,  William  Findlay,  financier,  was 
born  in  Pike  County,  Pa.,  July  1,  1821;  at  the 
age  of  15  became  clerk  in  a  dry-goods  store  in 
Philadelphia,  but,  in  1842,  opened  a  branch 
establishment  of  a  New  York  firm  at  Burlington, 
Iowa,  where  he  afterwards  engaged  in  the  bank- 
ing business,  also  serving  in  the  Iowa  State 
Constitutional  Convention,  and,  as  the  candidate 
of  his  party  for  United  States  Senator,  being 
defeated  by  Hon.  James  Harlan  by  one  vote.  In 
1862  he  came  to  Chicago  and  opened  the  banking 
house  of  W.  F.  Coolbaugh  &  Co.,  which,  in  1865, 
became  the  Union  National  Bank  of  Chicago. 
Later  he  became  the  first  President  of  the  Chi- 
cago Clearing  House,  as  also  of  the  Bankers' 
Association  of  the  West  and  South,  a  Director  of 
the  Board  of  Trade,  and  an  original  incorporator 
of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  besides  being  a 
member  of  the  State  Constitutional  Convention 
of  1869-70.  His  death  by  suicide,  at  the  foot  of 
Douglas  Monument,  Nov.  14,  1877,  was  a  shock  to 
the  whole  city  of  Chicago. 

COOLEY,  Horace  S.,  Secretary  of  State,  was 
born  in  Hartford,  Conn.,  in  1806,  studied  medi- 
cine for  two  years  in  early  life,  then  went  to  Ban- 
gor,  Maine,  where  he  began  the  study  of  law ;  in 
1840  he  came  to  Illinois,  locating  first  at  Rushville 


and  finally  in  the  city  of  Quincy ;  in  1842  took  a 
prominent  part  in  the  campaign  which  resulted 
in  the  election  of  Thomas  Ford  as  Governor— also 
received  from  Governor  Carlin  an  appointment  as 
Quartermaster-General  of  the  State.  On  the 
accession  of  Governor  French  in  December,  1846, 
he  was  appointed  Secretary  of  State  and  elected 
to  the  same  office  under  the  Constitution  of  1848, 
dying  before  the  expiration  of  his  term,  April  2, 
1850. 

CORBUS,  (Dr.)  J.  C.,  physician,  was  born  in 
Holmes  County,  Ohio,  in  1833,  received  his  pri- 
mary education  in  the  public  schools,  followed 
by  an  academic  course,  and  began  the  study  of 
medicine  at  Millersburg,  finally  graduating  from 
the  Western  Reserve  Medical  College  at  Cleve- 
land. In  1855  he  began  practice  at  Orville,  Ohio, 
but  the  same  year  located  at  Mendota,  111.,  soon 
thereafter  removing  to  Lee  County,  where  he 
remained  until  1862.  The  latter  year  he  was 
appointed  Assistant  Surgeon  of  the  Seventy -fifth 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  but  was  soon  pro- 
moted to  the  position  of  Surgeon,  though  com- 
pelled to  resign  the  following  year  on  account  of 
ill  health.  Returning  from  the  army,  he  located 
at  Mendota.  Dr.  Corbus  served  continuously  as  a 
member  of  the  State  Board  of  Public  Charities 
from  1873  until  the  accession  of  Governor  Altgeld 
to  the  Governorship  in  1893,  when  he  resigned. 
He  was  also,  for  fifteen  years,  one  of  the  Medical 
Examiners  for  his  District  under  the  Pension 
Bureau,  and  has  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Republican  State  Central  Committee  for  the 
Mendota  District.  In  1897  he  was  complimented 
by  Governor  Tanner  by  reappointment  to  the 
State  Board  of  Charities,  and  was  made  President 
of  the  Board.  Early  in  1899  he  was  appointed 
Superintendent  of  the  Eastern  Hospital  for  the 
Insane  at  Kankakee,  as  successor  to  Dr.  William 
G.  Stearns.  Died  March  17,  1909. 

CORNELL,  Paul,  real  estate  operator  and  capi- 
talist, was  born  of  English  Quaker  ancestry  in 
Washington  County,  N.  Y.,  August  5,  1822;  at  9 
years  of  age  removed  with  his  step-father,  Dr. 
Barry,  to  Ohio,  and  five  years  later  to  Adams 
County,  111.  Here  young  Cornell  lived  the  life  of 
a  farmer,  working  part  of  the  year  to  earn  money 
to  send  himself  to  school  the  remainder;  also 
taught  for  a  time,  then  entered  the  office  of  W.  A. 
Richardson,  at  Rushville,  Schuyler  County,  as  a 
law  student.  In  1845  he  came  to  Chicago,  but 
soon  after  became  a  student  in  the  law  office  of 
Wilson  &  Henderson  at  Joliet,  and  was  admitted 
to  practice  in  that  city.  Removing  to  Chicago  in 
1847,  he  was  associated,  successively,  with  the  late 


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L.  C.  P.  Freer.  Judge  James  H.  Collins  and 
Messrs.  Skinner  &  Hoyne ;  finally  entered  into  a 
contract  with  Judge  Skinner  to  perfect  the  title  to 
320  acres  of  land  held  under  tax-title  within  the 
present  limits  of  Hyde  Park,  which  he  succeeded 
in  doing  by  visiting  the  original  owners,  thereby 
securing  one-half  of  the  property  in  his  own 
name.  He  thus  became  the  founder  of  the  village 
of  Hyde  Park,  meanwhile  adding  to  his  posses- 
sions other  lands,  which  increased  vastly  in  value. 
He  also  established  a  watch  factory  at  Cornell 
(now  a  part  of  Chicago),  which  did  a  large  busi- 
ness until  removed  to  California.  Mr.  Cornell 
was  a  mgmhor  of  the  first  Park  Board,  and  there- 
fore had  the  credit  of  assisting  to  organise  Chicago's 
extensive  park  system.  Died  March  3,  1904. 

COKWDt,  Franklin,  Congressman,  was  bom  at 
Lebanon,  Ohio,  Jan.  12,  1818,  and  admitted  to  the 
bar  at  the  age  of  21.  While  a  resident  of  Ohio  he 
served  in  both  Houses  of  the  Legislature,  and 
settled  in  Illinois  in  1857,  mating  his  home  at 
Peru.  He  was  a  member  of  the  lower  house  of 
the  Twenty-fourth,  Twenty-fifth  and  Twenty- 
sixth  General  Assemblies,  being  Speaker  in  1867, 
and  again  in  1869.  In  1872  he  was  elected  to 
Congress  as  a  Republican,  but,  in  1874,  was 
defeated  by  Alexander  Campbell,  who  made  the 
race  as  an  Independent.  Died,  at  Peru,  ILL,  June 
15,  1879. 

COUCH,  James,  pioneer  hotel-keeper,  was  born 
at  Fort  Edward,  X.  Y.,  August  31,  1800;  removed 
to  Chautauqua  County,  in  the  same  State,  where 
he  remained  until  his  twentieth  year,  receiving  a 
fair  English  education.  After  engaging  succes- 
sively, but  with  indifferent  success,  as  hotel-clerk, 
stage-house  keeper,  lumber-dealer,  and  in  the  dis- 
tilling business,  in  1836,  in  company  with  his 
younger  brother,  Ira,  he  visited  Chicago.  They 
both  decided  to  go  into  business  there,  first  open- 
ing a  small  store,  and  later  entering  upon  their 
hotel  ventures  which  proved  so  eminently  suc- 
cessful, and  gave  the  Tremont  House  of  Chicago 
so  wide  and  enviable  a  reputation.  Mr.  Couch 
superintended  for  his  brother  Ira  the  erection,  at 
various  times,  of  many  large  business  blocks  in 
the  city.  Upon  the  death  of  his  brother,  in  1857, 
he  was  made  one  of  the  trustees  of  his  estate,  and, 
with  other  trustees,  rebuilt  the  Tremont  House 
after  the  Chicago  fire  of  1871.  In  April,  1892, 
while  boarding  a  street  car  in  the  central  part  of 
the  city  of  Chicago,  he  was  run  over  by  a  truck, 
receiving  injuries  which  resulted  in  his  death 
the  same  day  at  the  Tremont  House,  in  the  92d 
year  of  his  age. — Ira  (Couch),  younger  brother  of 
the  preceding,  was  born  in  Saratoga  County, 


X.  Y..  Nov.  22.  1806.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he 
was  apprenticed  to  a  tailor,  and,  in  1S26.  set  up 
in  business  on  his  own  account.  In  1836,  while 
visiting  Chicago  with  his  brother  James,  he 
determined  to  go  into  business  there.  With  a 
stock  of  furnishing  goods  and  tailors'  supplies, 
newly  bought  in  New  York,  a  small  store  was 
opened.  This  business  soon  disposed  of,  Mr. 
Couch,  with  his  brother,  obtained  a  lease  of  the 
old  Tremont  House,  then  a  low  frame  building 
kept  as  a  saloon  boarding  house.  Changed  and 
refurnished,  this  was  opened  as  a  hotel.  It  was 
destroyed  by  fire  in  1839,  as  was  also  the  larger 
rebuilt  structure  in  1849.  A  second  time  rebuilt, 
and  on  a  much  larger  and  grander  scale  at  a  cost 
of  §75,000,  surpassing  anything  the  West  had  ever 
known  before,  the  Tremont  House  this  time  stood 
until  the  Chicago  fire  in  1871,  when  it  was  again 
destroyed.  Mr.  Couch  at  all  times  enjoyed  an 
immense  patronage,  and  was  able  to  accumulate 
(for  that  time)  a  large  fortune.  He  purchased 
and  improved  a  large  number  of  business  blocks, 
then  within  the  business  center  of  the  city.  In 
1853  he  retired  from  active  business,  and,  in  con- 
sequence of  impaired  health,  chose  for  the  rest  of 
his  life  to  seek  recreation  in  travel.  In  the 
winter  of  1857,  while  with  his  family  in 
Havana,  Cuba,  he  was  taken  with  a  fever  which 
soon  ended  his  life.  His  remains  now  rest  in  a 
mausoleum  of  masonry  in  Lincoln  Park,  Chi- 
cago. 

COULTER VILLE, a  town  of  Randolph  County, 
at  the  crossing  of  the  Centralia  <t  Chester  and 
the  St.  Louis  &  Paducah  branch  Illinois  Central 
Railways,  49  miles  southeast  of  St.  Louis.  Farm- 
ing and  coal-mining  are  the  leading  industries. 
The  town  has  two  banks,  two  creameries,  and  a 
newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  650;  (1910),  949. 

COUNTIES,  USORGAMZED.  (See  Cnorgan- 
ized  Counties.) 

COWDEX,  a  village  of  Shelby  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  South  west- 
ern and  the  Toledo,  St.  Louis  &  Western  Rail- 
ways, 60  miles  southeast  of  Springfield.  Con- 
siderable coal  is  mined  in  the  vicinity:  has  a 
bank  and  a  weekly  paper.  Population  (1880), 
350;  (1890),  702;  (1900),  751;  (1910).  711. 

COWLES,  Alfred,  newspaper  manager,  was 
bom  in  Portage  County.  Ohio,  May  13,  1832,  grew 
up  on  a  farm  and,  after  spending  some  time  at 
Michigan  University,  entered  the  office  of  "The 
Cleveland  Leader"  as  a  clerk:  in  1855  accepted  a 
similar  position  on  "The  Chicago  Tribune. "  which 
had  just  been  bought  by  Joseph  Medill  and 
others,  finally  becoming  a  stockholder  and  busi- 


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ness  manager  of  the  paper,  so  remaining  until  his 
death  in  Chicago,  Dec.  20,  1889. 

COX,  Thomas,  pioneer,  Senator  in  the  First 
General  Assembly  of  Illinois  (1818-22)  from  Union 
County,  and  a  conspicuous  figure  in  early  State 
history ;  was  a  zealous  advocate  of  the  policy  of 
making  Illinois  a  slave  State ;  became  one  of  the 
original  proprietors  and  founders  of  the  city  of 
Springfield,  and  was  appointed  the  first  Register 
of  the  Land  Office  there,  but  was  removed  under 
charges  of  misconduct;  after  his  retirement  from 
the  Land  Office,  kept  a  hotel  at  Springfield.  In 
1836  he  removed  to  Iowa  (then  a  part  of  Wiscon- 
sin Territory),  became  a  member  of  the  first 
Territorial  Legislature  there,  was  twice  re-elected 
and  once  Speaker  of  the  House,  being  prominent 
in  1840  as  commander  of  the  "Regulators"  who 
drove  out  a  gang  of  murderers  and  desperadoes 
who  had  got  possession  at  Bellevue,  Iowa.  Died, 
at  Maquoketa,  Iowa,  1843. 

COT,  Irus  lawyer,  was  born  in  Chenango 
County,  N.  Y.,  July  25,  1S32;  educated  in  the 
common  schools  and  at  Central  College,  Cortland 
County,  X.  Y.,  graduating  in  law  at  Albany  in 
1857.  Then,  having  removed  to  Illinois,  he 
located  in  Kendall  County  and  began  practice ;  in 
1868  was  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  General 
Assembly  and,  in  1872,  served  as  Presidential 
Elector  ou  the  Republican  ticket;  removed  to 
Chicago  in  1871,  later  sen-ing  as  attorney  of  the 
Union  Stock  Yards  and  Transit  Company.  Died, 
in  Chicago,  Sept,  20,  1897. 

CRAFTS,  Clayton  E.,  legislator  and  politician, 
born  at  Auburn,  Geauga  County,  Ohio,  July  8, 
1848;  was  educated  at  Hiram  College  and  gradu- 
ated from  the  Cleveland  Law  School  in  1868, 
coming  to  Chicago  in  1869.  Mr.  Crafts  served  in 
seven  consecutive  sessions  of  the  General  Assem- 
bly (1883-95,  inclusive)  as  Representative  from 
Cook  County,  and  was  elected  by  the  Democratic 
majority  as  Speaker,  in  1891,  and  again  in  '93. 

CRAIG,  Alfred  M.,  jurist,  was  born  in  Edgar 
County,  111.,  Jan.  15,  1831,  graduated  from  Knox 
College  in  1853,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
the  following  year,  commencing  practice  at 
Knoxville.  He  held  the  offices  of  State's 
Attorney  and  County  Judge,  and  represented 
Knox  County  in  the  Constitutional  Convention 
of  1869-70.  In  1873  he  was  elected  to  the  bench 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  as  successor  to  Justice 
C.  B.  Lawrence,  and  was  re-elected  in  '82  and 
'91,  his  last  term  expiring  June  1,  1900.  He  was 
a  Democrat  in  politics,  but  was  three  times  elected 
as  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  in  Republican 
judicial  district.  Died  Sept.  6,  1911. 


CRAWFORD,  Charles  H.,  lawyer  and  legisla- 
tor, was  born  in  Bennington,  Vt.,  but  reared  in 
Bureau  and  La  Salle  Counties,  111.;  had  practiced 
law  for  twenty  years  in  Chicago,  and  been  three 
times  elected  to  the  State  Senate — 1884,  '88  and 
'94 — and  was  author  of  the  Crawford  Primary 
Election  Law,  enacted  in  1885.  Died  June  4. 1903. 

CRAWFORD  COUNTY,  a  southeastern  county, 
bordering  on  the  Wabash,  190  miles  nearly  due 
south  of  Chicago — named  for  William  H.  Craw- 
ford, a  Secretary  of  War.  It  has  an  area  of  470 
square  miles;  population  (1910),  26,281.  The 
first  settlers  were  the  French,  but  later  came 
emigrants  from  New  England.  The  soil  is  rich 
and  well  adapted  to  the  production  of  corn  and 
wheat,  which  are  the  principal  crops.  The 
county  was  organized  in  1816,  Darwin  being 
the  first  county-seat.  The  present  county-seat 
is  Robinson,  with  a  population  (1890)  of  1,387; 
centrally  located  and  the  point  of  intersection  of 
two  railroads.  Other  towns  of  importance  are 
Palestine  (population,  734)  and  Hutsonville  (popu- 
lation, 582).  The.  latter,  as  well  as  Robinson,  is 
a  grain-shipping  point.  The  Embarras  River 
crosses  the  southwest  portion  of  the  county,  and 
receives  the  waters  of  Big  and  Honey  Creeks  and 
Bushy  Fork.  The  county  has  no  mineral 
resources,  but  contains  some  valuable  woodland 
and  many  well  cultivated  farms.  Tobacco, 
potatoes,  sorghum  and  wool  are  among  the  lead- 
ing products. 

CREAL  SPRINGS,  a  village  of  Williamson 
County,  on  the  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute 
Railroad ;  has  a  bank  and  a  weekly  paper.  Popu- 
lation (1890),  539;  (1900),  940;  (1910),  936. 

CREBS,  John  M.,  ex-Congressman,  was  born  in 
Middleburg,  Loudoun  County,  Va.,  April  7,  1830. 
When  he  was  but  7  years  old  his  parents  removed 
to  Illinois,  where  he  ever  after  resided.  At  the 
age  of  21  he  began  the  study  of  law,  and,  in  1852, 
was  admitted  to  the  bar,  beginning  practice  in 
White  County.  In  1862  he  enlisted  in  the 
Eighty-seventh  Illinois  Volunteers,  receiving  a 
commission  as  Lieutenant-Colonel,  participating 
in  all  the  important  movements  in  the  Mississippi 
Valley,  including  the  capture  of  Vicksburg,  and 
in  the  Arkansas  campaign,  a  part  of  the  time 
commanding  a  brigade.  Returning  home,  he 
resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession.  In  1866 
he  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  on  the 
Democratic  ticket.  He  was  elected  to  Congress 
in  1868  and  re-elected  in  1870,  and,  in  1880,  was  a 
delegate  to  the  Democratic  State  Convention. 
Died,  June  26,  1890. 


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CREHJHTON,  James  A.,  jurist,  was  born  in 
White  County,  111.,  March  7,  1846;  in  childhood 
removed  with  his  parents  to  Wayne  County,  and 
was  educated  in  the  schools  at  Fairfield  and  at 
the  Southern  Illinois  College,  Salem,  graduating 
from  the  latter  in  1868.  After  teaching  for  a 
time  while  studying  law,  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1870,  and  opened  an  office  at  Fairfield,  but, 
in  1877,  removed  to  Springfield.  In  1885  he  was 
elected  a  Circuit  Judge  for  the  Springfield  Circuit, 
was  re-elected  in  1891,  1897,  in  1903  and  1909. 

(  I!  I!  I!  A 1! ,  John,  manufacturer  and  philanthro- 
pist, was  born  of  Scotch  ancestry  in  New  York 
City,  in  1827 ;  at  18  years  of  age  was  an  employe 
of  an  iron-importing  firm  in  that  city,  subse- 
quently accepting  a  position  with  Morris  K. 
Jessup  &  Co.,  in  the  same  line.  Coming  to 
Chicago  in  1862,  in  partnership  with  J.  McGregor 
Adams,  he  succeeded  to  the  business  of  Jessup  & 
Co.,  in  that  city,  also  becoming  a  partner  in  the 
Adams  &  Westlake  Company,  iron  manufactur- 
ers. He  also  became  interested  and  an  official  in 
various  other  business  organizations,  including 
the  Pullman  Palace  Car  Company,  the  Chicago 
&  Alton  Railroad,  the  Illinois  Trust  and  Savings 
Bank,  and,  for  a  time,  was  President  of  the  Chi- 
cago &  Joliet  Railroad,  besides  being  identified 
with  various  benevolent  institutions  and  associ- 
ations. After  the  fire  of  1871.  he  was  intrusted 
by  the  New  York  Chamber  of  Commerce  with 
the  custody  of  funds  sent  for  the  relief  of  suffer- 
ers by  that  calamity.  His  integrity  and  business 
sagacity  were  universally  recognized.  After  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  Chicago,  Oct.  19, 
1889,  it  was  found  that,  after  making  munificent 
bequests  to  some  twenty  religious  and  benevolent 
associations  and  enterprises,  aggregating  nearly 
a  million  dollars,  besides  liberal  legacies  to 
relatives,  he  had  left  the  residue  of  his  estate, 
amounting  to  some  §2,000,000,  for  the  purpose  of 
founding  a  public  library  in  the  city  of  Chicago, 
naming  thirteen  of  his  most  intimate  friends  as 
the  first  Board  of  Trustees.  No  more  fitting  and 
lasting  monument  of  so  noble  and  public-spirited 
a  man  could  have  been  devised. 

CRETE,  a  village  of  Will  County,  on  the  Chi- 
cago &  Eastern  Illinois  Railroad,  30  miles  south 
of  Chicago.  Pop-  (1900),  760;  (1910),  840. 

CROOK,  George,  soldier,  was  born  near  Day- 
ton, Ohio,  Sept.  8,  1828 ;  graduated  at  the  United 
States  Military  Academy,  West  Point,  in  1852,  and 
was  assigned  as  brevet  Second  Lieutenant  to  the 
Fourth  Infantry,  becoming  full  Second  Lieuten- 
ant in  1853.  In  1861  he  entered  the  volunteer 
service  as  Colonel  of  the  Thirty-sixth  Ohio  Infan- 


try ;  was  promoted  Brigadier-General  in  1862  and 
Major-General  in  1864,  being  mustered  out  of  the 
service,  January,  1866.  During  the  war  he 
participated  in  some  of  the  most  important 
battles  in  West  Virginia  and  Tennessee,  fought  at 
Chickamauga  and  Antietam,  and  commanded 
the  cavalry  in  the  advance  on  Richmond  in  the 
spring  of  1865.  On  being  mustered  out  of  the 
volunteer  service  he  returned  to  the  regular 
army,  was  appointed  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the 
Twenty-third  Infantry,  and,  for  several  years,  was 
engaged  in  campaigns  against  the  hostile  Indians 
in  the  Northwest  and  in  Arizona.  In  1888  he 
was  appointed  Major-General  and,  from  that  time 
to  his  death,  was  in  command  of  the  Military 
Division  of  the  Missouri,  with  headquarters  at 
Chicago,  where  he  died,  March  19,  1890. 

CROSIAR,  Simon,  pioneer,  was  born  near 
Pittsburg,  Pa.,  in  the  latter  part  of  the  last 
century;  removed  to  Ohio  in  1815  and  to  Illinois 
in  1819,  settling  first  at  Cap  au  Gris,  a  French 
village  on  the  Mississippi  just  above  the  mouth 
of  the  Illinois  in  what  is  now  Calhoun  County ; 
later  lived  at  Peoria  (1824),  at  Ottawa  (1826),  at 
Shippingport  near  the  present  city  of  La  Salle 
(1829),  and  at  Old  Utica  (1834);  in  the  mean- 
while built  one  or  two  mills  on  Cedar  Creek  in 
La  Salle  County,  kept  a  storage  and  commission 
house,  and,  for  a  time,  acted  as  Captain  of  a 
steamboat  plying  on  the  Illinois.  Died,  in  1846. 

CRYSTAL  LAKE,  a  village  in  McHenry 
County,  at  the  intersection  of  two  divisions  of 
the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway,  43  miles 
northwest  of  Chicago.  Population  (1880),  546; 
(1890),  781;  (1900),  950;  (1910),  1,242. 

CUBA,  a  town  in  Fulton  County,  distant  38 
miles  west-southwest  of  Peoria,  and  about  8  miles 
north  of  Lewistown.  The  entire  region  (includ- 
ing the  town)  is  underlaid  with  a  good  quality  of 
bituminous  coal,  of  which  the  late  State  Geologist 
Worthen  asserted  that,  in  seven  townships  of 
Fulton  County,  there  are  9.000,000  tons  to  the 
square  mile,  within  150  feet  of  the  surface.  Brick 
and  cigars  are  made  here,  and  the  town  has  two 
banks,  a  newspaper,  three  churches  and  good 
schools.  Population  (1890),  1,114;  (1900),  1,198; 
(1910),  2,019. 

CULLEJf,  William,  editor  and  Congressman, 
born  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  March  4,  1826 ;  while 
yet  a  child  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Pitts- 
burg,  Pa.,  where  he  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools.  At  the  age  of  20  lie  removed  to 
La  Salle  County,  111,  and  began  life  as  a  farmer. 
Later  he  took  up  his  residence  at  Ottawa.  He 
has  served  as  Sheriff  of  La  Salle  County,  and  held 


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other  local  offices,  and  was  for  many  years  a  part 
owner  and  senior  editor  of  "The  Ottawa  Repub- 
lican." From  1881  to  1885,  as  a  Republican,  he 
represented  the  Eighth  Illinois  District  in  Con- 
gress. 

CULLOM,  Richard  Northcraft,  farmer  and 
legislator,  was  born  in  the  State  of  Maryland, 
October  1,  1795,  but  early  removed  to  Wayne 
County,  Ky.,  where  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Elizabeth  Coffey,  a  native  of  North  Carolina.  In 
1830  he  removed  to  Illinois,  settling  near  Wash- 
ington, Tazewell  County,  where  he  continued  to 
reside  during  the  remainder  of  his  life.  Although 
a  farmer  by  vocation,  Mr.  Cullom  was  a  man  of 
prominence  and  a  recognized  leader  in  public 
affairs.  In  1836  he  was  elected  as  a  Whig  Repre- 
sentative in  the  Tenth  General  Assembly,  serving 
in  the  same  body  with  Abraham  Lincoln,  of 
whom  he  was  an  intimate  personal  and  political 
friend.  In  1840  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  the 
State  Senate,  serving  in  the  Twelfth  and  Thir- 
teenth General  Assemblies,  and,  in  1852,  was 
again  elected  to  the  House.  Mr.  Cullom's  death 
occurred  in  Tazewell  County,  Dec.  4,  1872,  his 
wife  having  died  Dec.  5,  1868.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Cullom  were  the  parents  of  Hon.  Shelby  M. 
Cullom. 

CULLOM,  Shelby  Moore,  United  States  Sena- 
tor, was  born  in  Wayne  County,  Ky.,  Nov.  22, 
1829.  His  parents  removed  to  Tazewell  County, 
111.,  in  1830,  where  his  father  became  a  member 
of  the  Legislature  and  attained  prominence  as  a 
public  man.  After  two  years  spent  in  Rock 
River  Seminary  at  Mount  Morris,  varied  by  some 
experience  as  a  teacher,  in  1853  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  went  to  Springfield  to  enter  upon  the 
study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Stuart  &  Edwards. 
Being  admitted  to  the  bar  two  years  afterward, 
he  was  almost  immediately  elected  City  Attor- 
ney, and,  in  1856,  was  a  candidate  on  the  Fill- 
more  ticket  for  Presidential  Elector,  at  the  same 
time  being  elected  to  the  Twentieth  General 
Assembly  for  Sangamon  County,  as  he  was  again, 
as  a  Republican,  in  1860,  being  supported  alike  by 
the  Fillmore  men  and  the  Free-Soilers.  At  the 
session  following  the  latter  election,  he  was 
chosen  Speaker  of  the  House,  which  was  his  first 
important  political  recognition.  In  1862  he  was 
appointed  by  President  Lincoln  a  member  of  the 
War  Claims  Commission  at  Cairo,  serving  in  this 
capacity  with  Governor  Boutwell  of  Massachu- 
setts and  Charles  A.  Dana  of  New  York.  He  was 
also  a  candidate  for  the  State  Senate  the  same 
year,  but  then  sustained  his  only  defeat.  Two 
years  later  (1864)  he  was  a  candidate  for  Con- 


gress, defeating  his  former  preceptor,  Hon.  John 
T.  Stuart,  being  re-elected  in  1866,  and  again  in 
1868,  the  latter  year  over  B.  S.  Edwards.  He 
was  a  delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Con- 
vention of  1872,  and,  as  Chairman  of  the  Illinois 
delegation,  placed  General  Grant  in  nomination 
for  the  Presidency,  holding  the  same  position 
again  in  1884  and  in  1892;  was  elected  to  the  Illi- 
nois House  of  Representatives  in  1872  and  in  1874, 
being  chosen  Speaker  a  second  time  in  1873,  as  he 
was  the  unanimous  choice  of  his  party  for 
Speaker  again  in  1875;  in  1876  was  elected  Gov- 
ernor, was  re-elected  in  1880,  and,  in  1883,  elected 
to  the  United  States  Senate  as  successor  to  Hon. 
David  Davis.  By  four  successive  re-elections  since 
1885,  he  is  now  serving  his  fifth  term,  which 
will  expire  in  1913.  In  1898,  by  special 
appointment  of  President  McKinley,  Senator 
Cullom  served  upon  a  Commission  to  investigate 
the  condition  of  the  Hawaiian  Islands  and 
report  a  plan  of  government  for  this  new  division 
of  the  American  Republic.  Other  important 
measures  with  which  his  name  has  been  promi- 
nently identified  have  been  the  laws  for  the  sup- 
pression of  polygamy  in  Utah  and  for  the  creation 
of  the  Inter-State  Commerce  Commission.  At 
present  he  is  Chairman  of  the  Senate  Committee 
on  Foreign  Affairs,  and  has  been  a  prominent 
member  of  other  important  Committees.  His 
career  has  been  conspicuous  for  his  long  public 
service,  the  large  number  of  important  offices 
which  he  has  held,  the  almost  unbroken  uniform- 
ity of  his  success  when  a  candidate,  and  his  com- 
plete exemption  from  scandals  of  every  sort.  No 
man  in  the  history  of  the  State  has  been  so 
frequently  elected  to  the  United  States  Senate, 
and  only  three — Senators  Douglas,  Trumbull  and 
Logan — were  each  elected  for  three  terms;  though 
only  one  of  these  (Senator  Trumbull)  lived  to 
serve  out  the  full  period  for  which  he  was 
elected. 

CUMBERLAND  COUNTY,  situated  in  the 
southeast  quarter  of  the  State,  directly  south  of 
Coles  County,  from  which  it  was  cut  off  in  1843. 
Its  area  is  350  square  miles,  and  population  (1900), 
16,124.  The  county-seat  was  at  Greenup  until 
1855,  when  it  was  transferred  to  Prairie  City, 
which  was  laid  off  in  1854  and  incorporated  as  a 
town  in  1866.  The  present  county-seat  is  at 
Toledo  (population,  1890,  676).  The  Embarras 
River  crosses  the  county,  as  do  also  three  lines  of 
railroad.  Neoga,  a  mining  town,  has  a  popula- 
tion of  829.  The  county  received  its  name  from 
the  Cumberland  Road,  which,  as  originally  pro- 
jected, passed  through  it.  Pop.  (1910),  14,281. 


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CUMMINS,  (Rev.)  David,  Bishop  of  the  Re- 
formed Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  was 
born  near  Smyrna,  Del.,  Dec.  11,  1822;  gradu- 
ated at  Dickinson  College,  Pa.,  in  1841,  and 
became  a  licentiate  in  the  Methodist  ministry, 
but,  in  1846,  took  orders  in  the  Episcopal 
Church;  afterwards  held  rectorships  in  Balti- 
more, Norfolk,  Richmond  and  the  Trinity 
Episcopal  Church  of  Chicago,  in  1866  being  con- 
secrated Assistant  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of 
Kentucky.  As  a  recognized  leader  of  the  Low- 
Church  or  Evangelical  party,  he  early  took  issue 
with  the  ritualistic  tendencies  of  the  High-Church 
party,  and,  having  withdrawn  from  the  Episcopal 
Church  in  1873,  became  the  first  Bishop  of  the 
Reformed  Episcopal  organization.  He  was  zeal- 
ous, eloquent  and  conscientious,  but  overtaxed  his 
strength  in  his  new  field  of  labor,  dying  at  Luth- 
erville,  Md.,  June  26,  1876.  A  memoir  of  Bishop 
Cummins,  by  his  wife,  was  publishedin  1878. 

CUMULATIVE  VOTE.  (See  Minority  Repre- 
sentation. ) 

CURTIS,  Harvey,  clergyman  and  educator,  was 
born.  In  Adams,  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y.,  May  30, 
1806;  graduated  at  Middlebury  College,  Vt.,  in 
1831,  with  the  highest  honors  of  his  class;  after 
three  years  at  Princeton  Theological  Seminary, 
was  ordained  pastor  of  the  Congregational 
church  at  Brandon,  Vt.,  in  1836.  In  1841  he 
accepted  an  appointment  as  agent  of  the  Home 
Missionary  Society  for  Ohio  and  Indiana,  between 
1843  and  1858  holding  pastorates  at  Madison, 
Ind.,  and  Chicago.  In  the  latter  year  he  was 
chosen  President  of  Knox  College,  at  Galesburg, 
dying  there,  Sept.  18,  1862. 

CURTIS,  William  Elroy,  journalist,  was  born 
at  Akron,  Ohio,  Nov.  5,  1850;  graduated  at 
Western  Reserve  College  in  1871,  meanwhile 
learning  the  art  of  typesetting ;  later  served  as  a 
reporter  on  "The  Cleveland  Leader"  and,  in  1872, 
took  a  subordinate  position  on  "The  Chicago 
Inter  Ocean,"  finally  rising  to  that  of  managing- 
editor.  While  on  "The  Inter  Ocean"  he  accom- 
panied General  Custer  in  his  campaign  against 
the  Sioux,  spent  several  months  investigating 
the  "Ku-Klux"  and  "White  League"  organiza- 
tions in  the  South,  and,  for  some  years,  was  "The 
Inter  Ocean"  correspondent  in  Washington. 
Having  retired  from  "The  Inter  Ocean,"  he 
became  Secretary  of  the  "Pan-American  Con- 
gress" in  Washington,  and  afterwards  made  the 
tour  of  the  United  States  with  the  South  and 
Central  American  representatives  in  that  Con- 
gress. During  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition 
in  Chicago  he  had  general  supervision  of  the 


Latin-American  historical  and  archaeological 
exhibits.  Mr.  Curtis  has  visited  nearly  every 
Central  and  South  American  country  and  has 
written  elaborately  on  these  subjects  for  the 
magazines  and  for  publication  in  book  form;  has 
also  published  a  "Life  of  Zachariah  Chandler'1 
and  a  "Diplomatic  History  of  the  United  States 
and  Foreign  Powers."  Mr.  Curtis  spent  his  last 
years  as  correspondent  of  "  The  Chicago  Record- 
Herald,"  writing  extensively  from  various  parts  of 
the  world.  Died  Sept.  6,  1911. 

CUSHMAJf,  (Col.)  William  H.  W.,  financier 
and  manufacturer,  was  born  at  Freetown,  Mass., 
May  13,  1813 ;  educated  at  the  American  Literary, 
Scientific  and  Military  Academy,  Norwich,  Vt. ; 
at  18  began  a  mercantile  career  at  Middlebury, 
and,  in  1824,  removed  to  La  Salle  County,  111., 
where  he  opened  a  country  store,  also  built  a  mill 
at  Vermilionville ;  later  was  identified  with  many 
large  financial  enterprises  which  generally 
proved  successful,  thereby  accumulating  a  for- 
tune at  one  time  estimated  at  $3,000,000.  He  was 
elected  as  a  Democrat  to  the  Thirteenth  and 
Fourteenth  General  Assemblies  (1842  and  '44) 
and,  for  several  years,  held  a  commission  as 
Captain  of  the  Ottawa  Cavalry  (militia).  The 
Civil  War  coming  on,  he  assisted  in  organizing 
the  Fifty -third  Illinois  Volunteers,  and  was  com- 
missioned its  Colonel,  but  resigned  Sept.  3,  1862. 
He  organized  and  was  principal  owner  of  the 
Bank  of  Ottawa,  which,  in  1865,  became  the  First 
National  Bank  of  that  city;  was  the  leading 
spirit  in  the  Hydraulic  Company  and  the  Gas 
Company  at  Ottawa,  built  and  operated  the 
Ottawa  Machine  Shops  and  Foundry,  speculated 
largely  in  lands  in  La  Salle  and  Cook  Counties — 
his  operations  in  the  latter  being  especially  large 
about  Riverside,  as  well  as  in  Chicago,  was  a 
principal  stockholder  in  the  bank  of  Cush- 
man  &  Hardin  in  Chicago,  had  large  interests  in 
the  lumber  trade  in  Michigan,  and  was  one  of 
the  builders  of  the  Chicago,  Paducah  &  South- 
western Railroad.  The  Chicago  fire  of  1871, 
however,  brought  financial  disaster  upon  him, 
which  finally  dissipated  his  fortune  and  de- 
stroyed his  mental  and  physical  health.  His 
death  occurred  at  Ottawa,  Oct.  28,  1878. 

DALE,  Michael  G.,  lawyer,  was  born  in  Lan- 
caster, Pa.,  spent  his  childhood  and  youth  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  city,  except  one  year 
in  West  Chester  Academy,  when  he  entered 
Pennsylvania  College  at  Gettysburg,  graduating 
there  in  1835.  He  then  began  the  study  of  law 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1837;  coming  to 


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Illinois  the  following  year,  he  was  retained  in  a 
suit  at  Greenville,  Bond  County,  which  led  to  his 
employment  in  others,  and  finally  to  opening  an 
office  there.  In  1839  he  was  elected  Probate 
Judge  of  Bond  County,  remaining  in  office  four- 
teen years,  meanwhile  being  commissioned  Major 
of  the  State  Militia  in  1844,  and  serving  as  mem- 
ber of  a  Military  Court  at  Alton  in  1847 ;  was  also 
the  Delegate  from  Bond  County  to  the  State  Con- 
stitutional Convention  of  1847.  In  1853  he  re- 
signed the  office  of  County  Judge  in  Bond  County 
to  accept  that  of  Register  of  the  Land  office  at 
Ed  wards  vi  lie,  where  he  continued  to  reside,  fill- 
ing the  office  of  County  Judge  in  Madison  County 
five  or  six  terms,  besides  occupying  some  subordi- 
nate positions.  Judge  Dale  married  a  daughter 
of  Hon.  William  L.  D.  Ewing.  Died  at  Edwards- 
ville,  April  1,  1895. 

DALLAS  CITY,  in  Hancock  and  Henderson 
Counties,  at  the  intersection  of  Atchison,  Topeka  & 
Santa  Fe  and  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Rail- 
roads, 16  miles  south  of  Burlington.  It  has  manu- 
factories of  lumber,  buttons,  carriages  and  wagons, 
and  two  weekly  newspapers.  Pop.  (1890),  747; 
(1900),  970;  (1910),  1,288. 

DANENHOWER,  John  Wilson,  Arctic  explorer, 
was  born  in  Chicago,  Sept.  30,  1849 — the  son  of 
W.  W.  Danenhower,  a  journalist.  After  passing 
through  the  schools  of  Chicago  and  Washington, 
he  graduated  from  the  United  States  Naval  Acad- 
emy at  Annapolis  in  1870,  was  successively  com- 
missioned as  Ensign,  Master  and  Lieutenant,  and 
served  on  expeditions  in  the  North  Pacific  and  in 
the  Mediterranean.  In  1878  he  joined  the  Arctic 
steamer  Jeannette  at  Havre,  France,  as  second  in 
command  under  Lieut.  George  W.  De  Long;  pro- 
ceeding to  San  Francisco  in  July,  1879,  the 
steamer  entered  the  Arctic  Ocean  by  way  of 
Behring  Straits.  Here,  having  been  caught  in  an 
ice-pack,  the  vessel  was  held  twenty-two  months, 
Lieutenant  Danenhower  meanwhile  being  dis- 
abled most  of  the  time  by  ophthalmia.  The  crew, 
as  last  compelled  to  abandon  the  steamer,  dragged 
their  boats  over  the  ice  for  ninety-five  days  until 
they  were  able  to  launch  them  in  open  water, 
but  were  soon  separated  by  a  gale.  The  boat 
commanded  by  Lieutenant  Danenhower  reached 
the  Lena  Delta,  on  the  north  coast  of  Siberia, 
where  the  crew  were  rescued  by  natives,  landing 
Sept.  17.  1881.  After  an  ineffectual  search  on 
the  delta  for  the  crews  of  the  other  two  boats, 
Lieutenant  Danenhower,  with  his  crew,  made 
the  journey  of  6,000  miles  to  Orenburg,  finally 
arriving  in  the  United  States  in  June,  1882.  He 
has  told  the  story  of  the  expedition  in  "The 


Narrative  of  the  Jeannette,"  published  in  1882. 
Died,  at  Annapolis,  Md.,  April  20,  1887. 

DAN  VERS,  a  village  of.  McLean  County,  on  the 
Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis 
Railway.  The  section  is  agricultural.  The  town 
has  a  bank  and  a  newspaper.  Population  (1880), 
460;  (1890),  506;  (1900),  607;  (1910),  593. 

DANVILLE,  the  county-seat  of  Vermilion 
County,  on  Vermilion  River  and  on  five  impor- 
tant lines  of  railroad;  in  rich  coal-mining 
district  and  near  large  deposits  of  shale  and 
soapstone,  which  are  utilized  in  manufacture  of 
sewer-pipe,  paving  and  fire-clay  brick.  The  city 
has  car-shops  and  numerous  factories,  water- 
works, electric  lights,  paved  streets,  several 
banks,  twenty -seven  churches,  five  graded  schools 
and  one  high  school,  and  eight  newspapers,  two 
daily.  A  Soldiers'  Home  is  located  three  miles  east 
of  the  city.  Pop.  (1900),  16,354;  (1910),  27,871. 

DANVILLE,  OLNEY,  &  OHIO  RIVER  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  Chicago  &  Ohio  River  Railroad.) 

DANVILLE,  URBANA,  BLOOMINGTON  & 
PEKIN  RAILROAD,  (flee  Peoria  &  Eastern 
Railroad.) 

D'ARTANiUIETTE,  Pierre,  a  French  com 
mandant  of  Illinois  from  1734  to  1736,  having 
been  appointed  by  Bienville,  then  Governor  of 
Louisiana.  He  was  distinguished  for  gallantry 
and  courage.  He  defeated  the  Natchez  Indians, 
but,  in  an  unsuccessful  expedition  against  the 
Chickasaws,  was  wounded,  captured  and  burned 
at  the  stake. 

DAVENPORT,  George,  soldier,  pioneer  an<J 
trader,  born  in  Lincolnshire,  England,  in  1783, 
came  to  this  country  in  1804,  and  soon  aftei 
enlisted  in  the  United  States  army,  with  the  ranj 
of  sergeant.  He  served  gallantly  on  various 
expeditions  in  the  West,  where  he  obtained  a 
knowledge  of  the  Indians  which  was  afterward 
of  great  value  to  him.  During  the  War  of  1812 
his  regiment  was  sent  East,  where  he  partici- 
pated in  the  defense  of  Fort  Erie  and  in  other 
enterprises.  In  1815,  his  term  of  enlistment  hav- 
ing expired  and  the  war  ended,  he  entered  the 
service  of  the  contract  commissary.  He  selected 
the  site  for  Fort  Armstrong  and  aided  in  planning 
and  supervising  its  construction.  He  cultivated 
friendly  relations  with  the  surrounding  tribes, 
and,  in  1818,  built  a  double  log  house,  married, 
and  engaged  in  business  as  a  fur-trader,  near  the 
site  of  the  present  city  of  Rock  Island.  He  had 
the  confidence  and  respect  of  the  savages,  was 
successful  and  his  trading  posts  were  soon  scat- 
tered through  Illinois,  Iowa  and  Wisconsin.  In 
1823  he  piloted  the  first  steamboat  through  the 


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upper  Mississippi,  and,  in  1825,  was  appointed  the 
first  postmaster  at  Rock  Island,  being  the  only 
white  civilian  resident  there.  In  1826  he  united 
his  business  with  that  of  the  American  Fur  Com- 
pany, in  whose  service  he  remained.  Although 
he  employed  every  effort  to  induce  President 
Jackson  to  make  a  payment  to  Black  Hawk  and 
his  followers  to  induce  them  to  emigrate  across 
the  Mississippi  voluntarily,  when  that  Chief 
commenced  hostilities,  Mr.  Davenport  tendered 
his  services  to  Governor  Reynolds,  bj  whom  he 
was  commissioned  Quartermaster-General  with 
the  rank  of  Colonel.  Immigration  increased 
rapidly  after  the  close  of  the  Black  Hawk  War. 
In  1835  a  company,  of  which  he  was  a  member, 
founded  the  town  of  Davenport,  opposite  Rock 
Island,  which  was  named  in  his  honor.  In  1837 
and  '42  he  was  largely  instrumental  in  negoti- 
ating treaties  by  which  the  Indians  ceded  their 
lands  in  Iowa  to  the  United  States.  In  the 
latter  year  he  gave  up  the  business  of  fur-trading, 
having  accumulated  a  fortune  through  hard 
labor  and  scrupulous  integrity,  in  the  face  often 
of  grave  perils.  He  had  large  business  interests  in 
nearly  every  town  in  his  vicinity,  to  all  of  which 
he  gave  more  or  less  personal  attention.  On  the 
night  of  July  4,  1843,  he  was  assassinated  at  his 
home  by  robbers.  For  a  long  time  the  crime  was 
shrouded  in  mystery,  but  its  perpetrators  were 
ultimately  detected  and  brought  to  punishment. 

DAVIS,  DaTid,  jurist  and  United  States 
Senator,  was  born  in  Cecil  County,  Md.,  March 
9,  1815;  pursued  his  academic  studies  at  Kenyon 
College,  Ohio,  and  studied  law  at  Yale.  He  settled 
at  Bloomington,  111.,  in  1836,  and,  after  practicing 
law  there  until  1844,  was  elected  to  the  lower  house 
of  the  Fourteenth  General  Assembly.  After 
serving  in  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1847, 
he  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Eighth  Judicial 
Circuit  under  the  new  Constitution  in  1848,  being 
re-elected  in  1855  and  '61.  He  was  a  warm,  per- 
sonal friend  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  who,  in  1862, 
placed  him  upon  the  bench  of  the  United  States 
Supreme  Court.  He  resigned  his  high  judicial 
honors  to  become  United  States  Senator  in  1877 
as  successor  to  Logan's  first  term.  On  Oct.  13, 
1881,  he  was  elected  President  pro  tern,  of  the 
Senate,  serving  in  this  capacity  to  the  end  of  his 
term  in  1885.  He  died  at  his  home  in  Blooming- 
ton,  June  26,  1886. 

DAVIS,  (Jeorge  R.,  lawyer  and  Congressman, 
was  born  at  Three  Rivers,  Mass. ,  January  3,  1840 ; 
received  a  common  school  education,  and  a 
classical  course  at  Williston  Seminary,  Easthamp- 
ton,  Mass.  From  1862  to  1865  he  served  in  the 


Union  army,  first  as  Captain  in  the  Eighth 
Massachusetts  Infantry,  and  later  as  Major  in  the 
Third  Rhode  Island  Cavalry.  After  the  war  he 
removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  still  resides.  By 
profession  he  is  a  lawyer.  He  took  a  prominent 
part  in  the  organization  of  the  Chicago  militia, 
was  elected  Colonel  of  the  First  Regiment, 
I.  N.  G.,  and  was  for  a  time  the  senior  Colonel  in 
the  State  service.  In  1876  he  was  an  unsuccessful 
Republican  candidate  for  Congress,  but  was 
elected  in  1878,  and  re-elected  in  1880  and  1882. 
From  1886  to  1890  he  was  Treasurer  of  Cook 
County.  He  took  an  active  and  influential  part 
in  securing  the  location  of  the  World's  Columbian 
Exposition  at  Chicago,  and  was  Director-General 
of  the  Exposition  from  its  inception  to  its  close, 
by  his  executive  ability  demonstrating  the  wis- 
dom of  his  selection.  Died  Nov.  25,  1899. 

DAVIS,  Hasbrouck,  soldier  and  journalist,  was 
born  at  Worcester,  Mass.,  April  23,  1827,  being 
the  son  of  John  Davis,  United  States  Senator  and 
Governor  of  Massachusetts,  known  in  his  lifetime 
as  "Honest  John  Davis."  The  son  came  to  Chi- 
cago in  1855  and  commenced  the  practice  of 
law ,  in  1861  joined  Colonel  Voss  in  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Twelfth  Illinois  Cavalry,  being  elected 
Lieutenant-Colonel  and,  on  the  retirement  of 
Colonel  Voss  in  1863,  succeeding  to  the  colonelcy. 
In  March,  1865,  he  was  brevetted  Brigadier-Gen- 
eral, remaining  in  active  service  until  August, 
1865,  when  he  resigned.  After  the  war  lie  was. 
for  a  time,  editor  of  "The  Chicago  Evening  Post," 
was  City  Attorney  of  the  City  of  Chicago  from 
1867  to  '69,  but  later  removed  to  Massachusetts 
Colonel  Davis  was  drowned  at  sea,  Oct.  19,  1870. 
by  the  loss  of  the  steamship  Cambria,  while  on  a 
voyage  to  Europe. 

DAVIS,  James  M.,  early  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Barren  County,  Ky.,  Oct.  9,  1793,  came  to  Illinois 
in  1817,  located  in  Bond  County  and  is  said  to 
have  taught  the  first  school  in  that  county.  He 
became  a  lawyer  and  a  prominent  leader  of  the 
Whig  party,  was  elected  to  the  Thirteenth  Gen- 
eral Assembly  (1842)  from  Bond  County,  and  to 
the  Twenty-first  from  Montgomery  in  1858,  hav- 
ing, in  the  meantime,  become  a  citizen  of 
Hillsboro ;  was  also  a  member  of  the  State  Consti- 
tutional Convention  of  1847.  Mr.  Davis  was  a 
man  of  striking  personal  appearance,  being  over 
six  feet  in  height,  and  of  strong  individuality. 
After  the  dissolution  of  the  Whig  party  he  identi- 
fied himself  with  the  Democracy  and  was  an 
intensely  bitter  opponent  of  the  war  policy  of 
the  Government.  Died,  at  Hillsboro,  Sept.  17. 
1866. 


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DAVIS,  John  A.,  soldier,  was  born  in  Craw- 
ford County,  Pa.,  Oct.  25, 1823;  came  to  Stephen- 
son  County,  111.,  in  boyhood  and  served  as 
Representative  in  the  General  Assembly  of  1857 
and  '59;  in  September,  1861,  enlisted  as  a  private, 
was  elected  Captain  and,  on  the  organization  of 
the  Forty-sixth  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers,  at 
Camp  Butler,  was  commissioned  its  Colonel.  He 
participated  in  the  capture  of  Fort  Donelson, 
and  in  the  battle  of  Shiloh  was  desperately 
wounded  by  a  shot  through  the  lungs,  but 
recovered  in  time  to  join  his  regiment  before  the 
battle  of  Corinth,  where,  on  Oct.  4,  1862,  he  fell 
mortally  wounded,  dying  a  few  days  after.  On 
receiving  a  request  from  some  of  his  fellow-citi- 
zens, a  few  days  before  his  death,  to  accept  a 
nomination  for  Congress  in  the  Freeport  District, 
Colonel  Davis  patriotically  replied:  "I  can  serve 
my  country  better  in  following  the  torn  banner 
of  my  regiment  in  the  battlefield." 

DAVIS,  Levi,  lawyer  and  State  Auditor,  was 
born  in  Cecil  County,  Md.,  July  20,  1806;  gradu- 
ated at  Jefferson  College,  Pa.,  in  1828,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  at  Baltimore  in  1830.  The 
following  year  he  removed  to  Illinois,  settling  at 
Vandalia,  then  the  capital.  In  1835  Governor 
Duncan  appointed  him  Auditor  of  Public 
Accounts,  to  which  office  he  was  elected  by  the 
Legislature  in  1837,  and  again  in  1838.  In 
1846  he  took  up  his  residence  at  Alton.  He 
attained  prominence  at  the  bar  and  was,  for 
several  years,  attorney  for  the  Chicago  &  Alton 
and  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute  Railroad 
Companies,  in  which  he  was  also  a  Director. 
Died,  at  Alton,  March  4,  1897. 

DAVIS,  Nathan  Smith,  M.D.,  LL.D.,  physi- 
cian, educator  and  editor,  was  born  in  Chenango 
County,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  9,  1817;  took  a  classical  and 
scientific  course  in  Cazenovia  Seminary ;  in  1837 
graduated  from  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons,  winning  several  prizes  during  his 
course;  the  same  year  began  practice  at  Bing- 
hamton;  spent  two  years  (1847-49)  in  New  York 
City,  when  he  removed  to  Chicago  to  accept  the 
chair  of  Physiology  and  General  Pathology  in 
Rush  Medical  College.  In  1859  he  accepted  a 
similar  position  in  the  Chicago  Medical  College 
(now  the  medical  department  of  Northwestern 
University),  where  he  still  remains.  Dr.  Davis 
had  not  only  been  a  busy  practitioner,  but  a  volu- 
minous writer  on  general  and  special  topics  con- 
nected with  his  profession,  having  been  editor  at 
different  times  of  several  medical  periodicals, 
including  "The  Chicago  Medical  Journal,"  "The 
Medical  Journal  and  Examiner,"  and  "The 


Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association." 
He  was  also  prominent  in  State,  National  and  Inter- 
national Medical  Congresses,  and  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Northwestern  University,  the 
Chicago  Academy  of  Sciences,  the  Chicago  His- 
torical Society,  the  Illinois  State  Microscopical  So- 
ciety and  the  Union  College  of  Law,  besides  other 
scientific  associations.  Died  June  16,  1904. 

DAVIS,  Oliver  L.,  lawyer,  was  born  in  New 
York  City,  Dec.  20,  1819;  after  being  in  the 
employ  of  the  American  Fur  Company  some 
seven  years,  came  to  Danville,  111.,  in  1841  and 
commenced  studying  law  the  next  year;  was 
elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  Seventeenth 
and  Twentieth  General  Assemblies,  first  as  a 
Democrat  and  next  (1856)  as  a  Republican; 
served  on  the  Circuit  Bench  in  1861-66,  and  again 
in  1873-79,  being  assigned  in  1877  to  the  Appellate 
bench.  Died,  Jan.  12,  1892. 

DAWSON,  John,  early  legislator,  was  born  in 
Virginia,  in  1791 ;  came  to  Illinois  in  1827,  set- 
tling in  Sangamon  County ;  served  five  terms  in 
the  lower  house  of  the  General  Assembly  (1830, 
'34,  '36,  '38  and  '46),  during  a  part  of  the  time 
being  the  colleague  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  He 
was  one  of  the  celebrated  "Long  Nine"  who  repre- 
sented Sangamon  County  at  the  time  of  the 
removal  of  the  State  capital  to  Springfield ;  was 
also  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention 
of  1847.  Died,  Nov.  12,  1850. 

DEAF  AND  DUMB,  ILLINOIS  INSTITU- 
TION FOR  EDUCATION  OF,  located  at  Jack- 
sonville, established  by  act  of  the  Legislature, 
Feb.  23,  1839,  and  the  oldest  of  the  State 
charitable  institutions.  Work  was  not  begun 
until  1842,  but  one  building  was  ready  for 
partial  occupancy  in  1846  and  was  completed 
in  1849.  (In  1871  this  building,  then  known 
as  the  south  wing,  was  declared  unsafe,  and 
was  razed  and  rebuilt.)  The  center  building 
was  completed  in  1852  and  the  north  wing  in 
1857.  Other  additions  and  new  buildings  have 
been  added  from  time  to  time,  such  as  new  dining 
halls,  workshops,  barns,  bakery,  refrigerator 
house,  kitchens,  a  gymnasium,  separate  cot- 
tages for  the  sexes,  etc.  At  present  (1895)  the 
institution  is  probably  the  largest,  as  it  is  un- 
questionably one  of  the  best  conducted,  of  its  class 
in  the  world.  The  number  of  pupils  in  1894  was 
716.  Among  its  employes  are  men  and  women  of 
ripe  culture  and  experience,  who  have  been  con- 
nected with  it  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a 
century. 

DEARBORN,  Lnther,  lawyer  and  legislator, 
was  born  at  Plymouth,  N.  H.,  March  24,  1820, 


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and  educated  in  Plymouth  schools  and  at  New 
Hampton  Academy ;  in  youth  removed  to  Dear- 
born County,  Ind.,  where  lie  taught  school  and 
served  as  deputy  Circuit  Clerk;  then  came  to 
Mason  County,  111.,  and,  in  1844,  to  Elgin.  Here 
he  was  elected  Sheriff  and,  at  the  expiration  of 
his  term,  Circuit  Clerk,  later  engaging  in  the 
banking  business,  which  proving  disastrous  in 
1857,  he  returned  to  Mason  County  and  began  the 
practice  of  law.  He  then  spent  some  years  in 
Minnesota,  finally  returning  to  Illinois  a  second 
time,  resumed  practice  at  Havana,  served  one 
term  in  the  State  Senate  (1876-80);  in  1884 
became  member  of  a  law  firm  in  Chicago,  but 
retired  in  1887  to  accept  the  attorneyship  of  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railway,  retaining  this  position 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  suddenly  at 
Springfield,  April  5,  1889.  For  the  last  two  years 
of  his  life  Mr.  Dearborn's  residence  was  at 
Aurora. 

DECATUR,  the  county-seat  of  Macon  County ; 
39  miles  east  of  Springfield  and  one  mile  north 
of  the  Sangamon  River — also  an  important  rail- 
way center.  Three  coal  shafts  are  operated  out- 
side the  city.  It  is  a  center  for  the  grain  trade, 
having  five  elevators.  Extensive  car  and  repair 
shops  are  located  there,  and  several  important 
manufacturing  industries  nourish,  among  them 
three  flouring  mills.  Decatur  has  paved  streets, 
water-works,  electric  street  railways,  and  excel- 
lent public  schools,  including  one  of  the  best  and 
most  noted  high  schools  in  the  State.  Two  daily 
papers  and  one  weekly  (labor)  journal  are  published 
there.  Pop.  (1900),  20,754;  (1910),  31,140. 

DECATUR  EDITORIAL  CONVENTION.  (See 
Anti-Nebraska  Editorial  Convention.) 

DECATUR  &  EASTERN  RAILWAY.  (See 
Indiana,  Decatur  &  Western  Railway.) 

DECATUR,  MATTOON  &  SOUTHERN  RAIL- 
ROAD.  (See  Peoria,  Decatur  &  Evansville 
Railway. ) 

DECATUR,  SULLIVAN  &  MATTOON  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  Peoria,  Decatur  &  Evansville 
Railway.) 

DEEP  SNOW,  THE,  an  event  occurring  in  the 
winter  of  1830-31  and  referred  to  by  old  settlers 
of  Illinois  as  constituting  an  epoch  in  State  his- 
tory. The  late  Dr.  Julian  M.  Sturtevant,  Presi- 
dent of  Illinois  College,  in  an  address  to  the  "Old 
Settlers"  of  Morgan  County,  a  few  years  before 
his  death,  gave  the  following  account  of  it:  "In 
the  interval  between  Christmas,  1830,  and  Janu- 
ary, 1831,  snow  fell  all  over  Central  Illinois  to  a 
depth  of  fully  three  feet  on  a  level.  Then  came 
a  rain  with  weather  so  cold  that  it  froze  as  it 


fell,  forming  a  crust  of  ice  over  this  three  feet  of 
snow,  nearly,  if  not  quite,  strong  enough  to  bear 
a  man,  and  finally  over  this  crust  there  were  a 
few  inches  of  snow.  The  clouds  passed  away 
and  the  wind  came  down  upon  us  from  the  north- 
west with  extraordinary  ferocity.  For  weeks  — 
certainly  not  less  than  two  weeks — the  mercury 
in  the  thermometer  tube  was  not,  on  any  one 
morning,  higher  than  twelve  degrees  below  zero. 
This  snow-fall  produced  constant  sleighing  for 
nine  weeks."  Other  contemporaneous  accounts 
say  that  this  storm  caused  great  suffering  among 
both  men  and  beasts.  The  scattered  settlers,  un- 
able to  reach  the  mills  or  produce  stores,  were 
driven,  in  some  cases,  to  great  extremity  for 
supplies ;  mills  were  stopped  by  the  freezing  up 
of  streams,  while  deer  and  other  game,  sinking 
through  the  crust  of  snow,  were  easily  captured 
or  perished  for  lack  of  food.  Birds  and  domestic 
fowls  often  suffered  a  like  fate  for  want  of  sus- 
tenance or  from  the  severity  of  the  cold. 

DEERE,  John,  manufacturer,  was  born  at 
Middlebury,  Vt.,  Feb.  7,  1804;  learned  the  black- 
smith trade,  which  he  followed  until  1838,  when 
he  came  west,  settling  at  Grand  Detour,  in  Ogle 
County ;  ten  years  later  removed  to  Moline,  and 
there  founded  the  plow-works  which  bear  his 
name  and  of  which  he  was  President  from  1868 
until  his  death  in  1886.— Charles  H.  (Deere),  son 
of  the  preceding,  was  born  in  Hancock,  Addison 
County  Vt.,  March  28,  1837;  educated  in  the 
common  schools  and  at  Iowa  and  Knox  Acad- 
emies, and  Bell's  Commercial  College,  Chicago; 
became  assistant  and  head  book-keeper,  travel- 
ing and  purchasing  agent  of  the  Deere  Plow 
Company,  and,  on  its  incorporation,  Vice-Presi- 
dent and  General  Manager,  until  his  father's 
death,  when  he  succeeded  to  the  Presidency.  He 
was  also  founder  of  the  Deere  &  Mansur  Corn 
Planter  Works,  President  of  the  Moline  Water 
Power  Company,  besides  being  a  Director  in 
various  other  concerns  and  in  the  branch  houses 
of  Deere  &  Co.,  in  Kansas  City,  Des  Moines, 
Council  Bluffs  and  San  Francisco.  Notwith- 
standing his  immense  business  interests,  Mr. 
Deere  found  time  for  the  discharge  of  public 
and  patriotic  duties,  as  shown  by  the  fact  that  he 
was  for  years  a  member  and  Chairman  of  the 
State  Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics ;  a  Commissioner 
from  Illinois  to  the  Vienna  International  Exposi- 
tion of  1873;  one  of  the  State  Commissioners  of 
the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  of  1893;  a 
Presidential  Elector  for  the  State-at-large  in  1888, 
and  a  delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Conven- 
tion at  St.  Louis,  in  1896.  Died  Oct.  29,  1907. 


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DEERINGt,  William,  manufacturer,  was  born 
at  Paris,  Oxford  County,  Maine,  April  26,  1826, 
completed  his  education  at  the  Readfield  high 
school,  in  1843,  engaged  actively  in  manufactur- 
ing, and  during  his  time  has  assisted  in  establish- 
ing several  large,  successful  business  enterprises, 
including  wholesale  and  commission  dry-goods 
houses  in  Portland,  Maine,  Boston  and  New  York. 
His  greatest  work  has  been  the  building  up  of  the 
Deering  Manufacturing  Company,  a  main  feature 
of  which,  for  thirty  years,  has  been  the  manu- 
facture of  Marsh  harvesters  and  other  agricultural 
implements  and  appliances.  This  concern  began 
operation  in  Chicago  about  1870,  at  the  present 
time  (1899)  occupying  eighty  acres  in  the  north 
part  of  the  city  and  employing  some  4,000  hands. 
It  is  said  to  turn  out  a  larger  amount  and  greater 
variety  of  articles  for  the  use  of  the  agriculturist 
than  any  other  establishment  in  the  country, 
receiving  its  raw  material  from  many  foreign 
countries,  including  the  Philippines,  and  distrib- 
uting its  products  all  over  the  globe.  Mr.  Deer- 
ing  continues  to  be  President  of  the  Company 
and  a  principal  factor  in  the  management  of  its 
immense  business.  He  is  liberal,  public-spirited 
and  benevolent,  and  his  business  career  has  been 
notable  for  the  absence  of  controversies  with  his 
employes.  He  has  been,  for  a  number  of  years, 
one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity at  Evanston,  and,  at  the  present  time,  is 
President  of  the  Board. 

DE  KAI.lt,  a  city  in  De  Kalb  County,  58  miles 
west  of  Chicago.  Of  late  years  it  has  grown 
rapidly,  largely  because  of  the  introduction  of 
new  industrial  enterprises.  It  contains  a  large 
wire  drawing  plant,  barbed  wire  factories,  foun- 
dry, agricultural  implement  works,  machine 
shop,  shoe  factory  and  several  minor  manufac- 
turing establishments.  It  has  banks,  three  news- 
papers, electric  street  railway,  eight  miles  of  paved 
streets,  nine  churches  and  three  graded  schools. 
It  is  the  site  of  the  Northern  State  Normal  School, 
located  in  1895.  Population  (1880),  1,598;  (1890), 
2,579;  (1900),  5,904;  (1910),  8,102.' 

DE  KALB  COUNTY,  originally  a  portion  of 
La  Salle  County,  and  later  of  Kane,  was  organized 
in  1837,  and  named  for  Baron  De  Kalb,  the 
Revolutionary  patriot.  Its  area  is  650  square 
miles  and  population  (in  1910),  33,457.  The  land 
is  elevated  and  well  drained,  lying  between  Fox 
and  Rock  Rivers.  Prior  to  1835  the  land  belonged 
tc  the  Pottawatomie  Indians,  who  maintained 
several  villages  and  their  own  tribal  government. 
No  sooner  had  the  aborigines  been  removed  than 
white  settlers  appeared  in  large  numbers,  and, 


in  September,  1835,  a  convocation  was  held  on 
the  banks  of  the  Kishwaukee,  to  adopt  a  tempo- 
rary form  of  government.  The  public  lands  in  the 
county  were  sold  at  auction  in  Chicago  in  1843. 
Sycamore  (originally  called  Orange)  is  the 
county-seat,  and,  in  1890,  had  a  population  of 
2,987.  Brick  buildings  were  first  erected  at 
Sycamore  by  J.  S.  Waterman  and  the  brothers 
Mayo.  In  1854,  H.  A.  Hough  established  the 
first  newspaper,  "The  Republican  Sentinel." 
Other  prosperous  towns  are  De  Kalb  (population, 
2,579),  Cortland,  Malta  and  Somonauk.  The  sur- 
face is  generally  rolling,  upland  prairie,  with 
numerous  groves  and  wooded  tracts  along  the 
principal  streams.  Various  lines  of  railroad  trav- 
erse the  county,  which  embraces  one  of  the 
wealthiest  rural  districts  in  the  State. 

DE  KALB  &  GREAT  WESTERN  RAILROAD. 
(See  Chicago  Great  Western  Railway.) 

DELAY  AN,  a  thriving  city  in  Tazewell  County, 
on  the  line  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad,  at 
the  point  of  its  intersection  with  the  Peoria  and 
Pekin  Division  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railway,  34 
miles  west- south  west  of  Bloomington  and  24 
miles  south  of  Peoria.  Grain  is  extensively 
grown  in  the  adjacent  territory,  and  much 
shipped  from  Delavan.  The  place  supports  two 
banks,  tile  and  brick  factory,  creamery,  and  two 
weekly  papers.  It  also  has  five  churches  and  a 
graded  school.  Pop.  (1900),  1,304;  (1910),  1,175. 

DEMENT,  Henry  Dodge,  ex -Secretary  of  State, 
was  born  at  Galena,  111.,  in  1840 — the  son  of 
Colonel  John  Dement,  an  early  and  prominent 
citizen  of  the  State,  who  held  the  office  of  State 
Treasurer  and  was  a  member  of  the  Constitu- 
tional Conventions  of  1847  and  1870.  Colonel 
Dement  having  removed  to  Dixon  about  1845,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  there  and  at 
Mount  Morris.  Having  enlisted  in  the  Thirteenth 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry  in  1861,  he  was  elected 
a  Second  Lieutenant  and  soon  promoted  to  First 
Lieutenant — also  received  from  Governor  Yates  a 
complimentary  commission  as  Captain  for  gal- 
lantry at  Arkansas  Post  and  at  Chickasaw 
Bayou,  where  the  commander  of  his  regiment, 
Col.  J.  B.  Wyman,  was  killed.  Later  he  served 
with  General  Curtis  in  Mississippi  and  in  the 
Fifteenth  Army  Corps  in  the  siege  of  Vicksburg. 
After  leaving  the  army  he  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facturing business  for  some  years  at  Dixon.  Cap- 
tain Dement  entered  the  State  Legislature  by 
election  as  Representative  from  Lee  County  in 
1872,  was  re-elected  in  1874  and,  in  1876,  was  pro- 
moted to  the  Senate,  serving  in  the  Thirtieth  and 
Thirty-first  General  Assemblies.  In  1880  he  was 


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chosen  Secretary  of  State,  and  re-elected  in  1884, 
serving  eight  years.  The  last  public  position  held 
by  Captain  Dement  was  that  of  Warden  of  the 
State  Penitentiary  at  Joliet,  to  which  he  was 
appointed  in  1891,  serving  two  years.  His 
present  home  is  at  Oak  Park,  Cook  County. 

DEMENT,  John,  was  born  in  Sumner  County, 
Tenn.,  in  April,  1804.  When  13  years  old  he 
accompanied  his  parents  to  Illinois,  settling  in 
Franklin  County,  of  which  he  was  elected  Sheriff 
in  1826,  and  which  he  represented  in  the  General 
Assemblies  of  1828  and  '30.  He  served  with 
distinction  during  the  Black  Hawk  War,  having 
previously  had  experience  in  two  Indian  cam- 
paigns. In  1831  he  was  elected  State  Treasurer 
by  the  Legislature,  but,  in  1836,  resigned  this 
office  to  represent  Fayette  County  in  the  General 
Assembly  and  aid  in  the  fight  against  the  removal 
of  the  capital  to  Springfield.  His  efforts  failing 
of  success,  he  removed  to  the  northern  part  of  the 
State,  finally  locating  at  Dixon,  where  he  became 
extensively  engaged  in  manufacturing.  In  1837 
President  Van  Buren  appointed  him  Receiver  of 
Public  Moneys,  but  he  was  removed  by  President 
Harrison  in  1841;  was  reappointed  by  Polk  in 
1845,  only  to  be  again  removed  by  Taylor  in  1849 
and  reappointed  by  Pierce  in  1853.  He  held  the 
office  from  that  date  until  it  was  abolished.  He 
was  a  Democratic  Presidential  Elector  in  1844; 
served  in  three  Constitutional  Conventions  (1847, 
'62,  and  '70),  being  Temporary  President  of  the 
two  bodies  last  named.  He  was  the  father  of 
Hon.  Denry  D.  Dement,  Secretary  of  State  of  Illi- 
nois from  1884  to  1888.  He  died  at  his  home  at 
Dixon,  Jan.  16,  1883. 

DENT,  Thomas,  lawyer,  was  born  in  Putnam 
County,  111.,  Nov.  14,  1831;  in  his  youth  was 
employed  in  the  Clerk's  office  of  Putnam  County, 
meanwhile  studying  law;  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1854,  and,  in  1856,  opened  an  office  in  Chi- 
cago; is  still  in  practice  and  has  served  as 
President,  both  of  the  Chicago  Law  Institute  and 
the  State  Bar  Association. 

DES  PLAINES,  a  village  of  Cook  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  and 
the  Wisconsin  Central  Railroads,  17  miles  north- 
west from  Chicago;  is  a  dairying  region.  Popu- 
lation (1890),  986;  (1900),  1,666;  (1910),  2,348. 

DES  PLAINES  RIVER,  a  branch  of  the  Illinois 
River,  which  rises  in  Racine  County,  Wis.,  and, 
after  passing  through  Kenosha  County,  in  that 
State,  and  Lake  County;  111.,  running  nearly 
parallel  to  the  west  shore  of  Lake  Michigan 
through  Cook  County,  finally  unites  with  the 
Kankakee,  about  1?  miles  southwest  of  Joliet,  by 


its  confluence  with  the  latter  forming  the  Illinois 
River.  Its  length  is  about  150  miles.  The 
Chicago  Drainage  Canal  is  constructed  in  the 
valley  of  the  Des  Plaines  for  a  considerable  por- 
tion of  the  distance  between  Chicago  and  Joliet. 

DEWEY,  (Dr.)  Richard  S.,  physician,  alienist, 
was  born  at  Forestville,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  6,  1845;  after 
receiving  his  primary  education  took  a  two  years' 
course  in  the  literary  and  a  three  years'  course  in 
the  medical  department  of  the  Michigan  Univer- 
sity at  Ann  Arbor,  graduating  from  the  latter  in 
1869.  He  then  began  practice  as  House  Physician 
and  Surgeon  in  the  City  Hospital  at  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y.,  remaining  for  a  year,  after  which  he 
visited  Europe  inspecting  hospitals  and  sanitary 
methods,  meanwhile  spending  six  months  in  the 
Prussian  military  service  as  Surgeon  during  the 
Franco-Prussian  War.  After  the  close  of  the 
war  he  took  a  brief  course  in  the  University  of 
Berlin,  when,  returning  to  the  United  States,  he 
was  employed  for  seven  years  as  Assistant  Physi- 
cian in  the  Northern  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at 
Elgin.  In  1879  he  was  appointed  Medical  Super- 
intendent of  the  Eastern  Hospital  for  the  Insane 
at  Kankakee,  remaining  until  the  accession  of 
John  P.  Altgeld  to  the  Governorship  in  1893. 
Dr.  Dewey's  reputation  as  a  specialist  in  the 
treatment  of  the  insane  has  stood  among  the 
highest  of  his  class. 

DE  WITT  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  central 
portion  of  the  State;  has  an  area  of  440  square 
miles  and  a  population  (1910)  of  18,906.  The  land 
was  originally  owned  by  the  Kickapoos  and  Potta- 
watomies,  and  not  until  1820  did  the  first  perma- 
nent white  settlers  occupy  this  region.  The  first 
to  oome  were  Felix  Jones,  Prettyman  Marvel, 
William  Cottrell,  Samuel  Glenn,  and  the  families 
of  Scott,  Lundy  and  Coaps.  Previously,  how- 
ever, the  first  cabin  had  been  built  on  the  site  of 
the  present  Farmer  City  by  Nathan  Clearwater. 
Zion  Shugest  erected  the  earliest  grist-mill  and 
Burrell  Post  the  first  saw-mill  in  the  county. 
Kentuckians  and  Tennesseeans  were  the  first  im- 
migrants, but  not  until  the  advent  of  settlers  from 
Ohio  did  permanent  improvements  begin  to  be 
made.  In  1835  a  school  house  and  Presbyterian 
church  were  built  at  Waynesville.  The  county 
was  organized  in  1839,  and — with  its  capital 
(Clinton) — was  named  after  one  of  New  York's 
most  distinguished  Governors.  It  lies  within  the 
great  "corn  belt,"  and  is  well  watered  by  Salt 
Creek  and  its  branches.  Most  of  the  surface  is 
rolling  prairie,  interspersed  with  woodland. 
Several  lines  of  railway  (among  them  the  Illinois 
Central)  cross  the  county.  Clinton  had  a  popu- 


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lation  of  2,598  in  1890,  and  Farmer  City,  1,367. 
Both  are  railroad  centers  and  have  considerable 
trade. 

DE  WOLF,  Calvin,  pioneer  and  philanthropist, 
was  born  in  Luzerne  County,  Pa.,  Feb.  18,  1815; 
taken  early  in  life  to  Vermont,  and,  at  19  years  of 
age,  commenced  teaching  at  Orwell,  in  that 
State;  spent  one  year  at  a  manual  labor  school 
in  Ashtabula  County,  Ohio,  and,  in  1837,  came  to 
Chicago,  and  soon  after  began  teaching  in  Will 
County,  still  later  engaging  in  the  same  vocation 
in  Chicago.  In  1839  he  commenced  the  study  of 
law  with  Messrs.  Spring  &  Goodrich  and,  in  1843, 
was  admitted  to  practice.  In  1854  he  was 
elected  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  retaining  the 
position  for  a  quarter  of  a  century,  winning  for 
himself  the  reputation  of  a  sagacious  and  incor- 
ruptible public  officer.  Mr.  De  Wolf  was  an 
original  abolitionist  and  his  home  is  said  to  have 
been  one  of  the  stations  on  the  "underground 
railroad"  in  the  days  of  slavery.  Died  Nov.  28,  '99. 

DEXTER,  Wirt,  lawyer,  born  at  Dexter,  Mich., 
Oct.  25,  1831 ;  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  his 
native  State  and  at  Cazenovia  Seminary,  N.  Y. 
He  was  descended  from  a  family  of  lawyers,  his 
grandfather,  Samuel  Dexter,  having  been  Secre- 
tary of  War,  and  afterwards  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury,  in  the  cabinet  of  the  elder  Adams. 
Coming  to  Chicago  at  the  beginning  of  his  profes- 
sional career,  Mr.  Dexter  gave  considerable 
attention  at  first  to  his  father's  extensive  lumber 
trade.  He  was  a  zealous  and  eloquent  supporter 
of  the  Government  during  the  Civil  War,  and 
was  an  active  member  of  the  Relief  and  Aid 
Society  after  the  fire  of  1871.  His  entire  profes- 
sional life  was  spent  in  Chicago,  for  several  years 
before  his  death  being  in  the  service  of  the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad  Company  as 
its  general  solicitor  and  member  of  the  executive 
committee  of  the  Board  of  Directors.  Died  in 
Chicago,  May  20,  1890. 

DICKEY,  Hugh  Thompson,  jurist,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  May  30,  1811;  graduated  from 
Columbia  College,  read  law  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar.  He  visited  Chicago  in  1836,  and  four 
years  later  settled  there,  becoming  one  of  its 
most  influential  citizens.  Upon  the  organization 
of  the  County  Court  of  Cook  County  in  1845, 
Mr.  Dickey  was  appointed  its  Judge.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1848,  he  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Seventh 
Judicial  Circuit,  practically  without  partisan 
opposition,  serving  until  the  expiration  of  his 
term  in  1853.  He  was  prominently  identified 
with  several  important  commercial  enterprises, 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Chicago  Library 


Association,  and  one  of  the  first  Trustees  of  the 
Illinois  General  Hospital  of  the  Lakes,  now  Mercy 
Hospital.  In  1885  he  left  Chicago  to  take  up  his 
residence  in  his  native  city,  New  York,  where  he 
died,  June  2,  1892. 

DICKEY,  Theophilus  Lyle,  lawyer  and  jurist, 
was  born  in  Bourbon  County,  Ky.,  Nov.  12,  1812, 
the  grandson  of  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  gradu- 
ated at  the  Miami  (Ohio)  University,  and  re- 
moved to  Illinois  in  1834,  settling  at  Macomb, 
McDonough  County,  where  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1835.  In  1836  he  moved  to  Rushville, 
where  he  resided  three  years,  a  part  of  the  time 
editing  a  Whig  newspaper.  Later  he  became  a 
resident  of  Ottawa,  and,  at  the  opening  of  the 
Mexican  War,  organized  a  company  of  volun- 
teers, of  which  he  was  chosen  Captain.  In  1861 
he  raised  a  regiment  of  cavalry  which  was 
mustered  into  service  as  the  Fourth  Illinois 
Cavalry,  and  of  which  he  was  commissioned 
Colonel,  taking  an  active  part  in  Grant's  cam- 
paigns in  the  West.  In  1865  he  resigned  his 
commission  and  resumed  the  practice  of  his 
profession  at  Ottawa.  In  1866  he  was  an 
unsuccessful  candidate  for  Congressman  for  the 
State-at-large  in  opposition  to  John  A.  Logan, 
and,  in  1868,  was  tendered  and  accepted  the  posi- 
tion of  Assistant  Attorney-General  of  the  United 
States,  resigning  after  eighteen  months'  service. 
In  1873  he  removed  to  Chicago,  and,  in  1874,  was 
made  Corporation  Counsel.  In  December,  1875, 
he  was  elected  to  the  Supreme  Court,  vice  W.  K. 
McAllister,  deceased ;  was  re-elected  in  1879,  and 
died  at  Atlantic  City,  July  22,  1885. 

DISCIPLES  OF  CHRIST,  THE,  known  also  as 
the  Christian  Church  and  as  "Campbellites," 
having  been  founded  by  Alexander  Campbell. 
Many  members  settled  in  Illinois  in  the  early 
30's,  and,  in  the  central  portion  of  the  State,  the 
denomination  soon  began  to  flourish  greatly, 
Any  one  was  admitted  to  membership  who  made 
what  is  termed  a  scriptural  confession  of  faith 
and  was  baptized  by  immersion.  Alexander 
Campbell  was  an  eloquent  preacher  and  a  man  of 
much  native  ability,  as  well  as  a  born  conver- 
sationalist. The  sect  has  steadily  grown  in 
numbers  and  influence  in  the  State.  The  United 
States  Census  of  1890  showed  641  churches  in  the 
State,  with  368  ministers  and  an  aggregate  mem- 
bership of  61,587,  having  550  Sunday  schools,  with 
50,000  pupils  in  attendance.  The  value  of  the 
real  property,  which  included  552  church  edifices 
(with  a  seating  capacity  of  155,000)  and  30  parson- 
ages, was  §1,167,675.  The  denomination  supports 
Eureka  College,  with  an  attendance  of  between 


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400  and  500  students,  while  its  assets  are  valued 
at  §150,000.  Total  membership  in  the  United 
States,  estimated  at  750,000. 

DIXOJf,  an  incorporated  city,  the  county-seat 
of  Lee  County.  It  lies  on  both  sides  of  Rock 
River  and  is  the  point  of  intersection  of  the  Illi- 
nois Central  and  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern 
Railroads;  is  98  miles  west  of  Chicago.  Rock 
River  furnishes  abundant  water  power  and  the 
manufacturing  interests  of  the  city  are  very  ex- 
tensive, including  large  plow  works,  wire-cloth 
factory,  wagon  factory;  also  has  electric  light 
and  power  plant,  three  shoe  factories,  planing 
mills,  and  a  condensed  milk  factory.  There  are 
two  National  and  one  State  bank,  eleven 
churches,  a  hospital,  and  three  newspapers.  In 
schools  the  city  particularly  excels,  having  sev- 
eral graded  (grammar)  schools  and  two  colleges. 
The  Chautauqua  Assembly  holds  its  meeting  here 
annually.  Population  (1900),  7,917;  (1910),  7,216. 

DIXON,  John,  pioneer — the  first,  white  settler 
in  Lee  County,  111.,  was  born  at  Rye,  West- 
chester  County,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  9,  1784;  at  21  removed 
to  New  York  City,  where  he  was  in  business  some 
fifteen  years.  In  1820  he  set  out  with  his  family 
for  the  West,  traveling  by  land  to  Pittsburg, 
and  thence  by  flat-boat  to  Shawneetown.  Having 
disembarked  his  horses  and  goods  here,  he  pushed 
out  towards  the  northwest,  passing  the  vicinity 
of  Springfield,  and  finally  locating  on  Fancy 
Creek,  some  nine  miles  north  of  the  present  site 
of  that  city.  Here  he  remained  some  five  years, 
in  that  time  serving  as  foreman  of  the  first  Sanga- 
mon  County  Grand  Jury.  The  new  county  of 
Peoria  having  been  established  in  1825,  he  was 
offered  and  accepted  the  appointment  of  Circuit 
Clerk,  removing  to  Fort  Clark,  as  Peoria  was 
then  called.  Later  he  became  contractor  for 
carrying  the  mail  on  the  newly  established  route 
between  Peoria  and  Galena.  Compelled  to  pro- 
vide means  of  crossing  Rock  River,  he  induced  a 
French  and  Indian  half-breed,  named  Ogee,  to 
take  charge  of  a  ferry  at  a  point  afterwards 
known  as  Ogee's  Ferry.  The  tide  of  travel  to  the 
lead-mine  region  caused  both  the  mail-route  and 
the  ferry  to  prove  profitable,  and,  as  the  half- 
breed  ferryman  could  not  endure  prosperity,  Mr. 
Dixon  was  forced  to  buy  him  out,  removing  his 
family  to  this  point  in  April,  1830.  Here  he 
established  friendly  relations  with  the  Indians, 
and,  during  the  Black  Hawk  War  ,two  years  later, 
was  enabled  to  render  valuable  service  to  the 
State.  His  station  was  for  many  years  one  of 
the  most  important  points  in  Northern  Illinois, 
and  among  the  men  of  national  reputation  who 


were  entertained  at  different  times  at  his  home- 
may  be  named  Gen.  Zachary  Taylor,  Albert  Sid 
ney  Johnston,  Gen.  Winfield  Scott,  Jefferson 
Davis,  Col.  Robert  Anderson,  Abraham  Lincoln, 
Col.  E.  D.  Baker  and  many  more.  He  bought  the 
land  where  Dixon  now  stands  in  1835  and  laid  off 
the  town ;  in  1838  was  elected  by  the  Legislature 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Public  Works,  and,  in 
1840,  secured  the  removal  of  the  land  office  from 
Galena  to  Dixon.  Colonel  Dixon  was  a  delegate 
from  Lee  County  to  the  Republican  State  Con- 
vention at  Bloomington,  in  May,  1856,  and, 
although  then  considerably  over  70  years  of  age, 
spoke  from  the  same  stand  with  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, his  presence  producing  much  enthusiasm. 
His  death  occurred,  July  6,  1876. 

DOANE,  John  Wesley,  merchant  and  banker, 
was  born  at  Thompson,  Windham  County,  Conn., 
March  23,  1833;  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools,  and,  at  22  years  of  age,  came  to  Chicago 
and  opened  a  small  grocery  store  which,  by  1870, 
had  become  one  of  the  most  extensive  concerns 
of  its  kind  in  the  Northwest.  It  was  swept  out 
of  existence  by  the  fire  of  1871,  but  was  re-estab- 
lished and,  in  1872,  transferred  to  other  parties, 
although  Mr.  Doane  continued  to  conduct  an 
importing  business  in  many  lines  of  goods  used  in 
the  grocery  trade.  Having  become  interested  in 
the  Merchants'  Loan  &  Trust  Company,  he  was 
elected  its  President  and  continued  to  act  in  that 
capacity.  He  was  also  a  stockholder  and  a  Director 
of  the  Pullman  Palace  Car  Company,  the  Allen 
Paper  Car  Wheel  Company  and  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad,  and  was  a  leading  promoter  of  the  World's 
Columbian  Exposition  of  1893 — being  one  of  those 
who  guaranteed  the  $5,000,000  raised  by  citizens 
of  Chicago  to  assure  the  success  of  the  enterprise. 
Died  March  23,  1901. 

DOLTON  STATION,  a  village  of  Cook  County, 
on  the  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois,  the  Chicago  & 
Western  Indiana,  and  the  Pittsburg,  Cincinnati, 
Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railroads,  16  miles  south  of 
Chicago ;  has  a  carriage  factory,  a  weekly  paper, 
churches  and  a  graded  school.  Population  (1880) 
448;  (1890),  1,110;  (1900),  1,229;  (1910),  1,869. 

DOXGOLA,  a  village  in  Union  County,  on  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad,  27  miles  north  of  Cairo. 
Pop.  (1890),  733;  (1900),  681;  (1910),  702. 

DOOLITTLE,  James  Rood,  United  States 
Senator,  was  born  in  Hampton,  Washington 
County,  N.  Y.,  Jan  3,  1815;  educated  at  Middle- 
bury  and  Geneva  (now  Hobart)  Colleges,  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1837  and  practiced  at  Rochester  ana 
Warsaw,  N.  Y. ;  was  elected  District  Attorney  of 
Wyoming  County,  N.  Y..  in  1845.  and.  in  1851 


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removed  to  Wisconsin;  two  years  later  was 
elected  Circuit  Judge,  but  resigned  in  1856,  and 
the  following  year  was  elected  as  a  Democratic- 
Republican  to  the  United  States  Senate,  being 
re-elected  as  a  Republican  in  1863.  Retiring 
from  public  life  in  1869,  he  afterwards  resided 
chiefly  at  Racine,  Wis.,  though  practicing  in  the 
courts  of  Chicago.  He  was  President  of  the 
National  Union  Convention  at  Philadelphia  in 
1866,  and  of  the  National  Democratic  Convention 
of  1872  in  Baltimore,  which  endorsed  Horace 
Greeley  for  President.  Died,  at  Edgewood,  R.  I., 
July  27,  1897. 

DORE,  John  Clark,  first  Superintendent  of 
Chicago  City  Schools,  was  born  at  Ossipee,  N.  H., 
March  22,  1822;  began  teaching  at  17  years  of  age 
and  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College  in  1847; 
then  taught  several  years  and,  in  1854,  was 
offered  and  accepted  the  position  of  Superintend- 
ent of  City  Schools  of  Chicago,  but  resigned  two 
years  later.  Afterwards  engaging  in  business, 
he  served  as  Vice-President  and  President  of 
the  Board  of  Trade,  President  of  the  Com- 
mercial Insurance  Company  and  of  the  State 
Savings  Institution ;  was  a  member  of  the  State 
Senate,  1868-72,  and  has  been  identified  with 
various  benevolent  organizations  of  the  city  of 
Chicago.  Died  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Dec.,  14,  1900. 

DOUGHERTY,  John,  lawyer  and  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  was  born  at  Marietta,  Ohio,  May  6, 
1806;  brought  by  his  parents,  in  1808,  to  Cape 
Girardeau,  Mo.,  where  they  remained  until  after 
the  disastrous  earthquakes  in  that  region  in 
1811-12,  when,  his  father  having  died,  his  mother 
removed  to  Jonesboro,  111.  Here  he  finally  read 
law  with  Col.  A.  P.  Field,  afterwards  Secretary 
of  State,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1831  and 
early  attaining  prominence  as  a  successful 
criminal  lawyer.  He  soon  became  a  recognized 
political  leader,  was  elected  as  a  member  of  the 
House  to  the  Eighth  General  Assembly  (1832) 
and  re-elected  in  1834,  '36  and  '40,  and  again  in 
1856,  and  to  the  Senate  in  1842,  serving  in  the 
latter  body  until  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution 
of  1848.  Originally  a  Democrat,  he  was,  in  1858, 
the  Administration  (Buchanan)  candidate  for 
State  Treasurer,  as  opposed  to  the  Douglas  wing 
of  the  party,  but,  in  1861,  became  a  strong  sup- 
porter of  Abraham  Lincoln.  He  served  as  Presi- 
dential Elector  on  the  Republican  ticket  in  1864 
and  in  1872  (the  former  year  for  the  State-  at- 
large),  in  1868  was  elected  Lieutenant-Governor 
and,  in  1877,  to  a  seat  on  the  criminal  bench, 
serving  until  June,  1879.  Died,  at  Jonesboro, 
Sept.  7,  1879. 


DOUGLAS,  John  M.,  lawyer  and  Railway 
President,  was  born  at  Plattsburg,  Clinton 
County,  N.  Y.,  August  22,  1819;  read  law  three 
years  in  his  native  city,  then  came  west  and 
settled  at  Galena,  111.,  where  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1841  and  began  practice.  In  1856  he 
removed  to  Chicago,  and,  the  following  year, 
became  one  of  the  solicitors  of  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad,  with  which  he  had  been  associated  as 
an  attorney  at  Galena.  Between  1861  and  1876 
he  was  a  Director  of  the  Company  over  twelve 
years ;  from  1865  to  1871  its  President,  and  again 
for  eighteen  months  in  1875-76,  when  he  retired 
permanently.  Mr.  Douglas'  contemporaries  speak 
of  him  as  a  lawyer  of  great  ability,  as  well 
as  a  capable  executive  officer.  Died,  in  Chicago, 
March  25,  1891. 

DOUGLAS,  Stephen  Arnold,  statesman,  was 
born  at  Brandon,  Vt.,  April  23,  1813.  In  conse- 
quence of  the  death  of  his  father  in  infancy, 
his  early  educational  advantages  were  limited. 
When  fifteen  he  applied  himself  to  the  cabinet- 
maker's trade,  and,  in  1830,  accompanied  his 
mother  and  step-father  to  Ontario  County,  N.  Y. 
In  1832  he  began  the  study  of  law,  but  started  for 
the  West  in  1833.  He  taught  school  at  Win- 
chester, 111. ,  reading  law  at  night  and  practicing 
before  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  on  Saturdays.  He 
was  soon  admitted  to  the  bar  and  took  a  deep 
interest  in  politics.  In  1835  he  was  elected  Prose- 
cuting Attorney  for  Morgan  County,  but  a  few 
months  later  resigned  this  office  to  enter  the 
lower  house  of  the  Legislature,  to  which  he  was 
elected  in  1836.  In  1838  he  was  a  candidate  for 
Congress,  but  was  defeated  by  John  T.  Stuart,  his 
Whig  opponent;  was  appointed  Secretary  of 
State  in  December,  1840,  and,  in  February,  1841, 
elected  Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court.  He  was 
elected  to  Congress  in  1842,  '44  and  '46,  and,  in 
the  latter  year,  was  chosen  United  States  Sena- 
tor, taking  his  seat  March  4,  1847,  and  being 
re-elected  in  1853  and  '59.  His  last  canvass  was 
rendered  memorable  through  his  joint  debate,  in 
1858,  before  the  people  of  the  State  with  Abraham 
Lincoln,  whom  he  defeated  before  the  Legisla- 
ture. He  was  a  candidate  for  the  presidential 
nomination  before  the  Democratic  National 
Conventions  of  1852  and  '56.  In  1860,  after  having 
failed  of  a  nomination  for  the  Presidency  at 
Charleston,  S.  C.,  through  the  operation  of  the 
"two  thirds  rule,"  he  received  the  nomination 
from  the  adjourned  convention  held  at  Baltimore 
six  weeks  later — though  not  until  the  delegates 
from  nearly  all  the  Southern  States  had  with- 
drawn, the  seceding  delegates  afterwards  nomi- 


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nating  John  C.  Breckenridge.  Although  defeated 
for  the  Presidency  by  Lincoln,  his  old-time 
antagonist,  Douglas  yielded  a  cordial  support  to 
the  incoming  administration  in  its  attitude 
toward  the  seceded  States,  occupying  a  place  of 
honor  beside  Mr.  Lincoln  on  the  portico  of  the 
capitol  during  the  inauguration  ceremonies.  As 
politician,  orator  and  statesman,  Douglas  had 
few  superiors.  Quick  in  perception,  facile  in 
expedients,  ready  in  resources,  earnest  and 
fearless  in  utterance,  he  was  a  born  "leader  of 
men."  His  shortness  of  stature,  considered  in 
relation  to  his  extraordinary  mental  acumen, 
gained  for  him  the  sobriquet  of  the  "Little 
Giant."  He  died  in  Chicago,  June  3,  1861. 

DOUGLAS  COUNTY,  lying  a  little  east  of  the 
center  of  the  State,  embracing  an  area  of  410 
square  miles  and  having  a  population  (1910)  of 
19,591.  The  earliest  land  entry  was  made  by 
Harrison  Gill,  of  Kentucky,  whose  patent  was 
signed  by  Andrew  Jackson.  Another  early 
settler  was  John  A.  Richman,  a  West  Virginian, 
who  erected  one  of  the  first  frame  houses  in 
the  county  in  1829.  The  Embarras  and  Kas- 
kaskia  Rivers  flow  through  the  county,  which  is 
also  crossed  by  the  Wabash  and  Illinois  Central 
Railways.  Douglas  County  was  organized  in 
1859  (being  set  off  from  Coles)  and  named  in 
honor  of  Stephen  A.  Douglas,  then  United  States 
Senator  from  Illinois.  After  a  sharp  struggle  Tus- 
cola  was  made  the  county-seat.  It  has  been 
visited  by  several  disastrous  conflagrations,  but 
is  a  thriving  town,  credited,  in  1890,  with  a 
population  of  1,897.  Other  important  towns  are 
Arcola  (population,  1,733),  and  Camargo,  which 
was  originally  known  as  New  Salem. 

DOWNERS  GROVE,  village,  Du  Page  County, 
on  C.,  B.  &Q.  R.  R.,  21  miles  south-southwest  from 
Chicago,  incorporated  1873 ;  has  water- works,  elec- 
tric lights,  furniture  factory,  good  schools,  bank  and 
a  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  2,103;  (1910),  2,601. 

DOWNING,  Finis  Ewing,  ex-Congressman  and 
lawyer,  was  born  at  Virginia,  111.,  August  24, 
1846 ;  reared  on  a  farm  and  educated  in  the  public 
and  private  schools  of  his  native  town;  from  1865 
was  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  until  1880, 
when  he  was  elected  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court 
of  Cass  County,  serving  three  successive  terms ; 
read  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Decem- 
ber, 1887.  In  August,  1891,  he  became  interested 
in  "The  Virginia  Enquirer"  (a  Democratic 
paper),  which  he  has  since  conducted;  was 
elected  Secretary  of  the  State  Senate  in  1893, 
and,  in  1894,  was  returned  as  elected  to  the  Fifty- 
fourth  Congress  from  the  Sixteenth  District  by  a 


plurality  of  forty  votes  over  Gen.  John  I.  Rinaker, 
the  Republican  nominee.  A  contest  and  recount 
of  the  ballots  resulted,  however,  in  awarding  the 
seat  to  General  Rinaker.  In  1896  Mr.  Downing 
was  the  nominee  of  his  party  for  Secretary  of 
State,  but  was  defeated  with  the  rest  of  his  ticket. 

DRAKE,  Francis  Marion,  soldier  and  Governor, 
was  born  at  Rushville,  Schuyler  County,  111., 
Dec.  30,  1830;  early  taken  to  Drakesville,  Iowa, 
which  his  father  founded;  entered  mercantile 
life  at  16  years  of  age ;  crossed  the  plains  to  Cali- 
fornia in  1852,  had  experience  in  Indian  warfare 
and,  in  1859,  established  himself  in  business  at 
Union ville,. Iowa;  served  through  the  Civil  War, 
becoming  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  retiring  in 
1865  with  the  rank  of  Brigadier-General  by 
brevet.  He  re-entered  mercantile  life  after  the 
war,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1866,  subsequently 
engaged  in  railroad  building  and,  in  1881,  contrib- 
buted  the  bulk  of  the  funds  for  founding  Drake 
University;  was  elected  Governor  of  Iowa  in 
1895,  serving  until  Jan.,  1898.  Died  Nov.  20,  1903. 

DRAPER,  Andrew  Sloan,  LL.D.,  lawyer  and 
educator,  was  born  in  Otsego  County,  N.  Y., 
June  21,  1848 — being  a  descendant,  in  the  eighth 
generation,  from  the  "Puritan,"  James  Draper, 
who  settled  in  Boston  in  1647.  In  1855  Mr. 
Draper's  parents  settled  in  Albany,  N.  Y.,  where 
he  attended  school,  winning  a  scholarship  in  the 
Albany  Academy  in  1863,  and  graduating  from 
that  institution  in  1866.  During  the  next  four 
years  he  was  employed  in  teaching,  part  of  the 
time  as  an  instructor  at  his  alma  mater ;  but,  in 
1871,  graduated  from  the  Union  College  Law 
Department,  when  he  began  practice.  The  rank 
he  attained  in  the  profession  was  indicated  by 
his  appointment  by  President  Arthur,  in  1884, 
one  of  the  Judges  of  the  Alabama  Claims  Com- 
mission, upon  which  he  served  until  the  conclu- 
sion of  its  labors  in  1886.  He  had  previously 
served  in  the  New  York  State  Senate  (1880)  and, 
in  1884,  was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  National 
Convention,  also  serving  as  Chairman  of  the 
Republican  State  Central  Committee  the  same 
year.  After  his  return  from  Europe  in  1886,  he 
served  as  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion of  New  York  until  1892,  and,  in  1889,  and 
again  in  1890,  was  President  of  the  National 
Association  of  School  Superintendents.  Soon 
after  retiring  from  the  State  Superintendency  in 
New  York,  he  was  chosen  Superintendent  of 
Public  Schools  for  the  city  of  Cleveland,  Ohio, 
remaining  in  that  position  until  1894,  when  he 
was  elected  President  of  the  University  of  Illinois 
at  Champaign,  where  he  now  is.  His  adminis- 


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tration  has  been  characterized  by  enterprise  and 
sagacity,  and  has  tended  to  promote  the  popular- 
ity and  prosperity  of  the  institution. 

DRESSER,  Charles,  clergyman,  was  born  at 
Pomfret,  Conn.,  Feb.  24,  1800;  graduated  from 
Brown  University  in  1823,  went  to  Virginia, 
where  he  studied  theology  and  was  ordained  a 
minister  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.  In 
1838  he  removed  to  Springfield,  and  became  rector 
of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church  there,  retiring  in 
1858.  On  Nov.  4,  1842,  Mr.  Dresser  performed  the 
ceremony  uniting  Abraham  Lincoln  and  Mary 
Todd  in  marriage.  He  died,  March  25,  1865. 

DRUMMOND,  Thomas,  jurist,  was  born  at 
Bristol  Mills,  Lincoln  County,  Maine,  Oct.  16, 
1809.  After  graduating  from  Bowdoin  College,  in 
1830,  he  studied  law  at  Philadelphia,  where  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1833.  He  settled  at 
Galena,  111.,  in  1835,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
General  Assembly  in  1840-41.  In  1850  he  was 
appointed  United  States  District  Judge  for  the 
District  of  Illinois  as  successor  to  Judge  Nathaniel 
Pope,  and  four  years  later  removed  to  Chicago. 
Upon  the  division  of  the  State  into  two  judicial 
districts,  in  1855,  he  was  assigned  to  the  North- 
ern. In  1869  he  was  elevated  to  the  bench  of  the 
United  States  Circuit  Court,  and  presided  over 
the  Seventh  Circuit,  which  at  that  time  included 
the  States  of  Indiana,  Illinois  and  Wisconsin.  In 
1884 — at  the  age  of  75 — he  resigned,  living  in 
retirement  until  his  death,  which  occurred  at 
Wheaton,  111.,  May  15,  1890. 

DUBOIS,  Jesse  Kilgore,  State  Auditor,  was 
born,  Jan.  14,  1811,  in  Lawrence  County,  111., 
near  Vincennes,  Ind.,  where  his  father,  Capt. 
Toussaint  Dubois,  had  settled  about  1780.  The 
latter  was  a  native  of  Canada,  of  French  descent, 
and,  after  settling  in  the  Northwest  Territory, 
had  been  a  personal  friend  of  General  Harrison, 
under  whom  he  served  in  the  Indian  wars, 
including  the  battle  of  Tippecanoe.  The  son 
received  a  partial  collegiate  education  at  Bloom- 
ington,  Ind.,  but,  at  24  years  of  age  (1834),  was 
elected  to  the  General  Assembly,  serving  in  the 
same  House  with  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  being 
re-elected  in  1836,  '38,  and  '42.  In  1841  he  was 
appointed  by  President  Harrison  Register  of  the 
Land  Office  at  Palestine,  111.,  but  soon  resigned, 
giving  his  attention  to  mercantile  pursuits  until 
1849,  when  he  was  appointed  Receiver  of  Public 
Moneys  at  Palestine,  but  was  removed  by  Pierce 
in  1853.  He  was  a  Delegate  to  the  first  Repub- 
lican State  Convention,  at  Bloomington,  in  1856, 
and,  on  the  recommendation  of  Mr.  Lincoln,  was 
aominated  for  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts, 


renominated  in  1860,  and  elected  both  times.  In 
1864  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  nomination  of 
his  party  for  Governor,  but  was  defeated  by 
General  Oglesby,  serving,  however,  on  the 
National  Executive  Committee  of  that  year,  and 
as  a  delegate  to  the  National  Convention  of  1868. 
Died,  at  his  home  near  Springfield,  Nov.  22,  1876. 
— Fred  T.  (Dubois),  son  of  the  preceding,  was 
born  in  Crawford  County,  111.,  May  29,  1851; 
received  a  common-school  and  classical  educa- 
tion, graduating  from  Yale  College  in  1872 ;  was 
Secretary  of  the  Illinois  Railway  and  Warehouse 
Commission  in  1875-76 ;  went  to  Idaho  Territory 
and  engaged  in  business  in  1880,  was  appointed 
United  States  Marshal  there  in  1882,  serving  until 
1886;  elected  as  a  Republican  Delegate  to  the 
Fiftieth  and  Fifty-first  Congresses,  and,  on  the 
admission  of  Idaho  as  a  State  (1890),  became 
one  of  the  first  United  States  Senators,  his  term 
extending  to  1897.  He  was  Chairman  of  the 
Idaho  delegation  in  the  National  Republican 
Convention  at  Minneapolis  in  1892,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  National  Republican  Convention 
at  St.  Louis  in  1896,  but  seceded  from  that  body 
with  Senator  Teller  of  Colorado,  and  has  since 
cooperated  with  the  Populists  and  Free  Silver 
Democrats. 

DUCAT,  Arthur  Charles,  soldier  and  civil 
engineer,  was  born  in  Dublin,  Ireland,  Feb.  24, 
1830,  received  a  liberal  education  and  became  a 
civil  engineer.  He  settled  in  Chicago  in  1851, 
and  six  years  later  was  made  Secretary  and  Chief 
Surveyor  of  the  Board  of  Underwriters  of  that 
city.  While  acting  in  this  capacity,  he  virtually 
revised  the  schedule  system  of  rating  fire-risks. 
In  1861  he  raised  a  company  of  300  engineers, 
sappers  and  miners,  but  neither  the  State  nor 
Federal  authorities  would  accept  it.  Thereupon 
he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Twelfth  Illinois 
Volunteers,  but  his  ability  earned  him  rapid 
promotion.  He  rose  through  the  grades  of  Cap- 
tain, Major  and  Lieutenant-Colonel,  to  that  of 
Colonel,  and  was  brevetted  Brigadier-General  in 
February,  1864.  Compelled  by  sickness  to  leave  the 
army,  General  Ducat  returned  to  Chicago, 
re-entering  the  insurance  field  and  finally,  after 
holding  various  responsible  positions,  engaging 
in  general  business  in  that  line.  In  1875  he  was 
entrusted  with  the  task  of  reorganizing  the  State 
militia,  which  he  performed  with  signal  success. 
Died,  at  Downer's  Grove,  111.,  Jan.  29,  1896. 

DUELS  AND  ANTI-DUELING  LAWS.  Al- 
though a  majority  of  the  population  of  Illinois, 
in  Territorial  days,  came  from  Southern  States 
where  the  duel  was  widely  regarded  as  the  proper 


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mode  for  settling  "difficulties"  of  a  personal 
character,  it  is  a  curious  fact  that  so  few  '  'affairs 
of  honor"  (so-called)  should  have  occurred  on 
Illinois  soil.  The  first  "affair"  of  this  sort  of 
which  either  history  or  tradition  has  handed 
down  any  account,  is  said  to  have  occurred 
between  an  English  and  a  French  officer  at  the 
time  of  the  surrender  of  Fort  Chartres  to  the 
British  in  1765,  and  in  connection  with  that 
event.  The  officers  are  said  to  have  fought  with 
small  swords  one  Sunday  morning  near  the  Fort, 
when  one  of  them  was  killed,  but  the  name  of 
neither  the  victor  nor  the  vanquished  has  come 
down  to  the  present  time.  Gov.  John  Reynolds, 
who  is  the  authority  for  the  story  in  his  "Pioneer 
History  of  Illinois,"  claimed  to  have  received  it 
in  his  boyhood  from  an  aged  Frenchman  who 
represented  that  he  had  seen  the  combat. 

An  affair  of  less  doubtful  authenticity  has  come 
down  to  us  in  the  history  of  the  Territorial 
period,  and,  although  it  was  at  first  bloodless,  it 
finally  ended  in  a  tragedy.  This  was  the  Jones- 
Bond  affair,  which  originated  at  Kaskaskia  in 
1808.  Rice  Jones  was  the  son  of  John  Rice  Jones, 
the  first  English-speaking  lawyer  in  the  "Illinois 
Country."  The  younger  Jones  is  described  as  an 
exceptionally  brilliant  young  man  who,  having 
studied  law,  located  at  Kaskaskia  in  1806.  Two 
years  later  he  became  a  candidate  for  Represent- 
ative from  Randolph  County  in  the  Legislature 
of  Indiana  Territory,  of  which  Illinois  was  a  part. 
In  the  course  of  the  canvass  which  resulted  in 
Jones'  election,  he  became  involved  in  a  quarrel 
with  Shadrach  Bond,  who  was  then  a  member  of 
the  Territorial  Council  from  the  same  county, 
and  afterwards  became  Delegate  in  Congress 
from  Illinois  and  the  first  Governor  of  the  State. 
Bond  challenged  Jones  and  the  meeting  took 
place  on  an  island  in  the  Mississippi  between 
Kaskaskia  and  St.  Genevieve.  Bond's  second 
was  a  Dr.  James  Dunlap  of  Kaskaskia,  who 
appears  also  to  have  been  a  bitter  enemy  of  Jones. 
The  discharge  of  a  pistol  in  the  hand  of  Jones 
after  the  combatants  had  taken  their  places 
preliminary  to  the  order  to  "fire,"  raised  the 
question  whether  it  was  accidental  or  to  be 
regarded  as  Jones'  fire.  Dunlap  maintained  the 
latter,  but  Bond  accepted  the  explanation  of  his 
adversary  that  the  discharge  was  accidental,  and 
the  generosity  which  he  displayed  led  to  expla- 
nations that  averted  a  final  exchange  of  shots. 
The  feud  thus  started  between  Jones  and  Dunlap 
grew  until  it  involved  a  large  part  of  the  com- 
munity. On  Dec.  7,  1808,  Dunlap  shot  down 
Jones  in  cold  blood  and  without  warning  in 


the  streets  of  Kaskaskia,  killing  him  instantly. 
The  murderer  fled  to  Texas  and  was  never  heard 
of  about  Kaskaskia  afterwards.  This  incident 
furnishes  the  basis  of  the  most  graphic  chapter 
in  Mrs.  Catherwood's  story  of  "Old  Kaskaskia." 
Prompted  by  this  tragical  affair,  no  doubt,  the 
Governor  and  Territorial  Judges,  in  1810,  framed  a 
stringent  law  for  the  suppression  of  dueling,  in 
which,  in  case  of  a  fatal  result,  all  parties  con- 
nected with  the  affair,  as  principals  or  seconds, 
were  held  to  be  guilty  of  murder. 

Governor  Reynolds  furnishes  the  record  of  a 
duel  between  Thomas  Rector,  the  member  of  a 
noted  family  of  that  name  at  Kaskaskia,  and  one 
Joshua  Barton,  supposed  to  have  occurred  some- 
time during  the  War  of  1812,  though  no  exact 
dates  are  given.  This  affair  took  place  on  the 
favorite  dueling  ground  known  as  "Bloody 
Island,"  opposite  St.  Louis,  so  often  resorted  to 
at  a  later  day,  by  devotees  of  "the  code"  in  Mis- 
souri. Reynolds  says  that  "Barton  fell  in  the 
conflict." 

The  next  affair  of  which  history  makes  men- 
tion grew  out  of  a  drunken  carousel  at  Belleville, 
in  February,  1819,  which  ended  in  a  duel  between 
two  men  named  Alonzo  Stuart  and  William 
Bennett,  and  the  killing  of  Stuart  by  Bennett. 
The  managers  of  the  affair  for  the  principals  are 
said  to  have  agreed  that  the  guns  should  be  loaded 
with  blank  cartridges,  and  Stuart  was  let  into  the 
secret  but  Bennett  was  not.  When  the  order  to 
fire  came,  Bennett's  gun  proved  to  have  been 
loaded  with  ball.  Stuart  fell  mortally  wounded, 
expiring  almost  immediately.  One  report  says 
that  the  duel  was  intended  as  a  sham,  and  was  so 
understood  by  Bennett,  who  was  horrified  by  the 
result.  He  and  his  two  seconds  were  arrested  for 
murder,  but  Bennett  broke  jail  and  fled  to 
Arkansas.  The  seconds  were  tried,  Daniel  P. 
Cook  conducting  the  prosecution  and  Thomas  H. 
Benton  defending,  the  trial  resulting  in  their 
acquittal.  Two  years  later,  Bennett  was  appre- 
hended by  some  sort  of  artifice,  put  on  his  trial, 
convicted  and  executed — Judge  John  Reynolds 
(afterwards  Governor)  presiding  and  pronouncing 
sentence. 

In  a  footnote  to  "The  Edwards  Papers," 
edited  by  the  late  E.  B.  Washburne,  and  printed 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Chicago  Historical 
Society,  a  few  years  ago,  Mr.  Washburne  relates 
an  incident  occurring  in  Galena  about  1838,  while 
"The  Northwestern  Gazette  and  Galena  Adver- 
tiser" was  under  the  charge  of  Sylvester  M. 
Bartlett,  who  was  afterwards  one  of  the  founders 
of  "The  Quincy  Whig."  The  story,  as  told  by 


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Mr.  Washburne,  is  as  follows:  "David  G.  Bates 
(a  Galena  business  man  and  captain  of  a  packet 
plying  between  St.  Louis  and  Galena)  wrote  a 
short  communication  for  the  paper  reflecting  on 
the  character  of  John  Turney,  a  prominent  law- 
yer who  had  been  a  member  of  the  House  of 
Representatives  in  1828-30,  from  the  District 
composed  of  Pike,  Adams,  Fulton,  Schuyler, 
Peoria  and  Jo  Daviess  Counties.  Turney  de- 
manded the  name  of  the  author  and  Bartlett  gave 
up  the  name  of  Bates.  Turney  refused  to  take 
any  notice  of  Bates  and  then  challenged  Bartlett 
to  a  duel,  which  was  promptly  accepted  by  Bart- 
lett. The  second  of  Turney  was  the  Hon.  Joseph 
P.  Hoge,  afterward  a  member  of  Congress  from 
the  Galena  District.  Bartlett's  second  was 
William  A.  Warren,  now  of  Bellevue,  Iowa." 
(Warren  was  a  prominent  Union  officer  during 
the  Civil  War.)  "The  parties  went  out  to  the 
ground  selected  for  the  duel,  in  what  was  then 
Wisconsin  Territory,  seven  miles  north  of  Galena, 
and,  after  one  ineffectual  fire,  the  matter  was 
compromised.  Subsequently,  Bartlett  removed 
to  Quincy,  and  was  for  a  long  time  connected 
with  the  publication  of  'The  Quincy  Whig.'" 

During  the  session  of  the  Twelfth  General 
Assembly  (1841),  A.  R.  Dodge,  a  Democratic 
Representative  from  Peoria  County,  feeling  him- 
self aggrieved  by  some  reflections  indulged  by  Gen. 
John  J.  Hardin  (then  a  Whig  Representative 
from  Morgan  County)  upon  the  Democratic  party 
in  connection  with  the  partisan  reorganization 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  threatened  to  "call  out" 
Hardin.  The  affair  was  referred  to  W.  L.  D. 
Ewing  and  W.  A.  Richardson  for  Dodge,  and 
J.  J.  Brown  and  E.  B.  Webb  for  Hardin,  with 
the  result  that  it  was  amicably  adjusted  "honor- 
ably to  both  parties." 

It  was  during  the  same  session  that  John  A. 
McClernand,  then  a  young  and  fiery  member 
from  Gallatin  County  —  who  had,  two  years 
before,  been  appointed  Secretary  of  State  by 
Governor  Carlin,  but  had  been  debarred  from 
taking  the  office  by  an  adverse  decision  of  the 
Supreme  Court  —  indulged  in  a  violent  attack 
upon  the  Whig  members  of  the  Court  based  upon 
allegations  afterwards  shown  to  have  been  fur- 
nished by  Theophilus  W.  Smith,  a  Democratic 
member  of  the  same  court.  Smith  having  joined 
his  associates  in  a  card  denying  the  truth  of  the 
charges,  McClernand  responded  with  the  publi- 
cation of  the  cards  of  persons  tracing  the  allega- 
tions directly  to  Smith  himself.  This  brought  a 
note  from  Smith  which  McClernand  construed  into 
a  challenge  and  answered  with  a  prompt  accept- 


ance. Attorney-General  Lamborn,  having  got 
wind  of  the  affair,  lodged  a  complaint  with  a 
Springfield  Justice  of  the  Peace,  which  resulted 
in  placing  the  pugnacious  jurist  under  bonds  to 
keep  the  peace,  when  he  took  his  departure  for 
Chicago,  and  the  "affair"  ended. 

An  incident  of  greater  historical  interest  than 
all  the  others  yet  mentioned,  was  the  affair  in 
which  James  Shields  and  Abraham  Lincoln — the 
former  the  State  Auditor  and  the  latter  at  that 
time  a  young  attorney  at  Springfield — were  con- 
cerned. A  communication  in  doggerel  verse  had 
appeared  in  "The  Springfield  Journal"  ridiculing 
the  Auditor.  Shields  made  demand  upon  the 
editor  (Mr.  Simeon  Francis)  for  the  name  of  the 
author,  and,  in  accordance  with  previous  under- 
standing, the  name  of  Lincoln  was  given.  (Evi- 
dence, later  coming  to  light,  showed  that  the  real 
authors  were  Miss  Mary  Todd — who,  a  few  months 
later,  became  Mrs.  Lincoln — and  Miss  Julia  Jayne, 
afterwards  the  wife  of  Senator  Trumbull.) 
Shields,  through  John  D.  Whiteside,  a  former 
State  Treasurer,  demanded  a  retraction  of  the 
offensive  matter — the  demand  being  presented  to 
Lincoln  at  Tremont,  in  Tazewell  County,  where 
Lincoln  was  attending  court.  Without  attempt- 
ing to  follow  the  affair  through  all  its  complicated 
details — Shields  having  assumed  that  Lincoln  was 
the  author  without  further  investigation,  and 
Lincoln  refusing  to  make  any  explanation  unless 
the  first  demand  was  withdrawn — Lincoln  named 
Dr.  E.  H.  Merriman  as  his  second  and  accepted 
Shield's  challenge,  naming  cavalry  broadswords 
as  the  weapons  and  the  Missouri  shore,  within 
three  miles  of  the  city  of  Alton,  as  the  place. 
The  principals,  with  their  "friends,"  met  at  the 
appointed  time  and  place  (Sept.  22,  1842,  opposite 
the  city  of  Alton) ;  but,  in  the  meantime,  mutual 
friends,  having  been  apprised  of  what  was  going 
on,  also  appeared  on  the  ground  and  brought 
about  explanations  which  averted  an  actual  con- 
flict. Those  especially  instrumental  in  bringing 
about  this  result  were  Gen.  John  J.  Hardin  of 
Jacksonville,  and  Dr.  R.  W.  English  of  Greene 
County,  while  John  D.  Whiteside,  W.  L.  D. 
Ewing  and  Dr.  T.  M.  Hope  acted  as  represent- 
atives of  Shields,  and  Dr.  E.  H.  Merriman, 
Dr.  A.  T.  Bledsoe  and  William  Butler  for  Lincoln. 

Out  of  this  affair,  within  the  next  few  days, 
followed  challenges  from  Shields  to  Butler  and 
Whiteside  to  Merriman ;  but,  although  these  were 
accepted,  yet  owing  to  some  objection  on  the  part 
of  the  challenging  party  to  the  conditions  named 
by  the  party  challenged,  thereby  resulting  in  de- 
lay, no  meeting  actually  took  place. 


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Another  affair  which  bore  important  results 
without  ending  in  a  tragedy,  occurred  during  the 
session  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  in  1847. 
The  parties  to  it  were  O.  C.  Pratt  and  Thompson 
Campbell  —  both  Delegates  from  Jo  Daviess 
County,  and  both  Democrats.  Some  sparring 
between  them  over  the  question  of  suffrage  for 
naturalized  foreigners  resulted  in  an  invitation 
from  Pratt  to  Campbell  to  meet  him  at  the 
Planters'  House  in  St.  Louis,  with  an  intimation 
that  this  was  for  the  purpose  of  arranging  the 
preliminaries  of  a  duel.  Both  parties  were  on 
hand  before  the  appointed  time,  but  their  arrest 
by  the  St.  Louis  authorities  and  putting  them 
under  heavy  bonds  to  keep  the  peace,  gave  them 
an  excuse  for  returning  to  their  convention 
duties  without  coming  to  actual  hostilities — if 
they  had  such  intention.  This  was  promptly 
followed  by  the  adoption  in  Convention  of  the 
provision  of  the  Constitution  of  1848,  disqualify- 
ing any  person  engaged  in  a  dueling  affair,  either 
as  principal  or  second,  from  holding  any  office  of 
honor  or  profit  in  the  State. 

The  last  and  principal  affair  of  this  kind  of 
historic  significance,  in  which  a  citizen  of  Illinois 
was  engaged,  though  not  on  Illinois  soil,  was  that 
in  which  Congressman  William  H.  Bissell,  after- 
wards Governor  of  Illinois,  and  Jefferson  Davis 
were  concerned  in  February,  1850.  During  the 
debate  on  the  "Compromise  Measures"  of  that 
year,  Congressman  Seddon  of  Virginia  went  out 
of  his  way  to  indulge  in  implied  reflections  upon 
the  courage  of  Northern  soldiers  as  displayed  on 
the  battle-field  of  Buena  Vista,  and  to  claim  for 
the  Mississippi  regiment  commanded  by  Davis 
the  credit  of  saving  the  day.  Replying  to  these 
claims  Colonel  Bissell  took  occasion  to  correct  the 
Virginia  Congressman's  statements,  and  especi- 
ally to  vindicate  the  good  name  of  the  Illinois  and 
Kentucky  troops.  In  doing  so  he  declared  that, 
at  the  critical  moment  alluded  to  by  Seddon, 
when  the  Indiana  regiment  gave  way,  Davis's 
regiment  was  not  within  a  mile  and  a  half  of  the 
scene  of  action.  This  was  construed  by  Davis  as 
a  reflection  upon  his  troops,  and  led  to  a  challenge 
which  was  promptly  accepted  by  Bissell,  who 
named  the  soldier's  weapon  (the  common  army 
musket),  loaded  with  ball  and  buckshot,  with 
forty  paces  as  the  distance,  with  liberty  to 
advance  up  to  ten — otherwise  leaving  the  pre- 
liminaries to  be  settled  by  his  friends.  The  evi- 
dence manifested  by  Bissell  that  he  was  not  to  be 
intimidated,  but  was  prepared  to  face  death 
itself  to  vindicate  his  own  honor  and  that  of  his 
comrades  in  the  field,  was  a  surprise  to  the  South- 


ern leaders,  and  they  soon  found  a  way  for  Davis 
to  withdraw  his  challenge  on  condition  that 
Bissell  should  add  to  his  letter  of  acceptance  a 
clause  awarding  credit  to  the  Mississippi  regi- 
ment for  what  they  actually  did,  but  without  dis- 
avowing or  retracting  a  single  word  he  had 
uttered  in  his  speech.  In  the  meantime,  it  is  said 
that  President  Taylor,  who  was  the  father-in-law 
of  Davis,  having  been  apprised  of  what  was  on 
foot,  had  taken  precautions  to  prevent  a  meeting 
by  instituting  legal  proceedings  the  night  before 
it  was  to  take  place,  though  this  was  rendered 
unnecessary  by  the  act  of  Davis  himself.  Thus, 
Colonel  Bissell's  position  was  virtually  (though 
indirectly)  justified  by  his  enemies.  It  is  true, 
he  was  violently  assailed  by  his  political  opponents 
for  alleged  violation  of  the  inhibition  in  the  State 
Constitution  against  dueling,  especially  when  he 
came  to  take  the  oath  of  office  as  Governor  of 
Illinois,  seven  years  later ;  but  his  course  in  '  'turn- 
ing the  tables"  against  his  fire-eating  opponents 
aroused  the  enthusiasm  of  the  North,  while  his 
friends  maintained  that  the  act  having  been 
performed  beyond  the  jurisdiction  of  the  State, 
he  was  technically  not  guilty  of  any  violation  of 
the  laws. 

While  the  provision  in  the  Constitution  of  1848, 
against  dueling,  was  not  re- incorporated  in  that 
of  1870,  the  laws  on  the  subject  are  very  strin- 
gent. Besides  imposing  a  penalty  of  not  less  than 
one  nor  more  than  five  years'  imprisonment,  or  a 
fine  not  exceeding  $3,000,  upon  any  one  who,  as 
principal  or  second,  participates  in  a  duel  with  a 
deadly  weapon,  whether  such  duel  proves  fatal 
or  not,  or  who  sends,  carries  or  accepts  a  chal- 
lenge: the  law  also  provides  that  any  one  con- 
victed of  such  offense  shall  be  disqualified  for 
holding  "any  office  of  profit,  trust  or  emolument, 
either  civil  or  military,  under  the  Constitution  or 
laws  of  this  State."  Any  person  leaving  the 
State  to  send  or  receive  a  challenge  is  subject  to 
the  same  penalties  as  if  the  offense  had  been 
committed  within  the  State ;  and  any  person  who 
may  inflict  upon  his  antagonist  a  fatal  wound,  as 
the  result  of  an  engagement  made  in  this  State  to 
fight  a  duel  beyond  its  jurisdiction — when  the 
person  so  wounded  dies  within  this  State — is  held 
to  be  guilty  of  murder  and  subject  to  punishment 
for  the  same.  The  publishing  of  any  person  as  a 
coward,  or  the  applying  to  him  of  opprobrious  or 
abusive  language,  for  refusing  to  accept  a  chal- 
lenge, is  declared  to  be  a  crime  punisliable  by 
fine  or  imprisonment. 

DUFF,  Andrew  D.,  lawyer  and  Judge,  was 
born  of  a  family  of  pioneer  settlers  in  Bond 


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County,  111.,  Jan.  24,  1820;  was  educated  in  the 
country  schools,  and,  from  1842  to  1847,  spent  his 
time  in  teaching  and  as  a  farmer.  The  latter 
year  he  removed  to  Benton,  Franklin  County, 
where  he  began  reading  law,  but  suspended  his 
studies  to  enlist  in  the  Mexican  War,  serving  as  a 
private;  in  1849  was  elected  County  Judge  of 
Franklin  County,  and,  in  the  following  year,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar.  In  1861  he  was  elected 
Judge  for  the  Twenty-sixth  Circuit  and  re- 
elected  in  1867,  serving  until  1873.  He  also 
served  as  a  Delegate  in  the  State  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1862  from  the  district  composed  of 
Franklin  and  Jackson  Counties,  and,  being  a 
zealous  Democrat,  was  one  of  the  leaders  in 
calling  the  mass  meeting  held  at  Peoria,  in 
August,  1864,  to  protest  against  the  policy  of  the 
Government  in  the  prosecution  of  the  war. 
About  the  close  of  his  last  term  upon  the  bench 
(1873),  he  removed  to  Carbondale,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  reside.  In  his  later  years  he  be- 
came an  Independent  in  politics,  acting  for 
a  time  in  cooperation  with  the  friends  of 
temperance.  In  1885  he  was  appointed  by  joint 
resolution  of  the  Legislature  on  a  commission  to 
revise  the  revenue  code  of  the  State.  Died,  at 
Tucson,  Ariz.,  June  25,  1889. 

DUNCAN,  Joseph,  Congressman  and  Gov- 
ernor, was  born  at  Paris,  Ky.,  Feb.  22,  1794; 
emigrated  to  Illinois  in  1818,  having  previously 
served  with  distinction  in  the  War  of  1812,  and 
been  presented  with  a  sword,  by  vote  of  Congress, 
for  gallant  conduct  in  the  defense  of  Fort  Stephen- 
son.  He  was  commissioned  Major-General  of 
Illinois  militia  in  1823  and  elected  State  Senator 
from  Jackson  County  in  1824.  He  served  in  the 
lower  house  of  Congress  from  1827  to  1834,  when 
he  resigned  his  seat  to  occupy  the  gubernatorial 
chair,  to  which  he  was  elected  the  latter  year.  He 
was  the  author  of  the  first  free-school  law, 
adopted  in  1825.  His  executive  policy  was  con- 
servative and  consistent,  and  his  administration 
successful.  He  erected  the  first  frame  building 
at  Jacksonville,  in  1834,  and  was  a  liberal  friend 
of  Illinois  College  at  that  place.  In  his  personal 
character  he  was  kindly,  genial  and  unassuming, 
although  fearless  in  the  expression  of  his  convic- 
tions. He  was  the  Whig  candidate  for  Governor 
in  1842,  when  he  met  with  his  first  political 
defeat.  Died,  at  Jacksonville,  Jan.  15,  1844, 
mourned  by  men  of  all  parties. 

DUNCAN,  Thomas,  soldier,  was  born  in  Kas- 
kaskia,  111.,  April  14,  1809;  served  as  a  private  in 
the  Illinois  mounted  volunteers  during  the  Black 
Hawk  War  of  1832 ;  also  as  First  Lieutenant  of 


cavalry  in  the  regular  army  in  the  Mexican  War 
(1846),  and  as  Major  and  Lieutenant-Colonel 
during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  still  later  doing 
duty  upon  the  frontier '  keeping  the  Indians  in 
check.  He  was  retired  from  active  service  in 
1873,  and  died  in  Washington,  Jan.  7,  1887. 

DUNDEE,  a  town  on  Fox  Eiver,  in  Kane 
County,  5  miles  (by  rail)  north  of  Elgin  and  47 
miles  west-northwest  of  Chicago.  It  has  two 
distinct  corporations— East  and  West  Dundee — 
but  is  progressive  and  united  in  action.  Dairy 
farming  is  the  principal  industry  of  the  adjacent 
region,  and  the  town  has  two  large  milk-con- 
deiising  plants,  a  cheese  factory,  etc.  It  lias  good 
water  power  and  there  are  flour  and  saw-mills, 
besides  brick  and  tile-works,  an.extensive  nursery, 
two  banks,  six  churches,  a  handsome  high  school 
building,  a  public  library  and  two  weekly  papers. 
Pop.  (1890),  2,023;  (1900),  2,765;  (1910),  2,785. 

DUNHAM,  John  High,  banker  and  Board  of 
Trade  operator,  was  born  in  Seneca  County, 
N.  Y.,  1817;  came  to  Chicago  in  1844,  engaged  in 
the  wholesale  grocery  trade,  and,  a  few  years 
later,  took  a  prominent  part  in  solving  the  ques- 
tion of  a  water  supply  for  the  city ;  was  elected  to 
the  Twentieth  General  Assembly  (1856)  and  the 
next  year  assisted  in  organizing  the  Merchants' 
Loan  &  Trust  Company,  of  which  he  became  the 
first  President,  retiring  five  years  later  and  re- 
engaging in  the  mercantile  business.  While 
Hon.  Hugh  McCullough  was  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury,  he  was  appointed  National  Bank 
Examiner  for  Illinois,  serving  until  1866.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society, 
the  Academy  of  Sciences,  and  an  early  member 
of  the  Board  of  Trade.  Died,  April  28,  1893, 
leaving  a  large  estate. 

DUNHAM,  Ransom  W.,  merchant  and  Con- 
gressman, was  born  at  Savoy,  Mass.,  March  21, 
1838 ;  after  graduating  from  the  High  School  at 
Springfield,  Mass.,  in  1855,  was  connected  with 
the  Massachusetts  Mutual  Life  Insurance  Com- 
pany until  August,  1860.  In  1857  he  removed 
from  Springfield  to  Chicago,  and  at  the  termina- 
tion of  his  connection  with  the  Insurance  Com- 
pany, embarked  in  the  grain  and  provision 
commission  business  in  that  city,  and,  in  1882, 
was  President  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade. 
From  1883  to  1889  he  represented  the  First  Illinois 
District  in  Congress,  after  the  expiration  of  his 
last  term  devoting  his  attention  to  his  large 
private  business.  His  death  took  place  suddenly 
at  Springfield,  Mass..  August  19,  1896. 

DUNLAP,  George  Lincoln,  civil  engineer  and 
Railway  Superintendent,  was  born  at  Brunswick. 


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Maine,  in  1828 ;  studied  mathematics  and  engineer- 
ing at  Gorham  Academy,  and,  after  several 
years'  experience  on  the  Boston  &  Maine  and  the 
New  York  &  Erie  Railways,  came  west  in  1855 
and  accepted  a  position  as  assistant  engineer  on 
what  is  now  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Rail- 
road, finally  becoming  its  General  Superintend- 
ent, and,  in  fourteen  years  of  his  connection  with 
that  road,  vastly  extending  its  lines.  Between 
1872  and  '79  he  was  connected  with  the  Montreal 
&  Quebec  Railway,  but  the  latter  year  returned 
to  Illinois  and  was  actively  connected  with  the 
extension  of  the  Wabash  system  until  his.  retire- 
ment a  few  years  ago.  Died  May  12,  1904. 

DUNLAP,  Henry  M.,  horticulturist  and  legis- 
lator, was  born  in  Cook  County,  111.,  Nov.  14, 
1853 — the  son  of  M.  L.  Dunlap  (the  well-known 
"Rural"),  who  became  a  prominent  horticulturist 
in  Champaign  County  and  was  one  of  the  found- 
ers of  the  State  Agricultural  Society.  The  family 
having  located  at  Savoy,  Champaign  County, 
about  1857,  the  younger  Dunlap  was  educated  in 
the  University  of  Illinois,  graduating  in  the 
scientific  department  in  1875.  Following  in  the 
footsteps  of  his  father,  he  engaged  extensively 
in  fruit-growing,  and  has  served  in  the  office  of 
both  President  and  Secretary  of  the  State  Horti- 
cultural Society,  besides  local  offices.  In  1892  he 
was  elected  as  a  Republican  to  the  State  Senate 
for  the  Thirtieth  District,  was  re-elected  in  1896, 
and  has  been  prominent  in  State  legislation. 

DUNLAP,  Mathias  Lane,  horticulturist,  was 
born  at  Cherry  Valley,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  14,  1814; 
coming  to  La  Salle  County,  111.,  in  1835,  he 
taught  school  the  following  winter ;  then  secured 
a  clerkship  in  Chicago,  and  later  became  book- 
keeper for  a  firm  of  contractors  on  the  Illinois  & 
Michigan  Canal,  remaining  two  years.  Having 
entered  a  body  of  Government  land  in  the  western 
part  of  Cook  County,  he  turned  his  attention  to 
farming,  giving  a  portion  of  his  time  to  survey- 
ing. In  1845  he  became  interested  in  horticulture 
and,  in  a  few  years,  built  up  one  of  the  most 
extensive  nurseries  in  the  West.  In  1854  he  was 
chosen  a  Representative  in  the  Nineteenth  Gen- 
eral Assembly  from  Cook  County,  and,  at  the 
following  session,  presided  over  the  caucus  which 
resulted  in  the  nomination  and  final  election  of 
Lyman  Trumbull  to  the  United  States  Senate  for 
the  first  time.  Politically  an  anti-slavery  Demo- 
crat, he  espoused  the  cause  of  freedom  in  the 
Territories,  while  his  house  was  one  of  the  depots 
of  the  "underground  railroad."  In  1855  he  pur- 
chased a  half-section  of  land  near  Champaign, 
whither  he  removed,  two  years  later,  for  the 


prosecution  of  his  nursery  business.  He  was  an 
active  member,  for  many  years,  of  the  State  Agri- 
cultural Society  and  an  earnest  supporter  of  the 
scheme  for  the  establishment  of  an  "Industrial 
University,"  which  finally  took  form  in  the  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois  at  Champaign.  From  1853  to 
his  death  he  was  the  agricultural  correspondent, 
first  of  "The  Chicago  Democratic  Press,"  and 
later  of  "The  Tribune,"  writing  over  the  nom  de 
plume  of  "Rural."  Died,  Feb.  14,  1875. 

DU  PAGE  COUNTY,  organized  in  1839,  named 
for  a  river  which  flows  through  it.  It  adjoins 
Cook  County  on  the  west  and  contains  340  square 
miles.  In  1910  its  population  was  33,432.  The 
county-seat  was  originally  at  Naperville,  which 
was  platted  in  1842  and  named  in  honor  of  Capt. 
Joseph  Naper,  who  settled  upon  the  site  in  1831. 
In  1869  the  county  government  was  removed  to 
Wheaton,  the  location  of  Wheaton  College, 
where  it  yet  remains.  Besides  Captain  Naper, 
early  settlers  of  prominence  were  Bailey  Hobson 
(the  pioneer  in  the  township  of  Lisle),  and  Pierce 
Downer  (in  Downer's  Grove).  The  chief  towns 
are  Wheaton  (population,  1,622),  Naperville 
(2,216),  Hinsdale  (1,584),  Downer's  Grove  (960), 
and  Roselle  (450).  Hinsdale  and  Roselle  are 
largely  populated  by  persons  doing  business  in 
Chicago. 

DU  QUOIN,  a  city  and  railway  junction  in 
Perry  County,  76  miles  north  of  Cairo;  has  a 
foundry,  machine  shops,  planing-mill,  flour  mills, 
salt  works,  ice  factory,  soda-water  factory, 
creamery,  coal  mines,  graded  school,  public 
library  and  four  newspapers.  Population  (1890), 
4,052;  (1900),  4,353;  (1910),  5,454. 

DURBOROW,  Allan  Cathcart,  ex-Congress- 
man, was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Nov.  20,  1857. 
When  five  years  old  he  accompanied  his  parents 
to  Williamsport,  Ind.,  where  he  received  his 
early  education.  He  entered  the  preparatory 
department  of  Wabash  College  in  1872,  and 
graduated  from  the  University  of  Indiana,  at 
Bloomington,  in  1877.  After  two  years'  residence 
in  Indianapolis,  he  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he 
engaged  in  business.  Always  active  in  local 
politics,  he  was  elected  by  the  Democrats  in  1890, 
and  again  in  1892,  Representative  in  Congress 
from  the  Second  District,  retiring  with  the  close 
of  the  Fifty-third  Congress.  In  his  later  years  he 
was  Treasurer  of  the  Chicago  Air-Line  Express 
Company.  Died  Mar.  10,  1908. 

DUSTIN,  (Gen.)  Daniel,  soldier,  was  born  in 
Topsham,  Orange  County,  Vt.,  Oct.  5,  1820; 
received  a  common-school  and  academic  educa- 
tion, graduating  in  medicine  at  Dartmouth  Col- 


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lege  in  1846.  After  practicing  three  years  at 
Corinth,  Vt. ,  he  went  to  California  in  1850  and 
engaged  in  mining,  but  three  years  later  resumed 
the  practice  of  his  profession  while  conducting  a 
mercantile  business.  He  was  subsequently  chosen 
to  the  California  Legislature  from  Nevada 
County,  but  coming  to  Illinois  in  1858,  he 
engaged  in  the  drug  business  at  Sycamore,  De 
Kalb  County,  in  connection  with  J.  E.  Elwood. 
On  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  in  1861,  he  sold 
out  his  drug  business  and  assisted  in  raising  the 
Eighth  Regiment  Illinois  Cavalry,  and  was  com- 
missioned Captain  of  Company  L.  The  regiment 
was  assigned  to  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and, 
in  January,  1862,  he  was  promoted  to  the  position 
of  Major,  afterwards  taking  part  in  the  battle  of 
Manassas,  and  the  great  "seven  days'  fight" 
before  Richmond.  In  September,  1862,  the  One 
Hundred  and  Fifth  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteer 
Infantry  was  mustered  in  at  Dixon,  and  Major 
Dustin  was  commissioned  its  Colonel,  soon  after 
joining  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland.  After  the 
Atlanta  campaign  he  was  assigned  to  the  com- 
mand of  a  brigade  in  the  Third  Division  of  the 
Twelfth  Army  Corps,  remaining  in  this  position 
to  the  close  of  the  war,  meanwhile  having  been 
brevetted  Brigadier-General  for  bravery  displayed 
on  the  battle-field  at  Averysboro,  N.  C.  He  was 
mustered  out  at  Washington,  June  7,  1865,  and 
took  part  in  the  grand  review  of  the  armies  in 
that  city  which  marked  the  close  of  the  war. 
Returning  to  his  home  in  De  Kalb  County,  he 
was  elected  County  Clerk  in  the  following 
November,  remaining  in  office  four  years.  Sub- 
sequently he  was  chosen  Circuit  Clerk  and  ex- 
officio  Recorder,  and  was  twice  thereafter 
re-elected— in  1884  and  1888.  On  the  organization 
of  the  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home  at  Quincy,  in 
1885,  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Oglesby  one 
of  the  Trustees,  retaining  the  position  until  his 
death.  In  May,  1890,  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Harrison  Assistant  United  States 
Treasurer  at  Chicago,  but  died  in  office  while  on 
a  visit  with  his  daughter  at  Carthage,  Mo. ,  March 
30,  1892.  General  Dustin  was  a  Mason  of  high 
degree,  and,  in  1872,  was  chosen  Right  Eminent 
Commander  of  the  Grand  Commandery  of  the 
State. 

DWIGHT,  a  prosperous  city  in  Livingston 
County,  74  miles,  by  rail,  south-southwest  of  Chi- 
cago, 52  miles  northeast  of  Bloomington,  and  22 
miles  east  of  Streator;  has  two  banks,  three  weekly 
papers,  six  churches,  five  large  warehouses,  two 
electric  light  plants,  complete  water-works  sys- 
tem, and  four  hotels.  The  city  is  the  center  of  a 


rich  farming  and  stock-raising  district.  Dwight 
has  attained  celebrity  as  the  location  of  the  first 
of  "Keeley  Institutes,"  founded  for  the  cure  of 
the  drink  and  morphine  habit.  Population 
(1900),  2,015;  (1910),  2,156.  These  figures  do  not 
include  the  floating  population,  which  is 
augmented  by  patients  who  receive  treatment 
at  the  "Keeley  Institute." 

DYER,  Charles  Volney,  M.D.,  pioneer  physi- 
cian, was  born  at  Clarendon,  Vt.,  June  12,  1808; 
graduated  in  medicine  at  Middlebury  College,  in 
1830;  began  practice  at  Newark,  N.  J.,  in  1831, 
and  in  Chicago  in  1835.  He  was  an  uncomprom- 
ising opponent  of  slavery  and  an  avowed  sup- 
porter of  the  "underground  railroad,"  and,  in 
1848,  received  the  support  of  the  Free-Soil  party 
of  Illinois  for  Governor.  Dr.  Dyer  was  also  one 
of  the  original  incorporators  of  the  North  Chicago 
Street  Railway  Company,  and  his  name  was 
prominently  identified  with  many  local  benevo- 
lent enterprises.  Died,  in  Lake  View  (then  a 
suburb  of  Chicago),  April  24,  1878. 

EARLVILLE,  a  city  and  railway  junction  in 
La  Salle  County,  52  miles  northeast  of  Princeton, 
at  the  intersecting  point  of  the  Chicago,  Burling- 
ton &  Quincy  and  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern 
Railroads.  It  is  in  the  center  of  an  agricultural 
and  stock-raising  district,  and  is  an  important 
shipping-point.  It  has  seven  churches,  a  graded 
school,  one  bank,  two  weekly  newspapers  and 
manufactories  of  plows,  wagons  and  carriages. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,058;  (1900),  1,122;  (1910),  1,059. 

EARLY,  John,  legislator  and  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor,  was  born  of  American  parentage  and  Irish- 
ancestry  in  Essex  County,  Canada  West,  March 
17,  1828,  and  accompanied  his  parents  to  Cale- 
donia, Boone  County,  111.,  in  1846.  His  boyhood 
was  passed  upon  his  father's  farm,  and  in  youth 
he  learned  the  trade  (his  father's)  of  carpenter 
and  joiner.  In  1852  he  removed  to  Rockford, 
Winnebago  County,  and,  in  1865,  became  State 
Agent  of  the  New  England  Mutual  Life  Insur- 
ance Company.  Between  1863  and  1866  he  held 
sundry  local  offices,  and,  in  1869,  was  appointed 
by  Governor  Palmer  a  Trustee  of  the  State 
Reform  School.  In  1870  he  was  elected  State 
Senator  and  re-elected  in  1874,  serving  in  the 
Twenty-seventh,  Twenty  eighth,  Twenty-ninth 
and  Thirtieth  General  Assemblies.  In  1873  he 
was  elected  President  pro  tern,  of  the  Senate,  and, 
Lieut-Gov.  Beveridge  succeeding  to  the  executive 
chair,  he  became  ex-officio  Lieutenant-Governor. 
In  1875  he  was  again  the  Republican  nominee  for 
the  Presidency  of  the  Senate,  but  was  defeated 


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by  a  coalition  of  Democrats  and  Independents. 
He  died  while  a  member  of  the  Senate,  Sept.  3, 
1877. 

EARTHQUAKE  OF  1811.  A  series  of  the 
most  remarkable  earthquakes  in  the  history  of 
the  Mississippi  Valley  began  on  the  night  of 
November  16,  1811,  continuing  for  several  months 
and  finally  ending  with  the  destruction  of  Carac- 
cas,  Venezuela,  in  March  following.  While  the 
center  of  the  earlier  disturbance  appears  to  have 
been  in  the  vicinity  of  New  Madrid,  in  Southeast- 
ern Missouri,  its  minor  effects  were  felt  through 
a  wide  extent  of  country,  especially  in  the 
settled  portions  of  Illinois.  Contemporaneous 
history  states  that,  in  the  American  Bottom,  then 
the  most  densely  settled  portion  of  Illinois,  the 
results  were  very  perceptible.  The  walls  of  a 
brick  house  belonging  to  Mr.  Samuel  Judy,  a 
pioneer  settler  in  the  eastern  edge  of  the  bottom, 
near  Edwardsville,  Madison  County,  were  cracked 
by  the  convulsion,  the  effects  being  seen  for  more 
than  two  generations.  Gov.  John  Reynolds,  then 
a  young  man  of  23,  living  with  his  father's 
family  in  what  was  called  the  "Goshen  Settle- 
ment," near  Edwardsville,  in  his  history  of  "My 
Own  Times,"  says  of  it:  "Our  family  were  all 
sleeping  in  a  log-cabin,  and  my  father  leaped  out 
of  bed,  crying  out,  'The  Indians  are  on  the  house.' 
The  battle  of  Tippecanoe  had  been  recently 
fought,  and  it  was  supposed  the  Indians  would 
attack  the  settlements.  Not  one  in  the  family 
knew  at  that  time  it  was  an  earthquake.  The 
next  morning  another  shock  made  us  acquainted 
with  it.  ...  The  cattle  came  running  home 
bellowing  with  fear,  and  all  animals  were  terribly 
alarmed.  Our  house  cracked  and  quivered  so  we 
were  fearful  it  would  fall  to  the  ground.  In  the 
American  Bottom  many  chimneys  were  thrown 
down,  and  the  church  bell  at  Cahokia  was 
sounded  by  the  agitation  of  the  building.  It  is 
said  a  shock  of  an  earthquake  was  felt  in  Kaskas- 
kia  in  1804,  but  I  did  not  perceive  it."  Owing  to 
the  sparseness  of  the  population  in  Illinois  at  that 
time,  but  little  is  known  of  the  effect  of  the  con- 
vulsion of  1811  elsewhere,  but  there  are  numerous 
"sink-holes"  in  Union  and  adjacent  counties, 
between  the  forks  of  the  Ohio  and  Mississippi 
Rivers,  which  probably  owe  their  origin  to  this  or 
some  similar  disturbance.  "On  the  Kaskaskia 
River  below  Athens,"  says  Governor  Reynolds  in 
his  "Pioneer  History,"  "the  water  and  white  sand 
were  thrown  up  through  a  fissure  of  the  earth." 

EAST  DUBUQUE,  an  incorporated  city  of  Jo 
Daviess  County,  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Missis- 
sippi, 17  miles  (by  rail)  northeast  of  Galena.  It 


is  connected  with  Dubuque,  Iowa,  by  a  railroad 
and  a  wagon  bridge  two  miles  in  length.  It  has 
a  grain  elevator,  a  box  factory,  a  planing  mill 
and  manufactories  of  cultivators  and  sand  drills. 
It  has  also  a  bank,  two  churches,  good  public 
schools  and  a  weekly  newspaper.  Population 
(1890),  1,069;  (1900),  1,146;  (1910),  1,253. 

EASTOJf,  (Col.)  IS nt'iis.  pioneer,  founder  of  the 
city  of  Alton;  was  born  at  Litchfield,  Conn., 
May  4,  1774;  studied  law  and  practiced  two 
years  in  Oneida  County,  N.  Y. ;  emigrated  to  St. 
Louis  in  1804,  and  was  commissioned  by  President 
Jefferson  Judge  of  the  Territory  of  Louisiana, 
and  also  became  the  first  Postmaster  of  St.  Louis, 
in  1808.  From  1814  to  1818  he  served  as  Delegate 
in  Congress  from  Missouri  Territory,  and,  on  the 
organization  of  the  State  of  Missouri  (1821),  was 
appointed  Attorney -General  for  the  State,  serving 
until  1826.  His  death  occurred  at  St.  Charles, 
Mo.,  July  5,  1834.  Colonel  Easton's  connection 
with  Illinois  history  is  based  chiefly  upon  the 
fact  that  he  was  the  founder  of  the  present  city 
of  Alton,  which  he  laid  out,  in  1817,  on  a  tract  of 
land  of  which  he  had  obtained  possession  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Little  Piasa  Creek,  naming  the 
town  for  his  son.  Rev.  Thomas  Lippincott, 
prominently  identified  with  the  early  history  of 
that  portion  of  the  State,  kept  a  store  for  Easton 
at  Milton,  on  Wood  River,  about  two  miles  from 
Alton,  in  the  early  "  '20's." 

EAST  ST.  LOUIS,  a  nourishing  city  in  St.  Clair 
County,  on  the  east  bank  of  the  Mississippi  di- 
rectly opposite  St.  Louis;  is  the  terminus  of 
twenty-two  railroads  and  several  electric  lines, 
and  the  leading  commercial  and  manufacturing 
point  in  Southern  Illinois.  Its  industries  include 
rolling  mills,  steel,  brass,  malleable  iron  and 
glass  works,  grain  elevators  and  flour  mills, 
breweries,  stockyards  and  packing  houses.  The 
city  has  eleven  public  and  five  parochial  schools, 
one  high  school,  and  two  colleges;  is  well  sup- 
plied with  banks  and  has  one  daily,  three  weekly 
and  one  monthly  papers.  Pop.  (1900),  29,655; 
(1910),  58,547. 

EASTERN  HOSPITAL  FOR  THE  FVSAXE. 
The  act  for  the  establishment  of  this  institution 
passed  the  General  Assembly  in  1877.  Many 
cities  offered  inducements,  by  way  of  donations, 
for  the  location  of  the  new  hospital,  but  the  site 
finally  selected  was  a  farm  of  250  acres  near  Kan- 
kakee,  and  this  was  subsequently  enlarged  by  the 
purchase  of  327  additional  acres  in  1881.  Wort 
was  begun  in  1878  and  the  first  patients  received 
in  December,  1879.  The  plan  of  the  institution 
is,  in  many  respects,  unique.  It  comprises  a 


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general  buildine.  three  stories  high,  capable  of 
accommodating  300  to  400  patients,  and  a  number 
of  detached  buildings,  technically  termed  cot- 
tages, where  various  classes  of  insane  patients  may 
be  grouped  and  receive  the  particular  treatment 
best  adapted  to  ensure  their  recovery.  The  plans 
were  mainly  worked  out  from  suggestions  by 
Frederick  Howard  Wines,  LL.D.,  then  Secretary 
of  the  Board  of  Public  Charities,  and  have 
attracted  generally  favorable  comment  both  in 
this  country  and  abroad.  The  seventy -five  build- 
ings occupied  for  the  various  purposes  of  the 
institution,  cover  a  quarter-section  of  land  laid  off 
in  regular  streets,  beautified  with  trees,  plants 
and  flowers,  and  presenting  all  the  appearance  of 
a  flourishing  village  with  numerous  small  parks 
adorned  with  walks  and  drives.  The  counties 
from  which  patients  are  received  include  Cook, 
Champaign,  Coles,  Cumberland,  De  Witt,  Doug- 
las, Edgar,  Ford,  Grundy,  Iroquois,  Kankakee, 
La  Salle,  Livingston,  Macon,  McLean,  Moultrie; 
Piatt,  Shelby,  Vermilion  and  Will.  The  whole 
number  of  patients  in  1898  was  2,200,  while  the 
employes  of  all  classes  numbered  500. 

EASTERN  ILLINOIS  NORMAL  SCHOOL,  an 
institution  designed  to  qualify  teachers  for  giving 
instruction  in  the  public  schools,  located  at 
Charleston,  Coles  County,  under  an  act  of  the 
Legislature  passed  at  the  session  of  1895.  The 
act  appropriated  §50,000  for  the  erection  of  build- 
ings, to  which  additional  appropriations  were 
added  in  1897  and  1898,  of  $25,000  and  $50,000, 
respectively,  with  §56,216.72  contributed  by  the 
city  of  Charleston,  making  a  total  of  §181,216.72. 
The  building  was  begun  in  1896,  the  corner-stone 
being  laid  on  May  27  of  that  year.  There  was 
delay  in  the  progress  of  the  work  in  consequence 
of  the  failure  of  the  contractors  in  December, 
1896,  but  the  work  was  resumed  in  1897  and 
practically  completed  early  in  1899,  with  the 
expectation  that  the  institution  would  be  opened 
for  the  reception  of  students  in  September  fol- 
lowing. 

EASTMAN,  Zebina,  anti-slavery  journalist, 
was  born  at  North  Amherst,  Mass.,  Sept.  8,  1815; 
became  a  printer's  apprentice  at  14,  but  later 
spent  a  short  time  in  an  academy  at  Hadley. 
Then,  after  a  brief  experience  as  an  employe  in 
the  office  of  "The  Hartford  Pearl,"  at  the  age  of 
18  he  invested  his  patrimony  of  some  $2,000  in 
the  establishment  of  "The  Free  Press"  at  Fayette- 
ville,  Vt.  This  venture  proving  unsuccessful,  in 
1837  he  came  west,  stopping  a  year  or  two  at 
Ann  Arbor,  Mich.  In  1839  he  visited  Peoria  by 
way  of  Chicago,  working  for  a  time  on  "The 


Peoria  Register,"  but  soon  after  joined  Benjamin 
Lundy,  who  was  preparing  to  revive  his  paper, 
"The  Genius  of  Universal  Emancipation,"  at 
Lowell,  La  Salle  County.  This  scheme  was 
partially  defeated  by  Lundy's  early  death,  but, 
after  a  few  months'  delay,  Eastman,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  Hooper  Warren,  began  the  publication 
of  "The  Genius  of  Liberty"  as  the  successor  of 
Lundy's  paper,  using  the  printing  press  which 
Warren  had  used  in  the  office  of  "The  Commer- 
cial Advertiser, "  in  Chicago,  a  year  or  so  before.  In 
1842,  at  the  invitation  of  prominent  Abolitionists, 
the  paper  was  removed  to  Chicago,  where  it  was 
issued  under  the  name  of  "The  Western  Citizen," 
in  1853  becoming  "The  Free  West,"  and  finally, 
in  1856,  being  merged  in  "The  Chicago  Tribune." 
After  the  suspension  of  "The  Free  West,"  Mr. 
Eastman  began  the  publication  of  "The  Chicago 
Magazine,"  a  literary  and  historical  monthly, 
but  it  reached  only  its  fifth  number,  when  it  was 
discontinued  for  want  of  financial  support.  In 
1861  he  was  appointed  by  President  Lincoln 
United  States  Consul  at  Bristol,  England,  where 
he  remained  eight  years.  On  his  return  from 
Europe,  he  took  up  his  residence  at  Elgin,  later 
removing  to  May  wood,  a  suburb  of  Chicago, 
where  he  died,  June  14,  1883.  During  the  latter 
years  of  his  life  Mr.  Eastman  contributed  many 
articles  of  great  historical  interest  to  the  Chi- 
cago press.  (See  Lundy,  Benjamin,  and  Warren, 
Hooper. ) 

EBERHART,  John  Frederick,  educator  and 
real-estate  operator,  was  born  in  Mercer  County, 
Pa.,  Jan.  21,  1829;  commenced  teaching  at  16 
years  of  age,  and,  in  1853,  graduated  from  Alle- 
gheny College,  at  Meadville,  soon  after  becoming 
Principal  of  Albright  Seminary  at  Berlin,  in  the 
same  State ;  in  1855  came  west  by  way  of  Chicago, 
locating  at  Dixon  and  engaging  in  editorial  work; 
a  year  later  established  "The  Northwestern 
Home  and  School  Journal,"  which  he  published 
three  years,  in  the  meantime  establishing  and 
conducting  teachers'  institutes  in  Illinois,  Iowa 
and  Wisconsin.  In  1859  lie  was  elected  School 
Commissioner  of  Cook  County— a  position  which 
was  afterwards  changed  to  County  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools,  and  which  he  held  ten  years.  Mr. 
Eberhart  was  largely  instrumental  in  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Cook  County  Normal  School. 
Since  retiring  from  office  he  has  been  engaged  in 
the  real-estate  business  in  Chicago. 

ECKHART,  Bernard  A.,  manufacturer  and 
President  of  the  Chicago  Drainage  Board,  was 
born  in  Alsace,  France  (now  Germany),  brought 
to  America  in  infancy  and  reared  on  a  farm  in 


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Vernon  County.  Wis. ;  was  educated  at  Milwau- 
kee, and.  in  1868,  became  clerk  in  the  office  of  the 
Eagle  Milling  Company  of  that  city,  afterwards 
serving  as  its  Eastern  agent  in  various  seaboard 
cities.  He  finallv  established  an  extensive  mill- 
ing business  in  Chicago,  in  which  he  is  now 
engaged.  In  1884  he  served  as  a  delegate  to  the 
National  Waterway  Convention  at  St.  Paul  and. 
in  1*96.  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  serving 
four  years  and  t^Ung  a  prominent  part  in  draft- 
ing the  Sanitary  Drainage  Bill  passed  bv  the 
Thirty-sixth  General  Assembly.  He  has  also  been 
prominent  in  connection  with  various  financial 
institutions,  and.  in  1891,  was  elected  one  of  the 
Trustees  of  the  Sanitary  District  of  Chicago,  was 
re-elected  in  1895  and  flmmm  President  of  the 
Board  for  the  following  year,  and  re-elected  Pres- 
ident in  December.  1898. 

EDBROOKE.  Willonrhby  J.,  Supervising 
Architect,  was  born  at  Deerfield.  Lake  County. 
TIL.  Sept.  3. 1843;  brought  up  to  the  architectural 
by  his  father  and  under  the  instmc- 
of  Chicago  architects.  Daring  Mayor 
Roche's  administration  he  held  the  position  of 
Commissioner  of  Public  Works,  and.  in  April. 
1881,  was  appointed  Supervising  Architect  of  the 
Treasury  Department  at  Washington,  in  that 
capacity  supervising  the  construction  of  Govern- 
ment buildings  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion. Died,  in  Chicago.  March  26.  1896. 

EDDY,  Henry,  pioneer  lawyer  and  editor. 
was  born  in  Vermont,  in  1796,  reared  in  New 
York,  learned  the  printer's  trade  at  Pittsburg, 
served  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  was  wounded  in 
the  battle  of  Black  Rock,  near  Buffalo;  came  to 
,  HL,  in  1818,  where  he  edited  "The 
Emigrant,'*  the  earliest  paper  in  that 
part  of  the  State:  was  a  Presidential  Elector  in 
1824,  a  Representative  in  the  Second  and  Fif- 
teenth General  Assemblies,  and  elected  a  Circuit 
Judge  in  1835,  hot  resigned  a  few  weeks  later. 
He  was  a  Whig  in  politics.  Usher  F.  Linder.  in 
his  "Reminiscences  of  the  Early  TV*M"Ji  and  Bar 
of  Illinois,"  says  of  Mr.  Eddy:  "When  he 
addressed  the  court ,  he  elicited  the  most  profound 
attention  He  was  a  sort  of  walking  law  library. 
He  never  forgot  anything  that  he  ever  knew, 
whether  law,  poetry  or  belles  lettres."  Died, 
June  29,  1*49 

EDDY.  Thomas  Mean,  clergyman  and  author, 
was  born  in  Hamilton  County,  Ohio,  Sept.  7. 
1833;  educated  at  Greensboroogh,  Ind.,  and.  from 
to  1853,  was  a  Methodist  circuit  preacher 
in  that  State,  becoming  Agent  of  the  American 
Bible  Society  the  latter  year,  and  Presiding 


Elder  of  the  Indianapolis  district  until  1856,  when 
he  was  appointed  editor  of  "The  Northwestern 
Christian  Advocate."  in  Chicago,  retiring  from 
that  position  in  1S6S  Later,  he  held  pastonues 
in  Baltimore  and  Washington,  and  was  chosen 
one  of  the  Corresponding  Secretaries  of  the  Mis- 
sionary Society  by  the  General  Conference  of 
Dr.  Eddy  was  a  copious  writer  for  the 
press,  and.  besides  occasional  sermons,  published 
two  volumes  of  reminiscences  and  personal 
sketches  of  prominent  Ulinoisans  in  the  War  of 
the  Rebellion  under  the  title  of  "Patriotism  of 
Illinois"  (1865).  Died,  in  New  York  City,  Oct. 
7,  1874. 

EDGAR.  John,  early  settler  at  Kasfcaslria,  was 
born  in  Ireland  and.  during  the  American  Revo- 
lution, served  as  an  officer  in  the  British  navy. 
but  married  an  American  woman  of  great  force 
of  character  who  sympathized  strongly  with  the 
patriot  cause.  Having  become  involved  in  the 
desertion  of  three  British  soldiers  whom  his  wife 
had  promised  to  assist  in  reaching  the  American 
camp,  he  was  compelled  to  flee.  After  remain  ing 
for  a  while  in  the  American  army,  during  which 
he  became  the  friend  of  General  La  Fayette.  he 
sought  safety  by  coming  west,  arriving  at  Kas- 
kaskia  in  1784.  His  property  was  confiscated,  but 
his  wife  succeeded  in  saving  some  $12,000  from 
the  wreck,  with  which  she  joined  him  two  years 
later.  He  engaged  in  business  and  became  an 
extensive  land-owner,  being  credited,  during 
Territorial  days,  with  the  ownership  of  nearly 
50,000  acres  situated  in  Randolph.  Monroe.  St. 
Clair,  Madison,  Clinton.  Washington,  Perry  and 
Jackson  Counties,  and  long  known  as  the  "Edgar 
lands."  He  also  purchased  and  rebuilt  a  mill 
near  ir«A«clri«  which  had  belonged  to  a  French- 
man named  Paget,  and  became  a  large  shipper  of 
floor  at  an  early  day  to  the  Southern  markets. 
When  St.  Clair  County  was  organized,  in  1790.  he 
was  appointed  one  of  the  Judges  of  the  Common 
Pleas  Court,  and  so  appears  to  have  continued 
for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century.  On  the 
<rt  •Illinium  nt  of  a  Territorial  Legislature  for  the 
Northwest  Territory,  he  was  chosen,  in  1799,  one 
of  the  members  for  St.  Clair  County — the  Legis- 
lature holding  its  session  at  Chillicothe,  in  the 
present  State  of  Ohio,  under  the  administration 
of  Governor  St.  Clair.  He  was  also  appointed  a 
Major  General  of  militia,  retaining  the  office  foi 
many  years.  General  and  Mrs.  Edgar  were 
leadcio  of  society  at  the  old  Territorial  capital. 
and.  on  the  visit  of  La  Fayette  to  ITasbKt-ia  in 
1825.  a  reception  was  given  at  their  house  to  the 
distinguished  Frenchman,  whose  acquaintance 


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they  had  made  more  than  forty  years  before.  He 
died  at  Kaskaskia.  in  1332.  Edgar  County,  in  the 
eastern  part  of  the  State,  was  named  in  honor  of 
General  Edgar.  He  was  Worshipful  Master  of 
the  first  Lodge  of  Ancient  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons  in  Illinois,  constituted  at  R^kast-ia  in 
1806. 

EIHiAR  COUXTT,  one  of  the  middle  tier  of 
counties  from  north  to  south,  lying  on  the  east- 
ern border  of  the  State :  was  organized  in  1883, 
and  named  for  General  Edgar,  an  early  citizen  of 
Kaskaskia.  It  contains  640  square  miles,  with 
a  population  (1910)  of  27,336.  The  county  is 
nearly  square,  well  watered  and  wooded.  Most 
of  the  acreage  is  under  cultivation,  grain-growing 
and  stock-raising  being  the  principal  industries. 
Generally,  the  soil  is  black  to  a  considerable 
depth,  though  at  some  points — especially  adjoin- 
ing the  timber  lands  in  the  east — the  soft,  brown 
clay  of  the  subsoil  comes  to  the  surface.  Beds  of 
the  drift  period,  one  hundred  feet  deep,  are  found 
in  the  northern  portion,  and  some  twenty-fire 
years  ago  a  nearly  perfect  skeleton  of  a  mastodon 
was  exhumed.  A  bed  of  limestone,  twenty-fire 
feet  thick,  crops  out  near  Baldwinsrille  and  runs 
along  Brouillet's  creek  to  the  State  line.  Paris,  the 
county -seat,  is  a  railroad  center,  and  has  a  popu- 
lation of  over  6.000.  Vermilion  and  Dudley  are 
prominent  shipping  points,  while  Chrisman, 
which  was  an  unbroken  prairie  in  1872,  was 
credited  with  a  population  of  900  in  1900. 

EDIXBFRG,  a  village  of  Christian  County,  on 
the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern  Railway,  18 
miles  southeast  of  Springfield;  has  two  banks 
and  one  newspaper.  The  region  is  agricultural, 
though  some  coal  is  mined  here.  Population 
(1880).  551;  (1890),  806;  (1900),  1,071;  (1910),  918. 

EDSALL,  James  Kirtland,  former  Attorney 
General,  was  born  at  Windham,  Greene  Countv, 
N.  Y.,  May  10,  1831.  After  passing  through  the 
common-schools,  he  attended  an  academy  at 
Prattsville,  X.Y.,  supporting  himself .  meanwhile, 
by  working  upon  a  farm.  He  read  law  at  Pratts- 
ville and  Catskill,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at 
Albany  in  1S52.  The  next  two  years  he  spent  in 
Wisconsin  and  Minnesota,  and,  in  1S54,  remored 
to  Learenworth.  Kan  He  was  elected  to  the 
Legislature  of  that  State  in  1S55,  being  a  member 
of  the  Topeka  (free-soil)  body  when  it  was  broken 
up  by  United  States  troops  in  1S56.  In  August, 
1856,  he  settled  at  Dison,  EL,  and  at  once 
engaged  in  practice.  In  1S63  he  was  elected 
Mayor  of  that  city,  and.  in  1STO,  was  chosen  State 
Senator,  serving  on  the  Committees  on  Munic- 
ipalities and  Judiciary  in  the  Twenty -seventh 


General   Assembly.    In    1872    he   was 
Attorney  -General  on  the  Republican  ticket  and 
re-elected    in    1376.     At    the   expiration  of   his 


second  term  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Chicago, 
where  he  afterwards  devoted  himself  to  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession,  until  his  death,  which 
occurred,  Jane  20,  1888. 

EDUCATION. 

The  first  step  in  the  direction  of  the  rntllJiali 
ment  of  a  system  of  free  schools  for  the  region 
now  comprised  within  the  State  of  Illinois  was 
taken  in  the  enactment  by  Congress,  on  May  20, 
1785,  of  "An  Ordinance  for  Ascertaining  the 
mode  of  disposing  of  lands  in  the  Western  Terri- 
tory." This  applied  specifically  to  the  region 
northwest  of  the  Ohio  River,  which  had  been 
acquired  through  the  conquest  of  the  "Illinois 
Country"  by  CoL  George  Rogers  Clark,  acting 
under  the  auspices  of  the  State  of  Virginia  and 
by  authority  received  from  its  Governor,  the 
patriotic  Patrick  Henry.  This  act  for  the  first 
time  established  the  present  system  of  township 
(or  as  it  was  then  called,  '^rectangular")  sunets, 
devised  by  Capt.  Thomas  Hutchins,  who  became 
the  first  Surveyor-General  (or  "Geographer,"  as 
the  office  was  styled)  of  the  United  States  under 
the  same  act.  Its  important  feature,  in  this  con- 
nection, was  the  provision  "that  there  shall  be 
reserved  the  lot  No.  16  of  every  township,  for  the 
maintenance  of  public  schools  within  the  town- 
ship. "  The  same  reservation  (the  term  "section" 
being  substituted  for  "lot"  in  the  act  of  May  18, 
1796)  was  made  in  all  subsequent  acts  for  the  safe 
of  public  lands—  the  acts  of  July  23,  17ST,  and 
June  30,  1788,  declaring  that  "the  lot  Xo.  16  in 
each  township,  or  fractional  part  of  a  township," 
shall  be  "given  perpetually  for  the  purpose  con- 
tained in  said  ordinance"  (L  e..  the  act  of  1785). 
The  next  step  was  taken  in  the  Ordinance  of  H83 
(Art.  HI),  in  the  declaration  that,  "religion, 
morality  and  knowledge  being  imramuuj  for  the 
happiness  of  mankind,  schools  and  the  mraim  of 
education  shall  forever  be  encouraged."  The 
reservation  referred  to  in  the  act  of  1785  (and 
subsequent  acts)  was  reiterated  in  the  "enabling 
act"  passed  by  Congress,  April  18,  1818,  authoriz- 
ing the  people  of  Illinois  Territory  to  organize  a 
State  Government,  and  was  formally  accepted  by 
the  Convention  which  formed  the  first  State 
Constitution.  The  enabling  act  also  set  apart  one 
entire  township  (in  addition  to  one  previously 
donated  for  the  same  purpose  by  act  of  Congress 
in  1804)  for  the  use  of  a  seminary  of  learning, 


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together  with  three  per  cent  of  the  net  proceeds 
of  the  sales  of  public  lands  within  the  State,  "to 
be  appropriated  by  the  Legislature  of  the  State 
for  the  encouragement  of  learning,  of  which  one- 
sixth  part"  (or  one-half  of  one  per  cent)  "shall 
be  exclusively  bestowed  on  a  college  or  univer- 
sity." Thus,  the  plan  for  the  establishment  of  a 
system  of  free  public  education  in  Illinois  had  its 
inception  in  the  first  steps  for  the  organization  of 
the  Northwest  Territory,  was  recognized  in  the 
Ordinance  of  1787  which  reserved  that  Territory 
forever  to  freedom,  and  was  again  reiterated  in 
the  preliminary  steps  for  the  organization  of  the 
State  Government.  These  several  acts  became 
the  basis  of  that  permanent  provision  for  the 
encouragement  of  education  known  as  the  "town- 
ship," "seminary"  and  "college  or  university" 
funds. 

EARLY  SCHOOLS. — Previous  to  this,  however,  a 
beginning  had  been  made  in  the  attempt  to  estab- 
lish schools  for  the  benefit  of  the  children  of  the 
pioneers.  One  John  Seeley  is  said  to  have  taught 
the  first  American  school  within  the  territory  of 
Illinois,  in  a  log-cabin  in  Monroe  County,  in  1783, 
followed  by  others  in  the  next  twenty  years  in 
Monroe,  Randolph,  St.  Clair  and  Madison  Coun- 
ties. Seeley's  earliest  successor  was  Francis 
Clark,  who,  in  turn,  was  followed  by  a  man 
named  Halfpenny,  who  afterwards  built  a  mill 
near  the  present  town  of  Waterloo  in  Monroe 
County.  Among  the  teachers  of  a  still  later  period 
were  John  Boyle,  a  soldier  in  Col.  George  Rogers 
Clark's  army,  who  taught  in  Randolph  County 
between  1790  and  1800;  John  Atwater,  near 
Edwardsville,  in  1807,  and  John  Messinger,  a  sur- 
veyor, who  was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1818  and  Speaker  of  the  first  House 
of  Representatives.  The  latter  taught  in  the 
vicinity  of  Shiloh  in  St.  Clair  County,  afterwards 
the  site  of  Rev.  John  M.  Peck's  Rock  Spring 
Seminary.  The  schools  which  existed  during 
this  period,  and  for  many  years  after  the  organi- 
zation of  the  State  Government,  were  necessarily 
few,  widely  scattered  and  of  a  very  primitive 
character,  receiving  their  support  entirely  by 
subscription  from  their  patrons. 

FIRST  FREE  SCHOOL  LAW  AND  SALES  OF 
SCHOOL  LANDS.— It  has  been  stated  that  the  first 
free  school  in  the  State  was  established  at  Upper 
Alton,  in  1821,  but  there  is  good  reason  for  believ- 
ing this  claim  was  based  upon  the  power  granted 
by  the  Legislature,  in  an  act  passed  that  year,  to 
establish  such  schools  there,  which  power  was 
never  carried  into  effect.  The  first  attempt  to 
establish  a  free-school  system  for  the  whole  State 


was  made  in  January,  1825,  in  the  passage  of  a 
bill  introduced  by  Joseph  Duncan,  afterwards  a 
Congressman  and  Governor  of  the  State.  It 
nominally  appropriated  two  dollars  out  of  each  one 
hundred  dollars  received  in  the  State  Treasury, 
to  be  distributed  to  those  who  had  paid  taxes  or 
subscriptions  for  the  support  of  schools.  So 
small  was  the  aggregate  revenue  of  the  State  at 
that  time  (only  a  little  over  $60,000),  that  the 
sum  realized  from  this  law  would  have  been  but 
little  more  than  $1,000  per  year.  It  remained 
practically  a  dead  letter  and  was  repealed  in  1829, 
when  the  State  inaugurated  the  policy  of  selling 
the  seminary  lands  and  borrowing  the  proceeds 
for  the  payment  of  current  expenses.  In  this 
way  43,200  acres  (or  all  but  four  and  a  half  sec- 
tions) of  the  seminary  lands  were  disposed  of, 
realizing  less  than  $60,000.  The  first  sale  of 
township  school  lands  took  place  in  Greene 
County  in  1831,  and,  two  years  later,  the  greater 
part  of  the  school  section  in  the  heart  of  the 
present  city  of  Chicago  was  sold,  producing 
about  $39,000.  The  average  rate  at  which  these 
sales  were  made,  up  to  1882,  was  $3.78  per  acre, 
and  the  minimum,  70  cents  per  acre.  That 
these  lands  have,  in  very  few  instances,  produced 
the  results  expected  of  them,  was  not  so  much 
the  fault  of  the  system  as  of  those  selected  to 
administer  it — whose  bad  judgment  in  premature 
sales,  or  whose  complicity  with  the  schemes  of 
speculators,  were  the  means,  in  many  cases,  of 
squandering  what  might  otherwise  have  furnished 
a  liberal  provision  for  the  support  of  public 
schools  in  many  sections  of  the  State.  Mr.  W.  L. 
Pillsbury,  at  present  Secretary  of  the  University 
of  Illinois,  in  a  paper  printed  in  the  report  of  the 
State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  for 
1885-86 — to  which  the  writer  is  indebted  for  many 
of  the  facts  presented  in  this  article — gives  to 
Chicago  the  credit  of  establishing  the  first  free 
schools  in  the  State  in  1834,  while  Alton  followed 
in  1837,  and  Springfield  and  Jacksonville  in  1840. 
EARLY  HIGHER  INSTITUTIONS.— A  movement 
looking  to  the  establishment  of  a  higher  institu- 
tion of  learning  in  Indiana  Territory  (of  which 
Illinois  then  formed  a  part),  was  inaugurated  by 
the  passage,  through  the  Territorial  Legislature  at 
Vincennes,  in  November,  1806,  of  an  act  incorpo- 
rating the  University  of  Indiana  Territory  to  be 
located  at  Vincennes.  One  provision  of  the  act 
authorized  the  raising  of  $20,000  for  the  institu- 
tion by  means  of  a  lottery.  A  Board  of  Trustees 
was  promptly  organized,  with  Gen.  William 
Henry  Harrison,  then  the  Territorial  Governor, 
at  its  head ;  but,  beyond  the  erection  of  a  building, 


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little  progress  was  made.  Twenty-one  years 
later  (1827)  the  first  successful  attempt  to  found 
an  advanced  school  was  made  by  the  indomitable 
Rev.  John  M.  Peck,  resulting  in  the  establish- 
ment of  his  Theological  Seminary  and  High 
School  at  Eock  Springs,  St.  Clair  County,  which, 
in  1831,  became  the  nucleus  of  Shurtleff  College  at 
Upper  Alton.  In  like  manner,  Lebanon  Semi- 
nary, established  in  1828,  two  years  later 
expanded  into  McKendree  College,  while  instruc- 
tion began  to  be  given  at  Illinois  College,  Jack- 
sonville, in  December,  1829,  as  the  outcome  of  a 
movement  started  by  a  band  of  young  men  at 
Yale  College  in  1827 — these  several  institutions 
being  formally  incorporated  by  the  same  act  of 
the  Legislature,  passed  in  1835.  (See  sketches  of 
these  Institutions. ) 

EDUCATIONAL  CONVENTIONS.— In  1833  there 
was  held  at  Vandalia  (then  the  State  capital)  the 
first  of  a  series  of  educational  conventions,  which 
were  continued  somewhat  irregularly  for  twenty 
years,  and  whose  history  is  remarkable  for  the 
number  of  those  participating  in  them  who  after- 
wards gained  distinction  in  State  and  National 
history.  At  first  these  conventions  were  held  at 
the  State  capital  during  the  sessions  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  when  the  chief  actors  in  them 
were  members  of  that  body  and  State  officers, 
with  a  few  other  friends  of  education  from  the 
ranks  of  professional  or  business  men.  At  the 
convention  of  1833,  we  find,  among  those  partici- 
pating, the  names  of  Sidney  Breese,  afterwards  a 
United  States  Senator  and  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court;  JudgeS.  D.  Lock  wood,  then  of  the  Supreme 
Court;  W.  L.  D.  Ewing,  afterwards  acting  Gov- 
ernor and  United  States  Senator;  O.  H.  Browning, 
afterwards  United  States  Senator  and  Secretary 
of  the  Interior;  James  Hall  and  John  Russell, 
the  most  notable  writers  in  the  State  in  their  day, 
besides  Dr.  J.  M.  Peck,  Archibald  Williams, 
Benjamin  Mills,  Jesse  B.  Thomas,  Henry  Eddy 
and  others,  all  prominent  in  their  several  depart- 
ments. In  a  second  convention  at  the  same 
place,  nearly  two  years  later,  Abraham  Lincoln, 
Stephen  A.  Douglas  and  Col.  John  J.  Hardin 
were  participants.  At  Springfield,  in  1840,  pro- 
fessional and  literary  men  began  to  take  a  more 
prominent  part,  although  the  members  of  the 
Legislature  were  present  in  considerable  force. 
A  convention  held  at  Peoria,  in  1844,  was  made 
up  largely  of  professional  teachers  and  school 
officers,  with  a  few  citizens  of  local  prominence ; 
and  the  same  may  be  said  of  those  held  at  Jack- 
sonville in  1845,  and  later  at  Chicago  and  other 
points.  Various  attempts  were  made  to  form 


permanent  educational  societies,  finally  result- 
ing, in  December,  1854,  in  the  organization  of  the 
"State  Teachers'  Institute,"  which,  three  years 
later,  took  the  name  of  the  "State  Teachers' 
Association" — though  an  association  of  the  same 
name  was  organized  in  1836  and  continued  in 
existence  several  years. 

STATE  SUPERINTENDENT  AND  SCHOOL  JOUR- 
NALS.— The  appointment  of  a  State  Superintend- 
ent of  Public  Instruction  began  to  be  agitated  as 
early  as  1837,  and  was  urged  from  time  to  time  in 
memorials  and  resolutions  by  educational  conven- 
tions, by  the  educational  press,  and  in  the  State 
Legislature;  but  it  was  not  until  February,  1854, 
that  an  act  was  passed  creating  the  office,  when 
the  Hon.  Ninian  W.  Edwards  was  appointed  by 
Gov.  Joel  A.  Matteson,  continuing  in  office  until 
his  successor  was  elected  in  1856.  "The  Common 
School  Advocate"  was  published  for  a  year  at 
Jacksonville,  beginning  with  January,  1837;  in 
1841  "The  Illinois  Common  School  Advocate" 
began  publication  at  Springfield,  but  was  discon- 
tinued after  the  issue  of  a  few  numbers.  In  1855 
was  established  "The  Illinois  Teacher."  This 
was  merged,  in  1873,  in  "The  Illinois  School- 
master," which  became  the  organ  of  the  State 
Teachers'  Association,  so  remaining  several  years. 
The  State  Teachers'  Association  has  no  official 
organ  now,  but  the  "Public  School  Journal"  is 
the  chief  educational  publication  of  the  State. 

INDUSTRIAL  EDUCATION. — In  1851  was  insti- 
tuted a  movement  which,  although  obstructed  for 
some  time  by  partisan  opposition,  has  been 
followed  by  more  far-reaching  results,  for  the 
country  at  large,  than  any  single  measure  in  the 
history  of  education  since  the  act  of  1785  setting 
apart  one  section  in  each  township  for  the  support 
of  public  schools.  This  was  the  scheme  formu- 
lated by  the  late  Prof.  Jonathan  B.  Turner,  of 
Jacksonville,  for  a  system  of  practical  scientific 
education  for  the  agricultural,  mechanical  and 
other  industrial  classes,  at  a  Farmers'  Convention 
held  under  the  auspices  of  the  Buel  Institute  (an 
Agricultural  Society),  at  Granville,  Putnam 
County,  Nov.  18,  1851.  While  proposing  a  plan 
for  a  "State  University"  for  Illinois,  it  also  advo- 
cated, from  the  outset,  a  "University  for  the 
industrial  classes  in  each  of  the  States,"  by  way 
of  supplementing  the  work  which  a  "National 
Institute  of  Science,"  such  as  the  Smithsonian 
Institute  at  Washington,  was  expected  to  accom- 
plish. The  proposition  attracted  the  attention 
of  persons  interested  in  the  cause  of  industrial 
education  in  other  States,  especially  in  New 
York  and  some  of  the  New  England  States,  and 


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received  their  hearty  endorsement  and  cooper- 
ation. The  Granville  meeting  was  followed  by  a 
series  of  similar  conventions  held  at  Springfield, 
June  8,  1852;  Chicago,  Nov.  24,  1852;  Springfield, 
Jan.  4,  1853,  and  Springfield,  Jan.  1,  1855,  at 
which  the  scheme  was  still  further  elaborated. 
At  the  Springfield  meeting  of  January,  1852,  an 
organization  was  formed  under  the  title  of  the 
"Industrial  League  of  the  State  of  Illinois,"  with 
a  view  to  disseminating  information,  securing 
more  thorough  organization  on  the  part  of  friends 
of  the  measure,  and  the  employment  of  lecturers 
to  address  the  people  of  the  State  on  the  subject. 
At  the  same  time,  it  was  resolved  that  "this  Con- 
vention memorialize  Congress  for  the  purpose  of 
obtaining  a  grant  of  public  lands  to  establish  and 
endow  industrial  institutions  in  each  and  every 
State  in  the  Union."  It  is  worthy  of  note  that 
this  resolution  contains  the  central  idea  of  the 
act  passed  by  Congress  nearly  ten  years  after- 
ward, making  appropriations  of  public  lands  for 
the  establishment  and  support  of  industrial 
colleges  in  the  several  States,  which  act  received 
the  approval  of  President  Lincoln,  July  2,  1862 — 
a  similar  measure  having  been  vetoed  by  Presi- 
dent Buchanan  in  February,  1859.  The  State 
was  extensively  canvassed  by  Professor  Turner, 
Mr.  Bronson  Murray  (now  of  New  York),  the  late 
Dr.  R.  C.  Eutherford  and  others,  in  behalf  of  the 
objects  of  the  League,  and  the  Legislature,  at  its 
session  of  1853,  by  unanimous  vote  in  both  houses, 
adopted  the  resolutions  commending  the  measure 
and  instructing  the  United  States  Senators  from 
Illinois,  and  requesting  its  Representatives,  to 
give  it  their  support.  Though  not  specifically 
contemplated  at  the  outset  of  the  movement,  the 
Convention  at  Springfield,  in  January,  1855,  pro- 
posed, as  a  part  of  the  scheme,  the  establishment 
of  a  "Teachers'  Seminary  or  Normal  School 
Department,"  which  took  form  in  the  act  passed 
at  the  session  of  1857,  for  the  establishment  of 
the  State  Normal  School  at  Normal.  Although 
delayed,  as  already  stated,  the  advocates  of  indus- 
trial education  in  Illinois,  aided  by  those  of  other 
States,  finally  triumphed  in  1862.  The  lands 
received  by  the  State  as  the  result  of  this  act 
amounted  to  480,000  acres,  besides  subsequent  do- 
nations. (See  University  of  Illinois ;  also  Turner, 
Jonathan  Baldwin.)  On  the  foundation  thus 
furnished  was  established,  by  act  of  the  Legisla- 
ture in  1867,  the  "Illinois  Industrial  University" 
— now  the  University  of  Illinois — at  Champaign, 
to  say  nothing  of  more  than  forty  similar  insti- 
tutions in  as  many  States  and  Territories,  based 
upon  the  same  general  act  of  Congress. 


FREE-SCHOOL  SYSTEM. — While  there  may  be 
said  to  have  been  a  sort  of  free-school  system  in 
existence  in  Illinois  previous  to  1855,  it  was 
limited  to  a  few  fortunate  districts  possessing 
funds  derived  from  the  sale  of  school-lands  situ- 
ated within  their  respective  limits.  The  system 
of  free  schools,  as  it  now  exists,  based  upon 
general  taxation  for  the  creation  of  a  permanent 
school  fund,  had  its  origin  in  the  act  of  that 
year.  As  already  shown,  the  office  of  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  had  been 
created  by  act  of  the  Legislature  in  February, 
1854,  and  the  act  of  1855  was  but  a  natural  corol- 
lary of  the  previous  measure,  giving  to  the  people 
a  uniform  system,  as  the  earlier  one  had  provided 
an  official  for  its  administration.  Since  then 
there  have  been  many  amendments  of  the  school 
law,  but  these  have  been  generally  in  the  direc- 
tion of  securing  greater  efficiency,  but  with- 
out departure  from  the  principle  of  securing 
to  all  the  children  of  the  State  the  equal 
privileges  of  a  common-school  education.  The 
development  of  the  system  began  practically 
about  1857,  and,  in  the  next  quarter  of  a 
century,  the  laws  on  the  subject  had  grown 
into  a  considerable  volume,  while  the  number- 
less decisions,  emanating  from  the  office  of  the 
State  Superintendent  in  construction  of  these 
laws,  made  up  a  volume  of  still  larger  proportions. 

The  following  comparative  table  of  school 
statistics,  for  1860  and  1896,  compiled  from  the 
Reports  of  the  State  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction,  will  illustrate  the  growth  of  the 
system  in  some  of  its  more  important  features: 

I860.  1896. 


Population  

1,711,961 

(est.)  4,250,000 

No.  of  Persons  of  School  Age  (  be- 

tween fi  and  21  )   

•549.604 

1.384.367 

No.  of  Pupils  enrolled  

»47i  247 

898,619 

School  Districts  

8.956 

11,615 

Public  Schools  

9,162 

12,623 

Graded       "      

294 

1,887 

Public  HlRh  Schools   

272 

School  Houses  built  during 

the  year  .  

557 

267 

W  hole  No.  of  School  Houses  

8.221 

12,632 

No.  of  Male  Teachers  

8,223 

7,057 

"       Female  Teachers  

6,496 

18,359 

Whole  No.  of  Teachers  in  Public 

Schools  

14,708 

25,416 

Highest  Monthly  Wages  paid  Male 

Teachers  

1180.00 

1300.00 

Highest     Monthly     Wages      paid 

Female  Teachers  

75.00 

280.00 

Lowest  Monthly  Wages  paid  Male 

Teachers  

8.00 

14.00 

Lowest      Monthly     Wages      paid 

Female  Teacners  

4.00 

10,00 

Average  Monthly  Wages  paid  Male 

Teachers  

28.82 

67.76 

Average     Monthly     Wages     paid 

Female  Teachers  

18.80 

50.63 

No.  of  Private  Schools  

500 

2,619 

No.  of  Pupils  in  Private  Schools  
Interest  on  State  and  County  Funds 

29,264 

139,969 

received  

173,450.38 

165,513.63 

Amount  of  Income  from  Township 
Funds  

322,852.00 

889,614.21) 

•Only  white  children  were  Included  In  these  statistics  for 
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I860.  1896. 

imount  received  from  State  Tax.,  f  690,000.00       f  1,000,000.00 
"              "          "       Special  Dis- 

trictTaxes 1,265,137.00          13,133,809.61 

Amount  received  from  Bonds  dur- 

ingtheyear 517,960.93 

Total  Amount  received  during  the 

year  by  School  Districts 2,193,455.00          15,607,172.50 

Amount  paid  Male  Teachers 2,772,829.32 

"      Female    "          7.186,105.67 

Whole  amount  paid  Teachers  ....  1,542,211.00          9,958,934.99 
Amount    paid     for     new     School 

Houses 348,728.00           1,873,757.25 

Amount  paid  for  repairs  and  im- 
provements    1,070,755.09 

Amount  paid  for  School  Furniture.  24,837.00             154,830.64 
"           "        "        "        Apparatus  8,563.00              164,298.92 
"          "       "    Books    for    Dis- 
trict Libraries 30,12400                13,664.97 

Total  Expenditures 2.269,868.00         14,614.i;;7.;il 

Estimated  valueof  School  Property  13,304,892.00         42,780,267.00 

"               "               "    Libraries..  377,819.00 

"    Apparatus  607,389.00 

The  sums  annually  disbursed  for  incidental 
expenses  on  account  of  superintendence  and  the 
cost  of  maintaining  the  higher  institutions  estab- 
lished, and  partially  or  wholly  supported  by  the 
State,  increase  the  total  expenditures  by  some 
$600,000  per  annum.  These  higher  institutions 
include  the  Illinois  State  Normal  University  at 
Normal,  the  Southern  Illinois  Normal  at  Carbon- 
dale  and  the  University  of  Illinois  at  Urbana;  to 
which  were  added  by  the  Legislature,  at  its  ses- 
sion of  1895,  the  Eastern  Illinois  Normal  School, 
afterwards  established  at  Charleston,  and  the 
Northern  Illinois  Normal  at  Be  Kalb.  These 
institutions,  although  under  supervision  of  the 
State,  are  partly  supported  by  tuition  fees.  (See 
description  of  these  institutions  under  their 
several  titles.)  The  normal  schools — as  their 
names  indicate — are  primarily  designed  for  the 
training  of  teachers,  although  other  classes  of 
pupils  are  admitted  under  certain  conditions, 
including  the  payment  of  tuition.  At  the  Uni- 
versity of  Illinois  instruction  is  given  in  the  clas- 
sics, the  sciences,  agriculture  and  the  mechanic 
arts.  In  addition  to  these  the  State  supports  four 
other  institutions  of  an  educational  rather  than  a 
custodial  character — viz. :  the  Institution  for  the 
Education  of  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  and  the  Insti- 
tution for  the  Blind,  at  Jacksonville ;  the  Asylum 
for  the  Feeble-Minded  at  Lincoln,  and  the  Sol- 
diers' Orphans'  Home  at  Normal.  The  estimated 
value  of  the  property  connected  with  these 
several  institutions,  in  addition  to  the  value  of 
school  property  given  in  the  preceding  table,  will 
increase  the  total  (exclusive  of  permanent  funds) 
to  $47,155,374.95,  of  which  §4,375,107.95  repre- 
sents property  belonging  to  the  institutions  above 
mentioned. 

POWERS  AND  DUTIES  OF  SUPERINTENDENTS 
AND  OTHER  SCHOOL  OFFICERS.— Each  county 
elects  a  County  Superintendent  of  Schools,  whose 
duty  it  is  to  visit  schools,  conduct  teachers'  insti- 
tutes, advise  with  teachers  and  school  officers  and 


instruct  them  in  their  respective  duties,  conduct 
examinations  of  persons  desiring  to  become 
teachers,  and  exercise  general  supervision  over 
school  affairs  within  his  county.  The  subordi- 
nate officers  are  Township  Trustees,  a  Township 
Treasurer,  and  a  Board  of  District  Directors  or — 
in  place  of  the  latter  in  cities  and  villages — Boards 
of  Education.  The  two  last  named  Boards  have 
power  to  employ  teachers  and,  generally,  to  super- 
vise the  management  of  schools  in  districts.  The 
State  Superintendent  is  entrusted  with  general 
supervision  of  the  common-school  system  of  the 
State,  and  it  is  his  duty  to  advise  and  assist 
County  Superintendents,  to  visit  State  Charitable 
institutions,  to  issue  official  circulars  to  teachers, 
school  officers  and  others  in  regard  to  their  rights 
and  duties  under  the  general  school  code;  to 
decide  controverted  questions  of  school  law,  com- 
ing to  him  by  appeal  from  County  Superintend- 
ents and  others,  and  to  make  full  and  detailed 
reports  of  the  operations  of  his  office  to  the 
Governor,  biennially.  He  is  also  made  ex-officio 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Illinois  and  of  the  several  Normal  Schools, 
and  is  empowered  to  grant  certificates  of  two 
different  grades  to  teachers — the  higher  grade  to 
be  valid  during  the  lifetime  of  the  holder,  and 
the  lower  for  two  years.  Certificates  granted  by 
County  Superintendents  are  also  of  two  grades 
and  have  a  tenure  of  one  and  two  years,  respec- 
tively, in  the  county  where  given.  The  conditions 
for  securing  a  certificate  of  the  first  (or  two- 
years')  grade,  require  that  the  candidate  shall  be 
of  good  moral  character  and  qualified  to  teach 
orthography,  reading  in  English,  penmanship, 
arithmetic,  modern  geography,  English  grammar, 
the  elements  of  the  natural  sciences,  the  history 
of  the  United  States,  physiology  and  the  laws  of 
health.  The  second  grade  (or  one-year)  certifi- 
cate calls  for  examination  in  the  branches  just 
enumerated,  except  the  natural  sciences,  physi- 
ology and  laws  of  health ;  but  teachers  employed 
exclusively  in  giving  instruction  in  music,  draw- 
ing, penmanship  or  other  special  branches,  may 
take  examinations  in  these  branches  alone,  but 
are  restricted,  in  teaching,  to  those  in  which  they 
have  been  examined.  —  County  Boards  are 
empowered  to  establish  County  Normal  Schools 
for  the  education  of  teachers  for  the  common 
schools,  and  the  management  of  such  normal 
schools  is  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  County  Board 
of  Education,  to  consist  of  not  less  than  five  nor 
more  than  eight  persons,  of  whom  the  Chairman 
of  the  County  Board  and  the  County  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  shall  be  ex-officio  members. 


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Boards  of  Education  and  Directors  may  establish 
kindergartens  (when  authorized  to  do  so  by  vote 
of  a  majority  of  the  voters  of  their  districts),  for 
children  between  the  ages  of  four  and  six  years, 
but  the  cost  of  supporting  the  same  must  be 
defrayed  by  a  special  tax. — A  compulsory  pro- 
vision of  the  School  Law  requires  that  each  child, 
between  the  ages  of  seven  and  fourteen  years, 
shall  be  sent  to  school  at  least  sixteen  weeks  of 
each  year,  unless  otherwise  instructed  in  the 
elementary  branches,  or  disqualified  by  physical 
or  mental  disability.  — Under  the  provisions  of  an 
act,  passed  in  1891,  women  are  made  eligible  to 
any  office  created  by  the  general  or  special  school 
laws  of  the  State,  when  twenty-one  years  of  age 
or  upwards,  and  otherwise  possessing  the  same 
qualifications  for  the  office  as  are  prescribed  for 
men.  (For  list  of  incumbents  in  the  office  of 
State  Superintendent,  see  Superintendents  of 
Public  Instruction. ) 

EDWARDS,  Arthur,  D.D.,  clergyman,  soldier 
and  editor,  was  born  at  Norwalk,  Ohio,  Nov.  23, 
1834;  educated  at  Albion,  Mich.,  and  the  Wes- 
leyan  University  of  Ohio,  graduating  from  the 
latter  in  1858 ;  entered  the  Detroit  Conference  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  the  same  year, 
was  ordained  in  1860  and,  from  1861  until  after 
the  ^battle  of  Gettysburg,  served  as  Chaplain  of 
the  First  Michigan  Cavalry,  when  he  resigned  to 
accept  the  colonelcy  of  a  cavalry  regiment.  In 
1864,  he  was  elected  assistant  editor  of  "The 
Northwestern  Christian  Advocate"  at  Chicago, 
and,  on  the  retirement  'of  Dr.  Eddy  in  1872, 
became  Editor-in-chief,  being  re-elected  every 
four  years  until  his  death,  Mar.  20,  1901.  He  had 
also  been  a  member  of  each  General  Conference 
since  1872,  was  a  member  of  the  Ecumenical  Con- 
ference at  London  in  1881,  and  held  other  posi- 
tions of  prominence  within  the  church. 

EDWARDS,  Cyrus,  pioneer  lawyer,  was  born 
in  Montgomery  County,  Md.,  Jan.  17,  1793;  at  the 
age  of  seven  accompanied  his  parents  to  Ken- 
tucky, where  he  received  his  primary  education, 
and  studied  law ;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Kas- 
kaskia,  111.,  in  1815,  Ninian  Edwards  (of  whom  he 
was  the  youngest  brother)  being  then  Territorial 
Governor.  During  the  next  fourteen  years  he 
resided  alternately  in  Missouri  and  Kentucky, 
and,  in  1829,  took  up  his  residence  at  Edwards- 
ville.  Owing  to  impaired  health  he  decided  to 
abandon  his  profession  and  engage  in  general 
business,  later  becoming  a  resident  of  Upper 
Alton.  In  1832  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  house 
of  the  Legislature  as  a  Whig,  and  again,  in  1840 
and  '60,  the  last  time  as  a  Republican ;  was  State 


Senator  from  1835  to  '39,  and  was  also  the  Whig 
candidate  for  Governor,  in  1838,  in  opposition  to 
Thomas  Carlin  (Democrat),  who  was  elected.  He 
served  in  the  Black  Hawk  War,  was  a  member  of 
the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1847,  and  espe- 
cially interested  in  education  and  in  public  chari- 
ties, being,  for  thirty-five  years,  a  Trustee  of 
Shurtleff  College,  to  which  he  was  a  most 
munificent  benefactor,  and  which  conferred  on 
him  the  degree  of  LL.D.  in  1852.  Died  at  Upper 
Alton,  September,  1877. 

EDWARDS,  Jflnian,  Territorial  Governor  and 
United  States  Senator,  was  born  in  Montgomery 
County,  Md.,  March  17,  1775;  fora  time  had  the 
celebrated  William  Wirt  as  a  tutor,  completing 
his  course  at  Dickinson  College.  At  the  age  of  19 
he  emigrated  to  Kentucky,  where,  after  squander- 
ing considerable  money,  he  studied  law  and,  step 
by  step,  rose  to  be  Chief  Justice  of  the  Court  of 
Appeals.  In  1809  President  Madison  appointed 
him  the  first  Territorial  Governor  of  Illinois. 
This  office  he  held  until  the  admission  of  Illinois 
as  a  State  in  1818,  when  he  was  elected  United 
Sates  Senator  and  re-elected  on  the  completion  of 
his  first  (the  short)  term.  In  1826  he  was  elected 
Governor  of  the  State,  his  successful  administra- 
tion terminating  in  1830.  In  1832  he  became  a 
candidate  for  Congress,  but  was  defeated  by 
Charles  Slade.  He  was  able,  magnanimous  and 
incorruptible,  although  charged  with  aristocratic 
tendencies  which  were  largely  hereditary.  Died, 
at  his  home  at  Belleville,  on  July  20,  1833,  of 
cholera,  the  disease  having  been  contracted 
through  self-sacrificing  efforts  to  assist  sufferers 
from  the  epidemic.  His  demise  cast  a  gloom 
over  the  entire  State.  Two  valuable  volumes 
bearing  upon  State  history,  comprising  his  cor- 
respondence with  many  public  men  of  his  time, 
have  been  published;  the  first  under  the  title  of 
"History  of  Illinois  and  Life  of  Ninian  Edwards," 
by  his  son,  the  late  Ninian  Wirt  Edwards,  and 
the  other  "The  Edwards  Papers,"  edited  by  the 
late  Elihu  B.  Washburne,  and  printed  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society. — 
Ninian  Wirt  (Edwards),  son  of  Gov.  Ninian 
Edwards,  was  born  at  Frankfort,  Ky.,  April  15, 
1809,  the  year  his  father  became  Territorial 
Governor  of  Illinois ;  spent  his  boyhood  at  Kas- 
kaskia,  Edwardsville  and  Belleville,  and  was 
educated  at  Transylvania  University,  graduating 
in  1833.  He  married  Elizabeth  P.  Todd,  a  sister 
of  Mrs.  Abraham  Lincoln,  was  appointed  Attor- 
ney-General in  1834,  but  resigned  in  1835,  when 
he  removed  to  Springfield.  In  1836  he  was 
elected  to  the  Legislature  from  Sangamon 


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County,  as  the  colleague  of  Abraham  Lincoln, 
being  one  of  the  celebrated  "Long  Nine,"  and 
was  influential  in  securing  the  removal  of  the 
State  capital  to  Springfield.  He  was  re-elected 
to  the  House  in  1838,  to  the  State  Senate  in  1844, 
and  again  to  the  House  in  1848;  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1847. 
Again,  in  1850,  he  was  elected  to  the  House,  but 
resigned  on  account  of  his  change  of  politics 
from  Whig  to  Democratic,  and,  in  the  election  to 
fill  the  vacancy,  was  defeated  by  James  C.  Conk- 
ling.  He  served  as  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction  by  appointment  of  Governor  Matte- 
son,  1854-57,  and,  in  1861,  was  appointed  by 
President  Lincoln,  Captain  Commissary  of  Sub- 
sistence, which  position  he  filled  until  June,  1865, 
since  which  time  he  remained  in  private  life.  He 
is  the  author  of  the  "Life  and  Times  of  Ninian 
Edwards"  (1870),  which  was  prepared  at  the 
request  of  the  State  Historical  Society.  Died,  at 
Springfield,  Sept.  2,  1889.— Benjamin  Stevenson 
(Edwards),  lawyer  and  jurist,  another  son  of  Gov. 
Ninian  Edwards,  was  born  at  Edwardsville,  111., 
June  3,  1818,  graduated  from  Yale  College  in 
1838,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  the  following 
year.  Originally  a  Whig,  he  subsequently 
became  a  Democrat,  was  a  Delegate  to  the  Con- 
stitutional Convention  of  1862,  and,  in  1868,  was 
an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  Congress  in  opposi- 
tion to  Shelby  M.  Cullom.  In  1869  he  was  elected 
Circuit  Judge  of  the  Springfield  Circuit,  but 
within  eighteen  months  resigned  the  position, 
preferring  the  excitement  and  emoluments  of 
private  practice  to  the  dignity  and  scanty  salary 
attaching  to  the  bench.  As  a  lawyer  and  as  a 
citizen  he  was  universally  respected.  Died,  at 
his  home  in  Springfield,  Feb.  4,  1886,  at  the  time 
of  his  decease  being  President  of  the  Illinois 
State  Bar  Association. 

EDWARDS,  Richard,  educator,  ex-Superin- 
tendent of  Public  Instruction,  was  born  in  Cardi- 
ganshire, Wales,  Dec.  23,  1822;  emigrated  with 
his  parents  to  Portage  County,  Ohio,  and  began 
life  on  a  farm;  later  graduated  at  the  State 
Normal  School,  Bridge  water,  Mass.,  and  from 
the  Polytechnic  Institute  at  Troy,  N.  Y.,  receiv- 
ing the  degrees  of  Bachelor  of  Science  and  Civil 
Engineer ;  served  for  a  time  as  a  civil  engineer 
on  the  Boston  water  works,  then  beginning  a 
career  as  a  teacher  which  continued  almost  unin- 
terruptedly for  thirty-five  years.  During  this 
period  he  was  connected  with  the  Normal  School 
at  Bridgewater ;  a  Boys'  High  School  at  Salem, 
and  the  State  Normal  at  the  same  place,  coming 
west  in  1857  to  establish  the  Normal  School  at  St. 


Louis,  Mo.,  still  later  becoming  Principal  of  the 
St.  Louis  High  School,  and,  in  1862,  accepting  the 
Presidency  of  the  State  Normal  University,  at 
Normal,  111.  It  was  here  where  Dr.  Edwards, 
remaining  fourteen  years,  accomplished  his 
greatest  work  and  left  his  deepest  impress  upon 
the  educational  system  of  the  State  by  personal 
contact  with  its  teachers.  The  next  nine  years 
were  spent  as  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational 
church  at  Princeton,  when,  after  eighteen 
months  in  the  service  of  Knox  College  as  Finan- 
cial Agent,  he  was  again  called,  in  1886,  to  a 
closer  connection  with  the  educational  field  by 
his  election  to  the  office  of  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction,  serving  until  1891,  when, 
having  failed  of  a  re-election,  he  soon  aftei' 
assumed  the  Presidency  of  Blackburn  University 
at  Carlinville.  Failing  health,  however,  com- 
pelled his  retirement  a  year  later,  when  he 
removed  to  Bloomington,  which  was  his  place  of 
residence  until  his  death,  March  8,  1908. 

EDWARDS  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  south- 
eastern part  of  the  State,  between  Richland  and 
White  on  the  north  and  south,  and  Wabash  and 
Wayne  on  the  east  and  west,  and  touching  the 
Ohio  River  on  its  southeastern  border.  It  was 
separated  from  Gallatin  County  in  1814,  during 
the  Territorial  period.  Its  territory  was  dimin- 
ished in  1824  by  the  carving  out  of  Wabash 
County.  The  surface  is  diversified  by  prairie 
and  timber,  the  soil  fertile  and  well  adapted  to 
the  raising  of  both  wheat  and  corn.  The  princi- 
pal streams,  besides  the  Ohio,  are  Bonpas  Creek, 
on  the  east,  and  the  Little  Wabash  River  on  the 
west.  Palmyra  (a  place  no  longer  on  the  map) 
was  the  seat  for  holding  the  first  county  court, 
in  1815,  John  Mclntosh,  Seth  Gard  and  William 
Barney  being  the  Judges.  Albion,  the  present 
county-seat  (population,  937),  was  laid  out  by 
Morris  Birkbeck  and  George  Flower  (emigrants 
from  England),  in  1819,  and  settled  largely  by 
their  countrymen,  but  not  incorporated  until 
1860.  The  area  of  the  county  is  220  square 
miles,  and  population,  in  1910,  10,049.  Grayville, 
with  a  population  of  2,000  in  1890,  is  partly  in 
this  county,  though  mostly  in  White.  Edwards 
County  was  named  in  honor  of  Ninian  Edwards, 
the  Territorial  Governor  of  Illinois. 

EDWARDSVILLE,  the  county-seat  of  Madison 
County,  settled  in  1812  and  named  in  honor  of 
Territorial  Governor  Ninian  Edwards;  is  on  four 
lines  of  railway  and  contiguous  to  two  others,  18 
miles  northeast  of  St.  Louis.  Edwardsville  was 
the  home  of  some  of  the  most  prominent  men  in 
the  history  of  the  State,  including  Governors  Ed- 


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wards,  Coles,  and  others.  It  has  pressed  and 
shale  brickyards,  coal  mines,  flour  mills,  machine 
shops,  banks,  electric  street  railway,  water-works, 
schools,  and  churches.  In  a  suburb  of  the  city 
(LeClaire)  is  a  cooperative  manufactory  of  sani- 
tary supplies,  using  large  shops  and  doing  a  large 
business.  Edwardsville  has  three  newspapers, 
one  daily,  one  semi-weekly  and  one  weekly.  Pop. 
(1890),  3,561;  (1900),  4,157;  (1910),  5,014. 

EFFINGHAM,  an  incorporated  city,  the  county- 
seat  of  Effingham  County,  99  miles  northeast  of  St. 
Louis  and  198  southwest  of  Chicago;  has  four  papers, 
creamery,  milk  condensory,  and  ice  factory.  Pop. 
(1890),  3,260;  (1900),  3,774;  (1910),  3,898. 

EFFINGHAM  COUNTY,  cut  off  from  Fayette 
(and  separately  organized)  in  1831 — named  for 
Gen.  Edward  Effingham.  It  is  situated  in  the 
central  portion  of  the  State,  90  miles  northeast  of 
St.  Louis;  has  an  area  of  486  square  miles  and  a 
population  (1910)  of  20,055.  T.  M.  Short,  I.  Fanchon 
and  William  I.  Hawkins  were  the  first  County 
Commissioners.  Effingham,  the  county-seat,  was 
platted  by  Messrs.  Alexander  and  Little  in  1854. 
Messrs.  Gillenwater,  Hawkins  and  Brown  were 
among  the  earliest  settlers.  Several  lines  of  rail- 
way cross  the  county.  Agriculture  and  sheep- 
raising  are  leading  industries,  wool  being  one  of 
the  principal  products. 

EGAN,  William  Bradshaw,  M.D.,  pioneer  phy- 
sican,  was  born  in  Ireland,  Sept.  28,  1808;  spent 
some  time  during  his  youth  in  the  study  of  sur- 
gery in  England,  later  attending  lectures  at  Dub- 
lin. About  1828  he  went  to  Canada,  taught  for 
a  time  in  the  schools  of  Quebec  and  Montreal 
and,  in  1830,  was  licensed  by  the  Medical  Board 
of  New  Jersey  and  began  practice  at  Newark  in 
that  State,  later  practicing  in  New  York.  In 
1833  he  removed  to  Chicago  and  was  early  recog- 
nized as  a  prominent  physician ;  on  July  4,  1836, 
delivered  the  address  at  the  breaking  of  ground 
for  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal.  During  the 
early  years  of  his  residence  in  Chicago,  Dr.  Egan 
was  owner  of  the  block  on  which  the  Tremont 
House  stands,  and  erected  a  number  of  houses 
there.  He  was  a  zealous  Democrat  and  a  delegate 
to  the  first  Convention  of  that  party,  held  at 
Joliet  in  1843;  was  elected  County  Recorder  in 
1844  and  Representative  in  the  Eighteenth  Gen- 
eral Assembly  (1853-54).  Died,  Oct.  27,  1860. 

ELBURN,  a  village  of  Kane  County,  on  the 
Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway,  8  miles  west 
of  Geneva.  It  has  banks  and  a  weekly  news- 
paper. Population  (1900),  606;  (1910),  615. 

ELDORADO,  a  city  in  Saline  County,  on  the 
Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis,  the 


Louisville  &  Nashville,  and  the  St.  Louis,  Alton 
&  Terra  Haute  Railroads;  has  a  bank  and  two 
weekly  newspapers;  district  agricultural.  Popula- 
tion, (1900),  1,445;  (1910),  3,366. 

ELDRIDGE,  Hamilton  N.,  lawyer  and  soldier, 
was  born  at  South  Williamstown,  Mass.,  August, 
1837 ;  graduated  at  Williams  College  in  the  class 
with  President  Garfield,  in  1856,  and  at  Albany 
Law  School,  in  1857;  soon  afterward  came  to 
Chicago  and  began  practice;  in  1862  assisted  in 
organizing  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty -seventh 
Illinois  Volunteers,  of  which  he  was  elected 
Lieutenant-Colonel,  before  the  end  of  the  year 
being  promoted  to  the  position  of  Colonel;  dis- 
tinguished himself  at  Arkansas  Post,  Chicka- 
mauga  and  in  the  battles  before  Vicksburg, 
winning  the  rank  of  Brevet  Brigadier-General, 
but,  after  two  years'  service,  was  compelled  to 
retire  on  account  of  disability,  being  carried  east 
on  a  stretcher.  Subsequently  he  recovered  suffi- 
ciently to  resume  his  profession,  but  died  in 
Chicago,  Dec.  1,  1882,  much  regretted  by  a  large 
circle  of  friends,  with  whom  he  was  exceedingly 
popular. 

ELECTIONS.  The  elections  of  public  officers 
in  Illinois  are  of  two  general  classes:  (I)  those 
conducted  in  accordance  with  United  States 
laws,  and  (II)  those  conducted  exclusively  under 
State  laws. 

I.  To  the  first  class  belong:  (1)  the  election  of 
United  States  Senators;  (2)  Presidential  Elect- 
ors, and  (3  )  Representatives  in  Congress.  1. 
(UNITED  STATES  SENATORS).  The  election  of 
United  States  Senators,  while  an  act  of  the  State 
Legislature,  is  conducted  solely  under  forms  pre- 
scribed by  the  laws  of  the  United  States.  These 
make  it  the  duty  of  the  Legislature,  on  the  second 
Tuesday  after  convening  at  the  session  next  pre- 
ceding the  expiration  of  the  term  for  which  any 
Senator  may  have  been  chosen,  to  proceed  to 
elect  his  successor  in  the  following  manner: 
Each  House  is  required,  on  the  day  designated,  in 
open  session  and  by  the  viva  voce  vote  of  each 
member  present,  to  name  some  person  for  United 
States  Senator,  the  result  of  the  balloting  to  be 
entered  on  the  journals  of  the  respective  Houses. 
At  twelve  o'clock  (M.)  on  the  day  following  the 
day  of  election,  the  members  of  the  two  Houses 
meet  in  joint  assembly,  when  the  journals  of  both 
Houses  are  read.  If  it  appears  that  the  same 
person  has  received  a  majority  of  all  the  votes  in 
each  House,  he  is  declared  elected  Senator.  If, 
however,  no  one  has  received  such  majority,  or 
if  either  House  has  failed  to  take  proceedings  as 
required  on  the  preceding  day,  then  the  members 


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of  the  two  Houses,  in  joint  assembly,  proceed  to 
ballot  for  Senator  by  viva  voce  vote  of  members 
present.  The  person  receiving  a  majority  of  all 
the  votes  cast— a  majority  of  the  members  of 
both  Houses  being  present  and  voting — is  declared 
elected ;  otherwise  the  joint  assembly  is  renewed 
at  noon  each  legislative  day  of  the  session,  and  at 
least  one  ballot  taken  until  a  Senator  is  chosen. 
When  a  vacancy  exists  in  the  Senate  at  the  time 
of  the  assembling  of  the  Legislature,  the  same 
rule  prevails  as  to  the  time  of  holding  an  election 
to  fill  it;  and,  if  a  vacancy  occurs  during  the 
session,  the  Legislature  is  required  to  proceed  to 
an  election  on  'the  second  Tuesday  after  having 
received  official  notice  of  such  vacancy.  The 
tenure  of  a  United  States  Senator  for  a  full  term 
is  six  years— the  regular  term  beginning  with  a 
new  Congress — the  two  Senators  from  each  State 
belonging  to  different  "classes,"  so  that  their 
terms  expire  alternately  at  periods  of  two  and 
four  years  from  each  other.— 2.  (PRESIDENTIAL 
ELECTORS).  The  choice  of  Electors  of  President 
and  Vice-President  is  made  by  popular  vote 
taken  quadrennially  on  the  Tuesday  after  the 
first  Monday  in  November.  The  date  of  such 
election  is  fixed  by  act  of  Congress,  being  the 
same  as  that  for  Congressman,  although  the  State 
Legislature  prescribes  the  manner  of  conducting 
it  and  making  returns  of  the  same.  The  number 
of  Electors  chosen  equals  the  number  of  Senators 
and  Representatives  taken  together  (in  1899  it 
was  twenty-four),  and  they  are  elected  on  a  gen- 
eral ticket,  a  plurality  of  votes  being  sufficient  to 
elect.  Electors  meet  at  the  State  capital  on  the 
second  Monday  of  January  after  their  election 
(Act  of  Congress,  1887),  to  cast  the  vote  of  the 
State. — 3.  (MEMBERS  OF  CONGRESS).  The  elec- 
tion of  Representatives  in  Congress  is  also  held 
under  United  States  law,  occurring  biennially 
(on  the  even  years)  simultaneously  with  the  gen- 
eral State  election  in  November.  Should  Congress 
select  a  different  date  for  such  election,  it  would 
be  the  duty  of  the  Legislature  to  recognize  it  by 
a  corresponding  change  in  the  State  law  relating 
to  the  election  of  Congressmen.  The  tenure  of  a 
Congressman  is  two  years,  the  election  being  by 
Districts  instead  of  a  general  ticket,  as  in  the 
case  of  Presidential  Electors — the  term  of  each 
Representative  for  a  full  term  beginning  with  a 
new  Congress,  on  the  4th  of  March  of  the  odd 
years  following  a  general  election.  (See  Con- 
gressional Apportionment.) 

II.  All  officers  under  the  State  Government — 
except  Boards  of  Trustees  of  charitable  and  penal 
institutions  or  the  heads  of  certain  departments, 


which  are  made  appointive  by  the  Governor — are 
elected  by  popular  vote.  Apart  from  county 
officers  they  consist  of  three  classes:  (1)  Legisla- 
tive; (2)  Executive;  (3)  Judicial  —  which  are 
chosen  at  different  times  and  for  different  periods. 
1.  (LEGISLATURE).  Legislative  officers  consist  of 
Senators  and  Representatives,  chosen  at  elections 
held  on  the  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  of 
November,  biennially.  The  regular  term  of  a 
Senator  (of  whom  there  are  fifty-one  under  the 
present  Constitution)  is  four  years;  twenty-five 
(those  in  Districts  bearing  even  numbers)  being 
chosen  on  the  years  in  which  a  President  and 
Governor  are  elected,  and  the  other  twenty -six  at 
the  intermediate  period  two  years  later.  Thus, 
one-half  of  each  State  Senate  is  composed  of  what 
are  called  "hold-over"  Senators.  Representatives 
are  elected  biennially  at  the  November  election, 
and  hold  office  two  years.  The  qualifications  as 
to  eligibility  for  a  seat  in  the  State  Senate  require 
that  the  incumbent  shall  be  25  years  of  age, 
while  21  years  renders  one  eligible  to  a  seat  in 
the  House — the  Constitution  requiring  that  each 
shall  have  been  a  resident  of  the  State  for  five 
years,  and  of  the  District  for  which  he  is  chosen, 
two  years  next  preceding  his  election.  (See 
Legislative  Apportionment  and  Minority  Repre- 
sentation.) —  2.  (EXECUTIVE  OFFICERS).  The 
officers  constituting  the  Executive  Department 
include  the  Governor,  Lieutenant-Governor, 
Secretary  of  State,  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts, 
Treasurer,  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 
and  Attorney-General.  Each  of  these,  except  the 
State  Treasurer,  holds  office  four  years  and — with 
the  exception  of  the  Treasurer  and  Superintend- 
ent of  Public  Instruction — are  elected  at  the 
general  election  at  which  Presidential  Electors 
are  chosen.  The  election  of  State  Superintendent 
occurs  on  the  intermediate  (even)  years,  and  that 
of  State  Treasurer  every  two  years  coincidently 
with  the  election  of  Governor  and  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction,  respectively.  (See  Execu- 
tive Officers.)  In  addition  to  the  State  officers 
already  named,  three  Trustees  of  the  University 
of  Illinois  are  elected  biennially  at  the  general 
election  in  November,  each  holding  office  for 
six  years.  These  trustees  (nine  in  number), 
with  the  Governor,  President  of  the  State  Board 
of  Agriculture  and  the  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction,  constitute  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
the  University  of  Illinois. —3.  (JUDICIARY).  The 
Judicial  Department  embraces  Judges  of  the 
Supreme,  Circuit  and  County  Courts,  and  such 
other  subordinate  officials  as  may  be  connected 
with  the  administration  of  justice.  For  the 


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election  of  members  of  the  Supreme  Court  the 
State  is  divided  into  seven  Districts,  each  of 
which  elects  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  for 
a  term  of  nine  years.  The  elections  in  five  of 
these  —  the  First,  Second,  Third,  Sixth  and 
Seventh — occur  on  the  first  Monday  in  June  every 
ninth  year  from  1879,  the  last  election  having 
occurred  in  June,  1897.  The  elections  in  the 
other  two  Districts  occur  at  similar  periods  of  nine 
years  from  1876  and  1873,  respectively — the  last 
election  in  the  Fourth  District  having  occurred 
in  June,  1893,  and  that  in  the  Fifth  in  1891.— 
Circuit  Judges  are  chosen  on  the  first  Monday  in 
June  every  six  years,  counting  from  1873.  Judges 
of  the  Superior  Court  of  Cook  County  are  elected 
every  six  years  at  the  November  election. — Clerks 
of  the  Supreme  and  Appellate  Courts  are  elected 
at  the  November  election  for  six  years,  the  last 
election  having  occurred  in  1896.  Under  the  act 
of  April  2,  1897,  consolidating  the  Supreme 
Court  into  one  Grand  Division,  the  number  of 
Supreme  Court  Clerks  is  reduced  to  one,  although 
the  Clerks  elected  in  1896  remain  in  office  and  have 
charge  of  the  records  of  their  several  Divisions 
until  the  expiration  of  their  terms  in  1902.  The 
Supreme  Court  holds  five  terms  annually  at  Spring- 
field, beginning,  respectively,  on  the  first  Tuesday 
of  October,  December,  February,  April  and  June. 

(OTHER  OFFICERS),  (a)  Members  of  the  State 
Board  of  Equalization  (one  for  every  Congres- 
sional District)  are  elective  every  four  years  at 
the  same  time  as  Congressmen,  (b)  County 
officers  (except  County  Commissioners  not  under 
township  organization)  hold  office  for  four  years 
and  are  chosen  at  the  November  election  as 
follows:  (1)  At  the  general  election  at  which 
the  Governor  is  chosen  —  Clerk  of  the  Circuit 
Court,  State's  Attorney,  Recorder  of  Deeds  (in 
counties  having  a  population  of  60,000  or  over), 
Coroner  and  County  Surveyor.  (2)  On  inter- 
mediate years — Sheriff,  County  Judge,  Probate 
Judge  (in  counties  having  a  population  of  70,000 
and  over),  County  Clerk,  Treasurer,  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools,  and  Clerk  of  Criminal  Court  of 
Cook  County,  (c)  In  counties  not  under  town- 
ship organization  a  Board  of  County  Commission- 
ers is  elected,  one  being  chosen  in  November  of 
each  year,  and  eacli  holding  office  three  years, 
(d)  Under  the  general  law  the  polls  open  at  8 
a.  m.,  and  close  at  7  p.  m.  In  cities  accepting  an 
Act  of  the  Legislature  passed  in  1885,  the  hour  of 
opening  the  polls  is  6  a.  m.,  and  of  closing  4  p.  m. 
(See  also  Australian  Ballot.) 

ELECTORS,  QUALIFICATIONS  OF.  (See 
Suffrage.) 


ELGIN,  an  important  city  of  Northern  Illinois, 
in  Kane  County,  on  Fox  River  and  the  Chicago, 
Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  and  Chicago  &  Northwest- 
ern Railroads,  besides  two  rural  electric  lines,  36 
miles  northwest  of  Chicago;  has  valuable  water- 
power  and  over  fifty  manufacturing  establish- 
ments, including  the  National  Watch  Factory  and 
the  Cook  Publishing  Company,  both  among  the 
most  extensive  of  their  kind  in  the  world;  is  also 
a  great  dairy  center  with  extensive  creameries 
and  milk-condensing  works.  The  quotations  of 
its  Butter  and  Cheese  Exchange  are  telegraphed 
to  all  the  great  commercial  centers  and  regulate 
the  prices  of  these  commodities  throughout  the 
country.  Elgin  is  the  seat  of  the  Northern  (Illi- 
nois) Hospital  for  the  Insane,  and  has  a  handsome 
Government  (postoffice)  building,  fine  public 
library  and  many  handsome  residences.  It  has 
three  daily  and  several  weekly  newspapers.  Pop. 
(1890),  17,823;  (1900),  22,433;  (1910),  25,976. 

ELGIN,  JOLIET  &  EASTERN  RAILWAY.  The 
main  line  of  this  road  extends  west  from  Dyer  on 
the  Indiana  State  line  to  Joliet,  thence  northeast 
to  Waukegan.  The  total  length  of  the  line  (1898) 
is  192.72  miles,  of  which  159.93  miles  are  in  Illi- 
nois. The  entire  capital  of  the  company,  includ- 
ing stock  and  indebtedness,  amounted  (1898),  to 
513,799,630— more  than  $71,000  per  mile.  Its  total 
earnings  in  Illinois  for  the  same  year  were  $1,212,- 
026,  and  its  entire  expenditure  in  the  State, 
$1,156,146.  The  company  paid  in  taxes,  the  same 
year,  $48,876.  Branch  lines  extend  southerly 
from  Walker  Junction  to  Coster,  where  connec- 
tion is  made  with  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati, 
Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railroad,  and  northwesterly 
from  Normantown,  on  the  main  line,  to  Aurora. 
—(HISTORY).  The  Elgin,  Joliet  &  Eastern  Rail- 
way was  chartered  in  1887  and  absorbed  the 
Joliet,  Aurora  &  Northern  Railway,  from  Joliet  to 
Aurora  (21  miles),  which  had  been  commenced  in 
1886  and  was  completed  in  1888,  with  extensions 
from  Joliet  to  Spaulding,  111. ,  and  from  Joliet  to 
McCool,  Ind.  In  January,  1891,  the  Company 
purchased  all  the  properties  and  franchises  of  the 
Gardner,  Coal  City  &  Normantown  and  the 
Waukegan  &  Southwestern  Railway  Companies 
(formerly  operated  under  lease).  The  former  of 
these  two  roads  was  chartered  in  1889  and  opened 
in  1890.  The  system  forms  a  belt  line  around 
Chicago,  intersecting  all  railroads  entering  that 
city  from  every  direction.  Its  traffic  is  chiefly 
in  the  transportation  of  f  reiglit. 

ELIZABETHTOWJf,  the  county-seat  of  Hardin 
County.  It  stands  on  the  north  bank  of  the  Ohio 
River,  44  miles  above  Paducah,  Ky.,  and  about 


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125  miles  southeast  of  Belleville;  has  a  brick  and 
tile  factory,  mining  interests,  two  churches,  two 
flouring  mills,  a  bank,  and  one  newspaper.  Popu- 
lation (1890),  652;  (1900),  668;  (1910),  633. 

ELKHART,  a  town  of  Logan  County,  on  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad,  18  miles  northeast  of 
Springfield;  is  a  rich  farming  section;  has  a  coal  shaft. 
Pop.  (1890),  414;  (1900),  553;  (1910),  418. 

ELKIN,  William  F.,  pioneer  and  early  legisla- 
tor, was  born  in  Clark  County,  Ky.,  April  13, 
1792;  after  spending  several  years  in  Ohio  and 
Indiana,  came  to  Sangamon  County,  111.,  in  1825; 
was  elected  to  the  Sixth,  Tenth  and  Eleventh 
General  Assemblies,  being  one  of  the  "Long 
Nine"  from  Sangamon  County  and,  in  1861,  was 
appointed  by  his  former  colleague  (Abraham 
Lincoln)  Register  of  the  Land  Office  at  Spring- 
field, resigning  in  1872.  Died,  in  1878. 

ELLIS,  Edward  F.  W.,  soldier,  was  born  at 
Wilton,  Maine,  April  15,  1819;  studied  law  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Ohio ;  spent  three  years 
(1849-52)  in  California,  serving  in  the  Legislature 
of  that  State  in  1851,  and  proving  himself  an 
earnest  opponent  of  slavery ;  returned  to  Ohio  the 
next  year,  and,  in  1854,  removed  to  Rockford,  111., 
where  he  embarked  in  the  banking  business. 
Soon  after  the  firing  on  Fort  Sumter,  he  organ- 
ized the  Ellis  Rifles,  which  having  been  attached 
to  the  Fifteenth  Illinois,  he  was  elected  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel of  the  regiment ;  was  in  command  at 
the  battle  of  Shiloh,  April  6,  1862,  and  was  killed 
while  bravely  leading  on  his  men. 

ELLIS,  (Rev.)  John  Millot,  early  home  mis- 
sionary, was  born  in  Keene,  N.  II.,  July  14,  1793; 
came  to  Illinois  as  a  home  missionary  of  the 
Presbyterian  Church  at  an  early  day,  and  served 
for  a  time  as  pastor  of  churches  at  Kaskaskia  and 
Jacksonville,  and  was  one  of  the  influential 
factors  in  securing  the  location  of  Illinois  Col- 
lege at  the  latter  place.  His  wife  also  conducted, 
for  some  years,  a  private  school  for  young  ladies 
at  Jacksonville,  which  developed  into  the  Jack- 
sonville Female  Academy  in  1833,  and  is  still 
maintained  after  a  history  of  over  sixty  years. 
Mr.  Ellis  was  later  associated  with  the  establish- 
ment of  Wabash  College,  at  Crawfordsville,  Ind., 
finally  returning  to  New  Hampshire,  where,  in 
1840,  he  was  pastor  of  a  church  at  East  Hanover. 
In  1844  he  again  entered  the  service  of  the  Soci- 
ety for  Promoting  Collegiate  and  Theological 
Education  in  the  West.  Died,  August  6,  1855. 

ELLSWORTH,  Ephraim  Elmer,  soldier,  first 
victim  of  the  Civil  War,  was  born  at  Mechanics 
ville,  Saratoga  County,  N.  Y.,  April  23,  1837.  He 
came  to  Chicago  at  an  early  age,  studied  law, 


and  became  a  patent  solicitor.  In  1860  he  raised 
a  regiment  of  Zouaves  in  Chicago,  which  became 
famous  for  the  perfection  of  its  discipline  and 
drill,  and  of  which  he  was  commissioned  Colonel. 
In  1861  he  accompanied  President  Lincoln  to 
Washington,  going  from  there  to  New  York, 
where  he  recruited  and  organized  a  Zouave 
regiment  composed  of  firemen.  He  became  its 
Colonel  and  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  Alexan- 
dria, Va.  While  stationed  there  Colonel  Ells- 
worth observed  that  a  Confederate  flag  was 
flying  above  a  hotel  owned  by  one  Jackson. 
Rushing  to  the  roof,  he  tore  it  down,  but  before 
he  reached  the  street  was  shot  and  killed  by 
Jackson,  who  was  in  turn  shot  by  Frank  H. 
Brownell,  one  of  Ellsworth's  men.  He  was  the 
first  Union  soldier  killed  in  the  war.  Died,  May 
24,  1861. 

ELMHURST  (formerly  Cottage  Hill),  a  village 
of  Du  Page  County,  on  the  Chicago  Great  Western 
and  III.  Cent.  Railroads,  15  miles  west  of  Chicago; 
seat  of  the  Evangelical  Seminary;  has  electric  inter- 
urban  line,  one  weekly  paper,  stone  quarry,  electric 
light,  water  and  sewerage  systems,  high  school  and 
churches.  Pop.  (1900),  1,728;  (1910)  2,360. 

ELMWOOD,  a  town  of  Peoria  County,  on  the 
Galesburg  and  Peoria  and  Buda  and  Rushville 
branches  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railroad,  26  miles  west-northwest  of  Peoria;  the 
principal  industries  are  coal-mining  and  corn  and 
tomato  canning ;  has  a  bank  and  one  newspaper. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,548;  (1900),  1,582;  (1910),  1,390. 

EL  PASO,  a  city  in  Woodford  County,  17  miles 
north  of  Bloomington,  33  miles  east  of  Peoria,  at 
the  crossing  Illinois  Central  and  Toledo,  Peoria  & 
Western  Railroads;  in  agricultural  district;  has 
two  national  banks,  three  grain  elevators,  two 
high  schools,  two  newspapers,  nine  churches. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,353;  (1900),  1,441;  (1910),  1,470. 

EMBARRAS  RIVER,  rises  in  Champaign 
County  and  runs  southward  through  the  counties 
of  Douglas,  Coles  and  Cumberland,  to  Newton,  in 
Jasper  County,  where  it  turns  to  the  southeast, 
passing  through  Lawrence  County,  and  entering 
the  Wabash  River  about  seven  miles  below  Vin- 
cennes.  It  is  nearly  150  miles  long. 

EM  MERSON,  Charles,  jurist,  was  born  at  North 
Haverhill,  Grafton  County,  N.  H.,  April  15,  1811; 
came  to  Illinois  in  1833,  first  settling  at  Jackson- 
ville, where  he  spent  one  term  in  Illinois  College, 
then  studied  law  at  Springfield,  and,  having  been 
admitted  to  the  bar,  began  practice  at  Decatur, 
where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life  except 
three  years  (1847-50)  during  \vhich  he  resided  at 
Paris,  Edgar  County.  In  1850  he  was  elected  to 


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the  Legislature,  and,  in  1853,  to  the  Circuit  bench, 
serving  on  the  latter  by  re-election  till  1867.  The 
latter  year  lie  was  a  candidate  for  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  but  was  defeated  by  the  late 
Judge  Pinkney  H.  Walker.  In  1869  he  was 
elected  to  the  State  Constitutional  Convention, 
but  died  in  April,  1870,  while  the  Convention  was 
still  in  session. 

ENFIELD,  a  town  of  White  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Louisville  &  Nashville  with 
the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern  Railway,  10 
miles  west  of  Carmi;  is  the  seat  of  Southern  Illi- 
nois College.  The  town  also  has  a  bank,  poultry 
packing  concern  and  one  newspaper.  Pop.  (1890), 
870;  (1900),  971;  (1910),  927. 

ENGLISH,  Joseph  G.,  banker,  was  born  at 
Rising  Sun,  Ind.,  Dec.  17,  1820;  lived  fora  time 
at  Perrysville  and  La  Fayette  in  that  State,  finally 
engaging  in  merchandising  in  the  former;  in 
1853  removed  to  Danville,  111.,  where  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  John  L.  Tincher  in  mercantile 
business ;  later  conducted  a  private  banking  busi- 
ness and,  in  1863,  established  the  First  National 
Bank,  of  which  he  has  been  President  over  twenty 
years.  He  served  two  terms  as  Mayor  of  Dan- 
ville, in  1872  was  elected  a  member  of  the  State 
Board  of  Equalization,  and,  for  more  than  twenty 
years,  has  been  one  of  the  Directors  of  the  Chicago 
&  Eastern  Railroad.  Mr.  English  spent  most  of 
the  time  in  the  latter  years  of  his  life  in  the  West, 
practically  retired  from  business. 

ENOS,  Pascal  Paoli,  pioneer,  was  born  at 
Windsor,  Conn.,  in  1770;  graduated  at  Dartmouth 
College  in  1794,  studied  law,  and,  after  spending 
some  years  in  Vermont,  where  he  served  as  High 
Sheriff  of  Windsor  County,  in  September,  1815, 
removed  West,  stopping  first  at  Cincinnati.  A 
year  later  he  descended  the  Ohio  by  flat-boat  to 
Shawneetown,  111.,  crossed  the  State  by  land, 
finally  locating  at  St.  Charles,  Mo.,  and  later  at 
St.  Louis.  Then,  having  purchased  a  tract  of  land 
in  Madison  County,  111.,  he  remained  there  about 
two  years,  when,  in  1823,  having  received  from 
President  Monroe  the  appointment  of  Receiver  of 
the  newly  established  Land  Office  at  Springfield, 
he  removed  thither,  making  it  his  permanent 
home.  He  was  one  of  the  original  purchasers  of 
the  land  on  which  the  city  of  Springfield  now 
stands,  and  joined  with  Maj.  Elijah  lies,  John 
Taylor  and  Thomas  Cox,  the  other  patentees,  in 
laying  out  the  town,  to  which  they  first  gave  the 
name  of  Calhoun.  Mr.  Enos  remained  in  office 
through  the  administration  of  President  John 
Quincy  Adams,  but  was  removed  by  President 
Jackson  for  political  reasons,  in  1829.  Died,  at 


Springfield,  April,  1832.— Pascal  P.  (Enos),  Jr., 
eldest  son  of  Mr.  Enos,  was  born  in  St.  Charles, 
Mo.,  Nov.  28,  1816;  was  elected  Representative  in 
the  General  Assembly  from  Sangamon  County  in 
1852,  and  served  by  appointment  of  Justice 
McLean  of  the  Supreme  Court  as  Clerk  of  the 
United  States  Circuit  Court,  being  reappointed 
by  Judge  David  Davis,  dying  in  office,  Feb.  17, 
1867. — Zimri  Allen  (Enos),  another  son,  born 
Sept.  29,  1821,  spent  entire  life  in  Springfield; 
served  as  County  Surveyor  and  Alderman.  Died 
Dec.  8,  1907.— Julia  R.,  a  daughter,  born  in  Spring- 
field, Dec.  20,  1832;  married  O.  M.  Hatch,  former 
Secretary  of  State.  Died  Sept.  23,  1907. 

EPLER,  Cyrus,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was  born 
at  Charleston,  Clark  County,  Ind.,  Nov.  12, 
1825;  graduated  at  Illinois  College,  Jackson- 
ville, studied  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1852,  being  elected  State's  Attorney- 
the  same  year;  also  served  as  a  member 
of  the  General  Assembly  two  terms  (1857-61) 
and  as  Master  in  Chancery  for  Morgan  County, 
1867-73.  In  1873  he  was  elected  Circuit  Judge 
for  the  Seventh  Circuit  and  was  re-elected 
successively  in  1879,  '85  and  '91,  serving  four 
terms,  and  retiring  in  1897.  During  his  entire 
professional  and  official  career  his  home  was  in 
Jacksonville  Died  July  9,  1909. 

EQUALITY,  a  village  of  Gallatin  County,  on 
the  Shawneetown  Division  of  the  Louisville  & 
Nashville  Railroad,  11  miles  west-northwest  of 
Shawneetown.  It  was  for  a  time,  in  early  days,  the 
county-seat  of  Gallatin  County  and  market  for 
the  salt  manufactured  in  that  vicinity.  Some 
coal  is  mined  in  the  neighborhood.  One  weekly 
paper  is  published  here.  Population  (1880),  500; 
(1890),  622;  (1900),  898;  (1910),  1,180. 

ERIE,  a  village  of  Whiteside  County,  on  the  Rock 
Island  and  Sterling  Division  of  the  Chicago,  Burl- 
ington &  Quincy  Railroad,  30  miles  northeast  of 
Rock  Island;  has  a  bank,  some  manufactures  and 
one  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  768;  (1910),  804. 

EUREKA,  the  county -seat  of  Woodford  County, 
incorporated  in  1856,  situated  19  miles  east  of 
Peoria;  is  in  the  heart  of  a  rich  stock-raising  and 
agricultural  district.  The  principal  mechanical 
industry  is  a  large  canning  factory.  Besides 
having  good  grammar  and  high  schools,  it  is  also 
the  seat  of  Eureka  College,  under  the  control  of 
the  Christian  denomination,  in  connection  with 
which  are  a  Normal  School  and  a  Biblical  Insti- 
tute. The  town  has  a  handsome  courthouse  and 
a  jail,  two  weekly  and  one  monthly  paper. 
Eureka  became  the  county-seat  of  Woodford 
County  in  1896,  the  change  from  Metamora  being 


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due  to  the  central  location  and  more  convenient 
accessibility  of  the  former  from  all  parts  of  the 
county.  Population  (1880),  1,185;  (1890),  1,481; 
(1900),  1,661;  (1910),  1,525. 

EUREKA  COLLEGE,  located  at  Eureka,  Wood- 
ford  County,  and  chartered  in  1855,  distinctively 
under  the  care  and  supervision  of  the  "Christian" 
or  "Campbellite"  denomination.  The  primary 
aim  of  its  founders  was  to  prepare  young  men  for 
the  ministry,  while  at  the  same  time  affording 
facilities  for  liberal  culture.  It  was  chartered  in 
1855,  and  its  growth,  while  gradual,  has  been 
steady.  Besides  a  preparatory  department  and  a 
business  school,  the  college  maintains  a  collegiate 
department  (with  classical  and  scientific  courses) 
and  a  theological  school,  the  latter  being  designed 
to  lit  young  men  for  the  ministry  of  the  denomi- 
nation. Both  male  and  female  matriculates  are 
received.  In  1896  there  was  a  faculty  of  eighteen 
professors  and  assistants,  and  an  attendance  of 
some  325  students,  nearly  one-third  of  whom 
were  females.  The  total  value  of  the  institution's 
property  is  §144,000,  which  includes  an  endow- 
ment of  $45,000  and  real  estate  valued  at  §85,000. 
EUSTACE,  John  V.,  lawyer  and  judge,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Sept.  9,  1821;  graduated 
from  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  in  1839,  and, 
in  1842,  at  the  age  of  21,  was  admitted  to  the  bar, 
removing  the  same  year  to  Dixon,  111. ,  where  he 
resided  until  his  death.  In  1850  he  was  elected 
to  the  General  Assembly  and,  in  1857,  became 
Circuit  Judge,  serving  one  term;  was  chosen 
Presidential  Elector  in  1864,  and,  in  March,  1878, 
was  again  elevated  to  the  Circuit  Bench,  vice 
Judge  Heaton,  deceased.  He  was  elected  to  the 
same  position  in  1879,  and  re-elected  in  1885,  but 
died  in  1888,  three  years  before  the  expiration  of 
his  term. 

EVANGELICAL  SEMINARY,  an  institution 
under  the  direction  of  the  Lutheran  denomina- 
tion, incorporated  in  1865  and  located  at  Elm- 
hurst,  Du  Page  County.  Instruction  is  given  in 
the  classics,  theology,  oratory  and  preparatory 
studies,  by  a  faculty  of  eight  teachers.  The 
number  of  pupils  during  the  school  year  (1895-96) 
was  133 — all  young  men.  It  has  property  valued 
at  §59,305. 

EVANS,  Henry  H.,  legislator,  was  born  in 
Toronto,  Can.,  March  9,  1836;  brought  by  his 
father  (who  was  a  native  of  Pennsylvania)  to 
Aurora,  111. ,  where  the  latter  finally  became  fore- 
man of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  ma- 
chine shops  at  that  place.  In  1862  young  Evans 
enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fourth 
Illinois  Volunteers,  serving  until  the  close  of  the 


war.  Since  the  war  he  lias  become  most  widely 
known  as  a  member  of  the  General  Assembly,  hav- 
ing been  elected  first  to  the  House,  in  1876,  and 
subsequently  to  the  Senate  every  four  years  from 
1880  to  the  year  1898,  giving  him  over  twenty 
years  of  almost  continuous  service.  He  is  a  large 
owner  of  real  estate  and  has  been  prominently 
connected  with  financial  and  other  business 
enterprises  at  Aurora,  including  the  Aurora  Gas 
and  Street  Railway  Companies ;  also  served  with 
the  rank  of  Colonel  on  the  staffs  of  Governors 
Cullom,  Hamilton,  Fifer  and  Oglesby. 

EVANS,  (Rev.)  Jervice  G.,  educator  and  re- 
former, was  born  in  Marshall  County,  111.,  Dec. 
19,  1833;  entered  the  ministry  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  in  1854,  and,  in  1872,  accepted 
the  presidency  of  Hedding  College  at  Abingdon, 
which  he  filled  for  six  years.  He  then  became 
President  of  Chaddock  College  at  Quincy,  but  the 
following  year  returned  to  pastoral  work.  In 
1889  he  again  became  President  of  Hedding  Col- 
lege, where  (1898)  he  still  remains.  Dr.  Evans  is 
a  member  of  the  Central  Illinois  (M.  E.)  Confer- 
ence and  a  leader  in  the  prohibition  movement ; 
has  also  produced  a  number  of  volumes  on  reli- 
gious and  moral  questions. 

EVANS,  John,  M.D.,  physician  and  Governor, 
was  born  at  Waynesville,  Ohio,  of  Quaker  ances- 
try, March  9,  1814;  graduated  in  medicine  at 
Cincinnati  and  began  practice  at  Ottawa,  111., 
but  soon  returned  to  Ohio,  finally  locating  at 
Attica,  Ind.  Here  he  became  prominent  in  the 
establishment  of  the  first  insane  hospital  in  In- 
diana, at  Indianapolis,  about  1841-42,  becoming  a 
resident  of  that  city  in  1845.  Three  years  later, 
having  accepted  a  chair  in  Rush  Medical  College, 
in  Chicago,  he  removed  thither,  also  serving  for 
a  time  as  editor  of  "The  Northwestern  Medical 
and  Surgical  Journal."  He  served  as  a  member 
of  the  Chicago  City  Council,  became  a  successful 
operator  in  real  estate  and  in  the  promotion  of 
various  railroad  enterprises,  and  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Northwestern  University,  at 
Evanston,  serving  as  President  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  over  forty  years.  Dr.  Evans  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Republican  party  in  Illinois, 
and  a  strong  personal  friend  of  President  Lincoln, 
from  whom,  in  1862,  he  received  the  appointment 
of  Governor  of  the  Territory  of  Colorado,  con- 
tinuing in  office  until  displaced  by  Andrew  John- 
son in  1865.  In  Colorado  he  became  a  leading 
factor  in  the  construction  of  some  of  the  most 
important  railroad  lines  in  that  section,  including 
the  Denver,  Texas  &  Gulf  Road,  of  which  he  was 
for  many  years  the  President.  He  was  also 


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prominent  in  connection  with  educational  and 
church  enterprises  at  Denver,  which  was  his  home 
after  leaving  Illinois.  Died,  in  Denver,  July  3, 1897. 
EYAIfSTON,  a  city  of  Cook  County,  situated  12 
miles  north  of  Chicago,  on  the  Chicago,  Milwau- 
kee &  St.  Paul  and  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern 
Railroads.     The  original  town  was  incorporated 
Dec.  29,  1863,  and,  in  March,  1869,  a  special  act 
was  passed  by  the  Legislature  incorporating  it  as 
a  city,  but  rejected  by  vote  of  the  people.     On 
Oct.   19,   1872,  the  voters  of  the  corporate  town 
adopted  village  organizations  under  the  General 
Village  and  City  Incorporation  Act  of  the  same 
year.     Since  then  annexations  of  adjacent  terri- 
tory to  the  village  of  Evanston  have  taken  place 
as  follows:    In  January,  1873,  two  small  districts 
by  petition ;  in  April,  1874,  the  village  of  North 
Evanston  was  annexed  by  a  majority  vote  of  the 
electors   of   both   corporations;   in    April,   1886, 
there  was  another  annexation  of  a  small  out-lying 
district  by  petition ;  in  February,  1892,  the  ques- 
tion of  the  annexation  of  South  Evanston  was 
submitted  to  the  voters  of  both  corporations  and 
adopted.     On    March    29,   1892,  the   question  of 
organization  under  a  city  government  was  sub- 
mitted to  popular  vote  of  the  consolidated  corpo- 
ration and  decided  in  the  affirmative,  the   first 
city  election  taking   place  April  19,   following. 
The   population  of   the  original    corporation  of 
Evanston,  according  to  the  census  of  1890,  was 
12,072,  and  of  South  Evanston,  3,205,  making  the 
total  population  of  the  new  city  15,967.     Judged 
by  the  census  returns  of  1900,  the  consolidated 
city    has  had    a    healthy  growth    in    the    past 
ten    years,    giving     it,     at    the    end     of    the 
century,  a  population   of   19,259.     Evanston  is 
one  of   the  most  attractive  residence    cities  in 
Northern  Illinois  and  famed  for  its  educational 
advantages.     Besides  having  an  admirable  system 
of  graded  and  high  schools,  it  is  the  seat  of  the 
academic   and  theological   departments    of    the 
Northwestern  University,  the  latter  being  known 
as  the  Garrett  Biblical  Institute.     The  city  has 
well  paved  streets,  is  lighted  by  both  gas   and 
electricity,  and   maintains  its    own    system    of 
water  works.     Prohibition    is    strictly  enforced 
within    the    corporate    limits    under    stringent 
municipal  ordinances,  and  the    charter    of   the 
Northwestern  University  forbidding  the  sale  of 
intoxicants  within  four  miles  of  that  institution. 
As  a  consequence,   it  is  certain  to    attract  the 
most  desirable  class  of  people,  whether  consisting 
of   those   seeking   permanent  homes    or  simply 
contemplating  temporary  residence  for  the  sake 
of  educational  advantages.    Pop.  (1910),  24,978. 


EWIXG,  William  Lee  Davidson,  early  lawyer 
and  politician,  was  born  in  Kentucky  in  1795,  and 
came  to  Illinois  at  an  early  day,  first  settling  at 
Shawneetown.     As  early  as  1820  he  appears  from 
a  letter  of  Governor  Edwards  to  President  Mon- 
roe, to  have  been  holding  some  Federal  appoint- 
ment, presumably  that  of    Receiver    of    Public 
Moneys  in  the  Land  Office  at  Vandalia,  as  con- 
temporary history  shows  that,  in  1822,  he  lost  a 
deposit  of  $1,000  by  the  robbery  of  the  bank  there. 
He  was  also  Brigadier-General  of  the  State  militia 
at  an  early  day,  Colonel  of  the  "Spy  Battalion" 
during  the    Black   Hawk  War,  and,  as    Indian 
Agent,  superintended  the  removal  of   the  Sacs 
and  Foxes  west  of  the  Mississippi.     Other  posi- 
tions held  by  him  included  Clerk  of  the  House  of 
Representatives  two  sessions  (1826- 27  and  1828-29); 
Representative  from  the  counties  composing  the 
Vandalia  District  in  the  Seventh  General  Assem- 
bly (1830-31),  when  healso  became  Speaker  of  the 
House;  Senator  from   the  same  District  in  the 
Eighth  and  Ninth  General  Assemblies,  of  which 
he  was  chosen  President    pro  tempore.     While 
serving   in    this   capacity  he    became  ex-officio 
Lieutenant-Governor  in  consequence  of  the  resig- 
nation of  Lieut. -Gov.  Zadoc  Casey  to  accept  a 
seat  in  Congress,  in  March,  1833,  and,  in  Novem- 
ber, 1834,  assumed  the  Governorship  as  successor 
to  Governor  Reynolds,  who  had  been  elected  to 
Congress  to  fill  a  vacancy.     He  served  only  fifteen 
days  as  Governor,  when  he  gave  place  to  Gov. 
Joseph  Duncan,   who  had   been  elected    in  due 
course  at  the  previous  election.      A  year  later 
(December,  1835)  he  was  chosen  United  States 
Senator  to  succeed  Elias  Kent  Kane,   who  had 
died  in  office.     Failing  of  a  re-election  to    the 
Senatorship  in  1837,  he  was  returned  to  the  House 
of  Representatives  from  his  old  district  in  1838, 
as  he  was  again  in  1840,  at  each  session  being 
chosen  Speaker  over  Abraham  Lincoln,  who  was 
the  Whig  candidate.     Dropping  out  of  the  Legis- 
lature at  the  close  of  his  term,  we  find  him  at  the 
beginning  of  the  next  session  (December,  1842)  in 
his  old  place  as  Clerk  of  the  House,  but,  before 
the  close  of  the  session  (in  March,  1843),  appointed 
Auditor  of  Public  Accounts  as  successor  to  James 
Shields,  who  had  resigned.    While  occupying  the 
office  of  Auditor,  Mr.  Ewing  died,  March  25,  1846. 
His  public  career  was  as  unique  as  it  was  remark- 
able, in  the  number  and  character  of  the  official 
positions  held  by  him  within  a  period  of  twenty- 
five  years. 

EXECUTIVE  OFFICERS.  (See  State  officers 
tinder  heads  of  "Governor,"  "Lieutenant -Gov- 
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EYE  AND  EAR  INFIRMARY,  ILLINOIS 
CHARITABLE.  This  institution  is  an  outgrowth 
of  a  private  charity  founded  at  Chicago,  in  1858, 
by  Dr.  Edward  L.  Holmes,  a  distinguished  Chi- 
cago oculist.  In  1871  the  property  of  the  institu- 
tion was  transferred  to  and  accepted  by  the  State, 
the  title  was  changed  by  the  substitution  of  the 
word  "Illinois"  for  "Chicago,"  and  the  Infirmary 
became  a  State  institution.  The  fire  of  1871 
destroyed  the  building,  and,  in  1873-74,  the  State 
erected  another  of  brick,  four  stories  in  height, 
at  the  corner  of  West  Adams  and  Peoria  Streets, 
Chicago.  The  institution  receives  patients  from 
all  the  counties  of  the  State,  the  same  receiving 
board,  lodging,  and  medical  aid,  and  (when  neces- 
sary) surgical  treatment,  free  of  charge.  The 
number  of  patients  on  Dec.  1,  1897,  was  160.  In 
1877  a  free  eye  and  ear  dispensary  was  opened 
under  legislative  authority,  which  is  under  charge 
of  some  eminent  Chicago  specialists. 

FAIRBURY,  an  incorporated  city  of  Livings- 
ton County,  situated  ten  miles  southeast  of  Poii- 
tiac,  in  a  fertile  and  thickly -settled  region.  Coal, 
sandstone,  limestone,  fire-clay  and  a  micaceous 
quartz  are  found  in  the  neighborhood.  The 
town  has  banks,  grain  elevators,  flouring  and  sor- 
ghum mills,  machine  shops  and  two  weekly  news- 
papers. Pop.  (1900),  2,187;  (1910),  2,505. 

FAIRFIELD,  an  incorporated  city,  the  county- 
seat  of  Wayne  County  and  a  railway  junction, 
108  miles  southeast  of  St.  Louis.  The  town  has 
an  extensive  woolen  factory  and  large  flouring 
and  saw  mills.  It  also  has  four  weekly  papers 
and  is  an  important  fruit  and  grain-shipping 
point.  Population  (1880),  1,891;  (1890),  1,881; 
(1900),  2,338;  (1910),  2,479. 

FAIRMOUNT,  a  village  of  Vermilion  County, 
on  the  Wabash  Railway,  13  miles  west-southwest 
from  Danville;  industrial  interests  chiefly  agri- 
cultural ;  has  brick  and  tile  factory,  a  coal  mine, 
stone  quarry,  three  rural  mail  routes  and  one 
weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  928;  (1910),  847. 

FALLOWS,  (Rt.  Rev.)  Samuel,  Bishop  of  Re- 
formed Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  was  born  at 
Pendleton,  near  Manchester,  England,  Dec.  13, 
1835 ;  removed  with  his  parents  to  Wisconsin  in 
1848,  and  graduated  from  the  State  University 
there  in  1859,  during  a  part  of  his  university 
course  serving  as  pastor  of  a  Methodist  Episcopal 
church  at  Madison;  was  next  Vice-President  of 
Gainesville  University  till  1861,  when  he  was 
ordained  to  the  Methodist  ministry  and  became 
pastor  of  a  church  at  Oshkosh.  The  following 
year  he  was  appointed  Chaplain  of  the  Thirty- 


second  Wisconsin  Volunteers,  but  later  assisted 
in  organizing  the  Fortieth  Wisconsin,  of  which 
he  became  Colonel,  in  1865  being  brevetted  Briga- 
dier-General. On  his  return  to  civil  life  he 
became  a  pastor  in  Milwaukee;  was  appointed 
State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  for 
Wisconsin  to  fill  a  vacancy,  in  1871,  and  was  twice 
re-elected.  In  1874  he  was  elected  President  of 
the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  at  Bloomington, 
111. ,  remaining  two  years ;  in  1875  united  with  the 
Reformed  Episcopal  Church,  soon  after  became 
Rector  of  St.  Paul's  Church  in  Chicago,  and  was 
elected  a  Bishop  in  1876,  also  assuming  the 
editorship  of  "The  Appeal,"  the  organ  of  the 
church.  He  served  as  Regent  of  the  University 
of  Wisconsin  (1864-74),  and  for  several  years  has 
been  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Illinois  State 
Reform  School  at  Pontiac.  He  is  the  author  of 
two  or  three  volumes,  one  of  them  being  a  "Sup- 
plementary Dictionary,"  published  in  1884. 
Bishop  Fallows  lias  had  supervision  of  Reformed 
Episcopal  Church  work  in  the  West  and  North- 
west for  several  years ;  has  also  served  as  Chaplain 
of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  for  the 
Department  of  Illinois  and  of  the  Loyal  Legion, 
and  was  Chairman  of  the  General  Committee  of 
the  Educational  Congress  during  the  World's 
Columbian  Exposition  of  1893. 

FARINA,  a  town  of  Fayette  County,  on  the 
Chicago  Division  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad, 
29  miles  northeast  of  Centralia.  Agriculture  and 
fruit-growing  constitute  the  chief  business  of  the 
section ;  the  town  has  one  newspaper.  Popula- 
tion (1890),  618;  (1900),  693;  (1910),  774. 

FARMER  CITY,  a  city  of  De  Witt  County,  25 
miles  southeast  of  Bloomington,  at  the  junction 
of  the  Springfield  division  of  the  Illinois  Central 
and  the  Peoria  division  of  the  Cleveland,  Cincin- 
nati, Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railways.  It  is  a 
trading  center  for  a  rich  agricultural  and  stock- 
raising  district,  especially  noted  for  rearing  finely 
bred  horses.  The  city  has  banks,  one  newspaper, 
churches  of  four  denominations  and  good  schools, 
including  a  high  school.  Population  (1890),  1,367; 
(1900),  1,664;  (1910),  1,603. 

FARMERS'  INSTITUTE,  an  organization 
created  by  an  act,  approved  June  24,  1895,  de- 
signed to  encourage  practical  education  among 
farmers,  and  to  assist  in  developing  the  agricul- 
tural resources  of  the  State.  Its  membership 
consists  of  three  delegates  from  each  county  in 
the  State,  elected  annually  by  the  Farmers' 
Institute  in  such  county.  Its  affairs  are  managed 
by  a  Board  of  Directors  constituted  as  follows: 
The  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  the 


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Professor  of  Agriculture  in  the  University  of  Illi- 
nois, and  the  Presidents  of  the  State  Board  of 
Agriculture,  Dairymen's  Association  and  Horti- 
cultural Society,  ex-officio,  with  one  member  from 
each  Congressional  District,  chosen  by  the  dele- 
gates from  the  district  at  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  organization.  Annual  meetings  (between 
Oct.  1  and  March  1)  are  required  to  be  held, 
which  shall  continue  in  session  for  not  less  than 
three  days.  The  topics  for  discussion  are  the 
cultivation  of  crops,  the  care  and  breeding  of 
domestic  animals,  dairy  husbandry,  horticulture, 
farm  drainage,  improvement  of  highways  and 
general  farm  management.  The  reports  of  the 
annual  meetings  are  printed  by  the  State  and 
20,000  copies  are  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the 
Institute  for  free  distribution.  Suitable  quarters 
for  the  officers  of  the  organization  are  provided  in 
the  State  capitol. 

FARMINGTON,  a  city  and  railroad  center  in 
Fulton  County,  12  miles  north  of  Canton  and  32 
miles  west  of  Peoria.  Coal  is  extensively  mined 
here;  there  are  also  brick  and  tile  factories,  a 
foundry,  one  steam  flour-mill,  and  two  cigar 
manufactories.  It  is  a  large  shipping-point  for 
grain  and  live-stock.  The  town  has  two  banks 
and  two  newspapers,  five  churches  and  a  graded 
school.  Pop.  (1890),  1,375;  (1910),  2,421. 

FARNSWORTH,  Elon  John,  soldier,  was  born 
at  Green  Oak,  Livingston  County,  Mich.,  in  1837. 
After  completing  a  course  in  the  public  schools, 
he  entered  the  University  of  Michigan,  but  left 
college  at  the  end  of  his  freshman  year  (1858)  to 
serve  in  the  Quartermaster's  department  of  the 
army  in  the  Utah  expedition.  At  the  expiration 
of  his  term  of  service  he  became  a  buffalo  hunter 
and  a  carrier  of  mails  between  the  haunts  of 
civilization  and  the  then  newly-discovered  mines 
at  Pike's  Peak.  Returning  to  Illinois,  he  was 
commissioned  (1861)  Assistant  Quartermaster  of 
the  Eighth  Illinois  Cavalry,  of  which  his  uncle 
was  Colonel.  (See  Farnsworth,  John  Franklin. ) 
He  soon  rose  to  a  captaincy,  distinguishing  him- 
self in  the  battles  of  the  Peninsula.  In  May, 
1863,  he  was  appointed  aid-de-camp  to  General 
Pleasanton,  and,  on  June  29,  1863,  was  made  a 
Brigadier-General.  Four  days  later  he  was  killed, 
while  gallantly  leading  a  charge  at  Gettysburg. 

FARXSWORTH,  John  Franklin,  soldier  and 
former  Congressman,  was  born  at  Eaton,  Canada 
East,  March  27,  1820;  removed  to  Michigan  in 
1834,  and  later  to  Illinois,  settling  in  Kane 
County,  where  he  practiced  law  for  many  years, 
making  his  home  at  St.  Charles.  He  was  elected 
to  Congress  in  1856,  and  re-elected  in  1858.  In 


September  of  1861,  he  was  commissioned  Colonel 
of  the  Eighth  Illinois  Cavalry  Volunteers,  and 
was  brevetted  Brigadier-General  in  November, 
1862,  but  resigned,  March  4,  1863,  to  take  his  seat 
in  Congress  to  which  he  had  been  elected  the 
November  previous,  by  successive  re-elections 
serving  from  1863  to  1873.  The  latter  years  of 
his  life  were  spent  in  Washington,  where  he  died, 
July  14,  1897. 

FAR  WELL,  Charles  Benjamin,  merchant  and 
United  States  Senator,  was  born  at  Painted  Post, 
N.  Y.,  July  1,  1823;  removed  to  Illinois  in  1838, 
and,  for  six  years,  was  employed  in  surveying 
and  farming.  In  1844  he  engaged  in  the  real 
estate  business  and  in  banking,  at  Chicago.  He 
was  elected  County  Clerk  in  1853,  and  re-elected 
in  1857.  Later  he  entered  into  commerce,  becom- 
ing a  partner  with  his  brother,  John  Villiers,  in 
the  firm  of  J.  V.  Farwell  &  Co.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  State  Board  of  Equalization  in  1867 ; 
Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  of  Cook 
County  in  1868 ;  and  National  Bank  Examiner  in 
1869.  In  1870  he  was  elected  to  Congress  as  a 
Republican,  was  re-elected  in  1872,  but  was 
defeated  in  1874,  after  a  contest  for  the  seat  which 
was  carried  into  the  House  at  Washington. 
Again,  in  1880,  he  was  returned  to  Congress, 
making  three  full  terms  in  that  body.  He  also 
served  for  several  years  as  Chairman  of  the 
Republican  State  Central  Committee.  After  the 
death  of  Gen.  John  A.  Logan  he  was  (1887) 
elected  United  States  Senator,  his  term  expiring 
March  3,  1891.  Mr.  Farwell  gave  attention  during 
the  latter  years  of  his  life  to  the  mercantile  business 
of  J.  V.  Farwell  &  Co.  Died  Sept.  23,  1903. 

FARWELL,  John  Villiers,  merchant,  was  born 
at  Campbelltown,  Steuben  County,  N.  Y.,  July 
29,  1825,  the  son  of  a  farmer;  received  a  common- 
school  education  and,  in  1838,  removed  with  his 
father's  family  to  Ogle  County,  111.  Here  he 
attended  Mount  Morris  Seminary  for  a  time,  but, 
in  1845,  came  to  Chicago  without  capital  and 
secured  employment  in  the  City  Clerk's  office, 
then  became  a  book-keeper  in  the  dry-goods 
establishment  of  Hamilton  &  White,  and,  still 
later,  with  Hamilton  &  Day.  Having  thus 
received  his  bent  towards  a  mercantile  career,  he 
soon  after  entered  the  concern  of  Wadsworth  & 
Phelps  as  a  clerk,  at  a  salary  of  $600  a  year,  but 
was  admitted  to  a  partnership  in  1850,  the  title  of 
the  firm  becoming  Cooley,  Farwell  &  Co.,  in  1860. 
About  this  time  Marshall  Field  and  Levi  Z.  Leiter 
became  associated  with  the  concern  and  received 
their  mercantile  training  under  the  supervision 
of  Mr.  Farwell.  In  1865  the  title  of  the  firm 


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became  J.  V.  Farwell  &  Co.,  but,  in  1891,  the  firm 
was  incorporated  under  the  name  of  The  J.  V. 
Farwell  Company,  his  brother,  Charles  B.  Far- 
well,  being  a  member.  The  subject  of  this  sketch 
has  long  been  a  prominent  factor  in  religious 
circles,  a  leading  spirit  of  the  Young  Men's 
Christian  Association,  and  served  as  President  of 
the  Chicago  Branch  of  the  United  States 
Christian  Commission  during  the  Civil  War. 
Politically  he  was  a  Republican,  serving  as  Presi- 
dential Elector  at  the  time  of  President  Lincoln's 
second  election  in  1864;  also  served  by  appoint- 
ment of  President  Grant,  in  1869,  on  the  Board  of 
Indian  Commissioners.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
syndicate  which  erected  the  Texas  State  Capitol, 
at  Austin,  in  that  State;  was  also,  for  a  number 
of  years,  Vice-President  and  Treasurer  of  the 
J.  V.  Farwell  Company,  and  President  of  the 
Colorado  Consolidated  Land  and  Water  Company. 
He  was  also  prominent  in  the  organization  of  the 
Chicago  Public  Library,  and  a  member  of  the 
Union  League,  the  Chicago  Historical  Society 
and  the  Art  Institute.  Died  Aug.  20,  1908. 

FARWELL,  William  Washington,  jurist,  was 
born  at  Morrisville,  Madison  County,  N.  Y.,  Jan. 
5,  1817,  of  old  Puritan  ancestry ;  graduated  from 
Hamilton  College  in  1837,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  in  1841.  In  1848  he 
removed  to  Chicago,  but  the  following  year  went 
to  California,  returning  to  his  birthplace  in  1850. 
In  1854  he  again  settled  at  Chicago  and  soon 
secured  a  prominent  position  at  the  bar.  In  1871 
he  was  elected  Circuit  Court  Judge  for  Cook 
County,  and,  in  1873,  re-elected  for  a  term  of  six 
years.  During  this  period  he  sat  chiefly  upon 
the  chancery  side  of  the  court,  and,  for  a  time, 
presided  as  Chief  Justice.  At  the  close  of  his 
second  term  he  was  a  candidate  for  re-election  as 
a  Republican,  but  was  defeated  with  the  re- 
mainder of  the  ticket.  In  1880  he  was  chosen 
Professor  of  Equity  Jurisprudence  in  the  Union 
College  of  Law  (now  the  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity Law  School),  serving  until  June,  1893,  when 
he  resigned.  Died,  in  Chicago,  April  30,  1894. 

FAYETTE  COUNTY,  situated  about  60  miles 
south  of  the  geographical  center  of  the  State; 
was  organized  in  1821,  and  named  for  the  French 
General  La  Fayette.  It  has  an  area  of  720  square 
miles;  population  (1900),  28,065.  The  soil  is  fer- 
tile and  a  rich  vein  of  bituminous  coal  underlies 
the  county.  Agriculture,  fruit-growing  and 
mining  are  the  chief  industries.  The  old,  historic 
"Cumberland  Road,"  the  trail  for  all  west-bound 
emigrants,  crossed  the  county  at  an  early  date. 
Perryville  was  the  first  county-seat,  but  this  town 


is  now  extinct.  Vandalia,  the  present  seat  of 
county  government  (population,  2,974),  stands 
upon  a  succession  of  hills  upon  the  west  bank  of 
the  Kaskaskia.  From  1820  to  1839  it  was  the 
State  Capital.  Besides  Vandalia  the  chief  towns 
are  Ramsey,  noted  for  its  railroad  ties  and  tim- 
ber, and  St.  Elmo.  Pop.  (1910),  28,078. 

FEEBLE-MINDED  CHILDREN,  ASYLUM 
FOR.  This  institution,  originally  established  as 
a  sort  of  appendage  to  the  Illinois  Institution  for 
the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  was  started  at  Jacksonville, 
in  1865,  as  an  "experimental  school,  for  the 
instruction  of  idiots  and  feeble-minded  children." 
Its  success  having  been  assured,  the  school  was 
placed  upon  an  independent  basis  in  1871,  and, 
in  1875,  a  site  at  Lincoln,  Logan  County,  covering 
forty  acres,  was  donated,  and  the  erection  of 
buildings  begun.  The  original  plan  provided  for 
a  center  building,  with  wings  and  a  rear  exten- 
sion, to  cost  $124,775.  Besides  a  main  or  adminis- 
tration building,  the  institution  embraces  a 
school  building  and  custodial  hall,  a  hospital  and 
industrial  workshop,  and,  during  the  past  year,  a 
chapel  has  been  added.  It  has  control  of  890 
acres,  of  which  400  are  leased  for  farming  pur- 
poses, the  rental  going  to  the  benefit  of  the  insti- 
tution. The  remainder  is  used  for  the  purposes 
of  the  institution  as  farm  land,  gardens  or  pas- 
ture, about  ninety  acres  being  occupied  by  the 
institution  buildings.  The  capacity  of  the  insti- 
tution is  about  700  inmates,  with  many  applica- 
tions constantly  on  file  for  the  admission  of 
others  for  whom  there  is  no  room. 

FEEHAN,  Patrick  A.,  D.D.,  Archbishop  of 
the  Roman  Catholic  archdiocese  of  Chicago,  and 
Metropolitan  of  Illinois,  was  born  at  Tipperary, 
Ireland,  Aug.  29,  1829,  and'  educated  at  Maynooth 
College.  He  emigrated  to  the  United  States  in 
1852,  settling  at  St.  Louis,  and  was  at  once 
appointed  President  of  the  Seminary  of  Caronde- 
let.  Later  he  was  made  pastor  of  the  Church  of 
the  Immaculate  Conception  at  St.  Louis,  where 
he  achieved  marked  distinction.  In  1865  he  was 
consecrated  Bishop  of  Nashville,  managing  the 
affairs  of  the  diocese  with  great  ability.  In  1880 
Chicago  was  raised  to  an  archiepiscopal  see,  with 
Suffragan  Bishops  at  Alton  and  Peoria,  and  Bishop 
Feehan  was  consecrated  its  first  Archbishop.  His 
administration  was  conservative,  yet  efficient,  and 
the  archdiocese  greatly  prospered  under  his  rule. 
Died  July  12,  1902. 

FELL,  Jesse  W.,  lawyer  and  real-estate  opera- 
tor, was  born  in  Chester  County,  Pa. ,  about  1808 ; 
started  west  on  foot  in  1828,  and,  after  spending 
some  years  at  Steubenville,  Ohio,  came  to  Dela- 


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van,  111.,  in  1832,  and  the  next  year  located  at 
Bloomington,  being  the  first  lawyer  in  that  new 
town.  Later  he  became  agent  for  school  lands 
and  the  State  Bank,  but  failed  financially  in 
1837,  and  returned  to  practice;  resided  several 
years  at  Payson,  Adams  County,  but  returning 
to  Bloomington  in  1855,  was  instrumental  in 
securing  the.  location  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton 
Railroad  through  that  town,  and  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  towns  of  Clinton,  Pontiac,  Lex- 
ington and  El  Paso.  He  was  an  intimate  personal 
and  political  friend  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  and  it 
was  to  him  Mr.  Lincoln  addressed  his  celebrated 
personal  biography ;  in  the  campaign  of  1860  he 
served  as  Secretary  of  the  Republican  State  Cen- 
tral Committee,  and,  in  1862,  was  appointed  by 
Mr.  Lincoln  a  Paymaster  in  the  regular  army, 
serving  some  two  years.  Mr.  Fell  was  also  a  zeal- 
ous friend  of  the  cause  of  industrial  education, 
and  bore  an  important  part  in  securing  the 
location  of  the  State  Normal  University  at  Nor- 
mal, of  which  city  he  was  the  founder.  Died,  at 
Bloomington,  Jan.  25,  1887. 

FERGUS,  Robert,  early  printer,  was  born  in 
Glasgow,  Scotland,  August  4,  1815;  learned  the 
printer's  trade  in  his  native  city,  assisting  in  his 
youth  in  putting  in  type  some  of  Walter  Scott's 
productions  and  other  works  which  now  rank 
among  English  classics.  In  1839  he  came  to 
America,  soon  after  locating  in  Chicago,  where 
with  various  partners,  he  pursued  the  business  of 
a  job  printer  continuously  some  fifty  years — 
being  the  veteran  printer  of  Chicago.  He  was 
killed  by  being  run  over  by  a  railroad  train  at 
Evanston,  July  23,  1897.  The  establishment  of 
which  he  was  so  long  the  head  is  continued  by 
his  sons. 

FINDLAY,  a  village  of  Shelby  County,  on  the 
Chicago  &  Eastern  111.  R.  R.,  9  miles  north  of 
Shelbyville.  Pop.  (1910),  827. 

FERRY,  !•:!  Mm  Peyre,  politician,  born  in 
Monroe,  Mich.,  August  9,  1825;  was  educated  in 
his  native  town  and  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Fort 
Wayne,  Ind.,  in  1845;  removed  to  Waukegan, 
111.,  the  following  year,  served  as  Postmaster  and, 
in  1856,  was  candidate  on  the  Republican  ticket 
for  Presidential  Elector;  was  elected  Mayor  of 
Waukegan  in  1859,  a  member  of  the  State  Con- 
stitutional Convention  of  1862,  State  Bank  Com- 
missioner in  1861-63,  Assistant  Adjutant-General 
cm  the  staff  of  Governor  Yates  during  the  war, 
and  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Con- 
vention of  1864.  After  the  war  he  served  as 
direct-tax  Commissioner  for  Tennessee;  in  1869 
was  appointed  Surveyor-General  of  Washington 


Territory  and,  in  1872  and  '76,  Territorial  Gov- 
ernor. On  the  admission  of  Washington  as  a 
State,  in  1889,  he  was  elected  the  first  Governor. 
Died,  at  Seattle,  Wash.,  Oct.  14,  1895. 

FEVRE  RIVER,  a  small  stream  which  rises  in 
Southern  Wisconsin  and  enters  the  Mississippi  in 
Jo  Daviess  County,  six  miles  below  Galena,  which 
stands  upon  its  banks.  It  is  navigable  for  steam- 
boats between  Galena  and  its  mouth.  The  name 
originally  given  to  it  by  early  French  explorers 
was  "Feve"  (the  French  name  for  "Bean"), 
which  has  since  been  corrupted  into  its  present 
form. 

FICKLIN,  Orlando  B.,  lawyer  and  politician, 
was  born  in  Kentucky,  Dec.  16,  1808,  and 
admitted  to  the  bar  at  Mount  Carmel,  Wabash 
County,  111.,  in  March,  1830.  In  1834  he  was 
elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  Ninth  General 
Assembly.  After  serving  a  term  as  State's 
Attorney  for  Wabash  County,  in  1837  he  removed 
to  Charleston,  Coles  County,  where,  in  1838,  and 
again  in  '42,  he  was  elected  to  the  Legislature,  as 
he  was  for  the  last  time  in  1878.  He  was  four 
times  elected  to  Congress,  serving  from  1843  to 
'49,  and  from  1851  to  '53;  was  Presidential  Elector 
in  1856,  and  candidate  for  the  same  position  on 
the  Democratic  ticket  for  the  State-at- large  in 
1884;  was  also  a  delegate  to  the  Democratic 
National  Conventions  of  1856  and  '60.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1862.  Died,  at  Charleston,  May  5,  1886. 

FIELD,  Alexander  Pope,  early  legislator  and 
Secretary  of  State,  came  to  Illinois  about  the 
time  of  its  admission  into  the  Union,  locating  in 
Union  County,  which  he  represented  in  the  Third, 
Fifth  and  Sixth  General  Assemblies.  In  the 
first  of  these  he  was  a  prominent  factor  in  the 
ejection  of  Representative  Hansen  of  Pike  County 
and  the  seating  of  Shaw  in  his  place,  which 
enabled  the  advocates  of  slavery  to  secure  the 
passage  of  a  resolution  submitting  to  the  people 
the  question  of  calling  a  State  Constitutional 
Convention.  In  1828  he  was  appointed  Secretary 
of  State  by  Governor  Edwards,  remaining  in 
office  under  Governors  Reynolds  and  Dun- 
can and  through  half  the  term  of  Governor 
Carlin,  though  the  latter  attempted  to  secure 
his  removal  in  1838  by  the  appointment  of 
John  A.  McClernand  —  the  courts,  however, 
declaring  against  the  latter.  In  November,  1840, 
the  Governor's  act  was  made  effective  by  the 
confirmation,  by  the  Senate,  of  Stephen  A.  Doug- 
las as  Secretary  in  place  of  Field.  Douglas 
held  the  office  only  to  the  following  February, 
when  he  resigned  to  take  a  place  on  the  Supreme 


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bench  and  Lyman  Trumbull  was  appointed  to 
succeed  him.  Field  (who  had  become  a  Whig) 
was  appointed  by  President  Harrison,  in  1841, 
Secretary  of  Wisconsin  Territory,  later  removed 
to  St.  Louis  and  finally  to  New  Orleans,  where  he 
was  at  the  beginning  of  the  late  war.  In  Decem- 
ber, 1863,  he  presented  himself  as  a  member  of 
the  Thirty-eighth  Congress  for  Louisiana,  but 
was  refused  his  seat,  though  claiming  in  an  elo- 
quent speech  to  have  been  a  loyal  man.  Died,  in 
New  Orleans  Aug.  20,  1876.  Mr.  Field  was  a  nephew 
of  Judge  Nathaniel  Pope,  for  over  thirty  years  on 
the  bench  of  the  United  States  District  Court. 

FIELD,  Eugene,  journalist,  humorist  and  poet, 
was  born  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Sept.  2,  1850.  Left  an 
orphan  at  an  early  age,  he  was  reared  by  a  rela- 
tive at  Amherst,  Mass. ,  and  received  a  portion  of 
his  literary  training  at  Monson  and  Williamstown 
in  that  State,  completing  his  course  at  the  State 
University  of  Missouri.  After  an  extended  tour 
through  Europe  in  1872-73,  he  began  his  journal- 
istic career  at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  as  a  reporter  on 
"The  Evening  Journal,"  later  becoming  its  city 
editor.  During  the  next  ten  years  he  was  succes- 
sively connected  with  newspapers  at  St.  Joseph, 
Mo.,  St.  Louis,  Kansas  City,  and  at  Denver,  Colo., 
at  the  last  named  city  being  managing  editor  of 
"The  Tribune."  In  1883  he  removed  to  Chicago, 
becoming  a  special  writer  for  "The  Chicago 
News,"  his  particular  department  for  several 
years  being  a  pungent,  witty  column  with  the 
caption,  "Sharps  and  Flats."  He  wrote  con- 
siderable prose  fiction  and  much  poetry,  among 
the  latter  being  successful  translations  of  several 
of  Horace's  Odes.  As  a  poet,  however,  he  was 
best  known  through  his  short  poems  relating  to 
childhood  and  home,  which  strongly  appealed  to 
the  popular  heart.  Died,  in  Chicago,  deeply 
mourned  by  a  large  circle  of  admirers,  Nov.  4, 
1895. 

FIELD,  Marshallymerchant  and  capitalist,  was 
born  in  Con  way,  Mass.,  in  1835,  and  grew  up  on 
a  farm,  receiving  a  common  school  and  academic 
education.  At  the  age  of  17  he  entered  upon  a 
mercantile  career  as  clerk  in  a  dry-goods  store  at 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  but,  in  1856,  came  to  Chicago 
and  secured  employment  with  Messrs.  Cooley, 
Wadsworth  &  Co. ;  in  1860  was  admitted  into 
partnership,  the  firm  becoming  Cooley,  Farwell 
&  Co.,  and  still  later,  Farwell,  Field  &  Co.  The 
last  named  firm  was  dissolved  and  that  of  Field, 
Palmer  &  Leiter  organized  in  1865.  Mr.  Palmer 
having  retired  in  1867,  the  firm  was  continued 
under  the  name  of  Field,  Leiter  &  Co.,  until  1881, 
when  Mr.  Leiter  retired,  the  concern  being  since 


known  as  Marshall  Field  &  Co.  The  growth  of 
the  business  of  this  great  establishment  is  shown 
by  the  fact  that,  whereas  its  sales  amounted 
before  the  fire  to  some  812,000,000  annually,  in 
1895  they  aggregated  $40,000,000.  Mr.  Field's 
business  career  has  been  remarkable  for  its  suc- 
cess in  a  city  famous  for  its  successful  business 
men  and  the  vastness  of  their  commercial  oper- 
ations. He  has  been  a  generous  and  discrimi- 
nating patron  of  important  public  enterprises, 
some  of  his  more  conspicuous  donations  being  the 
gift  of  a  tract  of  land  valued  at  §300,000  and 
§100,000  in  cash,  to  the  Chicago  University,  and 
§1,000,000  to  the  endowment  of  the  Field  Colum- 
bian Museum,  as  a  sequel  to  the  World's  Colum- 
bian Exposition.  The  latter,  chiefly  through  the 
munificence  of  Mr.  Field,  promises  to  become  one 
of  the  leading  institutions  of  its  kind  in  the 
United  States.  Besides  his  mercantile  interests, 
Mr.  Field  had  extensive  interests  in  various  financial 
and  manufacturing  enterprises.  Died  in  New  York 
Jan.  16,  1906,  leaving  an  estate  valued  at  more  than 
$100,000,000,  the  largest  single  bequest  in  his  will 
being  $8,000,000  to  the  Field  Museum. 

FIFER,  Joseph  W.,  born  at  Stanton,  Va.,  Oct. 
28,  1840 ;  in  1857  he  accompanied  his  father  (who 
was  a  stone-mason)  to  McLean  County,  111.,  and 
worked  at  the  manufacture  and  laying  of  brick. 
At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  he  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  the  Thirty-third  Illinois  Infantry,  and 
was  dangerously  wounded  at  the  assault  on  Jack- 
son, Miss.,  in  1863.  On  the  healing  of  his  wound, 
disregarding  the  advice  of  family  and  friends,  he 
rejoined  his  regiment.  At  the  close  of  the  war, 
when  about  25  years  of  age,  he  entered  the  Wes- 
leyan  University  at  Bloomington,  where,  by  dint 
of  hard  work  and  frugality,  while  supporting 
himself  in  part  by  manual  labor,  he  secured  a 
diploma  in  1868.  He  at  once  began  the  study  of 
law,  and,  soon  after  his  admission,  entered  upon  a 
practice  which  subsequently  proved  both  success- 
ful and  lucrative.  He  was  elected  Corporation 
Counsel  of  Bloomington  in  1871  and  State's  Attor- 
ney for  McLean  County  in  1872,  holding  the  latter 
office,  through  re-election,  until  1880,  when  he 
was  chosen  State  Senator,  serving  in  the  Thirty- 
second  and  Thirty -third  General  Assemblies.  In 
1888  he  was  nominated  and  elected  Governor  on 
the  Republican  ticket,  but,  in  1892,  was  defeated 
by  John  P.  Altgeld,  the  Democratic  nominee, 
though  running  in  advance  of  the  national  and 
the  rest  of  the  State  ticket. 

FINERTY,  John  F.,  ex-Congressman  and 
journalist,  was  born  in  Galway,  Ireland,  Sept. 
10,  1846  His  studies  were  mainly  prosecuted 


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under  private  tutors.  At  the  age  of  16  he  entered 
the  profession  of  journalism,  and,  in  1864,  coming 
to  America,  soon  after  enlisted,  serving  for  100 
days  during  the  Civil  War,  in  the  Ninety -ninth 
New  York  Volunteers.  Subsequently,  having 
removed  to  Chicago,  he  was  connected  with  "The 
Chicago  Times"  as  a  special  correspondent  from 
1876  to  1881,  and,  in  1882,  established  "The  Citi- 
zen, "a  weekly  newspaper  devoted  to  the  Irish- 
American  interest,  which  he  continued  to  pub- 
lish. In  1882  he  was  elected,  as  an  Independ- 
ent Democrat,  to  represent  the  Second  Illinois 
District  in  the  Forty-eighth  Congress,  but,  run- 
ning as  an  Independent  Republican  for  re-election 
in  1884,  was  defeated  by  Frank  Lawler,  Democrat. 
In  1887  he  was  appointed  Oil  Inspector  of  Chi- 
cago, but  after  1889,  held  no  public  office,  giving 
his  attention  to  editorial  work  on  his  paper.  Died 
June  10,  1908. 

FISHER,  (Dr.)  George,  pioneer  physician  and 
legislator,  was  probably  a  native  of  Virginia, 
from  which  State  he  appears  to  have  come  to 
Kaskaskia  previous  to  1800.  He  became  very 
prominent  during  the  Territorial  period;  was 
appointed  by  William  Henry  Harrison,  then 
Governor  of  Indiana  Territory,  the  first  Sheriff  of 
Randolph  County  after  its  organization  in  1801 ; 
was  elected  from  that  county  to  the  Indiana 
Territorial  House  of  Representatives  in  1805,  and 
afterwards  promoted  to  the  Territorial  Council ; 
was  also  Representative  in  the  First  and  Third 
Legislatures  of  Illinois  Territory  (1812  and  '16), 
serving  as  Speaker  of  each.  He  was  a  Dele- 
gate to  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1818,  but 
died  [on  his  farm  near  Kaskaskia  in  1820.  Dr. 
Fisher  participated  in  the  organization  of  the 
first  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  in  Illi- 
nois at  Kaskaskia,  in  1806,  and  was  elected  one 
of  its  officers. 

FISHERIES.  The  fisheries  of  Illinois  center 
chiefly  at  Chicago,  the  catch  being  taken  from 
Lake  Michigan,  and  including  salmon  trout, 
white  fish  (the  latter  species  including  a  lake 
herring),  wall-eyed  pike,  three  kinds  of  bass, 
three  varieties  of  sucker,  carp  and  sturgeon.  The 
"fishing  fleet"  of  Lake  Michigan,  properly  so 
called,  (according  to  the  census  of  1890)  con- 
sisted of  forty-seven  steamers  and  one  schooner, 
of  which  only  one — a  steamer  of  twenty -six  tons 
burthen— was  credited  to  Illinois.  The  same 
report  showed  a  capital  of  $36,105  invested  in 
land,  buildings,  wharves,  vessels,  boats  and 
apparatus.  In  addition  to  the  "fishing  fleet" 
mentioned,  nearly  1,100  sail-boats  and  other  vari- 
eties of  craft  are  employed  in  the  industry, 


sailing  from  ports  between  Chicago  and  Macki 
nac,  of  which,  in  1890,  Illinois  furnished  94,  or 
about  nine  per  cent.  All  sorts  of  apparatus  are 
used,  but  the  principal  are  gill,  fyke  and  pound 
nets,  and  seines.  The  total  value  of  these  minor 
Illinois  craft,  with  their  equipment,  for  1890,  was 
nearly  $18,000,  the  catch  aggregating  722,830 
pounds,  valued  at  between  $24,000  and  825,000. 
Of  this  draught,  the  entire  quantity  was  either 
sold  fresh  in  Chicago  and  adjacent  markets,  or 
shipped,  either  in  ice  or  frozen.  The  Mississippi 
and  its  tributaries  yield  wall-eyed  pike,  pike 
perch,  buffalo  fish,  sturgeon,  paddle  fish,  and 
other  species  available  for  food. 

FITHIAX,  George  W.,  ex -Congressman,  was 
born  on  a  farm  near  Willow  Hill,  111. ,  July  4,  1854. 
His  early  education  was  obtained  in  the  common 
schools,  and  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  printer  at 
Mount  Carmel.  While  employed  at  the  case  he 
found  time  to  study  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1875.  In  1876  he  was  elected  State's 
Attorney  for  Jasper  County,  and  re-elected  in 
1880.  He  was  prominent  in  Democratic  politics, 
and,  in  1888,  was  elected  on  the  ticket  of  that 
party  to  represent  the  Sixteenth  Illinois  District 
in  Congress.  He  was  re-elected  in  1890  and 
again  in  1892,  but,  in  1894,  was  defeated  by  his 
Republican  opponent. 

FITHIAN,  (Dr.)  William,  pioneer  physician, 
was  born  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  in  1800;  built  the 
first  houses  in  Springfield  and  Urbana  in  that 
State;  in  1822  began  the  study  of  medicine  at 
Urbana;  later  practiced  two  years  at  Mechanics- 
burgh,  and  four  years  at  Urbana,  as  partner  of 
his  preceptor;  in  1830  came  west,  locating  at 
Danville,  Vermilion  County,  where  he  became  a 
large  land-owner;  in  1832  served  with  the  Ver- 
milion County  militia  in  the  Black  Hawk  War, 
and,  in  1834,  was  elected  Representative  in  the 
Ninth  General  Assembly,  the  first  of  which 
Abraham  Lincoln  was  a  member;  afterwards 
served  two  terms  in  the  State  Senate  from  the 
Danville  District  (1838-46).  Dr.  Fithian  was 
active  in  promoting  the  railroad  interests  of 
Danville,  giving  the  right  of  way  for  railroad 
purposes  through  a  large  body  of  land  belonging 
to  him,  in  Vermilion  County.  He  was  also  a 
member  of  various  medical  associations,  and, 
during  his  later  years,  was  the  oldest  practicing 
physician  in  the  State.  Died,  in  Danville,  111., 
April  5,  1890. 

FLAGG,  Gershom,  pioneer,  was  born  in  Rich- 
mond, Vt.,  in  1792,  came  west  in  1816,  settling  in 
Madison  County,  111.,  in  1818,  where  he  was 
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and  influential  citizen.  Originally  a  Whig,  he 
became  a  zealous  Republican  on  the  organization 
of  that  party,  dying  in  1857.—  Willard  Cutting 
(Flagg),  son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  in  Madi- 
son County,  111.,  Sept  16,  1829,  spent  his  early  life 
on  his  father's  farm  and  in  the  common  schools; 
from  1844  to  '50  was  a  pupil  in  the  celebrated 
high  school  of  Edward  Wynian  in  St.  Louis, 
finally  graduating  with  honors  at  Yale  College, 
in  1854.  During  his  college  course  he  took  a 
number  of  literary  prizes,  and,  in  his  senior  year, 
served  as  one  of  the  editors  of  "The  Yale  Literary 
Magazine."  Returning  to  Illinois  after  gradu- 
ation, he  took  charge  of  his  father's  farm,  engaged 
extensively  in  fruit-culture  and  stock-raising, 
being  the  first  to  introduce  the  Devon  breed  of 
cattle  in  Madison  County  in  1859.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Republican  State  Central  Com- 
mittee in  1860 ;  in  1862,  by  appointment  of  Gov. 
Yates,  became  Enrolling  Officer  for  Madison 
County ;  served  as  Collector  of  Internal  Revenue 
for  the  Twelfth  District,  1864-69,  and,  in  1868, 
was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  for  a  term  of  four 
years,  and,  during  the  last  session  of  his  term 
(1872),  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  revision  of 
the  school  law ;  was  appointed  a  member  of  the 
first  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Industrial  Univer- 
sity (now  the  University  of  Illinois)  at  Cham- 
paign, and  reappointed  in  1875.  Mr.  Flagg  was 
also  prominent  in  agricultural  and  horticultural 
organizations,  serving  as  Secretary  of  the  State 
Horticultural  Society  from  1861  to  '69,  when  he 
became  its  President.  He  was  one  of  the  origi- 
nators of  the  "farmers'  movement,"  served  for 
some  time  as  President  of  "The  State  Farmers' 
Association,"  wrote  voluminously,  and  delivered 
addresses  in  various  States  on  agricultural  and 
horticultural  topics,  and,  in  1875,  was  elected 
President  of  the  National  Agricultural  Congress. 
In  his  later  years  he  was  a  recognized  leader  in 
the  Granger  movement.  Died,  at  Mora,  Madison 
County,  111.,  April  5,  1878. 

FLEMING,  Robert  K.,  pioneer  printer,  was 
born  in  Erie  County,  Pa.,  learned  the  printers' 
trade  in  Pittsburg,  and,  coming  west  while  quite 
young,  worked  at  his  trade  in  St.  Louis,  finally 
removing  to  Kaskaskia,  where  he  was  placed  in 
control  of  the  office  of  "The  Republican  Advo- 
cate," which  had  been  established  in  1823,  by 
Elias  Kent  Kane.  The  publication  of  "The 
Advocate"  having  been  suspended,  he  revived  it 
in  May,  1825,  under  the  name  of  "The  Kaskaskia 
Recorder,"  but  soon  removed  it  to  Vandalia  (then 
the  State  capital),  and,  in  1827,  began  the  publi- 
cation of  "The  Illinois  Corrector,"  at  Edwards- 


ville.  Two  years  later  he  returned  to  Kaskaskia 
and  resumed  the  publication  of  "The  Recorder," 
but,  in  1833,  was  induced  to  remove  his  office  to 
Belleville,  where  he  commenced  the  publication 
of  "The  St.  Clair  Gazette,"  followed  by  "The  St. 
Clair  Mercury,"  both  of  which  had  a  brief  exist- 
ence. About  1843  he  returned  to  the  newspaper 
business  as  publisher  of  "The  Belleville  Advo- 
cate," which  he  continued  for  a  number  of  years. 
He  died,  at  Belleville,  in  1874,  leaving  two  sons 
who  have  been  prominently  identified  with  the 
history  of  journalism  in  Southern  Illinois,  at 
Belleville  and  elsewhere. 

FLETCHER,  Job,  pioneer  and  early  legislator, 
was  born  in  Virginia,  in  1793,  removed  to  Sanga- 
mon  County,  111.,  in  1819;  was  elected  Represent- 
ative in  1826,  and,  in  1834,  to  the  State  Senate, 
serving  in  the  latter  body  six  years.  He  was  one 
of  the  famous  "Long  Nine"  which  represented 
Sangamon  County  in  the  Tenth  General  Assem- 
bly. Mr.  Fletcher  was  again  a  member  of  the 
House  in  1844-45.  Died,  in. Sangamon  County, 
in  1872. 

FLORA,  a  city  in  Harter  Township,  Clay 
County,  on  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern 
Railroad,  95  miles  east  of  St.  Louis,  and  108  miles 
south-southeast  of  Springfield;  has  barrel  factory, 
flouring  mills,  cold  storage  and  ice  plant,  three 
fruit-working  factories,  two  banks,  six  churches 
and  a  weekly  newspaper.  Population  (1890), 
1,695;  (1900),  2,311  ;  (1910),  2,704. 

FLOWER,  George,  early  English  colonist,  was 
born  in  Hertfordshire,  England,  about  1780; 
came  to  the  United  States  in  1817,  and  was  associ- 
ated with  Morris  Birkbeck  in  founding  the 
"English  Settlement"  at  Albion,  Edwards 
County,  111.  Being  in  affluent  circumstances,  he 
built  an  elegant  mansion  and  stocked  an  exten- 
sive farm  with  blooded  animals  from  England 
and  other  parts  of  Europe,  but  met  with  reverses 
which  dissipated  his  wealth.  In  common  with 
Mr.  Birkbeck,  he  was  one  of  the  determined 
opponents  of  the  attempt  to  establish  slavery  in 
Illinois  in  1824,  and  did  much  to  defeat  that 
measure.  He  and  his  wife  died  on  the  same  day 
(Jan.  15,  1863),  while  on  a  visit  to  a  daughter  at 
Grayville,  111.  A  book  written  by  him — "History 
of  the  English  Settlement  in  Edwards  County, 
111." — and  published  in  1882,  is  a  valuable  contri- 
bution to  the  early  history  of  that  portion  of  the 
State.— Edward  Fordhams  (Flower),  son  of  the 
preceding,  was  born  in  England,  Jan.  31,  1805, 
but  came  with  his  father  to  Illinois  in  early  life; 
later  he  returned  to  England  and  spent  nearly 
half  a  century  at  Stratford-on-Avon,  where  he 


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was  four  times  chosen  Mayor  of  that  borough 
and  entertained  many  visitors  from  the  United 
States  to  Shakespeare's  birthplace.  Died,  March 
26,  1883. 

FOBES,  Philena,  educator,  born  in  Onondaga 
County,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  10,  1811;  was  educated  at 
Albany  and  at  Cortland  Seminary,  Rochester, 
N.  Y. ;  in  1838  became  a  teacher  in  Monticello 
Female  Seminary,  then  newly  established  at 
Godfrey,  111.,  under  Rev.  Theron  Baldwin,  Prin- 
cipal. On  the  retirement  of  Mr.  Baldwin  in  1843, 
Miss  Fobes  succeeded  to  the  principalship, 
remaining  until  1866,  when  she  retired.  For 
some  years  she  resided  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and 
New  Haven,  Conn.,  but,  in  1886,  she  removed  to 
Philadelphia,  where  she  afterwards  made  her 
home,  notwithstanding  her  advanced  age,  main- 
taining a  lively  interest  in  educational  and 
benevolent  enterprises.  Miss  Fobes  died  at  Phila- 
delphia, Nov.  8,  1898,  and  was  buried  at  New 
Haven,  Conn. 

FOLEY,  Thomas,  Roman  Catholic  Bishop,  born 
in  Baltimore,  Md.,  in  1823;  was  ordained  a  priest 
in  1846,  and,  two  years  later,  was  appointed  Chan- 
cellor of  the  Diocese,  being  made  Vicar-General 
in  1867.  He  was  nominated  Coadjutor  Bishop  of 
the  Chicago  Diocese  in  1869  (Bishop  Duggan  hav- 
ing become  insane),  and,  in  1870,  was  consecrated 
Bishop.  His  administration  of  diocesan  work  was 
prudent  and  eminently  successful.  As  a  man 
and  citizen  he  won  the  respect  of  all  creeds  and 
classes  alike,  the  State  Legislature  adopting 
resolutions  of  respect  and  regret  upon  learning 
of  his  death,  which  occurred  at  Baltimore,  in 
1879. 

FORBES,  Stephen  Van  Rensselaer,  pioneer 
teacher,  was  born  at  Windham,  Vt.,  July  26, 1797; 
in  his  youth  acquired  a  knowledge  of  surveying, 
and,  having  removed  to  Newburg  (now  South 
Cleveland),  Ohio,  began  teaching.  In  1829  he 
came  west  to  Chicago,  and  having  joined  a  sur- 
veying party,  went  to  Louisiana,  returning  in 
the  following  year  to  Chicago,  which  then  con- 
tained only  three  white  families  outside  of  Fort 
Dearborn.  Having  been  joined  by  his  wife,  he 
took  up  his  abode  in  what  was  called  the  "sut- 
ler's house"  connected  with  Fort  Dearborn;  was 
appointed  one  of  the  first  Justices  of  the  Peace, 
and  opened  the  first  school  ever  taught  in  Chi- 
cago, all  but  three  of  his  pupils  being  either 
half-breeds  or  Indians.  In  1832  he  was  elected,  as 
a  Whig,  the  first  Sheriff  of  Cook  County;  later 
preempted  160  acres  of  land  where  Riverside 
now  stands,  subsequently  becoming  owner  of 
some  1,800  acres,  much  of  which  he  sold,  about 


1853,  to  Dr.  W.  B.  Egan  at  $20  per  acre.  In 
1849,  having  been  seized  with  the  "gold  fever," 
Mr.  Forbes  joined  in  the  overland  migration  to 
California,  but,  not  being  successful,  returned 
two  years  later  by  way  of  the  Isthmus,  and,  hav- 
ing sold  his  possessions  in  Cook  County,  took  up 
his  abode  at  Newburg,  Ohio,  and  resumed  his 
occupation  as  a  surveyor.  About  1878  he  again 
returned  to  Chicago,  but  survived  only  a  short 
time,  dying  Feb.  17,  1879. 

FORD,  Thomas,  early  lawyer,  jurist  and  Gov- 
ernor, was  born  in  Uniontown,  Pa.,  and,  in  boy- 
hood, accompanied  his  mother  (then  a  widow)  to 
Missouri,  in  1804.  The  family  soon  after  located 
in  Monroe  County,  111.  Largely  through  the 
efforts  and  aid  of  his  half-brother,  George 
Forquer,  he  obtained  a  professional  education, 
became  a  successful  lawyer,  and,  early  in  life, 
entered  the  field  of  politics.  He  served  as  a 
Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  for  the  northern  part 
of  the  State  from  1835  to  1837,  and  was  again 
commissioned  a  Circuit  Judge  for  the  Galena 
circuit  in  1839 ;  in  1841  was  elevated  to  the  bench 
of  the  State  Supreme  Court,  but  resigned  the 
following  year  to  accept  the  nomination  of  his 
party  (the  Democratic)  for  Governor.  He  was 
regarded  as  upright  in  his  general  policy,  but  he 
had  a  number  of  embarrassing  questions  to  deal 
with  during  his  administration,  one  of  these 
being  the  Mormon  troubles,  in  which  he  failed  to 
receive  the  support  of  his  own  party.  He  was 
author  of  a  valuable ''History  of  Illinois,"  (pub- 
lished posthumously).  He  died,  at  Peoria,  in 
greatly  reduced  circumstances,  Nov.  3,  1850.  The 
State  Legislature  of  1895  took  steps  to  erect  a 
monument  over  his  grave. 

FORD  COUNTY,  lies  northeast  of  Springfield, 
was  organized  in  1859,  being  cut  off  from  Vermil- 
ion. It  is  shaped  like  an  inverted  "T,"  and  has 
an  area  of  580  square  miles;  population  (1910), 
17,096.  The  first  County  Judge  was  David  Pat- 
ton,  and  David  Davis  (afterwards  of  the  United 
States  Supreme  Court)  presided  over  the  first 
Circuit  Court.  The  surface  of  the  county  is  level 
and  the  soil  fertile,  consisting  of  a  loam  from  one 
to  five  feet  in  depth.  There  is  little  timber,  nor 
is  there  any  out-cropping  of  stone.  The  county 
is  named  in  honor  of  Governor  Ford.  The  county- 
seat  is  Paxton,  which  had  a  population,  in  1890,  of 
2, 187.  Gibson  City  is  a  railroad  center,  and  has  a 
population  of  1,800. 

FORMAN,  (Col.)  Ferris,  lawyer  and  soldier, 
was  born  in  Tioga  County,  N.  Y.,  August  25, 
1811 ;  graduated  at  Union  College  in  1832,  studied 
law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York  in 


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1835,  and  in  the  United  States  Supreme  Court  in 
1836;  the  latter  year  came  west  and  settled  at 
Vandalia,  111.,  where  he  began  practice;  in  1844 
was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  for  the  district 
composed  of  Fayette,  Effingham,  Clay  and  Rich- 
land  Counties,  serving  two  years;  before  the 
expiration  of  his  term  (1846)  enlisted  for  the 
Mexican  War,  and  was  commissioned  Colonel  of 
the  Third  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers,  and, 
after  participating  in  a  number  of  the  most 
important  engagements  of  the  campaign,  was 
mustered  out  at  New  Orleans,  in  May,  1847.  Re- 
turning from  the  Mexican  War,  he  brought  with 
him  and  presented  to  the  State  of  Illinois  a 
six-pound  cannon,  which  had  been  captured  by 
Illinois  troops  on  the  battlefield  of  Cerro  Gordo, 
and  is  now  in  the  State  Arsenal  at  Springfield. 
In  1848  Colonel  Forman  was  chosen  Presidential 
Elector  for  the  State-at-large  on  the  Democratic 
ticket ;  in  1849  went  to  California,  where  he  prac- 
ticed his  profession  until  1853,  meanwhile  serving 
as  Postmaster  of  Sacramento  City  by  appointment 
of  President  Pierce,  and  later  as  Secretary  of 
State  during  the  administration  of  Gov.  John  B. 
Weller  (1858-60);  in  1861  officiated,  by  appoint- 
ment of  the  California  Legislature,  as  Commis- 
sioner on  the  part  of  the  State  in  fixing  the 
boundary  between  California  and  the  Territory 
of  Utah.  After  the  discharge  of  this  duty,  he 
was  offered  the  colonelcy  of  the  Fourth  California 
Volunteer  Infantry,  which  he  accepted,  serving 
about  twenty  months,  when  he  resigned.  In 
1866  he  resumed  his  residence  at  Vandalia,  and 
served  as  a  Delegate  for  Fayette  and  Effingham 
Counties  in  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1869-70,  also  for  several  years  thereafter  held  the 
office  of  State's  Attorney  for  Fayette  County. 
Later  he  returned  to  California,  and,  at  the 
latest  date,  was  a  resident  of  Stockton,  in  that 
State.  Died  Feb.  11,  1901. 

FORMAN,  William  S.,  ex-Congressman,  was 
born  at  Natchez,  Miss. ,  Jan.  20,  1847.  When  he 
was  four  years  old,  his  father's  family  removed  to 
Illinois,  settling  in  Washington  County,  where 
he  has  lived  ever  since.  By  profession  he  is  a 
lawyer,  and  he  takes  a  deep  interest  in  politics, 
local,  State  and  National.  He  represented  his 
Senatorial  District  in  the  State  Senate  in  the 
Thirty-fourth  and  Thirty-fifth  General  Assem- 
blies, and,  in  1888,  was  elected,  as  a  Democrat,  to 
represent  the  Eighteenth  Illinois  District  in  the 
Fifty-first  Congress,  being  re-elected  in  1890,  and 
again  in  '92,  but  was  defeated  in  1894  for  renomi- 
nation  by  John  J.  Higgins,  who  was  defeated  at 
the  election  of  the  same  year  by  Everett  J.  Mur- 


phy. In  1896  Mr.  Forman  was  candidate  of  the 
"Gold  Democracy"  for  Governor  of  Illinois, 
receiving  8,100  votes. 

FORQUER,  George,  early  State  officer,  was 
born  near  Brownsville,  Pa.,  in  1794 — was  the  son 
of  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  older  half-brother 
of  Gov.  Thomas  Ford.  He  settled,  with  his 
mother  (then  a  widow),  at  New  Design,  111.,  in 
1804.  After  learning,  and,  for  several  years, 
following  the  carpenter's  trade  at  St.  Louis,  he 
returned  to  Illinois  and  purchased  the  tract 
whereon  Waterloo  now  stands.  Subsequently  he 
projected  the  town  of  Bridge  water,  on  the  Mis- 
sissippi. For  a  time  he  was  a  partner  in  trade  of 
Daniel  P.  Cook.  Being  unsuccessful  in  business, 
he  took  up  the  study  of  law,  in  which  lie  attained 
marked  success.  In  1824  he  was  elected  to  repre- 
sent Monroe  County  in  the  House  of  Represent- 
atives, but  resigned  in  January  of  the  following 
year  to  accept  the  position  of  Secretary  of  State, 
to  which  he  was  appointed  by  Governor  Coles, 
as  successor  to  Morris  Birkbeck,  whom  the 
Senate  had  refused  to  confirm.  One  ground  for 
the  friendship  between  him  and  Coles,  no  doubt, 
was  the  fact  that  they  had  been  united  in  their 
opposition  to  the  scheme  to  make  Illinois  a  slave 
State.  In  1828  he  was  a  candidate  for  Congress, 
but  was  defeated  by  Joseph  Duncan,  afterwards 
Governor.  At  the  close  of  the  year  he  resigned 
the  office  of  Secretary  of  State,  but,  a  few  weeks 
later  (January,  1829),  he  was  elected  by  the 
Legislature  Attorney-General.  This  position  he 
held  until  January,  1833,  when  he  resigned,  hav- 
ing, as  it  appears,  at  the  previous  election,  been 
chosen  State  Senator  from  Sangamon  County, 
serving  in  the  Eighth  and  Ninth  General  Assem- 
blies. Before  the  close  of  his  term  as  Senator 
(1835),  he  received  the  appointment  of  Register 
of  the  Land  Office  at  Springfield,  which  appears 
to  have  been  the  last  office  held  by  him,  as  he 
died,  at  Cincinnati,  in  1837.  Mr.  Forquer  was  a 
man  of  recognized  ability  and  influence,  an  elo- 
quent orator  and  capable  writer,  but,  in  common 
with  some  of  the  ablest  lawyers  of  that  time, 
seems  to  have  been  much  embarrassed  by  the 
smallness  of  his  income,  in  spite  of  his  ability 
and  the  fact  that  he  was  almost  continually  in 
office. 

FORREST,  a  village  in  Livingston  County,  at 
the  intersection  of  the  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Western 
and  the  Wabash  Railways,  75  miles  east  of  Peoria 
and  16  miles  southeast  of  Pontiac.  Considerable 
grain  is  shipped  from  this  point  to  the  Chicago 
market.  The  village  has  several  churches  and  a 
graded  school.  Population  (1900),  952;  (1910),  967. 


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FORREST,  Joseph  K.  C.,  journalist,  was  born 
in  Cork,  Ireland,  Nov.  26,  1820;  came  to  Chicago 
in  1840,  soon  after  securing  employment  as  a 
writer  on  "The  Evening  Journal,"  and,  later  on, 
"The  Gem  of  the  Prairies,"  the  predecessor  of 
"The  Tribune,"  being  associated  with  the  latter 
at  the  date  of  its  establishment,  in  June,  1847. 
During  the  early  years  of  his  residence  in  Chi- 
cago, Mr.  Forrest  spent  some  time  as  a  teacher. 
On  retiring  from  "The  Tribune,"  he  became  the 
associate  of  John  Wentworth  in  the  management 
of  "The  Chicago  Democrat,"  a  relation  which 
was  broken  up  by  the  consolidation  of  the  latter 
with  "The  Tribune,"  in  1861.  He  then  became 
the  Springfield  correspondent  of  "The  Tribune," 
also  holding  a  position  on  the  staff  of  Governor 
Yates,  and  still  later  represented  "The  St.  Louis 
Democrat"  and  "Chicago  Times,"  as  Washington 
correspondent;  assisted  in  founding  "The  Chicago 
Republican"  (now  "Inter  Ocean"),  in  1865,  and, 
some  years  later,  became  a  leading  writer  upon 
the  same.  He  served  one  term  as  Clerk  of  the 
city  of  Chicago,  but,  in  his  later  years,  and  up  to 
the  period  of  his  death,  was  a  leading  contributor 
to  the  columns  of  "The  Chicago  Evening  News" 
over  the  signatures  of  "An  Old  Timer"  and  "Now 
or  Never."  Died,  in  Chicago.  June  23,  1896. 

FORRESTON,  a  village  in  Ogle  County,  the 
terminus  of  the  Chicago  and  Iowa  branch  of  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  and 
point  of  intersection  of  the  Illinois  Central  and 
the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railways;  107 
miles  west  by  north  from  Chicago,  and  12  miles 
south  of  Freeport ;  founded  in  1854,  incorporated 
by  special  charter  in  1868,  and,  under  the  general 
law,  in  1888.  Fanning  and  stock-raising  are  the 
principal  industries.  The  village  has  a  bank, 
water-works,  electric  light  plant,  creamery,  vil- 
lage hall,  seven  churches,  a  graded  school,  and  a 
newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  1,047;  (1910),  870. 

FORSTTHE,  Albert  P.,  ex-Congressman,  was 
born  at  New  Richmond,  Ohio,  May  24,  1830; 
received  his  early  education  in  the  common 
schools,  and  at  Asbury  University.  He  was 
reared  upon  a  farm  and  followed  farming  as  his 
life-work.  During  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  he 
served  in  the  Union  army  as  Lieutenant.  In 
politics  he  early  became  an  ardent  Nationalist, 
and  was  chosen  President  of  the  Illinois  State 
Grange  of  the  Patrons  of  Industry,  in  December, 
187-5,  and  again  in  January,  1878.  In  1878  he  was 
elected  to  Congress  as  a  Nationalist,  but,  in  1880, 
though  receiving  the  nominations  of  the  com- 
bined Republican  and  Greenback  parties,  was 
defeated  by  Samuel  W.  Moulton,  Democrat. 


FORT,  Greenbury  L.,  soldier  and  Congress- 
man, was  born  in  Ohio,  Oct.  17,  1825,  and,  in  1834, 
removed  with  his  parents  to  Illinois.  In  1850  he 
was  elected  Sheriff  of  Putnam  County;  in  1852, 
Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court,  and,  having  mean- 
while been  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Lacon,  became 
County  Judge  in  1857,  serving  until  1861.  In 
April  of  the  latter  year  he  enlisted  under  the  first 
call  for  troops,  by  re-enlistments  serving  till 
March  24,  1866.  Beginning  as  Quartermaster  of 
his  regiment,  he  served  as  Chief  Quartermaster  of 
the  Fifteenth  Army  Corps  on  the  "March  to  the 
Sea,"  and  was  mustered  out  with  the  rank  of 
Colonel  and  Brevet  Brigadier-General.  On  his 
return  from  the  field,  he  was  elected  to  the  State 
Senate,  serving  in  the  Twenty-fifth  and  Twenty- 
sixth  General  Assemblies,  and,  from  1873  to  1881, 
as  Representative  in  Congress.  He  died,  at 
Lacon,  June  13,  1883. 

FORT  CHARTRES,  a  strong  fortification 
erected  by  the  French  in  1718,  on  the  American 
Bottom,  16  miles  northwest  from  Kaskaskia. 
The  soil  on  which  it  stood  was  alluvial,  and  the 
limestone  of  which  its  walls  were  built  was 
quarried  from  an  adjacent  bluff.  In  form  it  was 
an  irregular  quadrangle,  surrounded  on  three 
sides  by  a  wall  two  feet  two  inches  thick,  and  on 
the  fourth  by  a  ravine,  which,  during  the  spring- 
time, was  full  of  water.  During  the  period  of 
French  ascendency  in  Illinois,  Fort  Chartres  was 
the  seat  of  government.  About  four  miles  east 
soon  sprang  up  the  village  of  Prairie  du  Rocher 
(or  Rock  Prairie).  (See  Prairie  dn  Rocher. )  At 
the  outbreak  of  the  French  and  Indian  War 
(1756),  the  original  fortification  was  repaired  and 
virtually  rebuilt.  Its  cost  at  that  time  is  esti- 
mated to  have  amounted  to  1,000,000  French 
crowns.  After  the  occupation  of  Illinois  by  the 
British,  Fort  Chartres  still  remained  the  seat  of 
government  until  1772,  when  one  side  of  the 
fortification  was  washed  away  by  a  freshet,  and 
headquarters  were  transferred  to  Kaskaskia, 
The  first  common  law  court  ever  held  in  the  Mis- 
sissippi Valley  was  established  here,  in  1768,  by 
the  order  of  Colonel  Wilkins  of  the  English 
army.  The  ruins  of  the  old  fort,  situated  in  the 
northwest  corner  of  Randolph  County,  once  con- 
stituted an  object  of  no  little  interest  to  anti- 
quarians, but  the  site  has  disappeared  during  the 
past  generation  by  the  encroachments  of  the 
Mississippi. 

FORT  DEARBORN,  the  name  of  a  United 
States  military  post,  established  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Chicago  River  in  1803  or  1804,  on  a  tract  of 
land  six  miles  square  conveyed  by  the  Indians  in 


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the  treaty  of  Greenville,  concluded  by  General 
Wayne  in  1795.  It  originally  consisted  of  two 
block  houses  located  at  opposite  angles  (north 
west  and  southeast)  of  a  strong  wooden  stockade, 
with  the  Commandant's  quarters  on  the  east  side 
of  the  quadrangle,  soldiers'  barracks  on  the  south, 
officers'  barracks  on  the  west,  and  magazine, 
contractor's  (sutler's)  store  and  general  store- 
house on  the  north — all  the  buildings  being  con- 
structed of  logs,  and  all,  except  the  block-houses, 
being  entirely  within  the  enclosure.  Its  arma- 
ment consisted  of  three  light  pieces  of  artillery. 
Its  builder  and  first  commander  was  Capt.  John 
Whistler,  a  native  of  Ireland  who  had  surrendered 
with  Burgoyne,  at  Saratoga,,  N.  Y.,  and  who 
subsequently  became  an  American  citizen,  and 
served  with  distinction  throughout  the  War  of 
1812.  He  was  succeeded,  in  1810,  by  Capt. 
Nathan  Heald.  As  early  as  1806  the  Indians 
around  the  fort  manifested  signs  of  disquietude, 
Tecumseh,  a  few  years  later,  heading  an  open 
armed  revolt.  In  1810  a  council  of  Pottawato- 
mies,  Ottawas  and  Chippewas  was  held  at  St. 
Joseph,  Mich.,  at  which  it  was  decided  not  to 
join  the  confederacy  proposed  by  Chief  Tecumseh. 
In  1811  hostilities  were  precipitated  by  an  attack 
upon  the  United  States  troops  under  Gen. 
William  Henry  Harrison  at  Tippecanoe.  In 
April,  1812,  hostile  bands  of  Winnebagos  appeared 
in  the  vicinity  of  Fort  Dearborn,  terrifying  the 
settlers  by  their  atrocities.  Many  of  the  whites 
sought  refuge  within  the  stockade.  Within  two 
months  after  the  declaration  of  war  against 
England,  in  1812,  orders  were  issued  for  the 
evacuation  of  Fort  Dearborn  and  the  transfer  of 
the  garrison  to  Detroit.  The  garrison  at  that 
t'ine  numbered  about  70,  including  officers,  a 
large  number  of  the  troops  being  ill.  Almost 
simultaneously  with  the  order  for  evacuation 
appeared  bands  of  Indians  clamoring  for  a  dis- 
tribution of  the  goods,  to  which  they  claimed 
they  were  entitled  under  treaty  stipulations. 
Knowing  that  he  had  but  about  forty  men  able 
to  fight  and  that  his  march  would  be  sadly 
hindered  by  the  care  of  about  a  dozen  women  and 
twenty  children,  the  commandant  hesitated. 
The  Pottawatomies,  through  whose  country  he 
would  have  to  pass,  had  always  been  friendly,  and 
he  waited.  Within  six  days  a  force  of  500  or  600 
savage  warriors  had  assembled  around  the  fort. 
Among  the  leaders  were  the  Pottawatomie  chiefs, 
Black  Partridge,  Winnemeg  and  Topenebe.  Of 
these,  Winnemeg  was  friendly.  It  was  he  who 
had  brought  General  Hull's  orders  to  evacuate, 
and,  as  the  crisis  grew  more  and  more  dangerous, 


he  offered  sound  advice.  He  urged  instantaneous 
departure  before  the  Indians  had  time  to  agree 
upon  a  line  of  action.  But  Captain  Heald 
decided  to  distribute  the  stores  among  the  sav- 
ages, and  thereby  secure  from  them  a  friendly 
escort  to  Fort  Wayne.  To  this  the  aborigines 
readily  assented,  believing  that  thereby  all  the 
whisky  and  ammunition  which  they  knew  to  be 
within  the  enclosure,  would  fall  into  their  hands. 
Meanwhile  Capt.  William  Wells,  Indian  Agent  at 
Fort  Wayne,  had  arrived  at  Fort  Dearborn  with 
a  friendly  force  of  Miamis  to  act  as  an  escort. 
He  convinced  Captain  Heald  that  it  would  be  the 
height  of  folly  to  give  the  Indians  liquor  and  gun- 
powder. Accordingly  the  commandant  emptied 
the  former  into  the  lake  and  destroyed  the  latter. 
This  was  the  signal  for  war.  Black  Partridge 
claimed  he  could  no  longer  restrain  his  young 
braves,  and  at  a  council  of  the  aborigines  it  was 
resolved  to  massacre  the  garrison  and  settlers. 
On  the  fifteenth  of  August  the  gates  of  the  fort 
were  opened  and  the  evacuation  began.  A  band 
of  Pottawatomies  accompanied  the  whites  under 
the  guise  of  a  friendly  escort.  They  soon  deserted 
and,  within  a  mile  and  a  half  from  the  fort, 
began  the  sickening  scene  of  carnage  known  as 
the  "Fort  Dearborn  Massacre."  Nearly  500 
Indians  participated,  their  loss  being  less  than 
twenty.  The  Miami  escort  fled  at  the  first 
exchange  of  shots.  With  but  four  exceptions 
the  wounded  white  prisoners  were  dispatched 
with  savage  ferocity  and  promptitude.  Those 
not  wounded  were  scattered  among  various  tribes. 
The  next  day  the  fort  with  its  stockade  was 
burned.  In  1816  (after  the  treaty  of  St.  Louis) 
the  fort  was  rebuilt  upon  a  more  elaborate  scale. 
The  second  Fort  Dearborn  contained,  besides  bar- 
racks and  officers'  quarters,  a  magazine  and 
provision-store,  was  enclosed  by  a  square  stock- 
ade, and  protected  by  bastions  at  two  of  its 
angles.  It  was  again  evacuated  in  1823  and 
re-garrisoned  in  1828.  The  troops  were  once 
more  withdrawn  in  1831,  to  return  the  following 
year  during  the  Black  Hawk  War.  The  final 
evacuation  occurred  in  1836. 

FORT  (iAGE,  situated  on  the  eastern  bluffs  of 
the  Kaskaskia  River,  opposite  the  village  of  Kas- 
kaskia.  It  was  erected  and  occupied  by  the 
British  in  1772.  It  was  built  of  heavy,  square 
timbers  and  oblong  in  shape,  its  dimensions  being 
290x251  feet.  On  the  night  of  July  4,  1778,  it  was 
captured  by  a  detachment  of  American  troops 
commanded  by  Col.  George  Rogers  Clark,  wh<? 
held  a  commission  from  Virginia.  The  soldiers, 
with  Simon  Kenton.at  their  head,  were  secretly 


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admitted  to  the  fort  by  a  Pennsylvania!!  who 
happened  to  be  within,  and  the  commandant, 
Rocheblave,  was  surprised  in  bed,  while  sleeping 
with  his  wife  by  his  side. 

FORT  JEFFERSON.  I.  A  fort  erected  by  Col. 
George  Rogers  Clark,  under  instructions  from 
the  Governor  of  Virginia,  at  the  Iron  Banks  on 
the  east  bank  of  the  Mississippi,  below  the  mouth 
of  the  Ohio  River.  He  promised  lands  to  all 
adult,  able-bodied  white  males  who  would  emi- 
grate thither  and  settle,  either  with  or  without 
their  families.  Many  accepted  the  offer,  and 
a  considerable  colony  was  established  there. 
Toward  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  Vir- 
ginia being  unable  longer  to  sustain  the  garrison, 
the  colony  was  scattered,  many  families  going  to 
Kaskaskia.  II.  A  fort  in  the  Miami  valley, 
erected  by  Governor  St.  Clair  and  General  Butler, 
in  October,  1791.  Within  thirty  miles  of  the 
post  St.  Glair's  army,  which  had  been  badly 
weakened  through  desertions,  was  cut  to  pieces 
by  the  enemy,  and  the  fortification  was  aban- 
doned. 

FORT  MASSAC,  an  early  French  fortification, 
erected  about  1711  on  the  Ohio  River,  40  miles 
from  its  mouth,  in  what  is  now  Massac  County. 
It  was  the  first  fortification  (except  Fort  St. 
Louis)  in  the  "Illinois  Country,"  antedating 
Fort  Chartres  by  several  years.  The  origin  of 
the  name  is  uncertain.  The  best  authorities  are 
of  the  opinion  that  it  was  so  called  in  honor  of 
the  engineer  who  superintended  its  construction ; 
by  others  it  has  been  traced  to  the  name  of  the 
French  Minister  of  Marine ;  others  assert  that  it 
is  a  corruption  of  the  word  "Massacre,"  a  name 
given  to  the  locality  because  of  the  massacre 
there  of  a  large  number  of  French  soldiers  by  the 
Indians.  The  Virginians  sometimes  spoke  of  it 
as  the  "Cherokee  fort."  It  was  garrisoned  by 
the  French  until  after  the  evacuation  of  the 
country  under  the  terms  of  the  Treaty  of  Paris. 
It  later  became  a  sort  of  depot  for  American 
settlers,  a  few  families  constantly  residing  within 
and  around  the  fortification.  At  a  very  early 
day  a  military  road  was  laid  out  from  the  fort  to 
Kaskaskia,  the  trees  alongside  being  utilized  as 
milestones,  the  number  of  miles  being  cut  with 
irons  and  painted  red.  After  the  close  of  the 
Revolutionary  War,  the  United  States  Govern- 
ment strengthened  and  garrisoned  the  fort  by 
way  of  defense  against  inroads  by  the  Spaniards. 
With  the  cession  of  Louisiana  to  the  United 
States,  in  1803,  the  fort  was  evacuated  and  never 
re-garrisoned.  According  to  the  "American 
State  Papers,"  during  .the  period  of  the  French 


occupation,    it    was    both    a    Jesuit    missionary 
station  and  a  trading  post. 

FORT  SACKVILLE,  a  British  fortification, 
erected  in  1769,  on  the  Wabash  River  a  short 
distance  below  Vincennes.  It  was  a  stockade, 
with  bastions  and  a  few  pieces  of  cannon.  In 
1778  it  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  Americans,  and 
was  for  a  time  commanded  by  Captain  Helm, 
with  a  garrison  of  a  few  Americans  and  Illinois 
French.  In  December,  1778,  Helm  and  one 
private  alone  occupied  the  fort  and  surrendered 
to  Hamilton,  British  Governor  of  Detroit,  who 
led  a  force  into  the  country  around  Vincennes. 

FORT  SHERIDAN,  United  States  Military 
Post,  in  Lake  County,  on  the  Milwaukee  Division 
of  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway,  24  miles 
north  of  Chicago.  Highwood,  adjacent  'on  the 
south,  has  a  population  (1910)  of  1,219. 

FORT  ST.  LOUIS,  a  French  fortification  on  a 
rock  (widely  known  as  "Starved  Rock"),  which 
consists  of  an  isolated  cliff  on  the  south  side  of 
the  Illinois  River  nearly  opposite  Utica,  in  La 
Salle  County.  Its  height  is  between  130  and  140 
feet,  and  its  nearly  round  summit  contains  an 
area  of  about  three-fourths  of  an  acre.  The  side 
facing  the  river  is  nearly  perpendicular  and,  in 
natural  advantages,  it  is  well-nigh  impregnable. 
Here,  in  the  fall  of  1682,  La  Salle  and  Tonty 
began  the  erection  of  a  fort,  consisting  of  earth- 
works, palisades,  store-houses  and  a  block  house, 
which  also  served  as  a  dwelling  and  trading  post. 
A  windlass  drew  water  from  the  river,  and  two 
small  brass  cannon,  mounted  on  a  parapet,  com- 
prised the  armament.  It  was  solemnly  dedicated 
by  Father  Membre,  and  soon  became  a  gathering 
place  for  the  surrounding  tribes,  especially  the 
Illinois.  But  Frontenac  having  been  succeeded 
as  Governor  of  New  France  by  De  la  Barre,  who 
was  unfriendly  to  La  Salle,  the  latter  was  dis- 
placed as  Commandant  at  Fort  St.  Louis,  while 
plots  were  laid  to  secure  his  downfall  by  cutting 
off  his  supplies  and  inciting  the  Iroquois  to  attack 
him.  La  Salle  left  the  fort  in  1683,  to  return  to 
France,  and,  in  1702,  it  was  abandoned  as  a 
military  post,  though  it  continued  to  be  a  trad- 
ing post  until  1718,  when  it  was  raided  by  the 
Indians  and  burned.  (See  La  Salle. ) 

FORT  WAYNE  &  CHICAGO  RAILROAD. 
(See  Pittsburg,  Fort  Wayne  &  Chicago  Railioay.) 

FORT  WAYNE  &  ILLINOIS  RAILROAD.  (See 
New  York,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway.) 

FORTIFICATIONS,  PREHISTORIC.  Closely 
related  in  interest  to  the  works  of  the  mound- 
builders  in  Illinois — though,  probably,  owing  their 
origin  to  another  era  and  an  entirely  different 


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race — are  those  works  which  bear  evidence  of 
having  been  constructed  for  purposes  of  defense 
at  some  period  anterior  to  the  arrival  of  white 
men  in  the  country.  While  there  are  no  works 
in  Illinois  so  elaborate  in  construction  as  those  to 
which  have  been  given  the  names  of  "Fort 
Ancient"  on  the  Maumee  in  Ohio,  "Fort  Azatlan" 
on  the  Wabash  in  Indiana,  and  "Fort  Aztalan" 
on  Rock  River  in  Southern  Wisconsin,  there  are 
a  number  whose  form  of  construction  shows  that 
they  must  have  been  intended  for  warlike  pur- 
poses, and  that  they  were  formidable  of  their 
kind  and  for  the  period  in  which  they  were  con- 
structed. It  is  a  somewhat  curious  fact  that, 
while  La  Salle  County  is  the  seat  of  the  first 
fortification  constructed  by  the  French  in  Illinois 
that  can  be  said  to  have  had  a  sort  of  permanent 
character  (  see  Fort  St.  Louis  and  Starved  Bock), 
it  is  also  the  site  of  a  larger  number  of  prehistoric 
fortifications,  whose  remains  are  in  such  a  state 
of  preservation  as  to  be  clearly  discernible,  than 
any  other  section  of  the  State  of  equal  area.  One 
of  the  most  formidable  of  these  fortifications  is 
on  the  east  side  of  Fox  River,  opposite  the  mouth 
of  Indian  Creek  and  some  six  miles  northeast  of 
Ottawa.  This  occupies  a  position  of  decided 
natural  strength,  and  is  surrounded  by  three  lines 
of  circumvallation,  showing  evidence  of  consider- 
able engineering  skill.  From  the  size  of  the  trees 
within  this  work  and  other  evidences,  its  age  has 
been  estimated  at  not  less  than  1,200  years.  On 
the  present  site  of  the  town  of  Marseilles,  at  the 
rapids  of  the  Illinois,  seven  miles  east  of  Ottawa, 
another  work  of  considerable  strength  existed. 
It  is  also  said  that  the  American  Fur  Company 
had  an  earthwork  here  for  the  protection  of  its 
trading  station,  erected  about  1816  or  '18,  and 
consequently  belonging  to  the  present  century. 
Besides  Fort  St.  Louis  on  Starved  Rock,  the  out- 
line of  another  fort,  or  outwork,  whose  era  has 
not  been  positively  determined,  about  half  a  mile 
south  of  the  former,  has  been  traced  in  recent 
times.  De  Baugis,  sent  by  Governor  La  Barre,  of 
Canada,  to  succeed  Tonty  at  Fort  St.  Louis,  is  said 
to  have  erected  a  fort  on  Buffalo  Rock,  on  the 
opposite  side  of  the  river  from  Fort  St.  Louis, 
which  belonged  practically  to  the  same  era  as  the 
latter. — There  are  two  points  in  Southern  Illinois 
where  the  aborigines  had  constructed  fortifica- 
tions to  which  the  name  "Stone  Fort"  has  been 
given.  One  of  these  is  a  hill  overlooking  the 
Saline  River  in  the  southern  part  of  Saline 
County,  where  there  is  a  wall  or  breastwork  five 
feet  in  height  enclosing  an  area  of  less  than  an 
acre  in  extent.  The  other  is  on  the  west  side  of 


Lusk's  Creek,  in  Pope  County,  where  a  breast- 
work has  been  constructed  by  loosely  piling  up 
the  stones  across  a  ridge,  or  tongue  of  land,  with 
vertical  sides  and  surrounded  by  a  bend  of  the 
creek.  Water  is  easily  obtainable  from  the  creek 
below  the  fortified  ridge. — The  remains  of  an  old 
Indian  fortification  were  found  by  early  settlers 
of  McLean  County,  at  a  point  called  "Old  Town 
Timber,"  about  1822  to  1825.  It  was  believed 
then  that  it  had  been  occupied  by  the  Indians 
during  the  War  of  1812.  The  story  of  the  Indians 
was,  that  it  was  burned  by  General  Harrison  in 
1812 ;  though  this  is  improbable  in  view  of  the 
absence  of  any  historical  mention  of  the  fact. 
Judge  H.  W.  Beckwith,  who  examined  its  site  in 
1880,  is  of  the  opinion  that  its  history  goes  back 
as  far  as  1752,  and  that  it  was  erected  by  the 
Indians  as  a  defense  against  the  French  at  Kas- 
kaskia.  There  was  also  a  tradition  that  there 
had  been  a  French  mission  at  this  point. — One  of 
the  most  interesting  stories  of  early  fortifications 
in  the  State,  is  that  of  Dr.  V.  A.  Boyer,  an  old 
citizen  of  Chicago,  in  a  paper  contributed  to  the 
Chicago  Historical  Society.  Although  the  work 
alluded  to  by  him  was  evidently  constructed  after 
the  arrival  of  the  French  in  the  country,  the 
exact  period  to  which  it  belongs  is  in  doubt. 
According  to  Dr.  Boyer,  it  was  on  an  elevated 
ridge  of  timber  land  in  Palos  Township,  in  the 
western  part  of  Cook  County.  He  says:  "I  first 
saw  it  in  1833,  and  since  then  have  visited  it  in 
company  with  other  persons,  some  of  whom  are 
still  living.  I  feel  sure  that  it  was  not  built  dur- 
ing the  Sac  War  from  its  appearance.  ...  It 
seems  probable  that  it  was  the  work  of  French 
traders  or  explorers,  as  there  were  trees  a  century 
old  growing  in  its  environs.  It  was  evidently 
the  work  of  an  enlightened  people,  skilled  in  the 
science  of  warfare.  ...  As  a  strategic  point  it 
most  completely  commanded  the  surrounding 
country  and  the  crossing  of  the  swamp  or  'Sag'." 
Is  it  improbable  that  this  was  the  fort  occupied 
by  Colonel  Durantye  in  1695?  The  remains  of  a 
small  fort,  supposed  to  have  been  a  French  trad- 
ing post,  were  found  by  the  pioneer  settlers  of 
Lake  County,  where  the  present  city  of  Waukegan 
stands,  giving  to  that  place  its  first  name  of 
"Little  Fort."  This  structure  was  seen  in  1825 
by  Col.  William  S.  Hamilton  (a  son  of  Alexander 
Hamilton,  first  Secretary  of  the  Treasury),  who 
had  served  in  the  session  of  the  General  Assembly 
of  that  year  as  a  Representative  from  Sangamon 
County,  and  was  then  on  his  way  to  Green  Bay, 
and  the  remains  of  the  pickets  or  palisades  were 
visible  as  late  as  1835.  While  the  date  of  its 


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erection  is  unknown,  it  probably  belonged  to  the 
latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century.  There  is 
also  a  tradition  that  a  fort  or  trading  post,  erected 
by  a  Frenchman  named  Garay  (or  Guarie)  stood 
on  the  North  Branch  of  the  Chicago  River  prior 
to  the  erection  of  the  first  Fort  Dearborn  in  1803. 

FOSS,  George  Edmund,  lawyer  and  Congress- 
man, was  born  in  Franklin  County,  Vt.,  July  2, 
1863;  graduated  from  Harvard  University,  in 
1885;  attended  the  Columbia  Law  School  and 
School  of  Political  Science  in  New  York  City, 
finally  graduating  from  the  Union  College  of  Law 
in  Chicago,  in  1889,  when  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  and  began  practice,  He  never  held  any 
political  office  until  elected  as  a  Eepublican  to 
the  Fifty-fourth  Congress  (1894),  from  the 
Seventh  Illinois  District,  receiving  a  majority  of 
more  than  8,000  votes  over  his  Democratic  and 
Populist  competitors.  In  1896  he  was  again  the 
candidate  of  his  party,  and  was  re-elected  by  a 
majority  of  over  20,000,  as  he  was  a  third  time, 
in  1898,  by  more  than  12,000  majority.  In  the 
Fifty-fifth  Congress  Mr.  Foss  was  a  member  of  the 
Committees  on  Naval  Affairs  and  Expenditures  in 
the  Department  of  Agriculture. 

FOSTER,  (Dr.)  John  Herbert,  physician  and 
educator,  was  born  of  Quaker  ancestry  at  Hills- 
borough,  N.  H.,  March  8,  1796.  His  early  years 
were  spent  on  his  father's  farm,  but  at  the  age 
of  16  he  entered  an  academy  at  Meriden,  N.  H., 
and,  three  years  later,  began  teaching  with  an 
older  brother  at  Schoharie,  N.  Y.  Having  spent 
some  sixteen  years  teaching  and  practicing 
medicine  at  various  places  in  his  native  State,  in 
1832  he  came  west,  first  locating  in  Morgan 
County,  111.  While  there  he  took  part  in  the 
Black  Hawk  War,  serving  as  a  Surgeon.  Before 
the  close  of  the  year  he  was  compelled  to  come  to 
Chicago  to  look  after  the  estate  of  a  brother  who 
was  an  officer  in  the  army  and  had  been  killed  by 
an  insubordinate  soldier  at  Green  Bay.  Having 
thus  fallen  heir  to  a  considerable  amount  of  real 
estate,  which,  in  subsequent  years,  largely 
appreciated  in  value,  he  became  identified  with 
early  Chicago  and  ultimately  one  of  the  largest 
real-estate  owners  of  his  time  in  the  city.  He 
was  an  active  promoter  of  education  during  this 
period,  serving  on  both  City  and  State  Boards. 
His  death  occurred,  May  18,  1874,  in  consequence 
of  injuries  sustained  by  being  thrown  from  a 
vehicle  in  which  he  was  riding  nine  days  previous. 

FOSTER,  John  Wells,  author  and  scientist, 
was  born  at  Brimfield,  Mass.,  in  1815,  and  edu- 
cated at  Wesleyan  University,  Conn ;  later  studied 
law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Ohio,  but 


soon  turned  his  attention  to  scientific  pursuits, 
being  employed  for  several  years  in  the  geological 
survey  of  Ohio,  during  which  he  investigated  the 
coal-beds  of  the  State.  Having  incidentally 
devoted  considerable  attention  to  the  study  of 
metallurgy,  he  was  employed  about  1844  by 
mining  capitalists  to  make  the  first  systematic 
survey  of  the  Lake  Superior  copper  region,  upon 
which,  in  conjunction  with  J.  D.  Whitney,  he 
made  a  report  which  was  published  in  two  vol- 
umes in  1850-51.  Returning  to  Massachusetts,  he 
participated  in  the  organization  of  the  "American 
Party"  there,  though  we  find  him  soon  after 
breaking  with  it  on  the  slavery  question.  In 
1855  he  was  a  candidate  for  Congress  in  the 
Springfield  (Mass.)  District,  but  was  beaten  by  a 
small  majority.  In  1858  he  removed  to  Chicago 
and,  for  some  time,  was  Land  Commissioner  of 
the  Illinois  Central  Railroad.  The  latter  years  of 
his  life  were  devoted  chiefly  to  archaeological 
researches  and  writings,  also  serving  for  some 
years  as  Professor  of  Natural  History  in  the  (old) 
University  of  Chicago.  His  works  include  "The 
Mississippi  Valley ;  its  Physical  Geography,  Min- 
eral Resources,"  etc.  (Chicago,  1869) ;  "Mineral 
Wealth  and  Railroad  Development,"  (New  York, 
1872) ;  "Prehistoric  Races  of  the  United  States," 
(Chicago,  1873),  besides  contributions  to  numer- 
ous scientific  periodicals.  He  was  a  member  of 
several  scientific  associations  and,  in  1869,  Presi- 
dent of  the  American  Association  for  the  Ad- 
vancement of  Science.  He  died  in  Hyde  Park, 
now  a  part  of  Chicago,  June  29,  1873. 

FOUKE,  Philip  B.,  lawyer  and  Congressman, 
was  born  at  Kaskaskia,  111.,  Jan.  23,  1818;  was 
chiefly  self-educated  and  began  his  career  as  a 
clerk,  afterwards  acting  as  a  civil  engineer ;  about 
1841-42  was  associated  with  the  publication  of 
"The  Belleville  Advocate,"  later  studied  law, 
and,  after  being  admitted  to  the  bar,  served  as 
Prosecuting  Attorney,  being  re-elected  to  that 
office  in  1856.  Previous  to  this,  however,  he  had 
been  elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  Seven- 
teenth General  Assembly  (1850),  and,  in  1858, 
was  elected  as  a  Democrat  to  the  Thirty-sixth 
Congress  and  re-elected  two  years  later.  While 
still  in  Congress  he  assisted  in  organizing  the 
Thirtieth  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers,  of  which 
he  was  commissioned  Colonel,  but  resigned  on 
account  of  ill-health  soon  after  the  battle  of  Shiloh. 
After  leaving  the  army  he  removed  to  New 
Orleans,  where  he  was  appointed  Public  Adminis- 
trator and  practiced  law  for  some  time.  He  then 
took  up  the  prosecution  of  the  cotton-claims 
against  the  Mexican  Government,  in  which  he 


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was  engaged  some  seven  years,  finally  removing 
to  Washington  City  and  making  several  trips  to 
Europe  in  the  interest  of  these  suits.  He  won 
his  cases,  but  died  soon  after  a  decision  in  his 
favor,  largely  in  consequence  of  overtaxing  his 
brain  in  their  prosecution.  His  death  occurred 
in  Washington,  Oct.  3,  1876,  when  lie  was  buried 
in  the  Congressional  Cemetery,  President  Grant 
and  a  number  of  Senators  and  Congressmen  acting 
as  pall-bearers  at  his  funeral. 

FOWLER,  Charles  Henry,  Methodist  Episcopal 
Bishop,  born  in  Burford,  Conn.,  August  11,  1837; 
was  partially  educated  at  Rock  River  Seminary, 
Mount  Morris,  finally  graduating  at  Genesee 
College,  N.  Y.,  in  1859.  He  then  began  the  study 
of  law  in  Chicago,  but,  changing  his  purpose, 
entered  Garrett  Biblical  Institute,  at  Evanston, 
graduating  in  1861.  Having  been  admitted  to 
the  Rock  River  Methodist  Episcopal  Conference 
he  was  appointed  successively  to  Chicago  churches 
till  1872;  then  became  President  of  the  North- 
western University,  holding  this  office  four  years, 
when  he  was  elected  to  the  editorship  of  "The 
Christian  Advocate"  of  New  York.  In  1884  he 
was  elected  and  ordained  Bishop.  His  residence 
was  in  San  Francisco,  his  labors  being  devoted 
largely  to  the  Pacific  States.  Died  Mar.  20,  1908. 

FOX  RIVER  (of  Illinois)— called  Pishtaka  by 
the  Indians — rises  in  Waukesha  County,  Wis., 
and,  after  running  southward  through  Kenosha 
and  Racine  Counties  in  that  State,  passes  into 
Illinois.  It  intersects  McHenry  and  Kane  Coun- 
ties and  runs  southward  to  the  city  of  Aurora, 
below  which  point  it  flows  southwestward,  until 
it  empties  into  the  Illinois  River  at  Ottawa.  Its 
length  is  estimated  at  220  miles.  The  chief 
towns  on  its  banks  are  Elgin,  Aurora  and  Ottawa. 
It  affords  abundant  water  power. 

FOXES,  an  Indian  tribe.  (See  Sacs  and 
Foxes. ) 

FRANCIS,  Simeon,  pioneer  journalist,  was 
born  at  Wethersfleld,  Conn.,  May  14,  1796, 
learned  the  printer's  trade  at  New  Haven,  and.  in 
connection  with  a  partner,  published  a  paper  at 
Buffalo,  N.  Y.  In  consequence  of  the  excitement 
growing  out  of  the  abduction  of  Morgan  in  1828, 
(being  a  Mason)  he  was  compelled  to  suspend, 
and,  coming  to  Illinois  in  the  fall  of  1831,  com- 
menced the  publication  of  "The  Sangamo"  (now 
"The  Illinois  State")  "Journal"  at  Springfield, 
continuing  his  connection  therewith  until  1855, 
when  he  sold  out  to  Messrs.  Bailhache  &  Baker. 
Abraham  Lincoln  was  his  close  friend  and  often 
wrote  editorials  for  his  paper.  Mr.  Francis  was 
active  'in  the  organization  of  the  State  Agricul- 


tural Society  (1853),  serving  as  its  Recording 
Secretary  for  several  years.  In  1859  he  moved  to 
Portland,  Ore.,  where  he  published  "The  Oregon 
Farmer,"  and  served  as  President  of  the  Oregon 
State  Agricultural  Society;  in  1861  was  ap- 
pointed by  President  Lincoln.  Paymaster  in  the 
regular  army,  serving  until  1870,  when  he  retired 
on  half-pay.  Died,  at  Portland,  Ore.,  Oct.  25, 
1872.— Allen  (Francis),  brother  of  the  preceding, 
was  born  at  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  April  14,  1815; 
in  1834,  joined  his  brother  at  Springfield,  111.,  and 
became  a  partner  in  the  publication  of  "The 
Journal"  until  its  sale,  in  1855.  In  1861  he  was 
appointed  United  States  Consul  at  Victoria,  B.  C., 
serving  until  1871,  when  he  engaged  in  the  fur 
trade.  Later  he  was  United  States  Consul  at 
Port  Stanley,  Can.,  dying  there,  about  1887. — 
Josiah  (Francis),  cousin  of  the  preceding,  born 
at  Wethersfield,  Conn.,  Jan.  17,  1804;  was  early 
connected  with  "The  Springfield  Journal";  in 
1836  engaged  in  merchandising  at  Athens,  Menard 
County ;  returning  to  Springfield,  was  elected  to 
the  Legislature  in  1840,  and  served  one  term  as 
Mayor  of  Springfield.  Died  in  1867. 

FRANKLIN,  a  village  of  Morgan  County,  on 
the  Jacksonville  &  St.  Louis  Railroad,  12  miles 
southeast  of  Jacksonville.  The  place  has  brick  and 
tile  works,  a  newspaper  and  two  banks;  the  sur- 
rounding country  is  agricultural.  Pop.  (1890), 
578;  (1900),  687;  (1910),  696. 

FRANKLIN  COUNTY,  located  in  the  south- 
central  part  of  the  State;  was  organized  in  1818, 
and  has  an  area  of  430  square  miles.  Population 
(1900),  19,675.  The  county  is  well  timbered  and 
is  drained  by  the  Big  Muddy  River.  The  soil  is 
fertile  and  the  products  include  cereals,  potatoes, 
sorghum,  wool,  pork  and  fruit.  The  county-seat 
is  Benton,-with  a  population  (1890)  of  939.  The 
county  contains  no  large  towns,  although  large, 
well-cultivated  farms  are  numerous.  The  earli- 
est white  settlers  came  from  Kentucky  and  Ten- 
nessee, and  the  hereditary  traditions  of  generous, 
southwestern  hospitality  are  preserved  among 
the  residents  of  to-day.  Pop.  (1910),  25,943. 

FRANKLIN  GROVE,  a  town  of  Lee  County,  on 
Council  Bluffs  Division  of  the  Chicago  &  North- 
western Railway,  88  miles  west  of  Chicago. 
Grain,  poultry,  and  live-stock  are  shipped  from 
here.  It  lias  banks,  water-works,  high  school, 
and  a  weekly  paper.  Population  (1890),  736; 
(1900),  681;  (1910),  572. 

FRAZIER,  Robert,  a  native  of  Kentucky,  who 
came  to  Southern  Illinois  at  an  early  day  and 
served  as  State  Senator  from  Edwards  County,  in 
the  Second  and  Third  General  Assemblies,  in  the 


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latter  being  an  opponent  of  the  scheme  to  make 
Illinois  a  slave  State.  He  was  a  farmer  by  occu- 
pation and,  at  the  time  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Legislature,  resided  in  what  afterwards  became 
Wabash  County.  Subsequently  he  removed  to 
Edwards  County,  near  Albion,  where  he  died. 
"Frazier's  Prairie,"  in  Edwards  County,  was 
named  for  him. 

FREEBURG,  a  village  of  St.  Clair  County,  on 
the  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute  Railroad,  8 
miles  southeast  of  Belleville.  Population  (1880), 
1,038;  (1890),  848;  (1900),  1,214;  (1910),  1,397. 

FREEMAN,  Norman  L.,  lawyer  and  Supreme 
Court  Reporter,  was  born  in  Caledonia,  Living- 
ston County,  N.  Y.,  May  9,  1823;  in  1831  accom- 
panied his  widowed  mother  to  Ann  Arbor,  Mich., 
removing  six  years  afterward  to  Detroit ;  was  edu- 
cated at  Cleveland  and  Ohio  University,  taught 
school  at  Lexington,  Ky.,  while  studying  law, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1846;  removed  to 
Shawneetown,  111.,  in  1851,  was  admitted  to  the 
Illinois  bar  and  practiced  some  eight  years.  He 
then  began  farming  in  Marion  County,  Mo.,  but, 
in  1862,  returned  to  Shawneetown  and,  in  1863, 
was  appointed  Reporter  of  Decisions  by  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Illinois,  serving  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  at  Springfield  near  the 
beginning  of  his  sixth  term  in  office,  August  23, 
1894. 

FREE  MASONS,  the  oldest  secret  fraternity  in 
the  State — known  as  the  "Ancient  Order  of  Free 
and  Accepted  Masons" — the  first  Lodge  being 
instituted  at  Kaskaskia,  June,  3,  1806,  with  Gen. 
John  Edgar,  Worshipful  Master;  Michael  Jones, 
Senior  Warden;  James  Galbraith,  Junior  War- 
den ;  William  Arundel,  Secretary ;  Robert  Robin- 
son, Senior  Deacon.  These  are  names  of  persons 
who  were,  without  exception,  prominent  in  the 
early  history  of  Illinois.  A  Grand  Lodge  was 
organized  at  Vandalia  in  1822,  with  Gov.  Shad- 
rach  Bond  as  first  Grand  Master,  but  the  organi- 
zation of  the  Grand  Lodge,  as  it  now  exists,  took 
place  at  Jacksonville  in  1840.  The  number  of 
Lodges  constituting  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois 
in  1840  was  six,  with  157  members;  the  number 
of  Lodges  within  the  same  jurisdiction  in  1895 
was  713,  with  a  membership  of  50,727,  of  which 
47,335  resided  in  Illinois.  The  dues  for  1895 
were  $37,834.50;  the  contributions  to  members, 
their  widows  and  orphans,  §25,038.41 ;  to  non- 
members,  86,306.38,  and  to  the  Illinois  Masonic 
Orphans'  Home,  81,315.80. — Apollo  Commandery 
No.  1  of  Knights  Templar — the  pioneer  organi- 
zation of  its  kind  in  this  or  any  neighboring 
State — was  organized  in  Chicago,  May  20,  1845, 


and  the  Grand  Commandery  of  the  order  in  Illi- 
nois in  1857,  with  James  V.  Z.  Blaney,  Grand 
Commander.  In  1895  it  was  made  up  of  sixty- 
five  subordinate  commanderies,  with  a  total 
membership  of  9,355,  and  dues  amounting  to 
§7,754.75.  The  principal  officers  in  1895-96  were 
Henry  Hunter  Montgomery,  Grand  Commander; 
John  Henry  Witbeck,  Grand  Treasurer,  and  Gil- 
bert W.  Barnard,  Grand  Recorder.— The  Spring- 
field Chapter  of  Royal  Arch-Masons  was  organized 
in  Springfield,  Sept.  17,  1841,  and  the  Royal  Arch 
Chapter  of  the  State  at  Jacksonville,  April  9, 
1850,  the  nine  existing  Chapters  being  formally 
chartered  Oct.  14,  of  the  same  year.  The  number 
of  subordinate  Chapters,  in  1895,  was  186,  with  a 
total  membership  of  16,414.— The  Grand  Council 
of  Royal  and  Select  Masters,  in  1894,  embraced  32 
subordinate  Councils,  with  a  membership  of 
2,318. 

FREEPORT,  a  city  and  railway  center,  the 
county-seat  of  Stephenson  County,  121  miles  west 
of  Chicago;  lias  good  water-power  from  the  Peca- 
tonica  River,  with  several  manufacturing  estab- 
lishments, the  output  including  carriages, 
wagon-wheels,  wind-mills,  coffee-mills,  organs, 
piano-stools,  leather,  mineral  paint,  foundry  pro- 
ducts; has  three  daily  and  weekly  papers.  The  Illi- 
nois Central  Railroad  has  shops  here  and  the  city 
has  a  Government  postoffice  building.  .Pop.  (1890), 
10,189;  (1900),  13,258;  (1910),  17,567. 

FREEPORT  COLLEGE,  an  institution  at  Free- 
port,  111.,  incorporated  in  1895;  is  co-educational; 
had  a  faculty  of  six  instructors  in  1896,  with  116 
pupils. 

FREER,  Lemuel  Covell  Paine,  early  lawyer, 
was  born  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  18, 
1815;  came  to  Chicago  in  1836,  studied  law  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1840 ;  was  a  zealous 
anti-slavery  man  and  an  active  supporter  of  the 
Government  during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion; 
for  many  years  was  President  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  Rush  Medical  College.  Died,  in 
Chicago,  April  14,  1892. 

FRENCH,  Augustus  C.,  ninth  Governor  of 
Illinois  (1846-52),  was  born  in  New  Hampshire, 
August  2,  1808.  After  coming  to  Illinois,  he 
became  a  resident  of  Crawford  County,  and  a 
lawyer  by  profession.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Tenth  and  Eleventh  General  Assemblies,  and 
Receiver,  for  a  time,  of  the  Land  Office  at  Pales- 
tine. He  served  as  Presidential  Elector  in  1844, 
was  elected  to  the  office  of  Governor  as  a  Demo- 
crat in  1846  by  a  majority  of  nearly  17,000  over 
two  competitors,  and  was  the  unanimous  choice  of 
his  party  for  a  second  term  in  1848.  His  adminis- 


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tration  was  free  from  scandals.  He  was  appointed 
Bank  Commissioner  by  Governor  Matteson,  and 
later  accepted  the  chair  of  Law  in  McKendree 
College  at  Lebanon.  In  1858  he  was  the  nominee 
of  the  Douglas  wing  of  the  Democratic  party  for 
State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 
ex-Gov.  John  Reynolds  being  the  candidate  of 
the  Buchanan  branch  of  the  party.  Both  were 
defeated.  His  last  public  service  was  as  a  mem- 
ber from  St.  Clair  County  of  the  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1862.  Died,  at  Lebanon,  Sept.  4, 
1864. 

FRENCH  AND  INDIAN  WAK.  The  first 
premonition  of  this  struggle  in  the  West  was 
given  in  1698,  when  two  English  vessels  entered 
the  mouth  of  the  Mississippi,  to  take  possession 
of  the  French  Territory  of  Louisiana,  which  then 
included  what  afterward  became  the  State  of 
Illinois.  This  expedition,  however,  returned 
without  result.  Great  Britain  was  anxious  to 
have  a  colorable  pretext  for  attempting  to  evict 
the  French,  and  began  negotiation  of  treaties 
with  the  Indian  tribes  as  early  as  1724,  expecting 
thereby  to  fortify  her  original  claim,  which  was 
based  on  the  right  of  prior  discovery.  The 
numerous  shiftings  of  the  political  kaleidoscope  in 
Europe  prevented  any  further  steps  in  this  direc- 
tion on  the  part  of  England  until  1748-49,  when 
the  Ohio  Land  Company  received  a  royal  grant 
of  500,000  acres  along  the  Ohio  River,  with  exclu- 
sive trading  privileges.  The  Company  proceeded 
to  explore  and  survey  and,  about  1752,  established 
a  trading  post  on  Loramie  Creek,  47  miles  north 
of  Dayton.  The  French  foresaw  that  hostilities 
were  probable,  and  advanced  their  posts  as  far 
east  as  the  Allegheny  River.  Complaints  by  the 
Ohio  Company  induced  an  ineffectual  remon- 
strance on  the  part  of  Virginia.  Among  the 
ambassadors  sent  to  the  French  by  the  Governor 
of  Virginia  was  George  Washington,  who  thus, 
in  early  manhood,  became  identified  with  Illinois 
history.  His  report  was  of  such  a  nature  as  to 
induce  the  erection  of  counter  fortifications  by 
the  British,  one  of  which  (at  the  junction  of  the 
Allegheny  and  Monongahela  Rivers)  was  seized 
and  occupied  by  the  French  before  its  completion. 
Then  ensued  a  series  of  engagements  which, 
while  not  involving  large  forces  of  men,  were 
fraught  with  grave  consequences,  and  in  which 
the  French  were  generally  successful.  In  1755 
occurred  "Braddock's  defeat"  in  an  expedition  to 
recover  Fort  Duquesne  (where  Pittsburg  now 
stands),  which  had  been  captured  by  the  French 
the  previous  year,  and  the  Government  of  Great 
Britain  determined  to  redouble  its  efforts.  The 


final  result  was  the  termination  of  French  domi- 
nation in  the  Ohio  Valley.  Later  came  the  down- 
fall of  French  ascendency  in  Canada  as  the  result 
of  the  battle  of  Quebec ;  but  the  vanquished  yet 
hoped  to  be  able  to  retain  Louisiana  and  Illinois. 
But  France  was  forced  to  indemnify  Spain  for  the 
loss  of  Florida,  which  it  did  by  the  cession  of  all 
of  Louisiana  lying  west  of  the  Mississippi  (includ- 
ing the  city  of  New  Orleans),  and  this  virtually 
ended  French  hopes  in  Illinois.  The  last  military 
post  in  North  America  to  be  garrisoned  by  French 
troops  was  Fort  Chartres,  in  Illinois  Territory, 
where  St.  Ange  remained  in  command  until  its 
evacuation  was  demanded  by  the  English. 

FRENCH  GOVERNORS  OF  ILLINOIS.  French 
Governors  began  to  be  appointed  by  the  Company 
of  the  Indies  (which  see)  in  1722,  the  "Illinois 
Country"  having  previously  been  treated  as  a 
dependency  of  Canada.  The  first  Governor  (  or 
"commandant")  was  Pierre  Duque  de  Boisbriant, 
who  was  commandant  for  only  three  years,  when 
he  was  summoned  to  New  Orleans  (1725)  to  suc- 
ceed de  Bienville  as  Governor  of  Louisiana.  Capt. 
du  Tisne  was  in  command  for  a  short  time  after 
his  departure,  but  was  succeeded  by  another 
Captain  in  the  royal  army,  whose  name  is  vari- 
ously spelled  de  Liette,  de  Lielte,  De  Siette  and 
Delietto.  He  was  followed  in  turn  by  St.  Ange 
(the  father  of  St.  Ange  de  Bellerive) ,  who  died  in 
1742.  In  1732  the  Company  of  the  Indies  surren- 
dered its  charter  to  the  crown,  and  the  Governors 
of  the  Illinois  Country  were  thereafter  appointed 
directly  by  royal  authority.  Under  the  earlier 
Governors  justice  had  been  administered  under 
the  civil  law ;  with  the  change  in  the  method  of 
appointment  the  code  known  as  the  "Common 
Law  of  Paris"  came  into  effect,  although  not 
rigidly  enforced  because  found  in  many  particu- 
lars to  be  ill-suited  to  the  needs  of  a  new  country. 
The  first  of  the  Royal  Governors  was  Pierre 
d'  Artaguiette,  who  was  appointed  in  1734,  but  was 
captured  while  engaged  in  an  expedition  against 
the  Chickasaws,  in  1736,  and  burned  at  the  stake. 
(See  D' Artaguiette.)  He  was  followed  by 
Alphonse  de  la  Buissoniere,  who  was  succeeded, 
in  1740,  by  Capt.  Benoist  de  St.  Claire.  In  1742 
he  gave  way  to  the  Chevalier  Bertel  or  Berthet, 
but  was  reinstated  about  1748.  The  last  of  the 
French  Governors  of  the  "Illinois  Country"  was 
Louis  St.  Ange  de  Bellerive,  who  retired  to  St. 
Louis,  after  turning  over  the  command  to  Cap- 
tain Stirling,  the  English  officer  sent  to  supersede 
him,  in  1765.  (St.  Ange  de  Bellerive  died,  Dec. 
27,  1774.)  The  administration  of  the  French 
commandants,  while  firm,  was  usually  conserva- 


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tive  and  benevolent.  Local  self-government  was 
encouraged  as  far  as  practicable,  and,  while  the 
Governors'  power  over  commerce  was  virtually 
unrestricted,  they  interfered  but  little  with  the 
ordinary  life  of  the  people. 

FREW,  Calvin  Hamill,  lawyer  and  State  Sena- 
tor, was  born  in  Cleveland,  Ohio,  educated  at 
Finley  (Ohio)  High  School,  Beaver  (Pa.)  Academy 
and  Vermilion  Institute  at  Hayesville,  Ohio. ;  in 
1862  was  Principal  of  the  High  School  at  Kalida, 
Ohio,  where  he  began  the  study  of  law,  which  he 
continued  the  next  two  years  with  Messrs.  Strain 
&  Kidder,  at  Monmouth,  111.,  meanwhile  acting 
as  Principal  of  a  high  school  at  Young  America ; 
in  1865  removed  to  Paxton,  Ford  County,  which 
has  since  been  his  home,  and  the  same  year  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  Illi- 
nois. Mr.  Frew  served  as  Assistant  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools  for  Ford  County  (1865-68) ;  in  1868 
was  elected  Representative  in  the  Twenty -sixth 
General  Assembly,  re-elected  in  1870,  and  again 
in  '78.  While  practicing  law  he  has  been  con- 
nected with  some  of  the  most  important  cases 
before  the  courts  in  that  section  of  the  State,  and 
his  fidelity  and  skill  in  their  management  are 
testified  by  members  of  the  bar,  as  well  as 
Judges  upon  the  bench.  Of  late  years  he  has 
devoted  his  attention  to  breeding  trotting  horses, 
with  a  view  to  the  improvement  of  his  health 
but  not  with  the  intention  of  permanently 
abandoning  his  profession. 

FRY,  Jacob,  pioneer  and  soldier,  was  born  in 
Fayette  County,  Ky.,  Sept.  20,  1799;  learned  the 
trade  of  a  carpenter  and  came  to  Illinois  in  1819, 
working  first  at  Alton,  but,  in  1820,  took  up  his 
residence  near  the  present  town  of  Carrollton,  in 
which  he  built  the  first  house.  Greene  County 
was  not  organized  until  two  years  later,  and  this 
border  settlement  was,  at  that  time,  the  extreme 
northern  white  settlement  in  Illinois.  He  served 
as  Constable  and  Deputy  Sheriff  (simultaneously) 
for  six  years,  and  was  then  elected  Sheriff,  being 
five  times  re-elected.  He  served  through  the 
Black  Hawk  War  (first  as  Lieutenant-Colonel  and 
afterwards  as  Colonel),  having  in  his  regiment 
Abraham  Lincoln,  O.  H.  Browning,  John  Wood 
(afterwards  Governor)  and  Robert  Anderson,  of 
Fort  Sumter  fame.  In  1837  he  was  appointed 
Commissioner  of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal, 
and  re-appointed  in  1839  and  '41,  later  becoming 
Acting  Commissioner,  with  authority  to  settle  up 
the  business  of  the  former  commission,  which 
was  that  year  legislated  out  of  office.  He  was 
afterwards  appointed  Canal  Trustee  by  Governor 
Ford,  and,  in  1847,  retired  from  connection  with 


canal  management.  In  1850  he  went  to  Cali- 
fornia, where  he  engaged  in  mining  and  trade 
for  three  years,  meanwhile  serving  one  term  in 
the  State  Senate.  In  1857  he  was  appointed  Col- 
lector of  the  Port  at  Chicago  by  President  Buch- 
anan, but  was  removed  in  1859  because  of  his 
friendship  for  Senator  Douglas.  In  1860  he 
returned  to  Greene  County ;  in  1861,  in  spite  of  his 
advanced  age,  was  commissioned  Colonel  of  the 
Sixty-first  Illinois  Volunteers,  and  later  partici- 
pated in  numerous  engagements  (among  them  the 
battle  of  Shiloh),  was  captured  by  Forrest,  and 
ultimately  compelled  to  resign  because  of  im- 
paired health  and  failing  eyesight,  finally  becom- 
ing totally  blind.  He  died,  June  27,  1881,  and 
was  buried  in  Oak  Ridge  Cemetery,  near  Spring- 
field. Two  of  Colonel  Fry's  sons  achieved  dis- 
tinction during  the  Civil  War. — James  Bar  net 
(Fry),  son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  at  Car- 
rollton, 111.,  Feb.  22,  1827;  graduated  at  West 
Point  Military  Academy,  in  1847,  and  was 
assigned  to  artillery  service ;  after  a  short  experi- 
ence as  Assistant  Instructor,  joined  his  regiment, 
the  Third  United  States  Artillery,  in  Mexico, 
remaining  there  through  1847-48.  Later,  he  was 
employed  on  frontier  and  garrison  duty,  and 
again  as  Instructor  in  1853-54,  and  as  Adjutant  of 
the  Academy  during  1854-59;  became  Assistant 
Adjutant-General,  March  16,  1861,  then  served  as 
Chief  of  Staff  to  General  McDowell  and  General 
Buell  (1861-62),  taking  part  in  the  battles  of  Bull 
Run,  Shiloh  and  Corinth,  and  in  the  campaign  in 
Kentucky;  was  made  Provost-Marshal-General 
of  the  United  States,  in  March,  1863,  and  con- 
ducted the  drafts  of  that  year,  receiving  the  rank 
of  Brigadier-General,  April  21,  1864.  He  con- 
tinued in  this  office  until  August  30,  1866,  during 
which  time  he  put  in  the  army  1,120,621  men, 
arrested  76,562  deserters,  collected  §26,366,316.78 
and  made  an  exact  enrollment  of  the  National 
forces.  After  the  war  he  served  as  Adjutant- 
General  with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  till  June  1, 
1881,  when  he  was  retired  at  his  own  request. 
Besides  his  various  official  reports,  he  published  a 
"Sketch  of  the  Adjutant-General's  Department, 
United  States  Army,  from  1775  to  1875."  and  "His- 
tory and  Legal  Effects  of  Brevets  in  the  Armies  of 
Great  Britain  and  the  United  States,  from  their 
origin  in  1692  to  the  Present  Time, "  (1877).  Died, 
in  Newport,  R.  I.,  July  11,  1894.— William  M. 
(Fry),  another  son,  was  Provost  Marshal  of  the 
North  Illinois  District  during  the  Civil  War.  and 
rendered  valuable  service  to  the  Government. 

FULLER,  Allen  Curtis,  lawyer,    jurist   and 
Adjutant-General,    was     born     in    Farmington, 


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Conn.,  Sept.  24,  1822;  studied  law  at  Warsaw, 
N.  Y. ,  was  admitted  to  practice,  in  1846  came  to 
Belvidere,  Booiie  County,  111. ,  and,  after  practic- 
ing there  some  years,  was  elected  Circuit  Judge 
in  1861.  A  few  months  afterward  he  was  induced 
to  accept  the  office  of  Adjutant-General  by 
appointment  of  Governor  Yates, "  entering  upon 
the  duties  of  the  office  in  November,  1861.  At 
first  it  was  understood  that  his  acceptance  was 
only  temporary,  so  that  he  did  not  formally 
resign  his  place  upon  the  bench  until  July,  1862. 
He  continued  to  discharge  the  duties  of  Adjutant- 
General  until  January,  1865,  when,  having  been 
elected  Representative  in  the  General  Assembly, 
he  was  succeeded  in  the  Adjutant-General's  office 
by  General  Isham  N.  Haynie.  He  served  as 
Speaker  of  the  House  during  the  following  ses- 
sion, and  as  State  Senator  from  1867  to  1873 — 
in  the  Twenty-fifth,  Twenty-sixth  and  Twenty- 
seventh  General  Assemblies.  He  was  also  elected 
a  Republican  Presidential  Elector  in  1860,  and 
again  in  1876.  After  retiring  from  office,  General 
Fuller  devoted  his  attention  to  the  practice  of  his 
profession  and  looking  after  a  large  private  busi- 
ness at  Belvidere.  Died  Dec.  6,  1901. 

FULLER,  Charles  E.,  lawyer  and  legislator, 
was  born  at  Flora,  Boone  County,  111.,  March  31, 
1849 ;  attended  the  district  school  until  12  years 
of  age,  and,  between  1861  and  '67,  served  as  clerk 
in  stores  at  Belvidere  and  Cherry  Valley.  He 
then  spent  a  couple  of  years  in  the  book  business 
in  Iowa,  when  (1869)  he  began  the  study  of  law 
with  Hon.  Jesse  S.  Hildrup,  at  Belvidere,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1870.  Since  then 
Mr.  Fuller  has  practiced  his  profession  at  Belvi- 
dere, was  Corporation  Attorney  for  that  city  in 
1875-76,  the  latter  year  being  elected  State's 
Attorney  for  Boone  County.  From  1879  to  1891 
he  served  continuously  in  the  Legislature,  first 
as  State  Senator  in  the  Thirty-first  and  Thirty- 
second  General  Assemblies,  then  as  a  member  of 
the  House  for  three  sessions,  in  1888  being 
returned  to  the  Senate,  where  he  served  the 
next  two  sessions.  Mr.  Fuller  established  a  high 
reputation  in  the  Legislature  as  a  debater,  and 
was  the  candidate  of  his  party  (the  Republican) 
for  Speaker  of  the  House  in  1885.  He  was  also  a 
delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Convention 
of  1884.  Mr.  Fuller  was  elected  Judge  of  the 
Circuit  Court  for  the  Seventeenth  Circuit  at  the 
judicial  election  of  June,  1897. 

FULLER,  Melville  Weston,  eighth  Chief  Jus- 
tice of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  was 
born  at  Augusta,  Maine,  Feb.  11,  1833,  graduated 
from  Bowdoin  College  in  1853,  was  admitted  to 


the  bar  in  1855,  and  became  City  Attorney  of  his 
native  city,  but  resigned  and  removed  to  Chicago 
the  following  year.  Through  his  mother's 
family  he  traces  his  descent  back  to  the  Pilgrims 
of  the  Mayflower.  His  literary  and  legal  attain- 
ments are  of  a  high  order.  In  politics  he  has 
always  been  a  strong  Democrat.  He  served  as  a 
Delegate  to  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1862  and  as  a  member  of  the  Legislature  in  1863, 
after  that  time  devoting  his  attention  to  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Chicago.  In  1888 
President  Cleveland  appointed  him  Chief  Justice 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  since  which  time  he  had 
resided  at  Washington,  although  still  claiming  a 
residence  in  Chicago,  where  he  had  considerable 
property  interests.  Died  July  4,  1910. 

FULLERTON,  Alexander  N.,  pioneer  settler 
and  lawyer,  born  in  Chester,  Vt.,  in  1804,  was 
educated  at  Middlebury  College  and  Litchfield 
Law  School,  and,  coming  to  Chicago  in  1833, 
finally  engaged  in  real-estate  and  mercantile 
business,  in  which  he  was  very  successful.  His 
name  has  been  given  to  one  of  the  avenues  of 
Chicago,  as  well  as  associated  with  one  of  the 
prominent  business  blocks.  He  was  one  of  the 
original  members  of  the  Second  Presbyterian 
Church  of  that  city.  Died,  Sept.  29,  1880. 

FULTON,  a  city  and  railway  center  in  White- 
side  County,  135  miles  west  of  Chicago,  located 
on  the  Mississippi  River  and  the  Chicago  & 
Northwestern,  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy,  and  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul 
Railways.  It  was  formerly  the  terminus  of  a 
line  of  steamers  which  annually  brought  millions 
of  bushels  of  grain  down  the  Mississippi  from 
Minnesota,  Wisconsin  and  Illinois,  returning 
with  merchandise,  agricultural  implements,  etc., 
but  this  river  trade  gradually  died  out,  having 
been  usurped  by  the  various  railroads.  Fulton 
has  extensive  factories  for  the  making  of  stoves, 
besides  some  important  lumber  industries.  The 
Northern  Illinois  College  is  located  here.  Popu- 
lation (1890),  2,099;  (1900),  2,685;  (1910),  2,174. 

FULTON  COUNTY,  situated  west  of  and  bor- 
dering on  the  Illinois  River;  was  originally  a  part 
of  Pike  County,  but  separately  organized  in  1823 — 
named  for  Robert  Fulton.  It  has  an  area  of  864 
square  miles  with  a  population  (1910)  of  49,549. 
The  soil  is  rich,  well  watered  and  wooded.  Drain- 
age is  effected  by  the  Illinois  and  Spoon  Rivers 
(the  former  constituting  its  eastern  boundary) 
and  by  Copperas  Creek.  Lewistown  became  the 
county-seat  immediately  after  county  organi- 
zation, and  so  remains  to  the  present  time  (1899) 
The  surface  of  the  county  at  a  distance  from  the 


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river  is  generally  flat,  although  along  the  Illinois 
there  are  bluffs  rising  to  the  height  of  125  feet. 
The  soil  is  rich,  and  underlying  it  are  rich,  work- 
able seams  of  coal.  A  thin  seam  of  cannel  coal 
has  been  mined  near  Avon,  with  a  contiguous 
vein  of  fire-clay.  Some  of  the  earliest  settlers  were 
Messrs.  Craig  and  Savage,  who,  in  1818,  built  a 
saw  mill  on  Otter  Creek;  Ossian  M.  Ross  and 
Stephen  Dewey,  who  laid  off  Lewistown  on  his 
own  land  in  1822.  The  first  hotel  in  the  entire 
military  tract  was  opened  at  Lewistown  by  Tru- 
man Phelps,  in  1827.  A  flat-boat  ferry  across  the 
Illinois  was  established  at  Havana,  in  1823.  The 
principal  towns  are  Canton(pop.6,564),Lewistown 
(2,166),  Farmington  (1,375),  and  Vermont  (1,158). 

FULTON  COUNTY  NARROW-GAUGE  RAIL- 
WAY,  a  line  extending  from  the  west  bank  of  the 
Illinois  River,  opposite  Havana,  to  Galesburg, 
61  miles.  It  is  a  single-track,  narrow-gauge 
(3-foot)  road,  although  the  excavations  and 
embankments  are  being  widened  to  accommodate 
a  track  of  standard  gauge.  The  grades  are  few, 
and,  as  a  rule,  are  light,  although,  in  one  instance, 
the  gradient  is  eighty-four  feet  to  the  mile. 
There  are  more  than  19  miles  of  curves,  the  maxi- 
mum being  sixteen  degrees.  The  rails  are  of 
iron,  thirty-five  pounds  to  the  yard,  road  not 
ballasted.  Capital  stock  outstanding  (1895), 
$636,794;  bonded  debt,  §484,000;  miscellaneous 
obligations,  $462,362;  total  capitalization,  $1,583,- 
156.  The  line  from  Havana  to  Fairview  (31  miles) 
was  chartered  in  1 878  and  opened  in  1880  and  the 
extension  from  Fairview  to  Galesburg  chartered 
in  1881  and  opened  in  1882. 

FUNK,  Isaac,  pioneer,  was  born  in  Clark 
County,  Ky.,  Nov.  17,  1797;  grew  up  with  meager 
educational  advantages  and,  in  1823,  came  to  Illi- 
nois, finally  settling  at  what  afterwards  became 
known  as  Funk's  Grove  in  McLean  County. 
Here,  with  no  other  capital  than  industry,  per- 
severance, and  integrity,  Mr.  Funk  began  laying 
the  foundation  of  one  of  the  most  ample  fortunes 
ever  acquired  in  Illinois  outside  the  domain  of 
trade  or  speculation.  By  agriculture  and  dealing 
in  live-stock,  he  became  the  possessor  of  a  large 
area  of  the  finest  farming  lands  in  the  State, 
which  he  brought  to  a  high  state  of  cultivation, 
leaving  an  estate  valued  at  his  death  at  not  less 
than  $2.000,000.  Mr.  Funk  served  three  sessions 
in  the  General  Assembly,  first  as  Representative 
in  the  Twelfth  (1840-42),  and  as  Senator  in  the 
Twenty  third  and  Twenty  fourth  (1862-66),  dying 
before  the  close  of  his  last  term,  Jan.  29,  1865. 
Originally  a  Whig  in  politics,  he  became  a  Repub- 
lican on  the  organization  of  that  party,  and  gave 


a  liberal  and  patriotic  support  to  the  Government 
during  the  war  for  the  preservation  of  the  Union. 
During  the  session  of  the  Twenty-third  General 
Assembly,  in  February,  1863,  he  delivered  a 
speech  in  the  Senate  in  indignant  condemnation 
of  the  policy  of  the  anti-war  factionists,  which, 
although  couched  in  homely  language,  aroused 
the  enthusiasm  of  the  friends  of  the  Government 
throughout  the  State  and  won  for  its  author  a 
prominent  place  in  State  history. — Benjamin  F. 
(Funk),  son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  in  Funk's 
Grove  Township,  McLean  County,  111.,  Oct.  17, 
1838.  After  leaving  the  district  schools,  he 
entered  the  Wesleyan  University  at  Blooming- 
ton,  but  suspended  his  studies  to  enter  the  army 
in  18G2,  enlisting  as  a  private  in  the  Sixty-ninth 
Illinois  Volunteers.  After  five  months'  service 
he  was  honorably  discharged,  and  re-entered 
the  University,  completing  a  three-years'  course; 
later,  for  three  years,  followed  farming,  and.  in 
1869,  located  in  Bloomington  where  from  1871 
he  served  seven  consecutive  terms  as  Mayor; 
was  a  delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Con- 
vention of  1888,  and  in  1892,  was  elected  Repre- 
sentative in  Congress  for  the  14th  District;  for 
fifteen  years  was  also  a  Trustee  of  the  State  Insti- 
tution for  the  Blind  at  Jacksonville.  Died  Feb.  15, 
1899. — Lafayette  (Funk),  another  son  of  Isaac 
Funk,  was  a  Representative  from  McLean  County 
in  the  Thirty -third  General  Assembly  and  Sena- 
tor in  the  Thirty-fourth  and  Thirty -fifth.  Other 
sons  who  have  occupied  seats  in  the  same  body 
include  George  W. ,  Representative  in  the  Twenty- 
seventh,  and  Duncan  M.,  Representative  in  the 
Fortieth  and  Forty-first  Assemblies.  The  Funk 
family  have  been  conspicuous  in  the  affairs  of 
McLean  County  for  a  generation,  and  its  mem- 
bers have  occupied  many  other  positions  of  im- 
portance and  influence,  besides  those  named,  under 
the  State,  County  and  municipal  governments. 

GAGE,  Lyman  J.,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury, 
was  born  in  De  Ruyter,  Madison  County,  N.  Y., 
June  28,  1836 ;  received  a  common  school  educa- 
tion in  his  native  county,  and,  on  the  removal  of 
his  parents,  in  1848,  to  Rome,  N.  Y.,  enjoyed  the 
advantages  of  instruction  in  an  academy.  At 
the  age  of  17  he  entered  the  employment  of  the 
Oneida  Central  Bank  as  office-boy  and  general 
utility  clerk,  but,  two  years  afterwards,  came  to 
Chicago,  first  securing  employment  in  a  planing 
mill,  and,  in  1858,  obtaining  a  position  as  book- 
keeper of  the  Merchants'  Loan  and  Trust  Com- 
pany, at  a  salary  of  5500  a  year.  By  1861  he  had 
been  advanced  to  the  position  of  cashier  of  the 


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concern,  but,  in  1868,  he  accepted  the  cashiership 
of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Chicago,  of  which 
he  became  the  Vice-President  in  1881  and,  in 
1891,  the  President.  Mr.  Gage  was  also  one  of  the 
prominent  factors  in  securing  the  location  of  the 
World's  Fair  at  Chicago,  becoming  one  of  the 
guarantors  of  the  $10,000,000  promised  to  be  raised 
by  the  city  of  Chicago,  and  being  finally  chosen 
the  first  President  of  the  Exposition  Company. 
He  also  presided  over  the  bankers'  section  of  the 
World's  Congress  Auxiliary  in  1893,  and,  for  a 
number  of  years,  was  President  of  the  Civic  Feder- 
ation of  Chicago.  On  the  assumption  of  the 
Presidency  by  President  McKinley,  in  March, 
1897,  Mr.  Gage  was  selected  for  the  position  of 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  which  he  has  con- 
tinued to  occupy  up  to  the  present  time  (1899). 

(JALATIA,  a  village  of  Saline  County,  on  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad,  40  miles  southeast  of 
Duquoin;  has  a  bank;  leading  industry  is  coal- 
mining. Pop.  (1890),  519;  (1900),  642;  (1910),  745. 

GALE,  George  Washington,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
clergyman  and  educator,  was  born  in  Dutchess 
County,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  3,  1789.  Left  an  orphan  at 
eight  years  of  age,  he  fell  to  the  care  of  older 
sisters  who  inherited  the  vigorous  character  of 
their  father,  which  they  instilled  into  the  son. 
He  graduated  at  Union  College  in  1814,  and,  hav- 
ing taken  a  course  in  the  Theological  Seminary 
at  Princeton,  in  1816  was  licensed  by  the  Hudson 
Presbytery  and  assumed  the  charge  of  building 
up  new  churches  in  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y., 
serving  also  for  six  years  as  pastor  of  the  Presby- 
terian church  at  Adams.  Here  his  labors  were 
attended  by  a  revival  in  which  Charles  G.  Fin- 
ney,  the  eloquent  evangelist,  and  other  eminent 
men  were  converts.  Having  resigned  his  charge 
at  Adams  on  account  of  illness,  he  spent  the 
winter  of  1823-24  in  Virginia,  where  his  views 
were  enlarged  by  contact  with  a  new  class  of 
people.  Later,  removing  to  Oneida  County, 
N.  Y.,  by  his  marriage  with  Harriet  Selden  he 
acquired  a  considerable  property,  insuring  an 
income  which  enabled  him  to  extend  the  field  of 
his  labors.  The  result  was  the  establishment  of 
the  Oneida  Institute,  a  manual  labor  school,  at 
Whitesboro,  with  which  he  remained  from  1827 
to  1834,  and  out  of  which  grew  Lane  Seminary 
and  Oberlin  and  Knox  Colleges.  In  1835  he  con- 
ceived the  idea  of  establishing  a  colony  and  an 
institution  of  learning  in  the  West,  and  a  com- 
mittee representing  a  party  of  proposed  colonists 
was  appointed  to  make  a  selection  of  a  site,  which 
resulted,  in  the  following  year,  in  the  choice  of 
a  location  in  Knox  County,  111.,  including  the 


site  of  the  present  city  of  Galesburg,  which  was 
named  in  honor  of  Mr.  Gale,  as  the  head  of  the 
enterprise.  Here,  in  1837,  were  taken  the  first 
practical  steps  in  carrying  out  plans  which  had 
been  previously  matured  in  New  York,  for  the 
establishment  of  an  institution  which  first 
received  the  name  of  Knox  Manual  Labor  Col- 
lege. The  manual  labor  feature  having  been 
finally  discarded,  the  institution  took  the  name 
of  Knox  College  in  1857.  Mr.  Gale  was  the  lead- 
ing promoter  of  the  enterprise,  by  a  liberal  dona- 
tion of  lands  contributing  to  its  first  endowment, 
and,  for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century,  being 
intimately  identified  with  its  history.  From 
1840  to  '42  he  served  in  the  capacity  of  acting 
Professor  of  Ancient  Languages,  and,  for  fifteen 
years  thereafter,  as  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy 
and  Rhetoric.  Died,  at  Galesburg,  Sept.  31,  1861. 
—William  Selden  (Gale),  oldest  son  of  the  preced- 
ing, was  born  in  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y.,  Feb. 
15,  1822,  came  with  his  father  to  Galesburg,  111., 
in  1836,  and  was  educated  there.  Having  read 
law  with  the  Hon.  James  Knox,  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1845,  but  practiced  only  a  few  years, 
as  he  began  to  turn  his  attention  to  measures  for 
the  development  of  the  country.  One  of  these 
was  the  Central  Military  Tract  Railroad  (now  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy),  of  which  he  was 
the  most  active  promoter  and  a  Director.  He 
was  also  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  of 
Knox  County,  from  the  adoption  of  township 
organization  in  1853  to  1895,  with  the  exception 
of  four  years,  and,  during  the  long  controversy 
which  resulted  in  the  location  of  the  county -seat 
at  Galesburg,  was  the  leader  of  the  Galesburg 
party,  and  subsequently  took  a  prominent  part 
in  the  erection  of  public  buildings  there.  Other 
positions  held  by  him  include  the  office  of  Post- 
master of  the  city  of  Gaiesburg,  1849-53;  member 
of  the  State  Constitutional  Convention  of  1862, 
and  Representative  in  the  Twenty-sixth  General 
Assembly  (1870-72);  Presidential  Elector  in  1872; 
Delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Convention 
of  1880;  City  Alderman,  1872-82  and  1891-95; 
member  of  the  Commission  appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Oglesby  in  1885  to  revise  the  State  Revenue 
Laws;  by  appointment  of  President  Harrison, 
Superintendent  of  the  Galesburg  Government 
Building,  and  a  long  term  Trustee  of  the  Illinois 
Hospital  for  the  Insane  at  Rock  Island,  by 
appointment  of  Governor  Altgeld.  He  has  also 
been  a  frequent  representative  of  his  party 
(the  Republican)  in  State  and  District  Conven- 
tions, and,  since  1861,  has  been  an  active  and 
leading  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 


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Knox  College.  Mr.  Gale  was  married,  Oct.  6, 
1845,  to  Miss  Caroline  Ferris,  granddaughter  of 
the  financial  representative  of  the  Galesburg 
Colony  of  1836,  and  has  had  eight  children,  of 
whom  four  are  living.  Died  Sep.  1,  1900. 

GALE  N  A,'the  county -seat  of  Jo  Daviess  County, 
a  city  and  port  of  entry,  150  miles  in  a  direct  line 
west  by  northwest  of  Chicago;  is  located  on 
Galena  River,  about  4^  miles  above  its  junction 
with  the  Mississippi,  and  is  an  intersecting  point 
for  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy,  the  North- 
western, and  the  Illinois  Central  Railroads,  with 
connections  by  stub  with  the  Chicago  Great 
Western.  It  is  built  partially  in  a  valley  and 
partially  on  the  bluffs  which  overlook  the  river, 
the  Galena  River  .being  made  navigable  for  ves- 
sels of  deep  draught  by  a  system  of  lockage.  The 
vicinity  abounds  in  rich  mines  of  sulphide  of  lead 
(galena),  from  which  the  city  takes  its  name. 
Galena  is  adorned  by  handsome  public  and  priv- 
ate buildings  and  a  beautiful  park,  in  which 
stands  a  fine  bronze  statue  of  General  Grant,  and 
a  symmetrical  monument  dedicated  to  the  sol- 
diers and  sailors  of  Jo  Daviess  County  who  lost 
their  lives  during  the  Civil  War.  Its  industries 
include  a  furniture  factor}',  a  table  factory,  two 
foundries,  a  tub  factory  and  a  carriage  factory. 
Zinc  ore  is  now  being  produced  in  and  near  the 
city  in  large  quantities,  and  its  mining  interests 
will  become  vast  at  no  distant  day.  It  owns  an 
electric  light  plant,  and  water  is  furnished  from 
an  artesian  well  1,700  feet  deep.  Galena  was  one 
of  the  earliest  towns  in  Northern  Illinois  to  be 
settled,  its  mines  having  been  worked  in  the  lat- 
ter part  of  the  seventeenth  century.  Many  men 
of  distinction  in  State  and  National  affairs  came 
from  Galena,  among  whom  were  Gen.  U.  S. 
Grant,  Gen.  John  A.  Rawlins,  Gen.  John  E. 
Smith,  Gen.  John  OSmith,  Gen.  A.  L.  Chetlain, 
Gen.  John  O.  Duer,  Gen.  W.  R.  Rowley,  Gen.  E. 
D.  Baker,  Hon.  E.  B.  Washburne,  Secretary  of 
State  under  Grant,  Hon.  Thompson  Campbell, 
Secretary  of  State  of  Illinois,  and  Judge  Drurn- 
mond.  Pop.  (1900),  5,005;  (1910),  4,835. 

GALENA  &  CHICAGO  UNION  RAILROAD. 
(See  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway. ) 

GALESBURG,  the  county-seat  of  Knox  County 
and  an  important  educational  center.  The  first 
settlers  were  emigrants  from  the  East,  a  large  pro- 
portion of  them  being  members  of  a  colony  organ- 
ized by  Rev.  George  W.  Gale,  of  Whitesboro, 
N.  Y.,  in  whose  honor  the  original  village  was 
named.  It  is  situated  in  the  heart  of  a  rich 
agricultural  district  53  miles  northwest  of  Peoria, 
99  miles  northeast  of  Quincy  and  163  miles  south- 


west of  Chicago;  is  an  important  railway  center, 
being  at  the  junction  of  the  main  line  with  two 
branch  lines  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy, 
and  the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroads. 
It  was  incorporated  as  a  village  in  1841,  and  as  a 
city  by  special  charter  in  1857.  There  are  beauti- 
ful parks  and  the  residence  streets  are  well 
shaded,  while  25  miles  of  street  are  paved  with 
vitrified  brick.  The  city  owns  a  system  of  water- 
works receiving  its  supply  from  artesian  wells 
and  artificial  lakes,  has  an  efficient  and  well- 
equipped  paid  fire-department,  an  electric  street 
car  system  with  three  suburban  lines,  gas  and 
electric  lighting  systems,  steam-heating  plant, 
etc.  It  also  has  a  number  of  flourishing  mechan- 
ical industries,  including  two  iron  foundries,  agri- 
cultural implement  works,  flouring  mills,  carriage 
and  wagon  works  and  a  broom  factory,  besides 
other  industrial  enterprises  of  minor  importance. 
The  manufacture  of  vitrified  paving  brick  is  quite 
extensively  carried  on  at  plants  near  the  city 
limits,  the  city  itself  being  the  shipping-point 
as  well  as  the  point  of  administrative  control. 
The  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad 
Company  has  shops  and  stockyards  here,  while 
considerable  coal  is  mined  in  the  vicinity.  The 
public  buildings  include  a  courthouse,  Govern- 
ment postoffice  building,  an  opera  house,  nine- 
teen churches,  ten  public  schools  with  a  high 
school  and  free  kindergarten,  and  a  handsome 
public  library  building  erected  at  a  cost  of  §100,- 
000,  of  which  one-half  was  contributed  by  Mr. 
Carnegie.  Galesburg  enjoys  its  chief  distinction 
as  the  seat  of  a  large  number  of  high  class  liter- 
ary institutions,  including  Knox  College  (non- 
sectarian),  Lombard  University  (Universalist), 
and  Corpus  Christi  Lyceum  and  University,  and 
St.  Joseph's  Academy  (both  Roman  Catholic). 
Three  interurbau  electric  railroad  lines  connect 
Galesburg  with  neighboring  towns;  city  has  2  daily 
and  4  weekly  papers.  Pop.  (1910),  22,089. 

GALLATIN  COUNTY,  one  of  three  counties 
organized  in  Illinois  Territory  in  1812 — the  others 
being  Madison  and  Johnson.  Previous  to  that 
date  the  Territory  had  consisted  of  only  two  coun- 
ties, St.  Clair  and  Randolph.  The  new  county 
was  named  in  honor  of  Albert  Gallatin,  then 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury.  It  is  situated  on  the 
Ohio  and  Wabasli  Rivers,  in  the  extreme  south- 
eastern part  of  the  State,  and  has  an  area  of  340 
square  miles;  population  (1910),  14,628.  The  first 
cabin  erected  by  an  American  settler  was  the 
home  of  Michael  Sprinkle,  who  settled  at  Shaw- 
neetown  in  1800.  The  place  early  became  an 
important  trading  post  and  distributing  point. 


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A  ferry  across  the  Wabash  was  established  in 
1803,  by  Alexander  Wilson,  whose  descendants 
conducted  it  for  more  than  seventy-five  years. 
Although  Stephen  Rector  made  a  Government 
survey  as  early  as  1807,  the  public  lands  were  not 
placed  on  the  market  until  1818.  Shawneetown, 
the  county-seat,  is  the  most  important  town, 
having  a  population  of  some  2,200.  Bituminous 
coal  is  found  in  large  quantities,  and  mining  is 
an  important  industry.  The  prosperity  of  the 
county  has  been  much  retarded  by  floods,  particu- 
larly at  Shawneetown  and  Equality.  At  the 
former  point  the  difference  between  high  and 
low  water  mark  in  the  Ohio  River  has  been  as 
much  as  fifty-two  feet. 

GALLOWAY,  Andrew  Jackson,  civil  engineer, 
was  born*  of  Scotch  ancestry  in  Butler  County, 
Pa.,  Dec.  21,  1814;  came  with  his  father  to  Cory- 
don,  Ind.,  in  1820,  took  a  course  in  Hanover  Col- 
lege, graduating  as  a  civil  engineer  in  1837 ;  then 
came  to  Mount  Carmel,  White  County,  111. ,  with 
a  view  to  employment  on  projected  Illinois  rail- 
roads, but  engaged  in  teaching  for  a  year,  having 
among  his  pupils  a  number  who  have  since  been 
prominent  in  State  affairs.  Later,  he  obtained 
employment  as  an  assistant  engineer,  serving  for 
a  time  under  William  Gooding,  Chief  Engineer  of 
the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal ;  was  also  Assistant 
Enrolling  and  Engrossing  Clerk  of  the  State 
Senate  in  1840-41,  and  held  the  same  position  in 
the  House  in  1846-47,  and  again  in  1848-49,  in  the 
meantime  having  located  a  farm  in  La  Salle 
County,  where  the  present  city  of  Streator  stands. 
In  1849  he  was  appointed  Secretary  of  the  Canal 
Trustees,  and,  in  1851,  became  assistant  engineer 
on  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  later  superin- 
tending its  construction,  and  finally  being  trans- 
ferred to  the  land  department,  but  retiring  in 
1855  to  engage  in  real-estate  business  in  Chicago, 
dealing  largely  in  railroad  lands.  Mr.  Galloway 
was  elected  a  County  Commissioner  for  Cook 
County,  and  has  since  been  connected  with  many 
measures  of  local  importance. 

GALVA,  a  town  in  Henry  County,  45  miles 
southeast  of  Rock  Island  and  48  miles  north- 
northwest  of  Peoria;  the  point  of  intersection  of 
the  Rock  Island  &  Peoria  and  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Quincy  Railways.  It  stands  at  the 
summit  of  the  dividing  ridge  between  the  Missis- 
sippi and  the  Illinois  Rivers,  and  is  a  manufac- 
turing and  coal-mining  town.  It  has  eight 
churches,  three  banks,  good  schools,  and  two 
weekly  newspapers.  The  surrounding  country 
is  agricultural  and  wealthy,  and  is  rich  in  coal. 
Pop.  (1900),  2,682;  (1910),  2,498. 


GARDNER,  a  village  in  Garfield  Township, 
Grundy  County,  on  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Rail- 
road, 65  miles  south-southwest  of  Chicago  and  26 
miles  north-northeast  of  Pontiac;  on  the  Kanka- 
kee  and  Seneca  branch  of  the  "Big  Four,"  and 
the  Elgin,  Joliet  &  Eastern  R.  R.  Coal-mining 
is  the  principal  industry.  Gardner  has  two 
banks,  four  churches,  a  high  school,  and  a  weekly 
paper.  Pop.  (1900),  1,036;  (1910),  946. 

GARDNER,  COAL  CITY  &  NORMANTOWN 
RAILWAY.  (See  Elgin,  Joliet  &  Eastern  Rail- 
way.) 

GARY,  Joseph  Easton,  lawyer  and  jurist,  wai 
born  of  Puritan  ancestry,  at  Potsdam,  St.  Law- 
rence County,  N.  Y.,  July  9,  1821.  His  early 
educational  advantages  were  such  as  were  fur- 
nished by  district  schools  and  a  village  academy, 
and,  until  he  was  22  years  old,  he  worked  at  the 
carpenter's  bench.  In  1843  he  removed  to  St. 
Louis,  Mo.,  where  he  studied  law.  After  admis- 
sion to  the  bar,  he  practiced  for  five  years  in 
Southwest  Missouri,  thence  going  to  Las  Vegas, 
N.  M.,  in  1849,  and  to  San  Francisco,  CaL,  in 
1853.  In  1856  he  settled  in  Chicago,  where  he 
has  since  resided.  After  seven  years  of  active 
practice  he  was  elected  to  the  bench  of  the 
Superior  Court  of  Cook  County,  where  he  sat 
for  thirty  years,  being  four  times  nominated  by 
both  political  parties,  and  his  last  re-election — for 
a  term  of  six  years,  occurring  in  1893.  He  pre- 
sided at  the  trial  of  the  Chicago  anarchists  in 
1886 — one  of  the  causes  celebres  of  Illinois.  Some 
of  his  rulings  therein  were  sharply  criticised,  but 
he  was  upheld  by  the  courts  of  appellate  jurisdic- 
tion, and  his  connection  with  the  case  has  given 
him  world-wide  fame.  In  November,  1888,  the 
Supreme  Court  of  Illinois  transferred  him  to  the 
bench  of  the  Appellate  Court,  of  which  he  served 
three  times  as  Chief  Justice.  Died  Oct.  31,  1906. 

GASSETTE,  Norman  Theodore,  real-estate 
operator,  wasbornatTownsend.Vt.,  April  21, 1839, 
came  to  Chicago  at  ten  years  of  age,  and,  after 
spending  a  year  at  Shurtleff  College,  took  a  prepar- 
atory collegiate  course  at  the  Atwater  Institute, 
Rochester,  N.  Y.  In  June,  1861,  he  enlisted  as 
a  private  in  the  Nineteenth  Regiment  Illinois 
Volunteers,  rising  in  the  second  year  to  the  rank 
of  First  Lieutenant,  and,  at  the  battle  of  Chicka- 
mauga,  by  gallantry  displayed  while  serving  as 
an  Aid-de-Camp,  winning  a  recommendation 
for  a  brevet  Lieutenant-Colonelcy.  The  war 
over,  he  served  one  term  as  Clerk  of  the  Circuit 
Court  and  Recorder,  but  later  engaged  in  the  real- 
estate  and  loan  business  as  the  head  of  the  exten- 
sive firm  of  Norman  T.  Gassette  &  Co.  He  was  i. 


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Republican  in  politics,  active  in  Grand  Army 
circles  and  prominent  as  a  Mason,  holding  the 
position  of  Eminent  Grand  Commander  of 
Knights  Templar  of  Illinois  on  occasion  of  the 
Triennial  Conclave  in  Washington  in  1889.  He 
also  had  charge,  as  President  of  the  Masonic 
Fraternity  Temple  Association  of  Chicago,  for 
some  time  prior  to  his  decease,  of  the  erection  of 
the  Masonic  Temple  of  Chicago.  Died,  in  Chi- 
cago, March  26,  1891. 

GATE  WOOD,  William  Jefferson,  early  lawyer, 
was  born  in  Warren  County,  Ky.,  came  to 
Franklin  County,  111.,  in  boyhood,  removed  to 
Shawneetown  in  1823,  where  he  taught  school 
two  or  three  years  while  studying  law;  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1828,  and  served  in  five 
General  Assemblies — as  Representative  in  1830-32, 
and  as  Senator,  1834-42.  He  is  described  as  a  man 
of  fine  education  and  brilliant  talents.  Died, 
Jan.  8,  1842. 

GAULT,  John  C.,  railway  manager,  was  born 
at  Hooksett,  N.  H.,  May  1,  1829;  in  1850  entered 
the  local  freight  office  of  the  Manchester  &  Law- 
rence Railroad,  later  becoming  General  Freight 
Agent  of  the  Vermont  Central.  Coming  to  Chi- 
cago in  1859,  he  successively  filled  the  positions 
of  Superintendent  of  Transportation  on  the 
Galena  &  Chicago  Union,  and  (after  the  consoli- 
dation of  the  latter  with  the  Chicago  &  North- 
western), that  of  Division  Superintendent, 
General  Freight  Agent  and  Assistant  General 
Manager;  Assistant  General  Manager  of  the 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul;  General  Mana- 
ger of  the  Wabash  (1879-83) ;  Arbitrator  for  the 
trunk  lines  (1883-85),  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Cincinnati,  New  Orleans  &  Texas  Pacific 
(1885-90),  when  he  retired.  Died,  in  Chicago, 
August  29,  1891. 

GENERAL  ASSEMBLIES.  The  following  is  a 
list  of  the  General  Assemblies  which  have  met 
since  the  admission  of  Illinois  as  a  State  up  to 
1898 — from  the  First  to  the  Fortieth  inclusive — 
with  the  more  important  acts  passed  by  each  and 
the  duration  of  their  respective  sessions : 

FIRST  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  held  two  sessions, 
the  first  convening  at  Kaskaskia,  the  State  Capi- 
tal, Oct.  5,  and  adjourning  Oct.  13,  1818.  The 
second  met,  Jan.  4,  1819,  continuing  to  March  81. 
Lieut-Gov.  Pierre  Menard  presided  over  the  Sen- 
ate, consisting  of  thirteen  members,  while  John 
Messinger  was  chosen  Speaker  of  the  House, 
containing  twenty-seven  members.  The  most 
important  business  transacted  at- the  first  session 
was  the  election  of  two  United  States  Senators — 
Ninian  Edwards  and  Jesse  B.  Thomas,  Sr.— and 


the  filling  of  minor  State  and  judicial  offices.  At 
the  second  session  a  code  of  laws  was  enacted, 
copied  chiefly  from  the  Virginia  and  Kentucky 
statutes,  including  the  law  concerning  "negroes 
and  mulattoes, "  which  long  remained  on  the 
statute  book.  An  act  was  also  passed  appointing 
Commissioners  to  select  a  site  for  a  new  State 
Capital,  which  resulted  in  its  location  at  Van- 
dalia.  The  sessions  were  held  in  a  stone  building 
with  » &mbrel-roof  pierced  by  dormer-windows, 
the  Senate  occupying  the  lower  floor  and  the 
House  the  upper.  The  length  of  the  first  session 
was  nine  days,  and  of  the  second  eighty-seven — 
total,  ninety-six  days. 

SECOND  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened  at  Van- 
dalia,  Dec.  4,  1820.  It  consisted  of  fourteen 
Senators  and  twenty-nine  Representatives.  John 
McLean,  of  Gallatin  County,  was  chosen  Speaker 
of  the  House.  A  leading  topic  of  discussion  was 
the  incorporation  of  a  State  Bank.  Money  was 
scarce  and  there  was  a  strong  popular  demand 
for  an  increase  of  circulating  medium.  To 
appease  this  clamor,  no  less  than  to  relieve  traders 
and  agriculturists,  this  General  Assembly  estab- 
lished a  State  Bank  (see  State  Bank),  despite 
the  earnest  protest  of  McLean  and  the  executive 
veto.  A  stay-law  was  also  enacted  at  this  session 
for  the  benefit  of  the  debtor  class.  The  number 
of  members  of  the  next  Legislature  was  fixed  at 
eighteen  Senators  and  thirty -six  Representatives 
— this  provision  remaining  in  force  until  1831. 
The  session  ended  Feb.  15,  having  lasted  seventy- 
four  days. 

THIRD  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened,  Dec.  2, 

1822.  Lieutenant-Governor  Hubbard  presided  in 
the  Senate,    while  in  the  organization    of    the 
lower  house,  William  M.  Alexander  was  chosen 
Speaker.      Governor     Coles,    in    his    inaugural, 
called  attention  to  the  existence  of  slavery  in 
Illinois  despite  the  Ordinance  of  1787,  and  urged 
the    adoption    of    repressive    measures.      Both 
branches  of  the  Legislature  being  pro-slavery  in 
sympathy,    the     Governor's    address     provoked 
bitter  and    determined   opposition.     On  Jan.   9, 

1823,  Jesse    B.  Thomas   was    re-elected   United 
States  Senator,  defeating  John  Reynolds,  Leonard 
White  and  Samuel  D.  Lockwood.     After  electing 
Mr.    Thomas   and    choosing    State    officers,    the 
General  Assembly  proceeded  to  discuss  the  major- 
ity and  minority  reports  of  the  committee  to 
which  had  been  referred  the  Governor's  address. 
The  minority  report  recommended  the  abolition 
of  slavery,  while  that  of  the  majority   favored 
the  adoption  of  a  resolution  calling  a  convention 
to  amend  the  Constitution,  the  avowed  object 


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being  to  make  Illinois  a  slave  State.  The  latter 
report  was  adopted,  but  the  pro-slavery  party  in 
the  House  lacked  one  vote  of  the  number  neces- 
sary to  carry  the  resolution  by  the  constitutional 
two-thirds  majority.  What  followed  has  always 
been  regarded  as  a  blot  upon  the  record  of  the 
Third  General  Assembly.  Nicholas  Hansen,  who 
had  been  awarded  the  seat  from  Pike  County 
at  the  beginning  of  the  session  after  a  contest 
brought  by  his  opponent,  John  Shaw,  was  un- 
seated after  the  adoption  of  a  resolution  to 
reconsider  the  vote  by  which  he  had  been  several 
weeks  before  declared  elected.  Shaw  having 
thus  been  seated,  the  resolution  was  carried  by 
the  necessary  twenty-four  votes.  Mr.  Hansen, 
although  previously  regarded  as  a  pro-slavery 
man,  had  voted  with  the  minority  when  the 
resolution  was  first  put  upon  its  passage.  Hence 
followed  his  deprivation  of  his  seat.  The  triumph 
of  the  friends  of  the  convention  was  celebrated 
by  what  Gov.  John  Reynolds  (himself  a  conven- 
tionist)  characterized  as  "a  wild  and  indecorous 
procession  by  torchlight  and  liquor."  (See 
Slavery  and  Slave  Laics.)  The  session  adjourned 
Feb.  18,  having  continued  seventy-nine  days. 

FOURTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY.  This  body  held 
two  sessions,  the  first  being  convened,  Nov.  15, 
1824,  by  proclamation  of  the  Executive,  some 
three  weeks  before  the  date  for  the  regular 
session,  in  order  to  correct  a  defect  in  the  law 
relative  to  counting  the  returns  for  Presidential 
Electors.  Thomas  Mather  was  elected  Speaker 
of  the  House,  while  Lieutenant-Governor  Hub- 
bard  presided  in  the  Senate.  Having  amended 
the  law  concerning  the  election  returns  for  Presi- 
dential Electors,  the  Assembly  proceeded  to  the 
election  of  two  United  States  Senators — one  to 
fill  the  unexpired  term  of  ex-Senator  Edwards 
(resigned)  and  the  other  for  the  full  term  begin- 
ning March  4,  1825.  John  McLean  was  chosen 
for  the  first  and  Elias  Kent  Kane  for  the  second. 
Five  circuit  judgeships  were  created,  and  it  was 
provided  that  the  bench  of  the  Supreme  Court 
should  consist  of  four  Judges,  and  that  semi- 
annual sessions  of  that  tribunal  should  be  held  at 
the  State  capital.  (See  Judicial  Department.) 
The  regular  session  came  to  an  end,  Jan.  18,  1825, 
but  at  its  own  request,  the  Lieutenant-Governor 
and  acting  Governor  Hubbard  re-convened  the 
body  in  special  session  on  Jan.  2,  1826,  to  enact  a 
new  apportionment  law  under  the  census  of  1825. 
A  sine  die  adjournment  was  taken,  Jan.  28,  1826. 
One  of  the  important  acts  of  the  regular  session 
of  1825  was  the  adoption  of  the  first  free-school 
law  in  Illinois,  the  measure  having  been  intro- 


duced by  Joseph  Duncan,  afterwards  Governor  of 
the  State.  This  Legislature  was  in  session  a  total 
of  ninety-two  days,  of  which  sixty-five  were 
during  the  first  session  and  twenty-seven  during 
the  second. 

FIFTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened,  Dec.  4, 
1826,  Lieutenant-Governor  Kinney  presiding  in 
the  Senate  and  John  McLean  in  the  House.  At 
the  request  of  the  Governor  an  investigation  into 
the  management  of  the  bank  at  Edwardsville  was 
had,  resulting,  however,  in  the  exoneration  of  its 
officers.  The  circuit  judgeships  created  by  the 
preceding  Legislature  were  abrogated  and  their 
incumbents  legislated  out  of  office.  The  State 
was  divided  into  four  circuits,  one  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  being  assigned  to  each.  (See 
Judicial  Department.)  This  General  Assembly 
also  elected  a  State  Treasurer  to  succeed  Abner 
Field,  James  Hall  being  chosen  on  the  ninth 
ballot.  The  Supreme  Court  Judges,  as  directed 
by  the  preceding  Legislature,  presented  a  well 
digested  report  on  the  revision  of  the  laws,  which 
was  adopted  without  material  alteration.  One  of 
the  important  measures  enacted  at  this  session 
was  an  act  establishing  a  State  penitentiary,  the 
funds  for  its  erection  being  obtained  by  the 
sale  of  saline  lands  in  Gallatin  County.  (See 
Alton  Penitentiary;  also  Salt  Manufacture.) 
The  session  ended  Feb.  19  —  having  continued 
seventy-eight  days. 

SIXTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened,  Dec.  1, 
1828.  The  Jackson  Democrats  had  a  large  major- 
ity in  both  houses.  John  McLean  was,  for  the 
third  time,  elected  Speaker  of  the  House,  and, 
later  in  the  session,  was  elected  United  States 
Senator  by  a  unanimous  vote.  A  Secretary  of 
State,  Treasurer  and  Attorney-General  were  also 
appointed  or  elected.  The  most  important  legis- 
lation of  the  session  was  as  follows :  Authorizing 
the  sale  of  school  lands  and  the  borrowing  of  the 
proceeds  from  the  school  fund  for  the  ordinary 
governmental  expenses;  providing  for  a  return 
to  the  viva  voce  method  of  voting;  creating  a 
fifth  judicial  circuit  and  appointing  a  Judge 
therefor ;  providing  for  the  appointment  of  Com- 
missioners to  determine  upon  the  route  of  the 
Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal,  to  sell  lands  and  com- 
mence its  construction.  The  Assembly  adjourned, 
Jan.  23, 1829,  having  been  in  session  fifty-four  days. 

SEVENTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  met,  Dec.  6, 1830. 
The  newly-elected  Lieutenant-Governor,  Zadoc 
Casey,  and  William  L.  D.  Ewing  presided 
over  the  two  houses,  respectively.  John  Rey- 
nolds was  Governor,  and,  the  majority  of  the 
Senate  being  made  up  of  his  political  adversaries. 


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experienced  no  little  difficulty  in  securing  the 
confirmation  of  his  nominees.  Two  United 
States  Senators  were  elected:  Elias  K.  Kane 
being  chosen  to  succeed  himself  and  John  M. 
Robinson  to  serve  the  unexpired  term  of  John 
McLean,  deceased.  The  United  States  census  of 
1830  gave  Illinois  three  Representatives  in  Con- 
gress instead  of  one,  and  this  General  Assembly 
passed  a  re-apportionment  law  accordingly.  The 
number  of  State  Senators  was  increased  to 
twenty-six,  and  of  members  of  the  lower  house 
to  fifty-five.  The  criminal  code  was  amended  by 
the  substitution  of  imprisonment  in  the  peni- 
tentiary as  a  penalty  in  lieu  of  the  stocks  and 
public  flogging.  This  Legislature  also  authorized 
the  borrowing  of  §100,000  to  redeem  the  notes  of 
the  State  Bank  which  were  to  mature  the  follow- 
ing year.  The  Assembly  adjourned,  Feb.  16,  1831, 
the  session  having  lasted  seventy-three  days. 

EIGHTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY.  The  session 
began  Dec.  3,  1832,  and  ended  March  2,  1833. 
William  L.  D.  Ewing  was  chosen  President  pro 
tempore  of  the  Senate,  and  succeeded  Zadoc 
Casey  as  Lieutenant-Governor,  the  latter  having 
been  elected  a  Representative  in  Congress. 
Alexander  M.  Jenkins  presided  over  the  House  as 
Speaker.  This  Legislature  enacted  the  first  gen- 
eral incorporation  laws  of  Illinois,  their  provisions 
being  applicable  to  towns  and  public  libraries. 
It  also  incorporated  several  railroad  companies, 
— one  line  from  Lake  Michigan  to  the  Illinois 
River  (projected  as  a  substitute  for  the  canal), 
one  from  Peru  to  Cairo,  and  another  to  cross  the 
State,  running  through  Springfield.  Other  char- 
ters were  granted  for  shorter  lines,  but  the  incor- 
porators  generally  failed  to  organize  under  them. 
A  notable  inci  dent  in  connection  with  this  session 
was  the  attempt  to  impeach  Theophilus  W.  Smith, 
a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court.  This  was  the  first 
and  last  trial  of  this  character  in  the  State's  his- 
tory, between  1818  and  1899.  Failing  to  secure  a 
conviction  in  the  Senate  (where  the  vote  stood 
twelve  for  conviction  and  ten  for  acquittal,  with 
four  Senators  excused  from  voting),  the  House 
attempted  to  remove  him  by  address,  but  in  this 
the  Senate  refused  to  concur.  The  first  mechan- 
ics' lien  law  was  enacted  by  this  Legislature, 
as  also  a  law  relating  to  the  "right  of  way"  for 
"public  roads,  canals,  or  other  public  works." 
The  length  of  the  session  was  ninety  days. 

NINTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY.  This  Legislature 
held  two  sessions.  The  first  began  Dec.  1,  1834, 
and  lasted  to  Feb.  13,  1835.  Lieutenant-Governor 
Jenkins  presided  in  the  Senate  and  James  Sernple 
was  elected  Speaker  of  the  House  without  oppo- 


sition. On  Dec.  20,  John  M.  Robinson  was  re- 
elected  United  States  Senator  Abraham  Lincoln 
was  among  the  new  members,  but  took  no  con- 
spicuous part  in  the  discussions  of  the  body.  The 
principal  public  laws  passed  at  this  session  were. 
Providing  for  the  borrowing  of  §500,000  to  be 
used  in  the  construction  of  the  Illinois  &  Michi- 
gan Canal  and  the  appointment  of  a  Board  of 
Commissioners  to  supervise  its  expenditure; 
incorporating  the  Bank  of  the  State  of  Illinois; 
and  authorizing  a  loan  of  §12,000  by  Cook  County, 
at  10  per  cent  interest  per  annum  from  the 
county  school  fund,  for  the  erection  of  a  court 
house  in  that  county.  The  second  session  of  this 
Assembly  convened,  Dec.  7,  1835,  adjourning,  Jan. 
18,  1836.  A  new  canal  act  was  passed,  enlarging 
the  Commissioners'  powers  and  pledging  the  faith 
of  the  State  for  the  repayment  of  money  bor- 
rowed to  aid  in  its  construction.  A  new  appor- 
tionment law  was  also  passed  providing  for  the 
election  of  forty-one  Senators  and  ninety-one 
Representatives,  and  W.  L.  D.  Ewing  was  elected 
United  States  Senator,  to  succeed  Elias  K.  Kane, 
deceased.  The  length  of  the  first  session  was 
seventy -five  days,  and  of  the  second  forty -three 
days— total,  118. 

TENTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY,  like  its  predeces- 
sor, held  two  sessions.  The  first  convened  Dec.  5, 
1836,  and  adjourned  March  6,  1837.  The  Whigs 
controlled  the  Senate  by  a  large  majority,  and 
elected  William  H.  Davidson,  of  White  County, 
President,  to  succeed  Alexander  M.  Jenkins,  who 
had  resigned  the  Lieutenant-Governorship.  (See 
Jenkins,  Alexander  M.)  James  Semple  was 
re-elected  Speaker  of  the  House,  which  was 
fully  two-thirds  Democratic.  This  Legislature 
was  remarkable  for  the  number  of  its  members 
who  afterwards  attained  National  prominence. 
Lincoln  and  Douglas  sat  in  the  lower  house,  both 
voting  for  the  same  candidate  for  Speaker — New- 
ton Cloud,  an  independent  Democrat.  Besides 
these,  the  rolls  of  this  Assembly  included  the 
names  of  a  future  Governor,  six  future  United 
States  Senators,  eight  Congressmen,  three  Illinois 
Supreme  Court  Judges,  seven  State  officers,  and 
a  Cabinet  officer.  The  two  absorbing  topics  for 
legislative  discussion  and  action  were  the  system 
of  internal  improvements  and  the  removal  of  the 
State  capital.  (See  Internal  Improvement  Policy 
and  State  Capitals.)  The  friends  of  Springfield 
finally  effected  such  a  combination  that  that  city 
was  selected  as  the  seat  of  the  State  government, 
while  the  Internal  Improvement  Act  was  passed 
over  the  veto  of  Governor  Duncan.  A  second 
session  of  this  Legislature  met  on  the  call  of  the 


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Governor,  July  10,  1837,  and  adjourned  July  22. 
An  act  legalizing  the  suspension  of  State  banks 
was  adopted,  but  the  recommendation  of  the  Gov- 
ernor for  the  repeal  of  the  internal  improvement 
legislation  was  ignored.  The  length  of  the  first 
session  was  ninety-two  days  and  of  the  second 
thirteen— total  105. 

ELEVENTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY.  This  body 
held  both  a  regular  and  a  special  session.  The 
former  met  Dec.  3,  1838,  and  adjourned  March  4, 
1839.  The  Whigs  were  in  a  majority  in  both 
houses,  and  controlled  the  organization  of  the 
Senate.  In  the  House,  however,  their  candidate 
for  Speaker — Abraham  Lincoln — failing  to  secure 
his  full  party  vote,  was  defeated  by  W.  L.  D. 
Ewing.  At  this  session  $800,000  more  was  appro- 
priated for  the  "improvement  of  water-ways  and 
the  construction  of  railroads, ' '  all  efforts  to  put  an 
end  to,  or  even  curtail,  further  expenditures  on 
account  of  internal  improvements  meeting  with 
defeat.  An  appropriation  (the  first)  was  made 
for  a  library  for  the  Supreme  Court ;  the  Illinois 
Institution  for  the  Education  of  the  Deaf  and 
Dumb  was  established,  and  the  further  issuance 
of  bank  notes  of  a  smaller  denomination  than  $5 
was  prohibited.  By  this  time  the  State  debt  had 
increased  to  over  $13,000,000,  and  both  the  people 
and  the  Governor  were  becoming  apprehensive  as 
to  ultimate  results  of  this  prodigal  outlay.  A 
crisis  appeared  imminent,  and  the  Governor,  on 
Dec.  9,  1839,  convened  the  Legislature  in  special 
session  to  consider  the  situation.  (This  was  the 
first  session  ever  held  at  Springfield ;  and,  the  new 
State  House  not  being  completed,  the  Senate,  the 
House  and  the  Supreme  Court  found  accommo- 
dation in  three  of  the  principal  church  edifices. ) 
The  struggle  for  a  change  of  State  policy  at  this 
session  was  long  and  hard  fought,  no  heed  being 
given  to  party  lines.  The  outcome  was  the  vir- 
tual abrogation  of  the  entire  internal  improve- 
ment system.  Provision  was  made  for  the  calling 
in  and  destruction  of  all  unsold  bonds  and  the 
speedy  adjustment  of  all  unsettled  accounts  of 
the  old  Board  of  Public  Works,  which  was  legis- 
lated out  of  office.  The  special  session  adjourned 
Feb.  3,  1840.  Length  of  regular  session  ninety- 
two  days,  of  the  special,  fifty-seven—total,  149. 

TWELFTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY.  This  Legisla- 
ture was  strongly  Democratic  in  both  branches. 
It  first  convened,  by  executive  proclamation, 
Nov.  23,  1840,  the  object  being  to  provide  for  pay- 
ment of  interest  on  the  public  debt.  In  reference 
to  this  matter  the  following  enactments  were 
made:  Authorizing  the  hypothecation  of  $300,000 
internal  improvement  bonds,  to  meet  the  interest 


due  Jan.  1,  1841 ;  directing  the  issue  of  bonds  to 
be  sold  in  the  open  market  and  the  proceeds 
applied  toward  discharging  all  amounts  due  on 
interest  account  for  which  no  other  provision  was 
made ;  levying  a  special  tax  of  ten  cents  on  the 
§100  to  meet  the  interest  on  the  last  mentioned 
class  of  bonds,  as  it  matured.  For  the  comple- 
tion of  the  Northern  Cross  Railroad  (from  Spring- 
field to  Jacksonville)  another  appropriation  of 
$100,000  was  made.  The  called  session  adjourned, 
sine  die,  on  Dec.  5,  and  the  regular  session  began 
two  days  later.  The  Senate  was  presided  over  by 
the  Lieutenant-Governor  (Stinson  H.  Anderson), 
and  William  L.  D.  Ewing  was  chosen  Speaker  of 
the  House.  The  most  vital  issue  was  the  propri- 
ety of  demanding  the  surrender  of  the  charter  of 
the  State  Bank,  with  its  branches,  and  here 
party  lines  were  drawn.  The  Whigs  finally 
succeeded  in  averting  the  closing  of  the  institu- 
tions which  had  suspended  specie  payments,  and 
in  securing  for  those  institutions  the  privilege  of 
issuing  small  bills.  A  law  reorganizing  the  judi- 
ciary was  passed  by  the  majority  over  the  execu- 
tive veto,  and  in  face  of  the  defection  of  some  of 
its  members.  On  a  partisan  issue  all  the  Circuit 
Judges  were  legislated  out  of  office  and  five  Jus- 
tices added  to  the  bench  of  the  Supreme  Court. 
The  session  was  stormy,  and  the  Assembly  ad- 
journed March  1,  1841.  This  Legislature  was  in 
session  ninety-eight  days — thirteen  during  the 
special  session  and  eighty-five  during  the  regular. 
THIRTEENTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  consisted  of 
forty-one  Senators  and  121  Representatives;  con- 
vened, Dec.  5,  1842.  The  Senate  and  House  were 
Democratic  by  two-thirds  majority  in  each. 
Lieut.-Gov.  John  Moore  was  presiding  officer  of 
the  Senate  and  Samuel  Hackelton  Speaker  of  the 
House,  with  W.  L.  D.  Ewing,  who  had  been 
acting  Governor  and  United  States  Senator,  as 
Clerk  of  the  latter.  Richard  Yates,  Isaac  N. 
Arnold,  Stephen  T.  Logan  and  Gustavus  Koerner, 
were  among  the  new  members.  The  existing 
situation  seemed  fraught  with  peril.  The  State 
debt  was  nearly  $14,000,000;  immigration  had 
been  checked ;  the  State  and  Shawneetown  banks 
had  gone  down  and  their  currency  was  not  worth 
fifty  cents  on  the  dollar ;  Auditor's  warrants  were 
worth  no  more,  and  Illinois  State  bonds  were 
quoted  at  fourteen  cents.  On  Dec.  18,  Judge 
Sidney  Breese  was  elected  United  States  Senator, 
having  defeated  Stephen  A.  Douglas  for  the 
Democratic  caucus  nomination,  on  the  nineteenth 
ballot,  by  a  majority  of  one  vote.  The  State 
Bank  (in  which  the  State  had  been  a  large  share- 
holder) was  permitted  to  go  into  liquidation  upon 


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the  surrender  of  State  bonds  in  exchange  for  a 
like  amount  of  bank  stock  owned  by  the  State. 
The  same  conditional  release  was  granted  to  the 
bank  at  Shawneetown.  The  net  result  was  a 
reduction  of  the  State  debt  by  about  $3,000,000. 
The  Governor  was  authorized  to  negotiate  a 
loan  of  SI, 600,000  on  the  credit  of  the  State,  for 
the  purpose  of  prosecuting  the  work  on  the  canal 
and  meeting  the  indebtedness  already  incurred. 
The  Executive  was  also  made  sole  "Fund  Com- 
missioner" and,  in  that  capacity,  was  empowered 
(in  connection  with  the  Auditor)  to  sell  the 
railroads,  etc.,  belonging  to  the  State  at  public 
auction.  Provision  was  also  made  for  the  redemp- 
tion of  the  bonds  hypothecated  with  Macalister 
and  Stebbins.  (See  Macalister  and  Stebbins 
Bonds.)  The  Congressional  distribution  of  the 
moneys  arising  from  the  sale  of  public  lands  was 
acquiesced  in,  and  the  revenues  and  resources  of 
the  State  were  pledged  to  the  redemption  "of 
every  debt  contracted  by  an  authorized  agent  for  a 
good  and  valuable  consideration."  To  establish 
a  sinking  fund  to  meet  such  obligation,  a  tax  of 
twenty  cents  on  every  $100,  payable  in  coin,  was 
levied.  This  Legislature  also  made  a  re-appor- 
tionment of  the  State  into  Seven  Congressional 
Districts.  The  Legislature  adjourned,  March  6, 
1843,  after  a  session  of  ninety-two  days. 

FOURTEENTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Dec.  2,  1844,  and  adjourned  March  3,  1845,  the  ses- 
sion lasting  ninety-two  days.  The  Senate  was 
composed  of  twenty-six  Democrats  and  fifteen 
Whigs;  the  House  of  eighty  Democrats  and 
thirty-nine  Whigs.  David  Davis  was  among  the 
new  members.  William  A.  Richardson  defeated 
Stephen  T.  Logan  for  the  Speakership,  and  James 
Semple  was  elected  United  States  Senator  to  suc- 
ceed Samuel  McRoberts,  deceased.  The  canal 
law  was  amended  by  the  passage  of  a  supple- 
mental act,  transferring  the  property  to  Trustees 
and  empowering  the  Governor  to  complete  the 
negotiations  for  the  borrowing  of  $1,600,000  for 
its  construction.  The  State  revenue  being  in- 
sufficient to  meet  the  ordinary  expenses  of  the 
government,  to  say  nothing  of  the  arrears  of 
interest  on  the  State  debt,  a  tax  of  three  mills  on 
each  dollar's  worth  of  property  was  imposed  for 
1845  and  of  three  and  one-half  mills  thereafter. 
Of  the  revenue  thus  raised  in  1845,  one  mill  was 
set  apart  to  pay  the  interest  on  the  State  debt 
and  one  and  one-half  mills  for  the  same  purpose 
from  the  taxes  collected  in  1846  "and  forever 
thereafter." 

FIFTEENTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened  Dec. 
7,  1846.  The  farewell  message  of  Governor  Ford 


and  the  inaugural  of  Governor  French  were  lead- 
ing incidents.  The  Democrats  had  a  two-thirds 
majority  in  each  house.  Lieut. -Gov.  Joseph  B. 
Wells  presided  in  the  Senate,  and  Newton  Cloud 
was  elected  Speaker  of  the  House,  the  compli- 
mentary vote  of  the  Whigs  being  given  to  Stephen 
T.  Logan.  Stephen  A.  Douglas  was  elected 
United  States  Senator,  the  whigs  voting  for  Cyrus 
Edwards.  State  officers  were  elected  as  follows : 
Auditor,  Thomas  H.  Campbell;  State  Treasurer, 
Milton  Carpenter— both  by  acclamation;  and 
Horace  S  Cooley  was  nominated  and  confirmed 
Secretary  of  State.  A  new  school  law  was 
enacted ;  the  sale  of  the  Gallatin  County  salines 
was  authorized ;  the  University  of  Chicago  was 
incorporated,  and  the  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at 
Jacksonville  established;  the  sale  of  the  North- 
ern Cross  Railroad  was  authorized;  District 
Courts  were  established ;  and  provision  was  made 
for  refunding  the  State  debt.  The  Assembly 
adjourned,  March  1,  1847,  after  a  session  of 
eighty-five  days. 

SIXTEENTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY.  T.his  was  the 
first  Legislature  to  convene  under  the  Constitu- 
tion of  1847.  There  were  twenty-five  members 
in  the  Senate  and  seventy-five  in  the  House. 
The  body  assembled  on  Jan.  1,  1849,  continu- 
ing in  session  until  Feb.  12— the  session  being 
limited  by  the  Constitution  to  six  weeks.  Zadoc 
Casey  was  chosen  Speaker,  defeating  Richard 
Yates  by  a  vote  of  forty-six  to  nineteen.  After 
endorsing  the  policy  of  the  administration  in 
reference  to  the  Mexican  War  and  thanking  the 
soldiers,  the  Assembly  proceeded  to  the  election 
of  United  States  Senator  to  succeed  Sidney 
Breese.  The  choice  fell  upon  Gen.  James  Shields, 
the  other  caucus  candidates  being  Breese  and 
McClernand,  while  Gen.  William  F.  Thornton  led 
the  forlorn  hope  for  the  Whigs.  The  principle  of 
the  Wilmot  proviso  was  endorsed.  The  Governor 
convened  the  Legislature  in  special  session  on 
Oct.  22.  A  question  as  to  the  eligibility  of  Gen. 
Shields  having  arisen  (growing  out  of  his  nativity 
and  naturalization),  and  the  legal  obstacles  hav- 
ing been  removed  by  the  lapse  of  time,  he  was 
re-elected  Senator  at  the  special  session.  Outside 
of  the  passage  of  a  general  law  authorizing  the 
incorporation  of  railroads,  little  general  legisla- 
tion was  enacted.  The  special  session  adjourned 
Nov.  7.  Length  of  regular  session  forty-three 
days;  special,  seventeen — total  sixty. 

SEVENTEENTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan.  6,  1851,  adjourned  Feb.  17  —  length  of 
session  forty-three  days.  Sidney  Breese  (ex- 
Senator)  was  chosen  Speaker.  The  session  was 


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characterized  by  a  vast  amount  of  legislation,  not 
all  of  which  was  well  considered.  By  joint  reso- 
lution of  both  houses  the  endorsement  of  the 
Wilmot  proviso  at  the  previous  session  was 
rescinded.  The  first  homestead  exemption  act 
was  passed,  and  a  stringent  liquor  law  adopted, 
the  sale  of  liquor  in  quantities  less  than  one  quart 
being  prohibited.  Township  organization  was 
authorized  and  what  was  virtually  free-banking 
was  sanctioned.  The  latter  law  was  ratified  by 
popular  vote  in  November,  1851.  An  act  incorpo- 
rating the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  was  also 
passed  at  this  session,  the  measure  being  drafted 
by  James  L.  D.  Morrison.  A  special  session  of 
this  Assembly  was  held  in  1852  under  a  call  by 
the  Governor,  lasting  from  June  7  to  the  23d — 
seventeen  days.  The  most  important  general 
legislation  of  the  special  session  was  the  reappor- 
tionment  of  the  State  into  nine  Congressional 
Districts.  This  Legislature  was  in  session  a  total 
of  sixty  days. 

EIGHTEENTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY.  The  first 
(or  regular)  session  convened  Jan.  3,  1853,  and 
adjourned  Feb.  14.  The  Senate  was  composed  of 
twenty  Democrats  and  five  Whigs;  the  House,  of 
fifty-nine  Democrats,  sixteen  Whigs  and  one 
"Free-Soiler. "  Lieutenant-Governor  Koerner 
presided  in  the  upper,  and  ex-Gov.  John  Reynolds 
in  the  lower  house.  Governor  Matteson  was 
inaugurated  on  the  16th ;  Stephen  A.  Douglas  was 
re-elected  United  States  Senator,  Jan.  5,  the 
Whigs  casting  a  complimentary  vote  for  Joseph 
Gillespie.  More  than  450  laws  were  enacted,  the 
majority  being  "private  acts. "  The  prohibitory 
temperance  legislation  of  the  preceding  General 
Assembly  was  repealed  and  the  license  system 
re  enacted.  This  body  also  passed  the  famous 
''black  laws"  designed  to  prevent  the  immigration 
of  free  negroes  into  the  State.  The  sum  of 
§18,000  was  appropriated  for  the  erection  and 
furnishing  of  an  executive  mansion;  the  State 
Agricultural  Society  was  incorporated;  the  re- 
mainder of  the  State  lands  was  ordered  sold,  and 
any  surplus  funds  in  the  treasury  appropriated 
toward  reducing  the  State  debt.  A  special  session 
was  convened  on  Feb.  9,  1854,  and  adjourned 
March  4.  The  most  important  measures  adopted 
were ;  a  legislative  re-apportionment,  an  act  pro- 
viding for  the  election  of  a  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction,  and  a  charter  for  the  Missis- 
sippi &  Atlantic  Railroad.  The  regular  session 
lasted  forty-three  days,  the  special  twenty-four 
— total,  sixty-seven. 

NINETEENTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  met  Jan.  1, 
1855,  and  adjourned  Feb.  15 — the  session  lasting 


forty-six  days.  Thomas  J.  Turner  was  elected 
Speaker  of  the  House.  The  political  complexion 
of  the  Legislature  was  much  mixed,  among  the 
members  being  old-line  Whigs,  Abolitionists, 
Free-Soilers,  Know-Nothings,  Pro-slavery  Demo- 
crats and  Anti-Nebraska  Democrats.  The 
Nebraska  question  was  the  leading  issue,  and  in 
reference  thereto  the  Senate  stood  fourteen 
Nebraska  members  and  eleven  anti-Nebraska ;  the 
House,  thirty-four  straight-out  Democrats,  while 
the  entire  strength  of  the  opposition  was  forty- 
one.  A  United  States  Senator  was  to  be  chosen 
to  succeed  Gen.  James  Shields,  and  the  friends  of 
free-soil  had  a  clear  majority  of  four  on  joint 
ballot.  Abraham  Lincoln  was  the  caucus  nomi- 
nee of  the  Whigs,  and  General  Shields  of  the  Demo- 
crats. The  two  houses  met  in  joint  session  Feb.  8. 
The  result  of  the  first  ballot  was,  Lincoln,  forty- 
five;  Shields,  forty-one;  scattering,  thirteen; 
present,  but  not  voting,  one.  Mr.  Lincoln's 
strength  steadily  waned,  then  rallied  slightly  on 
the  sixth  and  seventh  ballots,  but  again  declined. 
Shields'  forty-one  votes  rising  on  the  fifth  ballot 
to  forty-two,  but  having  dropped  on  the  next 
ballot  to  forty-one,  his  name  was  withdrawn  and 
that  of  Gov.  Joel  A.  Matteson  substituted.  Mat- 
teson gained  until  he  received  forty -seven  votes, 
which  was  the  limit  of  his  strength.  On  the 
ninth  ballot,  Loncoln's  vote  having  dropped  to 
fifteen,  his  name  was  withdrawn  at  his  own 
request,  his  support  going,  on  the  next  ballot,  to 
Lyman  Trumbull,  an  anti-Nebraska  Democrat, 
who  received  fifty-one  votes  to  forty-seven  for 
Matteson  and  one  for  Archibald  Williams — one 
member  not  voting.  Trumbull,  having  received 
a  majority,  was  elected.  Five  members  had 
voted  for  him  from  the  start.  These  were  Sena- 
tors John  M.  Palmer,  Norman  B.  Judd  and  Burton 
C.  Cook,  and  Representatives  Henry  S.  Baker  and 
George  T.  Allen.  It  had  been  hoped  that  they 
would,  in  time,  come  to  the  support  of  Mr.  Lin- 
coln, but  they  explained  that  they  had  been 
instructed  by  their  constituents  to  vote  only  for 
an  anti-Nebraska  Democrat.  They  were  all  sub- 
sequently prominent  leaders  in  the  Republican 
party.  Having  inaugurated  its  work  by  accom- 
plishing a  political  revolution,  this  Legislature 
proceeded  to  adopt  several  measures  more  or  less 
radical  in  their  tendency.  One  of  these  was  the 
Maine  liquor  law,  with  the  condition  that  it  be 
submitted  to  popular  vote.  It  failed  of  ratifica- 
tion by  vote  of  the  people  at  an  election  held  in 
the  following  June.  A  new  common  school  law 
was  enacted,  and  railroads  were  required  to  fence 
their  tracks.  The  Assembly  also  adopted  a  resc- 


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lution  calling  for  a  Convention  to  amend  the  Con- 
stitution, but  this  was  defeated  at  the  polls. 

TWENTIETH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened  Jan. 
5,  1857,  and  adjourned,  sine  die,  Feb.  19.  A 
Republican  State  administration,  with  Governor 
Bissell  at  its  head,  had  just  been  elected,  but  the 
Legislature  was  Democratic  in  both  branches. 
Lieut. -Gov.  John  Wood  presided  over  the  Senate, 
and  Samuel  Holmes,  of  Adams  County,  defeated 
Isaac  N.  Arnold,  of  Cook,  for  the  Speakership  of 
the  House.  Among  the  prominent  members  were 
Norman  B.  Judd,  of  Cook;  A.  J.  Kuykendall,  of 
Johnson ;  Shelby  M.  Cullom,  of  Sangamon ;  John 
A.  Logan,  of  Jackson;  William  R.  Morrison,  of 
Monroe ;  Isaac  N.  Arnold,  of  Cook ;  Joseph  Gilles- 
pie,  of  Madison,  and  S.  W.  Moulton,  of  Shelby. 
Among  the  important  measures  enacted  by  this 
General  Assembly  were  the  following:  Acts 
establishing  and  maintaining  free  schools ;  estab- 
lishing a  Normal  University  at  Normal ;  amending 
the  banking  law ;  providing  for  the  general  incor- 
poration of  railroads ;  providing  for  the  building 
of  a  new  penitentiary ;  and  funding  the  accrued 
arrears  of  interest  on  the  public  debt.  Length  of 
session,  forty -six  days. 

TWENTY-FIRST  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan.  3,  1859,  and  was  in  session  for  fifty-three 
days,  adjourning  Feb.  24.  The  Senate  consisted 
of  twenty-five,  and  the  House  of  seventy -five 
members.  The  presiding  officers  were: — of  the 
Senate,  Lieut. -Gov.  Wood;  of  the  House,  W.  R. 
Morrison,  of  Monroe  County,  who  defeated  his 
Republican  opponent,  Vital  Jarrot,  of  St.  Clair, 
on  a  viva  voce  vote.  The  Governor's  message 
showed  a  reduction  of  §1,166,877  in  the  State  debt 
during  two  years  preceding,  leaving  a  balance  of 
principal  and  arrears  of  interest  amounting  to 
$11,138,454.  On  Jan.  6,  1859,  the  Assembly,  in 
joint  session,  elected  Stephen  A.  Douglas  to  suc- 
ceed himself  as  United  States  Senator,  by  a  vote 
of  fifty-four  to  forty-six  for  Abraham  Lincoln. 
The  Legislature  was  thrown  into  great  disorder 
in  consequence  of  an  attempt  to  prevent  the 
receipt  from  the  Governor  of  a  veto  of  a  legisla- 
tive apportionment  bill  which  had  been  passed  by 
the  Democratic  majority  in  the  face  of  bitter 
opposition  on  the  part  of  the  Republicans,  who 
denounced  it  as  partisan  and  unjust. 

TWENTY-SECOND  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
in  regular  session  on  Jan.  7,  1861,  consisting  of 
twenty-five  Senators  and  seventy-five  Represent- 
atives. For  the  first  time  in  the  State's  history, 
the  Democrats  failed  to  control  the  organization 
of  either  house.  Lieut. -Gov.  Francis  A.  Hoffman 
presided  over  the  Senate,  and  S.  M.  Cullom,  of 


Sangamon,  was  chosen  Speaker  of  the  House,  the 
Democratic  candidate  being  James  W.  Singleton. 
Thomas  A.  Marshall,  of  Coles  County,  was  elected 
President  pro  tern,  of  the  Senate  over  A.  J.  Kuy- 
kendall, of  Johnson.     The  message  of  the  retiring 
Governor  (John  Wood)  reported  a  reduction  of 
the  State  debt,  during  four  years  of  Republican 
administration,  of    $2,860,402,  and    showed    the 
number  of  banks  to  be  110,  whose  aggregate  cir- 
culation was  $12,320,964.     Lyman  Trumbull  was 
re-elected  United  States  Senator  on  January  10, 
receiving  fifty-four  votes,  to   forty-six  cast  for 
Samuel  S.  Marshall.     Governor  Yates  was  inau- 
gurated, Jan.  14.    The  most  important  legislation 
of  this  session  related  to  the  following  subjects: 
the  separate  property  rights  of  married  women; 
the  encouragement  of  mining  and  the  support  of 
public  schools ;  the  payment  of  certain  evidences 
of  State  indebtedness ;  protection  of  the  purity  of 
the  ballot-box,  and  a  resolution  submitting  to  the 
people  the  question  of  the  calling  of  a  Convention 
to  amend  the  Constitution.    Joint  resolutions  were 
passed  relative  to  the  death  of  Governor  Bissell ; 
to  the  appointment  of  Commissioners  to  attend  a 
Peace  Conference  in  Washington,  and  referring 
to     federal     relations.     The     latter     deprecated 
amendments  to  the  United  States  Constitution,  but 
expressed  a  willingness  to  unite  with  any  States 
which   might    consider    themselves    aggrieved, 
in    petitioning    Congress  to  call    a    convention 
for  the  consideration  of  such  amendments,  at  the 
same  time  pledging  the  entire  resources  of  Illi- 
nois to  the  National  Government  for  the  preser- 
vation of  the  Union  and  the  enforcement  of  the 
laws.     The  regular  session  ended  Feb.  22,  having 
lasted  forty-seven  days.— Immediately  following 
President  Lincoln's  first  call    for  volunteers    to 
suppress  the  rebellion,    Governor   Yates    recon- 
vened the  General  Assembly  in  special  session  to 
consider  and  adopt  methods  to  aid  and  support 
the  Federal  authority  in  preserving  the  Union  and 
protecting  the  rights  and  property  of  the  people. 
The  two  houses  assembled  on  April  23.     On  April 
25  Senator  Douglas  addressed  the  members  on  the 
issues  of  the  day,  in  response  to  an  invitation  con- 
veyed in  a  joint  resolution.     The  special  session 
closed  May  3,  1861,  and  not  a  few  of  the  legislators 
promptly    volunteered    in    the     Union     army. 
Length  of  the  regular  session,  forty-seven  days; 
of  the  special,  eleven — total  fifty -eight. 

TWENTY-THIRD  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  was  com- 
posed of  twenty-five  Senators  and  eighty-eight 
Representatives.  It  convened  Jan.  5,  1863,  and 
was  Democratic  in  both  branches.  The  presiding 
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Hoffman;  Samuel  A.  Buckmaster  was  elected 
Speaker  of  the  House  by  a  vote  of  fifty-three  to 
twenty-five.  On  Jan.  12,  William  A.  Richardson 
was  elected  United  States  Senator  to  succeed 
S.  A.  Douglas,  deceased,  the  Republican  nominee 
being  Governor  Yates,  who  received  thirty-eight 
votes  out  of  a  total  of  103  cast.  Much  of  the  time 
of  the  session  was  devoted  to  angry  discussion  of 
the  policy  of  the  National  Government  in  the 
prosecution  of  the  war.  The  views  of  the  oppos- 
ing parties  were  expressed  in  majority  and  minor- 
ity reports  from  the  Committee  on  Federal 
Relations — the  former  condemning  and  the  latter 
upholding  the  Federal  administration.  The 
majority  report  was  adopted  in  the  House  on 
Feb.  12,  by  a  vote  of  fifty-two  to  twenty-eight, 
and  the  resolutions  which  it  embodied  were  at 
once  sent  to  the  Senate  for  concurrence.  Before 
they  could  be  acted  upon  in  that  body  a  Demo- 
cratic Senator — J.  M.  Rodgers,  of  Clinton  County 
— died.  This  left  the  Senate  politically  tied,  a 
Republican  presiding  officer  having  the  deciding 
vote.  Consequently  no  action  was  taken  at  the 
time,  and,  on  Feb.  14,  the  Legislature  adjourned 
till  June  2.  Immediately  upon  re-assembling, 
joint  resolutions  relating  to  a  sine  die  adjourn- 
ment were  introduced  in  both  houses.  A  disagree- 
ment regarding  the  date  of  such  adjournment 
ensued,  when  Governor  Yates,  exercising  the 
power  conferred  upon  him  by  the  Constitution  in 
such  cases,  sent  in  a  message  (June  10,  1863) 
proroguing  the  General  Assembly  until  "the 
Saturday  next  preceding  the  first  Monday  in 
January,  1865."  The  members  of  the  Republican 
minority  at  once  left  the  hall.  The  members  of 
the  majority  convened  and  adjourned  from  day 
to  day  until  June  24,  when,  having  adopted  an 
address  to  the  people  setting  forth  their  grievance 
and  denouncing  the  State  executive,  they  took  a 
recess  until  the  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  of 
January,  1864.  The  action  of  the  Governor,  hav- 
ing been  submitted  to  the  Supreme  Court,  was 
sustained,  and  no  further  session  of  this  General 
Assembly  was  held.  Owing  to  the  prominence 
of  political  issues,  no  important  legislation  was 
effected  at  this  session,  even  the  ordinary  appro- 
priations for  the  State  institutions  failing.  This 
caused  much  embarrassment  to  the  State  Govern- 
ment in  meeting  current  expenses,  but  banks  and 
capitalists  came  to  its  aid,  and  no  important 
interest  was  permitted  to  suffer.  The  total 
length  of  the  session  was  fifty  days — forty-one 
days  before  the  recess  and  nine  days  after. 

TWENTY-FOURTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan.   2,  1865,  and  remained  in  session  forty-six 


days.  It  consisted  of  twenty-rive  Senators  and 
eighty-five  Representatives.  The  Republicans 
had  a  majority  in  both  houses.  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor Bross  presided  over  the  Senate,  and  Allen 
C.  Fuller,  of  Boone  County,  was  chosen  Speaker 
of  the  House,  over  Ambrose  M.  Miller,  Democrat, 
the  vote  standing  48  to  23.  Governor  Yates,  in 
his  valedictory  message,  reported  that,  notwith- 
standing the  heavy  expenditure  attendant  upon 
the  enlistment  and  maintenance  of  troops,  etc., 
the  State  debt  had  been  reduced  $987,786  in  four 
years.  On  Jan.  4,  1865,  Governor  Yates  was 
elected  to  the  United  States  Senate,  receiving 
sixty-four  votes  to  forty  three  cast  for  James  C. 
Robinson.  Governor  Oglesby  was  inaugurated  Jan. 
16.  The  Thirteenth  Amendment  to  the  United 
States  Constitution  was  ratified  by  this  Legisla- 
ture, and  sundry  special  appropriations  made. 
Among  the  latter  was  one  of  $3,000  toward  the 
State's  proportion  for  the  establishment  of  a 
National  Cemetery  at  Gettysburg;  $25,000  for 
the  purchase  of  the  land  on  which  is  the  tomb 
of  the  deceased  Senator  Douglas;  besides  sums 
for  establishing  a  home  for  Soldiers'  Orphans  and 
an  experimental  school  for  the  training  of  idiots 
and  feeble-minded  children.  The  first  act  for 
the  registry  of  legal  voters  was  passed  at  this 
session. 

TWENTY-FIFTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY.  This 
body  held  one  regular  and  two  special  sessions. 
It  first  convened  and  organized  on  Jan.  7,  1867. 
Lieutenant-Governor  Bross  presided  over  the 
upper,  and  Franklin  Corwin,  of  La  Salle  County, 
over  the  lower  house.  The  Governor  (Oglesby), 
in  his  message,  reported  a  reduction  of  $2,607,958 
in  the  State  debt  during  the  two  years  preceding, 
and  recommended  various  appropriations  for  pub- 
lic purposes.  He  also  urged  the  calling  of  a  Con- 
vention to  amend  the  Constitution.  On  Jan.  15, 
Lyman  Trambull  was  chosen  United  States  Sena- 
tor, the  complimentary  Democratic  vote  being 
given  to  T.  Lyle  Dickey,  who  received  thirty - 
three  votes  out  of  109.  The  regular  session  lasted 
fifty -three  days,  adjourning  Feb.  28.  The  Four- 
teenth Amendment  to  the  United  States  Constitu- 
tion was  ratified  and  important  legislation  enacted 
relative  to  State  taxation  and  the  regulation  of 
public  warehouses ;  a  State  Board  of  Equalization 
of  Assessments  was  established,  and  the  office  of 
Attorney-General  created.  (Under  this  law 
Robert  G.  Ingersoll  was  the  first  appointee.) 
Provision  was  made  for  the  erection  of  a  new 
State  House,  to  establish  a  Reform  School  for 
Juvenile  Offenders,  and  for  the  support  of  other 
State  institutions.  The  first  special  session  con- 


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vened  on  June  11,  1867,  having  been  summoned 
to  consider  questions  relating  to  internal  revenue. 
The  lessee  of  the  penitentiary  having  surrendered 
his  lease  without  notice,  the  Governor  found  it 
necessary  to  make  immediate  provision  for  the 
management  of  that  institution.  Not  having 
included  this  matter  in  his  original  call,  no  ne- 
cessity then  existing,  he  at  once  summoned  a 
second  special  session,  before  the  adjournment 
of  the  first.  This  convened  on  June  14,  remained 
in  session  until  June  28,  and  adopted  what  is 
substantially  the  present  penitentiary  law  of  the 
State.  This  General  Assembly  was  in  session 
seventy-one  days — fifty-three  at  the  regular, 
three  at  the  first  special  session  and  fifteen  at  the 
second. 

TWENTY-SIXTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan.  4,  1869.  The  Republicans  had  a  majority  in 
each  house.  The  newly  elected  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor,  John  Dougherty,  presided  in  the  Senate, 
and  Franklin  Corwin.  of  Peru,  was  again  chosen 
Speaker  of  the  House.  Governor  Oglesby  sub- 
mitted his  final  message  at  the  opening  of  the 
session,  showing  a  total  reduction  in  the  State 
debt  during  his  term  of  $4,743,821.  Governor 
John  M.  Palmer  was  inaugurated  Jan.  11.  The 
most  important  acts  passed  by  this  Legislature 
were  the  following:  Calling  the  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1869;  ratifying  the  Fifteenth 
Amendment  to  the  United  States  Constitution ; 
granting  well  behaved  convicts  a  reduction  in 
their  terms  of  imprisonment ;  for  the  prevention 
of  cruelty  to  animals ;  providing  for  the  regula- 
tion of  freights  and  fares  on  railroads;  estab- 
lishing the  Southern  Normal  University;  pro- 
viding for  the  erection  of  the  Northern  Insane 
Hospital;  and  establishing  a  Board  of  Com- 
missioners of  Public  Charities.  The  celebrated 
"Lake  Front  Bill,"  especially  affecting  the 
interests  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  occupied  a 
great  deal  of  time  during  this  session,  and 
though  finally  passed  over  the  Governor's  veto, 
was  repealed  in  1873.  This  session  was  inter- 
rupted by  a  recess  which  extended  from  March 
12  to  April  13.  The  Legislature  re-assem- 
bled April  14,  and  adjourned,  sine  die,  April  20, 
having  been  in  actual  session  seventy-four  days. 

TWENTY-SEVENTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  had 
four  sessions,  one  regular,  two  special  and  one 
adjourned.  The  first  convened  Jan.  4,  1871,  and 
adjourned  on  April  17,  having  lasted  104  days, 
when  a  recess  was  taken  to  Nov.  15  following. 
The  body  was  made  up  of  fifty  Senators  and  177 
Representatives.  The  Republicans  again  con- 
trolled both  houses,  electing  William  M.  Smith, 


Speaker  (over  William  R.  Morrison,  Democrat), 
while  Lieutenant-Governor  Dougherty  presided  in 
the  Senate.  The  latter  occupied  the  Hall  of  Rep- 
resentatives in  the  old  State  Capitol,  while  the 
House  held  its  sessions  in  a  new  church  edifice 
erected  by  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church. 
John  A.  Logan  was  elected  United  States  Sena- 
tor, defeating  Thomas  J.  Turner  (Democrat)  by  a 
vote,  on  joint  ballot,  of  131  to  89.  This  was  the 
first  Illinois  Legislature  to  meet  after  the  adoption 
of  the  Constitution  of  1870,  and  its  time  w;is 
mainly  devoted  to  framing,  discussing  and  pass- 
ing laws  required  by  the  changes  in  the  organic 
law  of  the  State.  The  first  special  session  opened 
on  May  24  and  closed  on  June  22,  1871,  continu- 
ing thirty  days.  It  was  convened  by  Governor 
Palmer  to  make  additional  appropriations  for  the 
necessary  expenses  of  the  State  Government  and 
for  the  continuance  of  work  on  the  new  State 
House.  The  purpose  of  the  Governor  in  sum- 
moning the  second  special  session  was  to  provide 
financial  relief  for  the  city  of  Chicago  after  the 
great  fire  of  Oct.  9-11,  1871.  Members  were  sum- 
moned by  special  telegrams  and  were  in  their 
seats  Oct.  13,  continuing  in  session  to  Oct.  24 
— twelve  days.  Governor  Palmer  had  already 
suggested  a  plan  by  which  the  State  might 
aid  the  stricken  city  without  doing  violence 
to  either  the  spirit  or  letter  of  the  new  Con- 
stitution, which  expressly  prohibited  special 
legislation.  Chicago  had  advanced  §2,500,000 
toward  the  completion  of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan 
Canal,  under  the  pledge  of  the  State  that  this 
outlay  should  be  made  good.  The  Legislature 
voted  an  appropriation  sufficient  to  pay  both 
principal  and  interest  of  this  loan,  amounting,  in 
round  numbers,  to  about  §3,000,000.  The  ad- 
journed session  opened  on  Nov.  15,  1871,  and  came 
to  an  end  on  April  9,  1872 — having  continued  147 
days.  It  was  entirely  devoted  to  considering  and 
adopting  legislation  germane  to  the  new  Consti- 
tution. The  total  length  of  all  sessions  of  this 
General  Assembly  was  293  days. 

TWENTY-EIGHTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan.  8,  1873.  It  was  composed  of  fifty -one  Sena- 
tors and  153  Representatives;  the  upper  house 
standing  thirty -three  Republicans  to  eighteen 
Democrats,  and  the  lower,  eighty-six  Republicans 
to  sixty-seven  Democrats.  The  Senate  chose 
John  Early,  of  Winnebago,  President  pro  tempore, 
and  Shelby  M.  Cullom  was  elected  Speaker  of  the 
House.  Governor  Oglesby  was  inaugurated  Jan. 
13,  but,  eight  days  later,  was  elected  to  the  United 
States  Senate,  being  succeeded  in  the  Governor- 
ship by  Lieut. -Gov.  John  L.  Beveridge.  An 


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appropriation  of  $1,000,000  was  made  for  carrying 
on  the  work  on  the  new  capitol  and  various  other 
acts  of  a  public  character  passed,  the  most  impor- 
tant being  an  amendment  of  the  railroad  law  of 
the  previous  session.  On  May  6,  the  Legislature 
adjourned  until  Jan.  8,  1874.  The  purpose  of  the 
recess  was  to  enable  a  Commission  on  the  Revision 
of  the  Laws  to  complete  a  report.  The  work  was 
duly  completed  and  nearly  all  the  titles  reported 
by  the  Commissioners  were  adopted  at  the 
adjourned  session.  An  adjournment,  sine  die, 
was  taken  March  31,  1874 — the  two  sessions 
having  lasted,  respectively,  119  and  83  days- 
total  202. 

TWENTY-NINTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan  6,  1875.  While  the  Republicans  had  a  plu- 
rality in  both  houses,  they  were  defeated  in  an 
effort  to  secure  their  organization  through  a 
fusion  of  Democrats  and  Independents.  A.  A. 
Glenn  (Democrat)  was  elected  President  pro  tern- 
pore  of  the  Senate  (becoming  acting  Lieutenant- 
Governor),  and  Elijah  M.  Haines  was  chosen 
presiding  officer  of  the  lower  house.  The  leaders 
on  both  sides  of  the  Chamber  were  aggressive, 
and  the  session,  as  a  whole,  was  one  of  the  most 
turbulent  and  disorderly  in  the  history  of  the 
State.  Little  legislation  of  vital  importance 
(outside  of  regular  appropriation  bills)  was 
enacted  This  Legislature  adjourned,  April  15, 
having  been  in  session  100  days. 

THIRTIETH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened  Jan. 
3 ',  1877,  and  adjourned,  sine  die,  on  May  24.  The 
Democrats  and  Independents  in  the  Senate  united 
in  securing  control  of  that  body,  although  the 
House  was  Republican.  Fawcett  Plumb,  of  La 
Salle  County,  was  chosen  President  pro  tempore 
of  the  upper,  and  James  Shaw  Speaker  of  the 
lower,  house.  The  inauguration  of  State  officers 
took  place  Jan.  8,  Shelby  M.  Cullom  becoming 
Governor  and  Andrew  Shu  man,  Lieutenant-Go  v- 
ernor.  This  was  one  of  the  most  exciting  years 
in  American  political  history  Both  of  the  domi- 
nant parties  claimed  to  have  elected  the  President, 
and  the  respective  votes  in  the  Electoral  College 
were  so  close  as  to  excite  grave  apprehension  in 
many  minds.  It  was  also  the  year  for  the  choice 
of  a  Senator  by  the  Illinois  Legislature,  and  the 
attention  of  the  entire  country  was  directed 
toward  this  State-  Gen.  John  M.  Palmer  was 
the  nominee  of  the  Democratic  caucus  and  John 
A.  Logan  of  the  Republicans.  On  the  twenty- 
fourth  ballot  the  name  of  General  Logan  was 
withdrawn,  most  of  the  Republican  vote  going 
to  Charles  B.  Lawrence,  and  the  Democrats  going 
over  to  David  Davis,  who,  although  an  original 


Republican  and  friend  of  Lincoln,  and  Justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court  by  appointment  of  Mr.  Lin- 
coln, had  become  an  Independent  Democrat.  On 
the  fortieth  ballot  (taken  Jan.  25),  Judge  Davis 
received  101  votes,  to  94  for  Judge  La  wren  3C 
(Republican)  and  five  scattering,  thus  securing 
Davis'  election.  Not  many  acts  of  vital  impor- 
tance were  passed  by  this  Legislature.  Appellate 
Courts  were  established  and  new  judicial  districts 
created;  the  original  jurisdiction  of  county 
courts  was  enlarged;  better  safeguards  were 
thrown  about  miners ;  measures  looking  at  once 
to  the  supervision  and  protection  of  railroads  were 
passed,  as  well  as  various  laws  relating  chiefly  to 
the  police  administration  of  the  State  and  of 
municipalities.  The  length  of  the  session  was 
142  days. 

THIRTY-FIRST  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan.  8,  1879,  with  a  Republican  majority  in  each 
house.  Andrew  Shuman,  the  newly  elected  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor,  presided  in  the  Senate,  and 
William  A.  James  of  Lake  County  was  chosen 
Speaker  of  the  House.  John  M.  Hamilton  of 
McLean  County  (afterwards  Governor),  was 
chosen  President  pro  tempore  of  the  Senate. 
John  A.  Logan  was  elected  United  States  Senator 
on  Jan.  21,  the  complimentary  Democratic  vote 
being  given  to  Gen.  John  C.  Black.  Various 
laws  of  public  importance  were  enacted  by  this 
Legislature,  among  them  being  one  creating  the 
Bureau  of  Labor  Statistics ;  the  first  oleomargar- 
ine law;  a  drainage  and  levee  act;  a  law  for  the 
reorganization  of  the  militia;  an  act  for  the 
regulation  of  pawnbrokers;  a  law  limiting  the 
pardoning  power,  and  various  laws  looking 
toward  the  supervision  and  control  of  railways. 
The  session  lasted  144  days,  and  the  Assembly 
adjourned,  sine  die,  May  31,  1879. 

THIRTY  SECOND  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan.  5,  1881,  the  Republicans  having  a  majority 
in  both  branches.  Lieutenant-Governor  Hamil- 
ton presided  in  the  Senate,  William  J.  Campbell 
of  Cook  County  being  elected  President  pro  tem- 
pore. Horace  H.  Thomas,  also  of  Cook,  was 
chosen  Speaker  of  the  House.  Besides  the  rou- 
tine legislation,  the  most  important  measures 
enacted  by  this  Assembly  were  laws  to  prevent 
the  spread  of  pleuro-pneumonia  among  cattle: 
regulating  the  sale  of  firearms;  providing  more 
stringent  penalties  for  the  adulteration  of  food, 
drink  or  medicine;  regulating  the  practice  of 
pharmacy  and  dentistry  amending  the  revenue 
and  school  laws;  and  requiring  annual  statements 
from  official  custodians  of  public  moneys.  The 
Legislature  adjourned  May  30,  after  having  been 


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in  session  146  days,  but  was  called  together  again 
in  special  session  by  the  Governor  on  March  23, 
1682,  to  pass  new  Legislative  and  Congressional 
Apportionment  Laws,  and  for  the  consideration 
of  other  subjects.  The  special  session  lasted 
forty- four  days,  adjourning  May  5 — both  sessions 
occupying  a  total  of  190  days. 

THIRTY-THIRD  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan.  2,  1883,  with  the  Republicans  again  in  the 
majority  in  both  houses.  William  J.  Campbell 
was  re-elected  President  pro  tempore  of  the 
Senate,  but  not  until  the  sixty-first  ballot,  six 
Republicans  refusing  to  be  bound  by  the  nomina- 
tion of  a  caucus  held  prior  to  their  arrival  at 
Springfield.  Loren  C.  Collins,  also  of  Cook,  was 
elected  Speaker  of  the  House.  The  compliment- 
ary Democratic  vote  was  given  to  Thomas  M.  Shaw 
in  the  Senate,  and  to  Austin  O.  Sexton  in  the 
House.  Governor  Cullom,  the  Republican  caucus 
nominee,  was  elected  United  States  Senator,  Jan. 
16,  receiving  a  majority  in  each  branch  of  the 
General  Assembly.  The  celebrated  "Harper 
High-License  Bill,"  and  the  first  "Compulsory 
School  Law"  were  passed  at  this  session,  the 
other  acts  being  of  ordinary  character.  The 
Legislature  adjourned  June  18,  having  been  in 
session  168  days. 

THIRTY -FOURTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan.  7,  1885.  The  Senate  was  Republican  by  a 
majority  of  one,  there  being  twenty -six  members 
of  that  party,  twenty-four  Democrats  and  one 
greenback  Democrat.  William  J.  Campbell,  of 
Cook  County,  was  for  the  third  time  chosen 
President  pro  tempore.  The  House  stood  seventy- 
six  Republicans  and  seventy-six  Democrats,  with 
one  member — Elijah  M.  Haines  of  Lake  County — 
calling  himself  an  "Independent."  The  contest 
for  the  Speakership  continued  until  Jan.  29, 
when,  neither  party  being  able  to  elect  its  nomi- 
nee, the  Democrats  took  up  Haines  as  a  candidate 
and  placed  him  in  the  chair,  with  Haines'  assist- 
ance, filling  the  minor  offices  with  their  own 
men.  After  the  inauguration  of  Governor 
Oglesby,  Jan.  30,  the  first  business  was  the  elec- 
tion of  a  United  States  Senator.  The  balloting 
proceeded  until  May  18,  when  John  A.  Logan  re- 
ceived 103  votes  to  ninety-six  for  Lambert  Tree  and 
five  scattering.  Three  members — one  Republican 
and  two  Democrats — had  died  since  the  opening 
of  the  session ;  and  it  was  through  the  election  of 
a  Republican  in  place  of  one  of  the  deceased 
Democrats,  that  the  Republicans  succeeded  in 
electing  their  candidate.  The  session  was  a 
stormy  one  throughout,  the  Speaker  being,  much 
of  the  time,  at  odds  with  the  House,  and  an 


unsuccessful  effort  was  made  to  depose  him. 
Charges  of  bribery  against  certain  members  were 
preferred  and  investigated,  but  no  definite  result 
was  reached.  Among  the  important  measures 
passed  by  this  Legislature  were  the  following :  A 
joint  resolution  providing  for  submission  of  an 
amendment  to  the  Constitution  prohibiting  con- 
tract labor  in  penal  institutions;  providing  by 
resolution  for  the  appointment  of  a  non-partisan 
Commission  of  twelve  to  draft  a  new  revenue 
code ;  the  Crawford  primary  election  law ;  an  act 
amending  the  code  of  criminal  procedure ;  estab- 
lishing a  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home,  subse- 
quently located  at  Quincy ;  creating  a  Live-Stock 
Commission  and  appropriating  $531,712  for  the 
completion  of  the  State  House.  The  Assembly 
adjourned,  sine  die,  June  26,  1885,  after  a  session 
of  171  days. 

THIRTY-FIFTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan.  5,  1887.  The  Republicans  had  a  majority  of 
twelve  in  the  Senate  and  three  in  the  House. 
For  President  pro  tempore  of  the  Senate,  August 
W.  Berggren  was  chosen;  for  Speaker  of  the 
House,  Dr.  William  F.  Calhoun,  of  De  Witt 
County.  The  death  of  General  Logan,  which 
had  occurred  Dec.  26,  1886,  was  officially  an- 
nounced by  Governor  Oglesby(  and,  on  Jan.  18, 
Charles  B.  Farwell  was  elected  to  succeed  him  as 
United  States  Senator.  William  R.  Morrison  and 
Benjamin  W.  Goodhue  were  the  candidates  of 
the  Democratic  and  Labor  parties,  respectively. 
Some  of  the  most  important  laws  passed  by  this 
General  Assembly  were  the  following:  Amend 
ing  the  law  relating  to  the  spread  of  contagious 
diseases  among  cattle,  etc. ;  the  Chase  bill  to 
prohibit  book-making  and  pool-selling;  regulat 
ing  trust  companies;  making  the  Trustees  of 
the  University  of  Illinois  elective;  inhibiting 
aliens  from  holding  real  estate,  and  forbidding 
the  marriage  of  first  cousins.  An  act  virtually 
creating  a  new  State  banking  system  was  also 
passed,  subject  to  ratification  by  popular  vote. 
Other  acts,  having  more  particular  reference  to 
Chicago  and  Cook  County,  were:  a  law  making 
cities  and  counties  responsible  for  three-fourths 
of  the  damage  resulting  from  mobs  and  riots ;  the 
Merritt  conspiracy  law;  the  Gibbs  Jury  Commis- 
sion law,  and  an  act  for  the  suppression  of 
bucket-shop  gambling.  The  session  ended  June 
15,  1887.  having  continued  162  days. 

THIRTY-SIXTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan.  7,  1889,  in  its  first  (or  regular)  session,  the 
Republicans  being  largely  in  the  majority.  The 
Senate  elected  Theodore  S.  Chapman  of  Jersey 
County,  President  pro  tempore,  and  the  House 


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Asa  C  Matthews  of  Pike  County,  Speaker.  Mr. 
Matthews  was  appointed  First  Comptroller  of  the 
Treasury  by  President  Harrison,  on  May  9  (see 
Matthews,  Asa  C. ),  and  resigned  the  Speakership 
on  the  following  day.  He  was  succeeded  by 
James  H.  Miller  of  Stark  County.  Shelby  M. 
Cullom  was  re-elected  to  the  United  States  Senate 
on  January  22,  the  Democrats  again  voting  for 
ex-Gov.  John  M.  Palmer.  The  "Sanitary  Drain- 
age District  Law,"  designed  for  the  benefit  of  the 
city  of  Chicago,  was  enacted  at  this  session ;  an 
asylum  for  insane  criminals  was  established  at 
Chester ;  the  annexation  of  cities,  towns,  villages, 
etc.,  under  certain  conditions,  was  authorized; 
more  stringent  legislation  was  enacted  relative  to 
the  circulation  of  obscene  literature ;  a  new  com- 
pulsory education  law  was  passed,  and  the  em- 
ployment on  public  works  of  aliens  who  had  not 
declared  their  intention  of  becoming  citizens  was 
prohibited.  This  session  ended,  May  28.  A 
special  session  was  convened  by  Governor  Fifer 
on  July  24,  1890,  to  frame  and  adopt  legislation 
rendered  necessary  by  the  Act  of  Congress  locat- 
ing the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  at  Chicago. 
Mr.  Miller  having  died  in  the  interim,  William  G. 
Cochran,  of  Moultrie  County,  was  chosen  Speaker 
of  the  House.  The  special  session  concluded 
Aug.  1,  1890,  having  enacted  the  following  meas- 
ures ;  An  Act  granting  the  use  of  all  State  lands, 
(submerged  or  other)  in  or  adjacent  to  Chicago,  to 
the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  for  a  period  to 
extend  one  year  after  the  closing  of  the  Exposi- 
tion; authorizing  the  Chicago  Boards  of  Park 
Commissioners  to  grant  the  use  of  the  public 
parks,  or  any  part  thereof,  to  promote  the  objects 
of  such  Exposition ;  a  joint  resolution  providing 
for  the  submission  to  the  people  of  a  Constitu- 
tional Amendment  granting  to  the  city  of  Chicago 
the  power  (provided  a  majority  of  the  qualified 
voters  desired  it)  to  issue  bonds  to  an  amount  not 
exceeding  $5,000,000,  the  same  to  bear  interest 
and  the  proceeds  of  their  sale  to  be  turned  over 
to  the  Exposition  Managers  to  be  devoted  to  the 
use  and  for  the  benefit  of  the  Exposition.  (See 
also  World's  Columbian  Exposition.)  The  total 
length  of  the  two  sessions  was  150  days. 

THIRTY-SEVENTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  convened 
Jan.  7,  1891,  and  adjourned  June  12  following. 
Lieut. -Gov.  Ray  presided  in  the  Senate,  Milton 
W.  Matthews  (Republican),  of  Urbana,  being 
elected  President  pro  tern.  The  Democrats  had 
control  in  the  House  and  elected  Clayton  E. 
Crafts,  of  Cook  County,  Speaker.  The  most 
exciting  feature  of  the  session  was  the  election  of 
a  United  States  Senator  to  succeed  Charles  B. 


Farwell.  Neither  of  the  two  leading  parties  had 
a  majority  on  joint  ballot,  the  balance  of  power 
being  held  by  three  "Independent"  members  of 
the  House,  who  had  been  elected  as  represent- 
atives of  the  Farmers'  Mutual  Benevolent  Alli- 
ance. Richard  J.  Oglesby  was  the  caucus 
nominee  of  the  Republicans  and  John  M.  Palmer 
of  the  Democrats.  For  a  time  the  Independents 
stood  as  a  unit  for  A.  J.  Streeter,  but  later  two  of 
the  three  voted  for  ex-Governor  Palmer,  finally, 
on  March  11,  securing  his  election  on  the  154th 
ballot  in  joint  session.  Meanwhile,  the  Repub- 
licans had  cast  tentative  ballots  for  Alson  J. 
Streeter  and  Cicero  J.  Lindley,  in  hope  of  draw- 
ing the  Independents  to  their  support,  but  without 
effective  result.  The  final  ballot  stood — Palmer, 
103;  Lindley,  101,  Streeter  1.  Of  1,296  bills  intro- 
duced in  both  Houses  at  this  session,  only  151 
became  laws,  the  most  important  being:  The 
Australian  ballot  law,  and  acts  regulating  build- 
ing and  loan  associations ;  prohibiting  the  employ- 
ment of  children  under  thirteen  at  manual  labor ; 
fixing  the  legal  rate  of  interest  at  seven  per  cent ; 
prohibiting  the  "truck  system"  of  paying  em- 
ployes, and  granting  the  right  of  suffrage  to 
women  in  the  election  of  school  officers.  An 
amendment  of  the  State  Constitution  permitting 
the  submission  of  two  Constitutional  Amend- 
ments to  the  people  at  the  same  time,  was  sub- 
mitted by  this  Legislature  and  ratified  at  the 
election  of  1892.  The  session  covered  a  period  of 
157  days. 

THIRTY-EIGHTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY.  This 
body  convened  Jan.  4, 1893.  The  Democrats  were 
in  the  ascendency  in  both  houses,  having  a 
majority  of  seven  in  the  Senate  and  of  three  in 
the  lower  house.  Joseph  R.  Gill,  the  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  was  ex-officio  President  of  the  Senate, 
and  John  W.  Coppinger,  of  Alton,  was  chosen 
President  pro  tern.  Clayton  E.  Crafts  of  Cook 
County  was  again  chosen  Speaker  of  the  House. 
The  inauguration  of  the  new  State  officers  took 
place  on  the  afternoon  of  Tuesday,  Jan.  10.  This 
Legislature  was  in  session  164  days,  adjourning 
June  16,  1893.  Not  very  much  legislation  of  a 
general  character  was  enacted.  New  Congres- 
sional and  Legislative  apportionments  were 
passed,  the  former  dividing  the  State  into  twenty- 
two  districts;  an  Insurance  Department  was 
created;  a  naval  militia  was  established;  the 
scope  of  the  juvenile  reformatory  was  enlarged 
and  the  compulsory  education  law  was  amended. 

THIRTY-NINTH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY.  This 
Legislature  held  two  sessions — a  regular  and  a 
special.  The  former  opened  Jan.  9,  1895,  and 


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closed  June  14,  following.  The  political  com- 
plexion of  the  Senate  was — Republicans,  thirty- 
three;  Democrats,  eighteen;  of  the  House, 
ninety-two  Republicans  and  sixty-one  Democrats. 
John  Meyer,  of  Cook  County,  was  elected  Speaker 
of  the  House,  and  Charles  Bogardus  of  Piatt 
County,  President  pro  tern,  of  the  Senate.  Acts 
were  passed  making  appropriations  for  improve- 
ment of  the  State  Fair  Grounds  at  Springfield ; 
authorizing  the  establishment  of  a  Western  Hos- 
pital for  the  Insane  ($100,000);  appropriating 
$100,000  for  a  Western  Hospital  for  the  Insane ; 
$65,000  for  an  Asylum  for  Incurable  Insane;  $50,- 
000,  each,  for  two  additional  Normal  Schools — one 
in  Northern  and  the  other  in  Eastern  Illinois; 
$25,000  for  a  Soldiers'  Widows'  Home — all  being 
new  institutions — besides  $15,000  for  a  State 
exhibition  at  the  Atlanta  Exposition;  $65,000  to 
mark,  by  monuments,  the  position  of  Illinois 
troops  on  the  battlefields  of  Chickamauga,  Look- 
out Mountain  and  Missionary  Ridge.  Other  acts 
passed  fixed  the  salaries  of  members  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  at  $1,000  each  for  each  regular 
session;  accepted  the  custody  of  the  Lincoln 
monument  at  Springfield,  authorized  provision 
for  the  retirement  and  pensioning  of  teachers  in 
public  schools,  and  authorized  the  adoption  of 
civil  service  rules  for  cities.  The  special  session 
convened,  pursuant  to  a  call  by  the  Governor,  on 
June  25,  1895,  took  a  recess,  June  28  to  July  9, 
re-assembled  on  the  latter  date,  and  adjourned, 
sine  die,  August  2.  Outside  of  routine  legisla- 
tion, no  laws  were  passed  except  one  providing 
additional  necessary  revenue  for  State  purposes 
and  one  creating  a  State  Board  of  Arbitration. 
The  regular  session  continued  157  days  and  the 
special  twenty-nine—total  186. 

FORTIETH  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY  met  in  regular 
session  at  Springfield,  Jan.  6,  1897,  and  adjourned, 
sine  die,  June  4.  The  Republicans  had  a  major- 
ity in  both  branches,  the  House  standing  eighty- 
eight  Republicans  to  sixty -three  Democrats  and 
two  Populists,  and  the  Senate,  thirty-nine  Repub- 
licans to  eleven  Democrats  and  one  Populist, 
giving  the  Republicans  a  majority  on  joint  ballot 
of  fifty  votes.  Both  houses  were  promptly  organ- 
ized by  the  election  of  Republican  officers,  Edward 
C.  Curtis  of  Kankakee  County  being  chosen 
Speaker  of  the  House,  and  Hendrick  V.  Fisher, 
of  Henry  County,  President  pro  tern,  of  the  Sen- 
ate. Governor  Tanner  and  the  other  Republican 
State  officers  were  formally  inaugurated  on 
Jan.  11,  and,  on  Jan.  20,  William  E.  Mason 
(Republican)  was  chosen  United  States  Senator 
to  succeed  John  M.  Palmer,  receiving  in  joint 


session  125  votes  to  seventy-seven  for  John  P. 
Altgeld  (Democrat) .  Among  the  principal  laws 
enacted  at  this  session  were  the  following:  An 
act  concerning  aliens  and  to  regulate  the  right  to 
hold  real  estate,  and  prescribing  the  terms  and 
conditions  for  the  conveyance  of  the  same; 
empowering  the  Commissioners  who  were  ap- 
pointed at  the  previous  session  to  ascertain  and 
mark  the  positions  occupied  by  Illinois  Volunteers 
in  the  battles  of  Chickamauga,  Lookout  Moun- 
tain and  Missionary  Ridge,  to  expend  the  remain- 
ing appropriations  in  their  hands  for  the  erection 
of  monuments  on  the  battle-grounds ;  authorizing 
the  appointment  of  a  similar  Commission  to 
ascertain  and  mark  the  positions  held  by  Illinois 
troops  in  the  battle  of  Shiloh ;  to  reimburse  the 
University  of  Illinois  for  the  loss  of  funds  result- 
ing from  the  Spaulding  defalcation  and  affirming 
the  liability  of  the  State  for  "the  endowment 
fund  of  the  University,  amounting  to  $456,712.91, 
and  for  so  much  in  addition  as  may  be  received 
in  future  from  the  sale  of  lands";  authorizing 
the  adoption  of  the  "Torrens  land-title  system"  in 
the  conveyance  and  registration  of  land  titles  by 
vote  of  the  people  in  any  county ;  the  consolida- 
tion of  the  three  Supreme  Court  Districts  of  the 
State  into  one  and  locating  the  Court  at  Spring- 
field; creating  a  State  Board  of  Pardons,  and 
prescribing  the  manner  of  applying  for  pardons 
and  commutations.  An  act  of  this  session,  which 
produced  much  agitation  and  led  to  a  great  deal 
of  discussion  in  the  press  and  elsewhere,  was  the 
street  railroad  law  empowering  the  City  Council, 
or  other  corporate  authority  of  any  city,  to  grant 
franchises  to  street  railway  companies  extending 
to  fifty  years.  This  act  was  repealed  by  the 
General  Assembly  of  1899  before  any  street  rail- 
way corporation  had  secured  a  franchise  under  it. 
A  special  session  was  called  by  Governor  Tanner 
to  meet  Dec.  7,  1897,  the  proclamation  naming 
five  topics  for  legislative  action.  The  session 
continued  to  Feb.  24,  1898,  only  two  of  the  meas- 
ures named  by  the  Governor  in  his  call  being 
affirmatively  acted  upon.  These  included:  (1)  an 
elaborate  act  prescribing  the  manner  of  conduct- 
ing primary  elections  of  delegates  to  nominating 
conventions,  and  (2)  a  new  revenue  law  regulat- 
ing the  manner  of  assessing  and  collecting  taxes. 
One  provision  of  the  latter  law  limits  the  valuation 
of  property  for  assessment  purposes  to  one-fifth 
its  cash  value.  The  length  of  the  regular  session 
was  150  days,  and  that  of  the  special  session 
eighty  days — total,  230  days. 

GENESEO,  a  city  in  Henry  County,  about  two 
miles  south  of  the  Green  River.     It  is  on  the  Chi- 


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cago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railway,  23  miles 
east  of  Rock  Island  and  75  miles  west  of  Ottawa. 
It  is  in  the  heart  of  a  grain-growing  region,  and 
has  two  large  grain  elevators.  Manufacturing  is 
also  carried  on  to  a  considerable  extent  here, 
furniture,  wagons  and  farming  implements  con- 
stituting the  chief  output.  Geneseo  has  eleven 
churches,  a  graded  and  a  high  school,  a  col- 
legiate institute,  two  banks,  and  two  weekly  news- 
papers. Population  (1890),  3,182;  (1900),  3,356; 
(1910),  3,199. 

GENEVA,  a  city  and  railway  junction  on  Fox 
River,  and  the  county -seat  of  Kane  County;  35 
miles  west  of  Chicago.  It  has  a  fine  courthouse, 
completed  in  1892  at  a  cost  of  $250,000,  and 
numerous  handsome  churches  and  school  build- 
ings. A  State  Reformatory  for  juvenile  female 
offenders  has  been  located  here.  There  is  an  ex- 
cellent water-power,  operating  six  manufac- 
tories, including  extensive  glucose  works.  The 
town  has  a  bank,  creamery,  water-works,  gas 
and  electric  light  plant,  and  two  semi-weekly  news- 
papers. The  surrounding  country  is  devoted  to 
agriculture  and  dairy  farming.  Population  (1890), 
1,692;  (1900),  2,446;  (1910),  2,451. 

GENOA,  a  village  of  De  Kalb  County,  on  Omaha 
Division  of  the  Chi.,  Mil.  &  St.  Paul,  the  111.  Cent, 
and  Chi.  &  N.  W.  Railroads,  59  miles  west  of 
Chicago.  Dairying  is  a  leading  industry;  has  two 
banks,  shoe  and  telephone  factories,  and  one  weekly 
paper.  Pop.  (1900),  1,140;  (1910),  1,257. 

GEOLOGICAL  FORMATIONS.  The  geological 
structure  of  Illinois  embraces  a  representation, 
more  or  less  complete,  of  the  whole  paleonic 
series  of  formations,  from  the  calciferous  group 
of  the  Lower  Silurian  to  the  top  of  the  coal  meas- 
ures. In  addition  to  these  older  rocks  there  is  a 
limited  area  in  the  extreme  southern  end  of  the 
State  covered  with  Tertiary  deposits.  Over- 
spreading these  formations  are  beds  of  more 
recent  age,  comprising  sands,  clays  and  gravel, 
varying  in  thickness  from  ten  to  more  than  two 
hundred  feet.  These  superficial  deposits  may  be 
divided  into  Alluvium,  Loess  and  Drift,  and  con- 
stitute the  Quaternary  system  of  modern  geolo- 
gists. 

LOWER  SILURIAN  SYSTEM. — Under  this  heading 
may  be  noted  three  distinct  groups :  the  Calcifer- 
ous, the  Trenton  and  the  Cincinnati.  The  first 
mentioned  group  comprises  the  St.  Peter's  Sand- 
stone and  the  Lower  Magnesian  Limestone.  The 
former  outcrops  only  at  a  single  locality,  in  La 
Salle  County,  extending  about  two  miles  along 
the  valley  of  the  Illinois  River  in  the  vicinity  of 
Utica.  The  thickness  of  the  strata  appearing 


above  the  surface  is  about  80  feet,  thin  bands  of 
Magnesian  limestone  alternating  with  layers  of 
Calciferous  sandstone.  Many  of  the  layers  con- 
tain good  hydraulic  rock,  which  is  utilized  in  the 
manufacture  of  cement.  The  entire  thickness  of 
the  rock  below  the  surface  has  not  been  ascer- 
tained, but  is  estimated  at  about  400  feet.  The 
St.  Peter's  Sandstone  outcrops  in  the  valley  of 
the  Illinois,  constituting  the  main  portion  of  the 
bluffs  from  Utica  to  a  point  beyond  Ottawa,  and 
forms  the  "bed  rock"  in  most  of  the  northern 
townships  of  La  Salle  County.  It  also  outcrops 
on  the  Rock  River  in  the  vicinity  of  Oregon  City, 
and  forms  a  conspicuous  bluff  on  the  Mississippi 
in  Calhoun  County.  Its  maximum  thickness  in 
the  State  may  be  estimated  at  about  200  feet.  It 
is  too  incoherent  in  its  texture  to  be  valuable  as 
a  building  stone,  though  some  of  the  upper  strata 
in  Lee  County  have  been  utilized  for  caps  and 
sills.  It  affords,  however,  a  fine  quality  of  sand 
for  the  manufacture  of  glass.  The  Trenton 
group,  which  immediately  overlies  the  St.  Peter's 
Sandstone,  consists  of  three  divisions.  The  low- 
est is  a  brown  Magnesian  Limestone,  or  Dolomite, 
usually  found  in  regular  beds,  or  strata,  varying 
from  four  inches  to  two  feet  in  thickness.  The 
aggregate  thickness  varies  from  twenty  feet,  in 
the  northern  portion  of  the  State,  to  sixty  or 
seventy  feet  at  the  bluff  in  Calhoun  County.  At 
the  quarries  in  La  Salle  County,  it  abounds  in 
fossils,  including  a  iarge  Lituites  and  several 
specimens  of  Orthoceras,  Maclurea,  etc.  The 
middle  division  of  the  Trenton  group  consists  of 
light  gray,  compact  limestones  in  the  southern 
and  western  parts  of  the  State,  and  of  light  blue, 
thin-bedded,  shaly  limestone  in  the  northern  por- 
tions. The  upper  division  is  the  well-known 
Galena  limestone,  the  lead-bearing  rock  of  the 
Northwest.  It  is  a  buff  colored,  porous  Dolomite, 
sometimes  arenaceous  and  unevenly  textured, 
giving  origin  to  a  ferruginous,  sandy  clay  when 
decomposed.  The  lead  ores  occur  in  crevices, 
caverns  and  horizontal  seams.  These  crevices  were 
probably  formed  by  shrinkage  of  the  strata  from 
crystallization  or  by  some  disturbing  force  from 
beneath,  and  have  been  enlarged  by  decomposi- 
tion of  the  exposed  surface.  Fossils  belonging  to 
a  lower  order  of  marine  animal  than  the  coral  are 
found  in  this  rock,  as  are  also  marine  shells, 
corals  and  crustaceans.  Although  this  limestone 
crops  out  over  a  considerable  portion  of  the  terri- 
tory between  the  Mississippi  and  the  Rock  River, 
the  productive  lead  mines  are  chiefly  confined  to 
Jo  Daviess  and  Stephenson  Counties.  All  tHe 
divisions  of  the  Trenton  group  afford  good  build- 


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ing  material,  some  of  the  rock  being  susceptible 
of  a  high  polish  and  making  a  handsome,  durable 
marble.  About  seventy  feet  are  exposed  near 
Thebes,  in  Alexander  County.  All  through  the 
Southwest  this  stone  is  known  as  Cape  Girardeau 
marble,  from  its  being  extensively  quarried  at 
Cape  Girardeau,  Mo.  The  Cincinnati  group 
immediately  succeeds  the  Trenton  in  the  ascend- 
ing scale,  and  forms  the  uppermost  member  of 
the  Lower  Silurian  system.  It  usually  consists  of 
argillaceous  and  sandy  shales,  although,  in  the 
northwest  portion  of  the  State,  Magnesian  lime- 
stone is  found  with  the  shales.  The  prevailing 
colors  of  the  beds  are  light  blue  and  drab, 
weathering  to  a  light  ashen  gray.  This  group  is 
found  well  exposed  in  the  vicinity  of  Thebes, 
Alexander  County,  furnishing  a  durable  building 
stone  extensively  used  for  foundation  walls. 
Fossils  are  found  in  profusion  in  all  the  beds, 
many  fine  specimens,  in  a  perfect  state  of  preser- 
vation, having  been  exhumed. 

UPPER  SILURIAN  SYSTEM.— The  Niagara  group 
in  Northern  Illinois  consists  of  brown,  gray  and 
buff  magnesian  limestones,  sometimes  evenly 
bedded,  as  at  Joliet  and  Athens,  and  sometimes 
concretionary  and  brecciated,  as  at  Bridgeport  and 
Port  Byron.  Near  Chicago  the  cells  and  pockets 
of  this  rock  are  filled  with  petroleum,  but  it  has 
been  ascertained  that  only  the  thirty  upper  feet 
of  the  rock  contain  bituminous  matter.  The 
quarries  in  Will  and  Jersey  Counties  furnish  fine 
building  and  flagging  stone.  The  rock  is  of  a 
light  gray  color,  changing  to  buff  on  exposure. 
In  Pike  and  Calhoun  Counties,  also,  there  are  out- 
croppings  of  this  rock  and  quarries  are  numerous. 
It  is  usually  evenly  bedded,  the  strata  varying  in 
thickness  from  two  inches  to  two  feet,  and  break- 
ing evenly.  Its  aggregate  thickness  in  Western 
and  Northern  Illinois  ranges  from  fifty  to  150 
feet.  In  Union  and  Alexander  Counties,  in  the 
southern  part  of  the  State,  the  Upper  Silurian 
series  consists  chiefly  of  thin  bedded  gray  or 
buff-colored  limestone,  silicious  and  cherty,  flinty 
material  largely  preponderating  over  the  lime- 
stone. Fossils  are  not  abundant  in  this  formation, 
although  the  quarries  at  Bridgeport,  in  Cook 
County,  have  afforded  casts  of  nearly  100  species 
of  marine  organisms,  the  calcareous  portion  hav- 
ing been  washed  away, 

DEVONIAN  SYSTEM.— This  system  is  represented 
in  Illinois  by  three  well  marked  divisions,  cor- 
responding to  the  Oriskany  sandstone,  the  Onon- 
daga  limestone  and  the  Hamilton  and  Corniferous 
beds  of  New  York.  To  these  the  late  Professor 
Worthen,  for  many  years  State  Geologist,  added, 


although  with  some  hesitancy,  the  black  shale 
formation  of  Illinois.  Although  these  comprise 
an  aggregate  thickness  of  over  500  feet,  their 
exposure  is  limited  to  a  few  isolated  outcroppings 
along  the  bluffs  of  the  Illinois,  Mississippi  and 
Rock  Rivers.  The  lower  division,  called  "Clear 
Creek  Limestone,"  is  about  250  feet  thick,  and  is 
only  found  in  the  extreme  southern  end  of  the 
State.  It  consists  of  chert,  or  impure  flint,  and 
thin-bedded  silico-magnesian  limestones,  rather 
compact  in  texture,  and  of  buff  or  light  gray 
to  nearly  white  colors.  When  decomposed  by 
atmospheric  influences,  it  forms  a  fine  white  clay, 
resembling  common  chalk  in  appearance.  Some 
of  the  cherty  beds  resemble  burr  stones  in  poros- 
ity, and  good  mill-stones  are  made  therefrom  in 
Union  County.  Some  of  the  stone  is  bluish-gray, 
or  mottled  and  crystalline,  capable  of  receiving 
a  high  polish,  and  making  an  elegant  and  durable 
building  stone.  The  Onondaga  group  comprises 
some  sixty  feet  of  quartzose  sandstone  and 
striped  silicious  shales.  The  structure  of  the 
rock  is  almost  identical  with  that  of  St.  Peter's 
Sandstone.  In  the  vicinity  of  its  outcrop  in 
Union  County  are  found  fine  beds  of  potter's  clay, 
also  variegated  in  color.  The  rock  strata  are 
about  twenty  feet  thick,  evenly  bedded  and  of  a 
coarse,  granular  structure,  which  renders  the 
stone  valuable  for  heavy  masonry.  The  group 
has  not  been  found  north  of  Jackson  County. 
Large  quantities  of  characteristic  fossils  abound. 
The  rocks  composing  the  Hamilton  group  are  the 
most  valuable  of  all  the  divisions  of  the  Devonian 
system,  and  the  outcrops  can  be  identified  only  by 
their  fossils.  In  Union  and  Jackson  Counties  it  is 
found  from  eighty  to  100  feet  in  thickness,  two 
beds  of  bluish  gray,  fetid  limestone  being  sepa- 
rated by  about  twenty  feet  of  calcareous  shales. 
The  limestones  are  highly  bituminous.  In  Jersey 
and  Calhoun  Counties  the  group  is  only  six  to 
ten  feet  thick,  and  consists  of  a  hard,  silicious 
limestone,  passing  at  some  points  into  a  quartzose 
sandstone,  and  at  others  becoming  argillaceous, 
as  at  Grafton.  The  most  northern  outcrop  is  in 
Rock  Island  County,  where  the  rock  is  concretion- 
ary in  structure  and  is  utilized  for  building  pur- 
poses and  in  the  manufacture  of  quicklime. 
Fossils  are  numerous,  among  them  being  a  few 
fragments  of  fishes,  which  are  the  oldest  remains 
of  vertebrate  animals  yet  found  in  the  State. 
The  black  shale  probably  attains  its  maximum 
development  in  Union  County,  where  it  ranges 
from  fifty  to  seventy-five  feet  in  thickness.  Its 
lower  portion  is  a  fine,  black,  laminated  slate, 
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shales  associated  with  the  coal  seams,  which  cir- 
cumstance has  led  to  the  fruitless  expenditure  of 
much  time  and  money.  The  bituminous  portion 
of  the  mass,  on  distillation,  yields  an  oil  closely 
resembling  petroleum.  Crystals  of  iron  pyrites 
are  abundant  in  the  argillaceous  portion  of  the 
group,  which  does  noi  extend  north  of  the  coun- 
ties of  Calhoun,  Jersey  and  Pike. 

LOWER  CARBONIFEROUS  SYSTEM.  —  This  is  di- 
visible into  five  groups,  as  follows :  The  Kinder- 
hook  group,  the  Burlington  limestone,  and  the 
Keokuk,  St.  Louis  and  Chester  groups.  Its 
greatest  development  is  in  the  southern  portion 
of  the  State,  where  it  has  a  thickness  of  1,400  or 
1,500  feet.  It  thins  out  to  the  northward  so  rapidly 
that,  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Lower  Rapids  on  the 
Mississippi,  it  is  only  300  feet  thick,  while  it 
wholly  disappears  below  Rock  Island.  The  Kinder- 
hook  group  is  variable  in  its  lithological  charac- 
ter, consisting  of  argillaceous  and  sandy  shales, 
with  thin  beds  of  compact  and  oolitic  limestone, 
passing  locally  into  calcareous  shales  or  impure 
limestone.  The  entire  formation  is  mainly  a 
mechanical  sediment,  with  but  a  very  small  por- 
tion of  organic  matter.  The  Burlington  lime- 
stone, on  the  other  hand,  is  composed  almost 
entirely  of  the  fossilized  remains  of  organic 
beings,  with  barely  enough  sedimentary  material 
to  act  as  a  cement.  Its  maximum  thickness 
scarcely  exceeds  200  feet,  and  its  principal  out- 
crops are  in  the  counties  of  Jersey,  Greene,  Scott, 
Calhoun,  Pike,  Adams,  Warren  and  Henderson. 
The  rock  is  usually  a  light  gray,  buff  or  brown 
limestone,  either  coarsely  granular  or  crystalline 
in  structure.  The  Keokuk  group  immediately 
succeeds  the  Burlington  in  the  ascending  order, 
with  no  well  denned  line  of  demarcation,  the 
chief  points  of  difference  between  the  two  being 
in  color  and  in  the  character  of  fossils  found.  At 
the  upper  part  of  this  group  is  found  a  bed  of 
calcareo-argillaceous  shale,  containing  a  great 
variety  of  geodes,  which  furnish  beautiful  cabinet 
specimens  of  crystallized  quartz,  chalcedony, 
dolomite  and  iron  pyrites.  In  Jersey  and  Monroe 
Counties  a  bed  of  hydraulic  limestone,  adapted  to 
the  manufacture  of  cement,  is  found  at  the  top  of 
this  formation.  The  St.  Louis  group  is  partly 
a  fine-grained  or  semi-crystallized  bluish-gray 
limestone,  and  partly  concretionary,  as  around 
Alton.  In  the  extreme  southern  part  of  the  State 
the  rock  is  highly  bituminous  and  susceptible  of 
receiving  a  high  polish,  being  used  as  a  black 
marble.  Beds  of  magnesian  limestone  are  found 
here  and  there,  which  furnish  a  good  stone  for 
foundation  walls.  In  Hardin  County,  the  rock 


is  traversed  by  veins  of  fluor  spar,  carrying 
galena  and  zinc  blonde.  The  Chester  group  is 
only  found  in  the  southern  part  of  the  State, 
thinning  out  from  a  thickness  of  eight  hundred 
feet  in  Jackson  and  Randolph  Counties,  to  about 
twenty  feet  at  Alton.  It  consists  of  hard,  gray, 
crystalline,  argillaceous  limestones,  alternating 
with  sandy  and  argillaceous  shales  and  sandstones, 
which  locally  replace  each  other.  A  few  species 
of  true  carboniferous  flora  are  found  in  the  are- 
naceous shales  and  sandstones  of  this  group,  the 
earliest  traces  of  pre-historic  land  plants  found  in 
the  State.  Outcrops  extend  in  a  narrow  belt 
from  the  southern  part  of  Hardin  County  to  the 
southern  line  of  St.  Clair  County,  passing  around 
the  southwest  border  of  the  coal  field. 

UPPER  CARBONIFEROUS  SYSTEM.— This  includes 
the  Conglomerate,  or  "Mill  Stone  Grit"  of  Euro- 
pean authors,  and  the  true  coal  measures.  In  the 
southern  portion  of  the  State  its  greatest  thick- 
ness is  about  1,200  feet.  It  becomes  thinner 
toward  the  north,  scarcely  exceeding  400  or  500 
feet  in  the  vicinity  of  La  Salle.  The  word  "con- 
glomerate" designates  a  thick  bed  of  sandstone 
that  lies  at  the  base  of  the  coal  measures,  and 
appears  to  have  resulted  from  the  culmination  of 
the  arenaceous  sedimentary  accumulations.  It 
consists  of  massive  quartzose  sandstone,  some- 
times nearly  white,  but  more  frequently  stained 
red  or  brown  by  the  ferruginous  matter  which 
it  contains,  and  is  frequently  composed  in 
part  of  rounded  quartz  pebbles,  from  the  size 
of  a  pea  to  several  inches  in  diameter.  When 
highly  ferruginous,  the  oxide  of  iron  cements 
the  sand  into  a  hard  crust  on  the  surface 
of  the  rock,  which  successfully  resists  the  de- 
nuding influence  of  the  atmosphere,  so  that  the 
rock  forms  towering  cliffs  on  the  banks  of  the 
stream  along  which  are  its  outcrops.  Its  thickness 
varies  from  200  feet  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
State  to  twenty-five  feet  in  the  northern.  It  has 
afforded  a  few  species  of  fossil  plants,  but  no 
animal  remains.  The  coal  measures  of  Illinois 
are  at  least  1,000  feet  thick  and  cover  nearly 
three-fourths  of  its  entire  area.  The  strata  are 
horizontal,  the  dip  rarely  exceeding  six  to  ten 
feet  to  the  mile.  The  formation  is  made  up  of 
sandstone,  shales,  thin  beds  of  limestone,  coal, 
and  its  associated  fire  clays.  The  thickness  of 
the  workable  beds  is  from  six  to  twenty-four 
inches  in  the  upper  measures,  and  from  two  to 
five  feet  in  the  lower  measures.  The  fire  clays, 
on  which  the  coal  seams  usually  rest,  probably 
represent  the  ancient  soil  on  which  grew  the 
trees  and  plants  from  which  the  coal  is  formed. 


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When  pure,  these  clays  are  valuable  for  the 
manufacture  of  fire  brick,  tile  and  common 
pottery.  Illinois  coal  is  wholly  of  the  bitumi- 
nous variety,  the  metamorphic  conditions  which 
resulted  in  the  production  of  anthracite  coal  in 
Pennsylvania  not  having  extended  to  this  State. 
Fossils,  both  vegetable  and  animal,  abound  in 
the  coal  measures. 

TERTIARY  SYSTEM.— This  system  is  represented 
only  in  the  southern  end  of  the  State,  where  cer- 
tain deposits  of  stratified  sands,  shales  and  con- 
glomerate are  found,  which  appear  to  mark  the 
northern  boundary  of  the  great  Tertiary  forma- 
tion of  the  Gulf  States.  Potter's  clay,  lignite  and 
silicious  woods  are  found  in  the  formation. 

QUATERNARY  SYSTEM.— This  system  embraces 
all  the  superficial  material,  including  sands,  clay, 
gravel  and  soil  which  overspreads  the  older  for- 
mations in  all  portions  of  the  State.  It  gives 
origin  to  the  soil  from  which  the  agricultural 
wealth  of  Illinois  is  derived.  It  may  be  properly 
separated  into  four  divisions:  Post-tertiary 
sands,  Drift,  Loess  and  Alluvium.  The  first- 
named  occupies  the  lowest  position  in  the  series, 
and  consists  of  stratified  beds  of  yellow  sand  and 
blue  clay,  of  variable  thickness,  overlaid  by  a 
black  or  deep  brown,  loamy  soil,  in  which  are 
found  leaves,  branches  and  trunks  of  trees  in  a 
good  state  of  preservation.  Next  above  lie  the 
drift  deposits,  consisting  of  blue,  yellow  and 
brown  clays,  containing  gravel  and  boulders  of 
various  sizes,  the  latter  the  water-worn  frag- 
ments of  rocks,  many  of  which  have  been  washed 
down  from  the  northern  shores  of  the  great 
lakes.  This  drift  formation  varies  in  thickness 
from  twenty  to  120  feet,  and  its  accumulations 
are  probably  due  to  the  combined  influence  of 
water  currents  and  moving  ice.  The  subsoil 
over  a  large  part  of  the  northern  and  central 
portions  of  the  State  is  composed  of  fine  brown 
clay.  Prof.  Desquereux  (Illinois  Geological  Sur- 
vey, Vol.  I. )  accounts  for  the  origin  of  this  clay 
and  of  the  black  prairie  soil  above  it,  by  attribut- 
ing it  to  the  growth  and  decomposition  of  a 
peculiar  vegetation.  The  Loess  is  a  fine  mechan- 
ical sediment  that  appears  to  have  accumulated  in 
some  body  of  fresh  water.  It  consists  of  marly 
sands  and  clays,  of  a  thickness  varying  from  five  to 
sixty  feet.  Its  greatest  development  is  along  the 
bluffs  of  the  principal  rivers.  The  fossils  found 
in  this  formation  consist  chiefly  of  the  bones  and 
teeth  of  extinct  mammalia,  such  as  the  mam- 
moth, mastodon,  etc.  Stone  implements  of 
primeval  man  are  also  discovered.  The  term 
alluvium  is  usually  restricted  to  the  deposits 


forming  the  bottom  lands  of  the  rivers  and 
smaller  streams.  They  consist  of  irregularly 
stratified  sand,  clay  and  loam,  which  are  fre- 
quently found  in  alternate  layers,  and  contain 
more  or  less  organic  matter  from  decomposed 
animal  and  vegetable  substances.  When  suffi- 
ciently elevated,  they  constitute  the  richest  and 
most  productive  farming  lands  in  the  State. 

GEORGETOWN,  a  city  (incor.  1909)  of  Ver- 
milion County,  on  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati, 
Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway,  10  miles  south  of 
Danville.  It  has  a  bank  and  one  weekly  paper; 
extensive  coal  mines  in  vicinity.  Pop.  (1910),  2,307. 

GERMAN  EVANGELICAL  SCHOOL,  located  at 
Addison,  Du  Page  County ;  incorporated  in  1852 ; 
has  a  faculty  of  three  instructors  and  reports  187 
pupils  for  1897-98,  with  a  property  valuation  of 
$9,600. 

GERMANTOWN,  a  village  of  Clinton  County, 
on  the  Southern  Railroad  25  miles  east  of  Belle- 
ville, in  a  farming  and  stock-raising  district.  Pop. 
(1910),  655;  (1910),  711. 

GEST,  William  H.,  lawyer  and  ex-Congress- 
man, was  born  at  Jacksonville,  111.,  Jan.  7,  1838. 
When  but  four  years  old  his  parents  removed  to 
Rock  Island,  where  he  has  since  resided.  He 
graduated  from  Williams  College  in  1860,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1862,  and  has  always  been 
actively  engaged  in  practice.  In  1886  he  was 
elected  to  Congress  by  the  Republicans  of  the 
Eleventh  Illinois  District,  and  was  re-elected  in 
1888,  but  in  1890  was  defeated  by  Benjamin  T. 
Cable,  Democrat. 

GIBAULT,  Pierre,  a  French  priest,  supposed  to 
have  been  born  at  New  Madrid  in  what  is  now 
Southeastern  Missouri,  early  in  the  eighteenth 
century;  was  Vicar-General  at  Kaskaskia,  with 
ecclesiastical  jurisdiction  over  the  churches  at 
Cahokia,  St.  Genevieve  and  adjacent  points,  at 
the  time  of  the  capture  of  Kaskaskia  by  Col. 
George  Rogers  Clark  in  1778,  and  rendered  Clark 
important  aid  in  conciliating  the  French  citizens 
of  Illinois.  He  also  made  a  visit  to  Vincennes  and 
induced  the  people  there  to  take  the  oath  of  allegi- 
ance to  the  new  government.  He  even  advanced 
means  to  aid  Clark's  destitute  troops,  but  beyond 
a  formal  vote  of  thanks  by  the  Virginia  Legisla- 
ture, he  does  not  appear  to  have  received  any 
recompense.  Governor  St.  Clair,  in  a  report  to 
Thomas  Jefferson,  then  Secretary  of  State,  dwelt 
impressively  upon  the  value  of  Father  Gibault's 
services  and  sacrifices,  and  Judge  Law  said  of 
him,  "Next  to  Clark  and  (Francis)  Vigo,  the 
United  States  are  indebted  more  to  Father 
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in  what  was  the  original  Northwest  Territory 
than  to  any  other  man."  The  date  and  place  of 
his  death  are  unknown. 

GIBSON  CITY,  a  town  in  Ford  County,  situ- 
ated on  the  Lake  Erie  &  Western  Railroad,  34 
miles  east  of  Bloom  ington,  and  at  the  intersec- 
tion of  the  Wabash  Railroad  and  the  Springfield 
Division  of  the  Illinois  Central.  The  principal 
mechanical  industries  are  iron  works,  canning 
works,  a  shoe  factory,  and  a  tile  factory.  It  has 
two  banks,  two  newspapers,  nine  churches  and 
an  academy.  A  college  is  projected.  Popula- 
tion (1890),  1,803;  (1900),  2,054;  (1910),  2,086. 

(.1  F,L,  Joseph  B.,  Lieutenant-Governor  (1893- 
97),  was  born  on  a  farm  near  Marion,  Williamson 
County,  111.,  Feb.  17,  1862.  In  1868  his  father 
settled  at  Murphysboro,  where  Mr.  Gill  still 
makes  his  home.  His  academic  education  was 
received  at  the  school  of  the  Christian  Brothers, 
in  St.  Louis,  and  at  the  Southern  Illinois  Normal 
University,  Carbondale.  In  1886  he  graduated 
from  the  Law  Department  of  the  Michigan  State 
University,  at  Ann  Arbor.  Returning  home  he 
purchased  an  interest  in  "The  Murphysboro  Inde- 
pendent," which  paper  he  conducted  and  edited 
up  to  January,  1893.  In  1888  he  was  elected  to 
the  lower  house  of  the  Legislature  and  re-elected 
in  1890.  As  a  legislator  he  was  prominent  as  a 
champion  of  the  labor  interest.  In  1893  he  was 
nominated  and  elected  Lieutenant-Governor  on 
the  Democratic  ticket,  serving  from  January, 
1893,  to  '97. 

GILLESPIE,  a  village  of  Macoupin  County,  on 
the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis 
Railway,  10  miles  southwest  of  Litchfield.  This 
is  an  agricultural,  coal-mining  and  stock-raising 
region ;  the  town  has  a  bank  and  a  newspaper. 
Pop.  (1890),  948;  (1900),  873;  (1910),  2,241. 

GILLESPIE,  Joseph,  lawyer  and  Judge,  was 
born  in  New  York  City,  August  22,  1809,  of  Irish 
parents,  who  removed  to  Illinois  in  1819,  settling 
on  a  farm  near  Bdwardsville.  After  coming  to 
Illinois,  at  10  years,  he  did  not  attend  school  over 
two  months.  In  1827  he  went  to  the  lead  mines 
at  Galena,  remaining  until  1829.  In  1831,  at  the 
invitation  of  Cyrus  Edwards,  he  began  the  study 
of  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1837, 
having  been  elected  Probate  Judge  in  1836.  He 
also  served  during  two  campaigns  (1831  and  '32) 
in  the  Black  Hawk  War.  He  was  a  Whig  in 
politics  and  a  warm  personal  friend  of  Abraham 
Lincoln.  In  1840  he  was  elected  to  the  lower 
house  of  the  Legislature,  serving  one  term,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  from  1847  to 
1859.  In  1853  he  received  the  few  votes  of  the 


Whig  members  of  the  Legislature  for  United  States 
Senator,  in  opposition  to  Stephen  A.  Douglas, 
and,  in  1860,  presided  over  the  second  Republican 
State  Convention  at  Decatur,  at  which  elements 
were  set  in  motion  which  resulted  in  the  nomi- 
nation of  Abraham  Lincoln  for  the  Presidency 
for  the  first  time,  a  week  later.  In  1861  he  was 
elected  Judge  of  the  Twenty-fourth  Judicial 
Circuit,  and  re-elected  in  1867  for  a  second  term, 
serving  until  1873.  Died,  at  his  home  at  Edwards- 
ville,  Jan.  7,  1885. 

GILLETT,  John  Dean,  agriculturist  and  stock- 
man, was  born  in  Connecticut,  April  28,  1819; 
spent  several  years  of  his  youth  in  Georgia,  but, 
in  1838,  came  to  Illinois  by  way  of  St.  Louis, 
finally  reaching  "Bald  Knob,"  in  Logan  County, 
where  an  uncle  of  the  same  name  resided.  Here 
he  went  to  work,  and,  by  frugality  and  judicious 
investments,  finally  acquired  a  large  body  of 
choice  lands,  adding  to  his  agricultural  operations 
the  rearing  and  feeding  of  stock  for  the  Chicago 
and  foreign  markets.  In  this  he  was  remarkably 
successful.  In  his  later  years  he  was  President 
of  a  National  Bank  at  Lincoln.  At  the  time  of 
his  death,  August  27,  1888,  he  was  the  owner  of 
16,500  acres  of  improved  lands  in  the  vicinity  of 
Elkhart,  Logan  County,  besides  large  herds  of 
fine  stock,  both  cattle  and  horses.  He  left  a  large 
family,  one  of  his  daughters  being  the  wife  of 
the  late  Senator  Richard  J.  Oglesby. 

GILLETT,  Philip  Goode,  specialist  and  edu- 
cator, born  in  Madison,  Ind. ,  March  24,  1833 ;  was 
educated  at  Asbury  University,  Greencastle,  Ind. , 
graduating  in  1852,  and  the  same  year  became  an 
instructor  in  the  Institution  for  the  Education  of 
the  Deaf  and  Dumb  in  that  State.  In  1856  he 
became  Principal  of  the  Illinois  Institution  for 
the  Education  of  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  at  Jackson- 
ville, remaining  there  until  1893,  when  he 
resigned.  Thereafter,  for  some  years,  he  was 
President  of  the  Association  for  the  Promotion  of 
Speech  by  the  Deaf,  with  headquarters  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.,  but  later  returned  to  Jacksonville, 
where  he  died  Oct.  2,  1901. 

GILLHAM,  Daniel  B.,  agriculturist  and  legis- 
lator, was  born  at  a  place  now  called  Wanda,  in 
Madison  County,  111.,  April  29,  1826— his  father 
being  a  farmer  and  itinerant  Methodist  preacher, 
who  belonged  to  one  of  the  pioneer  families  in 
the  American  Bottom  at  an  early  day.  The  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools  and  at  McKendree  College,  but  did  not 
graduate  from  the  latter.  In  his  early  life  he 
followed  the  -vocation  of  a  farmer  and  stock- 
grower  in  one  of  the  most  prosperous  and  highly 


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cultivated  portions  of  the  American  Bottom,  a 
few  miles  below  Alton,  but,  in  1872,  removed  to 
Alton,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
He  became  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Agri- 
culture in  1866,  serving  eight  years  as  Superin- 
tendent and  later  as  its  President;  was  also  a 
Trustee  of  Shurtleff  College  some  twenty-five 
years,  and  for  a  time  President  of  the  Board.  In 
1870  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the 
Twenty-seventh  General  Assembly,  and  to  the 
State  Senate  in  1882,  serving  a  term  of  four  years 
in  the  latter.  On  the  night  of  March  17,  1890,  he 
was  assaulted  by  a  burglar  in  his  house,  receiving 
a  wound  from  a  pistol-shot  in  consequence  of 
which  he  died,  April  6,  following.  The  identity 
of  his  assailant  was  never  discovered,  and  the 
crime  consequently  went  unpunished. 

OILMAN,  a  city  in  Iroquois  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Illinois  Central  and  the  To- 
ledo, Peoria  &  Western  Railways,  81  miles  soutli 
by  west  from  Chicago  and  208  miles  northeast 
of  St.  Louis.  It  is  in  the  heart  of  one  of  the 
richest  corn  districts  of  the  State  and  has  large 
stock-raising  and  fruit-growing  interests.  It  has 
an  opera  house,  a  public  library,  an  extensive 
nursery,  brick  and  tile  works,  a  linseed  oil  mill, 
two  banks  and  two  weekly  newspapers.  Arte- 
sian well  water  is  obtained  by  boring  from  90  to 
200  feet.  Pop.  (1900),  1,441;  (1910),  1,305. 

OILMAN,  Arthur,  was  born  at  Alton,  111.,  June 
22,  1837,  the  son  of  Winthrop  S.  Oilman,  of  the 
firm  of  Oilman  &  Godfrey,  in  whose  warehouse 
the  printing  press  of  Rev.  Elijah  P.  Lovejoy  was 
stored  at  the  time  of  its  destruction  by  a  mob  in 
1837;  was  educated  in  St.  Louis  and  New  York, 
began  business  as  a  banker  in  1857,  but,  in  1870, 
removed  to  Cambridge,  Mass.,  and  connected 
himself  with  "The  Riverside  Press."  Mr.  Oilman 
was  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  what  is  known  as 
"The  Harvard  Annex"  in  the  interest  of  equal 
collegiate  advantages  for  women,  and  has  written 
much  for  the  periodical  press,  besides  publishing 
a  number  of  volumes  in  the  line  of  history  and 
English  literature. 

OILMAN,  CLINTON  &  SPRINGFIELD  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  Illinois  Central  Railroad. ) 

6IRARD,  a  city  in  Macoupin  County,  on  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad,  25  miles  south  by  west 
from  Springfield  and  13  miles  north-northeast  of 
Carlinville.  Coal-mining  is  carried  on  extensively 
here.  The  city  also  has  a  bank,  five  churches 
and  a  weekly  newspaper.  Population  (1880), 
1,024;  (1890),  1,524;  (1900),  1,661;  (1910),  1,891. 

GLENCOE,  a  village  of  Cook  County,  on  the 
Milwaukee  Division  of  the  Chicago  &  Northwest- 


ern Railway,  19  miles  north  of  Chicago.  Popu- 
lation (1890),  569;  (1900),  1,020;  (1910),  1,899. 

GLENN,  Archibald  A.,  ex-Lieutenant-Governor, 
was  born  in  Nicholas  County,  Ky.,  Jan.  30,  1819. 
In  1828  his  father's  family  removed  to  Illinois, 
settling  first  in  Vermilion,  and  later  in  Schuyler 
County.  At  the  age  of  13,  being  forced  to 
abandon  school,  for  six  years  he  worked  upon  the 
farm  of  his  widowed  mother,  and,  at  19,  entered 
a  printing  office  at  Rushville,  where  he  learned 
the  trade  of  compositor.  In  1844  he  published  a 
Whig  campaign  paper,  which  was  discontinued 
after  the  defeat  of  Henry  Clay.  For  eleven 
years  he  was  Circuit  Clerk  of  Brown  County, 
during  which  period  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar ; 
was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention 
o*  1862,  and  of  the  State  Board  of  Equalization 
from  1868  to  1872.  The  latter  year  he  was  elected 
to  the  State  Senate  for  four  years,  and,  in  1875, 
chosen  its  President,  thus  becoming  ex-officio 
Lieutenant-Governor.  He  early  abandoned  legal 
practice  to  engage  in  banking  and  in  mercan- 
tile investment.  After  the  expiration  of  his  term 
in  the  Senate,  he  removed  to  Kansas,  where  he 
resided  until  his  death,  May  21,  1901. 

GLEN  CARBON,  a  village  of  Madison  County, 
on  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad;  in  coal  mining 
region.  Pop.  (1910),  1,220. 

GLEN  ELLYN,  a  village  of  Dupage  County,  two 
miles  east  of  Wheaton,  on  Chicago  &  North  Western 
Railroad.  Pop.  (1910),  1,763. 

GLENN,  John  J.,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was  born 
in  Ashland  County,  Ohio,  March  2,  1831 ;  gradu- 
ated from  Miami  University  in  1856  and,  in  1858, 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Terre  Haute,  Ind. 
Removing  to  Illinois  in  1860,  he  settled  in  Mercer 
County,  a  year  later  removing  to  Monmouth  in 
Warren  County,  where  he  still  resides.  In  1877 
he  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Tenth  Judicial  Cir- 
cuit and  re-elected  in  1879,  '85,  '91,  and  '»7. 
After  his  last  election  he  served  for  some  time, 
by  appointment  of  the  Supreme  Court,  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Appellate  Court  for  the  Springfield 
District,  but  ultimately  resigned  and  returned  to 
Circuit  Court  duty.  His  reputation  as  a  cool- 
headed,  impartial  Judge  stood  very  high,  and  his 
name  had  been  favorably  regarded  for  a  place  on 
the  Supreme  Bench.  Died  Jan.  6,  1905. 

GLOVER,  Joseph  Otis,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Cayuga  County,  N.  Y.,  April  13,  1810,  and  edu- 
cated in  the  high-school  at  Aurora  in  that  State. 
In  1835  he  came  west  to  attend  to  a  land  case  at 
Galena  for  his  father,  and,  although  not  then  a 
lawyer,  he  managed  the  case  so  successfully  that 
he  was  asked  to  take  charge  of  two  others.  This 


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determined  the  bent  of  his  mind  towards  the  law, 
to  the  study  of  which  he  turned  his  attention 
under  the  preceptorship  of  the  late  Judge  The- 
ophilus  L.  Dickey,  then  of  Ottawa.  Soon  after 
being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1840,  he  formed  a 
partnership  with  the  late  Burton  C.  Cook,  whioh 
lasted  over  thirty  years.  In  1846  he  was  elected 
as  a  Democrat  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  Fif- 
teenth General  Assembly,  but,  on  the  repeal  of 
the  Missouri  Compromise,  he  became  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Republican  party  and  a  close 
friend  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  whom  he  entertained, 
at  the  time  of  his  (Lincoln's)  debate  with  Senator 
Douglas,  at  Ottawa,  in  1858.  In  1868  he  served 
as  Presidential  Elector  at  the  time  of  General 
Grant's  first  election  to  the  Presidency,  and  the 
following  year  was  appointed  United  States  Dis- 
trict Attorney  for  the  Northern  District,  serving 
until  1875.  In  1877  he  was  appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Cullom  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Railway 
and  Canal  Commissioners,  of  which  he  afterwards 
became  President,  serving  six  years.  Died,  in 
Chicago,  Dec.  10,  1892. 

GODFREY,  (Capt.)  Benjamin,  sea  captain  and 
philanthropist,  was  born  at  Chatham,  Mass.,  Dec. 
4,  1794:  at  nine  years  of  age  he  ran  away  from 
home  and  went  to  sea,  his  first  voyage  being  to 
Ireland,  where  he  spent  nine  years.  The  War  of 
1812  coming-  on,  he  returned  home,  spending  a 
part  of  the  next  three  years  in  the  naval  service, 
also  gaining  a  knowledge  of  the  science  of  navi- 
gation. Later,  he  became  master  of  a  mer.chant- 
vessel  making  voyages  to  Italy,  Spain,  the  West 
Indies  and  other  countries,  finally,  by  shipwreck 
in  Cuban  waters,  losing  the  bulk  of  his  fortune. 
In  1824  he  engaged  in  mercantile  business  at 
Matamoras,  Mex.,  where  he  accumulated  a  hand- 
some fortune ;  but,  in  transferring  it  (amounting 
to  some  1200,000  in  silver)  across  the  country  on 
pack-animals,  he  was  attacked  and  robbed  by 
brigands,  with  which  that  country  was  then 
infested.  Resuming  business  at  New  Orleans,  he 
was  again  successful,  and,  in  1832,  came  north, 
locating  near  Alton,  111. ,  the  next  year  engaging 
in  the  warehouse  and  commission  business  as  the 
partner  of  Winthrop  S.  Gilman,  under  the  name 
of  Godfrey  &  Oilman.  It  was  in  the  warehouse 
of  this  firm  at  Alton  that  the  printing-press  of 
Elijah  P.  Lovejoy  was  stored  when  it  was  seized 
and  destroyed  by  a  mob,  and  Lovejoy  was  killed, 
in  October,  1837.  (See  Lovejoy,  Elijah  P. )  Soon 
after  establishing  himself  at  Alton,  Captain  God- 
frey made  a  donation  of  land  and  money  for  the 
erection  of  a  young  ladies'  seminary  at  the  village 
of  Godfrey,  four  miles  from  Alton.  (See  Monti- 


cello  Female  Seminary.)  The  first  cost  of  the 
erection  of  buildings,  borne  by  him,  was  $53,000. 
The  institution  was  opened,  April  11,  1838,  and 
Captain  Godfrey  continued  to  be  one  of  its  Trustees 
as  long  as  he  lived.  He  was  also  one  of  the  lead- 
ing spirits  in  the  construction  of  the  Alton  & 
Springfield  Railroad  (now  a  part  of  the  Chicago 
&  Alton),  in  which  he  invested  heavily  and  un- 
profitably.  Died,  at  Godfrey,  April  13,  1862. 

GOLCONDA,  a  village  and  county-seat  of  Pope 
County,  on  the  Ohio  River,  80  miles  northeast 
of  Cairo ;  located  in  agricultural  and  mining  dis- 
trict; zinc,  lead  and  kaolin  mined  in  the  vicinity; 
has  a  courthouse,  eight  churches,  schools,  one 
bank,  a  newspaper,  a  box  factory,  flour  and  saw 
mills,  and  a  fluor-spar  factory.  It  is  the  termi- 
nus of  a  branch  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,174;  (1900),  1,140;  (1910),  1,088. 

GOLDZIER,  Julius,  ex-Congressman,  was 
born  at  Vienna,  Austria,  Jan.  20,  1854,  and 
emigrated  to  New  York  in  1866.  In  1872  he 
settled  in  Chicago,  where  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1877,  and  where  he  has  practiced 
law  ever  since.  From  1890  to  1892  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Chicago  City  Council,  and,  in 
1892,  was  the  successful  Democratic  candidate 
in  the  Fourth  District,  for  Congress,  but  was 
defeated  in  1894  by  Edward  D.  Cooke.  At  the 
Chicago  city  election  of  1899  he  was  again  re- 
turned to  the  Council  as  Alderman  for  the  Thirty- 
second  Ward. 

GOODING,  James,  pioneer,  was  born  about 
1767,  and,  in  1832,  was  residing  at  Bristol,  Ontario 
County,  N.  Y.,  when  he  removed  to  Cook  County, 
111.,  settling  in  what  was  later  called  "Gooding's 
Grove,"  now  a  part  of  Will  County.  The  Grove 
was  also  called  the  "Yankee  Settlement,"  from 
the  Eastern  origin  of  the  principal  settlers.  Mr. 
Gooding  was  accompanied,  or  soon  after  joined,  by 
three  sons — James,  Jr. ,  William  and  Jasper — and 
a  nephew,  Charles  Gooding,  all  of  whom  became 
prominent  citizens.  The  senior  Gooding  died  in 
1849,  at  the  age  of  82  years.— William  (Gooding), 
civil  engineer,  son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  at 
Bristol,  Ontario  County,  N.  Y.,  April  1,  1803; 
educated  in  the  common  schools  and  by  private 
tuition,  after  which  he  divided  his  time  chiefly 
between  teaching  and  working  on  the  farm  of 
his  father,  James  Gooding.  Having  devoted 
considerable  attention  to  surveying  and  civil 
engineering,  he  obtained  employment  in  1826  on 
the  Welland  Canal,  where  he  remained  three  years. 
He  then  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  at  Lock- 
port,  N.  Y.,  but  sold  out  at  the  end  of  the  first 
year  and  went  to  Ohio  to  engage  in  his  profession. 


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Being  unsuccessful  in  this,  he  accepted  employ- 
ment for  a  time  as  a  rodman,  but  later  secured  a 
position  as  Assistant  Engineer  on  the  Ohio  Canal. 
After  a  brief  visit  to  his  father's  in  1832,  he 
returned  to  Ohio  and  engaged  in  business  there 
for  a  short  time,  but  the  following  year  joined 
his  father,  who  had  previously  settled  in  a  portion 
of  what  is  now  Will  County,  but  then  Cook,  mak- 
ing the  trip  by  the  first  mail  steamer  around  the 
lakes.  Heat  first  settled  at  "Gooding's  Grove" 
and  engaged  in  farming.  In  1836  he  was  ap- 
pointed Assistant  Engineer  on  the  Illinois  & 
Michigan  Canal,  but,  in  1842,  became  Chief  Engi- 
neer, continuing  in  that  position  until  the  com- 
pletion of  the  canal  in  1848,  when  he  became 
Secretary  of  the  Canal  Board.  Died,  at  Lockport, 
Will  County,  in  May,  1878. 

GOODRICH,  Grant,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was 
born  in  Milton,  Saratoga,  County,  N.  Y.,  August 
7,  1811 ;  grew  up  in  Western  New  York,  studied 
law  and  came  to  Chicago  in  1834,  becoming  one 
of  the  most  prominent  and  reputable  members  of 
his  profession,  as  well  as  a  leader  in  many  of  the 
movements  for  the  educational,  moral  and  reli- 
gious advancement  of  the  community.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  First  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church  of  Chicago,  an  active  member  of 
the  Union  Defense  Committee  during  the  war,  an 
incorporator  and  life- long  Trustee  of  the  North- 
western University,  and  President  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  of  Garrett  Biblical  Institute,  besides 
being  identified  with  many  organizations  of  a 
strictly  benevolent  character.  In  1859  Judge 
Goodrich  was  elected  a  Judge  of  the  newly  organ- 
ized Superior  Court,  but,  at  the  end  of  his  term, 
resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession.  Died, 
March  15,  1889. 

GORE,  David,  ex-State  Auditor,  was  born  in 
Trigg  County,  Ky.,  Aprils,  1827;  came  with  his 
parents  to  Madison  County,  111. ,  in  1834,  and  served 
in  the  Mexican  War  as  a  Quartermaster,  afterwards 
locating  in  Macoupin  County,  where  he  has  been 
extensively  engaged  in  farming.  In  1874  he  was 
an  unsuccessful  Greenback-Labor  candidate  for 
State  Treasurer,  in  1884  was  elected  to  the  State 
Senate  from  the  Macoupin-Morgan  District,  and, 
in  1892,  nominated  and  elected,  as  a  Democrat, 
Auditor  of  Public  Accounts,  serving  until  1897. 
For  some  sixteen  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
State  Board  of  Agriculture,  the  last  two  years  of 
that  period  being  its  President.  His  home  is  at 
Carlinville. 

GOUDT,  Calvin,  early  printer  and  physician, 
was  born  in  Ohio,  June  2,  1814;  removed  with 
his  parents,  in  childhood,  to  Indianapolis,  and 


in  1832  to  Vandalia,  111.,  where  he  worked  in  the 
State  printing  office  and  bindery.  In  the  fall  of 
1833  the  family  removed  to  Jacksonville,  and  the 
following  year  he  entered  Illinois  College,  being 
for  a  time  a  college-mate  of  Richard  Yates,  after- 
wards Governor.  Here  he  continued  his  vocation 
as  a  printer,  working  for  a  time  on  "Peck's 
Gazetteer  of  Illinois"  and  "Goudy's  Almanac," 
of  which  his  father  was  publisher.  In  association 
with  a  brother  while  in  Jacksonville,  he  began 
the  publication  of  "The  Common  School  Advo- 
cate," the  pioneer  publication  of  its  kind  in  the 
Northwest,  which  was  continued  for  about  a 
year.  Later  he  studied  medicine  with  Drs.  Henry 
and  Merriman  in  Springfield,  finally  graduating 
at  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College  and,  in  1844. 
began  practice  at  Taylorville ;  in  1847  was  elected 
Probate  Judge  of  Christian  County  for  a  term  of 
four  years;  in  1851  engaged  in  mercantile  busi- 
ness, which  he  continued  nineteen  years.  In  1856 
he  was  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  General 
Assembly  and,  in  the  session  of  the  following 
year,  was  a  leading  supporter  of  the  act  estab- 
lishing the  State  Normal  School  at  Normal,  still 
later  serving  for  some  sixteen  years  on  the  State 
Board  of  Education.  Died,  at  Taylorville,  in 
1877.  Dr.  Goudy  was  an  older  brother  of  the  late 
William  C.  Goudy  of  Chicago. 

GOUDY,  William  C.,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Indiana,  May  15,  1824 ;  came  to  Illinois,  with  his 
father,  first  to  Vandalia  and  afterwards  to  Jack- 
sonville, previous  to  1833,  where  the  latter  began 
the  publication  of  "The  Farmer's  Almanac" — a 
well-known  publication  of  that  time.  At  Jack- 
sonville young  Goudy  entered  Illinois  College, 
graduating  in  1845,  when  he  began  the  study  of 
law  with  Judge  Stephen  T.  Logan,  of  Springfield ; 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1847,  and  the  next  year 
began  practice  at  Lewistown,  Fulton  County; 
served  as  State's  Attorney  (1852-55)  and  as  State 
Senator  (1856-60);  at  the  close  of  his  term  re- 
moved to  Chicago,  where  he  became  prominent 
as  a  corporation  and  railroad  lawyer,  in  1886  be- 
coming General  Solicitor  of  the  Chicago  &  North- 
western Railroad.  During  President  Cleveland's 
first  term,  Mr.  Goudy  was  believed  to  exert  a 
large  influence  with  the  administration,  and  was 
credited  with  having  been  largely  instrumental 
in  securing  the  appointment  of  his  partner,  Mel- 
ville W.  Fuller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court.  Died,  April  27,  1893. 

GRAFF,  Joseph  V.,  lawyer  and  Congressman, 
was  born  at  Terre  Haute,  Ind.,  July  1,  1854;  after 
graduating  from  the  Terre  Haute  high-school, 
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ville,  but  did  not  graduate ;  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  at  Delavan,  111.,  in  1879;  in 
1892  was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  National 
Convention  at  Minneapolis,  but,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  President  of  the  Board  of  Education, 
never  held  any  public  office  until  elected  to  Con- 
gress from  the  Fourteenth  Illinois  District,  as  a 
Republican,  in  November,  1894.  Mr.  Graff  was  a 
successful  candidate  for  re-election  in  1896,  and 
again  in  '98. 

GRAFTON,  a  city  in  Jersey  County,  situated 
on  the  Mississippi  one  and  a  half  miles  below  the 
mouth  of  the  Illinois  River.  The  bluffs  are  high 
and  fine  river  views  are  obtainable.  A  fine 
quality  of  fossiliferous  limestone  is  quarried  here 
and  exported  by  the  river.  The  town  has  a 
bank,  three  churches,  a  graded  school  and  one 
weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  988;  (1910),  1,116. 

GRAIN  INSPECTION,  a  mode  of  regulating 
the  grain-trade  in  accordance  with  State  law,  and 
under  the  general  supervision  of  the  Railroad  and 
Warehouse  Commission.  The  principal  exec- 
utive officer  of  the  department  is  the  Chief 
Inspector  of  Grain,  the  expenses  of  whose  adminis- 
tration are  borne  by  fees.  The  chief  business  of 
the  inspection  department  is  transacted  in  Chi- 
cago, where  the  principal  offices  are  located.  (See 
Railroad  and  Warehouse  Commission.) 

GRAMMAR,  John,  pioneer  and  early  legislator, 
came  to  Southern  Illinois  at  a  very  early  date  and 
served  as  a  member  of  the  Third  Territorial 
Council  for  Johnson  County  (1816-18);  was  a 
citizen  of  Union  County  when  it  was  organized 
in  1818,  and  served  as  State  Senator  from  that 
county  in  the  Third  and  Fourth  General  Assem- 
blies (1822-26),  and  again  in  the  Seventh  and 
Eighth  General  Assemblies  (1830-34),  for  the  Dis- 
trict composed  of  Union,  Johnson  and  Alexander 
Counties.  He  is  described  as  having  been  very 
illiterate,  but  a  man  of  much  shrewdness  and 
considerable  influence. 

GRAND  ARMY  OF  THE  REPUBLIC,  a  fra- 
ternal, charitable  and  patriotic  association, 
limited  to  men  who  served  in  the  Union  army  or 
navy  during  the  Civil  War,  and  received  hon- 
orable discharge.  Its  founder  was  Dr.  B.  F. 
Stephenson,  who  served  as  Surgeon  of  the  Four- 
teenth Illinois  Infantry.  In  this  task  he  had 
the  cooperation  of  Rev.  William  J.  Rutledge, 
Chaplain  of  the  same  regiment,  Col.  John  M. 
Snyder,  Dr.  James  Hamilton,  Maj.  Robert  M. 
Woods,  Maj.  Robert  Allen,  Col.  Martin  Flood, 
Col.  Daniel  Grass,  Col.  Edward  Prince,  Capt. 
John  S.  Phelps,  Capt.  John  A.  Lightfoot,  Col. 
B.  F.  Smith,  Maj.  A.  A.  North,  Capt.  Henry  E. 


Howe,  and  Col.  B.  F.  Hawkes,  all  Illinois  veter- 
ans. Numerous  conferences  were  held  at  Spring- 
field, in  this  State,  a  ritual  was  prepared,  and  the 
first  post  was  chartered  at  Decatur,  111.,  April  6, 
1866.  The  charter  members  were  Col.  I.  C.  Pugh, 
George  R.  Steele,  J.  W.  Routh,  Joseph  Prior, 
J.  H.  Nale,  J.  T.  Bishop,  G.  H.  Dunning,  B.  F. 
Sibley,  M.  F.  Kanan,  C.  Reibsame,  I.  N.  Coltrin, 
and  Aquila  Toland.  All  but  one  of  these  had 
served  in  Illinois  regiments.  At  first,  the  work 
of  organization  proceeded  slowly,  the  ex-soldiers 
generally  being  somewhat  doubtful  of  the  result 
of  the  project ;  but,  before  July  12,  1866,  the  date 
fixed  for  the  assembling  of  a  State  Convention  to 
form  the  Department  of  Illinois,  thirty-nine  posts 
had  been  chartered,  and,  by  1869,  there  were  330 
reported  in  Illinois.  By  October,  1866,  Depart- 
ments had  been  formed  in  Illinois,  Indiana,  Iowa, 
Wisconsin  and  Minnesota,  and  posts  established 
in  Ohio,  Missouri,  Kentucky,  Arkansas,  Massa- 
chussetts,  New  York,  Pennsylvania,  and  the 
District  of  Columbia,  and  the  first  National 
Encampment  was  held  at  Indianapolis,  November 
20  of  that  year.  In  1894  there  were  7,500  posts, 
located  in  every  State  and  Territory  of  the  Union, 
with  a  membership  of  450,000.  The  scheme  of 
organization  provides  for  precinct,  State  and 
National  bodies.  The  first  are  known  as  posts, 
each  having  a  number,  to  which  the  name  of 
some  battle  or  locality,  or  of  some  deceased  soldier 
may  be  prefixed ;  the  second  (State  organizations) 
are  known  as  Departments;  and  the  supreme 
power  of  the  Order  is  vested  in  the  National  En- 
campment, which  meets  annually.  As  has  been 
said,  the  G.  A.  R.  had  its  inception  in  Illinois. 
The  aim  and  dream  of  Dr.  Stephenson  and  his 
associates  was  to  create  a  grand  organization  of 
veterans  which,  through  its  cohesion,  no  less  than 
its  incisiveness,  should  constitute  a  potential  fac- 
tor in  the  inculcation  and  development  of  patriot- 
ism as  well  as  mutual  support.  While  he  died 
sorrowing  that  he  had  not  seen  the  fruition  of 
his  hopes,  the  present  has  witnessed  the  fullest 
realization  of  his  dream.  (See  Stephenson,  B.  F. ) 
The  constitution  of  the  order  expressly  prohibits 
any  attempt  to  use  the  organization  for  partisan 
purposes,  or  even  the  discussion,  at  any  meeting, 
of  partisan  questions.  Its  aims  are  to  foster  and 
strengthen  fraternal  feelings  among  members ;  to 
assist  comrades  needing  help  or  protection  and 
aid  comrades'  widows  and  orphans,  and  to  incul- 
cate unswerving  loyalty.  The  "Woman's  Relief 
Corps"  is  an  auxiliary  organization,  originating 
at  Portland,  Maine,  in  1869.  The  following  is  a  list 
of  Illinois  Department  Commanders,  chronolog- 


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ically  arranged:  B.  F.  Stephenson  (Provisional, 
1866),  John  M.  Palmer  (1866-68),  Thomas  O. 
Osborne  (1869-70),  Charles  E.  Lippincott  (1871), 
Hubert  Dilger  (1872),  Guy  T.  Gould  (1873),  Hiram 
Billiard  (1874-76),  Joseph  S.  Reynolds  (1877), 
T.  B.  Coulter  (1878),  Edgar  D.  Swain  (1879-80), 
J.  W.  Burst  (1881),  Thomas  G.  Lawler  (1882), 
S.  A.  Harper  (1883),  L.  T.  Dickason  (1884), 
William  W.  Berry  (1885),  Philip  Sidney  Post 
(1886),  A.  C.  Sweetser  (1887),  James  A.  Sexton 
(1888),  James  S.  Martin  (1889),  William  L.  Distin 
(1890),  Horace  S.  Clark  (1891),  Edwin  Harlan 
(1892),  Edward  A.  Blodgett  (1893),  H.  H. 
McDowell  (1894),  W.  H.  Powell  (1895),  William 
G.  Cochran  (1896),  A.  L.  Schimpff  (1897),  John 
C.  Black  (1898),  John  B.  Inman  (1899).  The  fol- 
lowing Illinoisans  have  held  the  position  of  Com- 
mander-in-Chief :  S.  A.  Hurlbut,  (two  terms) 
1866-67;  John  A.  Logan,  (three  terms)  1868-70; 
Thomas  G.  Lawler,  1894;  James  A.  Sexton,  1898. 

GRAND  PRAIRIE  SEMINARY,  a  co-educa- 
tional institution  at  Onarga,  Iroquois  County,  in- 
corporated in  1863;  had  a  faculty  of  eleven  teach- 
ers in  1897-98,  with  285  pupils— 145  male  and  140 
female.  It  reports  an  endowment  of  §10,000  and 
property  valued  at  $55,000.  Besides  the  usual 
classical  and  scientific  departments,  instruction 
is  given  in  music,  oratory,  fine  arts  and  prepara- 
tory studies. 

GRAND  TOWER,  a  town  in  Jackson  County, 
situated  on  the  Mississippi  River,  27  miles  southwest 
of  Carbondale;  the  western  terminus  of  the  Grand 
Tower  &  Carbondale  R.  R.;  named  from  a  high, 
rocky  island  in  the  river.  Pop.  (1910),  873. 

GRANT  PARK,  a  village  of  Kankakee  County 
on  the  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois  Railroad;  50  miles 
south  of  Chicago.  Pop.  (1910),  692. 

GRAND  TOWER  &  CAPE  GIRARDEAU 
RAILROAD.  (See  Chicago  &  Texas  Railroad.) 

GRAND  TOWER  &  CARBONDALE  RAIL- 
ROAD.  (See  Chicago  &  Texas  Railroad.) 

GRANGER,  Flavel  K.,  lawyer,  farmer  and 
legislator,  was  born  in  Wayne  County,  N.  Y., 
May  16,  1832,  educated  in  public  schools  at  Sodus 
in  the  same  State,  and  settled  at  Waukegan,  111., 
in  1853.  Here,  having  studied  law,  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1855,  removing  to  McIIenry 
County  the  same  year,  and  soon  after  engaging  in 
the  live-stock  and  wool  business.  In  1872  he  was 
elected  as  a  Republican  Representative  in  the 
Twenty-eighth  General  Assembly,  being  succes- 
sively re-elected  to  the  Twenty-ninth,  Thirtieth 
and  Thirty-first,  and  being  chosen  Temporary 
Speaker  of  the  Twenty-ninth  and  Thirtieth.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  for  the 


Eighth  District,  having  been  elected  in  1896.  His 
home  was  at  West  McHenry,  111.  Died  June  10, 1905. 

GRANT,  Alexander  Fraeser,  early  lawyer  and 
jurist,  was  born  at  Inverness,  Scotland,  in  1804; 
came  to  Illinois  at  an  early  day  and  located  at 
Shawneetown,  where  he  studied  law  with  Henry 
Eddy,  the  pioneer  lawyer  and  editor  of  that  place. 
Mr.  Grant  is  described  as  a  man  of  marked  ability, 
as  were  many  of  the  early  settlers  of  that  region. 
In  February,  1835,  he  was  elected  by  the  General 
Assembly  Judge  for  the  Third  Circuit,  as  succes- 
sor to  his  preceptor,  Mr.  Eddy,  but  served  only  a 
few  months,  dying  at  Vandalia  the  same  year. 

GRANT,  Ulysses  Simpson,  (originally  Hiram 
Ulysses) ,  Lieutenant  -  General  and  President, 
was  born  at  Point  Pleasant,  Clermont  County, 
Ohio,  April  27,  1822  ;  graduated  from  West 
Point  Military  Academy,  in  1843,  and  served 
through  the  Mexican  War.  After  a  short  resi- 
dence at  St.  Louis,  he  became  a  resident  of  Galena 
in  1860.  His  war-record  is  a  glorious  part  of  the 
Nation's  history.  Entering  the  service  of  the 
State  as  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  Quartermaster- 
General  at  Springfield,  soon  after  the  breaking  out 
of  the  war  in  1861,  and  still  later  serving  as  a 
drill-master  at  Camp  Yates,  in  June  following  he 
was  commissioned  by  Governor  Yates  Colonel  of 
the  Twenty-first  Illinois  Volunteers,  which  he 
immediately  led  into  the  field  in  the  State  of 
Missouri ;  was  soon  after  promoted  to  a  Brigadier- 
Generalship  and  became  a  full  Major-General  of 
Volunteers  on  the  fall  of  Forts  Donelson  and 
Henry,  in  February  following.  His  successes  at 
Fort  Gibson,  Raymond,  Champion  Hill,  and  Big 
Black  River,  ending  with  the  capture  of  Vicks- 
burg,  were  the  leading  victories  of  the  Union 
armies  in  1863.  His  successful  defense  of  Chat- 
tanooga was  also  one  of  his  victories  in  the  West 
in  the  same  year.  Commissioned  a  Major-General 
of  the  Regular  Army  after  the  fall  of  Vicksburg, 
he  became  Lieutenant-General  in  1864,  and,  in 
March  of  that  year,  assumed  command  of  all  the 
Northern  armies.  Taking  personal  command  of 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  he  directed  the  cam- 
paign against  Richmond,  which  resulted  in  the 
final  evacuation  and  downfall  of  the  Confederate 
capital  and  the  surrender  of  General  Lee  at 
Appomattox  on  April  8,  1865.  In  July,  1866,  he 
was  made  General — the  office  being  created  for 
him.  He  also  served  as  Secretary  of  War,  ad 
interim,  under  President  Johnson,  from  Au- 
gust, 1867,  to  January,  1868.  In  1868  he  was 
elected  President  of  the  United  States  and  re- 
elected  in  1872.  His  administration  may  not 
have  been  free  from  mistakes,  but  it  was  charao- 


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terized  by  patriotism  and  integrity  of  purpose. 
During  1877-79  he  made  a  tour  of  the  world,  being 
received  everywhere  with  the  highest  honors.  In 
1880  his  friends  made  an  unsuccessful  effort  to 
secure  his  renomination  as  a  Presidential  candi- 
date on  the  Republican  ticket.  Died,  at  Mount 
McGregor,  N.  Y.,  July  23,  1885.  His  chief  literary 
work  was  his  "Memoirs"  (two  volumes,  1885-86), 
which  was  very  extensively  sold. 

GRAXVILLE,  a  village  of  Putnam  County,  six 
miles  east  of  Hennepin,  at  the  junction  of  the 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railroad  with  two 
other  lines;  is  in  an  agricultural  and  coal  mining 
district;  has  one  weekly  paper.  Population  (1900), 
320;  (1910),  1,391. 

GRATI0T,  Charles,  of  Huguenot  parentage, 
born  at  Lausanne,  Switzerland,  in  1752.  After 
receiving  a  mercantile  training  in  the  counting 
house  of  an  uncle  in  London,  he  emigrated  to 
Canada,  entering  the  employ  of  another  uncle  at 
Montreal.  He  first  came  to  the  "Illinois  Coun- 
try" in  1775,  as  an  Indian  trader,  remaining  one 
year.  In  1777  he  returned  and  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  David  McRae  and  John  Kay,  two  young 
Scotchmen  from  Montreal.  He  established  depots 
at  Cahokia  and  Kaskaskia.  Upon  the  arrival  of 
Col.  George  Rogers  Clark,  in  1778,  he  rendered 
that  commander  material  financial  assistance, 
becoming  personally  responsible  for  the  supplies 
needed  by  the  penniless  American  army.  When 
the  transfer  of  sovereignty  took  place  at  St. 
Louis,  on  March  10,  1804,  and  Louisiana  Territory 
became  a  part  of  the  United  States,  it  was  from 
the  balcony  of  his  house  that  the  first  American 
flag  was  unfurled  in  Upper  Louisiana.  In  recom- 
pense for  his  liberal  expenditure,  he  was  promised 
80,000  acres  of  laud  near  the  present  site  of 
Louisville,  but  this  he  never  received.  Died,  at 
St.  Louis,  April  21,  1817. 

GRAVIEE,  Father  Jacques,  a  Jesuit  mission- 
ary, born  in  France,  but  at  what  date  cannot  be 
stated  with  certainty.  After  some  years  spent  in 
Canada  he  was  sent  by  his  ecclesiastical  superiors 
to  the  Illinois  Mission  (1688),  succeeding  Allouez 
as  Superior  two  years  later,  and  being  made 
Vicar-General  in  1691.  He  labored  among  the 
Miamis,  Peorias  and  Kaskaskias — his  most  numer- 
ous conversions  being  among  the  latter  tribe — as 
also  among  the  Cahokias,  Osages,  Tamaroas  and 
Missouris.  It  is  said  to  have  been  largely  through 
his  influence  that  the  Illinois  were  induced  to 
settle  at  Kaskaskia  instead  of  going  south.  In 
1705  he  received  a  severe  wound  during  an  attack 
by  the  Illinois  Indians,  incited,  if  not  actually 
led,  by  one  of  their  medicine  men.  It  is  said 


that  he  visited  Paris  for  treatment,  but  failed 
to  find  a  cure.  Accounts  of  his  death  vary  as 
to  time  and  place,  but  all  agree  that  it  resulted 
from  the  wound  above  mentioned.  Some  of  his 
biographers  assert  that  he  died  at  sea;  others 
that  he  returned  from  France,  yet  suffering  from 
the  Indian  poison,  to  Louisiana  in  February, 
1708,  and  died  near  Mobile,  Ala.,  the  same  year. 

GRAY,  Elishn,  electrician  and  inventor,  was 
born  at  Barnesville,  Ohio,  August  2,  1835;  after 
serving  as  an  apprentice  at  various  trades,  took  a 
course  at  Oberlin  College,  devoting  especial 
attention  to  the  physical  sciences,  meanwhile 
supporting  himself  by  manual  labor.  In  1865  he 
began  his  career  as  an  electrician  and,  in  1867, 
received  his  first  patent;  devised  a  method  of 
transmitting  telephone  signals,  and,  in  1875,  suc- 
ceeded in  transmitting  four  messages  simultane- 
ously on  one  wire  to  New  York  and  Boston,  a 
year  later  accomplishing  the  same  with  eight 
messages  to  New  York  and  Philadelphia.  Pro- 
fessor Gray  also  invented  a  telegraph  switch,  a 
repeater,  enunciator  and  type-writing  telegraph. 
From  1869  to  '73  he  was  employed  in  the  manu- 
facture of  telegraph  apparatus  at  Cleveland  and 
Chicago,  but  has  since  been  electrician  of  the 
Western  Electric  Company  of  Chicago.  His  latest 
invention,  the  "telautograph" — for  reproducing 
by  telegraph  the  handwriting  of  the  sender 
of  a  telegram — attracted  great  interest  at  the 
World's  Columbian  Exposition  of  1893.  He  was 
author  of  "Telegraphy  and  Telephony"  and  "Ex- 
perimental Researches  in  Electro-Harmonic  Teleg- 
raphy and  Telephony."  Died  Jan.  20,  1901. 

GRAY,  William  C.,  Ph.D.,  editor,  was  born  in 
Butler  County,  Ohio,  in  1830;  graduated  from 
the  Farmers'  (now  Belmont)  College  in  1850, 
read  law  and  began  secular  editorial  work  in 
1853,  being  connected,  in  the  next  fourteen  years, 
with  "The  Tiffin  Tribune,"  "Cleveland  Herald" 
and  "Newark  American."  Then,  after  several 
years  spent  in  general  publishing  business  in 
Cincinnati,  after  the  great  fire  of  1871  he  came  to 
Chicago,  to  take  charge  of  "The  Interior,"  the 
organ  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  which  he  con- 
ducted until  his  death,  Sept.  29,  1901.  The  success 
of  the  paper  under  his  management  gave  evidence 
of  his  practical  good  sense.  He  received  the  degree 
of  Ph.D.  from  Wooster  University  in  1881. 

GRAYVILLE,  a  city  situated  on  the  border  of 
White  and  Edwards  Counties,  lying  chiefly  in 
the  former,  on  the  Wabash  River,  35  miles  north- 
west of  Evansville,  Ind.,  16  miles  northeast  of 
Carmi,  and  forty  miles  southwest  of  Vincennes. 
It  is  located  in  the  heart  of  a  heavily  timbered 


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region  and  is  an  important  hard-wood  market. 
Valuable  coal  deposits  exist.  The  industries  in- 
clude flour,  saw  and  planing  mills,  stave  factories 
and  creamery.  The  city  has  an  electric  light 
and  water  plant,  two  banks,  eight  churches,  and 
two  weekly  papers.  Pop.  (1910),  1,940. 

tiRAYVILLE  &  MATTOON  RAILROAD.  (See 
Peoria,  Decatur  &  Evansville  Railway. ) 

GREATHOUSE,  Lucien,  soldier,  was  born  at 
Carlinville,  111.,  in  1843;  graduated  at  Illinois 
Wesleyan  University,  Bloomington,  and  studied 
law ;  enlisted  as  a  private  at  the  beginning  of  the 
War  of  the  Rebellion  and  rose  to  the  rank  of 
Colonel  of  the  Forty -eighth  Illinois  Volunteers; 
bore  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  movements  of  the 
Army  of  the  Tennessee ;  was  killed  in  battle  near 
Atlanta,  Ga..  June  21,  1864. 

GREAT  WESTERN  RAILROAD  (of  1843  and 
'49).  (See  Illinois  Central  Railroad.) 

GREAT  WESTERN  RAILROAD  (2).  (See 
Wdbash  Railway. ) 

GREEN  RIVER,  rises  in  Lee  County,  and, 
after  draining  part  of  Bureau  County,  flows  west- 
ward through  Henry  County,  and  enters  Rock 
River  about  10  miles  east  by  south  from  Rock 
Island.  It  is  nearly  120  miles  long. 

GREEN,  William  H.,  State  Senator  and  Judge, 
was  born  at  Danville,  Ky.,  Dec.  8,  1830.  In  1847 
he  accompanied  his  father's  family  to  Illinois, 
and,  for  three  years  following,  taught  school,  at 
the  same  time  reading  law.  He  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1852  and  began  practice  at  Mount 
Vernon,  removing  to  Metropolis  the  next  year, 
and  to  Cairo  in  1863.  In  1858  he  was  elected  to 
the  lower  house  of  the  General  Assembly,  was 
re-elected  in  1860  and,  two  years  later,  was 
elected  to  the  State  Senate  for  four  years.  In 
December,  1865,  he  was  elected  Judge  of  the 
Third  Judicial  Circuit,  to  fill  the  unexpired  term 
of  Judge  Mulkey,  retiring  with  the  expiration  of 
nis  term  in  1867.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the 
National  Democratic  Conventions  of  1860,  '64, 
•68,  '80,  '84  and  '88,  besides  being  for  many  years 
a  member  of  the  State  Central  Committee  of  that 
party,  and  also,  for  four  terms,  a  member  of  the 
State  Board  of  Education,  of  which  he  has  been 
for  several  years  the  President.  He  was  engaged 
for  several  years  in  the  practice  of  his  profession 
at  Cairo.  Died  June  G,  1902. 

GREENE,  Henry  Sacheveral,  attorney,  was 
born  in  the  North  of  Ireland,  July,  1833,  brought 
to  Canada  at  five  years  of  age,  and  from  nine  com- 
pelled to  support  himself,  sometimes  as  a  clerk 
and  at  others  setting  type  in  a  printing  office. 
After  spending  some  time  in  Western  New  York, 


in  1853  he  commenced  the  study  of  law  at  Dan- 
ville, Ind. .  with  Hugh  Crea,  now  of  Decatur,  111. ; 
four  years  later  settled  at  Clinton,  DeWitt 
County,  where  he  taught  and  studied  law  with 
Lawrence  Weldon,  now  of  the  Court  of  Claims, 
Washington.  In  1859  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
at  Springfield,  on  the  motion  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, and  was  associated  in  practice,  for  a  time, 
•with  Hon.  Clifton  H.  Moore  of  Clinton;  later 
served  as  Prosecuting  Attorney  and  one  term 
(1867-69)  as  Representative  in  the  General  Assem- 
bly. At  the  close  of  his  term  in  the  Legislature 
he  removed  to  Springfield,  forming  a  law  partner- 
ship with  Milton  Hay  and  David  T.  Littler,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Hay,  Greene  &  Littler,  still  later 
becoming  the  head  of  the  firm  of  Greene  & 
Humphrey.  From  the  date  of  his  removal  to 
Springfield,  for  some  thirty  years  his  chief  employ- 
ment was  as  a  corporation  lawyer,  for  the  most 
part  in  the  service  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  and 
the  Wabash  Railways.  His  death  occurred  at  his 
home  in  Springfield,  after  a  protracted  illness, 
Feb.  25,  1899.  Of  recognized  ability,  thoroughly 
devoted  to  his  profession,  high  minded  and  honor- 
able in  all  his  dealings,  he  commanded  respect 
wherever  he  was  known. 

GREENE,  William  G.,  pioneer,  was  born  in 
Tennessee  in  1812 ;  came  to  Illinois  in  1822  with 
his  father  (Bowling  Greene),  who  settled  in  the 
vicinity  of  New  Salem,  now  in  Menard  County. 
The  younger  Greene  was  an  intimate  friend  and 
fellow-student,  at  Illinois  College,  of  Richard 
Yates  (afterwards  Governor),  and  also  an  early 
friend  and  admirer  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  under 
whom  he  held  an  appointment  in  Utah  for  some 
years.  He  died  at  Tallula,  Menard  County,  in 
1894. 

GREENFIELD,  a  city  in  the  eastern  part  of 
Greene  County,  on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  and  the  Quincy,  Carrollton  &  St.  Louis 
Railways,  12  miles  east  of  Carrollton  and  55  miles 
north  of  St.  Louis ;  is  an  agricultural,  coal-mining 
and  stock-raising  region.  The  city  has  several 
churches,  public  schools,  a  seminary,  electric 
light  plant,  steam  flouring  mill,  and  one  weekly 
paper.  It  is  an  important  shipping  point  for 
cattle,  horses,  swine,  corn,  grain  and  produce. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,131;  (1900),  1,085;  (1910),  1,161. 

GREENE  COUNTY,  cut  off  from  Madison  and 
separately  organized  in  1821;  'has  an  area  of  540 
square  miles;  population  (1910),  22,363;  named 
for  Gen.  Nathaniel  Greene,  a  Revolutionary  sol- 
dier. The  soil  and  climate  are  varied  and  adapted 
to  a  diversity  of  products,  wheat  and  fruit  being 
among  the  principal.  Building  stone  and  clay 


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are  abundant.  Probably  the  first  English-speak- 
ing settlers  were  David  Stockton  and  James 
Whiteside,  who  located  south  of  Macoupin  Creek 
in  June,  1817.  Samuel  Thomas  and  others 
(among  them  Gen.  Jacob  Fry)  followed  soon 
afterward.  The  Indians  were  numerous  and 
aggressive,  and  had  destroyed  not  a  few  of  the 
monuments  of  the  Government  surveys,  erected 
some  years  before.  Immigration  of  the  whites, 
however,  was  rapid,  and  it  was  not  long  before 
the  nucleus  of  a  village  was  established  at  Car- 
rollton,  where  General  Fry  erected  the  first  house  . 
and  made  the  first  coffin  needed  in  the  settle- 
ment. This  town,  the  county-seat  and  most 
important  place  in  the  county,  was  laid  off  by 
Thomas  Carlin  in  1821.  Other  flourishing  towns 
are  Whitehall  (population,  1,961),  and  Roodhouse 
(an  important  railroad  center)  with  a  population 
of  2,360. 

GREENUP,  village  of  Cumberland  County,  at 
intersection  of  the  Vandalia  Line  and  Evansville 
branch  111.  Cent.  Ry. ;  in  farming  and  fruit- 
growing region;  has  powder  mill,  bank,  broom 
factory,  several  churches,  public  library,  good 
schools  and  two  papers.  Pop.  (1910),  1,224. 

GREEN  VIEW,  a  village  in  Menard  County,  on 
the  Jacksonville  branch  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton 
Railroad,  22  miles  north-northwest  of  Springfield 
and  36  miles  northeast  of  Jacksonville.  It  has  a 
coal  mine,  bank,  one  weekly  paper,  seven  churches, 
and  a  graded  and  high  school.  Pop.  (1900),  1,019; 
(1910),  921. 

GREENVILLE,  an  incorporated  city,  the 
county-seat  of  Bond  County,  on  the  East  Fork  of 
Big  Shoal  Creek  and  the  St.  Louis,  Vandalia  & 
Terre  Haute  Railroad,  50  miles  east-northeast  of 
St.  Louis;  is  in  a  rich  agricultural  and  coal-min- 
ing region.  Corn  and  wheat  are  raised  exten- 
sively in  the  surrounding  country,  and  there  are 
extensive  coal  mines  adjacent  to  the  city.  The 
leading  manufacturing  product  is  in  the  line  of 
wagons.  It  is  the  Beat  of  Greenville  College  (a 
coeducational  institution) ;  has  several  banks  and 
one  weekly  and  two  semi-weekly  newspapers.  Pop. 
(1890),  1,868;  (1900),  2,504;  (1910),  3,178. 

GREENVILLE,  TREATY  OF,  a  treaty  negoti- 
ated by  Gen.  Anthony  Wayne  with  a  number  of 
Indian  tribes  (see  Indian  Treaties),  at  Green- 
ville, after  his  victory  over  the  savages  at  the 
battle  of  Maumee  Rapids,  in  August,  1795.  This 
was  the  first  treaty  relating  to  Illinois  lands  in 
which  a  number  of  tribes  united  The  lands  con- 
veyed within  the  present  limits  of  the  State 
of  Illinois  were  as  follows.  A  tract  six  miles 
dquare  at  the  mouth  of  the  Chicago  Riyer; 


another,  twelve  miles  square,  near  the  mouth  of 
the  Illinois  River;  another,  six  miles  square, 
around  the  old  fort  at  Peoria ;  the  post  of  Fort 
Massac;  the  150,000  acres  set  apart  as  bounty 
lands  for  the  army  of  Gen.  George  Rogers  Clark, 
and  "the  lands  at  all  other  places  in  the  posses- 
sion of  the  French  people  and  other  white  set- 
tlers among  them,  the  Indian  title  to  which  has 
been  thus  extinguished. ' '  On  the  other  hand,  the 
United  States  relinquished  all  claim  to  all  other 
Indian  lands  north  of  the  Ohio,  east  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi and  south  of  the  great  lakes.  The  cash 
consideration  paid  by  the  Government  was 
$210,000. 

GREGG,  David  L.,  lawyer  and  Secretary  of 
State,  emigrated  from  Albany,  N.  Y.,  and  began 
the  practice  of  law  at  Joliet,  111. ,  where,  in  1839, 
he  also  edited  "The  Juliet  Courier,"  the  first 
paper  established  in  Will  County.  From  1842  to 
1846,  he  represented  Will,  Du  Page  and  Iroquois 
Counties  in  the  Thirteenth  and  Fourteenth  Gen- 
eral Assemblies ;  later  removed  to  Chicago,  after 
which  he  served  for  a  time  as  United  States  Dis- 
trict Attorney;  in  1847  was  chosen  one  of  the 
Delegates  from  Cook  County  to  the  State  Consti- 
tutional Convention  of  that  year,  and  served  as 
Secretary  of  State  from  1850  to  1853,  as  successor 
to  Horace  S.  Cooley,  who  died  in  office  the  former 
year.  In  the  Democratic  State  Convention  of 
1852,  Mr.  Gregg  was  a  leading  candidate  for  the 
nomination  for  Governor,  though  finally  defeated 
by  Joel  A.  Matteson;  served  as  Presidential 
Elector  for  that  year,  and,  in  1853,  was  appointed 
by  President  Pierce  Commissioner  to  the  Sandwich 
Islands,  still  later  for  a  time  acting  as  the  minis- 
ter or  adviser  of  King  Kamehamaha  IV,  who  died 
in  1863.  Returning  to  California  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  President  Lincoln  Receiver  of  Public 
Moneys  at  Carson  City,  Nev. ,  where  he  died,  Dec. 
23,  1868. 

GREGORY,  John  Milton,  clergyman  and  edu- 
cator, was  born  at  Sand  Lake,  Rensselaer  Co., 
N.  Y.,  July  6,  1822;  graduated  from  Union  Col- 
lege in  1846  and,  after  devoting  two  years  to  the 
study  of  law,  studied  theology  and  entered  the 
Baptist  ministry.  After  a  brief  pastorate  in  the 
East  he  came  West,  becoming  Principal  of  a 
classical  school  at  Detroit.  His  ability  as  an 
educator  was  soon  recognized,  and,  in  1858,  he 
was  elected  State  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction  in  Michigan,  but  declined  a  re-elec- 
tion in  1863.  In  1854,  he  assisted  in  founding 
"The  Michigan  Journal  of  Education,"  of  which 
he  was  editor-in-chief.  In  1863  he  accepted  the 
Presidency  of  Kalamazoo  College,  and  four  years 


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later  was  called  to  that  of  the  newly  founded 
University  of  Illinois,  at  Champaign,  where  he 
remained  until  1S*0.  He  was  United  States 
Commissioner  to  the  Vienna  Exposition  in  1S73. 
Illinois  State  Commissioner  to  the  Paris  Exposi- 
tion of  1879,  also  serving  as  one  of  the  judges  in 
the  educational  department  of  the  Philadelphia 
Centennial  of  1876.  From  1882  to  "85  he  was  a 
member  of  the  United  States  Civil  Service  Com- 
mission. The  degree  of  LL.D.  was  conferred 
upon  him  by  Madison  University  (Hamilton. 
N.  Y.)  in  1866.  While  State  Superintendent  he 
published  a  "Compend  of  School  Laws"  of  Michi- 
gan, besides  numerous  addresses  on  educational 
subjects.  Other  works  of  his  are  "Handbook  of 
History"  and  "Map  of  Time"  (Chicago.  1866) ;  "A 
New  Political  Economy"  (Cincinnati,  1882);  and 
"Seven  Laws  of  Teaching"  (Chicago,  1883). 
While  holding  a  chair  as  Professor  Emeritus  of 
Political  Economy  in  the  University  of  Illinois 
during  the  latter  years  of  his  life,  he  resided  in 
Washington,  D.  C.,  where  he  died.  Oct.  20,  1898. 
By  his  special  request  he  was  buried  on  the 
grounds  of  the  University  at  Champaign. 

GBESHAM,  Walter  Quinton,  soldier,  jurist 
and  statesman,  was  born  near  Lanesville,  Harri- 
son County,  Ind.,  March  17,  1832.  Two  years  at 
a  seminary  at  Corydon,  followed  by  one  year  at 
Bloomington  University,  completed  his  early 
education,  which  was  commenced  at  the  common 
schools.  He  read  law  at  Corydon,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1853.  In  1860  he  was 
elected  to  the  Indiana  Legislature,  but  resigned 
to  become  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Thirty- 
eighth  Indiana  Volunteers,  and  was  almost 
immediately  commissioned  Colonel  of  the  Fifty- 
third  Regiment.  After  the  fall  of  Vicksburg  he 
was  promoted  to  a  Brigadier-Generalship,  and  was 
brevetted  Major-General  on  March  13,  1865.  At 
Atlanta  he  was  severely  wounded,  and  disabled 
from  service  for  a  year.  After  the  war  he  re- 
sumed practice  at  New  Albany,  Ind.  His  polit- 
ical career  began  in  1856,  when  he  stumped  his 
county  for  Fremont.  From  that  time  until  1893 
he  was  always  prominently  identified  with  the 
Republican  party.  In  1866  he  was  an  unsuccess- 
ful Republican  candidate  for  Congress,  and.  in 
1867-68,  was  the  financial  agent  of  his  State 
(Indiana)  in  New  York.  In  1869  President  Grant 
appointed  him  Judge  of  the  United  States  Dis- 
trict Court  for  Indiana.  In  1883  he  resigned  this 
position  to  accept  the  portfolio  of  Postmaster-Gen- 
eral in  the  Cabinet  of  President  Arthur.  In  July, 
1884,  upon  the  death  of  Secretary  Folger.  he  was 
made  Secretary  of  the  Treasury.  In  Oct.  1884, 


he  was  appointed  United  States  Judge  of  the 
Seventh  Judicial  Circuit,  and  thereafter  made 
his  home  in  Chicago.  He  was  an  earnest  advo- 
cate of  the  renomination  of  Grant  in  that  year, 
but  subsequently  took  no  active  personal  part  in 
politics.  In  1888  he  was  the  substantially  unani- 
mous choice  of  Illinois  Republicans  for  the  Presi- 
dency, but  was  defeated  in  convention.  In  1892 
he  was  tendered  the  Populist  nomination  for 
President,  but  declined.  In  1893  President  Cleve- 
land offered  him  the  portfolio  of  Secretary  of 
State,  which  he  accepted,  dying  in  office  at 
Washington,  D.  C.,  May  28,  1895. 

GREUSEL,  Nicholas,  soldier,  was  born  in  Ger- 
many, July  4,  1817,  the  son  of  a  soldier  of  Murat ; 
came  to  New  York  in  1833  and  to  Detroit,  Mich., 
in  1835 ;  served  as  a  Captain  of  the  First  Michigan 
Volunteers  in  the  Mexican  War;  in  1857,  came  to 
Chicago  and  was  employed  on  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Quincy  Railroad,  until  the  firing  on 
Fort  Sumter,  when  he  promptly  enrolled  himself 
as  a  private  in  a  company  organized  at  Aurora, 
of  which  he  was  elected  Captain  and  attached  to 
the  Seventh  Illinois  (three-months'  men),  later 
being  advanced  to  the  rank  of  Major.  Re-enlisting 
for  three  years,  he  was  commissioned  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  but,  in  August  following,  was  commis- 
sioned Colonel  of  the  Thirty -sixth  Illinois;  took 
part  in  the  battles  of  Pea  Ridge  and  Perryville 
and  the  campaign  against  Corinth ;  compelled  to 
resign  on  account  of  failing  health,  in  February, 
1863,  he  removed  to  Mount  Pleasant,  Iowa, 
whence  he  returned  to  Aurora  in  1893.  Died  at 
Aurora,  April  25.  1896. 

(.RIDLEY.  Asahel,  lawyer  and  banker,  was 
bom  at  Cazenovia,  N.  Y.,  April  21,  1810;  was 
educated  at  Pompey  Academy  and,  at  the  age  of 
21,  came  to  Illinois,  locating  at  Bloomington  and 
engaging  in  the  mercantile  business,  which  he 
carried  on  quite  extensively  some  eight  years. 
He  served  as  First  Lieutenant  of  a  cavalry  com- 
pany during  the  Black  Hawk  War  of  1832,  and 
soon  after  was  elected  a  Brigadier-General  of 
militia,  thereby  acquiring  the  title  of  "General" 
In  1840  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the 
Twelfth  General  Assembly,  and  soon  after  began 
to  turn  his  attention  to  the  study  of  law,  subse- 
quently forming  a  partnership  with  CoL  J.  H. 
Wickizer,  which  continued  for  a  number  of  years. 
Having  been  elected  to  the  State  Senate  in  1850, 
he  took  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  two  succeeding 
sessions  of  the  General  Assembly  in  securing  the 
location  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  and  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroads  by  way  of  Bloomington:  was 
also,  at  a  later  period,  a  leading  promoter  of  the 


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Indiana.  Bloomington  &  Western  and  other  lines. 
In  1858  he  joined  J.  Y.  Scammon  and  J.  H.  Burch 
of  Chicago,  in  the  establishment  of  the  McLean 
County  Bank  at  Bloomington,  of  which  he  became 
President  and  ultimately  sole  proprietor ;  also  be- 
came proprietor,  in  1857,  of  the  Bloomington  Gas- 
Light  &  Coke  Company,  which  he  managed  some 
twenty-five  years.  Originally  a  Whig,  he  identi- 
fied himself  with  the  Republican  cause  in  1856, 
serving  upon  the  State  Central  Committee  during 
the  campaign  of  that  year,  but,  in  1872,  took 
part  in  the  Liberal  Republican  movement,  serv- 
ing as  a  delegate  to  the  Cincinnati  Convention, 
where  he  was  a  zealous  supporter  of  David  Davis 
for  the  Presidency.  Died,  at  Bloomington,  Jan. 
20.  1881. 

6RIER,  (Col.)  David  Perkins,  soldier  and  mer- 
chant, was  born  near  Wilkesbarre,  Pa.,  in  1837; 
received  a  common  school  education  and,  in 
1852,  came  to  Peoria,  111.,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  grain  business,  subsequently,  in  partnership 
with  his  brother,  erecting  the  first  grain-elevator 
in  Peoria,  with  three  or  four  at  other  points. 
Early  in  the  war  he  recruited  a  company  of  which 
he  was  elected  Captain,  but,  as  the  State  quota 
was  already  full,  it  was  not  accepted  in  Illinois, 
but  was  mustered  in,  in  June,  as  a  part  of  the 
Eighth  Missouri  Volunteers.  With  this  organi- 
zation he  took  part  in  the  capture  of  Forts  Henry 
and  Donelson,  the  battle  of  Shiloh  and  the  siege 
and  capture  of  Corinth.  In  August,  1862,  he  was 
ordered  to  report  to  Governor  Yates  at  Spring- 
field, and,  on  his  arrival,  was  presented  with  a 
commission  as  Colonel  of  the  Seventy-seventh 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  of  which  he  retained 
command  up  to  the  siege  of  Vicksburg.  During 
that  siege  he  commanded  a  brigade  and,  in  sub- 
sequent operations  in  Louisiana,  was  in  command 
of  the  Second  Brigade,  Fourth  Division  of  the 
Thirteenth  Army  Corps.  Later  he  had  command 
of  all  the  troops  on  Dauphin  Island,  and  took  a 
conspicuous  part  in  the  capture  of  Fort  Morgan 
and  Mobile,  as  well  as  other  operations  in  Ala- 
bama. He  subsequently  had  command  of  a 
division  until  his  muster-out,  July  10,  1865,  with 
the  rank  of  brevet  Brigadier-General.  After  the 
war,  General  Grier  resumed  his  business  as  a 
grain  merchant  at  Peoria,  but,  in  1879,  removed  to 
East  St.  Louis,  where  he  had  charge  of  the  erection 
and  management  of  the  Union  Elevator  there — 
was  also  Vice-President  and  Director  of  the  St. 
Louis  Merchants'  Exchange.  Died,  April  22, 
1891. 

GBIERSO>T,  Benjamin  H.,  soldier,  was  born  in 
Pittsburg,  Pa.,  July  8,  1826;  removed  in  boyhood 


to  Trumbull  County,  Ohio,  and,  about  1850,  to 
Jacksonville,  111.,  where  he  was  engaged  for  a 
time  in  teaching  music,  later  embarking  in  the 
grain  and  produce  business  at  Meredosia.  He 
enlisted  promptly  at  the  beginning  of  the  Civil 
War,  becoming  Aid-de-camp  to  General  Prentiss 
at  Cairo  during  the  three-months'  service,  later 
being  commissioned  Major  of  the  Sixth  Illinois 
Cavalry.  From  this  time  his  promotion  was 
rapid.  He  was  isommissioned  Colonel  of  the  same 
regiment  in  March,  1862,  and  was  commander  of  a 
brigade  in  December  following.  He  was  promi- 
nent in  nearly  all  the  cavalry  skirmishes  between 
Memphis  and  the  Tennessee  river,  and,  in  April 
and  May,  1863,  led  the  famous  raid  from  La 
Grange,  Tenn.,  through  the  States  of  Mississippi 
and  Louisiana  to  Baton  Rouge  in  the  latter— for 
the  first  time  penetrating  the  heart  of  the  Con- 
federacy and  causing  consternation  among  the 
rebel  leaders,  while  materially  aiding  General 
Grant's  movement  against  Vicksburg.  This  dem- 
onstration was  generally  regarded  as  one  of  the 
most  brilliant  events  of  the  war,  and  attracted 
the  attention  of  the  whole  country.  In  recog- 
nition of  this  service  he  was,  on  June  3,  1863, 
made  a  Brigadier-General,  and  May  27,  1865,  a 
full  Major-General  of  Volunteers.  Soon  after  the 
close  of  the  war  he  entered  the  regular  army  as 
Colonel  of  the  Tenth  United  States  Cavalry  and 
was  successively  brevetted  Brigadier-  and  Major- 
General  for  bravery  shown  in  a  raid  in  Arkansas 
during  December,  1864.  His  subsequent  service 
was  in  the  West  and  Southwest  conducting  cam- 
paigns against  the  Indians,  in  the  meanwhile 
being  in  command  at  Santa  Fe,  San  Antonio  and 
elsewhere.  On  the  promotion  of  General  Miles 
to  a  Major-Generalship  following  the  death  of 
Maj.-Gen.  George  Crook  in  Chicago,  March  19, 
1890,  General  Grierson,  who  had  been  the  senior 
Colonel  for  some  years,  was  promoted  Brigadier- 
General  and  retired  with  that  rank  in  July  fol- 
lowins;homeinJacksonville,Ill  DiedAug.31, 1911. 
(JRIGGS,  Samuel  Chapman,  publisher,  was 
born  in  Tolland,  Conn.,  July  20,  1819;  began 
business  as  a  bookseller  at  Hamilton,  X  Y.,  but 
removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  established  the 
largest  bookselling  trade  in  the  Northwest.  Mr. 
Griggs  was  a  heavy  loser  by  the  fire  of  1871,  and 
the  following  year,  having  sold  out  to  his  part- 
ners, established  himself  in  the  publishing  busi- 
ness, which  he  conducted  until  1S96,  when  he 
retired.  The  class  of  books  published  by,  him 
include  many  educational  and  classical,  with 
others  of  a  high  order  of  merit.  Died  in  Chi- 
cago, April  5,  1897. 


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GRIGGSVILLE,  a  city  in  Pike  County,  on  the 
Wabash  Railroad,  4  miles  west  of  the  Illinois 
River,  and  50  miles  east  of  Quincy.  Flour,  camp 
stoves,  and  brooms  are  manufactured  here.  The 
city  has  churches,  graded  schools,  a  public 
library,  fair  grounds,  opera  house,  a  bank  and  two 
weekly  newspapers.  Pop.  (1890),  1,400;  (1900), 
1,404;  (1910),  1,262. 

GRIMSHAW,  Jackson,  lawyer  and  politician, 
was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Nov.  22,  1820,  of  Anglo- 
Irish  and  Revolutionary  ancestry.  He  was  par- 
tially educated  at  Bristol  College,  Pa.,  and  began 
the  study  of  law  with  his  father,  who  was  a  lawyer 
and  an  author  of  repute.  His  professional  studies 
were  interrupted  for  a  few  years,  during  which  he 
was  employed  at  surveying  and  civil  engineering, 
but  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Harrisburg,  in 
1848.  The  same  year  he  settled  at  Pittsfleld,  111., 
where  he  formed  a  partnership  with  his  brother, 
William  A.  Grimshaw.  In  1857  he  removed  to 
Quincy,  where  he  resided  for  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  was  a  member  of  the  first  Republican 
Convention,  at  Bloomington,  in  1856,  and  was 
twice  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  Congress 
(185C  and  '58)  in  a  strongly  Democratic  District. 
He  was  a  warm  personal  friend  and  trusted  coun- 
sellor of  Governor  Yates,  on  whose  staff  he  served 
as  Colonel.  During  1861  the  latter  sent  Mr. 
Grimshaw  to  Washington  with  dispatches  an- 
nouncing the  capture  of  Jefferson  Barracks,  Mo. 
On  arriving  at  Annapolis,  learning  that  the  rail- 
roads had  been  torn  up  by  rebel  sympathizers,  he 
walked  from  that  city  to  the  capital,  and  was 
summoned  into  the  presence  of  the  President  and 
General  Scott  with  his  feet  protruding  from  his 
boots.  In  1865  Mr.  Lincoln  appointed  him  Col- 
lector of  Internal  Revenue  for  the  Quincy  Dis- 
trict, which  office  he  held  until  1869.  Died,  at 
Quincy,  Dec.  13,  1875. 

GRIMSHAW,  William  A.,  early  lawyer,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia  and  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  his  native  city  at  the  age  of  19 ;  in  1833  came 
to  Pike  County,  111.,  where  he  continued  to  prac- 
tice until  his  death.  He  served  in  the  State  Con- 
stitutional Convention  of  1847,  and  had  the  credit 
of  preparing  the  article  in  the  second  Constitution 
prohibiting  dueling.  In  1864  he  was  a  delegate 
to  the  Republican  National  Convention  which 
nominated  Mr.  Lincoln  for  President  a  second 
time ;  also  served  as  Presidential  Elector  in  1880. 
He  was,  for  a  time,  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the 
Institution  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  at  Jackson- 
ville, and,  from  1877  to  1882,  a  member  of  the  State 
Board  of  Public  Charities,  being  for  a  time  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board.  Died,  at  Pittsfield,  Jan.  7,  1895. 


6RINNELL,  Julius  S.,  lawyer  and  ex-Judge, 
was  born  in  St.  Lawrence  County,  N.  Y. ,  in  1842, 
of  New  England  parents,  who  were  of  French 
descent.  He  graduated  from  Middlebury  College 
in  1866,  and,  two  years  later,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  at  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y.  In  1870  he  removed  to 
Chicago,  where  he  soon  attained  a  prominent 
position  at  the  bar ;  was  elected  City  Attorney  in 
1879,  and  re-elected  in  1881  and  1883.  In  1884  he 
was  elected  State's  Attorney  for  Cook  County,  in 
which  capacity  he  successfully  conducted  some 
of  the  most  celebrated  criminal  prosecutions  in 
the  history  of  Illinois.  Among  these  may  be 
mentioned  the  cases  against  Joseph  T.  Mackin 
and  William  J.  Gallagher,  growing  out  of  an 
election  conspiracy  in  Chicago  in  1884;  the 
conviction  of  a  number  of  Cook  County  Commis- 
sioners for  accepting  bribes  in  1885,  and  the  con- 
viction of  seven  anarchistic  leaders  charged  with 
complicity  in  the  Haymarket  riot  and  massacre 
in  Chicago,  in  May,  1886 — the  latter  trial  being 
held  in  1887.  The  same  year  (1887)  he  was 
elected  to  the  Circuit  bench  of  Cook  County,  but 
resigned  his  seat  in  1890  to  become  counsel  for 
the  Chicago  City  Railway.  Died,  in  Chicago, 
June  8,  1898. 

GROSS,  Jacob,  ex-State  Treasurer  and  banker, 
was  born  in  Germany,  Feb.  11,  1840;  having  lost 
his  father  by  death  at  13,  came  to  the  United 
States  two  years  later,  spent  a  year  in  Chicago 
schools,  learned  the  trade  of  a  tinsmith  and 
clerked  in  a  store  until  August,  1862,  when  he 
enlisted  in  the  Eighty-Second  Illinois  Volunteers 
(the  second  "Hecker  Regiment") ;  afterwards  par- 
ticipated in  some  of  the  most  important  battles 
of  the  war,  including  Chancellorsville,  Gettys- 
burg, Lookout  Mountain,  Resaca  and  others.  At 
Dallas,  Ga. ,  he  had  his  right  leg  badly  shattered 
by  a  bullet-wound  above  the  knee,  four  successive 
amputations  being  found  necessary  in  order  to 
save  his  life.  Having  been  discharged  from  the 
service  in  February,  1865,  he  took  a  course  in  a 
commercial  college,  became  deputy  clerk  of  the 
Police  Court,  served  three  terms  as  Collector  of 
the  West  Town  of  Chicago,  and  an  equal  number 
of  terms  (12  years)  as  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court 
of  Cook  County,  and,  in  1884,  was  elected  State 
Treasurer.  Since  retiring  from  the  latter  office, 
Mr.  Gross  has  been  engaged  in  the  banking  busi- 
ness, being  President,  for  several  years,  of  the 
Commercial  Bank  of  Chicago. 

GROSS,  William  L.,  lawyer,  was  born  in  Her- 
kimer  County,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  21,  1839,  came  with 
his  father  to  Illinois  in  1844,  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  at  Springfield  in  1862,  but  almost  immediately 


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entered  the  service  of  the  Government,  and,  a 
year  later,  was  appointed  by  President  Lincoln 
Captain  and  Assistant  Quartermaster,  and,  under 
command  of  General  Stager,  assigned  to  the 
Department  of  the  Ohio  as  Military  Superintend- 
ent of  Telegraphs.  At  the  close  of  the  war  he 
was  transferred  to  the  Department  of  the  Gulf, 
taking  control  of  military  telegraphs  in  that 
Department  with  headquarters  at  New  Orleans, 
remaining  until  August,  1866,  meanwhile  being 
brevetted  Major  and  Lieutenant-Colonel.  For 
the  next  two  years  he  occupied  various  positions 
in  the  civil  telegraph  service,  but,  in  1868,  resumed 
the  practice  of  law  at  Springfield,  in  conjunction 
with  his  brother  (Eugene  L. )  issuing  the  first 
volume  of  "Gross"  Statutes  of  Illinois,"  followed 
in  subsequent  years  by  two  additional  volumes, 
besides  an  Index  to  all  the  Laws  of  the  State.  In 
1878  he  was  elected  as  a  Republican  to  the  General 
Assembly  from  Sangamon  County,  and,  in  1884, 
was  appointed  by  Governor  Hamilton  Circuit 
Judge  to  succeed  Judge  C.  S.  Zane,  who  had  been 
appointed  Chief  Justice  of  Utah.  Upon  the  organi- 
zation of  the  Illinois  State  Bar  Association,  Judge 
Gross  became  its  first  Secretary,  serving  until 
1883,  when  he  was  elected  President,  again  serv- 
ing as  Secretary  and  Treasurer.  Died  Jan.  18,  1909. 
GROSSCUP,  Peter  Stenger,  jurist,  born  in 
Ashland,  Ohio,  Feb.  15,  1852;  was  educated  in  the 
local  schools  and  Wittenberg  College,  graduating 
from  the  latter  in  1872 ;  read  law  in  Boston,  Mass. , 
and  settled  down  to  practice  in  his  native  town, 
in  1874.  He  was  a  candidate  for  Congress  in  a 
Democratic  District  before  he  was  25  years  old, 
but,  being  a  Republican,  was  defeated.  Two 
years  later,  being  thrown  by  a  reapportionment 
into  the  same  district  with  William  McKinley, 
he  put  that  gentleman  in  nomination  for  the  seat 
in  Congress  to  which  he  was  elected.  He  re- 
moved to  Chicago  in  1883,  and,  for  several  years, 
was  the  partner  of  the  late  Leonard  Swett;  in 
December,  1892,  was  appointed  by  President 
Harrison  Judge  of  the  United  States  District 
Court  for  the  Northern  District  of  Illinois  as  suc- 
cessor to  Judge  Henry  W.  Blodgett.  On  the 
death  of  Judge  Show-alter,  in  December,  1898, 
Judge  Grosscup  was  appointed  his  successor  as 
Judge  of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  for  the 
Seventh  Judicial  District.  Although  one  of  the 
youngest  incumbents  upon  the  bench  of  the 
United  States  Court,  Judge  Grosscup  has  given 
ample  evidence  of  his  ability  as  a  jurist,  besides 
proving  himself  in  harmony  with  the  progressive 
spirit  of  the  time  on  questions  of  national  and 
international  interest. 


GRUNDY  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  northeast- 
ern quarter  of  the  State,  having  an  area  of  440 
square  miles  and  a  population  (1910)  of  24,162. 
The  surface  is  mainly  rolling  prairie,  beneath 
which  is  a  continuous  coal  seam,  three  feet  thick. 
Building  stone  is  abundant  (particularly  near 
Morris),  and  there  are  considerable  beds  of  pot- 
ter's clay.  The  county  is  crossed  by  the  Illinois 
River  and  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal,  also  by  the 
Rock  Island  and  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railways. 
The  chief  occupation  of  the  people  is  agriculture, 
although  there  are  several  manufacturing  estab- 
lishments. The  first  white  settler  of  whom  any 
record  has  been  preserved,  was  William  Marquis, 
who  arrived  at  the  mouth  of  the  Mazon  in  a 
"prairie  schooner"  in  1828.  Other  pioneers 
were  Colonel  Sayers,  W.  A.  Holloway,  Alex- 
ander K.  Owen,  John  Taylor,  James  McCartney 
and  Joab  Chappell.  The  first  public  land  sale 
was  made  in  1835,  and,  in  1841,  the  county  was 
organized  out  of  a  part  of  La  Salle,  and  named 
after  Felix  Grundy,  the  eminent  Tennesseean. 
The  first  pollbook  showed  148  voters.  Morris 
was  chosen  the  county-seat  and  has  so  re- 
mained. Its  present  population  is  3,653.  Another 
prosperous  town  is  Gardner,  with  1,100  inhab- 
itants. 

GULLIVER,  John  Putnam,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
clergyman  and  educator,  was  born  in  Boston, 
Mass.,  May  12,  1819;  graduated  at  Yale  College, 
in  1840,  and  at  Andover  Theological  Seminary  in 
1845,  meanwhile  serving  two  years  as  Principal 
of  Randolph  Academy.  From  1845  to  1865  he 
was  pastor  of  a  church  at  Norwich,  Conn.,  in 
1865-68,  of  the  New  England  Church,  of  Chicago, 
and,  1868-72,  President  of  Knox  College  at  Gales- 
burg,  111.  The  latter  year  he  became  pastor  of 
the  First  Presbyterian  Church  in  Binghamton, 
N.  Y.,  remaining  until  1878,  when  he  was  elected 
Professor  of  the  "Relations  of  Christianity  and 
Secular  Science"  at  Andover,  holding  this  posi- 
tion actively  until  1891,  and  then,  as  Professor 
Emeritus,  until  his  death,  Jan.  25,  1894.  He  was 
a  member  of  the  Corporation  of  Yale  College 
and  had  been  honored  with  the  degrees  of  D.D. 
and  LL.D. 

GURLEY,  William  F.  E.,  State  Geologist,  was 
born  at  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  June  5,  1854;  brought  by 
his  parents  to  Danville,  111.,  in  1864,  and  educated 
in  the  public  schools  of  that  city  and  Cornell 
University,  N.  Y. ;  served  as  city  engineer  of 
Danville  in  1885-87,  and  again  in  1891-93.  In 
July  of  the  latter  year  he  was  appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Altgeld  State  Geologist  as  successor  to  Prof. 
Joshua  Lindahl. 


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HACKER,  John  8.,  pioneer  and  soldier  of  the 
Mexican  War,  was  born  at  Owensburg,  Ky., 
November,  1797;  in  early  life  removed  to  Mis- 
souri, where  he  was  employed  in  the  stock  and 
produce  trade  with  New  Orleans.  Having  married 
in  1817,  he  settled  at  Jonesboro,  Union  County, 
111.,  where  he  kept  a  tavern  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  was  also  engaged  some  thirty  years  in 
mercantile  business.  It  is  said  that  he  was 
unable  to  read  until  taught  after  marriage  by  his 
wife,  who  appears  to  have  been  a  woman  of 
intelligence  and  many  graces.  In  1834  he  was 
elected  Representative  in  the  Fourth  General 
Assembly  and,  in  1834,  to  the  State  Senate,  serv- 
ing by  re-election  in  1838  until  1842,  and  being  a 
supporter  of  the  internal  improvement  scheme. 
In  1837  he  voted  for  the  removal  of  the  State 
capital  from  Vandalia  to  Springfield,  and,  though 
differing  from  Abraham  Lincoln  politically,  was 
one  of  his  warm  personal  friends.  He  served  in 
the  War  of  1812  as  a  private  in  the  Missouri 
militia,  and,  in  the  Mexican  War,  as  Captain  of  a 
company  in  the  Second  Regiment,  Illinois  Volun- 
teers— Col.  W.  H.  Bissell's.  By  service  on  the 
staff  of  Governor  Duncan,  he  had  already  obtained 
the  title  of  Colonel.  He  received  the  nomination 
for  Lieutenant-Governor  from  the  first  formal 
State  Convention  of  the  Democratic  party  in 
December,  1837,  but  the  head  of  the  ticket  (Col. 
J.  W.  Stephenson)  having  withdrawn  oa  account 
of  charges  connected  with  his  administration  of 
the  Land  Office  at  Dixon,  Colonel  Hacker  also 
declined,  and  a  new  ticket  was  put  in  the  field 
headed  by  Col.  Thomas  L.  Carlin,  which  was 
elected  in  1838.  In  1849  Colonel  Hacker  made 
the  overland  journey  to  California,  but  returning 
with  impaired  health  in  1852,  located  in  Cairo, 
where  he  held  the  position  of  Surveyor  of  the 
Port  for  three  years,  when  he  was  removed  by 
President  Buchanan  on  account  of  his  friendship 
for  Senator  Douglas.  He  also  served,  from  1854 
to  '56,  as  Secretary  of  the  Senate  Committee  on 
Territories  under  the  Chairmanship  of  Senator 
Douglas,  and,  in  1856,  as  Assistant  Doorkeeper  of 
the  House  of  Representatives  in  Washington.  In 
1857  he  returned  to  Jonesboro  and  spent  the 
remainder  of  his  life  in  practical  retirement, 
dying  at  the  home  of  his  daughter,  in  Anna,  May 
18,  1878. 

HADLEY,  William  F.  L.,  lawyer  and  Con- 
gressman, was  born  near  Collinsville,  111.,  June 
15,  1847;  grew  up  on  a  farm,  receiving  his  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools  and  at  McKendree 
College,  where  he  graduated  in  1867.  In  1871  he 
graduated  from  the  Law  Department  of  the 


University  of  Michigan,  and  established  him 
self  in  the  practice  of  his  profession  at 
Edwardsville.  He  was  elected  to  the  State  Sen- 
ate from  Madison  County  in  1886,  serving  four 
years,  and  was  nominated  for  a  second  term,  but 
declined;  was  a  delegate-at-large  to  the  Repub- 
lican National  Convention  of  1888,  and,  in  1895, 
was  nominated  and  elected,  in  the  Eighteenth 
District,  as  a  Republican,  to  the  Fifty-fourth  Con- 
gress to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of 
Hon.  Frederick  Remann,  who  had  been  elected 
in  1894,  but  died  before  taking  his  seat.  Mr. 
Hadley  was  a  candidate  for  re-election  in  1896, 
but  was  prevented  by  protracted  illness  from 
making  a  canvass,  and  suffered  a  defeat.  He 
was  a  son-in-law  of  the  late  Edward  M.  West,  long 
a  prominent  business  man  of  Edwardsville,  and 
after  his  retirement  from  Congress  devoted  his 
attention  to  his  profession  and  banking  business. 
Died  at  Riverside,  Cal.,  April  25,  1901. 

HAHNEMAJfN  HOSPITAL,  a  homeopathic  hos- 
pital located  in  Chicago.  It  was  first  opened  with 
twenty  beds,  in  November,  1870,  in  a  block  of 
wooden  buildings,  the  use  of  which  was  given 
rent  free  by  Mr.  J.  Young  Scammon,  and  was 
known  as  the  Scammon  Hospital.  After  the  fire 
of  October,  1871,  Mr.  Scammon  deeded  the  prop- 
erty to  the  Trustees  of  the  Hahnemann  Medical 
College,  and  the  hospital  was  placed  on  the  list 
of  public  charities.  It  also  received  a  donation 
of  $10,000  from  the  Relief  and  Aid  Society, 
besides  numerous  private  benefactions.  In 
April,  1873,  at  the  suggestion  of  Mr.  Scammon, 
the  name  of  the  institution  was  changed  to  the 
Hahnemann  Hospital,  by  which  designation  it 
has  since  been  known.  In  1893  the  corner-stone 
of  a  new  hospital  was  laid  and  the  building  com- 
pleted in  1894.  It  is  seven  stories  in  height,  with 
a  capacity  for  225  beds,  and  is  equipped  with  all 
the-  improved  appliances  and  facilities  for  the 
care  and  protection  of  the  sick.  It  has  also  about 
sixty  private  rooms  for  paying  patients. 

HAHNEMAJTN  MEDICAL  COLLEGE,  located 
in  Chicago,  chartered  in  1834-35,  but  not  organ- 
ized until  1860,  when  temporary  quarters  were 
secured  over  a  drug-store,  and  the  first  college 
term  opened,  with  a  teaching  faculty  numbering 
nine  professors,  besides  clinical  lecturers,  demon- 
strators, etc.  In  1866-67  the  institution  moved 
into  larger  quarters  and,  in  1870,  the  corner-etone 
of  a  new  college  building  was  laid.  The  six  suc- 
ceeding years  were  marked  by  internal  dissen- 
sion, ten  of  the  professors  withdrawing  to 
establish  a  rival  school.  The  faculty  was  cur- 
tailed in  numbers  and  re-organized.  In  August, 


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1892,  the  corner-stone  of  a  second  building  was 
laid  with  appropriate  Masonic  ceremonies,  the 
new  structure  occupying  the  site  of  the  old,  but 
being  larger,  better  arranged  and  better  equipped. 
Women  were  admitted  as  students  in  1870-71  and 
co-education  of  the  sexes  has  ever  since  continued 
an  established  feature  of  the  institution.  For 
more  than  thirty-five  years  a  free  dispensary  has 
been  in  operation  in  connection  with  the  college. 
HAINES,  John  Charles,  Mayor  of  Chicago  and 
legislator,  was  born  in  Oneida  County,  N.  Y., 
May  26,  1818 ;  came  to  Chicago  in  1835,  and,  for 
the  next  eleven  years,  was  employed  in  various 
pursuits;  served  three  terms  (1848-54)  in  the  City 
Council;  was  twice  elected  Water  Commissioner 
(1853  and  '56),  and,  in  1858,  was  chosen  Mayor, 
serving  two  terms.  lie  also  served  as  Delegate 
from  Cook  County  in  the  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion of  1869-70,  and,  in  1874,  was  elected  to  the 
State  Senate  from  the  First  District,  serving  in 
the  Twenty-ninth  and  Thirtieth  General  Assem- 
blies. At  the  session  of  1877  he  received  sixty- 
nine  votes  for  the  seat  in  the  United  States 
Senate  to  which  Judge  David  Davis  was  after- 
wards elected.  Mr.  Haines  was  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  Historical  Society,  was  interested  in  the 
old  Chicago  West  Division  Railway  and  President 
of  the  Savings  Institute.  During  his  later  years 
he  was  a  resident  of  Waukegan,  dying  there, 
July  4,  1896. —Elijah  Middlebrook  (Haines), 
brother  of  the  preceding,  lawyer,  politician 
and  legislator,  was  born  in  Oneida  County,  N.  Y., 
April  21,  1822;  came  to  Illinois  in  boyhood,  locat- 
ing first  at  Chicago,  but,  a  year  later,  went  to 
Lake  County,  where  he  resided  until  his  death. 
His  education,  rudimentary,  classical  and  profes- 
sional, was  self-acquired.  He  began  to  occupy 
and  cultivate  a  farm  for  himself  before  attaining 
his  majority;  studied  law,  and,  in  1851,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  beginning  practice  at  Wau- 
kegan; in  1860  opened  an  office  in  Chicago,  still, 
however,  making  his  home  at  Waukegan.  In 
1855  he  published  a  compilation  of  the  Illinois 
township  laws,  followed  by  a  "Treatise  on  the 
Powers  and  Duties  of  Justices  of  the  Peace. "  He 
made  similar  compilations  of  the  township  laws 
of  Michigan,  Minnesota,  Wisconsin  and  Missouri. 
By  nature  Mr.  Haines  was  an  agitator,  and  his 
career  as  a  politician  both  checkered  and  unique. 
Originally  a  Democrat,  he  abandoned  that  or- 
ganization upon  the  formation  of  the  Republican 
party,  and  was  elected  by  the  latter  to  the  Legis- 
lature from  Lake  County  in  1858,  '60  and  '62.  In 
1867  he  came  into  prominence  as  an  anti-monopo- 
list, and  on  this  issue  was  elected  to  the  Consti- 


tutional Convention  of  1869-70.  In  1870  he  was 
again  chosen  to  the  Legislature  as  an  "independ- 
ent, "  and,  as  such,  re-elected  in '74,  '82,  '84,  '86  and 
'88,  receiving  the  support,  however,  of  the  Demo- 
crats in  a  District  normally  Republican.  He 
served  as  Speaker  during  the  sessions  of  1875  and 
'85,  the  party  strength  in  each  of  these  Assemblies 
being  so  equally  divided  that  he  either  held,  or 
was  able  to  control,  the  balance  of  power.  He 
was  an  adroit  parliamentarian,  but  his  decisions 
were  the  cause  of  much  severe  criticism,  being 
regarded  by  both  Democrats  and  Republicans  as 
often  arbitrary  and  unjust.  The  two  sessions 
over  which  he  presided  were  among  the  stormiest 
in  the  State's  history.  Died,  at  Waukegan,  April 
25,  1889. 

HALE,  Albert,  pioneer  clergyman,  was  born 
at  Glastonbury,  Conn.,  Nov.  29,  1799;  after  some 
years  spent  as  a  clerk  in  a  country  store  at 
Wethersfield,  completed  a  course  in  the  theolog- 
ical department  of  Yale  College,  later  serving  as  a 
home  missionary,  in  Georgia ;  came  to  Illinois  in 
1831,  doing  home  missionary  work  in  Bond 
County,  and,  in  1833,  was  sent  to  Chicago,  where 
his  open  candor,  benignity  and  blameless  conduct 
enabled  him  to  exert  a  powerful  influence  over 
the  drunken  aborigines  who  constituted  a  large 
and  menacing  class  of  the  population  of  what 
was  then  a  frontier  town.  In  1839  he  assumed 
the  pastorate  of  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church 
in  Springfield,  continuing  that  connection  until 
1865.  From  that  time  until  his  death,  his  life 
was  largely  devoted  to  missionary  work  among 
the  extremely  poor  and  the  pariahs  of  society. 
Among  these  he  wielded  a  large  influence  and 
always  commanded  genuine  respect  from  all 
denominations.  His  forte  was  love  rather  than 
argument,  and  in  this  lay  the  secret  of  his  suc- 
cess. Died,  in  Springfield,  Jan.  30,  1891. 

HALE,  (Dr.)  Edwin  M.,  physician,  was  born 
in  Newport,  N.  H.,  in  1829,  commenced  the  study 
of  medicine  in  1848  and,  in  1850,  entered  the 
Cleveland  Homeopathic  College,  at  the  end  of  the 
session  locating  at  Jonesville,  Mich.  From  1855 
he  labored  in  the  interest  of  a  representation  of 
homeopathy  in  the  University  of  Michigan. 
When  this  was  finally  accomplished,  he  was 
offered  the  chair  of  Materia  Medica  and  Thera- 
peutics, but  was  compelled  to  decline  in  conse- 
quence of  having  been  elected  to  the  same  position 
in  the  Halmemann  Medical  College  of  Chicago. 
In  1876  he  made  a  visit  to  Europe,  and,  on  his 
return,  severed  his  connection  with  the  Hahne- 
mann  and  accepted  a  similar  position  in  the  Chi- 
cago Homeopathic  College,  where  he  remained 


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five  years,  when  he  retired  with  the  rank  of  Pro- 
fessor Emeritus.  Dr.  Hale  was  the  author  of 
several  volumes  held  in  high  esteem  by  members 
of  the  profession,  and  maintained  a  high  reputa- 
tion for  professional  skill  and  benevolence  of 
character.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Academy  of  Sciences  and  an  honorary  member  of 
various  home  and  foreign  associations.  Died,  in 
Chicago,  Jan.  18,  1899. 

If  ALL,  (Col.)  Cyrus,  soldier,  was  born  in  Fay- 
ette  County,  111.,  August  29,  1823— the  son  of  a 
pioneer  who  came  to  Illinois  about  the  time  of 
its  admission  as  a  State.  He  served  as  Second 
Lieutenant  in  the  Third  Illinois  Volunteers  (Col. 
Foreman's  regiment),  during  the  Mexican  War, 
and,  in  1860,  removed  to  Shelbyville  to  engage  in 
hotel-keeping.  The  Civil  War  coming  on,  he 
raised  the  first  company  for  the  war  in  Shelby 
County,  which  was  attached  to  the  Fourteenth 
Illinois  (Col.  John  M.  Palmer's  regiment) ;  was 
promptly  promoted  from  Captain  to  Major  and 
finally  to  Lieutenant-Colonel,  on  the  promotion 
of  Palmer  to  Brigadier-General,  succeeding  to 
command  of  the  regiment.  The  Fourteenth 
Regiment  having  been  finally  consolidated  with 
the  Fifteenth,  Lieutenant-Colonel  Hall  was 
transferred,  with  the  rank  of  Colonel,  to  the 
command  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty-fourth 
Illinois,  which  he  resigned  in  March,  1864,  was 
brevetted  Brigadier-General  for  gallant  and 
meritorious  service  in  the  field,  in  March,  1865, 
and  mustered  out  Sept.  16,  1865.  Returning  to 
Shelbyville,  he  engaged  in  the  furniture  trade, 
later  was  appointed  Postmaster,  serving  some  ten 
years  and  until  his  death,  Sept.  6.  1878. 

HALL,  James,  legislator,  jurist,  State  Treasurer 
and  author,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  August 
19,  1793;  after  serving  in  the  War  of  1812  and 
spending  some  time  with  Com.  Stephen  Decatur 
in  the  Mediterranean,  in  1815,  lie  studied  law, 
beginning  practice  at  Shawneetown,  in  1820. 
He  at  once  assumed  prominence  as  a  citizen,  was 
appointed  State's  Attorney  in  1821,  and  elevated 
to  the  bench  of  the  Circuit  Court  in  1825.  He 
was  legislated  out  of  office  two  years  later  and 
resumed  private  practice,  making  his  home  at 
Vaudalia,  where  he  was  associated  with  Robert 
Blackwell  in  the  publication  of  "The  Illinois 
Intelligencer."  The  same  year  (1827)  he  was 
elected  by  the  Legislature  State  Treasurer,  con- 
tinuing in  office  four  years.  Later  he  removed  to 
Cincinnati,  where  he  died,  July  5,  1868.  He  con- 
ducted "The  Western  Monthly  Magazine,"  the 
first  periodical  published  in  Illinois.  Among  his 
published  volumes  may  be  mentioned  "Tales  of 


the  Border,"  "Notes  on  the  Western  States," 
"Sketches  of  the  West,"  "Romance  of  Western 
History,"  and  "History  of  the  Indian  Tribes." 

II  AM  MI!,  Thomas,  soldier  and  legislator,  was 
born  in  Union  County,  Pa.,  June  1,  1818;  came 
to  Illinois  in  1846  and  began  business  as  a  mer- 
chant at  Vermont,  Fulton  County;  in  1862 
assisted  in  recruiting  the  Eighty-fourtli  Illinois 
Volunteers  and  was  elected  Lieutenant-Colonel; 
was  wounded  in  the  battle  of  Stone  River,  re- 
turned to  duty  after  partial  recovery,  but  was 
finally  compelled  to  retire  on  account  of  disabil- 
ity. Returning  home  he  resumed  business,  but 
retired  in  1878 ;  was  elected  Representative  in  the 
General  Assembly  in  1886  and  to  the  Senate  in 
1888,  and  re-elected  to  the  latter  in  1892,  making 
ten  years  of  continuous  service. 

HAMILTON,  a  city  in  Hancock  County,  on  the 
Mississippi  River  opposite  Keokuk,  Iowa ;  at  junc- 
tion of  the  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Western  and  Keokuk 
branch  of  the  Wabash  Railway.  Its  position  at 
the  foot  of  the  lower  rapids  insures  abundant 
water  power  for  manufacturing  purposes.  An 
iron  railroad  and  wagon  bridge  connects  the  Illi- 
nois city  with  Keokuk.  It  has  two  banks,  elec- 
tric lights,  one  newspaper,  six  churches,  a  high 
school,  and  an  apiary.  The  surrounding  country 
is  a  farming  and  fruit  district.  The  city  is  the  site 
of  Riverside  Mineral  Springs  and  a  sanitarium.  Pop. 
(1890),  1,301;  (1900),  1,344;  (1910),  1,627. 

HAMILTON,  John  B.,  M.D,  LL.D.,  surgeon, 
was  born  of  a  pioneer  family  in  Jersey  County, 
111.,  Dec.  1,  1847,  his  grandfather,  Thomas  M. 
Hamilton,  having  removed  from  Ohio  in  1818  to 
Monroe  County,  111.,  where  the  father  of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  born.  The  latter  (Elder 
Benjamin  B.  Hamilton)  was  for  fifty  years  a 
Baptist  preacher,  chiefly  in  Greene  County,  and, 
from  1863  to  '65,  Chaplain  of  the  Sixty-first  Illi- 
nois Volunteers.  Young  Hamilton,  having  re- 
ceived his  literary  education  at  home  and  with  a 
classical '  teacher  at  Edinburgh,  Scotland,  in  1863 
began  the  study  of  medicine,  and  the  following 
year  attempted  to  enlist  as  a  soldier,  but  was 
rejected  on  account  of  being  a  minor.  In  1869  he 
graduated  from  Rush  Medical  College  in  Chicago, 
and,  for  the  next  five  years,  was  engaged  in  gen- 
eral practice.  Then,  having  passed  an  examina- 
tion before  an  Army  Examining  Board,  he  was 
appointed  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  regular  army 
with  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant,  serving  suc- 
cessively at  Jefferson  Barracks,  St.  Louis:  Fort 
Colville,  Washington,  and  in  the  Marine  Hospital 
at  Boston;  in  1879  became  Supervising  Surgeon- 
General  as  successor  to  Gen.  John  M.  Woodworth 


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and,  during  the  yellow-fever  epidemic  in  the 
South,  a  few  years  later,  rendered  efficient  service 
in  checking  the  spread  of  the  disease  by  taking 
charge  of  the  camp  of  refugees  from  Jacksonville 
and  other  stricken  points.  Resigning  the  position 
of  Surgeon-General  in  1891,  he  took  charge  of  the 
Marine  Hospital  at  Chicago  and  became  Pro- 
fessor of  Surgery  in  Rush  Medical  College,  besides 
holding  other  allied  positions ;  was  also  editor  of 
"The  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Associ- 
ation." In  1896  he  resigned  his  position  in  the 
Medical  Department  of  the  United  States  Army, 
in  1897  was  appointed  Superintendent  for  the 
Northern  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at  Elgin,  but 
died,  Dec.  24,  1898. 

HAMILTON,  John  L.,  farmer  and  legislator, 
was  born  at  Newry.  Ireland,  Nov.  9,  1829;  emi- 
grated to  Jersey  County,  111.,  in  1851,  where  he 
began  life  working  on  a  farm.  Later,  he  followed 
the  occupation  of  a  farmer  in  Mason  and  Macou- 
pin  Counties,  finally  locating,  in  1864,  in  Iroquois 
County,  which  has  since  been  his  home.  After 
filling  various  local  offices,  in  1875  he  was  elected 
County  Treasurer  of  Iroquois  County  as  a  Repub- 
lican, and  twice  re-elected  (1877  and  '79),  also,  in 
1880,  being  Chairman  of  the  Republican  County 
Central  Committee.  In  1884  he  was  elected  to 
the  House  of  Representatives,  being  one  of  the 
"103"  who  stood  by  General  Logan  in  the  mem- 
orable Senatorial  contest  of  1885 ;  was  re-elected 
in  1886,  and  again  returned  to  the  same  body  in 
1890  and  '98. 

HAMILTON,  John  Marshall,  lawyer  and  ex- 
Governor,  was  born  in  Union  County,  Ohio,  May 
28,  1847;  when  7  years  of  age,  was  brought  to 
Illinois  by  his  father,  who  settled  on  a  farm  in 
Marshall  County.  In  1864  (at  the  age  of  17;  he 
enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred  and  .Forty-first  Illi- 
nois Volunteers  —  a  100-day  regiment.  After 
being  mustered  out,  he  matriculated  at  the  Wes- 
leyan  (Ohio)  University,  from  which  he  gradu- 
ated in  1868.  For  a  year  he  taught  school  at 
Henry,  and  later  became  Professor  of  Languages 
at  the  Wesleyan  (111.)  University  at  Blooming- 
ton.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1870,  and  has 
been  a  successful  practitioner  at  the  bar.  In 
1876  he  was  elected  State  Senator  from  McLean 
County,  and,  in  1880,  Lieutenant-Governor  on  the 
ticket  with  Gov.  Shelby  M.  Cullom.  On  Feb.  6, 
1883,  he  was  inaugurated  Governor,  to  succeed 
Governor  Cullom,  who  had  been  chosen  United 
States  Senator.  In  1884  he  was  a  candidate  for 
the  gubernatorial  nomination  before  the  Repub- 
lican State  Convention  at  Peoria,  but  that  body 
selected  ex-Gov.  and  ex-Senator  Richard  J. 


Oglesby  to  head  the  State  ticket.  Later  Governor 
Hamilton  was  a  prominent  practitioner  at  the 
Chicago  bar  until  his  death,  Sept.  22,  1905. 

HAMILTON,  Richard  Jones,  pioneer  lawyer, 
was  born  near  Danville,  Ky.,  August  21,  1799; 
studied  law  and,  about  1820,  came  to  Jonesboro, 
Union  County,  111.,  in  company  with  Abner  Field, 
afterwards  State  Treasurer ;  in  1821  was  appointed 
cashier  of  the  newly  established  Branch  State 
Bank  at  Brownsville,  Jackson  County,  but,  in 
1831,  removed  to  Chicago,  Governor  Reynolds 
having  appointed  him  the  first  Probate  Judge  of 
Cook  County.  At  the  same  time  he  also  held  the 
offices  of  Circuit  and  County  Clerk,  Recorder  and 
Commissioner  of  School  lands — the  sale  of  the 
Chicago  school  section  being  made  under  his 
administration.  He  was  a  Colonel  of  State  militia 
and,  in  1832,  took  an  active  part  in  raising  volun- 
ters  for  defense  during  the  Black  Hawk  War; 
also  was  a  candidate  for  the  colonelcy  of  the 
Fifth  Regiment  for  the  Mexican  War  (1847), 
but  was  defeated  by  Colonel  Newby.  In  1856 
he  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor on  the  Democratic  ticket.  Died, 
Dec.  26,  1860. 

HAMILTON,  William  Stephen,  pioneer  — son 
of  Alexander  Hamilton,  first  United  States  Secre- 
tary of  the  Treasury — was  born  in  New  York 
City,  August  4,  1797;  spent  three  years  (1814-17), 
at  West  Point ;  came  west  and  located  at  an  early 
day  at  Springfield,  111. ;  was  a  deputy  surveyor  of 
public  lands,  elected  Representative  from  Sanga- 
mon  County,  in  the  Fourth  General  Assembly 
(1824-26);  in  1827  removed  to  the  Lead  Mine 
region  and  engaged  in  mining  at  "Hamilton's 
Diggings"  (now  Wiota)  in  southwest  Wisconsin, 
and  occasionally  practiced  law  at  Galena ;  was  a 
member  of  the  Wisconsin  Territorial  Legislature 
of  1842-43,  emigrated  to  California  in  1849,  and 
died  in  Sacramento,  Oct.  9,  1850,  where,  some 
twenty  years  later,  a  monument  was  erected  to 
his  memory.  Colonel  Hamilton  was  an  aid-de- 
camp of  Governor  Coles,  who  sent  him  forward 
to  meet  General  La  Fayette  on  his  way  from  New 
Orleans,  on  occasion  of  La  Fayette's  visit  to  Illi- 
nois in  1825. 

HAMILTON  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  south- 
eastern part  of  the  State;  has  an  area  of  440 
square  miles,  and  population  (1910)  of  18,227 — 
named  for  Alexander  Hamilton.  It  was  organ- 
ized in  1821,  with  McLeansboro  as  the  county- 
seat.  The  surface  of  the  county  is  rolling  and 
the  fertile  soil  well  watered  and  drained  by 
numerous  creeks,  flowing  east  and  south  into  the 
Wabash,  which  constitutes  its  southeastern 


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boundary.  Coal  crops  out  at  various  points  in 
the  southwestern  portion.  Originally  Hamilton 
County  was  a  dense  forest,  and  timber  is  still 
abundant  and  saw-mills  numerous.  Among  the 
hard  woods  found  are  black  and  white  oak,  black 
walnut,  ash  and  hickory.  The  softer  woods  are 
in  unusual  variety.  Corn  and  tobacco  are  the 
principal  crops,  although  considerable  fruit  is 
cultivated,  besides  oats,  winter  wheat  and  pota- 
toes. Sorghum  is  also  extensively  produced. 
Among  the  pioneer  settlers  was  a  Mr.  Auxier  (for 
whom  a  water  course  was  named),  in  1815;  Adam 
Crouch,  the  Biggerstaffs  and  T.  Stelle,  in  1818, 
and  W.  T.  Golson  and  Louis  Baxter,  in  1821. 
The  most  important  town  is  McLeansboro,  whose 
population  in  1890  was  1,355. 

HAMMOND,  Charles  Goodrich,  Railway  Mana- 
ger, was  born  at  Bolton,  Conn.,  June  4,  1804, 
spent  his  youth  in  Chenango  County,  N.  Y., 
where  he  became  Principal  of  the  Whitesboro 
Seminary  (in  which  he  was  partially  educated), 
and  entered  mercantile  life  at  Canandaigua; 
in  1834  removed  to  Michigan,  where  he  held 
various  offices,  including  member  of  the  Legisla- 
ture and  Auditor;  in  1852  completed  the  con- 
struction of  the  Michigan  Central  Railroad  (the 
first  line  from  the  East)  to  Chicago,  and  took  up 
his  residence  in  that  city.  In  1855  he  became 
Superintendent  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  Railroad,  but  soon  resigned  to  take  a 
trip  to  Europe  for  the  benefit  of  his  health. 
Returning  from  Europe  in  1869,  he  accepted  the 
Superintendency  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad, 
but  was  compelled  to  resign  by  failing  health,  later 
becoming  Vice-President  of  the  Pullman  Palace 
Car  Company.  He  was  Treasurer  of  the  Chicago 
Relief  &  Aid  Society  after  the  fire  of  1871,  and 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Chicago  Theological 
Seminary  (Congregational) ;  also  President,  for 
several  years,  of  the  Chicago  Home  for  the  Friend- 
less. Died,  April  15,  1884. 

HAMPSHIRE,  a  village  of  Kane  County,  on 
the  Omaha  Division  of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee 
&  St.  Paul  Railway,  51  miles  west-northwest  from 
Chicago.  There  are  brick  and  tile  works,  a  large 
canning  factory,  pickle  factory,  and  machine 
shop;  dairy  and  stock  interests  are  large.  The 
place  has  a  bank,  electric  lights  and  water- works, 
and  a  weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1910),  697. 

HANCOCK  COUNTY,  on  the  western  border  of 
the  State,  bounded  on  the  west  by  the  Mississippi 
River;  was  organized  in  1825  and  named  for  John 
Hancock;  has  an  area  of  780  square  n  iles;  popu- 
lation (1910)  30,638.  Its  early  settlers  were 
chiefly  from  the  Middle  and  Southern  States, 


among  them  being  I.  J.  Waggen,  for  nearly  sixty 
years  a  resident  of  Montebello  Township.  Black 
Hawk,  the  famous  Indian  Chief,  is  reputed  to 
have  been  born  within  the  limits  of  Camp  Creek 
Township,  in  this  county.  Fort  Edwards  was 
erected  on  the  present  site  of  Warsaw,  soon  after 
the  War  of  1812,  but  was  shortly  afterwards  evac- 
uated. Abraham  Lincoln,  a  cousin  of  the  Presi- 
dent of  that  name,  was  one  of  the  early  settlers. 
Among  the  earliest  were  John  Day,  Abraham 
Brewer,  Jacob  Compton,  D.  F.  Parker,  the  Dixons, 
Mendenhalls,  Logans,  and  Luther  Whitney. 
James  White,  George  Y.  Cutler  and  Henry  Nich- 
ols were  the  first  Commissioners.  In  1839  the 
Mormons  crossed  the  Mississippi,  after  being 
expelled  from  Missouri,  and  founded  the  city  of 
Nauvoo  in  this  county.  (See  Mormons,  Nauvoo.) 
Carthage  and  Appanoose  were  surveyed  and  laid 
out  in  1835  and  1836.  A  ferry  across  the  Missis- 
sippi was  established  at  Montebello  (near  the 
present  site  of  Hamilton)  in  1829,  and  another, 
two  years  later,  near  the  site  of  old  Fort  Edwards. 
The  county  is  crossed  by  six  lines  of  railway,  has 
a  fine  public  school  system,  numerous  thriving 
towns,  and  is  among  the  wealthy  counties  of  the 
State. 

HANDY,  Moses  Purnell,  journalist,  was  born 
at  Warsaw,  Mo.,  April  14,  1847;  before  he  was 
one  year  old  was  taken  back  to  Maryland,  his 
parents'  native  State.  He  was  educated  at  Ports- 
mouth, Va. ,  and  was  a  student  at  the  Virginia 
Collegiate  Institute  at  the  breaking  out  of  the 
Civil  War,  when  he  joined  the  Confederate  army 
at  the  age  of  seventeen.  When  the  war  ended 
Handy  found  himself  penniless.  He  was  school- 
teacher and  book-canvasser  by  turns,  meantime 
writing  some  for  a  New  York  paper.  Later  he 
became  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  "The  Christian 
Observer"  in  Richmond.  In  1867,  by  some  clever 
reporting  for  "The  Richmond  Dispatch,"  he  was 
able  to  secure  a  regular  position  on  the  local  staff 
of  that  paper,  quickly  gaining  a  reputation  as  a 
successful  reporter,  and,  in  1869,  becoming  city 
editor.  From  this  time  until  1887  his  promotion 
was  rapid,  being  employed  at  different  times  upon 
many  of  the  most  prominent  and  influential 
papers  in  the  East,  including  "The  New  York 
Tribune,"  "Richmond  Enquirer,"  and,  in  Phila- 
delphia, upon  "The  Times,"  "The  Press"  and 
"Daily  News."  In  1893,  at  the  request  of  Director- 
General  Davis  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion, Mr.  Handy  accepted  the  position  of  Chief  of 
the  Department  of  Publicity  and  Promotion,  pre- 
ferring this  to  the  Consul-Generalship  to  Egypt, 
tendered  him  about  the  same  time  by  President 


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Harrison.  Later,  as  a  member  of  the  National 
Commission  to  Europe,  he  did  much  to  arouse  the 
interest  of  foreign  countries  in  the  Exposition. 
For  some  time  after  the  World's  Fair,  he  was 
associate  editor  of  "The  Chicago  Times-Herald." 
In  1897,  having  been  appointed  by  President 
McKinley  United  States  Commissioner  to  the 
Paris  Exposition  of  1900,  he  visited  Paris.  Upon 
his  return  to  this  country  he  found  himself  in 
very  poor  health,  and  went  South  in  a  vain 
attempt  to  regain  his  lost  strength  and  vigor,  but 
died,  at  Augusta,  Ga.,  Jan.  8,  1898. 

HANKS,  Dennis,  pioneer,  born  in  Hardin 
County,  Ky.,  May  15,  1799;  was  a  cousin  of  the 
mother  of  Abraham  Lincoln  and,  although  ten 
years  the  senior  of  the  latter,  was  his  intimate 
friend  in  boyhood.  Being  of  a  sportive  disposi- 
tion, he  often  led  the  future  President  in  boyish 
pranks.  About  1818,  he  joined  the  Lincoln  house- 
hold in  Spencer  County,  Ind.,  and  finally  married 
Sarah  Johnston,  the  step-sister  of  Mr.  Lincoln, 
the  families  removing  to  Macon  County,  111., 
together,  in  1830.  A  year  or  so  later,  Mr.  Hanks 
removed  to  Coles  County,  where  he  remained 
until  some  three  years  before  his  death,  when  he 
went  to  reside  with  a  daughter  at  Paris,  Edgar 
County.  It  has  been  claimed  that  he  first  taught 
the  youthful  Abraham  to  read  and  write,  and 
this  has  secured  for  him  the  title  of  Mr.  Lincoln's 
teacher.  He  has  also  been  credited  with  having 
once  saved  Lincoln  from  death  by  drowning  while 
crossing  a  swollen  stream.  Austin  Gollaher,  a 
school-  and  play-mate  of  Lincoln's,  has  also  made 
the  same  claim  for  himself — the  two  stories  pre- 
sumably referring  to  the  same  event  After  the 
riot  at  Charleston,  111.,  in  March,  1863,  in  which 
several  persons  were  killed,  Hanks  made  a  visit 
to  President  Lincoln  in  Washington  in  the  inter- 
est of  some  of  the  arrested  rioters,  and,  although 
they  were  not  immediately  released,  the  fact  that 
they  were  ordered  returned  to  Charleston  for 
trial  and  finally  escaped  punishment,  has  been 
attributed  to  Hanks'  influence  with  the  President. 
He  died  at  Paris,  Edgar  County,  Oct.  31.  1892,  in 
the  94th  year  of  his  age,  as  the  result  of  injuries 
received  from  being  run  over  by  a  buggy  while 
returning  from  an  Emancipation-Day  celebra- 
tion, near  that  city,  on  the  22d  day  of  September 
previous. 

HANKS,  John,  pioneer,  a  cousin  of  the  mother 
of  Abraham  Lincoln,  was  born  near  Bardstown, 
Ky.,  Feb.  9,  1802;  joined  the  Lincolns  in  Spencer 
County,  Ind.,  in  1822,  and  made  his  home  with 
them  two  years;  engaged  in  flat-boating,  making 
numerous  trips  to  New  Orleans,  in  one  of  them 


being  accompanied  by  Abraham  Lincoln,  then 
about  19  years  of  age,  who  then  had  his  feelings 
aroused  against  slavery  by  his  first  sight  of  a 
slave-mart.  In  1828  Mr.  Hanks  removed  to 
Macon  County,  111.,  locating  about  four  miles 
west  of  Decatur,  and  it  was  partly  through  his 
influence  that  the  Lincolns  were  induced  to  emi- 
grate to  the  same  locality  in  1830.  Hanks  had 
cut  enough  logs  to  build  the  Lincolns  a  house 
when  they  arrived,  and  these  were  hauled  by 
Abraham  Lincoln  to  the  site  of  the  house,  which 
was  erected  on  the  north  bank  of  the  Sangamon 
River,  near  the  present  site  of  Harristown.  Dur- 
ing the  following  summer  he  and  Abraham  Lin- 
coln worked  together  splitting  rails  to  fence  a 
portion  of  the  land  taken  up  by  the  elder  Lincoln 
— some  of  these  rails  being  the  ones  displayed 
during  the  campaign  of  1860.  In  1831  Hanks  and 
Lincoln  worked  together  in  the  construction  of  a 
flat-boat  on  the  Sangamon  River,  near  Spring- 
field, for  a  man  named  Offutt,  which  Lincoln  took 
to  New  Orleans— Hanks  only  going  as  far  as 
St.  Louis,  when  he  returned  home.  In  1832, 
Hanks  served  as  a  soldier  of  the  Mexican  War  in 
the  company  commanded  by  Capt.  I.  C.  Pugh, 
afterwards  Colonel  of  the  Forty-first  Illinois 
Volunteer  Infantry  during  the  Civil  War.  He 
followed  the  occupation  of  a  farmer  until  1850, 
when  he  went  to  California,  where  he  spent  three 
years,  returning  in  1853.  In  1861  he  enlisted  as 
a  soldier  in  the  Twenty-first  Illinois  Volunteer 
Infantry  (afterwards  commanded  by  General 
Grant),  but  being  already  59  years  of  age,  was 
placed  by  Grant  in  charge  of  the  baggage-train, 
in  which  capacity  he  remained  two  years,  serving 
in  Missouri,  Tennessee,  Arkansas,  Kentucky, 
Alabama  and  Mississippi.  While  Grant  was  with 
the  regiment,  Hanks  had  charge  of  the  staff  team. 
Being  disabled  by  rheumatism,  he  was  finally 
discharged  at  Winchester,  Tenn.  He  made 
three  trips  to  California  after  the  war.  Died, 
July  1,  1891. 

HANNIBAL  &  NAPLES  RAILROAD.  (See 
Wabash  Railroad. ) 

HANON,  Martin,  pioneer,  was  born  near  Nash- 
ville, Tenn.,  April,  1799;  came  with  his  father  to 
Gallatin  County,  Illinois  Territory,  in  1812,  and, 
in  1818,  to  what  is  now  a  portion  of  Christian 
County,  being  the  first  white  settler  in  that 
region.  Died,  near  Sharpsburg,  Christian  County, 
April  5,  1879. 

HANOVER,  a  village  in  Jo  Daviess  County,  on 
Apple  River,  14  miles  south-southeast  of  Galena. 
It  has  a  woolen  factory,  besides  five  churches  and 
a  graded  school.  The  Township  (also  called  Han- 


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over)  extends  to  the  Mississippi,  and  has  a  popu- 
lation of  about  1,700.  Population  of  the  village 
(1890),  743;  (1900),  785;  (1910),  650. 

H  A  l!l)l\,  the  county-seat  of  Calhoun  County, 
situated  in  Hardin  Township,  on  the  west  bank  of 
the  Illinois  River,  some  30  miles  northwest  of  Alton; 
is  in  an  agricultural  and  fruit-growing  region;  has 
churches,  a  graded  school  and  two  newspaper  offices. 
Pop.  (1890),  311;  (1900),  494;  (1910),  654. 

HARDIN,  John  J.,  lawyer,  Congressman  and 
soldier,  was  born  at  Frankfort,  Ky.,  Jan.  6,  1810. 
After  graduating  from  Transylvania  University 
and  being  admitted  to  the  bar,  he  began  practice 
at  Jacksonville,  111.,  in  1830;  for  several  years  he 
was  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Morgan  County, 
later  being  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the 
Legislature,  where  he  served  from  1836  to  '42. 
The  latter  year  he  was  elected  to  Congress,  his 
term  expiring  in  1845.  During  the  later  period 
of  his  professional  career  at  Jacksonville  he  was 
the  partner  of  David  A.  Smith,  a  prominent  law- 
yer of  that  city,  and  had  Richard  Yates  for  a 
pupil.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Mexican  War  he 
was  commissioned  Colonel  of  the  First  Illinois 
Volunteers  (June  30,  1846)  and  was  killed  on  the 
second  day  of  the  battle  of  Buena  Vista  (Feb.  27, 
1847)  while  leading  the  final  charge.  His  remains 
were  brought  to  Jacksonville  and  buried  with 
distinguished  honors  in  the  cemetery  there,  his 
former  pupil,  Richard  Yates,  delivering  the  fu- 
neral oration. — Gen.  Martin  D.  (Hardin),  soldier, 
son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  in  Jacksonville,  111., 
June  26,  1837 ;  graduated  at  West  Point  Military 
Academy,  in  1859,  and  entered  the  service  as 
brevet  Second  Lieutenant  of  the  Third  Artillery, 
a  few  months  later  becoming  full  Second  Lieu- 
tenant, and,  in  May,  1861,  First  Lieutenant. 
Being  assigned  to  the  command  of  volunteer 
troops,  he  passed  through  various  grades  until 
May,  1864,  when  he  was  brevetted  Colonel  of 
Volunteers  for  meritorious  conduct  at  North 
River,  Va.,  became  Brigadier-General  of  Volun- 
teers, July  2,  1864,  was  brevetted  Brigadier- 
General  of  the  regular  army  in  March,  1865, 
for  service  during  the  war,  and  was  finally  mus- 
tered out  of  the  volunteer  service  in  January, 
1866.  He  continued  in  the  regular  service,  how- 
ever, until  December  15,  1870,  when  he  was 
retired  with  the  rank  of  Brigadier-General. 
General  Hardin  lost  an  arm  and  suffered  other 
wounds  during  the  war.  His  home  is  in  Chicago. 
— Ellen  Hardin  (Walworth),  author,  daughter  of 
Col.  John  J.  Hardin,  was  born  in  Jacksonville, 
111.,  Oct.  20,  1832,  and  educated  at  the  Female 
Seminary  in  that  place ;  was  married  about  1854 


to  Mansfield  Tracy  Walworth  (son  of  Chancellor 
R.  H.  Walworth  of  New  York).  Her  husband 
became  an  author  of  considerable  repute,  chiefly  in 
the  line  of  fiction,  but  was  assassinated  in  1873  by 
a  son  who  was  acquitted  of  the  charge  of  murder 
on  the  ground  of  insanity.  Mrs.  Walworth  is  a 
leader  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Revolution,  and 
has  given  much  attention,  of  late  years,  to  literary 
pursuits.  Among  her  works  are  accounts  of  the 
Burgoyne  Campaign  and  of  the  battle  of  Buena 
Vista — the  latter  contributed  to  "The  Magazine 
of  American  History";  a  "Life  of  Col.  John  J. 
Hardin  and  History  of  the  Hardin  Family," 
besides  a  number  of  patriotic  and  miscellaneous 
poems  and  essays.  She  served  for  several  years 
as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Education,  and  was 
for  six  years  principal  of  a  young  ladies'  school 
at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 

HARDIN  COUNTY,  situated  on  the  southeast 
border  of  the  State,  and  bounded  on  the  east  and 
south  by  the  Ohio  River.  It  has  an  area  of  180 
square  miles,  and  was  named  for  a  county  in 
Kentucky.  The  surface  is  broken  by  ridges  and 
deep  gorges,  or  ravines,  and  well  timbered  with 
oak,  hickory,  elm,  maple,  locust  and  cotton- 
wood.  Corn,  wheat  and  oats  are  the  staple 
agricultural  products.  The  minerals  found  are 
iron,  coal  and  lead,  besides  carboniferous  lime- 
stone of  the  Keokuk  group.  Elizabethtown  is 
the  county-seat.  Population  (1880),  6,024;  (1890), 
7,234;  (1900).  7,448;  (1910),  7,015. 

HARDING,  Abner  Clark,  soldier  and  Member 
of  Congress,  born  in  East  Hampton,  Middlesex 
County,  Conn.,  Feb.  10,  1807;  was  educated  chiefly 
at  Hamilton  Academy,  N.  Y.,  and,  after  practic- 
ing law  for  a  time,  in  Oneida  County,  removed  to 
Illinois,  resuming  practice  and  managing  several 
farms  for  twenty-five  years.  He  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  State  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1847  from  Warren  County,  and  of  the  lower 
branch  of  the  Sixteenth  General  Assembly 
(1848-50).  Between  1850  and  1860  he  was  engaged 
in  railroad  enterprises.  In  1863  he  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  the  Eighty-third  Illinois  Volunteer 
Infantry,  was  commissioned  Colonel  and,  in  less 
than  a  year,  was  promoted  to  Brigadier-General. 
In  1864  he  was  elected  to  Congress  and  re-elected 
in  1866.  He  did  much  for  the  development  of  the 
western  part  of  the  State  in  the  construction  of 
railroads,  the  Peoria  &  Oquawka  (now  a  part  of 
the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy)  being  one  of 
the  lines  constructed  by  him.  He  left  a  fortune 
of  about  .$2,000,000,  and,  before  his  death,  en- 
dowed a  professorship  in  Monmouth  College 
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HARGRAVE,  Willis,  pioneer,  came  from  Ken- 
tucky to  Illinois  in  1816,  settling  near  Carmi  in 
White  County;  served  in  the  Third  Territorial 
Legislature  (1817-18;  and  in  the  First  General 
Assembly  of  the  State  (1818-20)..  His  business- 
life  in  Illinois  was  devoted  to  farming  and  salt- 
manufacture. 

HARLAJf,  James,  statesman,  was  born  in  Clark 
County,  111.,  August  35,  1820;  graduated  at  Asbury 
University,  Ind. ;  was  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction  in  Iowa  (1847),  President  of 
Iowa  Wesleyan  University  (1853),  United  States 
Senator  (1855-65),  Secretary  of  the  Interior 
(1865-66),  but  re-elected  to  the  Senate  the  latter 
year,  and,  in  1869,  chosen  President  of  Iowa  Uni- 
versity. He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Peace 
Conference  of  1861,  and  a  delegate  to  the  Phila- 
delphia Loyalists'  Convention  of  1866;  in  1873, 
after  leaving  the  Senate,  was  editor  of  "The 
Washington  Chronicle,"  and,  from  1882  to  1885, 
presiding  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Commissioners  of 
the  Alabama  Claims.  A  daughter  of  ex-Senator 
Harlan  married  Hon.  Robert.  T.  Lincoln,  son  of 
President  Lincoln,  and  (1889-93)  United  States 
Minister  to  England.  Mr.  Harlan's  home  is  at 
Mount  Pleasant,  Iowa.  Died,  Oct.  5,  1899. 

HARLAN,  Justin,  jurist,  was  born  in  Ohio 
about  1801  and,  at  the  age  of  25,  settled  in  Clark 
County,  111. ;  served  in  the  Black  Hawk  War  of 
1832  and,  in  1835,  was  appointed  a  Justice  of  the 
Circuit  Court;  was  a  Delegate  to  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  of  1847  and  the  following  year 
was  elected  to  the  Circuit  bench  under  the  new 
Constitution,  being  re-elected  in  1855.  In  1862 
he  was  appointed  by  President  Lincoln  Indian 
Agent,  continuing  in  office  until  1865;  in  1872 
was  elected  County  Judge  of  Clark  County. 
Died,  while  on  a  visit  in  Kentucky,  in  March, 
1879. 

HARLOW,  George  H.,  ex-Secretary  of  State, 
born  at  Sackett's  Harbor,  N.  Y.,  in  1830,  removed 
to  Tazewell  County,  111.,  in  1854,  and  engaged  in 
business  as  a  commission  merchant ;  also  served 
a  term  as  Mayor  of  Pekin.  For  many  years  he 
took  a  prominent  part  in  the  history  of  the  State. 
Early  in  the  '60's  he  was  one  of  seven  to  organize, 
at  Pekin,  the  "Union  League  of  America,1'  a 
patriotic  secret  organization  sworn  to  preserve 
the  Union,  working  in  harmony  with  the  war 
party  and  against  the  "Sons  of  Liberty."  In 
1862  he  enlisted,  and  was  about  to  go  to  the  front, 
when  Governor  Yates  requested  him  to  remain  at 
home  and  continue  his  effective  work  in  the 
Union  League,  saying  that  he  could  accomplish 
more  for  the  cause  in  this  way  than  in  the  field. 


Accordingly  Mr.  Harlow  continued  to  labor  as  an 
organizer,  and  the  League  became  a  powerful 
factor  in  State  politics.  In  ISGo  he  was  made 
First  Assistant  Secretary  of  the  State  Senate, 
but  soon  after  became  Governor  Oglesby's  private 
secretary.  For  a  time  he  also  served  as  Inspector- 
General  on  the  Governor's  staff,  and  had  charge 
of  the  troops  as  they  were  mustered  out.  During 
a  portion  of  Mr.  Rummel's  term  (1869-73)  as  Secre- 
tary of  State,  he  served  as  Assistant  Secretary, 
and,  in  1872,  was  elected  as  successor  to  Secretary 
Rummel  and  re-elected  in  1876.  While  in  Spring- 
field he  acted  as  correspondent  for  several  news- 
papers, and,  for  a  year,  was  city  editor  of  "The 
Illinois  State  Journal."  In  1881  he  took  up  his 
residence  in  Chicago,  where  he  was  engaged  at 
different  periods  in  the  commission  and  real 
estate  business,  but  has  been  retired  of  late  years 
on  account  of  ill  health.  Died  May  16,  1900. 

HARPER,  William  H.,  legislator  and  commis- 
sion merchant,  born  in  Tippecanoe  County,  Ind., 
May  4,  1845 ;  was  brought  by  his  parents  in  boy- 
hood to  Woodford  County,  111.,  and  served  in  the 
One  Hundred  and  Forty -fifth  Illinois  Volunteers; 
took  a  course  in  a  commercial  college  and  engaged 
in  the  stock  and  grain-shipping  business  in  Wood- 
ford  County  until  1868,  when  he  entered  upon  the 
commission  business  in  Chicago.  From  1872  to 
'75  he  served,  by  appointment  of  the  Governor, 
as  Chief  of  the  Grain  Inspection  Department  of 
the  city  of  Chicago;  in  1882  was  elected  to  the 
Thirty-third  General  Assembly  and  re-elected  in 
1884.  During  his  first  term  in  the  Legislature, 
Mr.  Harper  introduced  and  secured  the  passage 
of  the  "  High  License  Law."  For  a  time  he  was  in 
grain  commission  trade,  but  later  was  President  of 
the  Grand  Pacific  Hotel  Co.  Died  Sept.  22,  1909. 

HARPER,  William  Rainey,  clergyman  and 
educator,  was  born  at  New  Concord,  Ohio,  July 
26,  1856 ;  graduated  at  Muskingum  College  at  the 
age  of  14,  delivering  the  Hebrew  oration,  this 
being  one  of  the  principal  commencement  honors 
in  that  institution.  After  three  years'  private 
study  he  took  a  post-graduate  course  in  philology 
at  Yale,  receiving  the  degree  of  Ph.D.,  at  the  age 
of  19.  For  several  years  he  was  engaged  in 
teaching,  at  Macon,  Tenn.,  and  Denison  Uni- 
versity, Ohio,  meanwhile  continuing  his  philo- 
logical studies  and  devoting  special  attention  to 
Hebrew.  In  1879  he  accepted  the  chair  of 
Hebrew  in  the  Baptist  Union  Theological  Semi- 
nary at  Morgan  Park,  a  suburb  of  Chicago.  Here 
he  laid  the  foundation  of  the  "inductive  method" 
of  Hebraic  study,  which  rapidly  grew  in  favor. 
The  school  by  correspondence  was  known  as  the 


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"American  Institute  of  Hebrew,"  and  increased 
so  rapidly  that,  by  1885,  it  had  enrolled  800  stu- 
dents, from  all  parts  of  the  world,  many  leading 
professors  co-operating.  In  1886  he  accepted  the 
professorship  of  Semitic  Language  and  Literature 
at  Yale  University,  having  in  the  previous  year 
become  Principal  of  the  Chautauqua  College  of 
Liberal  Arts,  and,  in  1891,  Principal  of  the 
entire  Chautauqua  system.  During  the  winters 
of  1889-91,  Dr.  Harper  delivered  courses  of  lec- 
tures on  the  Bible  in  various  cities  and  before 
several  universities  and  colleges,  having  been, 
in  1889,  made  Woolsey  Professor  of  Biblical 
Literature  at  Yale,  although  still  filling  his 
former  chair.  In  1891  he  accepted  an  invitation 
to  the  Presidency  of  the  then  incipient  new  Chi- 
cago University,  which  has  rapidly  increased  in 
wealth,  extent  and  influence.  (See  University 
of  Chicago.)  For  some  years  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  Board  of  Education;  was  author  of 
numerous  philological  textbooks,  relating  chiefly  to 
Hebrew,  but  applying  the  "inductive  method"  to 
the  study  of  Latin  and  Greek,  and  sought  to  im- 
prove the  study  of  English  along  the  same  lines. 
In  addition,  he  edited  two  scientific  periodicals 
and  published  numerous  monographs.  Died  of 
cancer  of  the  stomach,  Jan.  10,  1906. 

HARRIS,  Thomas  L.,  lawyer,  soldier  and  Mem- 
ber of  Congress,  was  born  at  Norwich,  Conn., 
Oct.  29,  i816;  graduated  at  Trinity  College,  Hart- 
ford, in  1841,  studied  law  with  Gov.  Isaac  Toucey, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Virginia  in  1842, 
the  same  year  removing  to  Petersburg,  Menard 
County,  111.  Here,  in  1845,  he  was  elected  School 
Commissioner,  in  1846  raised  a  company  for  the 
Mexican  War,  joined  the  Fourth  Regiment  (Col. 
E.  D.  Baker's)  and  was  elected  Major.  He  was 
present  at  the  capture  of  Vera  Cruz  and  the 
battle  of  Cerro  Gordo,  after  the  wounding  of 
General  Shields  at  the  latter,  taking  command  of 
the  regiment  in  place  of  Colonel  Baker,  who  had 
assumed  command  of  the  brigade.  During  his 
absence  in  the  army  (1846)  he  was  chosen 
to  the  State  Senate;  in  1848  was  elected  to 
the  Thirty-first  Congress,  but  was  defeated  by 
Richard  Yates  in  1850;  was  re-elected  in  1854, 
'56,  and  '58,  but  died  Nov.  24, 1858,  a  few  days  after 
his  fourth  election  and  before  completing  his 
preceding  term. 

HARRIS,  William  Logan,  Methodist  Episcopal 
Bishop,  born  near  Mansfield,  Ohio,  Nov.  14,  1817; 
was  educated  at  Norwalk  Seminary,  licensed  to 
preach  in  1836  and  soon  after  admitted  to  the 
Michigan  Conference,  being  transferred  to  the 
Ohio  Conference  in  1840.  In  1845-46  he  was  a 


tutor  in  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University;  then, 
after  two  years'  pastoral  work  and  some  three 
years  as  Principal  of  Baldwin  Seminary,  in  1851 
returned  to  the  Wesleyan,  filling  the  position 
first  of  Principal  of  the  Academic  Department 
and  then  a  professorship;  was  Secretary  of  the 
General  Conferences  (1856-72)  and,  during  1860-72, 
Secretary  of  the  Church  Missionary  Society;  in 
1872  was  elected  Bishop,  and  visited  the  Methodist 
Mission  stations  in  China,  Japan  and  Europe; 
joined  the  Illinois  Conference  in  1874,  remaining 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  New  York, 
Sept.  2,  1887.  Bishop  Harris  was  a  recognized  au- 
thority on  Methodist  Church  law,  and  published 
a  small  work  entitled  "Powers  of  the  General 
Conference"  (1859),  and,  in  connection  with 
Judge  William  J.  Henry,  of  this  State,  a  treatise 
on  "Ecclesiastical  Law,"  having  special  refer- 
ence to  the  Methodist  Church. 

HARRISBURG,  county -seat  of  Saline  County, 
on  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St. 
Louis  Railway,  70  miles  northeast  of  Cairo  The 
region  is  devoted  to  agriculture  and  fruit-grow- 
ing, and  valuable  deposits  of  salt,  coal  and  iron 
are  found.  The  town  has  flour  and  saw  mills, 
coal  mines,  dairy,  brick  and  tile  works,  carriage 
and  other  wood-working  establishments,  two 
banks  and  one  daily  and  two  weekly  newspapers, 
Pop.  (1890),  1,723;  (1900),  2,202:  (1910),  5,309. 

HARRISON,  Carter  Henry,  politician,  Con- 
gressman and  Mayor  of  Chicago,  was  born  in 
Fayette  County,  Ky.,  Feb.  15,  1825;  at  the  age  of 
20  years  graduated  from  Yale  College  and  began 
reading  law,  but  later  engaged  in  farming.  After 
spending  two  years  in  foreign  travel,  he  entered 
the  Law  Department  of  Transylvania  University, 
at  Lexington,  Ky.,  and,  after  graduation,  settled 
at  Chicago,  where  he  soon  became  an  operator  in 
real  estate.  In  1871  he  was  elected  a  Commis- 
sioner of  Cook  'County,  serving  three  years.  In 
1874  he  again  visited  Europe,  and,  on  his  return, 
was  elected  to  Congress  as  a  Democrat,  being 
re-elected  in  1876.  In  1879  he  was  chosen  Mayor 
of  Chicago,  filling  that  office  for  four  successive 
biennial  terms,  but  was  defeated  for  re-election 
in  1887  by  his  Republican  competitor,  John  A. 
Roche.  He  was  the  Democratic  candidate  for 
Governor  in  1888,  but  failed  of  election.  He 
thereafter  made  a  trip  around  the  world,  and,  on 
his  return,  published  an  entertaining  account  of 
his  journey  under  the  title,  "A  Race  with  the 
Sun."  In  1891  he  was  an  Independent  Demo- 
cratic candidate  for  the  Chicago  mayoralty,  but 
was  defeated  by  Hempstead  Washburne,  Repub- 
lican. In  1893  he  received  the  regular  nomina- 


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tion  of  his  party  for  the  office,  and  was  elected. 
In  1892,  in  connection  with  a  few  associates,  he 
purchased  the  plant  of  "The  Chicago  Times, ' '  plac- 
ing his  sons  in  charge.  He  was  a  man  of  strong 
character  and  intense  personality,  making  warm 
friends  and  bitter  enemies ;  genial,  generous  and 
kindly,  and  accessible  to  any  one  at  all  times,  at 
either  his  office  or  his  home.  Taking  advantage 
of  this  latter  trait,  one  Prendergast,  on  the  night 
of  Oct.  28,  1893 — immediately  following  the  clos- 
ing exercises  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition 
— gained  admission  to  his  residence,  and,  without 
the  slightest  provocation,  shot  him  down  in  his 
library.  He  lived  but  a  few  hours.  The  assassin 
was  subsequently  tried,  convicted  and  hung. 

HARRISON,  Carter  Henry,  Jr.,  son  of  the 
preceding,  was  born  in  Chicago,  April  23,  1860, 
being  a  lineal  descendant  of  Benjamin  Harrison, 
an  early  Colonial  Governor  of  Virginia,  and  lat- 
erally related  to  the  signer  of  the  Declaration 
of  Independence  of  that  name,  and  to  President 
William  Henry  Harrison.  Mr.  Harrison  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  Chicago,  at  the 
Gymnasium,  Altenburg,  Germany,  and  St.  Igna- 
tius College,  Chicago,  graduating  from  the  latter 
in  1881.  Having  taken  a  course  in  Yale  Law 
School,  he  began  practice  in  Chicago  in  1883, 
remaining  until  1889,  when  he  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  real  estate.  His  father  having  purchased 
the  "Chicago  Times"  about  1892,  he  became 
associated  with  the  editorship  of  that  paper  and, 
for  a  time,  had  charge  of  its  publication  until  its 
consolidation  with  "The  Herald"  in  1895.  In 
1897,  he  received  the  Democratic  nomination  for 
Mayor  of  Chicago,  his  popularity  being  shown  by 
receiving  a  majority  of  the  total  vote.  Again 
in  1099,  he  was  re-elected  to  the  same  office, 
receiving  a  plurality  over  his  Republican  com- 
petitor of  over  40,000.  Mayor  Harrison  is  one  of 
the  youngest  men  who  ever  held  the  office. 

HAJIRISON,  William  Henry,  first  Governor  of 
Indiana  Territory  (including  the  present  State  of 
Illinois),  was  born  at  Berkeley,  Va.,  Feb  9,  1773, 
being  the  son  of  Benjamin  Harrison,  a  signer  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence ;  was  educated 
at  Hampden  Sidney  College,  and  began  the  study 
of  medicine,  but  never  finished  it.  In  1791  he 
was  commissioned  an  Ensign  in  the  First  U.  S. 
Infantry  at  Fort  Washington  (the  present  site  of 
Cincinnati),  was  promoted  a  Lieutenant  a  year 
later,  and,  in  1797,  assigned  to  command  of  the 
Fort  with  the  rank  of  Captain.  He  had  pre- 
viously served  as  Aid-de-Camp  to  Gen.  Wayne, 
by  whom  he  was  complimented  for  gallantry  at 
the  battle  of  Miami.  In  1798  he  was  appointed  by 


President  Adanis  Secretary  of  the  Northwest 
Territory,  but  resigned  in  1799  to  become  Dele- 
gate in  Congress;  in  1800  he  was  appointed  Gov- 
ernor of  the  newly  created  Territory  of  Indiana, 
serving  by  reappointment  some  12  years.  During 
his  incumbency  and  as  Commissioner,  a  few  years 
later,  he  negotiated  many  important  treaties 
with  the  Indians.  In  1811  he  won  the  decisive 
victory  over  Chief  Tecumseh  and  his  followers 
at  Tippecanoe.  Having  been  made  a  Brigadier- 
General  in  the  War  of  1812,  he  was  promoted  to 
Major-General  in  1813  and,  as  Commander  of  the 
Army  of  the  Northwest,  he  won  the  important 
battle  of  the  Thames.  Resigning  his  commission 
in  1814,  he  afterwards  served  as  Representative 
in  Congress  from  Ohio  (1816-1819);  Presidential 
Elector  in  1820  and  1824;  United  States  Senator 
(1824-1828),  and  Minister  to  the  United  States  of 
Colombia  (1828-29).  Returning  to  the  United 
States,  he  was  elected  Clerk  of  the  Court  of  Com- 
mon Pleas  of  Hamilton  County,  serving  twelve 
years.  In  1836  he  was  an  unsuccessful  Whig 
candidate  for  President,  but  was  elected  in  1840, 
dying  in  Washington  City,  April  4,  1841,  just  one 
month  after  his  inauguration. 

HARTZELL,  William,  Congressman,  was  born 
in  Stark  County,  Ohio,  Feb.  20,  1837.  When  ho 
was  three  years  old  his  parents  removed  to  Illi 
nois,  and,  four  years  later  (1844)  to  Texas.  In 
1853  he  returned  to  Illinois,  settling  in  Randolph 
County,  which  became  his  permanent  home.  He 
was  brought  up  on  a  farm,  but  graduated  at  Mc- 
Kendree  College,  Lebanon,  in  June,  1859.  Five 
years  later  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  and  began 
practice.  He  was  Representative  in  Congress  for 
two  terms,  being  elected  as  a  Democrat,  in  1874, 
and  again  in  1876. 

HARVARD,  an  incorporated  city  in  McHenry 
County,  63  miles  northwest  of  Chicago  on  the 
Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway.  It  has  elec- 
tric light  plant,  artesian  water  system,  hardware 
and  bicycle  factories,  malt  house,  cold  storage 
and  packing  plant,  a  flouring  mill,  a  carriage- 
wheel  factory  and  two  weekly  papers.  The 
region  is  agricultural.  Population  (1890),  1,967; 
(1900),  2,602;  (1910),  3,008. 

HASKELL,  Harriet  Newell,  educator  and  third 
Principal  of  Monticello  Female  Seminary,  was 
born  at  Waldboro,  Lincoln  County,  Maine,  Jan.  14, 
1835;  educated  at  Castleton  Seminary,  Vt,  and 
Mount  Holyoke  Seminary,  Mass.,  graduating 
from  the  latter  in  1855.  Later,  she  served  as 
Principal  of  high  schools  in  Maine  and  Boston 
until  1862,  when  she  was  called  to  the  principal- 
ship  of  Castleton  Seminary.  She  resigned  this 


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position  in  1867  to  assume  a  similar  one  at  Monti- 
cello  Female  Seminary,  at  Godfrey,  111.,  where 
she  spent  her  last  years.  The  main  building  of 
this  institution  having  been  burned  in  November, 
1889,  it  was  rebuilt  on  an  enlarged  and  improved 
plan,  largely  through  the  earnest  efforts  of  Miss 
Haskell.  (See  Munticello  Female  Seminary.')  Died 
May  6,  1907. 

HATCH,  Ozias  Mather,  Secretary  of  the  State 
of  Illinois  (1857-'65),  was  born  at  Hillsborough 
Center,  N.  H.,  April  11,  1814,  and  removed  to 
Griggsville,  111.,  in  1836.  In  1829  he  began  life  as 
a  clerk  for  a  wholesale  and  retail  grocer  in  Bos- 
ton. From  1836  to  1841  he  was  engaged  in  store- 
keeping  at  Griggsville.  In  the  latter  year  he  was 
appointed  Circuit  Court  Clerk  of  Pike  County, 
holding  the  office  seven  years.  In  1858  he  again 
embarked  in  business  at  Meredosia,  111.  In  1850 
he  was  elected  to  the  Legislature,  serving  one 
term.  An  earnest  anti -slavery  man,  he  was,  in 
1856,  nominated  by  the  newly  organized  Repub- 
lican party  for  Secretary  of  State  and  elected, 
being  re-elected  in  1860,  on  the  same  ticket  with 
Mr.  Lincoln,  of  whom  he  was  a  warm  personal 
friend  and  admirer.  During  the  war  he  gave  a 
zealous  and  effective  support  to  Governor  Yates' 
administration.  In  1864  he  declined  a  renomi- 
nation  and  retired  from  political  life.  He  was  an 
original  and  active  member  of  the  Lincoln  Monu- 
ment Association  from  its  organization  in  1865  to 
his  death,  and,  in  company  with  Gov.  R.  J. 
Oglesby,  made  a  canvass  of  Eastern  cities  to  col- 
lect funds  for  statuary  to  be  placed  on  the  monu- 
ment. After  retiring  from  office  he  was  interested 
lo  some  extent  in  the  banking  business  at  Griggs- 
ville, and  was  influential  in  securing  the  con- 
struction of  the  branch  of  the  Wabash  Railway 
from  Naples  to  Hannibal,  Mo.  He  was,  for  over 
thirty-five  years,  a  resident  of  Springfield,  dying 
there,  March  12,  1893. 

HATFIELD,  (Rev.)  Robert  Miller,  clergy- 
man, was  born  at  Mount  Pleasant,  Westchester 
County,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  19,  1819;  in  early  life  enjoyed 
only  such  educational  advantages  as  could  be 
obtained  while  living  on  a  farm ;  later,  was  em 
ployed  as  a  clerk  at  White  Plains  and  in  New 
York  City,  but,  in  1841,  was  admitted  to  the 
Providence  Methodist  Episcopal  Conference,  dur- 
ing the  next  eleven  years  supplying  churches  in 
Rhode  Island  and  Massachusetts.  In  1852  he 
went  to  Brooklyn  and  occupied  pulpits  in  that 
vicinity  until  1865,  when  he  assumed  the  pastor- 
ship of  the  Wabash  Avenue  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  in  Chicago,  two  years  later  going  to  the 
Centenary  Church  in  the  same  city.  He  subse- 


quently had  charge  of  churches  in  Cincinnati  and 
Philadelphia,  but,  returning  to  Illinois  in  1877. 
he  occupied  pulpits  for  the  next  nine  years  in 
Evanston  and  Chicago.  In  1886  he  went  to  Sum- 
merfield  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  Brooklyn, 
which  was  his  last  regular  charge,  as,  in  1889,  he 
became  Financial  Agent  of  the  Northwestern 
University  at  Evanston,  of  which  he  had  been  a 
Trustee  from  1878.  As  a  temporary  supply  for 
pulpits  or  as  a  speaker  in  popular  assemblies,  his 
services  were  in  constant  demand  during  this 
period.  Dr.  Hatfield  served  as  a  Delegate  to  the 
General  Conferences  of  1860,  '64,  '76,  '80  and  '84, 
and  was  a  leader  in  some  of  the  most  important 
debates  in  those  bodies.  Died,  at  Evanston, 
March  31,  1891. 

HATT01V,  Frank,  journalist  and  Postmaster- 
General,  was  born  at  Cambridge,  Ohio,  April  28, 
1846;  entered  his  father's  newspaper  office  at 
Cadiz,  as  an  apprentice,  at  11  years  of  age,  be- 
coming foreman  and  local  editor ;  in  1862,  at  the 
age  of  16,  he  enlisted  in  the  Ninety-eighth  Ohio 
Infantry,  but,  in  1864,  was  transferred  to  the  One 
Hundred  and  Eighty-fourth  Ohio  and  commis- 
sioned Second  Lieutenant  —  his  service  being 
chiefly  in  the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  but  par- 
ticipating in  Sherman's  March  to  the  Sea.  After 
the  war  he  went  to  Iowa,  whither  his  father  had 
preceded  him,  and  where  he  edited  "The  Mount 
Pleasant  Journal"  (1869-74) ;  then  removed  to  Bur- 
lington, where  he  secured  a  controlling  interest 
in  "The  Hawkeye,"  which  he  brought  to  a  point 
of  great  prosperity ;  was  Postmaster  of  that  city 
under  President  Grant,  and,  in  1881,  became 
First  Assistant  Postmaster-General.  On  the 
retirement  of  Postmaster-General  Gresham  in 
1884,  he  was  appointed  successor  to  the  latter, 
serving  to  the  end  of  President  Arthur's  adminis- 
tration, being  the  youngest  man  who  ever  held 
a  cabinet  position,  except  Alexander  Hamilton. 
From  1882  to  1884,  Mr.  Hatton  managed  "The 
National  Republican"  in  Washington;  in  1885 
removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  became  one  of  the 
proprietors  and  editor-in-chief  of  "The  Evening 
Mail" ;  retired  from  the  latter  in  1887,  and,  pur- 
chasing the  plant  of  "The  National  Republican" 
in  Washington,  commenced  the  publication  of 
"The  Washington  Post,"  with  which  he  was  con- 
nected until  his  death,  April  30,  1894. 

HAVANA,  the  county-seat  of  Mason  County,  an 
incorporated  city  founded  in  1827  on  the  Illinois 
River,  opposite  the  mouth  of  Spoon  River,  and  a 
point  of  junction  for  three  railways.  It  is  a  ship- 
ping-point for  corn  and  osage  orange  hedge 
plants.  A  number  of  manufactories  are  located 


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here.  The  city  has  several  churches,  three  pub- 
lic schools  and  two  weekly  papers.  Population 
(1890),  2,525;  (1900),  3,268;  (1910),  3,525. 

HAVANA,  RANTOUL  &  EASTERN  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  Illinois  Central  Railroad. ) 

HAVEN,  Erastus  Otis,  Methodist  Episcopal 
Bishop,  was  born  in  Boston,  Mass.,  Nov.  1,  1820; 
graduated  at  the  Wesleyan  University  in  1842, 
and  taught  in  various  institutions  in  Massachu- 
setts and  New  York,  meanwhile  studying  theol- 
ogy. In  1848  he  entered  the  Methodist  ministry 
as  a  member  of  the  New  York  Conference ;  five 
years  later  accepted  a  professorship  in  Michigan 
University,  but  resigned  in  1856  to  become  editor 
of  "Zion's  Herald,"  Boston,  for  seven  years— in 
that  time  serving  two  terms  in  the  State  Senate 
and  a  part  of  the  time  being  an  Overseer  of  Har- 
vard University.  In  1863  he  accepted  the  Presi- 
dency of  Northwestern  University  at  Evanston, 
111. ;  in  1872  became  Secretary  of  the  Methodist 
Board  of  Education,  but  resigned  in  1874  to 
become  Chancellor  of  Syracuse  University,  N.Y. 
In  1880  he  was  elected  a  Bishop  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church.  Died,  in  Salem,  Oregon,  in 
August,  1881.  Bishop  Haven  was  a  man  of  great 
versatility  and  power  as  an  orator,  wrote  much 
for  the  periodical  press  and  published  several 
volumes  on  religious  topics,  besides  a  treatise  on 
rhetoric. 

HAVEN,  Luther,  educator,  was  born  near 
Framingham,  Mass.,  August  6,  1806.  With  a 
meager  country-school  education,  at  the  age  of 
17  he  began  teaching,  continuing  in  this  occupa- 
tion six  or  seven  years,  after  which  he  spent 
three  years  in  a  more  liberal  course  of  study  in  a 
private  academy  at  Ellington,  Conn.  He  was 
next  employed  at  Leicester  Academy,  first  as  a 
teacher,  and,  for  eleven  years,  as  Principal.  He 
then  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  until  1849, 
when  he  removed  to  Chicago.  After  several 
years  spent  in  manufacturing  and  real-estate 
business,  in  1854  he  became  proprietor  of  "The 
Prairie  Farmer,"  of  which  he  remained  in  con- 
trol until  1858.  Mr.  Haven  took  an  active  interest 
in  public  affairs,  and  was  an  untiring  worker  for 
the  promotion  of  popular  education.  For  ten 
years  following  1853,  he  was  officially  connected 
with  the  Chicago  Board  of  Education,  being  for 
four  years  its  President.  The  comptrollership  of 
the  city  was  offered  him  in  1860,  but  declined. 
During  the  war  he  was  a  zealous  supporter  of  the 
Union  cause.  In  October,  1861,  he  was  appointed 
by  President  Lincoln  Collector  for  the  Port  of 
Chicago,  and  Sub-Treasurer  of  the  United  States 
for  the  Department  of  the  Northwest,  serving  in 


this  capacity  during  a  part  of  President  Johnson's 
administration.  In  1866  he  was  attacked  with 
congestion  of  the  lungs,  dying  on  March  6,  of 
that  year. 

HAWK,  Robert  M.  A.,  Congressman,  was  born 
in  Hancock  County,  Ind.,  April  23,  1839;  came  to 
Carroll  County,  111.,  in  boy  hood,  where  he  attended 
the  common  schools  and  later  graduated  from  Eu- 
reka College.  In  1862  he  enlisted  in  the  Union 
army,  was  commissioned  First  Lieutenant,  next 
promoted  to  a  Captaincy  and,  finally,  brevetted 
Major  for  soldierly  conduct  in  the  field.  In  1865 
he  was  elected  County  Clerk  of  Carroll  County, 
and  three  times  re-elected,  serving  from  1865  to 
1879.  The  latter  year  he  resigned,  having  been 
elected  to  Congress  on  the  Republican  ticket  in 
1878.  In  1880  he  was  re-elected,  but  died  before 
the  expiration  of  his  term,  his  successor  being 
Robert  R.  Hitt,  of  Mount  Morris,  who  was  chosen 
at  a  special  election  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

HAWLEY,  John  B.,  Congressman  and  First 
Assistant  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  was  born  in 
Fairfield  County,  Conn.,  Feb.  9,  1831;  accompa- 
nied his  parents  to  Illinois  in  childhood,  residing 
in  his  early  manhood  at  Carthage,  Hancock 
County.  At  the  age  of  23  (1854)  he  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  and  began  practice  at  Rock  Island. 
From  1856  to  1860  he  was  State's  Attorney  of 
Rock  Island  County.  In  1861  he  entered  the 
Union  army  as  Captain,  but  was  so  severely 
wounded  at  Fort  Donelson  (1862)  that  he  was 
obliged  to  quit  the  service.  In  1865  President 
Lincoln  appointed  him  Postmaster  at  Rock  Island, 
but  one  year  afterward  he  was  removed  by  Presi- 
dent Johnson.  In  1868  he  was  elected  to  Congress 
as  a  Republican,  being  twice  re-elected,  and,  in 
1876,  was  Presidential  Elector  on  the  Hayes- 
Wheeler  ticket.  In  the  following  year  he  was 
appointed  by  President  Hayes  First  Assistant 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  serving  until  1880, 
when  he  resigned.  During  the  last  six  years  of 
his  life  he  was  Solicitor  for  the  Chicago  &  North  • 
western  Railroad,  with  headquarters  at  Omaha, 
Neb.  Died,  at  Hot  Springs,  South  Dakota,  May 
24,  1895. 

HAT,  John,  author,  diplomatist  and  Secretary 
of  State,  was  born  in  Salem,  Ind.,  Oct.  8,  1838,  of 
Scottish  ancestry;  graduated  at  Brown  Univer- 
sity, 1858,  and  studied  law  at  Springfield,  111.,  his 
father,  in  the  meantime,  having  become  a  resi- 
dent of  Warsaw,  111. ;  was  admitted  to  practice 
in  1861,  but  immediately  went  to  Washington  as 
assistant  private  secretary  of  President  Lincoln, 
acting  part  of  the  time  as  the  President's  aid-de- 
camp, also  serving  for  some  time  under  General 


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Hunter  and  Gilmore,  with  the  rank  of  Major  and 
Adjutant-General.  After  President  Lincoln's 
assassination  he  served  as  Secretary  of  Legation 
at  Paris  and  Madrid,  and  as  Charge  d'Affaires  at 
Vienna;  was  also  editor  for  a  time  of  "The  Illi- 
nois State  Journal"  at  Springfield,  and  a  leading 
editorial  writer  on  "The  New  York  Tribune." 
Colonel  Hay's  more  important  literary  works 
include  "Castilian  Days, ' '  "Pike  County  Ballads, ' ' 
and  the  ten-volume  "History  of  the  Life  and 
Times  of  Abraham  Lincoln,"  written  in  collabo- 
ration with  John  G.  Nicolay.  In  1875  he  settled 
at  Cleveland,  Ohio,  but,  after  retiring  from  "The 
New  York  Tribune,"  made  Washington  his  home. 
In  1897  President  McKinley  appointed  him  Am- 
bassador to  England,  where,  by  his  tact,  good 
judgment  and  sound  discretion  manifested  as  a 
diplomatist  and  speaker  on  public  occasions,  he 
won  a  reputation  as  one  of  the  most  able  and  ac- 
complished foreign  representatives  America  has 
produced.  His  promotion  to  the  position  of 
Secretary  of  State  on  the  retirement  of  Secretary 
William  R.  Day,  at  the  close  of  the  Spanish  - 
American  War,  in  September,  1898,  followed 
naturally  as  a  just  tribute  to  the  rank  which  he 
had  won  as  a  diplomatist,  was  reappointed  by  Presi- 
dent Roosevelt  and  died  in  office  July  1,  1905. 

HAY,  John  B.,  ex-Congressman,  was  born  at 
Belleville,  111.,  Jan.  8,  1834;  attended  the  com- 
mon schools  and  worked  on  a  farm  until  he  was 
16  years  of  age,  when  he  learned  the  printer's 
trade.  Subsequently  he  studied  law,  and  won 
considerable  local  prominence  in  his  profession, 
being  for  eight  years  State's  Attorney  for  the 
Twenty-fourth  Judicial  Circuit.  He  served  in 
the  Union  army  during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion, 
and,  in  1868,  was  elected  a  Representative  in  the 
Forty-first  Congress,  being  re-elected  in  1870. 

HAY,  Milton,  lawyer  and  legislator,  was  born 
in  Fayette  County,  Ky.,  July  3,  1817;  removed 
with  his  father's  family  to  Springfield,  111.,  in 
1832 ;  in  1838  became  a  student  in  the  law  office 
of  Stuart  &  Lincoln;  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1840,  and  began  practice  at  Pittsfield, 
Pike  County.  In  1858  he  returned  to  Springfield 
and  formed  a  partnership  with  Judge  Stephen 
T.  Logan  (afterwards  his  father-in-law),  which 
ended  by  the  retirement  of  the  latter  from  prac- 
tice in  1861.  Others  who  were  associated  with 
him  as  partners,  at  a  later  date,  were  Hon.  Shelby 
M.  Cullom,  Gen.  John.  M.  Palmer,  Henry  S. 
Greene  and  D.  T.  Littler.  In  1869  he  was  elected 
a  Delegate  to  the  State  Constitutional  Convention 
and,  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Revenue 
and  member  of  the  Judiciary  Committee,  was 


prominent  in  shaping  the  Constitution  of  1870 
Again,  as  a  member  of  the  lower  branch  of  the 
Twenty-eighth  General  Assembly  (1873-74),  he 
assisted  in  revising  and  adapting  the  laws  to  the 
new  order  of  things  under  the  new  Constitution. 
The  estimate  in  which  he  was  held  by  his  associ- 
ates is  shown  in  the  fact  that  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Joint  Committee  of  five  appointed  by  the 
Legislature  to  revise  the  revenue  laws  of  the 
State,  which  was  especially  complimented  for 
the  manner  in  which  it  performed  its  work  by 
concurrent  resolution  of  the  two  houses.  A  con- 
servative Republican  in  politics,  gentle  and  unob- 
trusive in  manner,  and  of  calm,  dispassionate 
judgment  and  unimpeachable  integrity,  no  man 
was  more  frequently  consulted  by  State  execu- 
tives on  questions  of  great  delicacy  and  public 
importance,  during  the  last  thirty  years  of  his 
life,  than  Mr.  Hay.  In  1881  he  retired  from  the 
active  prosecution  of  his  profession,  devoting  his 
time  to  the  care  of  a  handsome  estate.  Died, 
Sept.  15,  1893.  ' 

HAYES,  Philip  C.,  ex-Congressman,  was  born 
at  Granby,  Conn.,  Feb.  3,  1833.  Before  he  was  a 
year  old  his  parents  removed  to  La  Salle  County, 
111. ,  where  the  first  twenty  years  of  his  life  were 
spent  upon  a  farm.  In  1860  he  graduated  from 
Oberlin  College,  Ohio,  and,  in  April,  1861,  en- 
listed in  the  Union  army,  being  commissioned 
successively,  Captain,  Lieutenant -Colonel  and 
Colonel,  and  finally  brevetted  Brigadier-General. 
After  the  war  he  engaged  in  journalism,  becom- 
ing the  publisher  and  senior  editor  of  "The  Morris 
Herald,"  a  weekly  periodical  issued  at  Morris, 
Grundy  County.  In  1872  he  was  a  delegate  to  the 
National  Republican  Convention  at  Philadelphia 
which  renominated  Grant,  and  represented  his 
district  in  Congress  from  1877  to  1881.  Later  he 
became  editor  and  part  proprietor  of  "The  Repub- 
lican" at  Joliet,  111.,  but  retired  some  years  since. 

HAYES,  Samuel  Snowden,  lawyer  and  politi- 
cian, was  born  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  Dec.  25,  1820; 
settled  at  Shawneetown  in  1838,  and  engaged  in 
the  drug  business  for  two  years;  then  began  the 
study  of  law  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in 
1842,  settling  first  at  Mount  Vernon  and  later  at 
Carnii.  He  early  took  an  interest  in  politics, 
stumping  the  southern  counties  for  the  Demo- 
cratic party  in  1843  and  '44.  In  1845  he  was  a 
delegate  to  the  Memphis  Commercial  Convention 
and,  in  1846,  was  elected  to  the  lower  House  of 
the  State  Legislature,  being  re-elected  in  '48.  In 
1847  he  raised  a  company  for  service  in  the 
Mexican  War,  but,  owing  to  its  distance  from 
the  seat  of  government,  its  muster  rolls  were  not 


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received  until  the  quota  of  the  State  had  been 
filled.  The  same  year  he  was  chosen  a  Delegate 
to  the  State  Constitutional  Convention  for  White 
County,  and,  in  1848,  was  a  Democratic  Presi- 
dential Elector.  About  1852  he  removed  to  Chi- 
cago, where  he  was  afterwards  City  Solicitor  and 
(1862-65)  City  Comptroller.  He  was  a  delegate 
to  the  National  Democratic  Conventions  at 
Charleston  and  Baltimore  in  1860,  and  an  earnest 
worker  for  Douglas  in  the  campaign  which  fol- 
lowed. While  in  favor  of  the  Union,  he  was 
strongly  opposed  to  the  policy  of  the  administra- 
tion, particularly  in  its  attitude  on  the  question 
of  slavery.  His  last  public  service  was  as  a  Dele- 
gate from  Cook  County  to  the  State  Constitu- 
tional Convention  of  1869-70.  His  talents  as  an 
orator,  displayed  both  at  the  bar  and  before  popu- 
lar assemblies,  were  of  a  very  high  order. 

HATMARKET  RIOT,  THE,  an  anarchistic 
outbreak  which  occurred  in  Chicago  on  the 
evening  of  May  4,  1886.  For  several  days  prior, 
meetings  of  dissatisfied  workingmen  had  been 
addressed  by  orators  who  sought  to  inflame  the 
worst  passions  of  their  hearers.  The  excitement 
(previously  more  or  less  under  restraint)  culmi- 
nated on  the  date  mentioned.  Haymarket 
Square,  in  Chicago,  is  a  broad,  open  space  formed 
by  the  widening  of  West  Randolph  Street  for  an 
open-air  produce-market.  An  immense  concourse 
assembled  there  on  the  evening  named ;  inflam- 
matory speeches  were  made  from  a  cart,  which 
was  used  as  a  sort  of  improvised  platform.  Dur- 
ing the  earlier  part  of  the  meeting  the  Mayor 
(Carter  H.  Harrison)  was  present,  but  upon  his 
withdrawal,  the  oratory  became  more  impassioned 
and  incendiary.  Towards  midnight,  some  one 
whose  identity  has  never  been  thoroughly  proved, 
threw  a  dynamite  bomb  into  the  ranks  of  the 
police,  who,  under  command  of  Inspector  John 
Bonfleld,  had  ordered  the  dispersal  of  the  crowd 
and  were  endeavoring  to  enforce  the  command. 
Simultaneously  a  score  of  men  lay  dead  or  bleed- 
ing in  the  street.  The  majority  of  the  crowd 
fled,  pursued  by  the  officers.  Numerous  arrests 
followed  during  the  night  and  the  succeeding 
morning,  and  search  was  made  in  the  office  of 
the  principal  Anarchistic  organ,  which  resulted 
in  the  discovery  of  considerable  evidence  of  an 
incriminating  character.  A  Grand  Jury  of  Cook 
County  found  indictments  for  murder  against 
eight  of  the  suspected  leaders,  all  of  whom  were 
convicted  after  a  trial  extending  over  several 
months,  both  the  State  and  the  defense  being 
represented  by  some  of  the  ablest  counsel  at  the 
Chicago  bar.  Seven  of  the  accused  were  con- 


demned to  death,  and  one  (Oscar  Neebe)  was 
given  twenty  years'  imprisonment.  The  death 
sentence  of  two — Samuel  Fielden  and  Justus 
Schwab — was  subsequently  commuted  by  Gov- 
ernor Oglesby  to  life-imprisonment,  but  executive 
clemency  was  extended  in  1893  by  Governor 
Altgeld  to  all  three  of  those  serving  terms  in  the 
penitentiary.  Of  those  condemned  to  execution, 
one  (Louis  Linng)  committed  suicide  in  the 
county-jail  by  exploding,  between  his  teeth,  a 
small  dynamite  bomb  which  he  had  surrepti- 
tiously obtained;  the  remaining  four  (August 
Spies,  Albert  D.  Parsons,  Louis  Engel  and  Adolph 
Fischer)  were  hanged  in  the  county-jail  at 
Chicago,  on  November  14,  1887.  The  affair 
attracted  wide  attention,  not  only  throughout  the 
.United  States  but  in  other  countries  also. 

HAYNIE,  Isham  Nicolas,  soldier  and  Adju- 
tant-General, was  born  at  Dover,  Tenn.,  Nov.  18, 
1824;  came  to  Illinois  in  boyhood  and  received 
but  little  education  at  school,  but  worked  on  a 
farm  to  obtain  means  to  study  law,  and  was 
licensed  to  practice  in  1846.  Throughout  the 
Mexican  War  he  served  as  a  Lieutenant  in  the 
Sixth  Illinois  Volunteers,  but,  on  his  return, 
resumed  practice  in  1849,  and,  in  1850,  was 
elected  to  the  Legislature  from  Marion  County. 
He  graduated  from  the  Kentucky  Law  School  in 
18.T3  and,  in  1856,  was  appointed  Judge  of  the 
Court  of  Common  Pleas  at  Cairo.  In  1860  he  was  a 
candidate  for  Presidential  Elector  on  the  Doug- 
las ticket.  In  1861  he  entered  the  army  as 
Colonel  of  the  Forty-eighth  Illinois  Infantry, 
which  he  had  assisted  in  organizing.  He  partici- 
pated in  the  battles  of  Fort  Donelson  and  Shiloh, 
and  was  severely  wounded  at  the  latter.  In  1862 
he  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  Congress  as 
a  War  Democrat,  being  defeated  by  W.  J.  Allen, 
and  the  same  year  was  commissioned  Brigadier- 
General  of  Volunteers.  He  resumed  practice  at 
Cairo  in  1864,  and,  in  1865,  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Oglesby  Adjutant-General  as  successor 
to  Adjutant-General  Fuller,  but  died  in  office,  at 
Springfield,  November,  1868. 

HAYWARD  COLLEGE  AND  COMMERCIAL 
SCHOOL,  at  Fairfield,  Wayne  County ;  incorpo- 
rated in  1886;  is  co-educational ;  had  160  pupils  ir 
1898,  with  a  facult}^  of  nine  instructors. 

HEACOCK,  Russell  E.,  pioneer  lawyer,  was 
born  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  in  1770;  having  lost  his 
father  at  7  years  of  age,  learned  the  carpenter's 
trade  and  came  west  early  in  life;  in  1806  was 
studying  law  in  Missouri,  and,  two  years  later, 
was  licensed  to  practice  in  Indiana  Territory,  of 
which  Illinois  then  formed  a  part,  locating  first 


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at  Kaskaskia  and  afterwards  at  Jonesboro,  in 
Union  County;  in  1823  went  to  Buffalo,  N.  Y., 
but  returned  west  in  1827,  arriving  where  Chi- 
cago now- stands  on  July  4;  in  1828  was  living 
inside  Fort  Dearborn,  but  subsequently  located 
several  miles  up  the  South  Branch  of  the  Chicago 
River,  where  he  opened  a  small  farm  at  a  place 
which  went  by  the  name  of  "Heacock's  Point." 
In  1831  he  obtained  a  license  to  keep  a  tavern,  in 
1833  became  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and,  in  1835, 
had  a  law  office  in  the  village  of  Chicago.  He 
took  a  prominent  part  in  the  organization  of  Cook 
County,  invested  liberally  in  real  estate,  but  lost 
it  in  the  crash  of  1837.  He  was  disabled  by  par- 
alysis in  1843  and  died  of  cholera,  June  28,  1849. 
— Reuben  E.  (Heacock),  a  son  of  Mr.  Heacock, 
was  member  of  the  State  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion of  1847,  from  Cook  County. 

HEALTH,  BOARD  OF,  a  bureau  of  the  State 
Government,  created  by  act  of  May  25,  1877.  It 
consists  of  seven  members,  named  by  the  Gov- 
ernor, who  hold  office  for  seven  years.  It  is 
charged  with  "general  supervision  of  the  inter- 
ests connected  with  the  health  and  life  of  the 
citizens  of  the  State. "  All  matters  pertaining  to 
quarantine  fall  within  its  purview,  and  in  this 
respect  it  is  invested  with  a  power  which,  while 
discretionary,  is  well-nigh  autocratic.  The  same 
standard  holds  good,  although  to  a  far  less  ex- 
tent, as  to  its  supervisory  power  over  conta- 
gious diseases,  of  man  or  beast.  The  Board  also 
has  a  modified  control  over  medical  practitioners, 
under  the  terms  of  the  statute  popularly  known 
as  the  "Medical  Practice  Act."  Through  its 
powers  thereunder,  it  has  kept  out  or  expelled 
from  the  State  an  army  of  irregular  practition- 
ers, and  has  done  much  toward  raising  the  stand- 
ard of  professional  qualification. 

HEALT,  George  P.  A.,  artist,  was  born  in 
Boston,  July  15,  1808,  and  early  manifested  a 
predilection  for  art,  in  which  he  was  encouraged 
by  the  painter  Scully.  He  struggled  in  the  face 
of  difficulties  until  1836,  when,  having  earned 
some  money  by  his  art,  he  went  to  Europe  to 
study,  spending  two  years  in  Paris  and  a  like 
period  in  London.  In  1855  he  came  to  Chicago, 
contemplating  a  stay  of  three  weeks,  but  re- 
mained until  1867.  During  this  time  he  is  said 
to  have  painted  575  portraits,  many  of  them 
being  likenesses  of  prominent  citizens  of  Chicago 
and  of  the  State.  Many  of  his  pictures,  deposited 
in  the  rooms  of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society 
for  safe-keeping,  were  destroyed  by  the  fire  of 
1871.  From  1869  to  '91  his  time  was  spent  chiefly 
in  Rome.  During  his  several  visits  to  Europe  he 


painted  the  portraits  of  a  large  number  of  royal 
personages,  including  Louis  Phillippe  of  France, 
as  also,  in  this  country,  the  portraits  of  Presidents 
and  other  distinguished  persons.  One  of  his  his- 
torical pictures  was  "Welister  Replying  to 
Hayne,"  in  which  150  figures  are  introduced.  A 
few  years  before  his  death,  Mr.  Healy  donated  a 
large  number  of  his  pictures  to  the  Newberry 
Library  of  Chicago.  He  died  in  Chicago,  June 
24,  1894. 

HEATON,  William  Weed,  lawyer  and  jurist, 
was  born  at  Western,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y., 
April  18,  1814.  After  completing  his  academic 
studies  he  engaged,  for  a  short  time,  in  teaching, 
but  soon  began  the  study  of  law,  and,  in  1838, 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Terre  Haute,  Ind.  In 
1840  he  removed  to  Dixon,  111.,  where  he  resided 
until  his  death.  In  18G1  he  was  elected  Judge  of 
the  Circuit  Court  for  the  Twenty-second  Circuit, 
and  occupied  a  seat  upon  the  bench,  through 
repeated  re-elections,  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  Dec.  26,  1877,  while  serving  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Appellate  Court  for  the  First  District. 

HECKER,  Friedrich  Karl  Franz,  German  pa- 
triot and  soldier,  was  born  at  Baden,  Germany, 
Sept.  28,  1811.  He  attained  eminence  in  his 
native  country  as  a  lawyer  and  politician ;  was  a 
member  of  the  Baden  Assembly  of  1842  and  a 
leader  in  the  Diet  of  1846-47,  but,  in  1848,  was 
forced,  with  many  of  his  compatriots,  to  find  a 
refuge  in  the  United  States.  In  1849  he  settled 
as  a  farmer  at  Summerfield,  in  St.  Clair  County, 
111.  He  took  a  deep  interest  in  politics  and,  being 
earnestly  opposed  to  slavery,  ultimately  joined 
the  Republican  party,  and  took  an  active  part  in 
the  campaigns  of  1856  and  '60.  In  1861  he  was 
commissioned  Colonel  of  the  Twenty-fourth  Illi- 
nois Volunteers,  and  was  later  transferred  to  the 
command  of  the  Eighty -second.  He  was  a  brave 
soldier,  and  actively  participated  in  the  battles 
of  Missionary  Ridge  and  Chancellorsville.  In 
1864  he  resigned  his  commission  and  returned  to 
his  farm  in  St.  Clair  County.  Died,  at  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  March  24,  1881. 

HEDDING  COLLEGE,  an  institution  incorpo- 
rated in  1875  and  conducted  under  the  auspices  of 
the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  at  Abingdon, 
Knox  County,  111. ;  has  a  faculty  of  seventeen 
instructors,  and  reports  (1895-96),  403  students, 
of  whom  212  were  male  and  181  female.  The 
branches  taught  include  the  sciences,  the  classics, 
music,  fine  arts,  oratory  and  preparatory  courses. 
The  institution  has  funds  and  endowment 
amounting  to  $55,000,  and  property  valued  at 
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HEMPSTEAD,  Charles  S.,  pioneer  lawyer  and 
first  Mayor  of  Galena,  was  born  at  Hebron,  Tol- 
land  County,  Conn.,  Sept.  10,  1794 — the  son  of 
Stephen  Hempstead,  a  patriot  of  the  Revolution. 
In  1809  he  came  west  in  company  with  a  brother, 
descending  the  Ohio  River  in  a  canoe  from  Mari- 
etta to  Shawneetown,  and  making  his  way  across 
the  "Illinois  Country"  on  foot  to  Kaskaskia  and 
finally  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  joined  another 
brother  (Edward),  with  whom  he  soon  began  the 
study  of  law.  Having  been  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  both  Missouri  Territory  and  Illinois,  he  re- 
moved to  St.  Genevieve,  where  he  held  the  office 
of  Prosecuting  Attorney  by  appointment  of  the 
Governor,  but  returned  to  St.  Louis  in  1818-19 
and  later  became  a  member  of  the  Missouri  Legis- 
lature. In  1829  Mr.  Hempstead  located  at  Galena, 
111.,  which  continued  to  be  his  home  for  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life,  and  where  he  was  one  of  the 
earliest  and  best  known  lawyers.  The  late  Minis- 
ter E.  B.  Washburne  became  a  clerk  in  Mr. 
Hempstead's  law  office  in  1840,  and,  in  1845,  a 
partner.  Mr.  Hempstead  was  one  of  the  pro- 
moters of  the  old  Chicago  &  Galena  Union  Rail- 
road (now  a  part  of  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern), 
serving  upon  the  first  Board  of  Directors;  was 
elected  the  first  Mayor  of  Galena  in  1841,  and,  in 
the  early  days  of  the  Civil  War,  was  appointed 
by  President  Lincoln  a  Paymaster  in  the  Army. 
Died,  in  Galena,  Dec.  10,  1874.— Edward  (Hemp- 
stead),  an  older  brother  of  the  preceding,  already 
mentioned,  came  west  in  1804,  and,  after  holding 
various  positions  at  Vincennes,  Indiana  Territory, 
under  Gov.  William  Henry  Harrison,  located  at 
St  Louis  and  became  the  first  Territorial 
Delegate  in  Congress  from  Missouri  Territory 
(1811-14).  His  death  occurred  as  the  result  of  an 
accident,  August  10,  1817.— Stephen  (Hemp- 
stead),  another  member  of  this  historic  family, 
was  Governor  of  Iowa  from  1850  to  '54.  Died, 
Feb.  16,  1883. 

HENDERSON,  Thomas  J.,  Princeton,  111., 
was  born  at  Brownsville,  Tenn.,  Nov.  19,  1824; 
came  to  Illinois  in  1837,  and  was  reared  upon  a 
farm,  but  received  an  academic  education.  In 
1847  he  was  elected  Clerk  of  the  County  Com- 
missioners' Court  of  Stark  County,  and,  in  1849, 
Clerk  of  the  County  Court  of  the  same  county, 
serving  in  that  capacity  for  four  years.  Mean- 
while he  had  studied  law  and  had  been  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1852.  In  1855  and  '56  he  was  a 
member  of  the  lower  house  of  the  Legislature, 
and  State  Senator  from  1857  to  '60.  He  entered 
the  Union  army,  in  1862,  as  Colonel  of  the  One 
Hundred  and  Twelfth  Illinois  Volunteers,  and 


served  until  the  close  of  the  war,  being  brevetted 
Brigadier-General  in  January,  1865;  served  as 
Presidential  Elector  for  the  State-at-large,  1868, 
and  as  Congressman,  1875-95;  later,  as  First  Vice- 
President  of  National  Board  of  Managers  of  Sol- 
diers' Homes  and  had  supervision  of  the  Home 
at  Danville,  111.  Died  Feb.  5,  1911. 

HENDERSON,  William  H.,  politician  and  legis- 
lator, was  born  in  Garrard  County,  Ky.,  Nov.  10, 
1793.  After  serving  in  the  War  of  1812,  he  settled 
in  Tennessee,  where  he  held  many  positions  of 
public  trust,  including  that  of  State  Senator.  In 
1836  he  removed  to  Illinois,  and,  two  years  later, 
was  elected  to  the  General  Assembly  as  Repre- 
sentative from  Bureau  and  Putnam  Counties, 
being  re-elected  in  1840.  In  1842  he  was  the 
unsuccessful  Whig  candidate  for  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  being  defeated  by  John  Moore.  In 
1845  he  migrated  to  Iowa,  where  he  died  in  1864. 

HENDERSON  COUNTY,  a  county  comprising 
380  square  miles  of  territory,  located  in  the  west- 
ern section  of  the  State  and  bordering  on  the  Mis- 
sissippi River.  The  first  settlements  were  made 
about  1827-28  at  Yellow  Banks,  now  Oquawka. 
Immigration  was  checked  by  the  Black  Hawk 
War,  but  revived  after  the  removal  of  the  Indians 
across  the  Mississippi.  The  county  was  set  off 
from  Warren  in  1841,  with  Oquawka  as  the 
county-seat.  Population  (1880),  10,722;  (1890), 
9,876.  The  soil  is  fertile,  and  underlaid  by  lime- 
stone. The  surface  is  undulating,  and  well  tim- 
bered. Pop.  (1900),  10,836;  (1910),  9,734. 

HENNEPIN,  the  county-seat  of  Putnam 
County,  situated  on  the  left  bank  of  the  Illinois 
River,  about  28  miles  below  Ottawa,  100  miles 
southwest  of  Chicago,  and  3  miles  southeast  of 
Bureau  Junction.  It  has  a  courthouse,  a  bank, 
two  grain  elevators,  three  churches,  a  graded 
school,  a  newspaper.  It  is  a  prominent  shipping 
point  for  produce  by  the  river.  The  Hennepin 
Ganal,  in  process  of  construction  (1902-07)  from 
Illinois  River  to  the  Mississippi  at  the  mouth  of 
Rock  River,  leaves  the  Illinois  about  two  miles 
above  Hennepin.  Population  (1880),  623;  (1890), 
574;  (1900),  523;  (1910),  451. 

HENNEPIN,  Louis,  a  Franciscan  (Recollect; 
friar  and  explorer,  born  at  Ath,  Belgium,  about 
1640.  After  several  years  of  clerical  service  in 
Belgium  and  Holland,  he  was  ordered  (1675)  by 
his  ecclesiastical  superiors  to  proceed  to  Canada. 
In  1679  he  accompanied  La  Salle  on  his  explo- 
rations of  the  great  lakes  and  the  upper  Missis- 
sippi. Having  reached  the  Illinois  by  way  of 
Lake  Michigan,  early  in  the  following  year  (1680;, 
La  Salle  proceeded  to  construct  a  fort  on  the  east 


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side  of  the  Illinois  River,  a  little  below  the 
present  site  of  Peoria,  which  afterwards  received 
the  name  of  Fort  Creve-Coeur.  In  February, 
1680,  Father  Hennepin  was  dispatched  by  La 
Salle,  with  two  companions,  by  way  of  the 
mouth  of  the  Illinois,  to  explore  the  upper  Mis- 
sissippi. Ascending  the  latter  stream,  his  party 
was  captured  by  the  Sioux  and  carried  to  the 
villages  of  that  tribe  among  the  Minnesota  lakes, 
but  finally  rescued.  During  his  captivity  he 
discovered  the  Falls  of  St.  Anthony,  which  he 
named.  After  his  rescue  Hennepin  returned  to 
Quebec,  and  thence  sailed  to  France.  There  lie 
published  a  work  describing  La  Salle's  first 
expedition  and  his  own  explorations.  Although 
egotistical  and  necessarily  incorrect,  this  work 
was  a  valuable  contribution  to  history.  Because 
of  ecclesiastical  insubordination  he  left  France 
for  Holland.  In  1697  he  published  an  extraordi- 
nary volume,  in  which  he  set  forth  claims  as  a 
discoverer  which  have  been  wholly  discredited. 
His  third  and  last  work,  published  at  Utrecht,  in 
1698,  was  entitled  a  "New  Voyage  in  a  Country 
Larger  than  Europe."  It  was  a  compilation 
describing  La  Salle's  voyage  to  the  mouth  of  the 
Mississippi.  His  three  works  have  been  trans- 
lated into  twenty-four  different  languages.  He 
died,  at  Utrecht,  between  1702  and  1705. 

HENNEPIN  CANAL.  (See  Illinois  &  Missis- 
sippi Canal.) 

HENRY,  a  city  in  Marshall  County/on  the  Illi- 
nois River  and  the  Peoria  branch  of  the  Chicago, 
Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railway,  33  miles  north- 
northeast  of  Peoria;  is  a  thriving  commercial  center; 
has  grain  elevators,  flour  mills,  a  creamery,  banks 
and  two  newspapers.  Pop.  (1900),  1,637;  (1910), 
1,687. 

HENRY,  James  D.,  pioneer  and  soldier,  was  born 
in  Pennsylvania,  came  to  Illinois  in  1822,  locating 
at  Edwardsville,  where,  being  of  limited  educa- 
tion, he  labored  as  a  mechanic  during  the  day 
and  attended  school  at  night;  engaged  in  mer- 
chandising, removed  to  Springfield  in  1826,  and 
was  soon  after  elected  Sheriff ;  served  in  the  Win- 
nebago  War  (1827)  as  Adjutant,  and,  in  the 
Black  Hawk  War  (1831-32)  as  Lieutenant-Colonel 
and  Colonel,  finally  being  placed  in  command  of 
a  brigade  at  the  battle  of  Wisconsin  and  the  Bad 
Axe,  his  success  in  both  winning  for  him  great 
popularity.  His  exposures  brought  on  disease  of 
the  lungs,  and,  going  South,  he  died  at  New 
Orleans,  March  4,  1834. 

HENRY  COUNTY,  one  of  the  middle  tier  of 
counties  of  Northern  Illinois,  near  the  western 
border  of  the  State,  having  an  area  of  830  square 


miles,— named  for  Patrick  Henry.  The  Ameri- 
can pioneer  of  the  region  was  Dr.  Baker,  who 
located  in  1835  on  what  afterwards  became  the 
town  of  Colona.  During  the  two  years  following 
several  colonies  from  the  eastern  States  settled  at 
different  points  (Geneseo,  Wethersfield,  etc.;. 
The  act  creating  it  was  passed  in  1825,  though 
organization  was  not  completed  until  1837.  The 
first  county  court  was  held  at  Dayton.  Subse- 
quent county-seats  have  been  Richmond  (1837) ; 
Geneseo  (1840) ;  Morristown  (1842) ;  and  Cam- 
bridge (1843).  Population  (1870),  36,597;  (1890), 
33,338;  (1900),  40,049;  (1910),  41,736. 

HERNDON,  Archer  G.,  one  of  the  celebrated 
"Long  Nine"  members  of  the  General  Assembly 
of  1836-37,  was  born  in  Culpepper  County,  Va., 
Feb.  13,  1795;  spent  his  youth  in  Green  County, 
Ky.,  came  to  Madison  County,  111.,  1820,  and  to 
Sangamon  in  1821,  becoming  a  citizen  of  Spring- 
field in  1825,  where  he  engaged  in  mercantile 
business ;  served  eight  years  in  the  State  Senate 
(1834-42),  and  as  Receiver  of  the  Land  Office 
1842-49.  Died,  Jan.  3,  1867.  Mr.  Herndon  was 
the  father  of  William  H.  Herndon,  the  law  part- 
ner of  Abraham  Lincoln. 

HERNDON,  William  H.,  lawyer,  was  born  at 
Greensburg,  Ky.,  Dec.  25,  1818;  brought  to  Illi- 
nois by  his  father,,  Archer  G.  Herndon,  in  1820, 
and  to  Sangamon  County  in  1821 ;  entered  Illinois 
College  in  1836,  but  remained  only  one  year  on 
account  of  his  father's  hostility  to  the  supposed 
abolition  influences  prevailing  at  that  institution ; 
spent  several  years  as  clerk  in  a  store  at  Spring- 
field, studied  law  two  years  with  the  firm  of  Lin- 
coln &  Logan  (1842-44),  was  admitted  to  the  bat 
and  became  the  partner  of  Mr.  Lincoln,  so  con- 
tinuing until  the  election  of  the  latter  to  the 
Presidency.  Mr.  Herudon  was  a  radical  oppo- 
nent of  slavery  and  labored  zealously  to  promote 
the  advancement  of  his  distinguished  partner. 
The  offices  he  held  were  those  of  City  Attorney, 
Mayor  and  Bank  Commissioner  under  three  Gov- 
ernors. Some  years  before  his  death  he  wrote, 
and,  in  con  junction  with  Jesse  W.Weik,  published 
a  Life  of  Abraham  Lincoln  in  three  volumes — 
afterwards  revised  and  issued  in  a  two-volume 
edition  by  the  Messrs.  Appleton,  New  York. 
Died,  near  Springfield,  March  18,  1891. 

HERRIN,  a  city  of  Williamson  County,  10 
miles  northwest  of  Marion;  junction  of  three  lines 
of  railroad  and  center  of  coal-mining  district;  has 
banks,  powder  plant,  machine  shops  and  foundry; 
two  weekly  newspapers.  Pop.  (1910),  6,861. 

HERRINGTON,  Augustus  M.,  lawyer  and  poli 
tician,  was  born  at  or  near  Meadville,  Pa.,  in  1823; 


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when  ten  years  of  age  was  brought  by  his  father 
to  Chicago,  the  family  removing  two  years  later 
(1835)  to  Geneva,  Kane  County,  where  the  elder 
Herrington  opened  the  first  store.  Augustus  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1844;  obtained  great  promi- 
nence as  a  Democratic  politician,  serving  as 
Presidential  Elector  for  the  State-at-large  in 
1856,  and  as  a  delegate  to  Democratic  National 
Conventions  in  1860,  '64,  '68,  '76  and  '80,  and  was 
almost  invariably  a  member  of  the  State  Conven- 
tions of  his  party  during  the  same  period.  He 
also  served  for  many  years  as  Solicitor  of  the 
Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railroad.  Died,  at  Ge- 
neva, Kane  County,  August  14,  1883. — James 
(Herrington),  brother  of  the  preceding,  was  born 
in  Mercer  County,  Pa.,  June  6,  1824;  came  to 
Chicago  in  1833,  but,  two  years  later,  was  taken 
by  his  parents  to  Geneva,  Kane  County.  In  1843 
he  was  apprenticed  to  the  printing  business  on 
the  old  "Chicago  Democrat"  (John  Went  worth, 
publisher),  remaining  until  1848,  when  he  returned 
to  Geneva,  where  he  engaged  in  farming,  being 
also  connected  for  a  year  or  two  with  a  local 
paper.  In  1849  he  was  elected  County  Clerk,  re- 
maining in  office  eight  years;  also  served  three 
terms  on  the  Board  of  Supervisors,  later  serving 
continuously  in  the  lower  branch  of  the  General 
Assembly  from  1872  to  1886.  He  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture  and  a  fre- 
quent delegate  to  Democratic  State  Conventions. 
Died,  July  7,  1890. — James  Herrington,  Sr., 
father  of  the  two  preceding,  was  a  Representative 
in  the  Fifteenth  General  Assembly  (1846-48)  for 
the  District  embracing  the  counties  of  Kane, 
McHenry,  Boone  and  De  Kalb. 

HERTZ,  Henry  L.,  ex-State  Treasurer,  was 
born  at  Copenhagen,  Denmark,  in  1847;  gradu- 
ated from  the  University  of  Copenhagen  in  1866, 
and  after  pursuing  the  study  of  medicine  for  two 
years,  emigrated  to  this  country  in  1869.  After 
various  experiences  in  selling  sewing-machines, 
as  bank-clerk,  and  as  a  farm-hand,  in  1876  Mr. 
Hertz  was  employed  in  the  Recorder's  office  of 
Cook  County;  in  1878  was  record-writer  in  the 
Criminal  Court  Clerk's  office;  in  1884  was  elected 
Coroner  of  Cook  County,  and  re-elected  in  1888. 
In  1892,  as  Republican  candidate  for  State  Treas- 
urer, he  was  defeated,  but,  in  1896,  again  a 
candidate  for  the  same  office,  was  elected  by  a 
majority  of  115,000,  serving  until  1899.  He  is 
now  a  resident  of  Chicago. 

HESING,  Antone  Caspar,  journalist  and  politi- 
cian, was  born  in  Prussia  in  1823;  left  an  orphan  at 
the  age  of  15,  he  soon  after  emigrated  to  America, 
landing  at  Baltimore  and  going  thence  to  Cin- 


cinnati. From  1840  to  1842  he  worked  in  a  gro- 
cery store  in  Cincinnati,  and  later  opened  a  small 
hotel.  In  1854  he  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he 
was  for  a  time  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
brick.  In  1860  he  was  elected  Sheriff  of  Cook 
County,  as  a  Republican.  In  1862  he  purchased 
an  interest  in  "The  Chicago  Staats  Zeitung, " 
and  in  1867  became  sole  proprietor.  In  1871  he 
admitted  his  son,  Washington  Hesing,  to  a  part- 
nership, installing  him  as  general  manager. 
Died,  in  Chicago,  March  31,  1895. — Washington 
(Hesing),  son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  in  Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio,  May  14,  1849,  educated  at  Chicago 
and  Yale  College,  graduating  from  the  latter  in 
1870.  After  a  year  spent  in  study  abroad,  he 
returned  to  Chicago  and  began  work  upon  "The 
Staats  Zeitung, "  later  becoming  managing  editor, 
and  finally  editor-in-chief.  While  yet  a  young 
man  he  was  made  a  member  of  the  Chicago 
Board  of  Education,  but  declined  to  serve  a 
second  term.  In  1872  he  entered  actively  into 
politics,  making  speeches  in  both  English  and 
German  in  support  of  General  Grant's  Presi- 
dential candidacy.  Later  he  affiliated  with  the 
Democratic  party,  as  did  his  father,  and,  in  1893, 
was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  the  Democratic 
nomination  for  the  Chicago  mayoralty,  being 
defeated  by  Carter  H.  Harrison.  In  December, 
1893,  he  was  appointed  by  President  Cleveland 
Postmaster  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  serving  four 
years.  His  administration  was  characterized  by 
a  high  degree  of  efficiency  and  many  improve- 
ments in  the  service  were  adopted,  one  of  the 
most  important  being  the  introduction  of  postal 
cars  on  the  street-railroads  for  the  collection  of 
mail  matter.  In  April,  1897,  he  became  an  Inde- 
pendent candidate  for  Mayor,  but  was  defeated 
by  Carter  H.  Harrison,  the  regular  Democratic 
nominee.  Died,  Dec.  18,  1897. 

HEYWORTH,  a  village  of  McLean  County,  on 
the  Illinois  Central  Railway,  10  miles  south  of 
Bloomington;  has  a  bank,  churches,  gas  wells, 
and  a  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  683;  (1910),  681. 

HIBBARD,  Homer  Nash,  lawyer,  was  born  at 
Bethel,  Windsor  County,  Vt.,  Nov.  7,  1824,  his 
early  life  being  spent  upon  a  farm  and  in  attend- 
ance upon  the  common  schools.  After  a  short 
term  in  an  academy  at  Randolph,  Vt. ,  at  the  age 
of  18  he  began  the  study  of  law  at  Rutland — also 
fitting  himself  for  college  with  a  private  tutor. 
Later,  having  obtained  means  by  teaching,  he 
took  a  course  in  Castleton  Academy  and  Ver- 
mont University,  graduating  from  the  latter  in 
1850.  Then,  having  spent  some  years  in  teach- 
ing, he  entered  the  Dane  Law  School  at  Harvard, 


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later  continuing  his  studies  at  Burlington  and 
finally,  in  the  fall  of  1853,  removing  to  Chicago. 
Here  he  opened  a  law  office  in  connection  with 
his  old  classmate,  the  late  Judge  John  A.  Jame- 
son, but  early  in  the  following  year  removed  to 
Freeport,  where  he  subsequently  served  as  City 
Attorney,  Master  in  Chancery  and  President  of 
the  City  School  Board.  Returning  to  Chicago  in 
1860,  he  became  a  member  of  the  law  firm  of 
Cornell,  Jameson  &  Hibbard,  and  still  later  the 
head  of  the  firm  of  Hibbard,  Rich  &  Noble.  In 
1870  he  was  appointed  by  Judge  Drummond 
Register  in  Bankruptcy  for  the  Chicago  District, 
serving  during  the  life  of  the  law.  He  was  also, 
for  some  time,  a  Director  of  the  National  Bank 
of  Illinois,  and  Vice-President  of  the  American 
Insurance  Company.  Died,  Nov.  14,  1897. 

HICKS,  Stephen  G.,  lawyer  and  soldier  of 
three  wars,  was  born  in  Jackson  County,  Ga., 
Feb.  22,  1807— the  son  of  John  Hicks,  one  of  the 
seven  soldiers  killed  at  the  battle  of  New  Orleans, 
Jan.  8,  1815.  Leaving  the  roof  of  a  step-father 
at  an  early  age,  he  found  his  way  to  Illinois, 
working  for  a  time  in  the  lead  mines  near  Galena, 
and  later  at  the  carpenter's  trade  with  an  uncle ; 
served  as  a  Sergeant  in  the  Black  Hawk  War, 
finally  locating  in  Jefferson  County,  where  he 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  Here 
he  was  elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  Twelfth 
General  Assembly  (1840)  and  re-elected  succes- 
sively to  the  Thirteenth  and  Fourteenth.  Early 
in  the  Mexican  War  (1846)  he  recruited  a  com- 
pany for  the  Third  Regiment,  of  which  he  was 
chosen  Captain,  a  year  later  becoming  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel of  the  Sixth.  At  the  beginning  of 
the  Civil  War  Colonel  Hicks  was  practicing  his 
profession  at  Salem,  Marion  County.  He 
promptly  raised  a  company  which  became  a  part 
of  the  Fortieth  Regiment  Volunteer  Infantry,  of 
which  he  was  commissioned  Colonel.  The  regi- 
ment saw  active  service  in  the  campaign  in  West- 
ern Tennessee,  including  the  battle  of  Shiloh, 
•where  Colonel  Hicks  was  dangerously  wounded 
through  the  lungs,  only  recovering  after  some 
months  in  hospital  and  at  his  home.  He  rejoined 
his  regiment  in  July  following,  but  found  him- 
self compelled  to  accept  an  honorable  discharge, 
a  few  months  later,  on  account  of  disability. 
Having  finally  recovered,  he  was  restored  to  his 
old  command,  and  served  to  the  close  of  the  war. 
In  October,  1863,  he  was  placed  in  command  at 
Paducah,  Ky.,  where  he  remained  eighteen 
months,  after  which  he  was  transferred  to  Colum- 
bus, Ky.  While  in  command  at  Paducah,  the 
place  was  desperately  assaulted  by  the  rebel 


Colonel  Forrest,  but  successfully  defended,  the 
rebel  assailants  sustaining  a  loss  of  some  1,200 
killed  and  wounded.  After  the  war  Colonel 
Hicks  returned  to  Salem,  where  he  died,  Dec.  14, 
1869,  and  was  buried,  in  accordance  with  his 
request,  in  the  folds  of  the  American  flag.  Born 
on  Washington's  birthday,  it  is  a  somewhat 
curious  coincidence  that  the  death  of  this  brave 
soldier  should  have  occurred  on  the  anniversary 
of  that  of  the  "Father  of  His  Country." 

HIGBEE,  Chauncey  L.,  lawyer  and  Judge,  was 
born  in  Clermont  County,  Ohio,  Sept.  7,  1821, 
and  settled  in  Pike  County,  111.,  in  1844.  He 
early  took  an  interest  in  politics,  being  elected  to 
the  lower  house  of  the  Legislature  in  1854,  and 
two  years  later  to  the  State  Senate.  In  1861  he 
was  elected  Judge  of  the  Fifth  Circuit  Court,  and 
was  re-elected  in  1867,  '73,  and  '79.  In  1877,  and 
again  in  '79,  he  was  assigned  to  the  bench  of  the 
Appellate  Court.  Died,  at  Pittsfield,  Dec.  7,  1884. 

HIGGINS,  Van  llollis,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Genessee  County,  N.  Y. ,  and  received  his  early 
education  at  Auburn  and  Seneca  Falls ;  came  to 
Chicago  in  1837  and,  after  spending  some  time  as 
clerk  in  his  brother's  store,  taught  some  months 
in  Vermilion  County:  then  went  to  St.  Louis, 
where  he  spent  a  year  or  two  as  reporter  on  "The 
Missouri  Argus,"  later  engaging  in  commercial 
pursuits;  in  1842  removed  to  Iroquois  County, 
111. ,  where  he  read  law  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar;  in  1845,  established  himself  in  practice  in 
Galena,  served  two  years  as  City  Attorney  there, 
but  returned  to  Chicago  in  1852,  where  he  contin- 
ued to  reside  for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  In  1858 
he  was  elected  as  a  Republican  Representative  in 
the  Twenty-first  General  Assembly ;  served  sev- 
eral years  as  Judge  of  the  Chicago  City  Court, 
and  was  a  zealous  supporter  of  the  Government 
during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion.  Judge  Higgins 
was  successful  as  a  lawyer  and  business  man,  and 
was  connected  with  a  number  of  important  busi- 
ness enterprises,  especially  in  connection  with 
real-estate  operations ;  was  also  a  member  of  sev- 
eral local  societies  of  a  professional,  social  and 
patriotic  character.  Died,  at  Darien,  Wis. ,  April 
17,  1893. 

HIGGINSON,  Charles  M.,  civil  engineer  and 
Assistant  Railway  President,  was  born  in  Chica- 
go, July  11,  1846 — the  son  of  George  M.Higginson, 
who  located  in  Chicago  about  1843  and  engaged 
in  the  real-estate  business;  was  educated  at  the 
Lawrence  Scientific  School,  Cambridge,  Mass., 
and  entered  the  engineering  department  of  the 
Burlington  &  Missouri  River  Railroad  in  1867, 
remaining  until  1875.  He  then  became  the  pur- 


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chasing  agent  of  the  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Warsaw 
Railroad,  but,  a  year  later,  returned  to  Chicago, 
and  soon  after  assumed  the  same  position  in  con- 
nection with  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy, 
being  transferred  to  the  Auditorship  of  the 
latter  road  in  1879.  Later,  he  became  assistant 
to  President  Ripley  of  the  Atchison,  Topeka  & 
Santa  Fe  Line,  where  he  remained  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  at  Riverside,  111.,  May  6, 
1899.  Mr.  Higginson  was,  for  several  years, 
President  of  the  Chicago  Academy  of  Sciences, 
and  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  Chicago. 

HIGH,  James  L.,  lawyer  and  author,  was  born 
at  Belleville,  Ohio,  Oct.  6,  1844;  in  boyhood  came 
to  Wisconsin,  and  graduated  at  Wisconsin  State 
University,  at  Madison,  in  1804,  also  serving  for 
a  time  as  Adjutant  of  the  Forty-ninth  Regiment 
Wisconsin  Volunteers ;  studied  law  at  the  Michi- 
gan University  Law  School  and,  in  1867,  came  to 
Chicago,  where  lie  began  practice.  He  spent  the 
winter  of  1871-72  in  Salt  Lake  City  and,  in  the 
absence  of  the  United  States  District  Attorney, 
conducted  the  trial  of  certain  Mormon  leaders  for 
connection  with  the  celebrated  Mountain  Meadow 
Massacre,  also  acting  as  correspondent  of  "The 
New  York  Times,"  his  letters  being  widely 
copied.  Returning  to  Chicago  he  took  a  high 
rank  in  his  profession.  He  was  the  author  of 
several  volumes,  including  treatises  on  "The  Law 
of  Injunctions  as  administered  in  the  Courts  of 
England  and  America, "  and  "  Extraordinary  Legal 
Remedies,  Mandamus,  Quo  Warranto  and  Prohibi- 
tions," which  are  accepted  as  high  authority  with 
the  profession.  In  1870  he  published  a  revised 
edition  of  Lord  Erskine's  Works,  including  all 
his  legal  arguments,  together  with  a  memoir  of 
his  life.  Died,  Oct.  3,  1898. 

HIGHLAND,  a  city  in  the  southeastern  part  of 
Madison  County,  founded  in  1836  and  located  on 
the  Vandalia  line,  32  miles  east  of  St.  Louis.  Its 
manufacturing  industries  include  a  milk-con 
densing  plant,  creamery,  flour  and  planing  mills, 
breweries,  embroidery  works,  etc.  It  contains 
several  churches  and  schools,  a  Roman  Catholic 
Seminary,  a  hospital,  and  has  three  newspapers- 
one  German.  Pop.  (1900),  1,970;  (1910),  2,675. 

HIGHWOOD,  a  village  of  Lake  County,  on  the 
Chicago  &  North  Western  Railroad,  24}  miles  north 
of  Chicago;  is  adjacent  to  Fort  Sheridan.  Pop. 
(1910),  1,227. 

HIGHLAND  PARK,  an  incorporated  city  of 
Lake  County,  on  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern 
Railroad,  23  miles  north-northwest  of  Chicago. 
It  has  a  salubrious  site  on  a  bluff  100  feet  above 


Lake  Michigan,  and  is  a  favorite  residence  and 
health  resort.  It  has  a  large  hotel,  several 
churches,  a  military  academy,  and  a  weekly 
paper.  Two  Waukegan  papers  issue  editions 
here.  Pop. (1890),  2,163;  (1900), 2,806;  (1910), 4,209. 

HILDRUP,  Jesse  S.,  lawyer  and  legislator, 
was  born  in  Middletown,  Conn.,  March  14,  1833;  at 
15  removed  to  the  State  of  New  York  and  after- 
wards to  Harrisburg,  Pa. ;  in  1860  came  to  Belvi- 
dere,  111.,  where  he  began  the  practice  of  law, 
also  serving  as  Corporation  Trustee  and  Township 
Supervisor,  and,  during  the  latter  years  of  the 
war,  as  Deputy  Provost  Marshal.  His  first  im- 
portant elective  office  was  that  of  Delegate  to  the 
State  Constitutional  Convention  of  1870,  but  he 
was  elected  Representative  in  the  General  Assem- 
bly the  same  year,  and  again  in  1872.  While  in 
the  House  he  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  legis- 
lation which  resulted  in  the  organization  of  the 
Railroad  and  Warehouse  Board.  Mr.  Hildrup 
was  also  a  Republican  Presidential  Elector  in 
1868,  and  United  States  Marshal  for  the  Northern 
District  of  Illinois  from  1877  to  1881.  During 
the  last  few  years  much  of  his  time  has  been 
spent  in  California  for  the  benefit  of  the  health 
of  some  members  of  his  family. 

HILL,  Charles  Augustus,  ex-Congressman, 
was  born  at  Truxton,  Cortland  County,  N.  Y., 
August  23, 1833.  He  acquired  his  early  education 
by  dint  of  hard  labor,  and  much  privation.  In 
1854  he  removed  to  Illinois,  settling  in  Will 
County,  where,  for  several  years,  he  taught 
school,  as  he  had  done  while  in  New  York. 
Meanwhile  he  read  law,  his  last  instructor  being 
Hon.  H.  C.  Newcomb,  of  Indianapolis,  where  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  returned  to  Will 
County  in  1860,  and,  in  1862,  enlisted  in  the 
Eighth  Illinois  Cavalry,  participating  in  the 
battle  of  Antietam.  Later  he  was  commissioned 
First  Lieutenant  in  the  First  United  States  Regi- 
ment of  Colored  Troops,  with  which  he  remained 
until  the  close  of  the  war,  rising  to  the  rank  of 
Captain.  In  1865  he  returned  to  Joliet  and  to  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  In  1868  he  was  elected 
State's  Attorney  for  the  district  comprising  Will 
and  Grundy  Counties,  but  declined  a  renomina- 
tion.  In  1888  he  was  the  successful  Republican 
candidate  for  Congress  from  the  Eighth  Illinois 
District,  but  was  defeated  for  re-election  in  1890 
by  Lewis  Steward,  Democrat. 

HILLSBORO,  an  incorporated  city,  the  county- 
seat  of  Montgomery  County,  on  the  Cleveland, 
Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway,  67 
miles  northeast  of  St.  Louis.  Its  manufactures 
are  Hour,  brick  and  tile,  carriages  and  harness, 


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furniture  and  woolen  goods.  It  has  a  high 
school,  banks  and  two  weekly  newspapers.  The 
surrounding  region  is  agricultural,  though  con- 
siderable coal  is  mined  in  the  vicinity;  dairying  is 
also  carried  on.  Pop.  (1900),  1,937;  (1910),  3,424. 

HINCKLEY,  a  village  of  De  Kalb  County,  on 
the  Rochelle  Division  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington 
&  Quincy  Bailroad,  18  miles  west  of  Aurora;  in 
rich  agricultural  and  dairying- region;  has  grain 
elevators,  brick  and  tile  works,  creamery,  water  and 
electric  light  plants.  Pop.  (1900),  587;  (1910),  661. 

HINRICHSEN,  William  H.,  ex  Secretary  of 
State  and  ex-Congressman,  was  born  at  Franklin, 
Morgan  County,  111.,  May  27,  1850;  educated  at 
the  University  of  Illinois,  spent  four  years  in  the 
office  of  his  father,  who  was  stock-agent  of  the 
Wabash  Railroad,  and  six  years  (1874-80)  as 
Deputy  Sheriff  of  Morgan  County;  then  went 
into  the  newspaper  business,  editing  the  Jackson- 
ville "Evening  Courier,"  until  1886,  after  which 
he  was  connected  with  "The  Quincy  Herald,"  to 
1890,  when  he  returned  to  Jacksonville  and  re- 
sumed his  place  on  '  'The  Courier. ' '  He  was  Clerk 
of  the  House  of  Representatives  in  1891,  and 
elected  Secretary  of  State  in  1892,  serving  until 
January,  1897.  Mr.  Hinrichsen  was  also  a  member 
of  the  Democratic  State  Central  Committee  from 
1890,  and  was  Chairman  of  that  body  during 
1894-96.  In  1896  Mr.  Hinrichsen  was  the  nominee 
of  his  party  for  Congress  in  the  Sixteenth  Dis- 
trict and  was  elected  by  over  6,000  majority,  but 
failed  to  secure  a  renomination  in  1898.  Died 
Dec.  18,  1907. 

HIJfSDALE,  a  village  in  Du  Page  County  and 
popular  residence  suburb,  on  the  Chicago,  Burling- 
ton &  Quincy  Railroad,  17  miles  west-southwest  of 
Chicago.  It  has  four  churches,  a  graded  school,  an 
academy,  electric  light  plant,  waterworks,  sewerage 
system,  and  one  weekly  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900), 
2,578;  (1910),  2,451. 

HITCHCOCK,  Charles,  lawyer,  was  born  at 
Hanson,  Plymouth  County,  Mass.,  April  4,  1827; 
studied  at  Dartmouth  College  and  at  Harvard 
Law  School,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1854, 
soon  afterward  establishing  himself  for  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  Chicago.  In  1869  Mr. 
Hitchcock  was  elected  to  the  State  Constitutional 
Convention,  which  was  the  only  important  pub- 
lic office  that  he  held,  though  his  capacity  was 
recognized  by  his  election  to  the  Presidency  of 
that  body.  Died,  May  6,  1881. 

HITCHCOCK,  Luke,  clergyman,  was  born 
April  13,  1813,  at  Lebanon,  N.  Y.,  entered  the 
ministry  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  in 
1834,  and,  after  supplying  various  charges  in 


that  State  during  the  next  five  years,  in  1839 
came  to  Chicago,  becoming  one  of  the  most 
influential  factors  in  the  Methodist  denomination 
in  Northern  Illinois.  Between  that  date  and 
1860  he  was  identified,  as  regular  pastor  or  Pre- 
siding Elder,  with  churches  at  Dixon,  Ottawa, 
Belvidere,  Rockford,  Mount  Morris,  St.  Charles 
and  Chicago  (the  old  Clark  Street  church),  with 
two  years'  service  (1841-43)  as  agent  of  Rock 
River  Seminary  at  Mount  Morris — his  itinerant 
labors  being  interrupted  at  two  or  three  periods 
by  ill-health,  compelling  him  to  assume  a  super- 
annuated relation.  From  1852  to  '80,  inclusive, 
he  was  a  delegate  every  four  years  to  the  General 
Conference.  In  1860  he  was  appointed  Agent  of 
the  Western  Book  Concern,  and,  as  the  junior 
representative,  was  placed  in  charge  of  the 
depository  at  Chicago— in  1868  becoming  the 
Senior  Agent,  and  so  remaining  until  1880.  His 
subsequent  service  included  two  terms  as  Presid- 
ing Elder  for  the  Dixon  and  Chicago  Districts; 
the  position  of  Superintendent  of  the  Chicago 
Home  Missionary  and  Church  Extension  Society ; 
Superintendent  of  the  Wesley  Hospital  (which  he 
assisted  to  organize),  his  last  position  being  that 
of  Corresponding  Secretary  of  the  Superannu- 
ates' Relief  Association.  He  was  also  influential 
in  securing  the  establishment  of  a  church  paper 
in  Chicago  and  the  founding  of  the  Northwestern 
University  and  Garrett  Biblical  Institute.  Died, 
while  on  a  visit  to  a  daughter  at  East  Orange, 
N.  J.,  Nov.  12,  1898. 

HITT,  Daniel  F.,  civil  engineer  and  soldier, 
was  born  in  Bourbon  County,  Ky.,  June  13,  1810 
— the  son  of  a  Methodist  preacher  who  freed  his 
slaves  and  removed  to  Urbana,  Ohio,  in  1814.  In 
1829  the  son  began  the  study  of  engineering  and, 
removing  to  Illinois  the  following  year,  was  ap- 
pointed Assistant  Engineer  on  the  Illinois  & 
Michigan  Canal,  later  being  employed  in  survey- 
ing some  sixteen  years.  Being  stationed  at 
Prairie  du  Chien  at  the  time  of  the  Black  Hawk 
War  (1832),  he  was  attached  to  the  Stephenson 
Rangers  for  a  year,  but  at  the  end  of  that  period 
resumed  surveying  and,  having  settled  in  La 
Salle  County,  became  the  first  Surveyor  of  that 
county.  In  1861  he  joined  Colonel  Cushman,  of 
Ottawa,  in  the  organization  of  the  Fifty-third 
Illinois  Volunteers,  was  mustered  into  the  service 
in  March,  1862,  and  commissioned  its  Lieutenant- 
Colonel.  The  regiment  took  part  in  various 
battles,  including  those  of  Shiloh,  Corinth  and 
La  Grange,  Tenn.  In  the  latter  Colonel  Hitt 
received  an  injury  by  being  thrown  from  his 
horse  which  compelled  his  resignation  and  from 


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which  he  never  fully  recovered.  Returning  to 
Ottawa,  he  continued  to  reside  there  until  his 
death,  May  11,  1899.  Colonel  Hitt  was  father  of 
Andrew  J.  Hitt,  General  Superintendent  of  the 
Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railroad,  and 
uncle  of  Congressman  Robert  R.  Hitt  of  Mount 
Morris.  Originally  a  Democrat,  he  allied  himself 
with  the  Republican  party  on  the  breaking  out 
of  the  Civil  War.  He  was  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason  and  prominent  in  Grand  Army  circles. 

HITT,  Isaac  R.,  real-estate  operator,  was  born 
at  Boonsboro,  Md.,  June  2,  1828;  in  1845  entered 
the  freshman  class  at  Asbury  University,  Ind., 
graduating  in  1849.  Then,  removing  to  Ottawa, 
111.,  he  was  engaged  for  a  time  in  farming,  but, 
in  1852,  entered  into  the  forwarding  and  com- 
mission business  at  La  Salle.  Having  meanwhile 
devoted  some  attention  to  real-estate  law,  in  1853 
he  began  buying  and  selling  real  estate  while 
continuing  his  farming  operations,  adding  thereto 
coal-mining.  In  May,  1856,  he  was  a  delegate 
from  La  Salle  County  to  the  State  Convention  at 
Bloomington  which  resulted  in  the  organization 
of  the  Republican  party  in  Illinois.  Removing 
to  Chicago  in  1860,  he  engaged  in  the  real-estate 
business  there ;  in  1862  was  appointed  on  a  com- 
mittee of  citizens  to  look  after  the  interests  of 
wounded  Illinois  soldiers  after  the  battle  of  Fort 
Donelson,  in  that  capacity  visiting  hospitals  at 
Cairo,  Evansville,  Paducah  and  Nashville.  Dur- 
ing the  war  he  engaged  to  some  extent  in  the 
business  of  prosecuting  soldiers'  claims.  Mr. 
Hitt  has  been  a  member  of  both  the  Chicago  and 
the  National  Academy  of  Sciences,  and,  in  1869, 
was  appointed  by  Governor  Palmer  on  the  Com- 
mission to  lay  out  the  park  system  of  Chicago. 
Since  1871  he  has  resided  at  Evanston,  where  he 
aided  in  the  erection  of  the  Woman's  College  in 
connection  with  the  Northwestern  University. 
In  1876  he  was  appointed  by  the  Governor  agent 
to  prosecute  the  claims  of  the  State  for  swamp 
lands  within  its  limits,  and  gave  much  of  his  atten- 
tion to  that  business.  Died  June  13,  1909. 

HITT,  Robert  Roberts,  Congressman,  was  born 
at  Urbana,  Ohio,  Jan.  16,  1834.  When  he  was 
three  years  old  his  parents  removed  to  Illinois, 
settling  in  Ogle  County.  His  education  was 
acquired  at  Rock  River  Seminary  (now  Mount 
Morris  College),  and  at  De  Pauw  University,  Ind. 
In  1858  Mr.  Hitt  was  one  of  the  reporters  who 
reported  the  celebrated  debate  of  that  year 
between  Lincoln  and  Douglas.  From  December, 
1874,  until  March,  '81,  he  was  connected  with  the 
United  States  embassy  at  Paris,  serving  as  First 
Secretary  of  Legation  and  Charge  d' Affaires  ad 


interim.  He  was  Assistant  Secretary  of  State  in 
1881,  but  resigned  the  post  in  1882,  having  been 
elected  to  Congress  from  the  Sixth  Illinois  Dis- 
trict to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  by  the  death 
of  R.  M.  A.  Hawk.  By  eight  successive  re-elec- 
tions he  represented  the  District  continuously 
since,  his  career  being  conspicuous  for  long  service 
In  that  time  he  had  taken  an  important  part 
in  the  deliberations  of  the  House,  serving  as 
Chairman  of  many  important  committees,  not- 
ably that  on  Foreign  Affairs,  of  which  he  had 
been  Chairman  for  several  terms,  and  for  which 
his  diplomatic  experience  well  qualified  him.  In 
1898  he  was  appointed  by  President  McKinley  a 
member  of  the  Committee  to  visit  Hawaii  and 
report  upon  a  form  of  government  for  that  por- 
tion of  the  newly  acquired  national  domain.  Mr. 
Hitt  was  strongly  supported  as  a  candidate  for 
the  United  States  Senate  in  1895,  and  favorably 
considered  for  the  position  of  Minister  to  Eng- 
land after  the  retirement  of  Secretary  Day  in 
1898.  Died  Sept.  20,  1906. 

HOBART,  Horace  R.,  was  born  in  Wisconsin 
in  1839 ;  graduated  at  Beloit  College  and,  after  a 
brief  experience  in  newspaper  work,  enlisted,  in 
1861,  in  the  First  Wisconsin  Cavalry  and  was 
assigned  to  duty  as  Battalion  Quartermaster. 
Being  wounded  at  Helena,  Ark.,  he  was  com- 
pelled to  resign,  but  afterwards  served  as  Deputy 
Provost  Marshal  of  the  Second  Wisconsin  Dis- 
trict. In  1866  he  re-entered  newspaper  work  as 
reporter  on  "The  Chicago  Tribune,"  and  later 
was  associated,  as  city  editor,  with  "The  Chicago 
Evening  Post"  and  "Evening  Mail";  later  was 
editor  of  "The  Jacksonville  Daily  Journal"  and 
"The  Chicago  Morning  Courier,"  also  being,  for 
some  years  from  1869,  Western  Manager  of  the 
American  Press  Association.  In  1876,  Mr.  Hobart 
became  one  of  the  editors  of  "The  Railway  Age" 
(Chicago),  with  which  he  remained  until  the 
close  of  the  year  1898,  when  he  retired  to  give  his 
attention  to  real-estate  matters. 

HOFFMAX,  Francis  A.,  Lieutenant-Governor 
(1861-65),  was  born  at  Herford,  Prussia,  in  1822, 
and  emigrated  to  America  in  1839,  reaching  Chica- 
go the  same  year.  There  he  became  a  boot-black  in 
a  leading  hotel,  but  within  a  month  was  teaching 
a  small  German  school  at  Dunkley's  Grove  (now 
Addison),  Du  Page  County,  and  later  officiating 
as  a  Lutheran  minister.  In  1847  he  represented 
that  county  in  the  River  and  Harbor  Convention 
at  Chicago.  In  1852  he  removed  to  Chicago,  and, 
the  following  year,  entered  the  City  Council. 
Later,  he  embarked  in  the  real-estate  business, 
and,  in  1854,  opened  a  banking  house,  but  was 


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forced  to  assign  in  1861.  He  early  became  a 
recognized  anti-slavery  leader  and  a  contributor 
to  the  German  press,  and,  in  1856,  was  nominated 
for  Lieutenant-Governor  on  the  first  Republican 
State  ticket  with  William  H.  Bissell,  but  was 
found  ineligible  by  reason  of  his  short  residence 
in  the  United  States,  and  withdrew,  giving  place 
to  John  Wood  of  Quincy.  In  1860  he  was  again 
nominated,  and  having  in  the  meantime  become 
eligible,  was  elected.  In  1864  he  was  a  Repub- 
lican candidate  for  Presidential  Elector,  and 
assisted  in  Mr.  Lincoln's  second  election.  He 
was  at  one  time  Foreign  Land  Commissioner  for 
the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  and  acted  as  Consul 
at  Chicago  for  several  German  States.  For  a 
number  of  years  in  his  later  life  Mr.  Hoffman  was 
editor  of  an  agricultural  paper  in  Southern  Wis- 
consin. Died  Jan.  23,  1903. 

HOGAN,  John,  clergyman  and  early  politician, 
was  born  in  the  city  of  Mallow,  County  of  Cork, 
Ireland,  Jan.  2,  1805;  brought  in  childhood  to 
Baltimore,  Md.,  and  having  been  left  an  orphan  at 
eight  years  of  age,  learned  the  trade  of  a  shoe- 
maker. In  1826  he  became  an  itinerant  Metho- 
dist preacher,  and,  coming  west  the  same  year, 
preached  at  various  points  in  Indiana,  Illinois 
and  Missouri.  In  1830  he  was  married  to  Miss 
Mary  Mitchell  West,  of  Belleville,  111.,  and  soon 
after,  having  retired  from  the  itinerancy,  engaged 
in  mercantile  business  at  Edwardsville  and  Alton. 
In  1836  he  was  elected  Representative  in  the 
Tenth  General  Assembly  from  Madison  County, 
two  years  later  was  appointed  a  Commissioner  of 
Public  Works  and,  being  re-elected  in  1840,  was 
made  President  of  the  Board;  in  1841  was  ap- 
pointed by  President  Harrison  Register  of  the 
Land  Office  at  Dixon,  where  he  remained  until 
1845.  During  the  anti-slavery  excitement  which 
attended  the  assassination  of  Elijah  P.  Lovejoy 
in  1837,  he  was  a  resident  of  Alton  and  was  re- 
garded by  the  friends  of  Lovejoy  as  favoring  the 
pro-slavery  faction.  After  retiring  from  the 
Land  Office  at  Dixon,  he  removed  to  St.  Louis, 
where  he  engaged  in  the  wholesale  grocery  busi- 
ness. In  his  early  political  life  he  was  a  Whig, 
but  later  co-operated  with  the  Democratic  party ; 
in  1857  he  was  appointed  by  President  Buchanan 
Postmaster  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  serving  until 
the  accession  of  Lincoln  in  1861;  in  1864  was 
elected  as  a  Democrat  to  the  Thirty-ninth  Con- 
gress, serving  two  years.  He  was  also  a  delegate 
to  the  National  Union  (Democratic)  Convention 
at  Philadelphia  in  1866.  After  his  retirement 
from  the  Methodist  itinerancy  he  continued  to 
officiate  as  a  "local"  preacher  and  was  esteemed 


a  speaker  of  unusual  eloquence  and  ability.  His 
death  occurred,  Feb.  5.  1892.  He  is  author  of  sev- 
eral volumes,  including  "The  Resources  of  Mis- 
souri," "Commerce  and  Manufactures  of  St. 
Louis,"  and  a  "History  of  Methodism." 

HOGE,  Joseph  P.,  Congressman,  was  born  in 
Ohio  early  in  the  century  and  came  to  Galena, 
111.,  in  1836,  where  he  attained  prominence  as  a 
lawyer.  In  1842  he  was  elected  Representative 
in  Congress,  as  claimed  at  the  time  by  the  aid  of 
the  Mormon  vote  at  Nauvoo,  serving  one  term. 
In  1853  he  went  to  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  and  be- 
came a  Judge  in  that  State,  dying  a  few  years 
since  at  the  age  of  over  80  years.  He  is  repre- 
sented to  have  been  a  man  of  much  ability  and  a 
graceful  and  eloquent  orator.  Mr.  Hoge  was  a 
son-in-law  of  Thomas  C.  Browne,  one  of  the  Jus- 
tices of  the  first  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois  who 
held  office  until  1848. 

HOLLISTER,  (Dr.)  John  Hamilton,  physi- 
cian, was  born  at  Riga,  N.  Y.,  in  1824;  was 
brought  to  Romeo,  Mich.,  by  his  parents  in  in- 
fancy, but  his  father  having  died,  at  the  age  of  17 
went  to  Rochester,  N.  Y. ,  to  be  educated,  finally 
graduating  in  medicine  at  Berkshire  College, 
Mass.,  in  1847,  and  beginning  practice  at  Otisco, 
Mich.  Two  years  later  he  removed  to  Grand 
Rapids  and,  in  1855,  to  Chicago,  where  he  held, 
for  a  time,  the  position  of  demonstrator  of  anat- 
omy in  Rush  Medical  College,  and,  in  1856,  be- 
came one  of  the  founders  of  the  Chicago  Medical 
College,  in  which  he  has  held  various  chairs.  He 
also  served  as  Surgeon  of  Mercy  Hospital  and 
was,  for  twenty  years,  Clinical  Professor  in  the 
same  institution;  was  President  of  the  State 
Medical  Society,  and,  for  twenty  years,  its  Treas- 
urer. Other  positions  held  by  him  have  been 
those  of  Trustee  of  the  American  Medical  Associ- 
ation and  editor  of  its  journal,  President  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  and  of  the 
Chicago  Congregational  Club.  He  has  also  been 
prominent  in  Sunday  School  and  church  work  in 
connection  with  the  Armour  Mission,  with  which 
he  has  been  associated  for  many  years. 

HOME  FOR  JUVENILE  OFFENDERS,  (FE- 
MALE). The  establishment  of  this  institution 
was  authorized  by  act  of  June  22,  1893,  which 
appropriated  $75,000  towards  its  erection  and 
maintenance,  not  more  than  §15,000  to  be  ex- 
pended for  a  site.  (See  also  State  Guardians  for 
Girls. )  It  is  designed  to  receive  girls  between  the 
ages  of  10  and  16  committed  thereto  by  any  court 
of  record  upon  conviction  of  a  misdemeanor,  the 
term  of  commitment  not  to  be  less  than  one 
year,  or  to  exceed  minority.  Justices  of  the 


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Peace,  however,  may  send  girls  for  a  term  not 
less  than  three  months.  The  act  of  incorporation 
provides  for  a  commutation  of  sentence  to  be 
earned  by  good  conduct  and  a  prolongation  of 
the  sentence  by  bad  behavior.  The  Trustees  are 
empowered,  in  their  discretion,  either  to  appren- 
tice the  girls  or  to  adopt  them  out  during  their 
minority.  Temporary  quarters  were  furnished 
for  the  Home  during  the  first  two  years  of  its 
existence  in  Chicago,  but  permanent  buildings 
for  the  institution  have  been  erected  on  the 
banks  of  Fox  River,  near  Geneva,  in  Kane  County. 

HOMER,  a  village  in  Champaign  County,  on 
the  Wabash  Railway,  20  miles  west-southwest 
from  Danville  and  about  18  miles  east-southeast 
from  Champaign.  It  supports  a  carriage  factory; 
also  has  two  banks  several  churches,  a  seminary, 
an  opera  house,  and  one  weekly  paper.  The 
region  is  chiefly  agricultural.  Population  (1880), 
924;  (1890),  917;  (1900),  1,080;  (1910),  1,086. 

HOMESTEAD  LAWS.  In  general  such  laws 
have  been  defined  to  be  "legislation  enacted  to 
secure,  to  some  extent,  the  enjoyment  of  a  home 
and  shelter  for  a  family  or  individual  by  exempt- 
ing, under  certain  conditions,  the  residence  occu- 
pied by  the  family  or  individual,  from  liability  to 
be  sold  for  the  payment  of  the  debts  of  its  owner, 
and  by  restricting  his  rights  of  free  alienation." 
In  Illinois,  this  exemption  extends  to  the  farm 
and  dwelling  thereon  of  every  householder  hav- 
ing a  family,  and  occupied  as  a  residence, 
whether  owned  or  possessed  under  a  lease,  to  the 
value  of  §1,000.  The  exemption  continues  after 
death,  for  the  benefit  of  decedent's  wife  or  hus- 
band occupying  the  homestead,  and  also  of  the 
children,  if  any,  until  the  youngest  attain  the 
age  of  21  years.  Husband  and  wife  must  join  in 
releasing  the  exemption,  but  the  property  is 
always  liable  for  improvements  thereon. — In  1862 
Congress  passed  an  act  known  as  the  "Homestead 
Law"  for  the  protection  of  the  rights  of  settlers 
on  public  lands  under  certain  restrictions  as  to 
active  occupancy,  under  which  most  of  that 
class  of  lands  since  taken  for  settlement  have 
been  purchased. 

HOMEWOOD,  a  village  of  Cook  County,  on  the 
Illinois  Central  Railway,  23  miles  south  of  Chi- 
cago. Population  (1900),  352;  (1910),  713. 

HOOLEY,  Richard  M.,  theatrical  manager, 
was  born  in  Ireland,  April  13,  1822 ;  at  the  age  of 
18  entered  the  theater  as  a  musician  and,  four 
years  later,  came  to  America,  soon  after  forming 
an  association  with  E.  P.  Christy,  the  originator 
of  negro  minstrelsy  entertainments  which  went 
under  his  name.  In  1848  Mr.  Hooley  conducted 


a  company  of  minstrels  through  the  principal 
towns  of  England,  Scotland  and  Ireland,  and  to 
some  of  the  chief  cities  on  the  continent;  re- 
turned to  America  five  years  later,  and  subse- 
quently managed  houses  in  San  Francisco, 
Philadelphia,  Brooklyn  and  New  York,  finally 
locating  in  Chicago  in  1869,  where  he  remained 
the  rest  of  his  life, — his  theater  becoming  one  of 
the  most  widely  known  and  popular  in  the  city. 
Died,  Sept.  8,  1893. 

HOOPESTOX,  a  prosperous  city  in  Vermilion 
County  at  the  intersection  of  the  Chicago  &  East- 
ern Illinois  and  the  Lake  Erie  &  Western  Rail- 
roads, 99  miles  south  of  Chicago.  It  has  grain 
elevators,  a  nai.  factory,  brick  and  tile  works, 
carriage  and  machine  shops,  and  two  large  can- 
ning factories,  besides  two  banks  and  two  news- 
papers, issuing  daily  and  weekly  editions,  several 
churches,  a  high  school  and  a  business  college. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,911;  (1900),  3,823;  (1910),  4,698. 

HOPKIJfS,  Albert  J.,  Congressman,  was  born 
in  De  Kalb  County,  111.,  August  15,  1846.  After 
graduating  from  Hillsdale  College,  Mich.,  in  1870, 
he  studied  law  and  began  practice  at  Aurora. 
He  rapidly  attained  prominence  at  the  bar,  and, 
in  1872,  was  elected  State's  Attorney  for  Kane 
County,  serving  in  that  capacity  for  four  years. 
He  is  an  ardent  Republican  and  high  in  the 
party's  councils,  having  been  Chairman  of  the 
State  Central  Committee  from  1878  to  1880,  and  a 
Presidential  Elector  on  the  Elaine  &  Logan 
ticket  in  1884.  The  same  year  he  was  elected  to 
the  Forty-ninth  Congress  from  the  Fifth  District, 
serving  by  successive  re-elections  until  1903,  when 
he  was  chosen  United  States  Senator  as  successor 
to  Hon.  William  E.  Mason,  serving  one  term.  In 
1908  he  received  a  majority  vote  in  the  primaries 
for  re  election  as  Senator,  but  was  defeated  by 
William  A.  Lorimer  in  the  General  Assembly.  In 
1898  he  received  a  majority  of  more  than  18,000 
over  the  combined  vote  of  two  competitors  for  Con- 
gress in  his  district.  His  residence  is  at  Aurora,  111. 

HOUGHTOX,  Horace  Hocking,  pioneer  printer 
and  journalist,  was  born  at  Springfield,  Vt.,  Oct. 
26,  1806,  spent  his  youth  on  a  farm,  and  at  eight- 
een began  learning  the  printer's  trade  in  the  office 
of  "The  Woodstock  Overseer" ;  on  arriving  at  his 
majority  became  a  journeyman  printer  and,  in 
1828,  went  to"  New  York,  spending  some  time  in 
the  employment  of  the  Harper  Brothers.  After 
a  brief  season  spent  in  Boston,  he  took  charge  of 
"The  Statesman"  at  Castleton,  Vt.,  but,  in  1834, 
again  went  to  New  York,  taking  with  him  a 
device  for  throwing  the  printed  sheet  off  the 
press,  which  was  afterwards  adopted  on  the 


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Adams  and  Hoe  printing  presses.  His  next 
move  was  to  Marietta,  Ohio,  in  1834,  thence  by 
way  of  Cincinnati  and  Louisville  to  St.  Louis, 
working  for  a  time  in  the  office  of  the  old  "St. 
Louis  Republican."  He  soon  after  went  to 
Galena  and  engaged  in  lead-mining,  but  later 
became  associated  with  Sylvester  M.  Bartlett  in 
the  management  of  "The  Northwestern  Gazette 
and  Galena  Advertiser,"  finally  becoming  sole 
proprietor.  In  1842  he  sold  out  the  paper,  but 
resumed  his  connection  with  it  the  following 
year,  remaining  until  1863,  when  he  finally  sold 
out.  He  afterwards  spent  some  time  on  the 
Pacific  slope,  was  for  a  time  American  Consul  to 
the  Sandwich  Islands,  but  finally  returned  to 
Galena  and,  during  the  later  years  of  his  life, 
was  Postmaster  there,  dying  April  30,  1879. 

HOVEY,  Charles  Edward,  educator,  soldier 
and  lawyer,  was  born  in  Orange  County,  Vt., 
April  26, 1827 ;  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College  in 
1852,  and  became  successively  Principal  of  high 
schools  at  Farmington,  Mass.,  and  Peoria,  111. 
Later,  he  assisted  in  organizing  the  Illinois  State 
Normal  School  at  Normal,  of  which  he  was 
President  from  1857  to  1861— being  also  President 
of  the  State  Teachers'  Association  (1856),  mem- 
ber of  the  State  Board  of  Education,  and,  for  some 
years,  editor  of  "The  Illinois  Teacher."  In  Au- 
gust, 1861,  he  assisted  in  organizing,  and  was  com- 
missioned Colonel  of,  the  Thirty-third  Illinois 
Volunteers,  known  as  the  "Normal"  or  "School- 
Masters'  Regiment,"  from  the  fact  that  it  was 
composed  largely  of  teachers  and  young  men 
from  the  State  colleges.  In  1862  he  was  promoted 
to  the  rank  of  Brigadier-General  and,  a  few 
months  later,  to  brevet  Major-General  for  gallant 
and  meritorious  conduct.  Leaving  the  military 
service  in  May,  1863,  he  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  law  in  Washington,  D.  C.  Died,  in  Washing- 
ton, Nov.  17,  1897. 

HOWLAND,  George,  educator  and  author,  was 
born  (of  Pilgrim  ancestry)  at  Conway,  Mass., 
July  30,  1824.  After  graduating  from  Amherst 
College  in  1850,  he  devoted  two  years  to  teaching 
in  the  public  schools,  and  three  years  to  a  tutor- 
ship in  his  Alma  Mater,  giving  instruction  in 
Latin,  Greek  and  French.  He  began  the  study 
of  law,  but,  after  a  year's  reading,  he  abandoned 
it,  removing  to  Chicago,  where  he  became  Assist- 
ant Principal  of  the  city's  one  high  school,  in 
1858.  He  became  its  Principal  in  1860,  and,  in 
1880,  was  elected  Superintendent  of  Chicago  City 
Schools.  This  position  he  filled  until  August, 
1891,  when  he  resigned.  He  also  served  as  Trus- 
tee of  Amherst  College  for  several  years,  and  as  a 


member  of  the  Illinois  State  Board  of  Education, 
being  President  of  that  body  in  1883.  As  an 
author  he  was  of  some  note;  his  work  being 
chiefly  on  educational  lines.  He  published  a 
translation  of  the  ^Eiieid  adapted  to  the  use  of 
schools,  besides  translations  of  some  of  Horace's 
Odes  and  portions  of  the  Iliad  and  Odyssey.  He 
was  also  the  author  of  an  English  grammar. 
Died,  in  Chicago,  Oct.  21,  1892. 

HOYXE,  Philip  A.,  lawyer  and  United  States 
Commissioner,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  Nov. 
20,  1824;  came  to  Chicago  in  1841,  and,  after 
spending  eleven  years  alternately  in  Galena  and 
Chicago,  finally  located  permanently  in  Chicago, 
in  1852;  in  1853  was  elected  Clerk  of  the  Record- 
er's Court  of  Chicago,  retaining  the  position  five 
years;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  March,  1856, 
and  appointed  United  States  Commissioner  the 
same  year,  remaining  in  office  until  his  death, 
Nov.  3,  1894.  Mr.  Hoyne  was  an  officer  of  the 
Chicago  Pioneers  and  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Union  League  Club. 

HUBBARD,  Gnrdon  Saltonstnll,  pioneer  and 
Indian  trader,  was  born  at  Windsor,  Vt.,  August 
22,  1802.  His  early  youth  was  passed  in  Canada, 
chiefly  in  the  employ  of  the  American  Fur  Com- 
pany. In  1818  he  first  visited  Fort  Dearborn,  and 
for  nine  years  traveled  back  and  forth  in  the 
interest  of  his  employers.  In  1827,  having  em- 
barked in  business  on  his  own  account,  he  estab- 
lished several  trading  posts  in  Illinois,  becoming 
a  resident  of  Chicago  in  1832.  From  this  time 
forward  he  became  identified  with  the  history 
and  development  of  the  State.  He  served  with 
distinction  during  the  Black  Ha-.vk  and  Winne- 
bago  Wars,  was  enterprising  and  public-spirited, 
and  did  much  to  promote  the  early  development 
of  Chicago.  He  was  elected  to  the  Legislature 
from  Vermilion  County  in  i832,  and,  in  1835, 
was  appointed  by  Governor  Duncan  one  of  the 
Commissioners  of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal. 
Died,  at  Chicago,  Sept.  14,  1886.  From  the  time 
he  became  a  citizen  of  Chicago,  for  fifty  years, 
no  man  was  more  active  or  public-spirited 
in  promoting  its  commercial  development  and 
general  prosperity.  He  was  identified  with 
almost  every  branch  of  business  upon  which  its 
growth  as  a  commercial  city  depended,  from  that 
of  an  early  Indian  trader  to  that  of  a  real-estate 
operator,  being  manager  of  one  of  the  largest  pack- 
ing houses  of  his  time,  as  well  as  promoter  of 
early  railroad  enterprises.  A  zealous  Republican, 
he  was  one  of  the  most  earnest  supporters  of 
Abraham  Lincoln  in  the  campaign  of  1860,  was 
prominently  identified  with  every  local  measure 


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for  the  maintenance  of  the  Union  cause,  and,  for 
a  year,  held  a  commission  as  Captain  in  the 
Eighty-eighth  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers, 
known  as  the  "Second  Board  of  Trade  Regiment. " 

HUGHITT,  Marvin,  Railway  President,  was 
born,  August,  1837,  and,  in  1856,  began  his  rail- 
road experience  on  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railway 
as  Superintendent  of  Telegraph  and  Train-de- 
spatcher.  In  1862  he  entered  the  service  of  the 
Illinois  Central  Company  in  a  similar  capacity, 
still  later  occupying  the  positions  of  Assistant 
Superintendent  and  General  Superintendent,  re- 
maining in  the  latter  from  1865  to  1870,  when  he 
resigned  to  become  Assistant  General  Manager 
of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul.  In  1872 
he  became  associated  with  the  Chicago  &  North- 
western Railroad,  in  connection  with  which  he 
has  held  the  positions  of  Superintendent,  General 
Manager,  Second  Vice-President  and  President — 
the  last  of  which  (1899)  he  still  occupies. 

HULETT,  Alta  M.,  lawyer,  was  born  near 
Rockford,  111.,  June  4,  1854;  early  learned  teleg- 
raphy and  became  a  successful  operator,  but  sub- 
sequently engaged  in  teaching  and  the  study  of 
law.  In  1872,  having  passed  the  required  exami- 
nation, she  applied  for  admission  to  the  bar,  but 
was  rejected  on  account  of  sex.  She  then,  in 
conjunction  with  Mrs.  Bradwell  and  others, 
interested  herself  in  securing  the  passage  of  an 
act  by  the  Legislature  giving  women  the  right 
that  had  been  denied  her,  which  having  been 
accomplished,  she  went  to  Chicago,  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  and  began  practice.  Died,  in  Cali- 
fornia, March  27,  1877. 

HUNT,  Daniel  D.,  legislator,  was  born  in 
Wyoming  County,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  19,  1835,  came  to 
De  Kalb  County,  111.,  in  1857,  and  has  since  been 
engaged  in  hotel,  mercantile  and  farming  busi- 
ness. He  was  elected  as  a  Republican  Represent- 
ative in  the  Thirty-fifth  General  Assembly  in 
1886,  and"  re-elected  in  1888.  Two  years  later  he 
was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  re-elected  in 
1894,  and  again  in  1898 — giving  him  a  continuous 
service  in  one  or  the  other  branch  of  the  General 
Assembly  of  sixteen  years.  During  the  session 
of  1895,  Senator  Hunt  was  especially  active  in 
the  legislation  which  resulted  in  the  location  of 
the  Northern  Illinois  Normal  Institute  at  De 
Kalb. 

HUNT,  George,  lawyer  and  ex- Attorney-Gen- 
eral, was  born  in  Knox  County,  Ohio,  in  1841; 
having  lost  both  parents  in  childhood,  came, 
with  an  uncle,  to  Edgar  County,  111.,  in  1855.  In 
July,  1861,  at  the  age  of  20,  he  enlisted  in  the 
Twelfth  Illinois  Infantry,  re-enlisting  as  a  veteran 


in  1864,  and  rising  from  the  ranks  to  a  captaincy. 
After  the  close  of  the  war,  he  studied  law,  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  and,  locating  at  Paris,  Edgar 
County,  soon  acquired  a  large  practice.  He  was 
elected  State  Senator  on  the  Republican  ticket  in 
1874,  and  re-elected  in  1878  and  '82.  In  1884  he 
received  his  first  nomination  for  Attorney-Gen- 
eral, was  renominated  in  1888,  and  elected  both 
times,  serving  eight  years.  Among  the  im- 
portant questions  with  which  General  Hunt  had 
to  deal  during  his  two  terms  were  the  celebrated 
"anarchist  cases"  of  1887  and  of  1890-92.  In  the 
former  the  condemned  Chicago  anarchists  applied 
through  their  counsel  to  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States,  for  a  writ  of  error  to  the  Su- 
preme Court  of  Illinois  to  compel  the  latter  to 
grant  them  a  new  trial,  which  was  refused.  The 
case,  on  the  part  of  the  State,  was  conducted  by 
General  Hunt,  while  Gen.  B.  F.  Butler  of  Massa- 
chusetts, John  Randolph  Tucker  of  Virginia, 
Roger  A.  Pryor  of  New  York,  and  Messrs.  W.  P. 
Black  and  Solomon  of  Chicago  appeared  for  the 
plaintiffs.  Again,  in  1890,  Fielden  and  Schwab, 
who  had  been  condemned  to  life  imprisonment, 
attempted  to  secure  their  release — the  former  by 
an  application  similar  to  that  of  1887,  and  the 
latter  by  appeal  from  a  decision  of  Judge  Gresham 
of  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  refusing  a 
writ  of  habeas  corpus.  The  final  hearing  of 
these  cases  was  had  before  the  Supreme  Court  of 
the  United  States  in  January,  1892,  General 
Butler  again  appearing  as  leading  counsel  for  the 
plaintiffs — but  with  the  same  result  as  in  1887. 
General  Hunt's  management  of  these  cases  won 
for  him  much  deserved  commendation  both  at 
home  and  abroad.  Died  March  17,  1901. 

HUNTER,  Andrew  J.,  was  born  in  Greencastle, 
Ind.,  Dec.  17,  1831,  and  removed  in  infancy  by 
his  parents,  to  Edgar  County,  this  State.  His 
early  education  was  received  in  the  common 
schools  and  at  Edgar  Academy.  He  commenced 
his  business  life  as  a  civil  engineer,  but,  after 
three  years  spent  in  that  profession,  began  the 
study  of  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He 
has  since  been  actively  engaged  in  practice  at 
Paris,  Edgar  County.  From  18G4  to  1868  he  repre- 
sented that  county  in  the  State  Senate,  and,  in 
1870,  led  the  Democratic  forlorn  hope  in  the  Fif- 
teenth Congressional  District  against  General 
Jesse  H.  Moore,  and  rendered  a  like  service  to  his 
party  in  1882,  when  Joseph  G.  Cannon  was  his 
Republican  antagonist.  In  1886  he  was  elected 
Judge  of  the  Edgar  County  Court,  and,  in  1890, 
was  re-elected,  but  resigned  this  office  in  1892, 
having  been  elected  Congressman  for  the  State- 


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at-large  on  the  Democratic  ticket.  He  was  a  can- 
didate for  Congress  from  the  Nineteenth  District 
again  in  1896,  and  was  again  elected,  receiving  a 
majority  of  1,200  over  Hon.  Benson  Wood,  his 
Republican  opponent  and  immediate  predecessor. 
HUNTER,  (Gen.)  David,  soldier,  was  born  in 
Washington,  D.  C.,  July  21,  1802;  graduated  at 
the  United  States  Military  Academy  in  1822, 
and  assigned  to  the  Fifth  Infantry  with  the  rank 
of  Second  Lieutenant,  becoming  First  Lieutenant 
in  1828  and  Captain  of  Dragoons  in  1833.  During 
this  period  he  twice  crossed  the  plains  to  the 
Rocky  Mountains,  but,  in  1836,  resigned  his  com- 
mission and  engaged  in  business  in  Chicago, 
Re-entering  the  service  as  Paymaster  in  1842,  he 
was  Chief  Paymaster  of  General  Wool's  command 
in  the  Mexican  War,  and  was  afterwards  stationed 
at  New  Orleans,  Washington,  Detroit,  St.  Louis 
and  on  the  frontier.  He  was  a  personal  friend  of 
President  Lincoln,  whom  he  accompanied  when 
the  latter  set  out  for  Washington  in  February, 
1861,  but  was  disabled  at  Buffalo,  having  his 
collar-bone  dislocated  by  the  crowd.  He  was 
appointed  Colonel  of  the  Sixth  United  States 
Cavalry,  May  14,  1861,  three  days  later  commis- 
sioned Brigadier-General  and,  in  August,  made 
Major-General.  In  the  Manassas  campaign  he 
commanded  the  main  column  of  McDowell's 
army  and  was  severely  wounded  at  Bull  Run; 
served  under  Fremont  in  Missouri  and  succeeded 
him  in  command  in  November,  1861,  remaining 
until  March,  1862.  Being  transferred  to  the 
Department  of  the  South  in  May  following,  he 
issued  an  order  declaring  the  persons  held  as 
slaves  in  Georgia,  Florida  and  South  Carolina 
free,  which  order  was  revoked  by  President  Lin- 
coln ten  days  later.  On  account  of  the  steps 
taken  by  him  for  the  organization  of  colored 
troops,  Jefferson  Davis  issued  an  order  declaring 
him,  in  case  of  capture,  subject  to  execution  as 
a  felon.  In  May,  1864,  he  was  placed  in  com- 
mand of  the  Department  of  the  West,  and,  in 

1865,  served    on    various  courts-martial,    being 
President  of  the  commission  that  tried  Mr.  Lin- 
coln's assassins ;  was  brevetted  Major-General  in 
March,   1865,  retired  from  active    service  July, 

1866,  and  died  in  Washington,  Feb.  2,  1886.     Gen- 
eral Hunter  married  a  daughter  of  John  Kinzie, 
the  first  permanent  citizen  of  Chicago. 

HURD,  Harvey  B.,  lawyer,  was  born  in  Fair- 
field  County,  Conn.,  Feb.  24,  1827.  At  the  age  of 
15  he  walked  to  Bridgeport,  where  he  began  life 
as  office-boy  in  "The  Bridgeport  Standard,"  a 
journal  of  pronounced  Whig  proclivities.  In 
1844  he  came  to  Illinois,  entering  Jubilee  College, 


but,  after  a  brief  attendance,  came  to  Chicago  in 
1846.  There  he  found  temporary  employment 
as  a  compositor,  later  commencing  the  study  of 
law,  and  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1848.  A 
portion  of  the  present  city  of  Evanston  is  built 
upon  a  248-acre  tract  owned  and  subdivided  by  Mr. 
Hurd  and  his  partner.  Always  in  sympathy 
with  the  old  school  and  most  radical  type  of 
Abolitionists,  he  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  Kan- 
sas-Missouri troubles  of  1856,  and  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  "National  Kansas  Committee" 
appointed  by  the  Buffalo  (N.  Y.)  Convention,  of 
which  body  he  was  a  member.  He  was  chosen 
Secretary  of  the  executive  committee,  and  it  is 
not  too  much  to  say  that,  largely  through  his 
earnest  and  poorly  requited  labors,  Kansas  was 
finally  admitted  into  the  Union  as  a  free  State. 
It  was  mainly  through  his  efforts  that  seed  for 
planting  was  gratuitously  distributed  among  the 
free-soil  settlers.  In  1869  he  was  appointed  a 
member  of  the  Commission  to  revise  the  statutes 
of  Illinois,  a  large  part  of  the  work  devolving 
upon  him  in  consequence  of  the  withdrawal  of 
his  colleagues.  The  revision  was  completed  in 
1874,  in  conjunction  with  a  Joint  Committee  of 
Revision  of  both  Houses  appointed  by  the  Legis- 
lature of  1873.  No  statutory  revision  having  been 
ordered  by  subsequent  Legislatures,  Mr.  Hurd 
carried  on  the  same  character  of  work  on  inde- 
pendent lines,  issuing  new  editions  of  the  statutes 
from  time  to  time,  which  are  regarded  as  standard 
works  by  the  bar.  In  1875  he  was  nominated  by 
the  Republican  party  for  a  seat  on  the  Supreme 
bench,  but  was  defeated  by  the  late  Judge  T.  Lyle 
Dickey.  For  several  years  he  filled  a  chair  in  the 
faculty  of  the  Union  College  of  Law.  Died  in  his 
home,  Evanston,  111.,  Jan.  20,  1906. 

HURLBUT,  Stephen  A.,  soldier,  Congressman 
and  Foreign  Minister,  was  born  at  Charleston, 
S.  C.,  Nov.  29,  1815,  received  a  thorough  liberal 
education,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1837. 
Soon  afterwards  he  removed  to  Illinois,  making 
his  home  at  Belvidere.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Constitutional  Convention  of  1847,  in  1848  was  an 
unsuccessful  candidate  for  Presidential  Elector 
on  the  Whig  ticket,  but,  on  the  organization  of 
the  Republican  party  in  1856,  promptly  identified 
himself  with  that  party  and  was  elected  to  the 
lower  branch  of  the  General  Assembly  as  a 
Republican  in  1858  and  again  in  1860.  During 
the  War  of  the  Rebellion  he  served  with  distinc- 
tion from  May,  1861,  to  July,  1865.  He  entered 
the  service  as  Brigadier-General,  commanding 
the  Fourth  Division  of  Grant's  army  at  Pittsburg 
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her,  1862,  and  later  assigned  to  the  command  of 
the  Sixteenth  Army  Corps,  at  Memphis,  and  sub- 
sequently to  the  command  of  the  Department  of 
the  Gulf  (1864-65).  After  the  close  of  the  war  he 
served  another  term  in  the  General  Assembly 
(1867),  was  chosen  Presidential  Elector  for  the 
State-at-large  in  1868,  and,  in  1869,  was  appointed 
by  President  Grant  Minister  Resident  to  the 
United  States  of-  Colombia,  serving  until  1872. 
The  latter  year  he  was  elected  Representative  to 
Congress,  and  re-elected  two  years  later.  In 
1876  he  was  a  candidate  for  re-election  as  an 
independent  Republican,  but  was  defeated  by 
William  Lathrop,  the  regular  nominee.  In  1881 
he  was  appointed  Minister  Resident  to  Peru,  and 
died  at  Lima,  March  27,  1882. 

HUTCHIJfS,  Thomas,  was  born  in  Monmouth, 
N.  J.,  in  1730,  died  in  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  April  28, 
1789.  He  was  the  first  Government  Surveyor,  fre- 
quently called  the  "Geographer" ;  was  also  an 


officer  of  the  Sixtieth  Royal  (British)  regiment, 
and  assistant  engineer  under  Bouquet.  At  the 
outbreak  of  the  Revolution,  while  stationed  at 
Fort  Chartres,  he  resigned  his  commission  be- 
cause of  his  sympathy  with  the  patriots.  Three 
years  later  he  was  charged  with  being  in  treason- 
able correspondence  with  Franklin,  and  im- 
prisoned in  the  Tower  of  London.  He  is  said  to 
have  devised  the  present  system  of  Government 
surveys  in  this  country,  and  his  services  in  carry- 
ing it  into  effect  were  certainly  of  great  value. 
He  was  the  author  of  several  valuable  works,  the 
best  known  being  a  "Topographical  Description 
of  Virginia." 

HUTSONVILLE,  a  village  of  Crawford  County, 
on  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St. 
Louis  Railway,  and  the  Wahash  River,  34  miles 
south  of  Paris.  The  district  is  agricultural.  The 
town  has  a  bank,  brick  and  tile  works,  and  a  weekly 
paper.  Pop.  (1900),  743;  (1910),  722. 


ILLINOIS. 

(GENERAL  HISTORY.) 


ILLINOIS  is  the  twenty-first  State  of  the  Federal 
Union  in  the  order  of  its  admission,  the  twentieth 
in  present  area  and  the  third  in  point  of  popula- 
tion. A  concise  history  of  the  region,  of  which  it 
constituted  the  central  portion  at  an  early  period, 
will  be  found  in  the  following  pages: 

The  greater  part  of  the  territory  now  comprised 
within  the  State  of  Illinois  was  known  and  at- 
tracted eager  attention  from  the  nations  of  the 
old  world — especially  in  France,  Germany  and 
England — before  the  close  of  the  third  quarter  of 
the  seventeenth  century.  More  than  one  hun- 
dred years  before  the  struggle  for  American  Inde- 
pendence began,  or  the  geographical  division 
known  as  the  "Territory  of  the  Northwest"  had 
an  existence;  before  the  names  of  Kentucky, 
Tennessee,  Vermont  or  Ohio  had  been  heard  of, 
and  while  the  early  settlers  of  New  England  and 
Virginia  were  still  struggling  for  a  foothold 
among  the  Indian  tribes  on  the  Atlantic  coast, 
the  "Illinois  Country"  occupied  a  place  on  the 
maps  of  North  America  as  distinct  and  definite 
as  New  York  or  Pennsylvania.  And  from  that 
time  forward,  until  it  assumed  its  position  in  the 
Union  with  the  rank  of  a  State,  no  other  section 
has  been  the  theater  of  more  momentous  and 
stirring  events  or  has  contributed  more  material, 
affording  interest  and  instruction  to  the  archaeol- 
ogist, the  ethnologist  and  the  historian,  than 


that  portion  of  the  American  Continent  now 
known  as  the  "State  of  Illinois." 

THE  "ILLINOIS  COUNTRY.  "—What  was  known 
to  the  early  French  explorers  and  their  followers 
and  descendants,  for  the  ninety  years  which 
intervened  between  the  discoveries  of  Joliet  and 
La  Salle,  down  to  the  surrender  of  this  region  to 
the  English,  as  the  "Illinois  Country,"  is  de- 
scribed with  great  clearness  and  definiteness  by 
Capt.  Philip  Pittman,  an  English  engineer  who 
made  the  first  survey  of  the  Mississippi  River 
soon  after  the  transfer  of  the  French  possessions 
east  of  the  Mississippi  to  the  British,  and  who 
published  the  result  of  his  observations  in  London 
in  1770.  In  this  report,  which  is  evidently  a 
work  of  the  highest  authenticity,  and  is  the  more 
valuable  because  written  at  a  transition  period 
when  it  was  of  the  first  importance  to  preserve 
and  hand  down  the  facts  of  early  French  history 
to  the  new  occupants  of  the  soil,  the  boundaries 
of  the  "Illinois  Country"  are  defined  as  follows: 
"The  Country  of  the  Illinois  is  bounded  by  the 
Mississippi  on  the  west,  by  the  river  Illinois  on 
the  north,  by  the  Ouabache  and  Miamis  on  the 
east  and  the  Ohio  on  the  south." 

From  this  it  would  appear  that  the  country  lying 
between  the  Illinois  and  the  Mississippi  Rivers  to 
the  west  and  northwest  of  the  former,  was  not 
considered  a  part  of  the  "Illinois  Country,"  and 


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this  agrees  generally  with  the  records  of  the 
early  French  explorers,  except  that  they  regarded 
the  region  which  comprehends  the  site  of  the 
present  city  of  Chicago — the  importance  of  which 
appears  to  have  been  appreciated  from  the  first 
as  a  connecting  link  between  the  Lakes  and  the 
upper  tributaries  of  the  rivers  falling  into  the 
Gulf  of  Mexico — as  belonging  thereto 

ORIGIN  OF  THE  NAME. — The  "Country"  appears 
to  have  derived  its  name  from  Inini,  a  word  of 
Algonquin  origin,  signifying  "the  men,"  eu- 
phemized  by  the  French  into  Illini  with  the 
suffix  ois.  signifying  "tribe."  The  root  of  the 
term,  applied  both  to  the  country  and  the  Indians 
occupying  it,  has  been  still  further  defined  as  "a 
perfect  man"  (Haines  on  "Indian  Names"),  and 
the  derivative  has  been  used  by  the  French 
chroniclers  in  various  forms  though  always  with 
the  same  signification — a  signification  of  which 
the  earliest  claimants  of  the  appellation,  as  well 
as  their  successors  of  a  different  race,  have  not 
failed  to  be  duly  proud. 

BOUNDARIES  AND  AREA. — It  is  this  region 
which  gave  the  name  to  the  State  of  which  it 
constituted  so  large  and  important  a  part.  Its 
boundaries,  so  far  as  the  "VVabash  and  the  Ohio 
Rivers  (as  well  as  the  Mississippi  from  the  mouth 
of  the  Ohio  to  the  mouth  of  the  Illinois)  are  con- 
cerned, are  identical  with  those  given  to  the 
"Illinois  Country"  by  Pittman.  The  State  is 
bounded  on  the  north  by  Wisconsin ;  on  the  east 
by  Lake  Michigan,  the  State  of  Indiana  and  the 
Wabash  River;  southeast  by  the  Ohio,  flowing 
between  it  and  the  State  of  Kentucky ;  and  west 
and  southwest  by  the  Mississippi,  which  sepa- 
rates it  from  the  States  of  Iowa  and  Missouri.  A 
peculiarity  of  the  Act  of  Congress  defining  the 
boundaries  of  the  State,  is  the  fact  that,  while 
the  jurisdiction  of  Illinois  extends  to  the  middle 
of  Lake  Michigan  and  also  of  the  channels  of  the 
Wabash  and  the  Mississippi,  it  stops  at  the  north 
bank  of  the  Ohio  River;  this  seems  to  have  been 
a  sort  of  concession  on  the  part  of  the  framers  of 
the  Act  to  our  proud  neighbors  of  the  "Dark  and 
Bloody  Ground."  Geographically,  the  State  lies 
between  the  parallels  of  36°  59'  and  43°  30'  north 
latitude,  and  the  meridian  of  10°  30'  and  14°  of 
longitude  west  from  the  city  of  Washington. 
From  its  extreme  southern  limit  at  the  mouth  of 
the  Ohio  to  the  Wisconsin  boundary  on  the  north, 
its  estimated  length  is  385  miles,  with  an  extreme 
breadth,  from  the  Indiana  State  line  to  the  Mis- 
sissippi River  at  a  point  between  Quincy  and 
Warsaw,  of  218  miles.  Owing  to  the  tortuous 
course  of  its  river  and  lake  boundaries,  which 


comprise  about  three-fourths  of  the  whole,  its 
physical  outline  is  extremely  irregular.  Between 
the  limits  described,  it  has  an  estimated  area  of 
56,650  square  miles,  of  which  650  square  miles  is 
water — the  latter  being  chiefly  in  Lake  Michigan. 
This  area  is  more  than  one  and  one-half  times 
that  of  all  New  England  (Maine  being  excepted), 
and  is  greater  than  that  of  any  other  State  east 
of  the  Mississippi,  except  Michigan,  Georgia  and 
Florida — Wisconsin  lacking  only  a  few  hundred 
square  miles  of  the  same. 

When  these  figures  are  taken  into  account 
some  idea  may  be  formed  of  the  magnificence  of 
the  domain  comprised  within  the  limits  of  the 
State  of  Illinois — a  domain  larger  in  extent  than 
that  of  England,  more  than  one-fourth  of  that  of 
all  France  and  nearly  half  that  of  the  British 
Islands,  including  Scotland  and  Ireland.  The 
possibilities  of  such  a  country,  possessing  a  soil 
unequaled  in  fertility,  in  proportion  to  its  area, 
by  any  other  State  of  the  Union  and  with  re- 
sources in  agriculture,  manufactures  and  com- 
merce unsurpassed  in  any  country  on  the  face  of 
the  globe,  transcend  all  human  conception. 

STREAMS  AND  NAVIGATION. — Lying  between 
the  Mississippi  and  its  chief  eastern  tributary,  the 
Ohio,  with  the  Wabash  on  the  east,  and  inter- 
sected from  northeast  to  southwest  by  the  Illinois 
and  its  numerous  affluents,  and  with  no  moun- 
tainous region  within  its  limits,  Illinois  is  at  once 
one  of  the  best  watered,  as  well  as  one  of  the  most 
level  States  in  the  Union.  Besides  the  Sanga- 
mon,  Kankakee,  Fox  and  Des  Plaines  Rivers, 
chief  tributaries  of  the  Illinois,  and  the  Kaskaskia 
draining  the  region  between  the  Illinois  and  the 
Wabash,  Rock  River,  in  the  northwestern  portion 
of  the  State,  is  most  important  on  account  of  its 
valuable  water-power.  All  of  these  streams  were 
regarded  as  navigable  for  some  sort  of  craft,  dur- 
ing at  least  a  portion  of  the  year,  in  the  early 
history  of  the  country,  and  with  the  magnificent 
Mississippi  along  the  whole  western  border,  gave 
to  Illinois  a  larger  extent  of  navigable  waters 
than  that  of  any  other  single  State.  Although 
practical  navigation,  apart  from  the  lake  and  by 
natural  water  courses,  is  now  limited  to  the  Mis- 
sissippi, Illinois  and  Ohio — making  an  aggregate 
of  about  1,000  miles — the  importance  of  the 
smaller  streams,  when  the  people  were  dependent 
almost  wholly  upon  some  means  of  water  com- 
munication for  the  transportation  of  heavy  com- 
modities as  well  as  for  travel,  could  not  be 
over-estimated,  and  it  is  not  without  its  effect 
upon  the  productiveness  of  the  soil,  now  that 
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The  whole  number  of  streams  shown  upon  the 
best  maps  exceeds  280. 

TOPOGRAPHY. — In  physical  conformation  the 
surface  of  the  State  presents  the  aspect  of  an 
inclined  plane  with  a  moderate  descent  in  the 
general  direction  of  the  streams  toward  the  south 
and  southwest.  Cairo,  at  the  extreme  southern 
end  of  the  State  and  the  point  of  lowest  depres- 
sion, has  an  elevation  above  sea-level  of  about 
300  feet,  while  the  altitude  of  Lake  Michigan  at 
Chicago  is  583  feet.  The  greatest  elevation  is 
reached  near  Scale's  Mound  in  the  northwestern 
part  of  the  State — 1,257  feet — while  a  spur  from 
the  Ozark  Mountains  of  Missouri,  projected  across 
the  southern  part  of  the  State,  rises  in  Jackson 
and  Union  Counties  to  a  height  of  over  900  feet. 
The  eastern  end  of  this  spur,  in  the  northeast 
corner  of  Pope  County,  reaches  an  elevation  of 
1,046  feet.  South  of  this  ridge,  the  surface  of 
the  country  between  the  Ohio  and  Mississippi 
Rivers  was  originally  covered  with  dense  forests. 
These  included  some  of  the  most  valuable  species 
of  timber  for  lumber  manufacture,  such  as  the 
different  varieties  of  oak,  walnut,  poplar,  ash, 
sugar-maple  and  cypress,  besides  elm,  linden, 
hickory,  honey-locust,  pecan,  hack-berry,  cotton- 
wood,  sycamore,  sassafras,  black-gum  and  beech. 
The  native  fruits  included  the  persimmon,  wild 
plum,  grape  and  paw-paw,  with  various  kinds  of 
berries,  such  as  blackberries,  raspberries,  straw- 
berries (in  the  prairie  districts)  and  some  others. 
Most  of  the  native  growths  of  woods  common  to 
the  south  were  found  along  the  streams  farther 
north,  except  the  cypress  beech,  pecan  and  a  few 
others. 

PRAIRIES. — A  peculiar  feature  of  the  country, 
in  the  middle  and  northern  portion  of  the  State, 
which  excited  the  amazement  of  early  explorers, 
was  the  vast  extent  of  the  prairies  or  natural 
meadows.  The  origin  of  these  has  been  attrib- 
uted to  various  causes,  such  as  some  peculiarity  of 
the  soil,  absence  or  excess  of  moisture,  recent 
upheaval  of  the  surface  from  lakes  or  some  other 
bodies  of  water,  the  action  of  fires,  etc.  In  many 
sections  there  appears  little  to  distinguish  the 
soil  of  the  prairies  from  that  of  the  adjacent 
woodlands,  that  may  not  be  accounted  for  by  the 
character  of  their  vegetation  and  other  causes, 
for  the  luxuriant  growth  of  native  grasses  and 
other  productions  has  demonstrated  that  they  do 
not  lack  in  fertility,  and  the  readiness  with 
which  trees  take  root  when  artificially  propa- 
gated and  protected,  has  shown  that  there  is 
nothing  in  the  soil  itself  unfavorable  to  their 
growth.  Whatever  may  have  been  the  original 


cause  of  the  prairies,  however,  there  is  no  doubt 
that  annually  recurring  fires  have  had  much  to 
do  in  perpetuating  their  existence,  and  even 
extending  their  limits,  as  the  absence  of  the  same 
agent  has  tended  to  favor  the  encroachments  of 
the  forests.  While  originally  regarded  as  an 
obstacle  to  the  occupation  of  the  country  by  a 
dense  population,  there  is  no  doubt  that  their 
existence  has  contributed  to  its  rapid  develop- 
ment when  it  was  discovered  with  what  ease 
these  apparent  wastes  could  be  subdued,  and  how 
productive  they  were  capable  of  becoming  when 
once  brought  under  cultivation. 

In  spite  of  the  uniformity  in  altitude  of  the 
State  as  a  whole,  many  sections  present  a  variety 
of  surface  and  a  mingling  of  plain  and  woodland 
of  the  most  pleasing  character.  This  is  espe- 
cially the  case  in  some  of  the  prairie  districts 
where  the  undulating  landscape  covered  with 
rich  herbage  and  brilliant  flowers  must  have 
presented  to  the  first  explorers  a  scene  of  ravish- 
ing beauty,  which  has  been  enhanced  rather  than 
diminished  in  recent  times  by  the  hand  of  culti- 
vation. Along  some  of  the  streams  also,  espe- 
cially on  the  upper  Mississippi  and  Illinois,  and 
at  some  points  on  the  Ohio,  is  found  scenery  of 
a  most  picturesque  variety. 

ANIMALS,  ETC. — From  this  description  of  the 
country  it  will  be  easy  to  infer  what  must  have 
been  the  varieties  of  the  animal  kingdom  which 
here  found  a  home.  These  included  the  buffalo, 
various  kinds  of  deer,  the  bear,  panther,  fox, 
wolf,  and  wild-cat,  while  swans,  geese  and  ducks 
covered  the  lakes  and  streams.  It  was  a  veritable 
paradise  for  game,  both  large  and  small,  as  well 
as  for  their  native  hunters.  "One  can  scarcely 
travel,"  wrote  one  of  the  earliest  priestly  explor- 
ers, "without  finding  a  prodigious  multitude  of 
turkeys,  that  keep  together  in  flocks  often  to  the 
number  of  ten  hundred."  Beaver,  otter,  and 
mink  were  found  along  the  streams.  Most  of 
these,  especially  the  larger  species  of  game,  have 
disappeared  before  the  tide  of  civilization,  but  the 
smaller,  such  as  quail,  prairie  chicken,  duck  and 
the  different  varieties  of  fish  in  the  streams,  pro- 
tected by  law  during  certain  seasons  of  the  year, 
continue  to  exist  in  considerable  numbers. 

SOIL  AND  CLIMATE. — The  capabilities  of  the 
soil  in  a  region  thus  situated  can  be  readily  under- 
stood. In  proportion  to  the  extent  of  its  surface, 
Illinois  has  a  larger  area  of  cultivable  land  than 
any  other  State  in  the  Union,  with  a  soil  of  supe- 
rior quality,  much  of  it  unsurpassed  in  natural 
fertility.  This  is  especially  true  of  the  ' '  American 
Bottom,"  a  region  extending  a  distance  of  ninety 


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miles  along  the  east  bank  of  the  Mississippi,  from  . 
a  few  miles  below  Alton  nearly  to  Chester,  and 
of  an  average  width  of  five  to  eight  miles.  This 
was  the  seat  of  the  first  permanent  white  settle- 
ment in  the  Mississippi  Valley,  and  portions  of  it 
have  been  under  cultivation  from  one  hundred  to 
one  hundred  and  fifty  years  without  exhaustion. 
Other  smaller  areas  of  scarcely  less  fertility  are 
found  both  upon  the  bottom-lands  and  in  the 
prairies  in  the  central  portions  of  the  State. 

Extending  through  five  and  one-half  degrees  of 
latitude,  Illinois  has  a  great  variety  of  climate. 
Though  subject  at  times  to  sudden  alternations 
of  temperature,  these  occasions  have  been  rare 
since  the  country  has  been  thoroughly  settled. 
Its  mean  average  for  a  series  of  years  has  been  48° 
in  the  northern  part  of  the  State  and  56°  in  the 
southern,  differing  little  from  other  States  upon 
the  same  latitude.  The  mean  winter  temper- 
ature has  ranged  from  25°  in  the  north  to  34°  in 
the  south,  and  the  summer  mean  from  67°  in  the 
north  to  78°  in  the  south.  The  extreme  winter 
temperature  has  seldom  fallen  below  20°  below 
zero  in  the  northern  portion,  while  the  highest 
summer  temperature  ranges  from  95°  to -102°. 
The  average  difference  in  temperature  between 
the  northern  and  southern  portions  of  the  State 
is  about  10°,  and  the  difference  in  the  progress  of 
the  seasons  for  the  same  sections,  from  four  to  six 
weeks.  Such  a  wide  variety  of  climate  is  favor- 
able to  the  production  of  nearly  all  the  grains 
and  fruits  peculiar  to  the  temperate  zone. 

CONTEST  FOR  OCCUPATION.  —  Three  powers 
early  became  contestants  for  the  supremacy  on 
the  North  American  Continent.  The  first  of 
these  was  Spain,  claiming  possession  on  the 
ground  of  the  discovery  by  Columbus ;  England, 
basing  her  claim  upon  the  discoveries  of.  the 
Cabots,  and  France,  maintaining  her  right  to  a 
considerable  part  of  the  continent  by  virtue  of 
the  discovery  and  exploration  by  Jacques  Cartier 
of  the  Gulf  and  River  St.  Lawrence,  in  1534-35, 
and  the  settlement  of  Quebec  by  Champlain 
seventy-four  years  later.  The  claim  of  Spain 
was  general,  extending  to  both  North  and  South 
America;  and,  while  she  early  established  her 
colonies  in  Mexico,  the  West  Indies  and  Peru, 
the  country  was  too  vast  and  her  agents  too  busy 
seeking  for  gold  to  interfere  materially  with  her 
competitors.  The  Dutch,  Swedes  and  Germans 
established  small,  though  flourishing  colonies,  but 
they  were  not  colonizers  nor  were  they  numeric- 
ally as  strong  as  their  neighbors,  and  their  settle- 
ments were  ultimately  absorbed  by  the  latter. 
Both  the  Spaniards  and  the  French  were  zealous 


in  proselyting  the  aborigines,  but  while  the 
former  did  not  hesitate  to  torture  their  victims 
in  order  to  extort  their  gold  while  claiming  to 
save  their  souls,  the  latter  were  more  gentle  and 
beneficent  in  their  policy,  and,  by  their  kindness, 
succeeded  in  winning  and  retaining  the  friend- 
ship of  the  Indians  in  a  remarkable  degree.  They 
were  traders  as  well  as  missionaries,  and  this  fact 
and  the  readiness  with  which  they  adapted  them- 
selves to  the  habits  of  those  whom  they  found  in 
possession  of  the  soil,  enabled  them  to  make  the 
most  extensive  explorations  in  small  numbers 
and  at  little  cost,  and  even  to  remain  for  un- 
limited periods  among  their  aboriginal  friends. 
On  the  other  hand,  the  English  were  artisans  and 
tillers  of  the  soil  with  a  due  proportion  engaged 
in  commerce  or  upon  the  sea;  and,  while  they 
were  later  in  planting  their  colonies  in  Virginia 
and  New  England,  and  less  aggressive  in  the 
work  of  exploration,  they  maintained  a  surer 
foothold  on  the  soil  when  they  had  once  estab- 
lished themselves.  To  this  fact  is  due  the  per- 
manence and  steady  growth  of  the  English 
colonies  in  the  New  World,  and  the  virtual  domi- 
nance of  the  Anglo-Saxon  race  over  more  than 
five-sevenths  of  the  North  American  Continent — 
a  result  which  has  been  illustrated  in  the  history 
of  every  people  that  has  made  agriculture,  manu- 
factures and  legitimate  commerce  the  basis  of 
their  prosperity. 

EARLY  EXPLORATIONS. — The  French  explorers 
were  the  first  Europeans  to  visit  the  "Country  of 
the  Illinois,"  and,  for  nearly  a  century,  they  and 
their  successors  and  descendants  held  undisputed 
possession  of  the  country,  as  well  as  the  greater 
part  of  the  Mississippi  Valley.  It  is  true  that 
Spain  put  in  a  feeble  and  indefinite  claim  to  this 
whole  region,  but  she  was  kept  too  busy  else- 
where to  make  her  claim  good,  and,  in  1763,  she 
relinquished  it  entirely  as  to  the  Mississippi 
Valley  and  west  to  the  Pacific  Ocean,  in  order  to 
strengthen  herself  elsewhere. 

There  is  a  peculiar  coincidence  in  the  fact  that, 
while  the  English  colonists  who  settled  about 
Massachusetts  Bay  named  that  region  "New 
England,"  the  French  gave  to  their  possessions, 
from  the  St.  Lawrence  to  the  mouth  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi, the  name  of  "New  France,"  and  the 
Spaniards  called  all  the  region  claimed  by  them, 
extending  from  Panama  to  Puget  Sound,  "New 
Spain. ' '  The  boundaries  of  each  were  very  indefi- 
nite and  often  conflicting,  but  were  settled  by  the 
treaty  of  1763. 

As  early  as  1634,  Jean  Nicolet,  coming  by  way 
of  Canada,  discovered  Lake  Michigan  —  then 


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called  by  the  French,  "Lac  des  Illinois" — entered 
Green  Bay  and  visited  some  of  the  tribes  of 
Indians  in  that  region.  In  1641  zealous  mission- 
aries had  reached  the  Falls  of  St.  Mary  (called  by 
the  French  "Sault  Ste.  Marie"),  and,  in  1658,  two 
French  fur-traders  are  alleged  to  have  penetrated 
as  far  west  as  "La  Pointe"  on  Lake  Superior, 
where  they  opened  up  a  trade  with  the  Sioux 
Indians  and  wintered  in  the  neighborhood  of  the 
Apostle  Islands  near  where  the  towns  of  Ashland 
and  Bayfield,  Wis. ,  now  stand.  A  few  years  later 
(1665),  Fathers  Allouez  and  Dablon,  French  mis- 
sionaries, visited  the  Chippewas  on  the  southern 
shore  of  Lake  Superior,  and  missions  were  estab- 
lished at  Green  Bay,  Ste.  Marie  and  La  Pointe. 
About  the  same  time  the  mission  of  St.  Ignace 
was  established  on  the  north  shore  of  the  Straits 
of  Mackinaw  (spelled  by  the  French  "Michilli- 
maciuac").  It  is  also  claimed  that  the  French 
traveler,  Radisson,  during  the  year  of  1658-59, 
reached  the  upper  Mississippi,  antedating  the 
claims  of  Joliet  and  Marquette  as  its  discoverers 
by  fourteen  years.  Nicholas  Perrot,  an  intelli- 
gent chronicler  who  left  a  manuscript  account  of 
his  travels,  is  said  to  have  made  extensive  explor- 
ations about  the  head  of  the  great  lakes  as  far 
south  as  the  Fox  River  of  Wisconsin,  between 
1670  and  1690,  and  to  have  held  an  important 
conference  with  representatives  of  numerous 
tribes  of  Indians  at  Sault  Ste.  Marie  in  June, 
1671.  Perrot  is  also  said  to  have  made  the  first 
discovery  of  lead  mines  in  the  West. 

Up  to  this  time,  however,  no  white  man  appears 
to  have  reached  the  "Illinois  Country,"  though 
much  had  been  heard  of  its  beauty  and  its  wealth 
in  game.  On  May  17,  1673,  Louis  Joliet,  an  enter- 
prising explorer  who  had  already  visited  the  Lake 
Superior  region  in  search  of  copper  mines,  under 
a  commission  from  the  Governor  of  Canada,  in 
company  with  Father  Jacques  Marquette  and 
five  voyageurs,  with  a  meager  stock  of  provisions 
and  a  few  trinkets  for  trading  with  the  natives, 
set  out  in  two  birch-bark  canoes  from  St.  Ignace 
on  a  tour  of  exploration  southward.  Coasting 
along  the  west  shore  of  Lake  Michigan  and  Green 
Bay  and  through  Lake  Winnebago,  they  reached 
the  country  of  the  Mascoutins  on  Fox  River, 
ascended  that  stream  to  the  portage  to  the  Wis- 
consin, then  descended  the  latter  to  the  Mis- 
sissippi, which  they  discovered  on  June  17. 
Descending  the  Mississippi,  which  they  named 
"Rio  de  la  Conception, "  they  passed  the  mouth  of 
the  Des  Moines,  where  they  are  supposed  to  have 
encountered  the  first  Indians  of  the  Illinois 
tribes,  by  whom  they  were  hospitably  enter- 


tained. Later  they  discovered  a  rude  painting 
upon  the  rocks  on  the  east  side  of  the  river, 
which,  from  the  description,  is  supposed  to  have 
been  the  famous  "Piasa  Bird,"  which  was  still  to 
be  seen,  a  short  distance  above  Alton,  within  the 
present  generation.  (See  Piasa  Bird,  The 
Legend  of.)  Passing  the  mouth  of  the  Missouri 
River  and  the  present  site  of  the  city  of  St. 
Louis,  and  continuing  past  the  mouth  of  the 
Ohio,  they  finally  reached  what  Marquette  called 
the  village  of  the  Akanseas,  which  has  been 
assumed  to  be  identical  with  the  mouth  of  the 
Arkansas,  though  it  has  been  questioned  whether 
they  proceeded  so  far  south.  Convinced  that  the 
Mississippi  "had  its  mouth  in  Florida  or  the  Gulf 
of  Mexico, "  and  fearing  capture  by  the  Spaniards, 
they  started  on  their  return.  Reaching  the 
mouth  of  the  Illinois,  they  entered  that  stream 
and  ascended  past  the  village  of  the  Peorias  and 
the  "Illinois  town  of  the  Kaskaskias"  —  the 
latter  being  about  where  the  town  of  Utica,  La 
Salle  County,  now  stands — at  each  of  which  they 
made  a  brief  stay.  Escorted  by  guides  from  the 
Kaskaskias,  they  crossed  the  portage  to  Lake 
Michigan  where  Chicago  now  stands,  and  re- 
turned to  Green  Bay,  which  they  reached  in  the 
latter  part  of  September.  (See  Joliet  and  Mar- 
quette. ) 

The  next  and  most  important  expedition  to  Illi- 
nois— important  because  it  led  to  the  first  per- 
manent settlements — was  undertaken  by  Robert 
Cavelier,  Sieur  de  La  Salle,  in  1679.  This  eager 
and  intelligent,  but  finally  unfortunate,  discov- 
erer had  spent  several  years  in  exploration  in 
the  lake  region  and  among  the  streams  south  of 
the  lakes  and  west  of  the  Alleghenies.  It  has 
been  claimed  that,  during  this  tour,  he  descended 
the  Ohio  to  its  junction  with  the  Mississippi; 
also  that  he  reached  the  Illinois  by  way  of  the 
head  of  Lake  Michigan  and  the  Chicago  portage, 
and  even  descended  the  Mississippi  to  the  36th 
parallel,  antedating  Marquette's  first  visit  to 
that  stream  by  two  years.  The  chief  authority 
for  this  claim  is  La  Salle's  biographer,  Pierre 
Margry,  who  bases  his  statement  on  alleged  con- 
versations with  La  Salle  and  letters  of  his  friends. 
The  absence  of  any  allusion  to  these  discoveries 
in  La  Salle's  own  papers,  of  a  later  date,  addressed 
to  the  King,  is  regarded  as  fatal  to  this  claim. 
However  this  may  have  been,  there  is  conclusive 
evidence  that,  during  this  period,  he  met  with 
Joliet  while  the  latter  was  returning  :  Tom  one  of 
his  trips  to  the  Lake  Superior  country.  With  an 
imagination  fired  by  what  he  then  leavned,  he 
made  a  visit  to  his  native  country,  receiving  a 


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liberal  grant  from  the  French  Government  which 
enabled  him  to  carry  out  liis  plans.     With  the 
aid  of  Henry  de  Tonty,  an  Italian  who  afterward 
accompanied  him  in  his  most  important  expedi- 
tions, and  who  proved  a  most  valuable  and  effi- 
cient co-laborer,  under  the  auspices  of  Frontenac, 
then  Governor  of  Canada,  he  constructed  a  small 
vessel  at  the  foot  of  Lake  Erie,  in  which,  with  a 
company  of  thirty-four  persons,  he  set  sail  on 
the  seventh  of  August,  1679,  for  the  West.     This 
vessel  (named  the  "Griffon")  is  believed  to  have 
been  the  first  sailing-vessel  that  ever  navigated 
the  lakes.     His  object  was  to  reach  the  Illinois, 
and  he  carried  with   him  material   for    a  boat 
which  he   intended   to    put   together   on   that 
stream.     Arriving  in  Green  Bay  early  in  Septem- 
ber, by  way  of  Lake  Huron  and  the  straits  of 
Mackinaw,  he  disembarked  his  stores,  and,  load- 
ing the  Griffon  -with  furs,  started  it  on  its  return 
with  instructions,  after  discharging  its  cargo  at 
the  starting  point,  to  join  him  at  the  head  of 
Lake  Michigan.    With  a  force  of  seventeen  men 
and  three  missionaries  in  four  canoes,  he  started 
southward,  following  the  western  shore  of  Lake 
Michigan  past  the  mouth  of  the  Chicago  River, 
on    Nov.    1,    1679,   and  reached    the    mouth    of 
the  St.  Joseph  River,  at  the  southeast  corner  of 
the  lake,  which  had  been  selected  as  a  rendez- 
vous.    Here  he  was  joined  by  Tonty,  three  weeks 
later,  with  a  force  of   twenty  Frenchmen  who 
had  come  by  the  eastern  shore,  but  the  Griffon 
never  was  heard  from  again,  and  is  supposed  to 
have   been   lost  on  the  return   voyage.     While 
waiting  for  Tonty  he  erected  a  fort,  afterward 
called  Fort  Miami.     The  two  parties  here  united, 
and,  leaving  four  men  in  charge  of  the  fort,  with 
the    remaining    thirty-three,    he    resumed    his 
journey  on  the  third  of  December.     Ascending 
the  St.  Joseph  to  about  where  South  Bend,  Ind., 
now  stands,  he  made  a  portage  with  his  canoes 
and  stores  across  to  the  headwaters  of  the  Kan- 
kakee,  which  he  descended  to  the  Illinois.     On 
the  first  of  January  he  arrived  at  the  great  Indian 
town  of  the  Kaskaskias,  which  Marquette  had 
left  for  the  last  time  nearly  five  years  before,  but 
found  it  deserted,  the  Indians  being  absent  on  a 
hunting  expedition.     Proceeding  down  the  Illi- 
nois, on  Jan.  4,   1680,   he  passed  through  Peoria 
Lake  and  the  next  morning  reached  the  Indian 
village  of  that  name  at  the  foot  of  the  lake,  and 
established   friendly  relations   with    its    people. 
Having  determined  to  set  up  his  vessel  here,  he 
constructed  a  rude  fort  on  the  eastern  bank  of 
the  river  about  four  miles  south  of  the  village. 
With  the  exception  of  the  cabin  built  for  Mar- 


quette on  the  South  Branch  of  the  Chicago  Rivet 
in  the  winter  of  1674-75,  this  was  probably  the 
first  structure  erected  by  white  men  in  Illinois. 
This  received  the  name  "Creve-Cceur — "Broken 
Heart" — which,  from  its  subsequent  history, 
proved  exceedingly  appropriate.  Having  dis- 
patched Father  Louis  Heunepin  with  two  com 
panions  to  the  Upper  Mississippi,  by  way  of  the 
mouth  of  the  Illinois,  on  an  expedition  which 
resulted  in  the  discovery  of  the  Falls  of  St. 
Anthony,  La  Salle  started  on  his  return  to 
Canada  for  additional  assistance  and  the  stores 
which  he  had  failed  to  receive  in  consequence  of 
the  loss  of  the  Griffon.  Soon  after  his  depar- 
ture, a  majority  of  the  men  left  with  Tonty  at 
Fort  Creve-Coeur  mutinied,  and,  having  plundered 
the  fort,  partially  destroyed  it.  This  compelled 
Tonty  and  five  companions  who  had  remained 
true,  to  retreat  to  the  Indian  village  of  the  Illi- 
nois near  "Starved  Rock,"  between  where  the 
cities  of  Ottawa  and  La  Salle  now  stand,  where 
he  spent  the  summer  awaiting  the  return  of  La 
Salle.  In  September,  Tonty's  Indian  allies  hav- 
ing been  attacked  and  defeated  by  the  Iroquois, 
he  and  his  companions  were  again  compelled  to 
flee,  reaching  Green  Bay  the  next  spring,  after 
having  spent  the  winter  among  the  Pottawato- 
mies  in  the  present  State  of  Wisconsin. 

During  the  next  three  years  (1681-83)  La  Salle 
made  two  other  visits  to  Illinois,  encountering 
and  partially  overcoming  formidable  obstacles  at 
each  end  of  the  journey.  At  the  last  visit,  in 
company  with  the  faithful  Tonty,  whom  he  had 
met  at  Mackinaw  in  the  spring  of  1681,  after  a 
separation  of  more  than  a  year,  he  extended  his 
exploration  to  the  mouth  of  the  Mississippi,  of 
which  he  took  formal  possession  on  April  9,  1682, 
in  the  name  of  "Louis  the  Grand,  King  of  France 
and  Navarre."  This  was  the  first  expedition  of 
white  men  to  pass  down  the  river  and  determine 
the  problem  of  its  discharge  into  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico. 

Returning  to  Mackinaw,  and  again  to  Illinois, 
in  the  fall  of  1682,  Tonty  set  about  carrying  into 
effect  LaSalle's schemeof  fortifying  "The Rock," 
to  which  reference  has  been  made  under  the 
name  of  "Starved  Rock. "  The  buildings  are  said 
to  have  included  store-houses  (it  was  intended  as 
a  trading  post),  dwellings  and  a  block-house 
erected  on  the  summit  of  the  rock,  and  to  which 
the  name  of  "Fort  St.  Louis"  was  given,  while  a 
village  of  confederated  Indian  tribes  gathered 
about  its  base  on  the  south  which  bore  the  name 
of  La  Vantum.  According  to  the  historian, 
Parkman,  the  population  of  this  colony,  in  the 


LA  SALLE. 


HENRY  DE  TONTY. 


FORT  DEARBORN  FROM  THE  WEST,   1808. 


WAR  EAGLE. 


CHIEF  CHICAGOU. 


FORT  DEARBORN  2D.  IN  1853,  FROM  THE  SOUTHWEST. 


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days  of  its  greatest  prosperity,  was  not  less  than 
20,000.  Tonty  retained  his  headquarters  at  Fort 
St.  Louis  for  eighteen  years,  during  which  he 
made  extensive  excursions  throughout  the  West. 
The  proprietorship  of  the  fort  was  granted  to 
him  in  1690,  but,  in  1702,  it  was  ordered  by  the 
Governor  of  Canada  to  be  discontinued  on  the 
plea  that  the  charter  had  been  violated.  It  con- 
tinued to  be  used  as  a  trading  post,  however,  as 
late  as  1718,  when  it  was  raided  by  the  Indians 
and  burned.  (See  La  Salle;  Tonty;  Hennepin, 
and  Starved  Rock. ) 

Other  explorers  who  were  the  contemporaries 
or  early  successors  of  Marquette,  Joliet,  La  Salle, 
Tonty,  Hennepin  and  their  companions  in  the 
Northwest,  and  many  of  whom  are  known  to  have 
visited  the  "Illinois  Country,"  and  probably  all 
of  whom  did  so,  were  Daniel  Greysolon  du  Lhut 
(called  by  La  Salle,  du  Luth),  a  cousin  of  Tonty, 
who  was  the  first  to  reach  the  Mississippi  directly 
from  Lake  Superior,  and  from  whom  the  city  of 
Duluth  has  been  named ;  Henry  Joutel,  a  towns- 
man of  La  Salle,  who  was  one  of  the  survivors  of 
the  ill-fated  Matagorda  Bay  colony;  Pierre  Le 
Sueur,  the  discoverer  of  the  Minnesota  River, 
and  Baron  la  Hontan,  who  made  a  tour  through 
Illinois  in  1688-89,  of  which  he  published  an 
account  in  1703. 

Chicago  River  early  became  a  prominent  point 
in  the  estimation  of  the  French  explorers  and 
was  a  favorite  line  of  travel  in  reaching  the  Illi- 
nois by  way  of  the  Des  Plaines,  though  probably 
sometimes  confounded  with  other  streams  about 
the  head  of  the  lake.  The  Calumet  and  Grand 
Calumet,  allowing  easy  portage  to  the  Des  Plaines, 
were  also  used,  while  the  St.  Joseph,  from  which 
portage  was  had  into  the  Kankakee,  seems  to 
have  been  a  part  of  the  route  first  used  by  La 
Salle. 

ABORIGINES  AND  EARLY  MISSIONS.— When  the 
early  French  explorers  arrived  in  the  "Illinois 
Country"  they  found  it  occupied  by  a  number  of 
tribes  of  Indians,  the  most  numerous  being  the 
"Illinois,"  which  consisted  of  several  families  or 
bands  that  spread  themselves  over  the  country  on 
both  sides  of  the  Illinois  River,  extending  even 
west  of  the  Mississippi ;  the  Piankeshaws  on  the 
east,  extending  beyond  the  present  western 
boundary  of  Indiana,  and  the  Miamis  in  the 
northeast,  with  whom  a  weaker  tribe  called  the 
Weas  were  allied.  The  Illinois  confederation 
included  the  Kaskaskias,  Peorias,  Cahokias, 
Tamaroas  and  Mitchigamies — the  last  being  the 
tribe  from  which  Lake  Michigan  took  its  name. 
(See  Illinois  Indians. )  There  seems  to  have  been 


a  general  drift  of  some  of  the  stronger  tribes 
toward  the  south  and  east  about  this  time,  as 
Allouez  represents  that  he  found  the  Miamis  and 
their  neighbors,  the  Mascoutins,  about  Green  Bay 
when  he  arrived  there  in  1670.  At  the  same 
time,  there  is  evidence  that  the  Pottawatomies 
were  located  along  the  southern  shore  of  Lake 
Superior  and  about  the  Sault  Ste.  Marie  (now 
known  as  "The  Soo"),  though  within  the  next 
fifty  years  they  had  advanced  southward  along 
the  western  shore  of  Lake  Michigan  until  they 
reached  where  Chicago  now  stands.  Other  tribes 
from  the  north  were  the  Kickapoos,  Sacs  and 
Foxes,  and  Winnebagoes,  while  the  Shawnees 
were  a  branch  of  a  stronger  tribe  from  the  south- 
east Charlevoix,  who  wrote  an  account  of  his 
visit  to  the  "Illinois  Country"  in  1721,  says: 
"Fifty  years  ago  the  Miamis  were  settled  on  the 
southern  extremity  of  Lake  Michigan,  in  a  place 
called  Chicago  from  the  name  of  a  small  river 
which  runs  into  the  lake,  the  source  of  which  is 
not  far  distant  from  that  of  the  River  Illinois. " 
It  does  not  follow  necessarily  that  this  was  the 
Chicago  River  of  to-day,  as  the  name  appears  to 
have  been  applied  somewhat  indefinitely,  by  the 
early  explorers,  both  to  a  region  of  country 
between  the  head  of  the  lake  and  the  Illinois 
River,  and  to  more  than  one  stream  emptying 
into  the  lake  in  that  vicinity.  It  has  been  con- 
jectured that  the  river  meant  by  Charlevoix 
was  the  Calumet,  as  his  description  would  apply 
as  well  to  that  as  to  the  Chicago,  and  there  is 
other  evidence  that  the  Miamis,  who  were  found 
about  the  mouth  of  the  St.  Joseph  River  during 
the  eighteenth  century,  occupied  a  portion  of 
Southern  Michigan  and  Northern  Indiana,  ex- 
tending as  far  east  as  the  Scioto  River  in  Ohio. 

From  the  first,  the  Illinois  seem  to  have  con- 
ceived a  strong  liking  for  the  French,  and  being 
pressed  by  the  Iroquois  on  the  east,  the  Sacs  and 
Foxes,  Pottawatomies  and  Kickapoos  on  the 
north  and  the  Sioux  on  the  west,  by  the  begin- 
ning of  the  eighteenth  century  we  find  them, 
much  reduced  in  numbers,  gathered  about  the 
French  settlements  near  the  mouth  of  the  Kas- 
kaskia  (or  Okaw)  River,  in  the  western  part  of 
the  present  counties  of  Randolph,  Monroe  and  St. 
Clair.  In  spite  of  the  zealous  efforts  of  the  mis- 
sionaries, the  contact  of  these  tribes  with  the 
whites  was  attended  with  the  usual  results — 
demoralization,  degradation  and  gradual  extermi- 
nation. The  latter  result  was  hastened  by  the 
frequent  attacks  to  which  they  were  exposed 
from  their  more  warlike  enemies,  so  that  by  the 
latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century,  they  were 


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reduced  to  a  few  hundred  dissolute  and  depraved 
survivors  of  a  once  vigorous  and  warlike  race. 

During  the  early  part  of  the  French  occupation, 
there  arose  a  chief  named  Chicagou  (from  whom 
the  city  of  Chicago  received  its  name)  who  ap- 
pears, like  Red  Jacket,  Tecumseh  and  Logan,  to 
have  been  a  man  of  unusual  intelligence  and 
vigor  of  character,  and  to  have  exercised  great 
influence  with  his  people.  In  1725  he  was  sent  to 
Paris,  where  he  received  the  attentions  due  to  a 
foreign  potentate,  and,  on  his  return,  was  given  a 
command  in  an  expedition  against  the  Chicka- 
saws,  who  had  been  making  incursions  from  the 
south. 

Such  was  the  general  distribution  of  the  Indians 
in  the  northern  and  central  portions  of  the  State, 
within  the  first  fifty  years  after  the  arrival  of  the 
French.  At  a  later  period  the  Kickapoos  ad- 
vanced farther  south  and  occupied  a  considerable 
share  of  the  central  portion  of  the  State,  and  even 
extended  to  the  mouth  of  the  Wabash.  The 
southern  part  was  roamed  over  by  bands  from 
beyond  the  Ohio  and  the  Mississippi,  including 
the  Cherokees  and  Chickasaws,  and  the  Arkansas 
tribes,  some  of  whom  were  very  powerful  and 
ranged  over  a  vast  extent  of  country. 

The  earliest  civilized  dwellings  in  Illinois,  after 
the  forts  erected  for  purposes  of  defense,  were 
undoubtedly  the  posts  of  the  fur-traders  and  the 
missionary  stations.  Fort  Miami,  the  first  mili- 
tary post,  established  by  La  Salle  in  the  winter 
of  1679-80,  was  at  the  mouth  of  the  St.  Joseph 
River  within  the  boundaries  of  what  is  now  the 
State  of  Michigan.  Fort  Creve-Coeur,  partially 
erected  a  few  months  later  on  the  east  side  of  the 
Illinois  a  few  miles  below  where  the  city  of 
Peoria  now  stands,  was  never  occupied.  Mr. 
Charles  Ballance,  the  historian  of  Peoria,  locates 
this  fort  at  the  present  village  of  Wesley,  in 
Tazewell  County,  nearly  opposite  Lower  Peoria. 
Fort  St.  Louis,  built  by  Tonty  on  the  summit  of 
"Starved  Rock,"  in  the  fall  and  winter  of  1682, 
was  the  second  erected  in  the  "Illinois  Country," 
but  the  first  occupied.  It  has  been  claimed  that 
Marquette  established  a  mission  among  the  Kas- 
kaskias,  opposite  "The  Rock,"  on  occasion  of  his 
first  visit,  in  September,  1673,  and  that  he  re- 
newed it  in  the  spring  of  1675,  when  he  visited 
it  for  the  last  time.  It  is  doubtful  if  this  mission 
was  more  than  a  season  of  preaching  to  the 
natives,  celebrating  mass,  administering  baptism, 
etc. ;  at  least  the  story  of  an  established  mission 
has  been  denied.  That  this  devoted  and  zealous 
propagandist  regarded  it  as  a  mission,  however, 
is  evident  from  his  own  journal.  He  gave  to  it 


the  name  of  the  "Mission  of  the  Immaculate 
Conception,"  and,  although  he  was  compelled  by 
failing  health  to  abandon  it  almost  immediately, 
it  is  claimed  that  it  was  renewed  in  1677  by 
Father  Allouez,  who  had  been  active  in  founding 
missions  in  the  Lake  Superior  region,  and  that  it 
was  maintained  until  the  arrival  of  La  Salle  in 
1680.  The  hostility  of  La  Salle  to  the  Jesuits  led 
to  Allouez'  withdrawal,  but  he  subsequently 
returned  and  was  succeeded  in  1688  by  Father 
Gravier,  whose  labors  extended  from  Mackinaw 
to  Biloxi  on  the  Gulf  of  Mexico. 

There  is  evidence  that  a  mission  had  been 
established  among  the  Miamis  as  early  as  1698, 
under  the  name  "Chicago,"  as  it  is  mentioned  by 
St.  Cosme  in  the  report  of  his  visit  in  1699-1700. 
This,  for  the  reasons  already  given  showing  the 
indefinite  use  made  of  the  name  Chicago  as 
applied  to  streams  about  the  head  of  Lake  Michi- 
gan, probably  referred  to  some  other  locality  in 
the  vicinity,  and  not  to  the  site  of  the  present 
city  of  Chicago.  Even  at  an  earlier  date  there 
appears,  from  a  statement  in  Tonty 's  Memoirs,  to 
have  been  a  fort  at  Chicago — probably  about  the 
same  locality  as  the  mission.  Speaking  of  his 
return  from  Canada  to  the  "Illinois  Country"  in 
1685,  he  says:  "I  embarked  for  the  Illinois 
Oct.  30,  1685,  but  being  stopped  by  the  ice,  I 
was  obliged  to  leave  my  canoe  and  proceed  by 
land.  After  going  120  leagues,  I  arrived  at  Fort 
Chicagou,  where  M.  de  la  Durantaye  com- 
manded." 

According  to  the  best  authorities  it  was  during 
the  year  1700  that  a  mission  and  permanent  settle- 
ment was  established  by  Father  Jacques  Pinet 
among  the  Tamaroas  at  a  village  called  Cahokia 
(or  "Sainte  Famille  de  Caoquias"),  a  few  miles 
south  of  the  present  site  of  the  city  of  East  St. 
Louis.  This  was  the  first  permanent  settlement 
by  Europeans  in  Illinois,  as  that  at  Kaskaskia  on 
the  Illinois  was  broken  up  the  same  year. 

A  few  months  after  the  establishment  of  the 
mission  at  Cahokia  (which  received  the  name  of 
"St.  Sulpice"),  but  during  the  same  year,  the 
Kaskaskias,  having  abandoned  their  village  on 
the  upper  Illinois,  were  induced  to  settle  near  the 
mouth  of  the  river  which  bears  their  name,  and 
the  mission  and  village  —  the  latter  afterward 
becoming  the  first  capital  of  the  Territory  and 
State  of  Illinois — came  into  being.  This  identity 
of  names  has  led  to  some  confusion  in  determin- 
ing the  date  and  place  of  the  first  permanent 
settlement  in  Illinois,  the  date  of  Marquette's 
first  arrival  at  Kaskaskia  on  the  Illinois  being 
given  by  some  authors  as  that  of  the  settlement 


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at  Kaskaskia  on  the  Mississippi,  twenty-seven 
years  later. 

PERIOD  OF  FRENCH  OCCUPATION.— As  may  be 
readily  inferred  from  the  methods  of  French 
colonization,  the  first  permanent  settlements 
gathered  about  the  missions  at  Cahokia  and  Kas- 
kaskia, or  rather  were  parts  of  them.  At  later 
periods,  but  during  the  French  occupation  of  the 
country,  other  villages  were  established,  the 
most  important  being  St.  Philip  and  Prairie  du 
Rocher ;  all  of  these  being  located  in  the  fertile 
valley  now  known  as  the  "American  Bottom," 
between  the  older  towns  of  Cahokia  and  Kaskas- 
kia. There  were  several  Indian  villages  in  the 
vicinity  of  the  French  settlements,  and  this 
became,  for  a  time,  the  most  populous  locality  in 
the  Mississippi  Valley  and  the  center  of  an  active 
trade  carried  on  with  the  settlements  near  the 
mouth  of  the  Mississippi.  Large  quantities  of 
the  products  of  the  country,  such  as  flour,  bacon, 
pork,  tallow,  lumber,  lead,  peltries,  and  even 
wine,  were  transported  in  keel-boats  or  batteaus 
to  New  Orleans;  rice,  manufactured  tobacco, 
cotton  goods  and  such  other  fabrics  as  the  simple 
wants  of  the  people  required,  being  brought  back 
in  return.  These  boats  went  in  convoys  of  seven 
to  twelve  in  number  for  mutual  protection,  three 
months  being  required  to  make  a  trip,  of  which 
two  were  made  annually — one  in  the  spring  and 
the  other  in  the  autumn. 

The  French  possessions  in  North  America  went 
under  the  general  name  of  "New  France, "  but  their 
boundaries  were  never  clearly  defined,  though  an 
attempt  was  made  to  do  so  through  Commission- 
ers who  met  at  Paris,  in  1752.  They  were  under- 
stood by  the  French  to  include  the  valley  of  the 
St.  Lawrence,  with  Labrador  and  Nova  Scotia,  to 
the  northern  boundaries  of  the  British  colonies ; 
the  region  of  the  Great  Lakes ;  and  the  Valley  of 
the  Mississippi  from  the  headwaters  of  the  Ohio 
westward  to  the  Pacific  Ocean  and  south  to  the 
Gulf  of  Mexico.  While  these  claims  were  con- 
tested by  England  on  the  east  and  Spain  on  the 
southwest,  they  comprehended  the  very  heart  of 
the  North  American  continent,  a  region  unsur- 
passed in  fertility  and  natural  resources  and 
now  the  home  of  more  than  half  of  the  entire 
population  of  the  American  Republic.  That 
the  French  should  have  reluctantly  yielded 
up  so  magnificent  a  domain  is  natural.  And 
yet  they  did  this  by  the  treaty  of  1763,  sur- 
rendering the  region  east  of  the  Mississippi 
(except  a  comparatively  small  district  near 
the  mouth  of  that  stream)  to  England,  and  the 
remainder  to  Spain — an  evidence  of  the  straits  to 


which  they  had  been  reduced  by  a  long  series  of 
devastating  wars.  (See  French  and  Indian 
U'ars. ) 

In  1712  Antoine  Crozat,  under  royal  letters- 
patent,  obtained  from  Louis  XIV.  of  France  a 
monopoly  of  the  commerce,  with  control  of  the 
country,  "from  the  edge  of  the  sea  (Gulf  of 
Mexico)  as  far  as  the  Illinois."  This  grant  hav- 
ing been  surrendered  a  few  years  later,  was  re- 
newed in  1717  to  the  "Company  of  the  West,"  of 
which  the  celebrated  John  Law  was  the  head, 
and  under  it  jurisdiction  was  exercised  over  the 
trade  of  Illinois.  On  September  27  of  the  same 
year  (1717),  the  "Illinois  Country,"  which  had 
been  a  dependency  of  Canada,  was  incorporated 
with  Louisiana  and  became  part  of  that  province. 
Law's  company  received  enlarged  powers  under 
the  name  of  the  "East  Indies  Company,"  and 
although  it  went  out  of  existence  in  1721  with 
the  opprobrious  title  of  the  "South  Sea  Bubble," 
leaving  in  its  wake  hundreds  of  ruined  private 
fortunes  in  France  and  England,  it  did  much  to 
stimulate  the  population  and  development  of  the 
Mississippi  Valley.  During  its  existence  (in  1718) 
New  Orleans  was  founded  and  Fort  Chartres 
erected,  being  named  after  the  Due  de  Chartres, 
son  of  the  Regent  of  France.  Pierre  Duque  Bois- 
briant  was  the  first  commandant  of  Illinois  and 
superintended  the  erection  of  the  fort.  (See  Fort 
Chartres.) 

One  of  the  privileges  granted  to  Law's  com- 
pany was  the  importation  of  slaves ;  and  under 
it,  in  1721,  Philip  F.  Renault  brought  to  the 
country  five  hundred  slaves,  besides  two  hundred 
artisans,  mechanics  and  laborers.  Two  years 
later  he  received  a  large  grant  of  land,  and 
founded  the  village  of  St.  Philip,  a  few  miles 
north  of  Fort  Chartres.  Thus  Illinois  became 
slave  territory  before  a  white  settlement  of  any 
sort  existed  in  what  afterward  became  the  slave 
State  of  Missouri. 

During  1721  the  country  under  control  of  the 
East  Indies  Company  was  divided  into  nine  civil 
and  military  districts,  each  presided  over  by  a 
commandant  and  a  judge,  with  a  superior  coun- 
cil at  New  Orleans.  Of  these,  Illinois,  the  largest 
and,  next  to  New  Orleans,  the  most  populous, 
was  the  seventh.  It  embraced  over  one-half  the 
present  State,  with  the  country  west  of  the  Mis- 
ssisippi,  bet  ween  the  Arkansas  and  the  43d  degree 
of  latitude,  to  the  Rocky  Mountains,  and  included 
the  present  States  of  Missouri,  Iowa,  Nebraska, 
Kansas  and  parts  of  Arkansas  and  Colorado.  In 
1732,  the  Indies  Company  surrendered  its  charter, 
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was  afterwards  governed  by  officers  appointed 
directly  by  the  crown.  (See  French  Governors.) 

As  early  as  September,  1699,  an  attempt  was 
made  by  an  expedition -fitted  out  by  the  English 
Government,  under  command  of  Captains  Barr 
and  Clements,  to  take  possession  of  the  country 
about  the  mouth  of  the  Mississippi  on  the  ground 
of  prior  discovery;  but  they  found  the  French 
under  Bienville  already  in  possession  at  Biloxi, 
and  they  sailed  away  without  making  any  further 
effort  to  carry  the  scheme  into  effect.  Mean- 
while, in  the  early  part  of  the  next  century,  the 
English  were  successful  in  attaching  to  their 
interests  the  Iroquois,  who  were  the  deadly  foes 
of  the  French,  and  held  possession  of  Western 
New  York  and  the  region  around  the  headwaters 
of  the  Ohio  River,  extending  their  incursions 
against  the  Indian  allies  of  the  French  as  far  west 
as  Illinois.  The  real  struggle  for  territory  be- 
tween the  English  and  French  began  with  the 
formation  of  the  Ohio  Land  Company  in  1748-49, 
and  the  grant  to  it  by  the  English  Government 
of  half  a  million  acres  of  land  along  the  Ohio 
River,  with  the  exclusive  right  of  trading  with 
the  Indian  tribes  in  that  region.  Out  of  this 
grew  the  establishment,  in  the  next  two  years,  of 
trading  posts  and  forts  on  the  Miami  and  Maumee 
in  Western  Ohio,  followed  by  the  protracted 
French  and  Indian  War,  which  was  prosecuted 
with  varied  fortunes  until  the  final  defeat  of  the 
French  at  Quebec,  on  the  thirteenth  of  Septem- 
ber, 1759,  which  broke  their  power  on  the  Ameri- 
can continent.  Among  those  who  took  part  in 
this  struggle,  was  a  contingent  from  the  French 
garrison  of  Fort  Chartres.  Neyon  de  Villiers, 
commandant  of  the  fort,  was  one  of  these,  being 
the  only  survivor  of  seven  brothers  who  partici- 
pated in  the  defense  of  Canada.  Still  hopeful  of 
saving  Louisiana  and  Illinois,  he  departed  with 
a  few  followers  for  New  Orleans,  but  the  treaty 
of  Paris,  Feb.  10,  1763,  destroyed  all  hope,  for  by 
its  terms  Canada,  and  all  other  territory  east  of 
the  Mississippi  as  far  south  as  the  northern 
boundary  of  Florida,  was  surrendered  to  Great 
Britain,  while  the  remainder,  including  the  vast 
territory  between  the  Mississippi  and  the  Rocky 
Mountains,  was  given  up  to  Spain. 

Thus,  the  "Illinois  Country"  fell  into  the  hands 
of  the  British,  although  the  actual  transfer  of 
Fort  Chartres  and  the  country  dependent  upon  it 
did  not  take  place  until  Oct.  10,  1765,  when  its 
veteran  commandant,  St.  Ange — who  had  come 
from  Vincennes  to  assume  command  on  the 
retirement  of  Villiers,  and  who  held  it  faithfully 
for  the  conqueror  —  surrendered  it  to  Capt. 


Thomas  Stirling  as  the  representative  of  the  Eng- 
lish Government.  It  is  worthy  of  note  that  this 
was  the  last  place  on  the  North  American  con- 
tinent to  lower  the  French  flag. 

BRITISH  OCCUPATION.— The  delay  of  the  British 
in  taking  possession  of  the  "Illinois  Country," 
after  the  defeat  of  the  French  at  Quebec  and  the 
surrender  of  their  possessions  in  America  by  the 
treaty  of  1763,  was  due  to  its  isolated  position 
and  the  difficulty  of  reaching  it  with  sufficient 
force  to  establish  the  British  authority.  The 
first  attempt  was  made  in  the  spring  of  176-i, 
when  Maj.  Arthur  Loftus,  starting  from  Pensa- 
cola,  attempted  to  ascend  the  Mississippi  with  a 
force  of  four  hundred  regulars,  but,  being  met 
by  a  superior  Indian  force,  was  compelled  to 
retreat.  In  August  of  the  same  year,  Capt 
Thomas  Morris  was  dispatched  from  Western 
Pennsylvania  with  a  small  force  "to  take  posses- 
sion of  the  Illinois  Country."  This  expedition 
got  as  far  as  Fort  Miami  on  the  Maumee,  when  its 
progress  was  arrested,  and  its  commander  nar- 
rowly escaped  death.  The  next  attempt  was 
made  in  1765,  when  Maj.  George  Croghan,  a  Dep- 
uty Superintendent  of  Indian  affairs  whose  name 
has  been  made  historical  by  the  celebrated  speech 
of  the  Indian  Chief  Logan,  was  detailed  from 
Fort  Pitt,  to  visit  Illinois.  Croghan  being  detained, 
Lieut.  Alexander  Frazer,  who  was  to  accompany 
him,  proceeded  alone.  Frazer  reached  Kaskas- 
kia,  but  met  with  so  rough  a  reception  from 
both  the  French  and  Indians,  that  he  thought  it 
advisable  to  leave  in  disguise,  and  escaped  by 
descending  the  Mississippi  to  New  Orleans. 
Croghan  started  on  his  journey  on  the  fifteenth 
of  May,  proceeding  down  the  Ohio,  accompanied 
by  a  party  of  friendly  Indians,  but  having  been 
captured  near  the  mouth  of  the  Wabash,  he 
finally  returned  to  Detroit  without  reaching  his 
destination.  The  first  British  official  to  reach 
Fort  Chartres  was  Capt.  Thomas  Stirling.  De- 
scending the  Ohio  with  a  force  of  one  hundred 
men,  he  reached  Fort  Chartres,  Oct.  10,  1765,  and 
received  the  surrender  of  the  fort  from  the  faith- 
ful and  courteous  St.  Ange.  It  is  estimated  that 
at  least  one-third  of  the  French  citizens,  includ- 
ing the  more  wealthy  left  rather  than  become 
British  subjects.  Those  about  Fort  Chartres  left 
almost  in  a  body.  Some  joined  the  French 
colonies  on  the  lower  Mississippi,  while  others, 
crossing  the  river,  settled  in  St.  Genevieve,  then 
in  Spanish  territory.  Much  the  larger  number 
followed  St.  Ange  to  St.  Louis,  which  had  been 
established  as  a  trading  post  by  Pierre  La  Clede, 
during  the  previous  year,  and  which  now  received 


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what,  in  these  later  days,  would  be  called  a  great 
"boom." 

Captain  Stirling  was  relieved  of  his  command 
at  Fort  Chartres,  Dec.  4,  by  Maj.  Robert  Farmer. 
Other  British  Commandants  at  Fort  Chartres 
were  Col.  Edward  Cole,  Col.  John  Reed,  Colonel 
Wilkins,  Capt.  Hugh  Lord  and  Francois  de  Ras- 
tel,  Chevalier  de  Rocheblave.  The  last  had  been 
an  officer  in  the  French  army,  and,  having  resided 
at  Kaskaskia,  transferred  his  allegiance  on  occu- 
pation of  the  country  by  the  British.  He  was  the 
last  official  representative  of  the  British  Govern- 
ment in  Illinois. 

The  total  population  of  the  French  villages  in 
Illinois,  at  the  time  of  their  transfer  to  England, 
has  been  estimated  at  about  1,600,  of  which  700 
were  about  Kaskaskia  and  450  in  the  vicinity  of 
Cahokia.  Captain  Pittman  estimated  the  popu- 
lation of  all  the  French  villages  in  Illinois  and  on 
the  Wabash,  at  the  time  of  his  visit  in  1770,  at 
about  2,000.  Of  St.  Louis— or  "Paincourt,"  as  it 
was  called — Captain  Pittman  said:  "There  are 
about  forty  private  houses  and  as  many  families." 
Most  of  these,  if  not  all,  had  emigrated  from  the 
French  villages.  In  fact,  although  nominally  in 
Spanish  territory,  it  was  essentially  a  French 
town,  protected,  as  Pittman  said,  by  "a  French 
garrison"  consisting  of  "a  Captain-Commandant, 
two  Lieutenants,  a  Fort  Major,  one  Sergeant 
one  Corporal  and  twenty  men." 

ACTION  OF  CONTINENTAL  CONGRESS. — The  first 
official  notice  taken  of  the  "Illinois  Country"  by 
the  Continental  Congress,  was  the  adoption  by 
that  body,  July  13,  1775,  of  an  act  creating  three 
Indian  Departments — a  Northern,  Middle  and 
Southern.  Illinois  was  assigned  to  the  second, 
with  Benjamin  Franklin  and  James  Wilson,  of 
Pennsylvania,  and  Patrick  Henry,  of  Virginia, 
as  Commissioners.  In  April,  1776,  Col.  George 
Morgan,  who  had  been  a  trader  at  Kaskaskia,  was 
appointed  agent  and  successor  to  these  Commis- 
sioners, with  headquarters  at  Fort  Pitt.  The 
promulgation  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence, 
on  the  Fourth  of  July,  1776,  and  the  events  im- 
mediately preceding  and  following  that  event, 
directed  attention  to  the  colonies  on  the  Atlantic 
coast;  yet  the  frontiersmen  of  Virginia  were 
watching  an  opportunity  to  deliver  a  blow  to  the 
Government  of  King  George  in  a  quarter  where 
it  was  least  expected,  and  where  it  was  destined 
to  have  an  immense  influence  upon  the  future  of 
the  new  nation,  as  well  as  that  of  the  American 
continent. 

COL.  GEORGE  ROGERS  CLARK'S  EXPEDITION. 
—During  the  year  1777,  Col.  George  Rogers  Clark, 


a  native  of  Virginia,  then  scarcely  twenty-five 
years  of  age,  having  conceived  a  plan  of  seizing 
the  settlements  in  tbe  Mississippi  Valley,  sent 
trusty  spies  to  learn  the  sentiments  of  the  people 
and  the  condition  of  affairs  at  Kaskaskia.  The 
report  brought  to  him  gave  him  encouragement, 
and,  in  December  of  the  name  year,  he  laid  before 
Gov.  Patrick  Henry,  of  Virginia,  his  plans  for 
the  reduction  of  the  posts  in  Illinois.  These  were 
approved,  and,  on  Jan.  2,  1778,  Clark  received 
authority  to  recruit  seven  companies  of  fifty  men 
each  for  three  months'  service,  and  Governor 
Henry  gave  him  $6,000  for  expenses.  Proceeding 
to  Fort  Pitt,  he  succeeded  in  recruiting  three 
companies,  who  were  directed  to  rendezvous  at 
Corn  Island,  opposite  the  present  city  of  Louis- 
ville. It  has  been  claimed  that,  in  order  to 
deceive  the  British  as  to  his  real  destination, 
Clark  authorized  the  announcement  that  the 
object  of  the  expedition  was  to  protect  the  settle- 
ments in  Kentucky  from  the  Indians.  At  Corn 
Island  another  company  was  organized,  making 
four  in  all,  under  the  command  of  Captains  Bow- 
man, Montgomery,  Helm  and  Harrod,  and  having 
embarked  on  keel-boats,  they  passed  the  Falls  of 
the  Ohio,  June  24.  Reaching  the  island  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Tennessee  on  the  28th,  he  was  met 
by  a  party  of  eight  American  hunters,  who  had 
left  Kaskaskia  a  few  days  before,  and  who,  join- 
ing his  command,  rendered  good  service  as 
guides.  He  disembarked  his  force  at  the  mouth 
of  a  small  creek  one  mile  above  Fort  Massac, 
June  29,  and,  directing  his  course  across  the 
country,  on  the  evening  of  the  sixth  day  (July  4, 
1778)  arrived  within  three  miles  of  Kaskaskia. 
The  surprise  of  the  unsuspecting  citizens  of  Kas- 
kaskia and  its  small  garrison  was  complete.  His 
force  having,  under  cover  of  darkness,  been 
ferried  across  the  Kaskaskia  River,  about  a  mile 
above  the  town,  one  detachment  surrounded  the 
town,  while  the  other  seized  the  fort,  capturing 
Rocheblave  and  his  little  command  without  fir- 
ing a  gun.  The  famous  Indian  fighter  and 
hunter,  Simon  Kenton,  led  the  way  to  the  fort. 
This  is  supposed  to  have  been  what  Captain  Pitt- 
man called  the  "Jesuits'  house,"  which  had  been 
sold  by  the  French  Government  after  the  country 
was  ceded  to  England,  the  Jesuit  order  having 
been  suppressed.  A  wooden  fort,  erected  in  1736, 
and  known  afterward  by  the  British  as  Fort 
Gage,  had  stood  on  the  bluff  opposite  the  town, 
but,  according  to  Pittman,  this  was  burnt  in  1766, 
and  there  is  no  evidence  that  it  was  ever  rebuilt. 
Clark's  expedition  was  thus  far  a  complete  suc- 
cess. Rocheblave,  proving  recalcitrant,  was 


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placed  in  irons  and  sent  as  a  prisoner  of  war  to 
Wllliamsburg,  while  his  slaves  were  confiscated, 
the  proceeds  of  their  sale  being  divided  among 
Clark's  troops.  The  inhabitants  were  easily 
conciliated,  and  Cahokia  having  been  captured 
without  bloodshed,  Clark  turned  his  attention  to 
Vincennes.  Through  the  influence  of  Pierre 
Gibault — the  Vicar-General  in  charge  at  Kaskas- 
kia — the  people  of  Vincennes  were  induced  to 
swear  allegiance  to  the  United  States,  and, 
although  the  place  was  afterward  captured  by  a 
British  force  from  Detroit,  it  was,  on  Feb. 
24,  1779,  recaptured  by  Colonel  Clark,  together 
with  a  body  of  prisoners  but  little  smaller  than 
the  attacking  force,  and  $50,000  worth  of  prop- 
erty. (See  Clark,  Col.  George  Rogers.) 

UXDEE  GOVERNMENT  OF  VIRGINIA.— Seldom 
in  the  history  of  the  world  have  such  important 
results  been  achieved  by  such  insignificant  instru- 
mentalities and  with  so  little  sacrifice  of  life,  as 
in  this  almost  bloodless  campaign  of  the  youthful 
conqueror  of  Illinois.  Having  been  won  largely 
through  Virginia  enterprise  and  valor  and  by 
material  aid  furnished  through  Governor  Henry, 
the  Virginia  House  of  Delegates,  in  October, 
1778,  proceeded  to  assert  the  jurisdiction  of  that 
commonwealth  over  the  settlements  of  the  North- 
west, by  organizing  all  the  country  west  and 
north  of  the  Ohio  River  into  a  county  to  be  called 
"Illinois,"  (see  Illinois  County),  and  empowering 
the  Governor  to  appoint  a  "County-Lieutenant  or 
Commandant-in-Chief"  to  exercise  civil  author- 
ity during  the  pleasure  of  the  appointing  power. 
Thus  "Illinois  County"  was  older  than  the  States 
of  Ohio  or  Indiana,  while  Patrick  Henry,  the  elo- 
quent orator  of  the  Revolution,  became  ex-officio 
its  first  Governor.  Col.  John  Todd,  a  citizen  of 
Kentucky,  was  appointed  "County-Lieutenant," 
Dec.  12,  1778,  entering  upon  his  duties  in 
May  following.  The  militia  was  organized, 
Deputy-Commandants  for  Kaskaskia  and  Cahokia 
appointed,  and  the  first  election  of  civil  officers 
ever  had  in  Illinois,  was  held  under  Colonel 
Todd's  direction.  His  record-book,  now  in  posses- 
sion of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  shows 
that  he  was  accustomed  to  exercise  powers 
scarcely  inferior  to  those  of  a  State  Executive. 
(See  Todd,  Col.  John.) 

In  1782  one  "Thimothe  Demunbrunt"  sub- 
scribed himself  as  "Lt.  comd'g  par  interim,  etc." 
— but  the  origin  of  his  authority  is  not  clearly 
understood.  He  assumed  to  act  as  Commandant 
until  the  arrival  of  Gov.  Arthur  St.  Clair,  first 
Territorial  Governor  of  the  Northwest  Territory, 
in  1790.  After  the  close  of  the  Revolution,  courts 


ceased  to  be  held  and  civil  affairs  fell  into  great 
disorder.  "In  effect,  there  was  neither  law  nor 
order  in  the  'Illinois  Country'  for  the  seven 
years  from  1783  to  1790." 

During  the  progress  of  the  Revolution,  there 
were  the  usual  rumors  and  alarms  in  the  "Illinois 
Country"  peculiar  to  frontier  life  in  time  of  war. 
The  country,  however,  was  singularly  exempt 
from  any  serious  calamity  such  as  a  general 
massacre.  One  reason  for  this  was  the  friendly 
relations  which  had  existed  between  the  French 
and  their  Indian  neighbors  previous  to  the  con- 
quest, and  which  the  new  masters,  after  the  cap- 
ture of  Kaskaskia,  took  pains  to  perpetuate. 
Several  movements  were  projected  by  the  British 
and  their  Indian  allies  about  Detroit  and  in  Can- 
ada, but  they  were  kept  so  busy  elsewhere  that 
they  had  little  time  to  put  their  plans  into  execu- 
tion. One  of  these  was  a  proposed  movement 
from  Pensacola  against  the  Spanish  posts  on  the 
lower  Mississippi,  to  punish  Spain  for  having 
engaged  in  the  war  of  1779,  but  the  promptness 
with  which  the  Spanish  Governor  of  New  Orleans 
proceeded  to  capture  Fort  Manchac,  Baton  Rouge 
and  Natchez  from  their  British  possessors,  con- 
vinced the  latter  that  this  was  a  "game  at  which 
two  could  play."  In  ignorance  of  these  results, 
an  expedition,  750  strong,  composed  largely  of 
Indians,  fitted  out  at  Mackinaw  under  command 
of  Capt.  Patrick  St.  Clair,  started  in  the  early 
part  of  May,  1780,  to  co-operate  with  the  expedition 
on  the  lower  Mississippi,  but  intending  to  deal  a 
destructive  blow  to  the  Illinois  villages  and  the 
Spanish  towns  of  St.  Louis  and  St.  Genevieve  on 
the  way.  This  expedition  reached  St.  Louis,  May 
26,  but  Col.  George  Rogers  Clark,  having  arrived 
at  Cahokia  with  a  small  force  twenty-four  hours 
earlier,  prepared  to  co-operate  with  the  Spaniards 
on  the  western  shore  of  the  Mississippi,  and  the 
invading  force  confined  their  depredations  to  kill- 
ing seven  or  eight  villagers,  and  then  beat  a 
hasty  retreat  in  the  direction  they  had  come. 
These  were  the  last  expeditions  organized  to 
regain  the  "Country  of  the  Illinois"  or  capture 
Spanish  posts  on  the  Mississippi. 

EXPEDITIONS  AGAINST  FORT  ST.  JOSEPH. — An 
expedition  of  a  different  sort  is  worthy  of  mention 
in  this  connection,  as  it  originated  in  Illinois. 
This  consisted  of  a  company  of  seventeen  men, 
led  by  one  Thomas  Brady,  a  citizen  of  Cahokia, 
who,  marching  across  the  country,  in  the  month 
of  October,  1780,  after  the  retreat  of  Sinclair, 
from  St.  Louis,  succeeded  in  surprising  and  cap 
turing  Fort  St.  Joseph  about  where  La  Salle  had 
erected  Fort  Miami,  near  the  mouth  of  the  St. 


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Joseph  River,  a  hundred  years  before.  Brady 
and  his  party  captured  a  few  British  prisoners, 
and  a  large  quantity  of  goods.  On  their  return, 
while  encamped  on  the  Calumet,  they  were 
attacked  by  a  band  of  Pottawatoraies,  and  all 
were  killed,  wounded  or  taken  prisoners  except 
Brady  and  two  others,  who  escaped.  Early  in 
January,  1781,  a  party  consisting  of  sixty-five 
whites,  organized  from  St.  Louis  and  Cahokia, 
with  some  200  Indians,  and  headed  by  Don 
Eugenic  Pourre,  a  Spaniard,  started  on  a  second 
expedition  against  Fort  St.  Joseph.  By  silencing 
the  Indians,  whom  they  met  on  their  way,  with 
promises  of  plunder,  they  were  able  to  reach  the 
fort  without  discovery,  captured  it  and,  raising 
the  Spanish  flag,  formally  took  possession  in  the 
name  of  the  King  of  Spain.  After  retaining  pos- 
session for  a  few  days,  the  party  returned  to  St. 
Louis,  but  in  negotiating  the  treaty  of  peace  at 
Paris,  in  1783,  this  incident  was  made  the  basis 
of  a  claim  put  forth  by  Spain  to  ownership  of 
the  "Illinois  Country"  "by  right  of  conquest." 

THE  TERRITORIAL  PERIOD. — At  the  very  outset 
of  its  existence,  the  new  Government  of  the 
United  States  was  confronted  with  an  embarrass- 
ing question  which  deeply  affected  the  interests 
of  the  territory  of  which  Illinois  formed  a  part. 
This  was  the  claim  of  certain  States  to  lands 
lying  between  their  western  boundaries  and  the 
Mississippi  River,  then  the  western  boundary  of 
the  Republic.  These  claims  were  based  either 
upon  the  terms  of  their  original  charters  or  upon 
the  cession  of  lands  by  the  Indians,  and  it  was 
under  a  claim  of  the  former  character,  as  well  as 
by  right  of  conquest,  that  Virginia  assumed  to  ex- 
ercise authority  over  the  "Illinois  Country"  after 
its  capture  by  the  Clark  expedition.  This  con- 
struction was  opposed  by  the  States  which,  from 
their  geographical  position  or  other  cause,  had 
no  claim  to  lands  beyond  their  own  boundaries, 
and  the  controversy  was  waged  with  considerable 
bitterness  for  several  years,  proving  a  formidable 
obstacle  to  the  ratification  of  the  Articles  of  Con- 
federation. As  early  as  1779  the  subject  received 
the  attention  of  Congress  in  the  adoption  of  a 
resolution  requesting  the  States  having  such 
claims  to  "forbear  settling  or  issuing  warrants 
for  unappropriated  lands  or  granting  the  same 
during  the  continuance  of  the  present  (Revolu- 
tionary) War."  In  the  following  year,  New  York 
authorized  her  Delegates  in  Congress  to  limit  its 
boundaries  in  such  manner  as  they  might  think 
expedient,  and  to  cede  to  the  Government  its 
claim  to  western  lands.  The  case  was  further  com- 
plicated by  the  claims  of  certain  land  companies 


which  had  been  previously  organized.  New  York 
filed  her  cession  to  the  General  Government  of 
lands  claimed  by  her  in  October,  1782,  followed 
by  Virginia  nearly  a  year  later,  and  by  Massa- 
chusetts and  Connecticut  in  1785  and  1786.  Other 
States  followed  somewhat  tardily,  Georgia  being 
the  last,  in  1802.  The  only  claims  of  this  charac- 
ter affecting  lands  in  Illinois  were  those  of  Vir- 
ginia covering  the  southern  part  of  the  State,  and 
Connecticut  and  Massachusetts  applying  to  the 
northern  portion.  It  was  from  the  splendid 
domain  north  and  west  of  the  Ohio  thus  acquired 
from  Virginia  and  other  States,  that  the  North- 
west Territory  was  finally  organized. 

ORDINANCE  OF  1787.— The  first  step  was  taken  in 
the  passage  by  Congress,  in  1784,  of  a  resolution 
providing  for  the  temporary  government  of  the 
Western  Territory,  and  this  was  followed  three 
years  later  by  the  enactment  of  the  celebrated 
Ordinance  of  1787.  While  this  latter  document 
contained  numerous  provisions  which  marked  a 
new  departure  in  the  science  of  free  government 
— as,  for  instance,  that  declaring  that  "religion, 
morality  and  knowledge  being  necessary  to  good 
government  and  the  happiness  of  mankind, 
schools  and  the  means  of  education  shall  forever 
be  encouraged" — its  crowning  feature  was  the 
sixth  article,  as  follows:  "There  shall  be  neither 
slavery  nor  involuntary  servitude  in  the  said 
Territory,  otherwise  than  in  the  punishment  of 
crime,  whereof  the  party  shall  have  been  duly 
convicted." 

Although  there  has  been  considerable  contro- 
versy as  to  the  authorship  of  the  above  and  other 
provisions  of  this  immortal  document,  it  is 
worthy  of  note  that  substantially  the  same  lan- 
guage was  introduced  in  the  resolutions  of  1784, 
by  a  Delegate  from  a  slave  State— Thomas  Jeffer- 
son, of  Virginia  —though  not,  at  that  time, 
adopted.  Jefferson  was  not  a  member  of  the 
Congress  of  1787  (being  then  Minister  to  France), 
and  could  have  had  nothing  directly  to  do  with 
the  later  Ordinance;  yet  it  is  evident  that  the 
principle  which  he  had  advocated  finally  received 
the  approval  of  eight  out  of  the  thirteen  States, — 
all  that  were  represented  in  that  Congress — includ- 
ing the  slave  States  of  Virginia,  Delaware,  North 
Carolina,  South  Carolina  and  Georgia.  (See 
Ordinance  of  1787.) 

NORTHWEST  TERRITORY  ORGANIZED. — Under 
the  Ordinance  of  1787,  organizing  the  Northwest 
Territory,  Gen.  Arthur  St.  Clair,  who  had  been  a 
soldier  of  the  Revolution,  was  appointed  the 
first  Governor  on  Feb.  1,  1788,  with  Winthrop 
Sargent,  Secretary,  and  Samuel  Holden  Parsons, 


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James  Mitchell  Varnum  and  John  Cleves 
Symmes,  Judges.  All  these  were  reappointed  by 
President  Washington  in  1789.  The  new  Terri- 
torial Government  was  organized  at  Marietta,  a 
settlement  on  the  Ohio,  July  15,  1788,  but  it  was 
nearly  two  years  later  before  Governor  St.  Clair 
visited  Illinois,  arriving  at  Kaskaskia,  March  5, 
1790.  The  County  of  St.  Clair  (named  after  him) 
was  organized  at  this  time,  embracing  all  the 
settlements  between  the  Wabash  and  the  Missis- 
sippi. (See  St.  Clair  County.)  He  found  the 
inhabitants  generally  in  a  deplorable  condition, 
neglected  by  the  Government,  the  courts  of  jus- 
tice practically  abolished  and  many  of  the  citizens 
sadly  in  need  of  the  obligations  due  them  from 
the  Government  for  supplies  furnished  to  Colonel 
Clark  twelve  years  before.  After  a  stay  of  three 
months,  the  Governor  returned  east.  In  1795, 
Judge  Turner  held  the  first  court  in  St.  Clair 
County,  at  Cahokia,  as  the  county-seat,  although 
both  Cahokia  and  Kaskaskia  had  been  named  as 
county-seats  by  Governor  St.  Clair.  Out  of  the 
disposition  of  the  local  authorities  to  retain  the 
official  records  at  Cahokia,  and  consequent  dis- 
agreement over  the  county-seat  question,  at  least 
in  part,  grew  the  order  of  1795  organizing  the 
second  county  (Randolph),  and  Kaskaskia  became 
its  county-seat.  In  1796  Governor  St.  Clair  paid 
a  second  visit  to  Illinois,  accompanied  by  Judge 
Symmes,  who  held  court  at  both  county-seats. 
On  Nov.  4,  1791,  occurred  the  defeat  of  Gov- 
ernor St.  Clair,  in  the  western  part  of  the  present 
State  of  Ohio,  by  a  force  of  Indians  under  com- 
mand of  Little  Turtle,  in  which  the  whites  sus- 
tained a  heavy  loss  of  both  men  and  property — 
an  event  which  had  an  unfavorable  effect  upon 
conditions  throughout  the  Northwest  Territory 
generally.  St.  Clair,  having  resigned  his  com- 
mand of  the  army,  was  succeeded  by  Gen. 
Anthony  Wayne,  who,  in  a  vigorous  campaign, 
overwhelmed  the  Indians  with  defeat.  This 
resulted  in  the  treaty  with  the  Western  tribes  at 
Greenville,  August  3,  1795,  which  was  the  begin- 
ning of  a  period  of  comparative  peace  with  the 
Indians  all  over  the  Western  Country.  (See 
Wayne,  (Gen.)  Anthony.) 

FIRST  TERRITORIAL  LEGISLATION.— In  1798,  the 
Territory  having  gained  the  requisite  population, 
an  election  of  members  of  a  Legislative  Council 
and  House  of  Representatives  was  held  in  accord- 
ance with  the  provisions  of  the  Ordinance  of  1787. 
This  was  the  first  Territorial  Legislature  organized 
in  the  history  of  the  Republic.  It  met  at  Cincin- 
nati, Feb.  4,  1799,  Shadrach  Bond  being  the 
Delegate  from  St.  Clair  County  and  John  Edgar 


from  Randolph.  Gen.  William  Henry  Harrison, 
who  had  succeeded  Sargent  as  Secretary  of  the 
Territory,  June  26,  1798,  was  elected  Delegate  to 
Congress,  receiving  a  majority  of  one  vote  over 
Arthur  St.  Clair,  Jr.,  son  of  the  Governor. 

OHIO  AND  INDIANA  TERRITORIES. — By  act  of 
Congress,  May  7,  1800,  the  Northwest  Territory 
was  divided  into  Ohio  and  Indiana  Territories ; 
the  latter  embracing  the  region  west  of  the  pres- 
ent State  of  Ohio,  and  having  its  capital  at  "Saint 
Vincent"  (Vincennes).  May  13,  William  Henry 
Harrison,  who  had  been  the  first  Delegate  in  Con- 
gress from  the  Northwest  Territory,  was  ap- 
pointed Governor  of  Indiana  Territory,  which  at 
first  consisted  of  three  counties :  Knox,  St.  Clair 
and  Randolph — the  two  latter  being  within  the 
boundaries  of  the  present  State  of  Illinois.  Their 
aggregate  population  at  this  time  was  estimated 
at  less  than  5,000.  During  his  administration 
Governor  Harrison  concluded  thirteen  treaties 
with  the  Indians,  of  which  six  related  to  the  ces- 
sion of  lands  in  Illinois.  The  first  treaty  relating 
to  lands  in  Illinois  was  that  of  Greenville,  con- 
cluded by  General  Wayne  in  1795.  By  this  the 
Government  acquired  six  miles  square  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Chicago  River ;  twelve  miles  square 
at  the  mouth  of  the  Illinois;  six  miles  square  at 
the  old  Peoria  fort ;  the  post  of  Fort  Massac ;  and 
150,000  acres  assigned  to  General  Clark  and  his 
soldiers,  besides  all  other  lands  "in  possession  of 
the  French  people  and  all  other  white  settlers 
among  them,  the  Indian  title  to  which  had  been 
thus  extinguished."  (See  Indian  Treaties;  also, 
Greenville,  Treaty  of. ) 

During  the  year  1803,  the  treaty  with  France 
for  the  purchase  of  Louisiana  and  West  Florida 
was  concluded,  and  on  March  26,  1804,  an  act  was 
passed  by  Congress  attaching  all  that  portion  of 
Louisiana  lying  north  of  the  thirty -third  parallel 
of  latitude  and  west  of  the  Mississippi  to  Indiana 
Territory  for  governmental  purposes.  This  in- 
cluded the  present  States  of  Arkansas,  Missouri, 
Kansas,  Nebraska,  Iowa,  Minnesota,  the  two 
Dakotas  and  parts  of  Colorado,  Wyoming  and  Mon- 
tana. This  arrangement  continued  only  until 
the  following  March,  when  Louisiana  was  placed 
under  a  separate  Territorial  organization. 

For  four  years  Indiana  Territory  was  governed 
under  laws  framed  by  the  Governor  and  Judges, 
but,  the  population  having  increased  to  the  re- 
quired number,  an  election  was  held,  Sept. 
11,  1804,  on  the  proposition  to  advance  the  gov- 
ernment to  the  "second  grade"  by  the  election  of 
a  Territorial  Legislature.  The  smallness  of  the 
vote  indicated  the  indifference  of  the  people  on 


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the  subject  Out  of  400  votes  cast,  the  proposition 
received  a  majority  of  138.  The  two  Illinois 
counties  cast  a  total  of  142  votes,  of  which  St. 
Clair  furnished  81  and  Randolph  61.  The  former 
gave  a  majority  of  37  against  the  measure  and 
the  latter  19  in  its  favor,  showing  a  net  negative 
majority  of  18.  The  adoption  of  the  proposition 
was  due,  therefore,  to  the  affirmative  vote  in  the 
other  counties.  There  were  in  the  Territory  at 
this  time  six  counties ;  one  of  these  (Wayne)  was 
in  Michigan,  which  was  set  off,  in  1805,  as  a  sep- 
arate Territory.  At  the  election  of  Delegates  to 
a  Territorial  Legislature,  held  Jan.  3,  1805,  Shad- 
rach  Bond,  Sr.,  and  William  Biggs  were  elected 
for  St.  Clair  County  and  George  Fisher  for  Ran- 
dolph. Bond  having  meanwhile  become  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Legislative  Council,  Shadrach  Bond, 
Jr.,  was  chosen  his  successor.  The  Legislature 
convened  at  Vincennes,  Feb.  7,  1805,  but  only 
to  recommend  a  list  of  persons  from  whom 
it  was  the  duty  of  Congress  to  select  a  Legislative 
Council.  In  addition  to  Bond,  Pierre  Menard 
was  chosen  for  Randolph  and  John  Hay  for  St. 
Clair. 

ILLINOIS  TERRITORY  ORGANIZED. — The  Illinois 
counties  were  represented  in  two  regular  and  one 
special  session  of  the  Territorial  Legislature  dur- 
ing the  time  they  were  a  part  of  Indiana  Terri- 
tory. By  act  of  Congress,  which  became  a  law 
Feb.  3,  1809,  the  Territory  was  divided,  the  west- 
ern part  being  named  Illinois. 

At  this  point  the  history  of  Illinois,  as  a  sepa- 
rate political  division,  begins.  While  its  bounda- 
ries in  all  other  directions  were  as  now,  on  the 
north  it  extended  to  the  Canada  line.  From 
what  has  already  been  said,  it  appears  that  the 
earliest  white  settlements  were  established  by 
French  Canadians,  chiefly  at  Kaskaskia,  Cahokia 
and  the  other  villages  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
American  Bottom.  At  the  time  of  Clark's  in- 
vasion, there  were  not  known  to  have  been  more 
than  two  Americans  among  these  people,  except 
such  hunters  and  trappers  as  paid  them  occasional 
visits.  One  of  the  earliest  American  settlers  in 
Southern  Illinois  was  Capt.  Nathan  Hull,  who 
came  from  Massachusetts  and  settled  at  an  early 
day  on  the  Ohio,  near  where  Golconda  now 
stands,  afterward  removing  to  the  vicinity  of 
Kaskaskia,  where  he  died  in  1806.  In  1781,  a 
company  of  immigrants,  consisting  (with  one  or 
two  exceptions)  of  members  of  Clark's  command 
in  1778,  arrived  with  their  families  from  Mary- 
land and  Virginia  and  established  themselves  on 
the  American  Bottom.  The  "New  Design"  set- 
tlement, on  the  boundary  line  between  St.  Clair 


and  Monroe  Counties,  and  the  first  distinctively 
American  colony  in  the  "Illinois  Country,"  was 
established  by  this  party.  Some  of  its  members 
afterward  became  prominent  in  the  history  of  the 
Territory  and  the  State.  William  Biggs,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  first  Territorial  Legislature,  with 
others,  settled  in  or  near  Kaskaskia  about  1783, 
and  William  Arundel,  the  first  American  mer- 
chant at  Cahokia,  came  there  from  Peoria  during 
the  same  year.  Gen.  John  Edgar,  for  many  years 
a  leading  citizen  and  merchant  at  the  capital, 
arrived  at  Kaskaskia  in  1784,  and  William  Mor- 
rison, Kaskaskia's  principal  merchant,  came  from 
Philadelphia  as  early  as  1790,  followed  some  years 
afterward  by  several  brothers.  James  Lemen 
came  before  the  beginning  of  the  present  cen- 
tury, and  was  the  founder  of  a  large  and  influ- 
ential family  in  the  vicinity  of  Shiloh,  St.  Clair 
County,  and  Rev.  David  Badgley  headed  a  colony 
of  154  from  Virginia,  who  arrived  in  1797. 
Among  other  prominent  arrivals  of  this  period 
were  John  Rice  Jones,  Pierre  Menard  (first 
Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  State),  Shadrach 
Bond,  Jr.  (first  Governor),  John  Hay,  John 
Messinger,  William  Kinney,  Capt.  Joseph  Ogle; 
and  of  a  later  date,  Nathaniel  Pope  (afterward 
Secretary  of  the  Territory,  Delegate  to  Congress, 
Justice  of  the  United  States  Court  and  father  of 
the  late  Maj.-Gen.  John  Pope),  Elias  Kent  Kane 
(first  Secretary  of  State  and  afterward  United 
States  Senator),  Daniel  P.  Cook  (first  Attorney- 
General  and  second  Representative  in  Congress), 
George  Forquer  (at  onetime  Secretary  of  State), 
and  Dr:  George  Fisher — all  prominent  in  Terri- 
torial or  State  history.  (See  biographical 
sketches  of  these  early  settlers  under  their  re- 
spective names.) 

The  government  of  the  new  Territory  was 
organized  by  the  appointment  of  Ninian  Ed- 
wards, Governor;  Nathaniel  Pope,  Secretary, 
and  Alexander  Stuart,  Obadiah  Jones  and  Jesse 
B.  Thomas,  Territorial  Judges.  (See  Edwards, 
Ninian.)  Stuart  having  been  transferred  to 
Missouri,  Stanley  Griswold  was  appointed  in 
his  stead.  Governor  Edwards  arrived  at  Kas- 
kaskia, the  capital,  in  June,  1809.  At  that 
time  the  two  counties  of  St.  Clair  and  Randolph 
comprised  the  settled  portion  of  the  Territory, 
with  a  white  population  estimated  at  about  9,000. 
The  Governor  and  Judges  immediately  proceeded 
to  formulate  a  code  of  laws,  and  the  appoint- 
ments made  by  Secretary  Pope,  who  had  preceded 
the  Governor  in  his  arrival  in  the  Territory,  were 
confirmed.  Benjamin  H.  Doyle  was  the  first 
Attorney-General,  but  he  resigned  in  a  few 


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months,  when  the  place  was  offered  to  John  J. 
Crittenden — the  well-known  United  States  Sen- 
ator from  Kentucky  at  the  beginning  of  the 
Civil  War — but  by  him  declined.  Thomas  T. 
Crittenden  was  then  appointed. 

An  incident  of  the  year  1811  was  the  battle  of 
Tippecanoe.  resulting  in  the  defeat  of  Tecumseh, 
the  great  chief  of  the  Shawnees,  by  Gen.  William 
Henry  Harrison.  Four  companies  of  mounted 
rangers  were  raised  in  Illinois  this  year  under 
direction  of  Col.  William  Russell,  of  Kentucky, 
who  built  Camp  Russell  near  Edwardsville  the 
following  year.  They  were  commanded  by  Cap- 
tains Samuel  Whiteside,  William  B.  Whiteside, 
James  B.  Moore  and  Jacob  Short.  The  memo- 
rable earthquake  which  had  its  center  about  New 
Madrid,  Mo.,  occurred  in  December  of  this 
year,  and  was  quite  violent  in  some  portions  of 
Southern  Illinois.  (See  Earthquake  of  1811.) 

WAR  OF  1812. — During  the  following  year  the 
second  war  with  England  began,  but  no  serious 
outbreak  occurred  in  Illinois  until  August,  1812, 
when  the  massacre  at  Fort  Dearborn,  where 
Chicago  now  stands,  took  place.  This  had  long 
been  a  favorite  trading  post  of  the  Indians,  at 
first  under  French  occupation  and  afterward 
under  the  Americans.  Sometime  during  1803-04, 
a  fort  had  been  built  near  the  mouth  of  Chicago 
River  on  the  south  side,  on  land  acquired  from  the 
Indians  by  the  treaty  of  Greenville  in  1795.  (See 
Fort  Dearborn.)  In  the  spring  of  1812  some 
alarm  had  been  caused  by  outrages  committed  by 
Indians  in  the  vicinity,  and  in  the  early  part  of 
August,  Capt.  Nathan  Heald.  commanding  the 
garrison  of  less  than  seventy-five  men,  received 
instructions  from  General  Hull,  in  command  at 
Detroit,  to  evacuate  the  fort,  disposing  of  the 
public  property  as  he  might  see  fit.  Friendly 
Indians  advised  Heald  either  to  make  prepara- 
tions for  a  vigorous  defense,  or  evacuate  at  once. 
Instead  of  this,  he  notified  the  Indians  of  his  in- 
tention to  retire  and  divide  the  stores  among 
them,  with  the  conditions  subsequently  agreed 
upon  in  council,  that  his  garrison  should  be 
afforded  an  escort  and  safe  passage  to  Fort 
Wayne.  On  the  14th  of  August  he  proceeded  to 
distribute  the  bulk  of  the  goods  as  promised,  but 
the  ammunition,  guns  and  liquors  were  de- 
stroyed. This  he  justified  on  the  ground  that  a 
bad  use  would  be  made  of  them,  while  the 
Indians  construed  it  as  a  violation  of  the  agree- 
ment. The  tragedy  which  followed,  is  thus  de- 
scribed in  Moses'  "History  of  Illinois:" 

"Black  Partridge,  a  Pottawatomie' Chief,  who 
had  been  on  terms  of  friendship  with  the  whites, 


appeared  before  Captain  Heald  and  informed 
him  plainly  that  his  young  men  intended  to 
imbrue  their  hands  in  the  blood  of  the  whites; 
that  he  was  no  longer  able  to  restrain  them,  and, 
surrendering  a  medal  he  had  worn  in  token  of 
amity,  closed  by  saying:  'I  will  not  wear  a 
token  of  peace  while  I  am  compelled  to  act  as  an 
enemy.'  In  the  meantime  the  Indians  were  riot- 
ing upon  the  provisions,  and  becoming  so  aggres- 
sive in  their  bearing  that  it  was  resolved  to  march 
out  the  next  day.  The  fatal  fifteenth  arrived. 
To  each  soldier  was  distributed  twenty-five 
rounds  of  reserved  ammunition.  The  baggage 
and  ambulance  wagons  were  laden,  and  the  gar- 
rison slowly  wended  its  way  outside  the  protect- 
ing walls  of  the  fort — the  Indian  escort  of  500 
following  in  the  rear.  What  next  occurred  in 
this  disastrous  movement  is  narrated  by  Captain 
Heald  in  his  report,  as  follows:  'The  situation  of 
the  country  rendered  it  necessary  for  us  to  take 
the  beach,  with  the  lake  on  our  left,  and  a  high 
sand  bank  on  our  right  at  about  three  hundred 
yards  distance.  We  had  proceeded  about  a  mile 
and  a  half,  when  it  was  discovered  (by  Captain 
Wells)  that  the  Indians  were  prepared  to  attack 
us  from  behind  the  bank.  I  immediately  marched 
up  with  the  company  to  the  top  of  the  bank, 
when  the  action  commenced;  after  firing  one 
round,  we  charged,  and  the  Indians  gave  way  in 
front  and  joined  those  on  our  flanks.  In  about  fif- 
teen minutes  they  got  possession  of  all  pur  horses, 
provisions  and  baggage  of  every  description,  and 
finding  the  Miamis  (who  had  come  from  Fort 
Wayne  with  Captain  Wells  to  act  as  an  escort) 
did  not  assist  us,  I  drew  off  the  few  men  I  had 
left  and  took  possession  of  a  small  elevation  in 
the  open  prairie  out  of  shot  of  the  bank,  or  any 
other  cover.  The  Indians  did  not  follow  me  but 
assembled  in  a  body  on  top  of  the  bank,  and  after 
some  consultation  among  themselves,  made  signs 
for  me  to  approach  them.  I  advanced  toward 
them  alone,  and  was  met  by  one  of  the  Potta- 
watomie chiefs  called  Black  Bird,  with  an  inter- 
preter. After  shaking  hands,  he  requested  me  to 
surrender,  promising  to  spare  the  lives  of  all  the 
prisoners.  On  a  few  moments'  consideration  I 
concluded  it  would  be  most  prudent  to  comply 
with  this  request,  although  I  did  not  put  entire 
confidence  in  his  promise.  The  troops  had  made 
a  brave  defense,  but  what  could  so  small  a  force 
do  against  such  overwhelming  numbers?  It  was 
evident  with  over  half  their  number  dead  upon 
the  field,  or  wounded,  further  resistance  would 
be  hopeless.  Twenty-six  regulars  and  twelve 
militia,  with  two  women  and  twelve  children, 
were  killed.  Among  the  slain  were  Captain 
Wells,  Dr.  Van  Voorhis  and  Ensign  George 
Ronan.  (Captain  Wells,  when  young,  had  been 
captured  by  Indians  and  had  married  among 
them.)  He  (Wells)  was  familiar  with  all  the 
wiles,  stratagems,  as  well  as  the  vindictiveness 
of  the  Indian  character,  and  when  the  conflict 
began,  he  said  to  his  niece  (Mrs.  Heald),  by 
whose  side  he  was  standing.  'We  have  not  the 
slightest  chance  for  life ;  we  must  part  to  meet 
no  more  in  this  world.  God  bless  you.'  With 
these  words  he  dashed  forward  into  the  thickest 
of  the  fight.  He  refused  to  be  taken  prisoner, 
knowing  what  his  fate  would  be,  when  a  young 


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red-skin  cut  him  down  with  his  tomahawk, 
jumped  upon  his  body,  cut  out  his  heart  and  ate 
a  portion  of  it  with  savage  delight. 

"The  prisoners  taken  were  Captain  Heald  and 
wife,  both  wounded,  Lieutenant  Helm,  also 
wounded,  and  wife,  with  twenty-five  non-com- 
missioned officers  and  privates,  and  eleven  women 
and  children.  The  loss  of  the  Indians  was  fifteen 
killed.  Mr.  Kinzie's  family  had  been  entrusted 
to  the  care  of  some  friendly  Indians  and  were  not 
with  the  retiring  garrison.  The  Indians  engaged 
in  this  outrage  were  principally  Pottawatomies, 
with  a  few  Chippewas,  Ottawas,  Winnebagoes, 
and  Kickapoos.  Fort  Dearborn  was  plundered 
and  burned  on  the  next  morning."  (See  Fort 
Dearborn;  also  War  of  IS  12. ) 

Thus  ended  the  most  bloody  tragedy  that  ever 
occurred  on  the  soil  of  Illinois  with  Americans  as 
victims.  The  place  where  this  affair  occurred, 
as  described  by  Captain  Heald,  was  on  the  lake 
shore  about  the  foot  of  Eighteenth  Street  in 
the  present  city  of  Chicago.  After  the  destruction 
of  the  fort,  the  site  of  the  present  city  of  Chicago 
remained  unoccupied  until  1816,  when  the  fort 
was  rebuilt.  At  that  time  the  bones  of  the  vic- 
tims of  the  massacre  of  1812  still  lay  bleaching 
upon  the  sands  near  the  lake  shore,  but  they 
were  gathered  up  a  few  years  later  and  buried. 
The  new  fort  continued  to  be  occupied  somewhat 
irregularly  until  1837,  when  it  was  finally  aban- 
doned, there  being  no  longer  any  reason  for 
maintaining  it  as  a  defense  against  the  Indians. 

OTHER  EVENTS  OF  THE  WAR.— The  part  played 
by  Illinois  in  the  War  of  1812,  consisted  chiefly 
in  looking  after  the  large  Indian  population 
within  and  near  its  borders.  Two  expeditions 
were  undertaken  to  Peoria  Lake  in  the  Fall  of 
1812;  the  first  of  these,  under  the  direction  of 
Governor  Edwards,  burned  two  Kickapoo  vil- 
lages, one  of  them  being  that  of  "Black  Part- 
ridge," who  had  befriended  the  whites  at  Fort 
Dearborn.  A  few  weeks  later  Capt.  Thomas  E. 
Craig,  at  the  head  of  a  company  of  militia,  made  a 
descent  upon  the  ancient  French  village  of  Peoria, 
on  the  pretext  that  the  inhabitants  had  har- 
bored hostile  Indians  and  fired  on  his  boats.  He 
burned  a  part  of  the  town  and,  taking  the  people 
as  prisoners  down  the  river,  put  them  ashore 
below  Alton,  in  the  beginning  of  winter.  Both 
these  affairs  were  severely  censured. 

There  were  expeditions  against  the  Indians  on 
the  Illinois  and  Upper  Mississippi  in  1813  and 
1814.  In  the  latter  year,  Illinois  troops  took  part 
with  credit  in  two  engagements  at  Rock  Island — 
the  last  of  these  being  in  co-operation  with  regu- 
lars, under  command  of  Maj.  Zachary  Taylor, 
afterwards  President,  against  a  force  of  Indians 
supported  by  the  British.  Fort  Clark  at  Peoria 


was  erected  in  1813,  and  Fort  Edwards  at  War- 
saw, opposite  the  mouth  of  the  Des  Moines,  at 
the  close  of  the  campaign  of  1814.  A  council 
with  the  Indians,  conducted  by  Governors 
Edwards  of  Illinois  and  Clarke  of  Missouri,  and 
Auguste  Chouteau,  a  merchant  of  St.  Louis,  as 
Government  Commissioners,  on  the  Mississippi 
just  below  Alton,  in  July,  1815,  concluded  a 
treaty  of  peace  with  the  principal  Northwestern 
tribes,  thus  ending  the  war. 

FIRST  TERRITORIAL  LEGISLATURE.— By  act  of 
Congress,  adopted  May  21,  1812,  the  Territory  of 
Illinois  was  raised  to  the  second  grade— i.  e.,  em- 
powered to  elect  a  Territorial  Legislature.  In 
September,  three  additional  counties— Madison, 
Gallatin  and  Johnson — were  organized,  making 
five  in  all,  and,  in  October,  an  election  for  the 
choice  of  five  members  of  the  Council  and  seven 
Representatives  was  held,  resulting  as  follows: 
Councilmen— Pierre  Menard  of  Randolph  County ; 
William  Biggs  of  St.  Clair;  Samuel  Judy  of 
Madison;  Thomas  Ferguson  of  Johnson,  and 
Benjamin  Talbot  of  Gallatin.  Representatives- 
George  Fisher  of  Randolph ;  Joshua  Oglesby  and 
Jacob  Short  of  St.  Clair;  William  Jones  of  Madi- 
son; Philip  Trammel  and  Alexander  Wilson  of 
Gallatin,  and  John  Grammar  of  Johnson.  The 
Legislature  met  at  Kaskaskia,  Nov.  25,  the  Coun- 
cil organizing  with  Pierre  Menard  as  President 
and  John  Thomas,  Secretary;  and  the  House, 
with  George  Fisher  as  Speaker  and  William  C. 
Greenup,  Clerk.  Shadrach  Bond  was  elected  the 
first  Delegate  to  Congress. 

A  second  Legislature  was  elected  in  1814,  con- 
vening at  Kaskaskia,  Nov.  14.  Menard  was  con- 
tinued President  of  the  Council  during  the  whole 
Territorial  period;  while  George  Fisher  was 
Speaker  of  each  House,  except  the  Second.  The 
county  of  Edwards  was  organized  in  1814,  and 
White  in  1815.  Other  counties  organized  under 
the  Territorial  Government  were  Jackson,  Mon- 
roe, Crawford  and  Pope  in  1816;  Bond  in  1817, 
and  Franklin,  Union  and  Washington  in  1818, 
making  fifteen  in  all.  Of  these  all  but  the 
three  last-named  were  organized  previous  to  the 
passage  by  Congress  of  the  enabling  act  author- 
izing the  Territory  of  Illinois  to  organize  a  State 
government.  In  1816  the  Bank  of  Illinois  was 
established  at  Shawneetown,  with  branches  at 
Edwardsville  and  Kaskaskia. 

EARLY  TOWNS.— Besides  the  French  villages  in 
the  American  Bottom,  there  is  said  to  have  been 
a  French  and  Indian  village  on  the  west  bank  of 
Peoria  Lake,  as  early  as  1711.  This  site  appears 
to  have  been  abandoned  about  1775  and  a  net* 


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village  established  on  the  present  site  of  Peoria 
soon  after,  which  was  maintained  until  1812, 
when  it  was  broken  up  by  Captain  Craig.  Other 
early  towns  were  Shawneetown,  laid  out  in  1808 ; 
Belleville,  established  as  the  county -seat  of  St. 
Clair  County,  in  1814;  Edwardsville,  founded  in 
1815;  Upper  Alton,  in  1816,  and  Alton,  in  1818. 
Carmi,  Fairfield,  Waterloo,  Golconda,  Lawrence- 
ville,  Mount  Carmel  and  Vienna  also  belonged  to 
this  period;  while  Jacksonville,  Springfield  and 
Galena  were  settled  a  few  years  later.  Chicago 
is  mentioned  in  "Beck's  Gazetteer"  of  1823,  as  "a 
village  of  Pike  County." 

ADMISSION  AS  A  STATE. — The  preliminary  steps 
for  the  admission  of  Illinois  as  a  State,  were  taken 
in  the  passage  of  an  Enabling  Act  by  Congress, 
April  13,  1818.  An  important  incident  in  this 
connection  was  the  amendment  of  the  act,  mak- 
ing the  parallel  of  42°  30'  from  Lake  Michigan  to 
the  Mississippi  River  the  northern  boundary, 
instead  of  a  line  extending  from  the  southern 
extremity  of  the  Lake.  This  was  obtained 
through  the  influence  of  Hon.  Nathaniel  Pope, 
then  Delegate  from  Illinois,  and  by  it  the  State 
secured  a  strip  of  country  fifty-one  miles  in 
width,  from  the  Lake  to  the  Mississippi,  embrac- 
ing what  have  since  become  fourteen  of  the  most 
populous  counties  of  the  State,  including  the  city 
of  Chicago.  The  political,  material  and  moral 
results  which  have  followed  this  important  act, 
have  been  the  subject  of  much  interesting  dis- 
cussion and  cannot  be  easily  over-estimated. 
(See  Northern  Boundary  Question;  also  Pope, 
Nathaniel. ) 

Another  measure  of  great  importance,  which  Mr. 
Pope  secured,  was  a  modification  of  the  provision 
of  the  Enabling  Act  requiring  the  appropriation  of 
five  per  cent  of  the  proceeds  from  the  sale  of  pub- 
lic lands  within  the  State,  to  the  construction  of 
roads  and  canals.  The  amendment  which  he  . 
secured  authorizes  the  application  of  two-fifths 
of  this  fund  to  the  making  of  roads  leading  to  the 
State,  but  requires  "the  residue  to  be  appropri- 
ated by  the  Legislature  of  the  State  for  the 
encouragement  of  learning,  of  which  one-sixth 
part  shall  be  exclusively  bestowed  on  a  college  or 
university."  This  was  the  beginning  of  that 
system  of  liberal  encouragement  of  education  by 
the  General  Government,  which  has  been  at- 
tended with  such  beneficent  results  in  the  younger 
States,  and  has  reflected  so  much  honor  upon  the 
Nation.  (See  Education;  Railroads,  and  Illinois 
A  Michigan  Canal. ) 

The  Enabling  Act  required  as  a  precedent  con- 
dition that  a  census  of  the  Territory,  to  be  taken 


that  year,  should  show  a  population  of  40,000. 
Such  a  result  was  shown,  but  it  is  now  confessed 
that  the  number  was  greatly  exaggerated,  the 
true  population,  as  afterwards  given,  being  34,020. 
According  to  the  decennial  census  of  1820,  the 
population  of  the  State  at  that  time  was  55,162. 
If  there  was  any  short-coming  in  this  respect  in 
1818,  the  State  has  fully  compensated  for  it  by 
its  unexampled  growth  in  later  years. 

An  election  of  Delegates  to  a  Convention  to 
frame  a  State  Constitution  was  held  July  6  to  8, 
1818  (extending  through  three  days),  thirty-three 
Delegates  being  chosen  from  the  fifteen  counties 
of  the  State.  The  Convention  met  at  Kaskaskia, 
August  3,  and  organized  by  the  election  of  Jesse 
B.  Thomas,  President,  and  William  C.  Greenup, 
Secretary,  closing  its  labors,  August  26.  The 
Constitution,  which  was  modeled  largely  upon 
the  Constitutions  of  Kentucky,  Ohio  and  Indiana, 
was  not  submitted  to  a  vote  of  the  people.  (See 
Constitutional  Conventions,  especially  Conven- 
tion of  18 IS.)  Objection  was  made  to  its  accept- 
ance by  Congress  on  the  ground  that  the 
population  of  the  Territory  was  insufficient  and 
that  the  prohibition  of  slavery  was  not  as  ex- 
plicit as  required  by  the  Ordinance  of  1787;  but 
these  arguments  were  overcome  and  the  docu- 
ment accepted  by  a  vote  of  117  yeas  to  34  nays. 
The  only  officers  whose  election  was  provided  for 
by  popular  vote,  were  the  Governor,  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  Sheriffs,  Coroners  and  County  Commis- 
sioners. The  Secretary  of  State,  State  Treasurer, 
Auditor  of  Public  Accounts,  Public  Printer  and 
Supreme  and  Circuit  Judges  were  all  appointive 
either  by  the  Governor  or  General  Assembly. 
The  elective  franchise  was  granted  to  all  white 
male  inhabitants,  above  the  age  of  21  years,  who 
had  resided  in  the  State  six  months. 

The  first  State  election  was  held  Sept.  17, 
1818,  resulting  in  the  choice  of  Shadrach  Bond 
for  Governor,  and  Pierre  Menard,  Lieutenant- 
Governor.  The  Legislature,  chosen  at  the  same 
time,  consisted  of  thirteen  Senators  and  twenty- 
seven  Representatives.  It  commenced  its  session 
at  Kaskaskia,  Oct.  5,  1818,  and  adjourned  after  a 
session  of  ten  days,  awaiting  the  formal  admis- 
sion of  the  State,  which  took  place  Dec.  3.  A 
second  session  of  the  same  Legislature  was  held, 
extending  from  Jan.  4  to  March  31,  1819. 
Risdon  Moore  was  Speaker  of  the  first  House. 
The  other  State  officers  elected  at  the  first  ses- 
sion were  Elijah  C.  Berry,  Auditor;  John  Thomas, 
Treasurer,  and  Daniel  P.  Cook,  Attorney-General. 
Elias  Kent  Kane,  having  been  appointed  Secre- 
tary of  State  by  the  Governor,  was  confirmed  by 


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the  Senate.  Ex-Governor  Edwards  and  Jesse  B. 
Thomas  were  elected  United  States  Senators,  the 
former  drawing  the  short  term  and  serving  one 
year,  when  he  was  re-elected.  Thomas  served 
two  terms,  retiring  in  1829.  The  first  Supreme 
Court  consisted  of  Joseph  Phillips,  Chief  Justice, 
with  Thomas  C.  Browne,  William  P.  Foster  and 
John  Reynolds,  Associate  Justices.  Foster,  who 
was  a  mere  adventurer  without  any  legal  knowl- 
edge, left  the  State  in  a  few  months  and  was 
succeeded  by  William  Wilson.  (See  State  Officers, 
United  States  Senators,  and  Judiciary.) 

Menard,  who  served  as  Lieutenant-Governor 
four  years,  was  a  noteworthy  man.  A  native  of 
Canada  and  of  French  descent,  he  came  to  Kas- 
kaskia  in  1790,  at  the  age  of  24  years,  and 
engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits.  He  was  hos- 
pitable, frank,  liberal  and  enterprising.  The  fol- 
lowing story  related  of  him  illustrates  a  pleas- 
ant feature  of  his  character :  "At  one  time  there 
was  a  scarcity  of  salt  in  the  country,  and  Menard 
held  the  only  supply  outside  of  St.  Louis.  A 
number  of  his  neighbors  called  upon  him  for 
what  they  wanted ;  he  declined  to  let  them  know 
whether  he  could  supply  them  or  not,  but  told 
them  to  come  to  his  store  on  a  certain  day,  when 
he  would  inform  them.  They  came  at  the  time 
appointed,  and  were  seated.  Menard  passed 
around  among  them  and  inquired  of  each,  'You 
got  money?'  Some  said  they  had  and  some  that 
they  had  not,  but  would  pay  as  soon  as  they 
killed  their  hogs.  Those  who  had  money  he 
directed  to  range  themselves  on  one  side  of  the 
room  and  those  who  had  none,  on  the  other.  Of 
course,  those  who  had  the  means  expected  to  get 
the  salt  and  the  others  looked  very  much  dis- 
tressed and  crestfallen.  Menard  then  spoke  up 
in  his  brusque  way,  and  said,  'You  men  who  got 
de  money,  can  go  to  St.  Louis  for  your  salt. 
Dese  poor  men  who  got  no  money  shall  have  my 
salt,  by  gar.'  Such  was  the  man — noble  hearted 
and  large-minded,  if  unpolished  and  uncouth." 
(See  Menard,  Pierre. ) 

REMOVAL  OF  THE  CAPITAL  TO  VANOALIA.— 
At  the  second  session  of  the  General  Assembly, 
five  Commissioners  were  appointed  to  select  a 
new  site  for  the  State  Capital.  What  is  now  the 
city  of  Vandalia  was  selected,  and,  in  December, 
1820,  the  entire  archives  of  the  State  were  re- 
moved to  the  new  capital,  being  transported  in 
one  small  wagon,  at  a  cost  of  $25.00,  under  the 
supervision  of  the  late  Sidney  Breese,  who  after- 
wards became  United  States  Senator  and  Justice 
of  the  Supreme  Court.  (See  State  Capitals. ) 

Purina    the    session    of    the    Second  General 


Assembly,  which  met  at  Vandalia,  Dec.  4, 
1820,  a  bill  was  passed  establishing  a  State  Bank 
at  Vandalia,  with  branches  at  Shawueetown, 
Edwardsville  and  Brownsville.  John  McLean, 
who  had  been  the  first  Representative  in  Con- 
gress, was  Speaker  of  the  House  at  this  session. 
He  was  twice  elected  to  the  United  States  Senate, 
though  he  served  only  about  two  years,  dying  in 
1830.  (See  State  Bank.) 

INTRODUCTION  OP  THE  SLAVERY  QUESTION. — 
The  second  State  election,  which  occurred  in 
August,  1822,  proved  the  beginning  of  a  turbu- 
lent period  through  the  introduction  of  some 
exciting  questions  into  State  politics.  There 
were  four  candidates  for  gubernatorial  honors  in 
the  field:  Chief- Justice  Phillips,  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  supported  by  the  friends  of  Governor 
Bond;  Associate- Justice  Browne,  of  the  same 
court,  supported  by  the  friends  of  Governor 
Edwards;  Gen.  James  B.  Moore,  a  noted  Indian 
fighter  and  the  candidate  of  the  "Old  Rangers," 
and  Edward  Coles.  The  latter  was  a  native  of 
Virginia,  who  had  served  as  private  secretary  of 
President  Monroe,  and  had  been  employed  as  a 
special  messenger  to  Russia.  He  had  made  two 
visits  to  Illinois,  the  first  in  1815  and  the  second 
in  1818.  The  Convention  to  form  a  State  Constitu- 
tion being  in  session  at  the  date  of  the  latter 
visit,  he  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  discussion  of 
the  slavery  question  and  exerted  his  influence  in 
securing  the  adoption  of  the  prohibitory  article 
in  the  organic  law.  On  April  1,  1819,  he  started 
from  his  home  in  Virginia  to  remove  to  Edwards- 
ville, 111.,  taking  with  him  his  ten  slaves.  The 
journey  from  Brownsville,  Pa.,  was  made  in 
two  flat-boats  to  a  point  below  Louisville,  where 
he  disembarked,  traveling  by  land  to  Edwards- 
ville. While  descending  the  Ohio  River  he  sur- 
prised his  slaves  by  announcing  that  they  were 
free.  The  scene,  as  described  by  himself,  was 
most  dramatic.  Having  declined  to  avail  them- 
selves of  the  privilege  of  leaving  him,  he  took 
them  with  him  to  his  destination,  where  he 
eventually  gave  each  head  of  a  family  160  acres 
of  land.  Arrived  at  Edwardsville,  he  assumed 
the  position  of  Register  of  the  Land  Office,  to 
which  he  had  been  appointed  by  President  Mon- 
roe, before  leaving  Virginia. 

The  act  of  Coles  with  reference  to  his  slaves 
established  his  reputation  as  an  opponent  of 
slavery,  and  it  was  in  this  attitude  that  he  stood 
as  a  candidate  for  Governor — both  Phillips  and 
Browne  being  friendly  to  "the  institution," 
which  had  had  a  virtual  existence  in  the  "Illinois 
Country"  from  the  time  Renault  brought  500 


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slaves  to  the  vicinity  of  Kaskaskia,  one  hun- 
dred years  before.  Although  the  Constitution 
declared  that  "neither  slavery  nor  involuntary 
servitude  shall  hereafter  be  introduced  into  the 
State,"  this  had  not  been  effectual  in  eliminating 
it.  In  fact,  while  this  language  was  construed, 
so  long  as  it  remained  in  the  Constitution,  as 
prohibiting  legislation  authorizing  the  admission 
of  slaves  from  without,  it  was  not  regarded  as 
inimical  to  the  institution  as  it  already  existed ; 
and,  as  the  population  came  largely  from  the 
slave  States,  there  had  been  a  rapidly  growing 
sentiment  in  favor  of  removing  the  inhibitory 
clause.  Although  the  pro-slavery  party  was 
divided  between  two  candidates  for  Governor, 
it  had  hardly  contemplated  the  possibility  of 
defeat,  and  it  was  consequently  a  surprise  when 
the  returns  showed  that  Coles  was  elected,  receiv- 
ing 2,854  votes  to  2,687  for  Phillips,  2,443  for 
Browne  and  622  for  Moore  —  Coles'  plurality 
being  167  in  a  total  of  8,606.  Coles  thus  became 
Governor  on  less  than  one-third  of  the  popular 
vote.  Daniel  P.  Cook,  who  had  made  the  race 
for  Congress  at  the  same  election  against 
McLean,  as  an  avowed  opponent  of  slavery,  was 
successful  by  a  majority  of  876.  (See  Coles, 
Edward;  also  Cook,  Daniel  Pope.) 

The  real  struggle  was  now  to  occur  in  the  Legis- 
lature, which  met  Dec.  2,  1822.  The  House 
organized  with  William  M.  Alexander  as  Speaker, 
while  the  Senate  elected  Thomas  Lippincott 
(afterwards  a  prominent  Presbyterian  minister 
and  the  father  of  the  late  Gen.  Charles  E.  Lippin- 
cott), Secretary,  and  Henry  S.  Dodge,  Enrolling 
and  Engrossing  Clerk.  The  other  State  officers 
appointed  by  the  Governor,  or  elected  by  the 
Legislature,  were  Samuel  D.  Lockwood,  Secretary 
of  State;  Elijah  C.  Berry,  Auditor;  Abner  Field, 
Treasurer,  and  James  Turney,  Attorney-General. 
Lockwood  had  served  nearly  two  years  previously 
as  Attorney-General,  but  remained  in  the  office 
of  Secretary  of  State  only  three  months,  when  he 
resigned  to  accept  the  position  of  Receiver  for 
the  Land  Office.  (See  Lockwood,  Samuel  Drake.) 

The  slavery  question  came  up  in  the  Legisla- 
ture on  the  reference  to  a  special  committee  of  a 
portion  of  the  Governor's  message,  calling  atten- 
tion to  the  continued  existence  of  slavery  in  spite 
of  the  ordinance  of  1787,  and  recommending  that 
steps  be  taken  for  its  extinction.  Majority  and 
minority  reports  were  submitted,  the  former 
claiming  the  right  of  the  State  to  amend  its  Con- 
stitution and  thereby  make  such  disposition  of 
the  slaves  as  it  saw  proper.  Out  of  this  grew  a 
resolution  submitting  to  the  electors  at  the  next 


election  a  proposition  for  a  convention  to  revise 
the  Constitution.  This  passed  the  Senate  by  the 
necessary  two-thirds  vote,  and,  having  come  up 
in  the  House  (Feb.  11,  1823),  it  failed  by  a  single 
vote — Nicholas  Hansen,  a  Representative  from 
Pike  County,  whose  seat  had  been  unsuccessfully 
contested  by  John  Shaw  at  the  beginning  of  the 
session,  being  one  of  those  voting  in  the  negative. 
The  next  day,  without  further  investigation,  the 
majority  proceeded  to  reconsider  its  action  in 
seating  Hansen  two  and  a  half  months  previ- 
ously, and  Shaw  was  seated  in  his  place;  though, 
in  order  to  do  this,  some  crooked  work  was  nec- 
essary to  evade  the  rules.  Shaw  being  seated, 
the  submission  resolution  was  then  passed.  No 
more  exciting  campaign  was  ever  had  in  Illinois. 
Of  five  papers  then  published  in  the  State,  "The 
Edwardsville  Spectator,"  edited  by  Hooper 
Warren,  opposed  the  measure,  being  finally  rein- 
forced by  "The  Illinois  Intelligencer,"  which  had 
been  removed  to  Vandalia;  "The  Illinois  Gaz- 
ette," at  Shawneetown,  published  articles  on 
both  sides  of  the  question,  though  rather  favoring 
the  anti-slavery  cause,  while  "The  Republican 
Advocate,"  at  Kaskaskia,  the  organ  of  Senator 
Elias  Kent  Kane,  and  "The  Republican,"  at 
Edwardsville,  under  direction  of  Judge  Theophi- 
lus  W.  Smith,  Emanuel  J.  West  and  Judge 
Samuel  McRoberts  (afterwards  United  States 
Senator),  favored  the  Convention.  The  latter 
paper  was  established  for  the  especial  purpose  of 
supporting  the  Convention  scheme  and  was 
promptly  discontinued  on  the  defeat  of  the  meas- 
ure. (See  Newspapers,  Early.)  Among  other 
supporters  of  the  Convention  proposition  were 
Senator  Jesse  B.  Thomas,  John  McLean,  Richard 
M.  Young,  Judges  Phillips,  Browne  and  Reynolds, 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  many  more;  while 
among  the  leading  champions  of  the  opposition, 
were  Judge  Lockwood,  George  Forquer  (after- 
ward Secretary  of  State),  Morris  Birkbeck,  George 
Churchill,  Thomas  Mather  and  Rev.  Thomas  Lip- 
pincott. Daniel  P.  Cook,  then  Representative  in 
Congress,  was  the  leading  champion  of  freedom 
on  the  stump,  while  Governor  Coles  contributed 
the  salary  of  his  entire  term  ($4,000),  as  well  as 
his  influence,  to  the  support  of  the  cause.  Gov- 
ernor Edwards  (then  in  the  Senate)  was  the  owner 
of  slaves  and  occupied  a  non-committal  position. 
The  election  was  held  August  2,  1824,  resulting  in 
4,972  votes  for  a  Convention,  to  6,640  against  it, 
defeating  the  proposition  by  a  majority  of  1,668. 
Considering  the  size  of  the  aggregate  vote 
(11,612),  the  result  was  a  decisive  one.  By  it 
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countered  previous  to  the  War  of  the  Rebellion. 
(See  Slavery  and  Slave  Laws. ) 

At  the  same  election  Cook  was  re-elected  to 
Congress  by  3,010  majority  over  Shadrach  Bond. 
The  vote  for  President  was  divided  between  John 
Quincy  Adams,  Andrew  Jackson,  Henry  Clay 
and  William  H.  Crawford — Adams  receiving  a 
plurality,  but  much  below  a  majority.  The  Elect- 
oral College  failing  to  elect  a  President,  the 
decision  of  the  question  passed  into  the  hands  of 
the  Congressional  House  of  Representatives, 
when  Adams  was  elected,  receiving  the  vote  of 
Illinois  through  its  only  Representative,  Mr.  Cook. 

During  the  remainder  of  his  term,  Governor 
Coles  was  made  the  victim  of  much  vexatious 
litigation  at  the  hands  of  his  enemies,  a  verdict 
being  rendered  against  him  in  the  sum  of  $2,000 
for  bringing  his  emancipated  negroes  into  the 
State,  in  violation  of  the  law  of  1819.  The  Legis- 
lature having  passed  an  act  releasing  him  from 
the  penalty,  it  was  declared  unconstitutional  by 
a  malicious  Circuit  Judge,  though  his  decision 
was  promptly  reversed  by  the  Supreme  Court. 
Having  lived  a  few  years  on  his  farm  near 
Edwardsville,  in  1832  he  removed  to  Philadelphia, 
where  he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  days,  his 
death  occurring  there,  July  7,  1868.  In  the  face 
of  opprobrium  and  defamation,  and  sometimes  in 
danger  of  mob  violence,  Governor  Coles  per- 
formed a  service  to  the  State  which  has  scarcely 
yet  been  fully  recognized.  (See  Coles,  Edward.) 

A  ridiculous  incident  of  the  closing  year  of 
Coles'  administration  was  the  attempt  of  Lieut. - 
Gov.  Frederick  Adolphus  Hubbard,  after  having 
tasted  the  sweets  of  executive  power  during  the 
Governor's  temporary  absence  from  the  State,  to 
usurp  the  position  after  the  Governor's  return. 
The  ambitious  aspirations  of  the  would-be  usurper 
were  suppressed  by  the  Supreme  Court. 

An  interesting  event  of  the  year  1825,  was  the 
visit  of  General  La  Fayette  to  Kaskaskia.  He 
was  welcomed  in  an  address  by  Governor  Coles, 
and  the  event  was  made  the  occasion  of  much 
festivity  by  the  French  citizens  of  the  ancient 
capital.  (See  La  Fayette,  Visit  of. ) 

The  first  State  House  at  Vandalia  having  been 
destroyed  by  fire,  Dec.  9,  1823,  a  new  one  was 
erected  during  the  following  year  at  a  cost  of 
$12,381.50,  toward  which  the  people  of  Vandalia 
contributed  $5,000. 

EDWARDS'  ADMINISTRATION. — The  State  elec- 
tion of  1826  resulted  in  again  calling  Ninian 
Edwards  to  the  gubernatorial  chair,  which  he 
had  filled  during  nearly  the  whole  of  the  exist- 
ence of  Illinois  as  a  Territory.  Elected  one  of  the 


first  United  States  Senators,  and  re-elected  for  a 
second  term  in  1819,  he  had  resigned  this  office  in 
1824  to  accept  the  position  of  Minister  to  Mexico, 
by  appointment  of  President  Monroe.  Having 
become  involved  in  a  controversy  with  William 
H.  Crawford,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  he 
resigned  the  Mexican  mission,  and,  after  a  period 
of  retirement  to  private  life  for  the  first  time 
after  he  came  to  Illinois,  he  appealed  to  the 
people  of  the  State  for  endorsement,  with  the 
result  stated.  His  administration  was  unevent- 
ful except  for  the  "Winnebago  War,"  which 
caused  considerable  commotion  on  the  frontier, 
without  resulting  in  much  bloodshed.  Governor 
Edwards  was  a  fine  specimen  of  the  "old  school 
gentleman"  of  that  period — dignified  and  polished 
in  his  manners,  courtly  and  precise  in  his  address, 
proud  and  ambitious,  with  a  tendency  to  the 
despotic  in  his  bearing  in  consequence  of  having 
been  reared  in  a  slave  State  and  his  long  connec- 
tion with  the  executive  office.  His  early  educa- 
tion had  been  under  the  direction  of  the 
celebrated  William  Wirt,  between  whom  and 
himself  a  close  friendship  existed.  He  was 
wealthy  for  the  time,  being  an  extensive  land- 
owner as  well  as  slave-holder  and  the  proprietor  of 
stores  and  mills,  which  were  managed  by  agents, 
but  he  lost  heavily  by  bad  debts.  He  was  for 
many  years  a  close  friend  of  Hooper  Warren,  the 
pioneer  printer,  furnishing  the  material  with 
which  the  latter  published  his  papers  at  Spring- 
field and  Galena.  At  the  expiration  of  his  term 
of  office  near  the  close  of  1830,  he  retired  to  his 
home  at  Belleville,  where,  after  making  an  un- 
successful campaign  for  Congress  in  1832,  in 
which  he  was  defeated  by  Charles  Slade,  he 
died  of  cholera,  July  20,  1833.  (See  Edwards, 
Ninian. ) 

William  Kinney,  of  Belleville,  who  was  a  can- 
didate for  Lieutenant-Governor  on  the  ticket 
opposed  to  Edwards,  was  elected  over  Samuel  M. 
Thompson.  In  1830,  Kinney  became  a  candidate 
for  Governor  but  was  defeated  by  John  Reynolds, 
known  as  the  "Old  Ranger."  One  of  the  argu- 
ments used  against  Kinney  in  this  campaign  was 
that,  in  the  Legislature  of  1823,  he  was  one  of 
three  members  who  voted  against  the  Illinois  & 
Michigan  Canal,  on  the  ground  that  "it  (the 
canal)  would  make  an  opening  for  the  Yankees 
to  come  to  the  country." 

During  Edwards'  administration  the  first  steps 
were  taken  towards  the  erection  of  a  State  peni- 
tentiary at  Alton,  funds  therefor  being  secured 
by  the  sale  of  a  portion  of  the  saline  lands  in  Gal- 
latin  County.  (See  Alton  Penitentiary.)  The  first 


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Commissioners  having  charge  of  its  construction 
were  Shadrach  Bond,  William  P.  McKee  and 
Dr.  Gershom  Jayne — the  last-named  the  father  of 
Dr.  William  Jayne  of  Springfield,  and  father-in- 
law  of  the  late  Senator  Lyman  Trumbull. 

GOVERNOR  REYNOLDS— BLACK  HAWK  WAR. — 
The  election  of  1830  resulted  in  the  choice  of  John 
Reynolds  for  Governor  over  William  Kinney,  by 
a  majority  of  3,899,  in  a  total  vote  of  49,051, 
while  Zadoc  Casey,  the  candidate  on  the  Kinney 
ticket,  was  elected  Lieutenant-Governor.  (See 
Reynolds,  John.) 

The  most  important  event  of  Reynolds'  admin- 
istration was  the  "Black-Hawk  War."  Eight 
thousand  militia  were  called  out  during  this  war 
to  reinforce  1,500  regular  troops,  the  final  result 
being  the  driving  of  400  Indians  west  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi. Rock  Island,  which  had  been  the  favor- 
ite rallying  point  of  the  Indians  for  generations, 
was  the  central  point  at  the  beginning  of  this 
war.  It  is  impossible  to  give  the  details  of  this 
complicated  struggle,  which  was  protracted 
through  two  campaigns  (1831  and  1832),  though 
there  was  no  fighting  worth  speaking  of  except 
in  the  last,  and  no  serious  loss  to  the  whites  in 
that,  except  the  surprise  and  defeat  of  Stillman's 
command.  Beardstown  was  the  base  of  opera- 
tions in  each  of  these  campaigns,  and  that  city 
has  probably  never  witnessed  such  scenes  of 
bustle  and  excitement  since.  The  Indian  village 
at  Rock  Island  was  destroyed,  and  the  fugitives, 
after  being  pursued  through  Northern  Illinois 
and  Southwestern  Wisconsin  without  being 
allowed  to  surrender,  were  driven  beyond  the 
Mississippi  in  a  famishing  condition  and  with 
spirits  completely  broken.  Galena,  at  that  time 
the  emporium  of  the  "Lead  Mine  Region,"  and 
the  largest  town  in  the  State  north  of  Springfield, 
was  the  center  of  great  excitement,  as  the  war 
was  waged  in  the  region  surrounding  it.  (See 
Black  Hawk  War. )  Although  cool  judges  have 
not  regarded  this  campaign  as  reflecting  honor 
upon  either  the  prowess  or  the  magnanimity  of 
the  whites,  it  was  remarkable  for  the  number  of 
those  connected  with  it  whose  names  afterwards 
became  famous  in  the  history  of  the  State  and 
the  Nation.  Among  them  were  two  who  after- 
wards became  Presidents  of  the  United  States — 
Col.  Zachary  Taylor  of  the  regular  army,  and 
Abraham  Lincoln,  a  Captain  in  the  State  militia 
— besides  Jefferson  Davis,  then  a  Lieutenant  in 
the  regular  army  and  afterwards  head  of  the 
Southern  Confederacy;  three  subsequent  Gov- 
ernors— Duncan,  Carlin  and  Ford — besides  Gov- 
ernor Reynolds,  who  at  that  time  occupied  the 


gubernatorial  chair;  James  Semple,  afterwards 
United  States  Senator ;  John  T.  Stuart,  Lincoln's 
law  preceptor  and  partner,  and  later  a  Member 
of  Congress,  to  say  nothing  of  many  others,  who,  in 
after  years,  occupied  prominent  positions  as  mem- 
bers of  Congress,  the  Legislature  or  otherwise. 
Among  the  latter  were  Gen.  John  J.  Hardin; 
the  late  Joseph  Gillespie,  of  Edwardsville;  Col. 
John  Dement;  William  Thomas  of  Jackson- 
ville; Lieut. -Col.  Jacob  Fry;  Henry  Dodge  and 
others. 

Under  the  census  of  1830,  Illinois  became 
entitled  to  three  Representatives  in  Congress 
instead  of  one,  by  whom  it  had  been  represented 
from  the  date  of  its  admission  as  a  State.  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor Casey,  having  been  elected  to 
the  Twenty-third  Congress  for  the  Second  Dis- 
trict under  the  new  apportionment,  on  March  1, 
1833,  tendered  his  resignation  of  the  Lieutenant- 
Governorship,  and  was  succeeded  by  William  L. 
D.  Ewing,  Temporary  President  of  the  Senate. 
(See  Apportionment ,  Congressional;  Casey,  Zadoc, 
and  Representatives  in  Congress.)  Within  two 
weeks  of  the  close  of  his  term  (Nov.  17,  1834), 
Governor  Reynolds  followed  the  example  of  his 
associate  in  office  by  resigning  the  Governorship 
to  accept  the  seat  in  Congress  for  the  First  (or 
Southern)  District,  which  had  been  rendered 
vacant  by  the  death  of  Hon.  Charles  Slade,  the 
incumbent  in  office,  in  July  previous.  This 
opened  the  way  for  a  new  promotion  of  acting 
Lieutenant-Governor  Ewing,  who  thus  had  the 
distinction  of  occupying  the  gubernatorial  office 
for  the  brief  space  of  two  weeks.  (See  Reynolds, 
John,  and  Slade,  Charles. ) 

Ewing  probably  held  a  greater  variety  of 
offices  under  the  State,  than  any  other  man  who 
ever  lived  in  it.  Repeatedly  elected  to  each 
branch  of  the  General  Assembly,  he  more  than 
once  filled  the  chair  of  Speaker  of  the  House  and 
President  of  the  Senate ;  served  as  Acting  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor and  Governor  by  virtue  of  the 
resignation  of  his  superiors;  was  United  States 
Senator  from  1835  to  1837;  still  later  became 
Clerk  of  the  House  where  he  had  presided  as 
Speaker,  finally,  in  1843,  being  elected  Auditor  of 
Public  Accounts,  and  dying  in  that  office  three 
years  later.  In  less  than  twenty  years,  he  held 
eight  or  ten  different  offices,  including  the  high- 
est in  the  State.  (See  Ewing,  William  Lee  David- 
son.) 

DUNCAN'S  ADMINISTRATION. — Joseph  Duncan, 
who  had  served  the  State  as  its  only  Represent- 
ative in  three  Congresses,  was  elected  Governor, 
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Kinney,  Robert  K.  McLaughlin,  James  Evans 
and  W.  B.  Archer.  (See  Duncan,  Joseph. ) 

His  administration  was  made  memorable  by 
the  large  number  of  distinguished  men  who 
either  entered  public  life  at  this  period  or  gained 
additional  prominence  by  their  connection  with 
public  affairs.  Among  these  were  Abraham  Lin- 
coln and  Stephen  A.  Douglas ;  Col.  E.  D.  Baker, 
who  afterward  and  at  different  times  represented 
Illinois  and  Oregon  in  the  councils  of  the  Nation, 
and  who  fell  at  Ball's  Bluff  in  1862 ;  Orville  H. 
Browning,  a  prospective  United  States  Senator 
and  future  cabinet  officer;  Lieut. -Gov.  John 
Dougherty;  Gen.  James  Shields,  Col.  John  J. 
Hardin,  Archibald  Williams,  Cyrus  and  Ninian 
W.  Edwards;  Dr.  John  Logan,  father  of  Gen. 
John  A.  Logan;  Stephen  T.  Logan,  and  many 
more. 

During  this  administration  was  begun  that 
gigantic  scheme  of  "internal  improvements, " 
which  proved  so  disastrous  to  the  financial  inter- 
ests of  the  State.  The  estimated  cost  of  the 
various  works  undertaken,  was  over  $11,000,000, 
and  though  little  of  substantial  value  was  real- 
ized, yet,  iu  1852,  the  debt  (principal  and  inter- 
est) thereby  incurred  (including  that  of  the 
canal),  aggregated  nearly  $17,000,000.  The  col- 
lapse of  the  scheme  was,  no  doubt,  hastened  by 
the  unexpected  suspension  of  specie  payments 
by  the  banks  all  over  the  country,  which  followed 
soon  after  its  adoption.  (See  Internal  Improve- 
ment Policy;  also  State  Debt.) 

CAPITAL  REMOVED  TO  SPRINGFIELD. — At  the 
session  of  the  General  Assembly  of  1836-37,  an  act 
was  passed  removing  the  State  capital  to  Spring- 
field, and  an  appropriation  of  $50,000  was  made  to 
erect  a  building ;  to  this  amount  the  city  of  Spring- 
field added  a  like  sum,  besides  donating  a  site.  In 
securing  the  passage  of  these  acts,  the  famous 
"Long  Nine,"  consisting  of  A.  G.  Herndon  and 
Job  Fletcher,  in  the  Senate ;  and  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, Ninian  W.  Edwards,  John  Dawson,  Andrew 
McCormick,  Dan  Stone,  William  F.  Elkin  and 
Robert  L.  Wilson,  in  the  House — all  Representa- 
tives from  Sangamon  County— played  a  leading 
part. 

THE  MURDER  OF  LOVEJOY. — An  event  occurred 
near  the  close  of  Governor  Duncan's  term,  which 
left  a  stain  upon  the  locality,  but  for  which  his 
administration  had  no  direct  responsibility;  to- 
wit,  the  murder  of  Rev.  Elijah  P.  Lovejoy,  by  a 
pro-slavery  mob  at  Alton.  Lovejoy  was  a  native 
of  Maine,  who,  coming  to  St.  Louis  in  1827,  had 
been  employed  upon  various  papers,  the  last 
being  "The  St.  Louis  Observer."  The  outspoken 


hostility  of  this  paper  to  slavery  aroused  a  bitter 
local  opposition  which  led  to  its  removal  to 
Alton,  where  the  first  number  of  "The  Alton 
Observer"  was  issued,  Sept.  8,  1836,  though  not 
until  one  press  and  a  considerable  portion  of  the 
material  had  been  destroyed  by  a  mob.  On  the 
night  of  August  21,  1837,  there  was  a  second 
destruction  of  the  material,  when -a  third  press 
having  been  procured,  it  was  taken  from  the 
warehouse  and  thrown  into  the  Mississippi.  A 
fourth  press  was  ordered,  and,  pending  its 
arrival,  Lovejoy  appeared  before  a  public  meet- 
ing of  his  opponents  and,  in  an  impassioned 
address,  maintained  his  right  to  freedom  of 
speech,  declaring  in  conclusion:  "If  the  civil 
authorities  refuse  to  protect  me,  I  must  look  to 
God ;  and  if  I  die,  I  liave  determined  to  make  my 
grave  in  Alton."  These  words  proved  prophetic. 
The  new  press  was  stored  in  the  warehouse  of 
Godfrey,  Gillman  &  Co.,  on  the  night  of  Nov.  6, 
1837.  A  guard  of  sixty  volunteers  remained 
about  the  building  the  next  day,  but  when  night 
came  all  but  nineteen  retired  to  their  homes. 
During  the  night  a  mob  attacked  the  building, 
when  a  shot  from  the  inside  killed  Lyman  Bishop. 
An  attempt  was  then  made  by  the  rioters  to  fire 
the  warehouse  by  sending  a  man  to  the  roof.  To 
dislodge  the  incendiary,  Lovejoy,  with  two 
others,  emerged  from  the  building,  when  two  or 
three  men  in  concealment  fired  upon  him,  the 
shots  taking  effect  in  a  vital  part  of  his  body, 
causing  his  death  almost  instantly.  He  was 
buried  the  following  day  without  an  inquest. 
Several  of  the  attacking  party  and  the  defenders 
of  the  building  were  tried  for  riot  and  acquitted 
— the  former  probably  on  account  of  popular 
sympathy  with  the  crime,  and  the  latter  because 
they  were  guiltless  of  any  crime  except  that  of 
defending  private  property  and  attempting  to 
preserve  the  law.  The  act  of  firing  the  fatal 
shots  has  been  charged  upon  two  men — a  Dr. 
Jennings  and  his  comrade,  Dr.  Beall.  The 
former,  it  is  said,  was  afterwards  cut  to  pieces  in 
a  bar-room  fight  in  Vicksburg,  Miss.,  while  the 
latter,  having  been  captured  by  Comanche 
Indians  in  Texas,  was  burned  alive.  On  the 
other  hand,  Lovejoy  has  been  honored  as  a 
martyr  and  the  sentiments  for  which  he  died 
have  triumphed.  (See  Lovejoy,  Elijah  Parish; 
also  Alton  Riots.) 

CARLIN  SUCCEEDS  TO  THE  GOVERNORSHIP.— 
Duncan  was  succeeded  by  Gov.  Thomas  Carlin, 
who  was  chosen  at  the  election  of  1838  over 
Cyrus  Edwards  (a  younger  brother  of  Gov. 
Ninian  Edwards),  who  was  the  Whig  candidate. 


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The  successful  candidate  for  Lieutenant-Governor 
was  Stinson  H.  Anderson  of  Jefferson  County. 
(See  Carlin,  ( Gov. )  Thomas;  Anderson,  Stinson  H. ) 

Among  the  members  of  the  Legislature  chosen 
at  this  time  we  find  the  names  of  Orville  H. 
Browning,  Robert  Blackwell,  George  Churchill, 
William  G.  Gatewood,  Ebenezer  Peck  (of  Cook 
County),  William  A.  Richardson,  Newton  Cloud, 
J«sse  K.  Dubois,  O.  B.  Ficklin,  Vital  Jarrot, 
John  Logan,  William  F.  Thornton  and  Archibald 
Williams — all  men  of  prominence  in  the  subse- 
quent history  of  the  State.  This  was  the  last 
Legislature  that  assembled  at  Vandalia,  Spring- 
field becoming  the  capital,  July  4,  1839.  The 
corner-stone  of  the  first  State  capitol  at  Spring- 
field was  laid  with  imposing  ceremonies,  July  4, 
1837,  Col.  E.  D.  Baker  delivering  an  eloquent 
address.  Its  estimated  cost  was  $130,000,  but 
$240,000  was  expended  upon  it  before  its  com- 
pletion. 

An  incident  of  this  campaign  was  the  election 
to  Congress,  after  a  bitter  struggle,  of  John  T. 
Stuart  over  Stephen  A.  Douglas  from  the  Third 
District,  by  a  majority  of  fourteen  votes.  Stuart 
was  re-elected  in  1840,  but  in  1842  he  was  suc- 
ceeded, under  a  new  apportionment,  by  Col.  John 
J.  Hardin,  while  Douglas,  elected  from  the 
Quincy  District,  then  entered  the  National  Coun- 
cils for  the  first  time. 

FiELD-McCLERNAND  CONTEST.  —  An  exciting 
event  connected  with  Carlin's  administration  was 
the  attempt  to  remove  Alexander  P.  Field  from 
the  office  of  Secretary  of  State,  which  he  had 
held  since  1828.  Under  the  Constitution  of  1818, 
this  office  was  filled  by  nomination  by  the  Gov- 
ernor "with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the 
Senate."  Carlin  nominated  John  A.  McCler- 
nand  to  supersede  Field,  but  the  Senate  refused  to 
confirm  the  nomination.  After  adjournment  of 
the  Legislature,  McClernand  attempted  to  obtain 
possession  of  the  office  by  writ  of  quo  warranto. 
The  Judge  of  a  Circuit  Court  decided  the  case  in 
his  favor,  but  this  decision  was  overruled  by  the 
Supreme  Court.  A  special  session  having  been 
called,  in  November,  1840,  Stephen  A.  Douglas, 
then  of  Morgan  County,  was  nominated  and  con- 
firmed Secretary  of  State,  but  held  the  position 
only  a  few  months,  when  lie  resigned  to  accept  a 
place  on  the  Supreme  bench,  being  succeeded  as 
Secretary  by  Lyman  Trumbull. 

SUPREME  COURT  REVOLUTIONIZED.  —  Certain 
decisions  of  some  of  the  lower  courts  about  this 
time,  bearing  upon  the  suffrage  of  aliens,  excited 
the  apprehension  of  the  Democrats,  who  had 
heretofore  been  in  political  control  of  the  State, 


and  a  movement  was  started  in  the  Legislature 
to  reorganize  the  Supreme  Court,  a  majority  of 
whom  were  Whigs.  The  Democrats  were  not 
unanimous  in  favor  of  the  measure,  but,  after  a 
bitter  struggle,  it  was  adopted,  receiving  a  bare 
majority  of  one  in  the  House.  Under  this  act 
five  additional  Judges  were  elected,  viz. :  Thomas 
Ford,  Sidney  Breese,  Walter  B.  Scates,  Samuel 
H.  Treat  and  Stephen  A.  Douglas  —  all  Demo- 
crats. Mr.  Ford,  one  of  the  new  Judges,  and 
afterwards  Governor,  has  characterized  this  step 
as  "a  confessedly  violent  and  somewhat  revolu- 
tionary measure,  which  could  never  have  suc- 
ceeded except  in  times  of  great  party  excite- 
ment." 

The  great  Whig  mass-meeting  at  Springfield, 
in  June,  1810,  was  an  incident  of  the  political 
campaign  of  that  year.  No  such  popular  assem- 
blage had  ever  been  seen  in  the  State  before.  It 
is  estimated  that  20,000  people — nearly  five  per 
cent  of  the  entire  population  of  the  State — were 
present,  including  a  large  delegation  from  Chi- 
cago who  marched  overland,  under  command  of 
the  late  Maj.-Gen.  David  Hunter,  bearing  with 
them  many  devices  so  popular  in  that  memorable 
campaign. 

FORD  ELECTED  GOVERNOR.  — Judge  Thomas 
Ford  became  the  Democratic  candidate  for  Gov- 
ernor in  1842,  taking  the  place  on  the  ticket  of 
Col.  Adam  W.  Snyder,  who  had  died  after  nomi- 
nation. Ford  was  elected  by  more  than  8,000 
majority  over  ex-Governor  Duncan,  the  Whig 
candidate.  John  Moore,  of  McLean  County  (who 
had  been  a  member  of  the  Legislature  for  several 
terms  and  was  afterwards  State  Treasurer), 
was  elected  Lieutenant-Governor.  (See  Ford, 
Thomas;  Snyder,  Adam  W.,  and  Moore,  John.) 

EMBARRASSING  QUESTIONS. — The  failure  of  the 
State  and  the  Shawneetown  banks,  near  the  close 
of  Carlin's  administration,  had  produced  a  condi- 
tion of  business  depression  that  was  felt  all  over 
the  State.  At  the  beginning  of  Ford's  adminis- 
tration, the  State  debt  was  estimated  at  $15,657,- 
950 — within  about  one  million  of  the  highest 
point  it  ever  reached — while  the  total  population 
was  a  little  over  half  a  million.  In  addition  to 
these  drawbacks,  the  Mormon  question  became  a 
source  of  embarrassment.  This  people,  after 
having  been  driven  from  Missouri,  settled  at 
Nauvoo,  in  Hancock  County;  they  increased 
rapidly  in  numbers,  and,  by  the  arrogant  course 
of  their  leaders  and  their  odious  doctrines — 
especially  with  reference  to  "celestial  marriage," 
and  their  assumptions  of  authority — aroused  the 
bitter  hostility  of  neighboring  communities  not 


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of  their  faith.  The  popular  indignation  became 
greatly  intensified  by  the  course  of  unscrupulous 
politicians  and  the  granting  to  the  Mormons,  by 
the  Legislature,  of  certain  charters  and  special 
privileges.  Various  charges  were  made  against 
the  obnoxious  sect,  including  rioting,  kidnap- 
ing, robbery,  counterfeiting,  etc.,  and  the  Gov- 
ernor called  out  the  militia  of  the  neighboring 
counties  to  preserve  the  peace.  Joseph  Smith — 
the  founder  of  the  sect — with  his  brother  Hyrum 
and  three  others,  were  induced  to  surrender  to 
the  authorities  at  Carthage,  on  the  23d  of  June, 
1844,  under  promise  of  protection  of  their  per- 
sons. Then  the  charge  was  changed  to  treason 
and  they  were  thrown  into  jail,  a  guard  of  eight 
men  being  placed  about  the  building.  A  con- 
siderable portion  of  the  militia  had  disbanded  and 
returned  home,  while  others  were  openly  hostile 
to  the  prisoners.  On  June  27  a  band  of  150 
disguised  men  attacked  the  jail,  finding  little 
opposition  among  those  set  to  guard  it.  In 
the  assault  which  followed  both  of  the  Smiths 
were  killed,  while  John  Taylor,  another  of 
the  prisoners,  was  wounded.  The  trial  of  the 
murderers  was  a  farce  and  they  were  acquitted. 
A  state  of  virtual  war  continued  for  a  year, 
in  which  Governor  Ford's  authority  was  openly 
defied  or  treated  with  contempt  by  those  whom 
he  had  called  upon  to  preserve  the  peace.  In 
the  fall  of  1845  the  Mormons  agreed  to  leave 
the  State,  and  the  following  spring  the  pilgrim- 
age to  Salt  Lake  began.  Gen.  John  J.  Hardin, 
who  afterward  fell  at  Buena  Vista,  was  twice 
called  on  by  Governor  Ford  to  head  parties  of 
militia  to  restore  order,  while  Gen.  Mason  Bray- 
man  conducted  the  negotiations  which  resulted 
in  the  promise  of  removal.  The  great  body  of 
the  refugees  spent  the  following  winter  at  Coun- 
cil Bluffs,  Iowa,  arriving  at  Salt  Lake  in  June 
following.  Another  considerable  body  entered 
the  service  of  the  Government  to  obtain  safe  con- 
duct and  sustenance  across  the  plains.  While 
the  conduct  of  the  Mormons  during  their  stay 
at  Nauvoo  was,  no  doubt,  very  irritating  and 
often  lawless,  it  is  equally  true  that  the  dis- 
ordered condition  of  affairs  was  taken  advantage 
of  by  unscrupulous  demagogues  for  dishonest 
purposes,  and  this  episode  has  left  a  stigma 
upon  the  name  of  more  than  one  over-zealous  anti- 
Mormon  hero.  (See  Mormons;  Smith,  Joseph.) 

Though  Governor  Ford's  integrity  and  ability 
in  certain  directions  have  not  been  questioned, 
his  administration  was  not  a  successful  one, 
largely  on  account  of  the  conditions  which  pre- 
vailed at  the  time  and  the  embarrassments  which 


he  met  from  his  own  party.     (See  Ford,  Thomas.) 
MEXICAN  WAR. — A  still  more  tragic  chapter 
opened  during  the  last  year  of  Ford's  administra- 
tion, in  the  beginning  of  the  war  with  Mexico. 
Three  regiments  of  twelve  months'  volunteers, 
called  for  by  the  General  Government  from  the 
State  of  Illinois,   were  furnished  with  alacrity, 
and  many  more  men  offered  their  services  than 
could  be  accepted.     The  names  of  their  respective 
commanders — Cols.  John  J.  Hardin,  William  H. 
Bissell  and  Ferris  Forman — have  been  accorded 
a  high  place  in  the  annals  of  the  State  and  the 
Nation.     Hardin  was  of  an  honorable  Kentucky 
family;  he  had  achieved  distinction  at  the  bar 
and  served  in  the  State  Legislature  and  in  Con- 
gress, and  his  death  on  the  battlefield  of  Buena 
Vista  was  universally  deplored.     (See    Hardin, 
John  J.)    Bissell  afterward  served  with  distinc- 
tion in  Congress  and  was  the  first  Republican 
Governor  of  Illinois,  elected  in  1856.     Edward  D. 
Baker,   then  a  Whig  member  of    Congress,   re- 
ceived authority  to  raise  an  additional  regiment, 
and  laid  the  foundation  of  a  reputation  as  broad 
as  the  Nation.     Two  other  regiments  were  raised 
in  the  State  "for  the  war"  during  the  next  year, 
led  respectively  by  Col.  Edward  W.  B.  Newby  and 
James  Collins,  beside  four  independent  companies 
of  mounted  volunteers.     The  whole  number  of 
volunteers  furnished  by  Illinois  in  this  conflict 
was   6,123,  of    whom    86   were    killed,  and   182 
wounded,  12  dying  of  their  wounds.     Their  loss 
in   killed  was  greater  than  that  of  any  other 
State,  and  the  number  of  wounded  only  exceeded 
by  those  from  South  Carolina  and  Pennsylvania. 
Among  other  Illinoisans  who  participated  in  this 
struggle,   were   Thomas  L.   Harris,   William  A. 
Richardson,  J.  L.  D.  Morrison,  Murray  F.  Tuley 
and  Charles    C.  P.  Holden,  while    still    others, 
either  in  the  ranks  or  in  subordinate  positions, 
received  the  "baptism  of  fire"  which  prepared 
them  to  win  distinction  as  commanders  of  corps, 
divisions,  brigades  and  regiments  during  the  War 
of  the  Rebellion,  including  such  names  as  John 
A.    Logan,   Richard    J.    Oglesby,   Benjamin    M. 
Prentiss,   James  D.   Morgan,  W.  H.  L.  Wallace 
(who   fell    at    Pittsburg  Landing),   Stephen  G. 
Hicks,    Michael    K.   Lawler,   Leonard    F.   Ross, 
Isham    N.    Haynie,   Theophilus     Lyle    Dickey, 
Dudley  Wickersham,  Isaac  C.  Pugh,  Thomas  H. 
Flynn,  J.  P.  Post,  Nathaniel  Niles,  W.  R.  Morri- 
son, and  others.     (See  Mexican  War.) 

FRENCH'S  ADMINISTRATION-MASSAC  REBELLION. 
— Except  for  the  Mexican  War,  which  was  still 
in  progress,  and  acts  of  mob  violence  in  certain 
portions  of  the  State— especially  by  a  band  of  self- 


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styled  "regulators"  in  Pope  and  Massac  Counties 
— the  administration  of  Augustus  C.  French, 
which  began  with  the  close  of  the  year  1846,  was 
a  quiet  one.  French  was  elected  at  the  previous 
August  election  by  a  vote  of  58, 700  to  36, 775  for 
Thomas  M.  Kilpatrick,  the  Whig  candidate,  and 
5,112  for  Richard  Eels,  the  Free-Soil  (or  Aboli- 
tion) candidate.  The  Whigs  held  their  first  State 
Convention  this  year  for  the  nomination  of  a 
State  ticket,  meeting  at  Peoria.  At  the  same 
election  Abraham  Lincoln  was  elected  to  Con- 
gress, defeating  Peter  Cartwright,  the  famous 
pioneer  Methodist  preacher,  who  was  the  Demo- 
cratic candidate.  At  the  session  of  the  Legisla- 
ture which  followed,  Stephen  A.  Douglas  was 
elected  to  the  United  States  Senate  as  successor 
to  James  Semple. 

NEW  CONVENTION  MOVEMENT.  —  Governor 
French  was  a  native  of  New  Hampshire,  born 
August  2,  1808;  he  had  practiced  his  profession 
as  a  lawyer  in  Crawford  County,  had  been  a 
member  of  the  Tenth  and  Eleventh  General 
Assemblies  and  Receiver  of  the  Land  Office  at 
Palestine.  The  State  had  now  begun  to  recover 
from  the  depression  caused  by  the  reverses  of 
1837  and  subsequent  years,  and  for  some  time  its 
growth  in  population  had  been  satisfactory.  The 
old  Constitution,  however,  had  been  felt  to  be  a 
hampering  influence,  especially  in  dealing  with 
the  State  debt,  and,  as  early  as  1842,  the  question 
of  a  State  Convention  to  frame  a  new  Constitu- 
tion had  been  submitted  to  popular  vote,  but  was 
defeated  by  the  narrow  margin  of  1,039  votes. 
The  Legislature  of  1844-45  adopted  a  resolution 
for  resubmission,  and  at  the  election  of  1846  it 
was  approved  by  the  people  by  a  majority  of 
35,326  in  a  total  vote  of  81,352.  The  State  then 
contained  ninety-nine  counties,  with  an  aggregate 
population  of  662,150.  The  assessed  valuation  of 
property  one  year  later  was  $92,206,493,  while 
the  State  debt  was  §16,661,795— or  more  than 
eighteen  per  cent  of  the  entire  assessed  value  of 
the  property  of  the  State. 

CONSTITUTIONAL  CONVENTION  OF  1847.  —  The 
election  of  members  of  a  State  Convention  to 
form  a  second  Constitution  for  the  State  of  Illi- 
nois, was  held  April  19,  1847.  Of  one  hundred 
and  sixty-two  members  chosen,  ninety -two  were 
Democrats,  leaving  seventy  members  to  all 
shades  of  the  opposition.  The  Convention 
assembled  at  Springfield,  June  7,  1847;  it  was 
organized  by  the  election  of  Newton  Cloud,  Per- 
manent President,  and  concluded  its  labors  after 
a  session  of  nearly  three  months,  adjourning 
August  81.  The  Constitution  was  submitted  to 


a  vote  of  the  people,  March  6,  1848,  and  was  rati 
fied  by  59,887  votes  in  its  favor  to  15,859  against. 
A  special  article  prohibiting  free  persons  of  color 
from  settling  iu  the  State  was  adopted  by  49,060 
votes  for,  to  20,883  against  it;  and  another,  pro- 
viding for  a  two-mill  tax,  by  41,017  for,  to  30,586 
against.  The  Constitution  went  into  effect  April 
1,  1848.  (See  Constitutions;  also  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1847.) 

The  provision  imposing  a  special  two-mill  tax, 
to  be  applied  to  the  payment  of  the  State  in- 
debtedness, was  the  means  of  restoring  the  State 
credit,  while  that  prohibiting  the  immigration 
of  free  persons  of  color,  though  in  accordance 
with  the  spirit  of  the  times,  brought  upon  the 
State  much  opprobrium  and  was  repudiated 
with  emphasis  during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion. 
The  demand  for  retrenchment,  caused  by  the 
financial  depression  following  the  wild  legislation 
of  1837,  led  to  the  adoption  of  many  radical  pro- 
visions in  the  new  Constitution,  some  of  which 
were  afterward  found  to  be  serious  errors  open- 
ing the  way  for  grave  abuses.  Among  these 
was  the  practical  limitation  of  the  biennial  ses- 
sions of  the  General  Assembly  to  forty-two  days, 
while  the  per  diem  of  members  was  fixed  at  two 
dollars.  The  salaries  of  State  officers  were  also 
fixed  at  what  would  now  be  recognized  as  an 
absurdly  low  figure,  that  of  Governor  being 
$1,500;  Supreme  Court  Judges,  SI, 200  each;  Cir- 
cuit Judges,  §1,000;  State  Auditor,  $1,000;  Secre- 
tary of  State,  and  State  Treasurer,  §800  each. 
Among  less  objectionable  provisions  were  those 
restricting  the  right  of  suffrage  to  white  male 
citizens  above  the  age  of  21  years,  which  excluded 
(except  as  to  residents  of  the  State  at  the  time  of 
the  adoption  of  the  Constitution)  a  class  of 
unnaturalized  foreigners  who  had  exercised  the 
privilege  as  "inhabitants"  under  the  Constitu- 
tion of  1818;  providing  for  the  election  of  all 
State,  judicial  and  county  officers  by  popular 
vote;  prohibiting  the  State  from  incurring  in- 
debtedness in  excess  of  $50,000  without  a  special 
vote  of  the  people,  or  granting  the  credit  of  the 
State  in  aid  of  any  individual  association  or  cor- 
poration; fixing  the  date  of  the  State  election 
on  the  Tuesday  after  the  first  Monday  in  Novem- 
ber in  every,  fourth  year,  instead  of  the  first. 
Monday  in  August,  as  had  been  the  rule  under 
the  old  Constitution.  The  tenure  of  office  of  all 
State  officers  was  fixed  at  four  years,  except  that 
of  State  Treasurer,  which  was  made  two  3'ears, 
and  the  Governor  alone  was  made  ineligible  to 
immediate  re-election.  The  number  of  members 
of  the  General  Assembly  was  fixed  at  twenty-five 


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in  the  Senate  and  seventy-five  in  the  House, 
subject  to  a  certain  specified  ratio  of  in- 
crease when  the  population  should  exceed 
1,000,000. 

As  the  Constitution  of  1818  had  been  modeled 
upon  the  form  then  most  popular  in  the  Southern 
States-  —  especially  with  reference  to  the  large 
number  of  officers  made  appointive  by  the  Gov- 
ernor, or  elective  by  the  Legislature — so  the  new 
Constitution  was,  in  some  of  its  features,  more  in 
harmony  with  those  of  other  Northern  States, 
and  indicated  the  growing  influence  of  New  Eng- 
land sentiment.  This  was  especially  the  case 
with  reference  to  the  section  providing  for  a  sys- 
tem of  township  organization  in  the  several 
counties  of  the  State  at  the  pleasure  of  a  majority 
of  the  voters  of  each  county. 

ELECTIONS  OP  1848. — Besides  the  election  for 
the  ratification  of  the  State  Constitution,  three 
other  State  elections  were  held  in  1848,  viz. :  (1) 
for  the  election  of  State  officers  in  August;  (2) 
an  election  of  Judges  in  September,  and  (3)  the 
Presidential  election  in  November.  At  the  first 
of  these,  Governor  French,  whose  first  term  had 
been  cut  short  two  years  by  the  adoption  of  the 
new  Constitution,  was  re-elected  for  a  second 
term,  practically  without  opposition,  the  vote 
against  him  being  divided  between  Pierre  Menard 
and  Dr.  C.  V.  Dyer.  French  thus  became  his 
own  successor,  being  the  first  Illinois  Governor 
to  be  re-elected,  and,  though  two  years  of  his 
first  term  had  been  cut  off  by  the  adoption  of  the 
Constitution,  he  served  in  the  gubernatorial 
office  six  years.  The  other  State  officers  elected, 
were  William  McMurtry,  of  Knox,  Lieutenant- 
Governor;  Horace  S.  Cooley,  of  Adams,  Secretary 
of  State;  Thomas  H.  Campbell,  of  Randolph, 
Auditor;  and  Milton  Carpenter,  of  Hamilton, 
State  Treasurer  —  all  Democrats,  and  all  but 
McMurtry  being  their  own  successors.  At  the 
Presidential  election  in  November,  the  electoral 
vote  was  given  to  Lewis  Cass,  the  Democratic 
candidate,  who  received  56,300  votes,  to  53,047 
for  Taylor,  the  Whig  candidate,  and  15,774  for 
Martin  Van  Buren,  the  candidate  of  the  Free 
Democracy  or  Free-Soil  party.  Thus,  for  the  first 
time  in  the  history  of  the  State  after  1824,  the 
Democratic  candidate  for  President  failed  to 
receive  an  absolute  majority  of  the  popular  vote, 
being  in  a  minority  of  12,521,  while  having  a 
plurality  over  the  Whig  candidate  of  3,253.  The 
only  noteworthy  results  in  the  election  of  Con- 
gressmen this  year  were  the  election  of  Col.  E.  D. 
Baker  (Whig),  from  the  Galena  District,  and 
that  of  Maj.  Thomas  L.  Harris  (Democrat),  from 


the  Springfield  District.  Both  Baker  and  Harris 
had  been  soldiers  in  the  Mexican  War,  which 
probably  accounted  for  their  election  in  Districts 
usually  opposed  to  them  politically.  The  other 
five  Congressmen  elected  from  the  State  at  the 
same  time — including  John  Wentworth,  then 
chosen  for  a  fourth  term  from  the  Chicago  Dis- 
trict— were  Democrats.  The  Judges  elected  to 
the  Supreme  bench  were  Lyman  Trumbull,  from 
the  Southern  Division;  Samuel  H.  Treat,  from 
the  Central,  and  John  Dean  Caton,  from  the 
Northern — all  Democrats. 

A  leading  event  of  this  session  was  the  election 
of  a  United  States  Senator  in  place  of  Sidney 
Breese.  Gen.  James  Shields,  who  had  been 
severely  wounded  on  the  battle-field  of  Cerro 
Gordo;  Sidney  Breese,  who  had  been  the  United 
States  Senator  for  six  years,  and  John  A.  Mc- 
Clernand,  then  a  member  of  Congress,  were 
arrayed  against  each  other  before  the  Democratic 
caucus.  After  a  bitter  contest,  Shields  was 
declared  the  choice  of  his  party  and  was  finally 
elected.  He  did  not  immediately  obtain  his  seat, 
however.  On  presentation  of  his  credentials, 
after  a  heated  controversy  in  Congress  and  out  of 
it,  in  which  he  injudiciously  assailed  his  prede- 
cessor in  very  intemperate  language,  he  was 
declared  ineligible  on  the  ground  that,  being  of 
foreign  birth,  the  nine  years  of  citizenship 
required  by  the  Constitution  after  naturalization 
had  not  elapsed  previous  to  his  election.  In 
October,  following,  the  Legislature  was  called 
together  in  special  session,  and,  Shields'  disabil- 
ity having  now  been  removed  by  the  expiration 
of  the  constitutional  period,  he  was  re-elected, 
though  not  without  a  renewal  of  the  bitter  con- 
test of  the  regular  session.  Another  noteworthy 
event  of  this  special  session  was  the  adoption  of 
a  joint  resolution  favoring  the  principles  of  the 
"Wilmot  Proviso."  Although  this  was  rescinded 
at  the  next  regular  session,  on  the  ground  that  the 
points  at  issue  had  been  settled  in  the  Compro- 
mise measures  of  1850,  it  indicated  the  drift  of 
sentiment  in  Illinois  toward  opposition  to  the 
spread  of  the  institution  of  slavery,  and  this  was 
still  more  strongly  emphasized  by  the  election  of 
Abraham  Lincoln  in  1860. 

ILLINOIS  CENTRAL  RAILROAD. — Two  important 
measures  which  passed  the  General  Assembly  at 
the  session  of  1851,  were  the  Free-Banking  Law, 
and  the  act  incorporating  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad  Company.  The  credit  of  first  suggest- 
ing this  great  thoroughfare  has  been  claimed  for 
William  Smith  Waite,  a  citizen  of  Bond  County, 
111. ,  as  early  as  1835,  although  a  special  charter 


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for  a  road  over  a  part  of  this  line  had  been  passed 
by  the  Legislature  in  183-1.  W.  K.  Ackermau,  in 
his  "Historical  Sketch''  of  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad,  awards  the  credit  of  originating  this 
enterprise  to  Lieut. -Gov.  Alexander  M.  Jenkins, 
in  the  Legislature  of  1832,  of  which  he  was  a 
member,  and  Speaker  of  the  House  at  the  time. 
He  afterwards  became  President  of  the  first  Illi- 
nois Central  Railroad  Company,  organized  under 
an  act  passed  at  the  session  of  1836,  which  pro- 
vided for  the  construction  of  a  line  from  Cairo  to 
Peru,  111.,  but  resigned  the  next  year  on  the  sur- 
render by  the  road  of  its  charter.  The  first  step 
toward  legislation  in  Congress  on  this  subject 
was  taken  in  the  introduction,  by  Senator  Breese, 
of  a  bill  in  March,  1843 ;  but  it  was  not  until  1850 
that  the  measure  took  the  form  of  a  direct  grant 
of  lands  to  the  State,  finally  passing  the  Senate 
in  May,  and  the  House  in  September,  following. 
The  act  ceded  to  the  State  of  Illinois,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  aiding  in  the  construction  of  a  line  of 
railroad  from  the  junction  of  the  Ohio  and  Mis- 
sissippi, with  branches  to  Chicago  and  Dubuque, 
Iowa,  respectively,  alternate  sections  of  land  on 
each  side  of  said  railroad,  aggregating  2,595,000 
acres,  the  length  of  the  main  line  and  branches 
exceeding  seven  hundred  miles.  An  act  incorpo- 
rating the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  Company 
passed  the  Illinois  Legislature  in  February,  1851. 
The  company  was  thereupon  promptly  organized 
with  a  number  of  New  York  capitalists  at  its 
head,  including  Robert  Schuyler,  George  Gris- 
wold  and  Gouverneur  Morris,  and  the  grant  was 
placed  in  the  hands  of  trustees  to  be  used  for  the 
purpose  designated,  under  the  pledge  of  the 
Company  to  build  the  road  by  July  4,  1854,  and 
to  pay  seven  per  cent  of  its  gross  earnings  into 
the  State  Treasury  perpetually.  A  large  propor- 
tion of  the  line  was  constructed  through  sections 
of  country  either  sparsely  settled  or  wholly 
unpopulated,  but  which  have  since  become 
among  the  richest  and  most  populous  portions  of 
the  State.  The  fund  already  received  by  the  State 
from  the  road  exceeds  the  amount  of  the  State 
debt  incurred  under  the  internal  improvement 
scheme  of  1837.  (See  Illinois  Central  Railroad.) 
ELECTION  OF  1852. — Joel  A.  Matteson  (Demo- 
crat) was  elected  Governor  at  the  November 
election,  in  1852,  receiving  80,645  votes  to  64,405 
for  Edwin  B.  Webb,  Whig,  and  8,809  for  Dexter 
A.  Knowlton,  Free-Soil.  The  other  State  officers 
elected,  were  Gustavus  Koerner,  Lieutenant- 
Governor ;  Alexander  Starne,  Secretary  of  State ; 
Thomas  H.  Campbell,  Auditor;  and  John  Moore, 
Treasurer.  The  Whig  candidates  for  these 


offices,  respectively,  were  James  L.  D.  Morrison, 
Buckner  S.  Morris,  Charles  A.  Betts  and  Francis 
Arenz.  John  A.  Logan  appeared  among  the  new 
members  of  the  House  chosen  at  this  election  as 
a  Representative  from  Jackson  County;  while 
Henry  W.  Blodgett,  since  United  States  District 
Judge  for  the  Northern  District  of  Illinois,  and 
late  Counsel  of  the  American  Arbitrators  of  the 
Behring  Sea  Commission,  was  the  only  Free-Soil 
member,  being  the  Representative  from  Lake 
County.  John  Reynolds,  who  had  been  Gov- 
ernor, a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  and  Mem- 
ber of  Congress,  was  a  member  of  the  House  and 
was  elected  Speaker.  (See  Webb,  Edwin  B.; 
Knowlton,  Dexter  A.;  Koerner,  Gustavus;  Starne, 
Alexander;  Moore,  John;  Morrison,  James  L.  D.; 
Morris,  Buckner  S.;  Arenz,  Francis  A.;  Blodgett 
Henry  W.) 

REDUCTION  OF  STATE  DEBT  BEGINS. — The 
State  debt  reached  its  maximum  at  the  beginning 
of  Matteson 's  administration,  amounting  to 
$16,724,177,  of  which  §7,259,822  was  canal  debt. 
The  State  had  now  entered  upon  a  new  and  pros- 
perous period,  and,  in  the  next  four  years,  the 
debt  was  reduced  by  the  sum  of  §4,564,840, 
leaving  the  amount  outstanding,  Jan.  1,  1857, 
§12,834,144.  The  three  State  institutions  at 
Jacksonville  —  the  Asylums  for  the  Deaf  and 
Dumb,  the  Blind  and  Insane — had  been  in  suc- 
cessful operation  several  years,  but  now  internal 
dissensions  and  dissatisfaction  with  their  man- 
agement seriously  interfered  with  their  prosperity 
and  finally  led  to  revolutions  which,  for  a  time, 
impaired  their  usefulness. 

KANSAS-NEBRASKA  EXCITEMENT. — During  Mat- 
teson's  administration  a  period  of  political  ex- 
citement began,  caused  by  the  introduction  in 
the  United  States  Senate,  in  January,  1854,  by 
Senator  Douglas,  of  Illinois,  of  the  bill  for  the 
repeal  of  the  Missouri  Compromise — otherwise 
known  as  the  Kansas-Nebraska  Bill.  Although 
this  belongs  rather  to  National  history,  the 
prominent  part  played  in  it  by  an  Illinois  states- 
man who  had  won  applause  three  or  four  years 
before,  by  the  service  he  had  performed  in  secur- 
ing the  passage  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad 
grant,  and  the  effect  which  his  course  had  in 
revolutionizing  the  politics  of  the  State,  justifies 
reference  to  it  here.  After  a  debate,  almost 
unprecedented  in  bitterness,  it  became  a  law, 
May  30,  1854.  The  agitation  in  Illinois  was 
intense.  At  Chicago,  Douglas  was  practically 
denied  a  hearing.  Going  to  Springfield,  where 
the  State  Fair  was  in  progress,  during  the  first 
week  of  October,  1854,  he  made  a  speech  in  the 


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State  Capitol  in  his  defense.     This  was  replied  to 
by  Abraham  Lincoln,  then  a  private  citizen,  to 
whom  Douglas  made  a  rejoinder.     Speeches  were 
also  made  in.  criticism  of  Douglas'  position  by 
Judges  Breese  and  Trumbull  (both  of  whom  had 
been  prominent   Democrats),  and    other  Demo- 
cratic leaders  were  understood  to  be    ready  to 
assail  the  champion  of  the  Kansas-Nebraska  Bill, 
though  they  afterwards  reversed  their  position 
under  partisan  pressure  and  became  supporters  of 
the  measure.     The  first  State  Convention  of  the 
opponents  of  the  Nebraska  Bill  was  held  at  the 
same  time,  but  the  attendance  was  small  and  the 
attempt  to  effect  a  permanent  organization  was 
not  successful.     At  the  session  of  the  Nineteenth 
General  Assembly,   which  met  in  January,   fol- 
lowing,  Lyman  Trumbull  was  chosen  the  first 
Republican  United  States  Senator  from  Illinois, 
in  place  of  General  Shields,  whose  term  was  about 
to  expire.     Trumbull  was  elected  on  tne  tenth 
ballot,   receiving  fifty-one  votes    to  forty-seven 
for  Governor  Matteson,  though  Lincoln  had  led 
on  the  Republican  side  at  every  previous  ballot, 
and  on  the  first  had  come  within  six  votes  of  an 
election.     Although  he  was  then  the  choice  of  a 
large  majority  of  the  opposition  to  the  Demo- 
cratic candidate,  when    Lincoln    saw  that    the 
original  supporters  of  Trumbull  would  not  cast 
their  votes  for   himself,  he   generously  insisted 
that  his  friends  should   support  his  rival,  thus 
determining  the  result.    (See  Matteson,  Joel  A.; 
Trumbull,  Lyman,  and  Lincoln,  Abraham.) 

DECATUR  EDITORIAL  CONVENTION. — On  Feb. 
22,  1856,  occurred  the  convention  of  Anti-Neb- 
raska (Republican)  editors  at  Decatur,  which 
proved  the  first  effective  step  in  consolidating 
the  opposition  to  the  Kansas-Nebraska  Bill  into  a 
compact  political  organization.  The  main  busi- 
ness of  this  convention  consisted  in  the  adoption 
of  a  series  of  resolutions  defining  the  position  of 
their  authors  on  National  questions — especially 
with  reference  to  the  institution  of  slavery — and 
appointing  a  State  Convention  to  be  held  at 
Bloomington,  May  29,  following.  A  State  Cen- 
tral Committee  to  represent  the  new  party  was 
also  appointed  at  this  convention.  With  two  or 
three  exceptions  the  Committeemen  accepted  and 
joined  in  the  call  for  the  State  Convention,  which 
was  held  at  the  time  designated,  when  the  first 
Republican  State  ticket  was  put  in  the  field. 
Among  the  distinguished  men  who  participated 
in  this  Convention  were  Abraham  Lincoln,  O.  H. 
Browning,  Richard  Yates,  Owen  Lovejoy,  John 
M.  Palmer,  Isaac  N.  Arnold  and  John  Went 
worth.  Palmer  presided,  while  Abraham  Lin- 


coln, who  was  one  of  the  chief  speakers,  was  one 
of  the  delegates  appointed  to  the  National  Con- 
vention, held  at  Philadelphia  on  the  17th  of  June. 
The  candidates  put  in  nomination  for  State  offices 
were :     William  H.  Bissell  for  Governor ;  Francis 
A.  Hoffman  for  Lieutenant-Governor  (afterward 
replaced  by  John  Wood  on  account  of.  Hoffman's 
ineligibility) ;   Ozias  M.  Hatch  for  Secretary  of 
State;  Jesse  K.   Dubois  for  Auditor;   James  H. 
Miller  for  State  Treasurer,  and  William  H.  Powell 
for  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction.     The 
Democratic  ticket  was  composed  of  William  A. 
Richardson  for  Governor;  R.  J.  Hamilton,  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor ;   W.  H.   Snyder,    Secretary    of 
State;  S.  K.  Casey,  Auditor;  John  Moore,  Treas- 
urer, and  J.  H.  St.  Matthew,  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction.     The  American  organization 
also  nominated  a  ticket  headed  by  Buckner  S. 
Morris  for  Governor.     Although  the  Democrats 
carried  the  State  for  Buchanan,  their  candidate 
for  President,  by  a  plurality  of  9,159,  the  entire 
Republican  State  ticket  was  elected  by  pluralities 
ranging  from  3,031  to  20,213— the  latter  being  the 
majority  for  Miller,  candidate  for  State  Treas- 
urer, whose  name  was  on  both  the  Republican  and 
American  tickets.     (See  Anti-Nebraska  Editorial 
Convention,    and    Bloomington    Convention    of 
1856. ) 

ADMINISTRATION  OF  GOVERNOR  BISSELL.  — 
With  the  inauguration  of  Governor  Bissell,  the 
Republican  party  entered  upon  the  control  of  the 
State  Government,  which  was  maintained  with- 
out interruption  until  the  close  of  the  administra- 
tion of  Governor  Fifer,  in  January,  1893 — a  period 
of  thirty-six  years.  On  account  of  physical  disa- 
bility Bissell's  inauguration  took  place  in  the 
executive  mansion,  Jan.  12,  1857.  He  was 
immediately  made  the  object  of  virulent  personal 
abuse  in  the  House,  being  charged  with  perjury 
in  taking  the  oath  of  office  in  face  of  the  fact 
that,  while  a  member  of  Congress,  he  had  accepted 
a  challenge  to  fight  a  duel  with  Jefferson  Davis. 
To  this,  the  reply  was  made  that  the  offense 
charged  took  place  outside  of  the  State  and  be- 
yond the  legal  jurisdiction  of  the  Constitution  of 
Illinois.  (See  Bissell,  William  H. ) 

While  the  State  continued  to  prosper  under 
Bissell's  administration,  the  most  important 
events  of  this  period  related  rather  to  general 
than  to  State  policy.  One  of  these  was  the  deliv- 
ery by  Abraham  Lincoln,  in  the  Hall  of  Repre- 
sentatives, on  the  evening  of  June  17,  1858,  of  the 
celebrated  speech  in  which  he  announced  the 
doctrine  that  "a  house  divided  against  itself  can- 
not stand."  This  was  followed  during  the  next 


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few  months  by  the  series  of  memorable  debates 
between  those  two  great  champions  of  their 
respective  parties— Lincoln  and  Douglas — which 
attracted  the  attention  of  the  whole  land.  The 
result  was  the  re-election  of  Douglas  to  the 
United  States  Senate  for  a  third  term,  but  it 
also  made  Abraham  Lincoln  President  of  the 
United  States.  (See  Lincoln  and  Douglas 
Debates. ) 

About  the  middle  of  Bissell's  term  (February, 
1859),  came  the  discovery  of  what  has  since  been 
known  as  the  celebrated  "Canal  Scrip  Fraud." 
This  consisted  in  the  fraudulent  funding  in  State 
bonds  of  a  large  amount  of  State  scrip  which  had 
been  issued  for  temporary  purposes  during  the 
construction  of  the  Illinois  and  Michigan  Canal, 
but  which  had  been  subsequently  redeemed.  A 
legislative  investigation  proved  the  amount  ille- 
gally funded  to  have  been  $223,182,  and  that  the 
bulk  of  the  bonds  issued  therefor — so  far  as  they 
could  be  traced — had  been  delivered  to  ex-Gov. 
Joel  A.  Matteson.  For  this  amount,  with  ac- 
crued interest,  he  gave  to  the  State  an  indemnity 
bond,  secured  by  real-estate  mortgages,  from 
which  the  State  eventually  realized  §238,000  out 
of  $255,000  then  due.  Further  investigation 
proved  additional  frauds  of  like  character,  aggre- 
gating $165,346,  which  the  State  never  recovered. 
An  attempt  was  made  to  prosecute  Matteson 
criminally  in  the  Sangamon  County  Circuit 
Court,  but  the  grand  jury  failed,  by  a  close  vote, 
to  find  an  indictment  against  him.  (See  Canal 
Scrip  Fraud. ) 

An  attempt  was  made  during  Bissell's  adminis- 
tration to  secure  the  refunding  (at  par  and  in 
violation  of  an  existing  law)  of  one  hundred  and 
fourteen  $1,000  bonds  hypothecated  with  Macalis- 
ter  &  Stebbins  of  New  York  in  1841,  and  for 
which  the  State  had  received  an  insignificant 
consideration.  The  error  was  discovered  when 
new  bonds  for  the  principal  had  been  issued,  but 
the  process  was  immediately  stopped  and  the 
new  bonds  surrendered — the  claimants  being 
limited  by  law  to  28.64  cents  on  the  dollar.  This 
subject  is  treated  at  length  elsewhere  in  this  vol- 
ume. (See  Macalister  &  Stebbins  Bonds. )  Governor 
Bissell's  administration  was  otherwise  unevent- 
ful, although  the  State  continued  to  prosper 
under  it  as  it  had  not  done  since  the  "internal 
improvement  craze"  of  1837  had  resulted  in  im- 
posing such  a  burden  of  debt  upon  it.  At  the 
time  of  his  election  Governor  Bissell  was  an 
invalid  in  consequence  of  an  injury  to  his  spine, 
from  which  he  never  recovered.  He  died  in 
office,  March  18,  1860,  a  little  over  two  months 


after  having  entered  upon  the  last  year  of  his 
term  of  office,  and  was  succeeded  by  Lieut.  -Gov. 
John  Wood,  who  served  out  the  unexpired  term. 
(See  Bissell,  William  H.;  also  Wood,  John.) 

POLITICAL  CAMPAIGN  OF  I860.— The  political 
campaign  of  1860  was  one  of  unparalleled  excite- 
ment throughout  the  nation,  but  especially  in 
Illinois,  which  became,  in  a  certain  sense,  the 
chief  battle-ground,  furnishing  the  successful 
candidate  for  the  Presidency,  as  well  as  being  the 
State  in  which  the  convention  which  nominated 
him  met.  The  Republican  State  Convention, 
held  at  Decatur,  May  9,  put  in  nomination 
Richard  Yates  of  Morgan  County,  for  Governor ; 
Francis  A.  Hoffman  for  Lieutenant-Governor, 
O.  M.  Hatch  for  Secretary  of  State,  Jesse  K. 
Dubois  for  Auditor,  William  Butler  for  Treasurer, 
and  Newton  Bateman  for  Superintendent  of  Pub- 
lic Instruction.  If  this  campaign  was  memorable 
for  its  excitement,  it  was  also  memorable  for  the 
large  number  of  National  and  State  tickets  in  the 
field.  The  National  Republican  Convention 
assembled  at  Chicago,  May  16,  and,  on  the  third 
ballot,  Abraham  Lincoln  was  nominated  for 
President  amid  a  whirlwind  of  enthusiasm  unsur- 
passed in  the  history  of  National  Conventions,  of 
which  so  many  have  been  held  in  the  "conven- 
tion city"  of  the  Northwest.  The  campaign  was 
what  might  have  been  expected  from  such  a 
beginning.  Lincoln,  though  receiving  consider- 
ably less  than  one-half  the  popular  vote,  had  a 
plurality  over  his  highest  competitor  of  nearly 
half  a  million  votes,  and  a  majority  in  the  elect- 
oral colleges  of  fifty-seven.  In  Illinois  he 
received  172,161  votes  to  160,215  for  Douglas,  his 
leading  opponent.  The  vote  for  Governor  stood : 
Yates  (Republican),  172,196;  Allen  (Douglas- 
Democrat),  159,253;  Hope  (Breckinridge  Demo- 
crat), 2,049;  Stuart  (American),  1,626. 

Among  the  prominent  men  of  different  parties 
who  appeared  for  the  first  time  in  the  General 
Assembly  chosen  at  this  time,  were  William  B. 
Ogden,  Richard  J.  Oglesby,  Washington  Bushnell, 
and  Henry  E.  Dummer,  of  the  Senate,  and  Wil- 
liam R.  Archer,  J.  Russell  Jones,  Robert  H. 
McClellan,  J.  Young  Scammon,  William  H. 
Brown,  Lawrence  Weldon,  N.  M.  Broadwell,  and 
John  Scholfield,  in  the  House.  Shelby  M.  Cul-~ 
lorn,  who  had  entered  the  Legislature  at  the 
previous  session,  was  re-elected  to  this  and  was 
chosen  Speaker  of  the  House  over  J.  W.  Single- 
ton. Lyman  Trumbull  was  re-elected  to  the 
United  States  Senate  by  the  votes  of  the  Repub- 
licans over  Samuel  S.  Marshall,  the  Democratic 
candidate. 


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BEGINNING  OF  THE  REBELLION. — Almost  simul- 
taneously with  the  accession  of  the  new  State 
Government,  and  before  the  inauguration  of  the 
President  at  Washington;  began  that  series  of 
startling  events  which  ultimately  culminated  in 
the  attempted  secession  of  eleven  States  of  the 
Union — the  first  acts  in  the  great  drama  of  war 
which  occupied  the  attention  of  the  world  for  the 
next  four  years.  On  Jan.  14,  1861,  the  new 
State  administration  was  inaugurated ;  on  Feb.  2, 
Commissioners  to  the  futile  Peace  Conven- 
tion held  at  Washington,  were  appointed  from 
Illinois,  consisting  of  Stephen  T.  Logan,  John  M. 
Palmer,  ex-Gov.  John  Wood,  B.  C.  Cook  and  T.  J. 
Turner;  and  on  Feb.  11,  Abraham  Lincoln 
took  leave  of  his  friends  and  neighbors  at  Spring- 
field on  his  departure  for  Washington,  in  that 
simple,  touching  speech  which  has  taken  a  place 
beside  his  inaugural  addresses  and  his  Gettysburg 
speech,  as  an  American  classic.  The  events 
which  followed ;  the  firing  on  Fort  Sumter  on  the 
twelfth  of  April  and  its  surrender;  the  call  for 
75,000  troops  and  the  excitement  which  prevailed 
all  over  the  country,  are  matters  of  National  his- 
tory. Illinoisans  responded  with  promptness  and 
enthusiasm  to  the  call  for  six  regiments  of  State 
militia  for  three  months'  service,  and  one  week 
later  (April  21),  Gen.  R.  K.  Swift,  of  Chicago,  at 
the  head  of  seven  companies  numbering  595  men, 
was  en  route  for  Cairo  to  execute  the  order  of  the 
Secretary  of  War  for  the  occupation  of  that 
place.  The  offer  of  military  organizations  pro- 
ceeded rapidly,  and  by  the  eighteenth  of  April, 
fifty  companies  had  been  tendered,  while  the 
public-spirited  and  patriotic  bankers  of  the  prin- 
cipal cities  were  offering  to  supply  the  State  with 
money  to  arm  and  equip  the  hastily  organized 
troops.  Following  in  order  the  six  regiments 
which  Illinois  had  sent  to  the  Mexican  War, 
those  called  out  for  the  three  months'  service  in 
1861  were  numbered  consecutively  from  seven  to 
twelve,  and  were  commanded  by  the  following 
officers,  respectively:  Cols.  John  Cook,  Richard 
J.  Oglesby,  Eleazer  A.  Paine,  James  D.  Morgan, 
W.  H.  L.  Wallace  and  John  McArthur,  with 
Gen.  Benjamin  M.  Prentiss  as  brigade  com- 
mander. The  rank  and  file  numbered  4,680  men, 
of  whom  2,000,  at  the  end  of  their  term  of  serv- 
ice, re-enlisted  for  three  years.  (See  War  of  the 
Rebellion. ) 

Among  the  many  who  visited  the  State  Capitol 
in  the  early  months  of  war  to  offer  their  services 
to  the  Government  in  suppressing  the  Rebellion, 
one  of  the  most  modest  and  unassuming  was  a 
gentleman  from  Galena  who  brought  a  letter  of 


introduction  to  Governor  Yates  from  Congress- 
man E.  B.  Washburne.  Though  he  had  been  a 
Captain  in  the  regular  army  and  had  seen  service 
in  the  war  with  Mexico,  he  set  up  no  pretension 
on  that  account,  but  after  days  of  patient  wait- 
ing, was  given  temporary  employment  as  a  clerk 
in  the  office  of  the  Adjutant-General,  Col.  T.  S. 
Mather.  Finally,  an  emergency  having  arisen 
requiring  the  services  of  an  officer  of  military 
experience  as  commandant  at  Camp  Yates  (a 
camp  of  rendezvous  and  instruction  near  Spring- 
field), he  was  assigned  to  the  place,  rather  as  an 
experiment  and  from  necessity  than  from  convic- 
tion of  any  peculiar  fitness  for  the  position. 
Having  acquitted  himself  creditably  here,  he  was 
assigned,  a  few  weeks  later,  to  the  command  of  a 
regiment  (The  Twenty-first  Illinois  Volunteers) 
which,  from  previous  bad  management,  had 
manifested  a  mutinous  tendency.  And  thus 
Ulysses  S.  Grant,  the  most  successful  leader  of 
the  war,  the  organizer  of  final  victory  over  the 
Rebellion,  the  Lieutenant-General  of  the  armies 
of  the  Union  and  twice  elected  President  of  the 
United  States,  started  upon  that  career  which 
won  for  him  the  plaudits  of  the  Nation  and  the 
title  of  the  grandest  soldier  of  his  time.  (See 
Grant,  Ulysses  S.) 

The  responses  of  Illinois,  under  the  leadership 
of  its  patriotic  "War  Governor,"  Richard  Yates, 
to  the  repeated  calls  for  volunteers  through  the 
four  years  of  war,  were  cheerful  and  prompt.  Illi- 
nois troops  took  part  in  nearly  every  important 
battle  in  the  Mississippi  Valley  and  in  many  of 
those  in  the  East,  besides  accompanying  Sher- 
man in  his  triumphal  "March  to  the  Sea."  Illi- 
nois blood  stained  the  field  at  Belmont,  at 
Wilson's  Creek,  Lexington,  Forts  Donelson  and 
Henry ;  at  Shiloh,  Corinth,  Nashville,  Stone  River 
and  Chickamauga;  at  Jackson,  during  the  siege 
of  Vicksburg,  at  Allatoona  Pass,  Kenesaw  Moun- 
tain, Resaca,  Peach  Tree  Creek  and  Atlanta,  in 
the  South  and  West;  and  at  Chancellorsville, 
Antietam,  Gettysburg,  Petersburg  and  in  the 
battles  of  "the  Wilderness"  in  Virginia.  Of  all 
the  States  of  the  Union,  Illinois  alone,  up  to 
Feb.  1,  1864,  presented  the  proud  record  of  hav- 
ing answered  every  call  upon  her  for  troops 
without  a  draft.  The  whole  number  of  enlist- 
ments from  the  State  under  the  various  calls  from 
1861  to  1865,  according  to  the  records  of  the  War 
Department,  was  255,057  to  meet  quotas  aggre- 
gating 244,496.  The  ratio  of  troops  furnished  to 
population  was  15.1  per  cent,  which  was  only 
exceeded  by  the  District  of  Columbia  (which 
had  a  large  influx  from  the  States) ,  and  Kansas 


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and  Nevada,  each  of  which  had  a  much  larger 
proportion  of  adult  male  population.  The  whole 
number  of  regimental  organizations,  according 
to  the  returns  in  the  Adjutant  General's  office, 
waa  151  regiments  of  infantry  (numbered  con- 
secutively from  the  Sixth  to  the  One  Hundred 
and  Fifty-seventh),  17  regiments  of  cavalry  and  2 
regiments  of  artillery,  besides  9  independent  bat- 
teries. The  total  losses  of  Illinois  troops,  officially 
reported  by  the  War  Department,  were  34,834 
(13.65  per  cent),  of  which  5,874  were  killed  in 
battle,  4,020  died  of  wounds,  22,786  died  of  disease, 
and  2, 154  from  other  causes.  Besides  the  great 
Commander-in-Chief,  Abraham  Lincoln,  and 
Lieut. -Gen.  Ulysses  S.  Grant,  Illinois  furnished 
11  full  Major-Generals  of  volunteers,  viz. : 
Generals  John  Pope,  John  A.  McClernand,  S.  A. 
Hurlbut,  B.  M.  Prentiss,  John  M.  Palmer,  R.  J. 
Oglesby,  John  A.  Logan,  John  M.  Schofield,  Giles 
A.  Smith,  Wesley  Merritt  and  Benjamin  H. 
Grierson;  20  Brevet  Major-Generals ;  24  Brigadier- 
Generals,  and  over  120  Brevet  Brigadier-Generals. 
(See  sketches  of  these  officers  under  their  respec- 
tive names. )  Among  the  long  list  of  regimental 
officers  who  fell  upon  the  field  or  died  from 
wounds,  appear  the  names  of  Col.  J.  R.  Scott  of 
the  Nineteenth;  Col.  Thomas  D.  Williams  of  the 
Twenty-fifth,  and 'Col.  F.  A.  Harrington  of  the 
Twenty-seventh—all  killed  at  Stone  River;  Col. 
John  W.  S.  Alexander  of  the  Twenty -first;  Col. 
Daniel  Gilmer  of  the  Thirty -eighth ;  Lieut. -Col. 
Duncan  J.  Hall  of  the  Eighty -ninth ;  Col.  Timothy 
O'Meara  of  the  Ninetieth,  and  Col.  Holden  Put- 
nam, at  Chickamauga  and  Missionary  Ridge; 
Col.  John  B.  Wyman  of  the  Thirteenth,  at 
Chickasaw  Bayou;  Lieut. -Col.  Thomas  W.  Ross, 
of  the  Thirty -second,  at  Shiloh;  Col.  John  A. 
Davis  of  the  Forty -sixth,  at  Hatchie;  Col.  Wil- 
liam A.  Dickerman  of  the  One  Hundred  and 
Third,  at  Resaca;  Col.  Oscar  Harmon,  at  Kene- 
saw;  Col.  John  A.  Bross,  at  Petersburg,  besides 
Col.  Mihalotzy,  Col.  Silas  Miller,  Lieut. -Col. 
Melancthon  Smith,  Maj.  Zenas  Applington,  Col. 
John  J.  Mudd,  Col.  Matthew  H.  Starr,  Maj.  Wm. 
H.  Medill,  Col.  Warren  Stewart  and  many  more 
on  other  battle-fields.  (Biographical  sketches  of 
many  of  these  officers  will  be  found  under  the 
proper  heads  elsewhere  in  this  volume.)  It 
would  be  a  grateful  task  to  record  here  the  names 
of  a  host  of  others,  who,  after  acquitting  them- 
selves bravely  on  the  field,  survived  to  enjoy  the 
plaudits  of  a  grateful  people,  were  this  within 
the  design  and  scope  of  the  present  work.  One 
of  the  most  brilliant  exploits  of  the  War  was  the 
raid  from  La  Grange,  Tenn.,  to  Baton  Rouge, 


La.,  in  May,  1863,  led  by  Col.  B.  H.  Grierson,  of 
the  Sixth  Illinois  Cavalry,  in  co-operation  with 
the  Seventh  under  command  of  Col.  Edward 
Prince. 

CONSTITUTIONAL  CONVENTION  OF  1862.  —  An 
incident  of  a  different  character  was  the  calling 
of  a  convention  to  revise  the  State  Constitu- 
tion, which  met  at  Springfield,  Jan.  7,  1862.  A 
majority  of  this  body  was  composed  of  those 
opposed  to  the  war  policy  of  the  Government, 
and  a  disposition  to  interfere  with  the  affairs  of 
the  State  administration  and  the  General  Gov- 
ernment was  soon  manifested,  which  was  resented 
by  the  executive  and  many  of  the  soldiers  in  the 
field.  The  convention  adjourned  March  24,  and 
its  work  was  submitted  to  vote  of  the  people, 
June  17,  1862,  when  it  was  rejected  by  a  majority 
of  more  than  16,000,  not  counting  the  soldiers  in 
the  field,  who  were  permitted,  as  a  matter  of 
policy,  to  vote  upon  it,  but  who  were  practically 
unanimous  in  opposition  to  it. 

DEATH  OP  DOUGLAS. — A  few  days  before  this 
election  (June  3,  1862),  United  States  Senator 
Stephen  A.  Douglas  died,  at  the  Tremont  House 
in  Chicago,  depriving  the  Democratic  party  of 
the  State  of  its  most  sagacious  and  patriotic 
adviser.  (See  Douglas,  Stephen  A.) 

LEGISLATURE  OP  1863. — Another  political  inci* 
dent  of  this  period  grew  out  of  the  session  of  the 
General  Assembly  of  1863.  This  body  having 
been  elected  on  the  tide  of  the  political  revulsion 
which  followed  the  issuance  of  President  Lin- 
coln's preliminary  Proclamation  of  Emancipation, 
was  Democratic  in  both  branches.  One  of  its 
first  acts  was  the  election  of  William  A.  Richard- 
son United  States  Senator,  in  place  of  O.  H. 
Browning,  who  had  been  appointed  by  Governor 
Yates  to  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of 
Douglas.  This  Legislature  early  showed  a  tend- 
ency to  follow  in  the  footsteps  of  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  of  1862,  by  attempting  to 
cripple  the  State  and  General  Governments  in 
the  prosecution  of  the  war.  Resolutions  on  the 
subject  of  the  war,  whicli  the  friends  of  the 
Union  regarded  as  of  a  most  mischievous  charac- 
ter, were  introduced  and  passed  in  the  House,  but 
owing  to  the  death  of  a  member  on  the  majority 
side,  they  failed  to  pass  the  Senate.  These 
denounced  the  suspension  of  the  writ  of  habeas 
corpus;  condemned  "the  attempted  enforcement 
of  compensated  emancipation"  and  "the  transpor- 
tation of  negroes  into  the  State;"  accused  the 
General  Government  of  "usurpation,"  of  "sub- 
verting the  Constitution"  and  attempting  to 
establish  a  "consolidated  military  despotism;" 


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charged  that  the  war  had  been  "diverted  from  its 
first  avowed  object  to  that  of  subjugation  and 
the  abolition  of  slavery;"  declared  the  belief  of 
the  authors  that  its  "further  prosecution  .... 
cannot  result  in  the  restoration  of  the  Union 
....  unless  the  President's  Emancipation  Proc- 
lamation be  withdrawn;"  appealed  to  Congress 
to  secure  an  armistice  with  the  rebel  States,  and 
closed  by  appointing  six  Commissioners  (who 
were  named)  to  confer  with  Congress,  with  a 
view  to  the  holding  of  a  National  Convention  to 
adjust  the  diiferences  between  the  States.  These 
measures  occupied  the  attention  of  the  Legisla- 
ture to  the  exclusion  of  subjects  of  State  interest, 
so  that  little  legislation  was  accomplished — not 
even  the  ordinary  appropriation  bills  being  passed. 

LEGISLATURE  PROROGUED. — At  this  juncture, 
the  two  Houses  having  disagreed  as  to  the  date 
of  adjournment,  Governor  Yates  exercised  the 
constitutional  prerogative  of  proroguing  them, 
which  he  did  in  a  message  on  June  10,  declaring 
them  adjourned  to  the  last  day  of  their  constitu- 
tional term.  The  Republicans  accepted  the  result 
and  withdrew,  but  the  Democratic  majority  in 
the  House  and  a  minority  in  the  Senate  continued 
in  session  for  some  days,  without  being  able  to 
transact  any  business  except  the  filing  of  an 
empty  protest,  when  they  adjourned  to  the  first 
Monday  of  January,  1864.  The  excitement  pro- 
duced by  this  affair,  in  the  Legislature  and 
throughout  the  State,  was  intense ;  but  the  action 
of  Governor  Yates  was  sustained  by  the  Supreme 
Court  and  the  adjourned  session  was  never  held. 
The  failure  of  the  Legislature  to  make  provision 
for  the  expenses  of  the  State  Government  and  the 
relief  of  the  soldiers  in  the  field,  made  it  neces- 
sary for  Governor  Yates  to  accept  that  aid  from 
the  public-spirited  bankers  and  capitalists  of  the 
State  which  was  never  wanting  when  needed 
during  this  critical  period.  (See  Tiventy-Third 
General  Assembly. ) 

PEACE  CONVENTIONS.— Largely  attended  "peace 
conventions"  were  held  during  this  year,  at 
Springfield  on  June  17,  and  at  Peoria  in  Septem- 
ber, at  which  resolutions  opposing  the  "further 
offensive  prosecution  of  the  war"  were  adopted. 
An  immense  Union  mass-meeting  was  also  held 
at  Springfield  on  Sept.  3,  whicli  was  addressed 
by  distinguished  speakers,  including  both  Re- 
publicans and  War-Democrats.  An  important 
incident  of  this  meeting  was  the  reading  of  the 
letter  from  President  Lincoln  to  Hon.  James  C. 
Conkling,  in  which  he  defended  his  war  policy, 
and  especially  his  Emancipation  Proclamation, 
in  a  characteristically  logical  manner. 


POLITICAL  CAMPAIGN  OP  1864.— The  year  1864 
was  full  of  exciting  political  and  military  events. 
Among  the  former  was  the  nomination  of  George 
B.  McClellan  for  President  by  the  Democratic  Con- 
vention held  at  Chicago,  August  29,  on  a  platform 
declaring  the  war  a  "failure"  as  an  "experiment" 
for  restoring  the  Union,  and  demanding  a  "cessa- 
tion of  hostilities' '  with  a  view  to  a  convention  for 
the  restoration  of  peace.  Mr.  Lincoln  had  been 
renominated  by  the  Republicans  at  Philadelphia, 
in  June  previous,  with  Andrew  Johnson  as  the 
candidate  for  Vice-President.  The  leaders  of  the 
respective  State  tickets  were  Gen.  Richard  J. 
Oglesby,  on  the  part  of  the  Republicans,  for  Gov- 
ernor, with  William  Bross,  for  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor,  and  James  C.  Robinson  as  the  Democratic 
candidate  for  Governor. 

CAMP  DOUGLAS  CONSPIRACY.  —  For  months 
rumors  had  been  rife  concerning  a  conspiracy  of 
rebels  from  the  South  and  their  sympathizers  in 
the  North,  to  release  the  rebel  prisoners  confined 
in  Camp  Douglas,  Chicago,  and  at  Rock  Island, 
Springfield  and  Alton — aggregating  over  25,000 
men.  It  was  charged  that  the  scheme  was  to  be 
put  into  effect  simultaneously  with  the  Novem- 
ber election,  but  the  activity  of  the  military 
authorities  in  arresting  the  leaders  and  seizing 
their  arms,  defeated  it.  The  investigations  of  a 
military  court  before  whom  a  number  of  the 
arrested  parties  were  tried,  proved  the  existence 
of  an  extensive  organization,  calling  itself 
"American  Knights"  or  "Sons  of  Liberty,"  of 
which  a  number  of  well-known  politicians  in 
Illinois  were  members.  (See  Camp  Douglas 
Conspiracy. ) 

At  the  November  election  Illinois  gave  a  major- 
ity for  Lincoln  of  30,756,  and  for  Oglesby,  for 
Governor,  of  33,675,  with  a  proportionate  major- 
ity for  the  rest  of  the  ticket.  Lincoln's  total  vote 
in  the  electoral  college  was  212,  to  21  for  McClellan. 

LEGISLATURE  OF  1865. — The  Republicans  had  a 
decided  majority  in  both  branches  of  the  Legis- 
lature of  1805,  and  one  of  its  earliest  acts  was  the 
election  of  Governor  Yates,  United  States  Sena- 
tor, in  place  of  William  A.  Richardson,  who  had 
been  elected  two  years  before  to  the  seat  formerly 
held  by  Douglas.  This  was  the  last  public  posi- 
tion held  by  the  popular  Illinois  "War  Gov- 
ernor. ' '  During  his  official  term  no  more  popular 
public  servant  ever  occupied  the  executive  chair 
— a  fact  demonstrated  by  the  promptness  with 
which,  on  retiring  from  it,  he  was  elected  to  the 
United  States  Senate.  His  personal  and  political 
integrity  was  never  questioned  by  his  most  bitter 
political  opponents,  while  those  who  had  known 


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him  longest  and  most  intimately,  trusted  him 
most  implicitly.  The  service  which  he  performed 
in  giving  direction  to  the  patriotic  sentiment  of 
the  State  and  in  marshaling  its  heroic  soldiers 
for  the  defense  of  the  Union  can  never  be  over- 
estimated. (See  Yates,  Richard.) 

OOLESBY'S  ADMINISTRATION. — Governor  Ogles- 
by  and  the  other  State  officers  were  inaugu- 
rated Jan.  17,  1865.  Entering  upon  its  duties 
with  a  Legislature  in  full  sympathy  with  it,  the 
new  administration  was  confronted  by  no  such 
difficulties  as  those  with  which  its  predecessor 
had  to  contend.  Its  head,  who  had  been  identi- 
fied with  the  war  from  its  beginning,  was  one  of 
the  first  Illinoisans  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
Major-General,  was  personally  popular  and 
enjoyed  the  confidence  and  respect  of  the  people 
of  the  State.  Allen  C.  Fuller,  who  had  retired 
from  a  position  on  the  Circuit  bench  to  accept 
that  of  Adjutant-General,  which  he  held  during 
the  last  three  years  of  the  war,  was  Speaker  of 
the  House.  This  Legislature  was  the  first  among 
those  of  all  the  States  to  ratify  the  Thirteenth 
Amendment  of  the  National  Constitution,  abolish- 
ing slavery,  which  it  did  in  both  Houses,  on  the 
evening  of  Feb.  1,  1865 — the  same  day  the  resolu- 
tion had  been  finally  acted  on  by  Congress  and 
received  the  sanction  of  the  President.  The 
odious  "black  laws,"  which  had  disgraced  the 
State  for  twelve  years,  were  wiped  from  the 
statute-book  at  this  session.  The  Legislature 
adjourned  after  a  session  of  forty-six  days,  leav- 
ing a  record  as  creditable  in  the  disposal  of  busi- 
ness as  that  of  its  predecessor  had  been  discredit- 
able. (See  Oglesby,  Richard  J.) 

ASSASSINATION  OP  LINCOLN. — The  war  was  now 
rapidly  approaching  a  successful  termination. 
Lee  had  surrendered  to  Grant  at  Appomattox, 
April  9,  1865,  and  the  people  were  celebrating 
this  event  with  joyful  festivities  through  all  the 
loyal  States,  but  nowhere  with  more  enthusiasm 
than  in  Illinois,  the  home  of  the  two  great 
leaders — Lincoln  and  Grant.  In  the  midst  of 
these  jubilations  came  the  assassination  of  Presi- 
dent Lincoln  by  John  Wilkes  Booth,  on  the 
evening  of  April  14,  1865,  in  Ford's  Theater, 
Washington.  The  appalling  news  was  borne  on 
the  wings  of  the  telegraph  to  every  corner  of  the 
land,  and  instantly  a  nation  in  rejoicing  was 
changed  to  a  nation  in  mourning.  A  pall  of 
gloom  hung  over  every  part  of  the  land.  Public 
buildings,  business  houses  and  dwellings  in  every 
city,  village  and  hamlet  throughout  the  loyal 
States  were  draped  with  the  insignia  of  a  univer- 
sal sorrow.  Millions  of  strong  men,  and  tender, 


patriotic  women  who  had  given  their  husbands, 
sons  and  brothers  for  the  defense  of  the  Union, 
wept  as  if  overtaken  by  a  great  personal  calam- 
ity. If  the  nation  mourned,  much  more  did  Illi- 
nois, at  the  taking  off  of  its  chief  citizen,  the 
grandest  character  of  the  age,  who  had  served 
both  State  and  Nation  with  such  patriotic  fidel- 
ity, and  perished  in  the  very  zenith  of  his  fame 
and  in  the  hour  of  his  country's  triumph. 

THE  FUNERAL.  —  Then  came  the  sorrowful 
march  of  the  funeral  cortege  from  Washington 
to  Springfield  —  the  most  impressive  spectacle 
witnessed  since  the  Day  of  the  Crucifixion.  In 
all  this,  Illinois  bore  a  conspicuous  part,  as  on  the 
fourth  day  of  May,  1865,  amid  the  most  solemn 
ceremonies  and  in  the  presence  of  sorrowing 
thousands,  she  received  to  her  bosom,  near  his 
old  home  at  the  State  Capital,  the  remains  of  the 
Great  Liberator. 

The  part  which  Illinois  played  in  the  great 
struggle  has  already  been  dwelt  upon  as  fully  as 
the  scope  of  this  work  will  permit.  It  only 
remains  to  be  said  that  the  patriotic  service  of 
the  men  of  the  State  was  grandly  supplemented 
by  the  equally  patriotic  service  of  its  women  in 
"Soldiers'  Aid  Societies,"  "Sisters  of  the  Good 
Samaritan,"  "Needle  Pickets,"  and  in  sanitary 
organizations  for  the  purpose  of  contributing  to 
the  comfort  and  health  of  the  soldiers  in  camp 
and  in  hospital,  and  in  giving  them  generous 
receptions  on  their  return  to  their  homes.  The 
work  done  by  these  organizations,  and  by  indi- 
vidual nurses  in  the  field,  illustrates  one  of  the 
brightest  pages  in  the  history  of  the  war. 

ELECTION  OF  1866.— The  administration  of  Gov- 
ernor Oglesby  was  as  peaceful  as  it  was  prosper- 
ous. The  chief  political  events  of  1866  were  the 
election  of  Newton  Bateman,  State  Superintend- 
ent of  Public  Instruction,  and  Gen.  Geo.  W. 
Smith,  Treasurer,  while  Gen.  John  A.  Logan,  as 
Representative  from  the  State-at-large.  re-entered 
Congress,  from  which  he  had  retired  in  1861  to 
enter  the  Union  army.  His  majority  was  un- 
precedented, reaching  55,987.  The  Legislature 
of  1867  re-elected  Judge  Trumbull  to  the  United 
States  Senate  for  a  third  term,  his  chief  competi- 
tor in  the  Republican  caucus  being  Gen.  John  M. 
Palmer.  The  Fourteenth  Amendment  to  the 
National  Constitution,  conferring  citizenship 
upon  persons  of  color,  was  ratified  by  this  Legis- 
lature. 

ELECTION  OF  1868. — The  Republican  State  Con- 
vention of  1868,  held  at  Peoria,  May  6,  nominated 
the  following  ticket:  For  Governor,  John  M. 
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Secretary  of  State,  Edward  Rummell;  Auditor, 
Charles  E.  Lippinoott,  State  Treasurer,  Erastus  N. 
Bates;  Attorney  General,  Washington  Bushnell. 
John  R.  Eden,  afterward  a  member  of  Congress 
for  three  terms,  headed  the  Democratic  ticket  as 
candidate  for  Governor,  with  William  H.  Van 
Epps  for  Lieutenant-Governor. 

The  Republican  National  Convention  was  held 
at  Chicago,  May  21,  nominating  Gen.  U.  S.  Grant 
for  President  and  Schuyler  Colfax  for  Vice- 
President.  They  were  opposed  by  Horatio 
Seymour  for  President,  and  F.  P.  Blair  for  Vice- 
President.  The  result  in  November  was  the 
election  of  Grant  and  Colfax,  who  received  214 
electoral  votes  from  26  States,  to  80  electoral 
votes  for  Seymour  and  Blair  from  8  States — three 
States  not  voting.  Grant's  majority  in  Illinois 
was  51,150.  Of  course  the  Republican  State 
ticket  was  elected.  The  Legislature  elected  at 
the  same  time  consisted  of  eighteen  Republicans 
to  nine  Democrats  in  the  Senate  and  fifty-eight 
Republicans  to  twenty -seven  Democrats  in  the 
House. 

PALMER'S  ADMINISTRATION. — Governor  Palm- 
er's administration  began  auspiciously,  at  a  time 
when  the  passions  aroused  by  the  war  were  sub- 
siding and  the  State  was  recovering  its  normal 
prosperity.  (See  Palmer,  John  M.)  Leading 
events  of  the  next  four  years  were  the  adoption 
of  a  new  State  Constitution  and  the  Chicago  fire. 
The  first  steps  in  legislation  looking  to  the  con- 
trol of  railroads  were  taken  at  the  session  of 

1869,  and  although  a  stringent  law  on  the  subject 
passed  both  Houses,  it  was  vetoed  by  the  Gov- 
ernor.    A  milder  measure  was  afterward  enacted, 
and,  although  superseded  by  the  Constitution  of 

1870,  it  furnished  the  key-note  for  much  of  the 
legislation  since  had  on  the  subject.     The  cele- 
brated "Lake  Front  Bill,"  conveying  to  the  city 
of  Chicago  and  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  the 
title  of  the  State  to  certain  lands   included  in 
what  was  known  as  the  "Lake  Front  Park,"  was 
passed,  and  although  vetoed  by  the    Governor, 
was   re-enacted   over    his    veto.    This   act  was 
finally  repealed  by  the  Legislature  of  1873,  and 
after  many  years  of  litigation,  the  rights  claimed 
under  it  by  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  Com- 
pany have  been  recently  declared  void  by  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States.     The  Fif- 
teenth Amendment  of  the  National  Constitution, 
prohibiting  the  denial  of  the  right  of  suffrage  to 
"citizens  of  the  United  States  ....  on  account 
of  race,  color  or  previous  condition  of  servitude," 
was  ratified    by  a    strictly  party  vote  in    each 
House,  on  March  5. 


The  first  step  toward  the  erection  of  a  new 
State  Capitol  at  Springfield  had  been  taken  in  an 
appropriation  of  §450.000,  at  the  session  of  1867, 
the  total  cost  being  limited  to  §3,000,000.  A 
second  appropriation  of  §650,000  was  made  at  the 
session  of  1869.  The  Constitution  of  1870  limited 
the  cost  to  §3,500,000,  but  an  act  passed  by  the 
Legislature  of  1883,  making  a  final  appropriation 
of  §531,712  for  completing  and  furnishing  the 
building,  was  ratified  by  the  people  in  1884.  The 
original  cost  of  the  building  and  its  furniture 
exceeded  §4,000,000.  (See  State  Houses. ) 

The  State  Convention  for  framing  a  new  Con- 
stitution met  at  Springfield,  Dec.  13,  1869. 
It  consisted  of  eighty-five  members — forty-four 
Republicans  and  forty-one  Democrats.  A  num- 
ber classed  as  Republicans,  however,  were  elected 
as  "Independents"  and  co-operated  with  the 
Democrats  in  the  organization.  Charles  Hitch- 
cock was  elected  President.  The  Convention 
terminated  its  labors,  May  13, 1870;  the  Constitu- 
tion was  ratified  by  vote  of  the  people,  July  2, 
and  went  into  effect,  August  8,  1870.  A  special 
provision  establishing  the  principle  of  "minority 
representation"  in  the  election  of  Representatives 
in  the  General  Assembly,  was  adopted  by  a 
smaller  vote  than  the  main  instrument.  A  lead- 
ing feature  of  the  latter  was  the  general  restric- 
tion upon  special  legislation  and  the  enumeration 
of  a  large  variety  of  subjects  to  be  provided  for 
under  general  laws.  It  laid  the  basis  of  our 
present  railroad  and  warehouse  laws;  declared 
the  inviolability  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad 
tax;  prohibited  the  sale  or  lease  of  the  Illinois 
&  Michigan  Canal  without  a  vote  of  the  people ; 
prohibited  municipalities  from  becoming  sub- 
scribers to  the  stock  of  any  railroad  or  private 
corporation;  limited  the  rate  of  taxation  and 
amount  of  indebtedness  to  be  incurred ;  required 
the  enactment  of  laws  for  the  protection  of 
miners,  etc.  The  restriction  in  the  old  Constitu- 
tion against  the  re-election  of  a  Governor  as  his 
own  immediate  successor  was  removed,  but  placed 
upon  the  office  of  State  Treasurer.  The  Legisla- 
ture consists  of  204  members— 51  Senators  and  153 
Representatives — one  Senator  and  three  Repre- 
sentatives being  chosen  from  each  district.  (See 
Constitutional  Convention  of  1869-70;  also  Con- 
stitution of  1870. ) 

At  the  election  of  1870,  General  Logan  was  re- 
elected  Congressman-at-large by  24,672  majority; 
Gen.  E.  N.  Bates,  Treasurer,  and  Newton  Bate- 
man,  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction. 

LEGISLATURE  OF  1871. — The  Twenty-seventh 
General  Assembly  (1871),  in  its  various  sessions, 


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spent  more  time  in  legislation  than  any  other  in 
the  history  of  the  State — a  fact  to  be  accounted 
for,  in  part,  by  the  Chicago  Fire  and  the  exten- 
sive revision  of  the  laws  required  in  consequence 
of  the  adoption  of  the  new  Constitution.  Besides 
the  regular  session,  there  were  two  special,  or 
called,  sessions  and  an  adjourned  session,  cover- 
ing, in  all,  a  period  of  292  days.  This  Legislature 
adopted  the  system  of  "State  control"  in  the 
management  of  the  labor  and  discipline  of  the 
convicts  of  the  State  penitentiary,  which  was 
strongly  urged  by  Governor  Palmer  in  a  special 
message.  General  Logan  having  been  elected 
United  States  Senator  at  this  session,  Gen.  John 
L.  Beveridge  was  elected  to  the  vacant  position 
of  Congressman-at- large  at  a  special  election  held 
Oct.  4. 

CHICAGO  FIRE  OF  1871. — The  calamitous  fire 
at  Chicago,  Oct.  8-9,  1871,  though  belonging 
rather  to  local  than  to  general  State  history, 
excited  the  profound  sympathy,  not  only  of  the 
people  of  the  State  and  the  Nation,  but  of  the 
civilized  world.  The  area  burned  over,  including 
streets,  covered  2,124  acres,  with  13,500  buildings 
out  of  18,000,  leaving  92,000  persons  homeless. 
The  loss  of  life  is  estimated  at  250,  and  of  prop- 
erty at  $187,927,000.  Governor  Palmer  called  the 
Legislature  together  in  special  session  to  act  upon 
the  emergency,  Oct.  13,  but  as  the  State  was  pre- 
cluded from  affording  direct  aid,  the  plan  was 
adopted  of  reimbursing  the  city  for  the  amount 
it  had  expended  in  the  enlargement  of  the  Illinois 
&  Michigan  Canal,  amounting  to  $2,955,340. 
The  unfortunate  shooting  of  a  citizen  by  a  cadet 
in  a  regiment  of  United  States  troops  organized 
for  guard  duty,  led  to  some  controversy  between 
Governor  Palmer,  on  one  side,  and  the  Mayor  of 
Chicago  and  the  military  authorities,  including 
President  Grant,  on  the  other;  but  the  general 
verdict  was,  that,  while  nice  distinctions  between 
civil  and  military  authority  may  not  have  been 
observed,  the  service  rendered  by  the  military,  in 
a  great  emergency,  was  of  the  highest  value  and 
was  prompted  by  the  best  intentions.  (See  Fire 
of  1871  under  title  Chicago.) 

POLITICAL  CAMPAIGN  OF  1872. — The  political 
campaign  of  1872  in  Illinois  resulted  in  much  con- 
fusion and  a  partial  reorganization  of  parties. 
Dissatisfied  with  the  administration  of  President 
Grant,  a  number  of  the  State  officers  (including 
Governor  Palmer)  and  other  prominent  Repub- 
licans of  the  State,  joined  in  what  was  called  the 
"Liberal  Republican"  movement,  and  supported 
Horace  Greeley  for  the  Presidency.  Ex-Gov- 
ernor Oglesby  again  became  the  standard-bearer 


of  the  Republicans  for  Governor,  with  Gen.  John 
L.  Beveridge  for  Lieutenant-Governor.  At  the 
November  election,  the  Grant  and  Wilson  (Repub- 
lican) Electors  in  Illinois  received  241,944  votes, 
to  184,938  for  Greeley,  and  3,138  for  O'Conor. 
The  plurality  for  Oglesby,  for  Governor,  was 
40,690. 

Governor  Oglesby's  second  administration  was 
of  brief  duration.  Within  a  week  after  his  in- 
auguration he  was  nominated  by  a  legislative 
caucus  of  his  party  for  United  States  Senator  to 
succeed  Judge  Trumbull,  and  was  elected,  receiv- 
ing an  aggregate  of  117  votes  in  the  two  Houses 
against  78  for  Trumbull,  who  was  supported  by 
the  party  whose  candidates  he  had  defeated  at 
three  previous  elections.  (See  Oglesby,  Richard  J. ) 
Lieutenant-Governor  Beveridge  thus  became 
Governor,  filling  out  the  unexpired  term  of  his 
chief.  His  administration  was  high-minded, 
clean  and  honorable.  (See  Beveridge,  John  L.) 

REPUBLICAN  REVERSE  OF  1874.  —  The  election 
of  1874  resulted  in  the  first  serious  reverse  the 
Republican  party  had  experienced  in  Illinois 
since  1862.  Although  Thomas  S.  Ridgway,  the 
Republican  candidate  for  State  Treasurer,  was 
elected  by  a  plurality  of  nearly  35,000,  by  a  com- 
bination of  the  opposition,  S.  M.  Etter  (Fusion) 
was  at  the  same  time  elected  State  Superintend- 
ent, while  the  Fusionists  secured  a  majority  in 
each  House  of  the  General  Assembly.  After  a 
protracted  contest,  E.  M.  Haines — who  had  been 
a  Democrat,  a  Republican,  and  had  been  elected 
to  this  Legislature  as  an  "Independent" — was 
elected  Speaker  of  the  House  over  Shelby  M.  Cul- 
lorn,  and  A.  A.  Glenn  (Democrat)  was  chosen 
President  of  the  Senate,  thus  becoming  ex-officio 
Lieutenant-Governor.  The  session  which  fol- 
lowed— especially  in  the  House — was  one  of  the 
most  turbulent  and  disorderly  in  the  history  of 
the  State,  coming  to  a  termination,  April  15, 
after  having  enacted  very  few  laws  of  any  im- 
portance. (See  Twenty-ninth  General  Assembly. ) 

CAMPAIGN  OF  1876. — Shelby  M.  Cullom  was  the 
candidate  of  the  Republican  party  for  Governor 
in  1876,  with  Rutherford  B.  Hayes  heading  the 
National  ticket.  The  excitement  which  attended 
the  campaign,  the  closeness  of  the  vote  between 
the  two  Presidential  candidates  —  Hayes  and 
Tilden — and  the  determination  of  the  result 
through  the  medium  of  an  Electoral  Commission, 
are  fresh  in  the  memory  of  the  present  gener- 
ation. In  Illinois  the  Republican  plurality  for 
President  was  19,631,  but  owing  to  the  combina- 
tion of  the  Democratic  and  Greenback  vote  on 
Lewis  Steward  for  Governor,  the  majority  for 


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spent  more  time  in  legislation  than  any  other  in 
the  history  of  the  State — a  fact  to  be  accounted 
for,  in  part,  by  the  Chicago  Fire  and  the  exten- 
sive revision  of  the  laws  required  in  consequence 
of  the  adoption  of  the  new  Constitution.  Besides 
the  regular  session,  there  were  two  special,  or 
called,  sessions  and  an  adjourned  session,  cover- 
ing, in  all,  a  period  of  292  days.  This  Legislature 
adopted  the  system  of  "State  control"  in  the 
management  of  the  labor  and  discipline  of  the 
convicts  of  the  State  penitentiary,  which  was 
strongly  urged  by  Governor  Palmer  in  a  special 
message.  General  Logan  having  been  elected 
United  States  Senator  at  this  session,  Gen.  John 
L.  Beveridge  was  elected  to  the  vacant  position 
of  Congressman-at-large  at  a  special  election  held 
Oct.  4. 

CHICAGO  FIRE  OF  1871. — The  calamitous  fire 
at  Chicago,  Oct.  8-9,  1871,  though  belonging 
rather  to  local  than  to  general  State  history, 
excited  the  profound  sympathy,  not  only  of  the 
people  of  the  State  and  the  Nation,  but  of  the 
civilized  world.  The  area  burned  over,  including 
streets,  covered  2,124  acres,  with  13,500  buildings 
out  of  18,000,  leaving  92,000  persons  homeless. 
The  loss  of  life  is  estimated  at  250,  and  of  prop- 
erty at  1187, 927, 000.  Governor  Palmer  called  the 
Legislature  together  in  special  session  to  act  upon 
the  emergency,  Oct.  13,  but  as  the  State  was  pre- 
cluded from  affording  direct  aid,  the  plan  was 
adopted  of  reimbursing  the  city  for  the  amount 
it  had  expended  in  the  enlargement  of  the  Illinois 
&  Michigan  Canal,  amounting  to  $2,955,340. 
The  unfortunate  shooting  of  a  citizen  by  a  cadet 
in  a  regiment  of  United  States  troops  organized 
for  guard  duty,  led  to  some  controversy  between 
Governor  Palmer,  on  one  side,  and  the  Mayor  of 
Chicago  and  the  military  authorities,  including 
President  Grant,  on  the  other;  but  the  general 
verdict  was,  that,  while  nice  distinctions  between 
civil  and  military  authority  may  not  have  been 
observed,  the  service  rendered  by  the  military,  in 
a  great  emergency,  was  of  the  highest  value  and 
was  prompted  by  the  best  intentions.  (See  Fire 
of  1871  under  title  Chicago. ) 

POLITICAL  CAMPAIGN  OF  1872.— The  political 
campaign  of  1872  in  Illinois  resulted  in  much  con- 
fusion and  a  partial  reorganization  of  parties. 
Dissatisfied  with  the  administration  of  President 
Grant,  a  number  of  the  State  officers  (including 
Governor  Palmer)  and  other  prominent  Repub- 
licans of  the  State,  joined  in  what  was  called  the 
"Liberal  Republican"  movement,  and  supported 
Horace  Greeley  for  the  Presidency.  Ex-Gov- 
ernor Oglesby  again  became  the  standard-bearer 


of  the  Republicans  for  Governor,  with  Gen.  John 
L.  Beveridge  for  Lieutenant-Governor.  At  the 
November  election,  the  Grant  and  Wilson  (Repub- 
lican) Electors  in  Illinois  received  241,944  votes, 
to  184,938  for  Greeley,  and  3,138  for  O'Conor. 
The  plurality  for  Oglesby,  for  Governor,  was 
40,690. 

Governor  Oglesby's  second  administration  was 
of  brief  duration.  Within  a  week  after  his  in- 
auguration he  was  nominated  by  a  legislative 
caucus  of  his  party  for  United  States  Senator  to 
succeed  Judge  Trumbull,  and  was  elected,  receiv- 
ing an  aggregate  of  117  votes  in  the  two  Houses 
against  78  for  Trumbull,  who  was  supported  by 
the  party  whose  candidates  he  had  defeated  at 
three  previous  elections.  (See  Oglesby,  Richard  J. ) 
Lieutenant-Governor  Beveridge  thus  became 
Governor,  filling  out  the  unexpired  term  of  his 
chief.  His  administration  was  high-minded, 
clean  and  honorable.  (See  Beveridge,  John  L.) 

REPUBLICAN  REVERSE  OF  1874.  —  The  election 
of  1874  resulted  in  the  first  serious  reverse  the 
Republican  party  had  experienced  in  Illinois 
since  1862.  Although  Thomas  S.  Ridgway,  the 
Republican  candidate  for  State  Treasurer,  was 
elected  by  a  plurality  of  nearly  35,000,  by  a  com- 
bination of  the  opposition,  S.  M.  Etter  (Fusion) 
was  at  the  same  time  elected  State  Superintend- 
ent, while  the  Fusionists  secured  a  majority  in 
each  House  of  the  General  Assembly.  After  a 
protracted  contest,  E.  M.  Haines — who  had  been 
a  Democrat,  a  Republican,  and  had  been  elected 
to  this  Legislature  as  an  "Independent" — was 
elected  Speaker  of  the  House  over  Shelby  M.  Cul- 
lom,  and  A.  A.  Glenn  (Democrat)  was  chosen 
President  of  the  Senate,  thus  becoming  ex-officio 
Lieutenant-Governor.  The  session  which  fol- 
lowed— especially  in  the  House — was  one  of  the 
most  turbulent  and  disorderly  in  the  history  of 
the  State,  coming  to  a  termination,  April  15, 
after  having  enacted  very  few  laws  of  any  im- 
portance. (See  Twenty-ninth  General  Assembly. ) 

CAMPAIGN  OF  1876. — Shelby  M.  Cullom  was  the 
candidate  of  the  Republican  party  for  Governor 
in  1876,  with  Rutherford  B.  Hayes  heading  the 
National  ticket.  The  excitement  which  attended 
the  campaign,  the  closeness  of  the  vote  between 
the  two  Presidential  candidates  —  Hayes  and 
Tilden — and  the  determination  of  the  result 
through  the  medium  of  an  Electoral  Commission, 
are  fresh  in  the  memory  of  the  present  gener- 
ation. In  Illinois  the  Republican  plurality  for 
President  was  19,631,  but  owing  to  the  combina- 
tion of  the  Democratic  and  Greenback  vote  on 
Lewis  Steward  for  Governor,  the  majority  for 


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House.  In  the  election  of  United  States  Senator, 
which  occurred  at  this  session,  Governor  Culloin 
was  chosen  as  the  successor  to  David  Davis,  Gen. 
John  M.  Palmer  receiving  the  Democratic  vote. 
Lieut.-Gov.  John  M.  Hamilton  thus  became  Gov- 
ernor, nearly  in  the  middle  of  his  term.  (See 
Cullom,  Shelby  M.;  Hamilton,  John  M.;  Collins, 
Loren  C.,  and  Raab,  Henry.) 

The  "Harper  High  License  Law,"  enacted  by 
the  Thirty-third  General  Assembly  (1883),  has 
become  one  of  the  permanent  features  of  the  Illi- 
nois statutes  for  the  control  of  the  liquor  traffic, 
and  has  been  more  or  less  closely  copied  in  other 
States. 

POLITICAL  CAMPAIGN  OF  1884.— In  1884,  Gen. 
R.  J.  Oglesby  again  became  the  choice  of  the 
Republican  party  for  Governor,  receiving  at 
Peoria  the  conspicuous  compliment  of  a  nomina- 
tion for  a  third  term,  by  acclamation.  Carter  H. 
Harrison  was  the  candidate  of  the  Democrats. 
The  Republican  National  Convention  was  again 
held  in  Chicago,  meeting  June  3,  1884;  Gen.  John 
A.  Logan  was  the  choice  of  the  Illinois  Repub- 
licans for  President,  and  was  put  in  nomination 
in  the  Convention  by  Senator  Cullom.  .The 
choice  of  the  Convention,  however,  fell  upon 
James  G.  Elaine,  on  the  fourth  ballot,  his  leading 
competitor  being  President  Arthur.  Logan  was 
then  nominated  for  Vice-President  by  acclama- 
tion. 

At  the  election  in  November  the  Republican 
party  met  its  first  reverse  on  the  National  battle- 
field since  1856,  Grover  Cleveland  and  Thomas  A. 
Hendricks,  the  Democratic  candidates,  being 
elected  President  and  Vice-President  by  the  nar- 
row margin  of  less  than  1,200  votes  in  the  State 
of  New  York.  The  result  was  in  doubt  for  sev- 
eral days,  and  the  excitement  throughout  the 
country  was  scarcely  less  intense  than  it  had 
been  in  the  close  election  of  1876.  The  Green- 
back and  Prohibition  parties  both  had  tickets  in 
Illinois,  polling  a  total  of  nearly  23,000  votes. 
The  plurality  in  the  State  for  Elaine  was  25,118. 
The  Republican  State  officers  elected  were  Richard 
J.  Oglesby,  Governor;  John  C.  Smith,  Lieuten- 
ant-Governor;  Henry  D.  Dement,  Secretary  of 
State;  Charles  P.  Swigert,  Auditor;  Jacob  Gross, 
State  Treasurer;  and  George  Hunt,  Attorney- 
General— receiving  pluralities  ranging  from  14,- 
000  to  25,000.  Both  Dement  and  Swigert  were 
elected  for  a  second  time,  while  Gross  and  Hunt 
were  chosen  for  first  terms.  (See  Gross,  Jacob, 
and  Hunt ,  George. ) 

CHICAGO  ELECTION  FRAUDS.— An  incident  of 
this  election  was  the  fraudulent  attempt  to  seat 


Rudolph  Brand  (Democrat)  as  Senator  in  place  of 
Henry  W.  Leman,  in  the  Sixth  Senatorial  Dis- 
trict of  Cook  County.     The  fraud  was  exposed 
and  Joseph  C.  Mackin,  one  of  its  alleged  perpe- 
trators, was  sentenced  to  the  penitentiary  for  four 
years  for  perjury  growing  out  of  the  investiga- 
tion.    A  motive    for  this  attempted   fraud   was 
found  in  the  close  vote  in  the  Legislature  for 
United  States   Senator— Senator   Logan  being  a 
candidate  for  re-election,  while  the  Legislature 
stood  102  Republicans  to  100  Democrats  and  two 
Greenbackers  on  joint  ballot.     A  tedious  contest 
on  the  election  of  Speaker  of  the  House  finally 
resulted  in  the  success  of  E.  M.  Haines.     Pending 
the  struggle  over  the  Senatorship,  two  seats  in 
the  House  and  one  in  the  Senate  were  rendered 
vacant  by  death— the  deceased  Senator  and  one  of 
the  Representatives    being    Democrats,  and  the 
other  Representative  a  Republican.     The  special 
election  for  Senator  resulted  in  filling  the  vacancy 
with  a  new  member  of  the  same  political  faith  as 
his  predecessor ;  but  both  vacancies  in  the  House 
were  filled  by  Republicans.     The  gain  of  a  Repub- 
lican member  in  place    of    a  Democrat    in  the 
House  was   broxight    about  by  the    election  of 
Captain  William  H.  Weaver  Representative  from 
the  Thirty-fourth  District  (composed  of  Mason, 
Menard,   Cass  and  Schuyler    Counties)  over  the 
Democratic  candidate,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused 
by  the  death  of  Representative  J.  Henry  Shaw, 
Democrat.     This  was   accomplished  by  what  is 
called  a  "still  hunt"  on  the  part  of  the  Repub- 
licans, in  which  the  Democrats,  being  taken  by 
surprise,  suffered  a  defeat.     It  furnished  the  sen- 
sation not  only  of  the  session,  but  of  special  elec- 
tions generally,  especially  as  every  county  in  the 
District  was  strongly  Democratic.     This  gave  the 
Republicans  a  majority  in  each  House,  and  the 
re-election  of  Logan  followed,  though  not  until 
two  months  had  been  consumed  in  the  contest. 
(See  Logan,  John  A.) 

OGLESBY'S  THIRD  TERM.— The  only  disturbing 
events  during  Governor  Oglesby 's  third  term  were 
strikes  among  the  quarrymen  at  Joliet  and 
Lemont,  in  May,  1885;  by  the  railroad  switchmen 
at  East  St.  Louis,  in  April,  1886,  and  among  the 
employes  at  the  Union  Stock-Yards,  in  November 
of  the  same  year.  In  each  case  troops  were  called 
out  and  order  finally  restored,  but  not  until  sev- 
eral persons  had  been  killed  in  the  two  former, 
and  both  strikers  and  employers  had  lost  heavily 
in  the  interruption  of  business. 

At  the  election  of  1886,  John  R.  Tanner  and 
Dr.  Richard  Edwards  (Republicans)  were  respec- 
tively elected  State  Treasurer  and  State  Superin- 


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ten  dent  of  Public  Instruction,  by  34,816  plurality 
for  the  former  and  29,928  for  the  latter.  (See 
Tanner,  John  R.;  Edwards,  Richard.) 

In  the  Thirty-fifth  General  Assembly,  which 
met  January,  1887,  the  Republicans  had  a  major- 
ity in  each  House,  and  Charles  B.  Farwell  was 
elected  to  the  United  States  Senate  in  place  of 
Gen.  John  A.  Logan,  deceased.  (See  Farwell, 
Charles  B.) 

FIPEE  ELECTED  GOVERNOR.  —  The  political 
campaign  of  1888  was  a  spirited  one,  though  less 
bitter  than  the  one  of  four  years  previous.  Ex- 
Senator  Joseph  W.  Fifer,  of  McLean  County,  and 
Ex-Gov.  John  M.  Palmer  were  pitted  against  each 
other  as  opposing  candidates  for  Governor.  (See 
Fifer,  Joseph  W.)  Prohibition  and  Labor  tickets 
were  also  in  the  field  The  Republican  National 
Convention  was  again  held  in  Chicago,  June 
20-25,  resulting  in  the  nomination  of  Benjamin 
Harrison  for  President,  on  the  eighth  ballot.  The 
delegates  from  Illinois,  with  two  or  three  excep- 
tions, voted  steadily  for  Judge  Walter  Q. 
Gresham.  (See  Gresham,  Walter  Q.)  Grover 
Cleveland  headed  the  Democratic  ticket  as  a 
candidate  for  re-election.  At  the  November  elec- 
tion, 747,683  votes  were  cast  in  Illinois,  giving 
the  Republican  Electors  a  plurality  of  22,104. 
Fifer's  plurality  over  Palmer  was  12,547,  and  that 
of  the  remainder  of  the  Republican  State  ticket, 
still  larger.  Those  elected  were  Lyman  B.  Ray, 
Lieutenant-Governor ;  Isaac  N.  Pearson,  Secre- 
tary of  State;  Gen.  Charles  W.  Pavey,  Auditor; 
Charles  Becker,  Treasurer,  and  George  Hunt, 
Attorney-General.  (See  Kay,  Lyman  B.;  Pear- 
son, Isaac  N.;  Pavey,  Charles  W;  and  Becker, 
Charles.)  The  Republicans  secured  twenty-six 
majority  on  joint  ballot  in  the  Legislature — the 
largest  since  1881.  Among  the  acts  of  the  Legis- 
lature of  1889  were  the  re-election  of  Senator 
Cullom  to  the  United  States  Senate,  practically 
without  a  contest ;  the  revision  of  the  compulsory 
education  law,  and  the  enactment  of  the  "Chicago 
drainage  law.  At  a  special  session  held  in  July, 
1890,  the  first  steps  in  the  preliminary  legislation 
looking  to  the  holding  of  the  World's  Columbian 
Exposition  of  1893  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  were 
taken.  (See  World's  Columbian  Exposition.) 

REPUBLICAN  DEFEAT  OF  1890. — The  campaign 
of  1890  resulted  in  a  defeat  for  the  Republicans  on 
both  the  State  and  Legislative  tickets.  Edward 
S.  Wilson  was  elected  Treasurer  by  a  plurality  of 
9,847  and  Prof.  Henry  Raab,  who  had  been  Super- 
intendent of  Public  Instruction  between  1883  and 
1887,  was  elected  for  a  second  term  by  34,042. 
Though  lacking  two  of  an  absolute  majority  on 


joint   ballot  in  the   Legislature,   the  Democrats 
were  able,  with  the  aid  of  two  members  belonging 
to  the  Farmers'  Alliance,  after  a  prolonged  and 
exciting    contest,    to    elect    Ex-Gov.    John    M. 
Palmer  United  States  Senator,  as    successor  to 
C.  B.  Farwell.     The  election  took  place  on  March 
11,  resulting,  on  the  154th  ballot,  in  103  votes  for 
Palmer  to  100  for  Cicero  J.  Lindley  (Republican) 
and  one  for  A.  J.  Streeter.     (See  Palmer,  John  M. ) 
ELECTIONS  OF  1892.— At  the  elections  of  1892 
the  Republicans  of  Illinois  sustained  their  first 
defeat  on  both  State  and  National  issues  since 
1856.     The    Democratic    State    Convention    was 
held  at   Springfield,  April   27,  and  that  of    the 
Republicans  on  May  4.     The  Democrats  put  in 
nomination    John    P.    Altgeld     for     Governor; 
Joseph  B.  Gill  for  Lieutenant-Governor;  William 
H.  Hinrichsen  for  Secretary  of  State;  Rufus  N. 
Ramsay   for  State    Treasurer;    David    Gore  for 
Auditor ;  Maurice  T.  Moloney  for  Attorney-Gen- 
eral, with  John  C.  Black  and  Andrew  J.  Hunter 
for  Congressmen-at-large  and  three  candidates  for 
Trustees  of  the  University  of  Illinois.     The  can- 
didates on  the  Republican  ticket  were :    For  Gov- 
ernor,   Joseph   W.  Fifer;    Lieutenant-Governor, 
Lyman  B.  Ray ;  Secretary  of  State,  Isaac  N.  Pear- 
son; Auditor,  Charles  W.  Pavey;  Attorney-Gen- 
eral, George  W.  Prince;  State  Treasurer,  Henry 
L.  Hertz ;  Congressmen-at-large,  George  S.  Willits 
and  Richard  Yates,  with  three  University  Trus- 
tees.    The  first  four  were  all  incumbents  nomi- 
nated to   succeed  themselves.     The    Republican 
National  Convention  held  its  session  at  Minneapo- 
lis June  7-10,  nominating  President  Harrison  for 
re-election,  while   that  of  the    Democrats    met 
in  Chicago,   on  June  21,    remaining  in  session 
until  June  24,  for  the  third  time  choosing,  as  its 
standard-bearer,  Grover  Cleveland,  with  Adlai  T. 
Stevenson,  of  Bloomington,  111.,  as  his  running- 
mate  for  Vice-President.     The  Prohibition   and 
People's  Party  also  had  complete  National  and 
State  tickets  in  the  field.     The  State  campaign 
was  conducted  with  great  vigor  on  both  sides,  the 
Democrats,  under  the  leadership  of  Altgeld,  mak- 
ing an  especially  bitter  contest  upon  some  features 
of  the  compulsory  school  law,  and  gaining  many 
votes  from  the  ranks  of  the  German-Republicans. 
The  result  in  the  State  showed  a  plurality  for 
Cleveland  of  26,993  votes  out  of  a  total  873,646— 
the  combined  Prohibition  and  People's  Party  vote 
amounting  to  48,077.     The  votes  for  the  respec- 
tive heads  of   the  State  tickets  were:     Altgeld 
(Dem.),    425,498;     Fifer    (Rep.),   403,659;    Link 
(Pro.),  25,628 ;Barnet  (Peo.),  20,  108— plurality  for 
Altgeld,  22,808.     The  vote  for  Fifer  was  the  high- 


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est  given  to  any  Republican  candidate  on  either 
the  National  or  the  State  ticket,  leading  that  of 
President  Harrison  by  nearly  3,400,  while  the 
vote  for  Altgeld,  though  falling  behind  that  of 
Cleveland,  led  the  votes  of  all  his  associates  on  the 
Democratic  State  ticket  with  the  single  exception 
of  Eamsay,  the  Democratic  Candidate  for  Treas- 
urer. Of  the  twenty-two  Representatives  in 
Congress  from  the  State  chosen  at  this  time, 
eleven  were  Republicans  and  eleven  Democrats, 
including  among  the  latter  the  two  Congressmen 
from  the  State-at-large.  The  Thirty-eighth  Gen- 
eral Assembly  stood  twenty-nine  Democrats  to 
twenty-two  Republicans  in  the  Senate,  and 
seventy -eight  Democrats  to  seventy-five  Republic- 
ans in  the  House. 

The  administration  of  Governor  Fifer — the  last 
in  a  long  and  unbroken  line  under  Republican  Gov- 
ernors— closed  with  the  financial  and  industrial 
interests  of  the  State  in  a  prosperous  condition, 
the  State  out  of  debt  with  an  ample  surplus  in  its 
treasury.  Fifer  was  the  first  private  soldier  of 
the  Civil  War  to  be  elected  to  the  Governorship, 
though  the  result  of  the  next  two  elections  have 
shown  that  he  was  not  to  be  the  last — both  of  his 
successors  belonging  to  the  same  class.  Governor 
Altgeld  was  the  first  foreign-born  citizen  of  the 
State  to  be  elected  Governor,  though  the  State 
has  had  four  Lieutenant-Governors  of  foreign 
birth,  viz. :  Pierre  Menarcl,  a  French  Canadian ; 
John  Moore,  an  Englishman,  and  Gustavus 
Koerner  and  Francis  A.  Hoffman,  both  Germans. 

ALTGELD'S  ADMINISTRATION.  —  The  Thirty- 
eighth  General  Assembly  began  its  session,  Jan. 
4,  1893,  the  Democrats  having  a  majority  in  each 
House.  (See  Thirty-eighth  General  Assembly.) 
The  inauguration  of  the  State  officers  occurred  on 
January  10.  The  most  important  events  con- 
nected with  Governor  Altgeld's  administration 
were  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  of  1893, 
and  the  strike  of  railway  employes  in  1894.  Both 
of  these  have  been  treated  in  detail  under  their 
proper  heads.  (See  World's  Columbian  E.rpoxi- 
tion,  and  Labor  Troubles.)  A  serious  disaster 
befell  the  State  in  the  destruction  by  fire,  on  the 
night  of  Jan.  3,  1895,  of  a  portion  of  the  buildings 
connected  with  the  Southern  Hospital  for  the 
Insane  at  Anna,  involving  a  loss  to  the  State  of 
nearly  §200,000,  and  subjecting  the  inmates  and 
officers  of  the  institution  to  great  risk  and  no 
small  amount  of  suffering,  although  no  lives  were 
lost.  The  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly,  which 
met  a  few  days  after  the  fire,  made  an  appropri- 
ation of  §171,970  for  the  restoration  of  the  build- 
ings destroyed,  and  work  was  begun  immediately. 


The  defalcation  of  Charles  W.  Spalding,  Treas- 
urer of  the  University  of  Illinois,  which  came  to 
light  near  the  close  of  Governor  Altgeld's  term, 
involved  the  State  in  heavy  loss  (the  exact 
amount  of  which  is  not  even  yet  fully  known), 
and  operated  unfortunately  for  the  credit  of  the 
retiring  administration,  in  view  of  the  adoption  of 
a  policy  which  made  the  Governor  more  directly 
responsible  for  the  management  of  the  State  in- 
stitutions than  that  pursued  by  most  of  his  prede- 
cessors. The  Governor's  course  in  connection 
with  the  strike  of  1894  was  also  severely  criticised 
in  some  quarters,  especially  as  it  brought  him  in 
opposition  to  the  policy  of  the  National  adminis- 
tration, and  exposed  him  to  the  charge  of  sympa- 
thizing with  the  strikers  at  a  time  when  they 
were  regarded  as  acting  in  open  violation  of  law. 

ELECTION  OF  1894. —The  election  of  1894  showed 
as  surprising  a  reaction  against  the  Democratic 
party,  as  that  of  1892  had  been  in  an  opposite 
direction.  The  two  State  offices  to  be  vacated 
this  year — State  Treasurer  and  State  Superintend- 
ent of  Public  Instruction — were  filled  by  the  elec- 
tion of  Republicans  by  unprecedented  majorities. 
The  plurality  for  Henry  Wulff  for  State  Treas- 
urer, was  133,427,  and  that  in  favor  of  Samuel  M. 
Inglis  for  State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruc- 
tion, scarcely  10,000  less.  Of  twenty -two  Repre- 
sentatives in  Congress,  all  but  two  returned  as 
elected  were  Republicans,  and  these  two  were 
unseated  as  the  result  of  contests.  The  Legisla- 
ture stood  thirty-three  Republicans  to  eighteen 
Democrats  in  the  Senate,  and  eighty -eight  Repub- 
licans to  sixty -one  Democrats  in  the  House. 

One  of  the  most  important  acts  of  the  Thirty- 
ninth  General  Assembly,  at  the  following  session, 
was  the  enactment  of  a  law  fixing  the  compensa 
tionof  members  of  the  General  Assembly  at  81,000 
for  each  regular  session,  with  five  dollars  per  day 
and  mileage  for  called,  or  extra,  sessions.  This 
Legislature  also  passed  acts  making  appropriations 
for  the'  erection  of  buildings  for  the  use  of  the 
State  Fair,  which  had  been  permanently  located 
at  Springfield ;  for  the  establishment  of  two  ad- 
ditional hospitals  for  the  insane,  one  near  Rock 
Island  and  the  other  (for  incurables)  near  Peoria; 
for  the  Northern  and  Eastern  Illinois  Normal 
Schools,  and  for  a  Soldiers'  Widows'  Home  at 
Wilmington. 

PERMANENT  LOCATION  OP  THE  STATE  FAIR. — 
In  consequence  of  the  absorption  of  public  atten- 
tion— especially  among  the  industrial  and  manu- 
facturing classes  —  by  the  World's  Columbian 
Exposition,  the  holding  of  the  Annual  Fair  of  the 
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omitted  for  the  first  time  since  the  Civil  War. 
The  initial  steps  were  taken  by  the  Board  at  its 
annual  meeting  in  Springfield,  in  January  of  that 
year,  looking  to  the  permanent  location  of  the 
Fair ;  and,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Board  held  in  Chi- 
cago, in  October  following,  formal  specifications 
were  adopted  prescribing  the  conditions  to  be  met 
in  securing  the  prize.  These  were  sent  to  cities 
intending  to  compete  for  the  location  as  the  basis 
of  proposals  to  be  submitted  by  them.  Responses 
were  received  from  the  cities  of  Bloomington, 
Decatur,  Peoria  and  Springfield,  at  the  annual 
meeting  in  January,  1894,  with  the  result  that, 
on  the  eighth  ballot,  the  bid  of  Springfield  was 
accepted  and  the  Fair  permanently  located  at 
that  place  by  a  vote  of  eleven  for  Springfield  to 
ten  divided  between  five  other  points.  The 
Springfield  proposal  provided  for  conveyance  to 
the  State  Board  of  Agriculture  of  155  acres  of 
land — embracing  the  old  Sangamon  County  Fair 
Grounds  immediately  north  of  the  city — besides 
a  cash  contribution  of  §50,000  voted  by  the  San- 
gamon County  Board  of  Supervisors  for  the 
erection  of  permanent  buildings.  Other  contri- 
butions increased  the  estimated  value  of  the 
donations  from  Sangamon  County  (including  the 
land)  to  §139,800,  not  including  the  pledge  of  the 
city  of  Springfield  to  pave  two  streets  to  the  gates 
of  the  Fair  Grounds  and  furnish  water  free,  be- 
sides an  agreement  on  the  part  of  the  electric 
light  company  to  furnish  light  for  two  years  free 
of  charge.  The  construction  of  buildings  was 
begun  the  same  year,  and  the  first  Fair  held  on 
the  site  in  September  following.  Additional 
buildings  have  been  erected  and  other  improve- 
ments introduced  each  year,  until  the  grounds 
are  now  regarded  as  among  the  best  equipped  for 
exhibition  purposes  in  the  United  States.  In  the 
meantime,  the  increasing  success  of  the  Fair 
from  year  to  year  has  demonstrated  the  wisdom 
of  the  action  taken  by  the  Board  of  Agriculture 
in  the  matter  of  location. 

CAMPAIGN  OF  1896.  —  The  political  campaign 
of  1896  was  one  of  almost  unprecedented  activity 
in  Illinois,  as  well  as  remarkable  for  the  variety 
and  character  of  the  issues  involved  and  the 
number  of  party  candidates  in  the  field.  As 
usual,  the  Democratic  and  the  Republican  parties 
were  the  chief  factors  in  the  contest,  although 
there  was  a  wide  diversity  of  sentiment  in  each, 
which  tended  to  the  introduction  of  new  issues 
and  the  organization  of  parties  on  new  lines. 
The  Republicans  took  the  lead  in  organizing  for 
the  canvass,  holding  their  State  Convention  at 
Springfield  on  April  29  and  30,  while  the  Demo- 


crats followed,  at  Peoria,  on  June  23.  The  former 
put  in  nomination  John  R.  Tanner  for  Governor  : 
William  A.  Northcott  for  Lieutenant-Governor- 
James  A.  Rose  for  Secretary  of  State;  James  S. 
McCullough  for  Auditor;  Henry  L.  Hertz  for 
Treasurer,  and  Edward  C.  Akin  for  Attorney- 
General,  with  Mary  Turner  Carriel,  Thomas  J. 
Smyth  and  Francis  M.  McKay  for  University 
Trustees.  The  ticket  put  in  nomination  by  the 
Democracy  for  State  officers  embraced  John  P. 
Altgeld  for  re-election  to  the  Governorship ;  for 
Lieutenant-Governor,  Monroe  C.  Crawford;  Sec- 
retary of  State,  Finis  E.  Downing;  Auditor, 
Andrew  L.  Maxwell;  Attorney-General,  George 
A.  Trude,  with  three  candidates  for  Trustees. 

The  National  Republican  Convention  met  at  St. 
Louis  on  June  16,  and,  after  a  three  days'  session, 
put  in  nomination  William  McKinley,  of  Ohio, 
for  President,  and  Garret  A.  Hobart,  of  New 
Jersey,  for  Vice-President ;  while  their  Demo- 
cratic opponents,  following  a  policy  which  had 
been  maintained  almost  continuously  by  one  or 
the  other  party  since  1860,  set  in  motion  its  party 
machinery  in  Chicago — holding  its  National  Con- 
vention in  that  city,  July  7-11,  when,  for  the  first 
time  in  the  history  of  the  nation,  a  native  of 
Illinois  was  nominated  for  the  Presidency  in  the 
person  of  William  J.  Bryan  of  Nebraska,  with 
Arthur  Sewall,  a  ship-builder  of  Maine,  for  the 
second  place  on  the  ticket.  The  main  issues,  as 
enunciated  in  the  platforms  of  the  respective 
parties,  were  industrial  and  financial,  as  shown  by 
the  prominence  given  to  the  tariff  and  monetary 
questions  in  each.  This  was  the  natural  result  of 
the  business  depression  which  had  prevailed  since 
1893.  While  the  Republican  platform  adhered  to 
the  traditional  position  of  the  party  on  the  tariff 
issue,  and  declared  in  favor  of  maintaining  the 
gold  standard  as  the  basis  of  the  monetary  system 
of  the  country,  that  of  the  Democracy  took  a  new 
departure  by  declaring  unreservedly  for  the  "free 
and  unlimited  coinage  of  both  silver  and  gold  at 
the  present  legal  ratio  of  16  to  1 ;"  and  this  be- 
came the  leading  issue  of  the  campaign.  The 
fact  that  Thomas  E.  Watson,  of  Georgia,  who 
had  been  favored  by  the  Populists  as  a  candidate 
for  Vice  President,  and  was  afterwards  formally 
nominated  by  a  convention  of  that  party,  with 
Mr.  Bryan  at  its  head,  was  ignored  by  the  Chi- 
cago Convention,  led  to  much  friction  between 
the  Populist  and  Democratic  wings  of  the  party. 
At  the  same  time  a  very  considerable  body — in 
influence  and  political  prestige,  if  not  in  numbers 
— in  the  ranks  of  the  old-line  Democratic  party, 
refused  to  accept  the  doctrine  of  the  free-silver 


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section  on  the  monetary  question,  and,  adopting 
the  name  of  "Gold  Democrats,"  put  in  nomination 
a  ticket  composed  of  John  M.  Palmer,  of  Illinois, 
for  President,  and  Simon  B.  Buckner,  of  Ken- 
tucky, for  "V  ice-President.  Besides  these,  the  Pro- 
hibitionists, Nationalists,  Socialist-Labor  Party 
and  "Midale-of-the-Road"  (or  "straight-out'') 
Populists,  had  more  or  less  complete  tickets  in  the 
field,  making  a  total  of  seven  sets  of  candidates 
appealing  for  the  votes  of  the  people  on  issues 
assumed  to  be  of  National  importance. 

The  fact  that  the  two  great  parties — Democratic 
and  Republican— established  their  principal  head- 
quarters for  the  prosecution  of  the  campaign  in 
Chicago,  had  the  effect  to  make  that  city  and 
the  State  of  Illinois  the  center  of  political  activ- 
ity for  the  nation.  Demonstrations  of  an  impos- 
ing character  were  held  by  both  parties.  At  the 
November  election  the  Republicans  carried  the 
day  by  a  plurality,  in  Illinois,  of  141,517  for  their 
national  ticket  out  of  a  total  of  1,090,869  votes, 
while  the  leading  candidates  on  the  State  ticket 
received  the  following  pluralities:  John  R.  Tan- 
ner (for  Governor),  113,381;  Northcott  (for  Lieu- 
tenant-Go vernor),  137,354;  Rose  (for  Secretary  of 
State),  136,611;  McCullough  (for  Auditor),  138,- 
013;  Hertz  (for  Treasurer),  116,064;  Akin  (for 
Attorney-General),  132,650.  The  Republicans  also 
elected  seventeen  Representatives  in  Congress  to 
three  Democrats  and  two  People's  Party  men. 
The  total  vote  cast,  in  this  campaign,  for  the  "Gold 
Democratic"  candidate  for  Governor  was  8,100. 

Gov.  TANNER'S  ADMINISTRATION — The  Fortieth 
'jeneral  Assembly  met  Jan.  6,  1897,  consisting  of 
eighty-eight  Republicans  to  sixty-three  Demo- 
crats and  two  Populists  in  the  House,  and  thirty- 
nine  Republicans  to  eleven  Democrats  and  one 
Populist  in  the  Senate  The  Republicans  finally 
gained  one  member  in  each  house  by  contests. 
Edward  C.  Curtis,  of  Kankakee  County,  was 
chosen  Speaker  of  the  House  and  Hendrick  V. 
Ffsher,  of  Henry  County,  President  pro  tern,  of 
the  Senate,  with  a  full  set  of  Republican  officers 
in  the  subordinate  positions.  The  inauguration 
of  the  newly  elected  State  officers  took  place  on 
the  llth,  the  inaugural  address  of  Governor 
Tanner  taking  strong  ground  in  favor  of  main- 
taining the  issues  indorsed  by  the  people  at  the 
late  election.  On  Jan.  20,  William  E.  Mason, 
of  Chicago,  was  elected  United  States  Senator,  as 
the  successor  of  Senator  Palmer,  whose  term  was 
about  to  expire.  Mr.  Mason  received  the  full 
Republican  strength  (125  votes)  in  the  two 
Houses,  to  the  77  Democratic  votes  cast  for  John 
P.  Altgeld.  (See  Fortieth  General  Assembly.) 


Among  the  principal  measures  enacted  by  the 
Fortieth  General  Assembly  at  its  regular  session 
were:  The  "Torrens  Land  Title  System,"  regu- 
lating the  conveyance  and  registration  of  land 
titles  (which  see) ;  the  consolidation  of  the  three 
Supreme  Court  Districts  into  one  and  locating  the 
Supreme  Court  at  Springfield,  and  the  Allen 
Street-Railroad  Law,  empowering  City  Councils 
and  other  corporate  authorities  of  cities  to  grant 
street  railway  franchises  for  a  period  of  fifty 
years.  On  Deo.  7,  1897,  the  Legislature  met  in 
special  session  under  a  call  of  the  Governor,  nam- 
ing five  subjects  upon  which  legislation  was  sug- 
gested. Of  these  only  two  were  acted  upon 
affirmatively,  viz. :  a  law  prescribing  the  manner 
of  conducting  the  election  of  delegates  to  nomi- 
nating political  conventions,  and  a  new  revenue 
law  regulating  the  assessment  and  collection  of 
taxes.  The  main  feature  of  the  latter  act  is  the 
requirement  that  property  shall  be  entered  upon 
the  books  of  the  assessor  at  its  cash  value,  subject 
to  revision  by  a  Board  of  Review,  the  basis  of 
valuation  for  purposes  of  taxation  being  one-fifth 
of  this  amount. 

THE  SPANISH-AMERICAN  WAR. — The  most  not- 
able event  in  the  history  of  Illinois  during  the 
year  1898  was  the  Spanish-American  War,  and 
the  part  Illinois  played  in  it.  In  this  contest 
Illinoisans  manifested  the  same  eagerness  to 
serve  their  country  as  did  their  fathers  and  fel- 
low- citizens  in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  a  third 
of  a  century  ago.  The  first  call  for  volunteers 
was  responded  to  with  alacrity  by  the  men  com- 
posing the  Illinois  National  Guard,  seven  regi- 
ments of  infantry,  from  the  First  to  Seventh 
inclusive,  besides  one  regiment  of  Cavalry  and 
one  Battery  of  Artillery — in  all  about  9,000  men 
— being  mustered  in  between  May  7  and  May  21. 
Although  only  one  of  these — the  First,  under  the 
command  of  Col.  Henry  L.  Turner  of  Chicago — 
saw  practical  service  in  Cuba  before  the  surrender 
at  Santiago,  others  in  camps  of  instruction  in  the 
South  stood  ready  to  respond  to  the  demand  for 
their  service  in  the  field.  Under  the  second  call 
for  troops  two  other  regiments — the  Eighth  and 
the  Ninth — were  organized  and  the  former  (com- 
posed of  Afro-Americans  officered  by  men  of 
their  own  race)  relieved  the  First  Illinois  on  guard 
duty  at  Santiago  after  the  surrender.  A  body  of 
engineers  from  Company  E  of  the  Second  United 
States  Engineers,  recruited  in  Chicago,  were 
among  the  first  to  see  service  in  Cuba,  while 
many  Illinoisans  belonging  to  the  Naval  Reserve 
were  assigned  to  duty  on  United  States  war 
vessels,  and  rendered  most  valuable  service  in  the 


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naval  engagements  in  Cuban  waters.  The  Third 
Regiment  (Col.  Fred.  Bennitt)  also  took  part  in 
the  movement  for  the  occupation  of  Porto  Rico. 
The  several  regiments  on  their  return  for  muster- 
out,  after  the  conclusion  of  terms  of  peace  with 
Spain,  received  most  enthusiastic  ovations  from 
their  fellow-citizens  at  home.  Besides  the  regi- 
ments mentioned,  several  Provisional  Regiments 
were  organized  and  stood  ready  to  respond  to  the 
call  of  the  Government  for  their  services  had  the 
emergency  required.  (See  War,  The  Spanish 
American. ) 

LABOR  DISTURBANCES.  —  The  principal  labor 
disturbances  in  the  State,  under  Governor  Tan- 
ner's administration,  occurred  during  the  coal- 
miners'  strike  of  1897,  and  the  lock-out  at  the 
Pana  and  Virden  mines  in  1898.  The  attempt  to 
introduce  colored  laborers  from  the  South  to 
operate  these  mines  led  to  violence  between  the 
adherents  of  the  "Miners'  Union"  and  the  mine- 
owners  and  operators,  and  their  employes,  at 
these  points,  during  which  it  was  necessary  to 
call  out  the  National  Guard,  and  a  number  of 
lives  were  sacrificed  on  both  sides. 

A  flood  in  the  Ohio,  during  the  spring  of  1898, 
caused  the  breaking  of  the  levee  at  Shawneetown, 
111.,  on  the  3d  day  of  April,  in  consequence  of 
which  a  large  proportion  of  the  city  was  flooded, 
many  homes  and  business  houses  wrecked  or 
greatly  injured,  and  much  other  property  de- 
stroyed. The  most  serious  disaster,  however,  was 
the  loss  of  some  twenty-five  lives,  for  the  most 
part  of  women  and  children  who,  being  surprised 
in  their  homes,  were  unable  to  escape.  Aid  was 
promptly  furnished  by  the  State  Government  in 
the  form  of  tents  to  shelter  the  survivors  and 
rations  to  feed  them ;  and  contributions  of  money 
and  provisions  from  the  citizens  of  the  State,  col- 
lected by  relief  organizations  during  the  next  two 
or  three  months,  were  needed  to  moderate  the 
suffering.  (See  Inundations,  Remarkable.) 

CAMPAIGN  OF  1898. — The  political  campaign  of 
1898  was  a  quiet  one,  at  least  nominally  conducted 
on  the  same  general  issues  as  that  of  1890,  al- 
though the  gradual  return  of  business  prosperity 
had  greatly  modified  the  intensity  of  interest 
with  which  some  of  the  economic  questions  of 
the  preceding  campaign  had  been  regarded.  The 
only  State  officers  to  be  elected  were  a  State- 
Treasurer,  a  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction, 
and  three  State  University  Trustees — the  total 
vote  cast  for  the  former  being  878,622  against 
1,090,869  for  President  in  1896.  Of  the  former, 
Floyd  K.  Whittemore  (Republican  candidate  for 
State  Treasurer)  received  448,940  to  405,490  for 


M.  F.  Dunlap  (Democrat),  with  24,193  divided 
between  three  other  candidates;  while  Alfred 
Bayliss  (Republican)  received  a  plurality  of 
68,899  over  his  Democratic  competitor,  with  23,- 
190  votes  cast  for  three  others.  The  Republican 
candidates  for  University  Trustees  were,  of  course, 
elected.  The  Republicans  lost  heavily  in  tlieir 
representation  in  Congress,  though  electing  thir- 
teen out  of  twenty-two  members  of  the  Fifty- 
sixth  Congress,  leaving  nine  to  their  Democratic 
opponents,  who  were  practically  consolidated  in 
this  campaign  with  the  Populists. 

FORTY-FIRST  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY. — The  Forty- 
first  General  Assembly  met,  Jan.  4,  1899,  and 
adjourned,  April  14,  after  a  session  of  101  days, 
with  one  exception  (that  of  1875),  the  shortest 
regular  session  in  the  history  of  the  State  Gov- 
ernment since  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution  of 
1870.  The  House  of  Representatives  consisted  of 
eighty-one  Republicans  to  seventy -one  Democrats 
and  one  Prohibitionist ;  and  the  Senate,  of  thirty- 
four  Republicans  to  sixteen  Democrats  and  one 
Populist — giving  a  Republican  majority  on  joint 
ballot  of  twenty-six.  Of  176  bills  which  passed 
both  Houses,  received  the  approval  of  the  Gov- 
ernor and  became  laws,  some  of  the  more  impor- 
tant were  the  following:  Amending  the  State 
Arbitration  Law  by  extending  its  scope  and  the 
general  powers  of  the  Board ;  creating  the  office 
of  State  Architect  at  a  salary  of  $5,000  per  annum, 
to  furnish  plans  and  specifications  for  public 
buildings  and  supervise  the  construction  and 
care  of  the  same ;  authorizing  the  consolidation 
of  the  territory  of  cities  under  township  organi- 
zation, and  consisting  of  five  or  more  Congres- 
sional townships,  into  one  township;  empowering 
each  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  to  employ  a 
private  secretary  at  a  salary  of  §2,000  per  annum, 
to  be  paid  by  the  State;  amending  the  State 
Revenue  Law  of  1898;  authorizing  the  establish- 
ment and  maintenance  of  parental  or  truant 
schools;  and  empowering  the  State  to  establish 
Free  Employment  Offices,  in  the  proportion  of  one 
to  each  city  of  50,000  inhabitants,  or  three  in 
cities  of  1,000,000  and  over.  An  act  was  also 
passed  requiring  the  Secretary  of  State,  when  an 
amendment  of  the  State  Constitution  is  to  be 
voted  upon  by  the  electors  at  any  general  elec- 
tion, to  prepare  a  statement  setting  forth  the  pro- 
visions of  the  same  and  furnish  copies  thereof  to 
each  County  Clerk,  whose  duty  it  is  to  have  said 
copies  published  and  posted  at  the  places  of  voting 
for  the  information  of  voters.  One  of  the  most 
important  acts  of  this  Legislature  was  the  repeal, 
by  a  practically  unanimous  vote,  of  the  Street- 


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railway  Franchise  Law  of  the  previous  session, 
the  provisions  of  which,  empowering  City  Coun- 
cils to  grant  street-railway  franchises  extending 
over  a  period  of  fifty  years,  had  been  severely 
criticised  by  a  portion  of  the  press  and  excited 
intense  hostility,  especially  in  some  of  the  larger 
cities  of  the  State.  Although  in  force  nearly  two 
years,  not  a  single  corporation  had  succeeded  in 
obtaining  a  franchise  under  it. 

A  RETROSPECT  AND  A  LOOK  INTO  THE  FUTURE. — 
The  history  of  Illinois  has  been  traced  concisely 
and  in  outline  from  the  earliest  period  to  the 
present  time.  Previous  to  the  visit  of  Joliet  and 
Marquette,  in  1673,  as  unknown  as  Central  Africa, 
for  a  century  it  continued  the  hunting  ground  of 
savages  and  the  home  of  wild  animals  common  to 
the  plains  and  forests  of  the  Mississippi  Valley. 
The  region  brought  under  the  influence  of  civili- 
zation, such  as  then  existed,  comprised  a  small 
area,  scarcely  larger  than  two  ordinarily  sized 
counties  of  the  present  day.  Thirteen  years  of 
nominal  British  control (1765-78)  saw  little  change, 
except  the  exodus  of  a  part  of  the  old  French 
population,  who  preferred  Spanish  to  British  rule. 

The  period  of  development  began  with  the 
occupation  of  Illinois  by  Clark  in  1778.  That 
saw  the  "Illinois  County,"  created  for  the  gov- 
ernment of  the  settlements  northwest  of  the 
Ohio,  expanded  into  five  States,  with  an  area  of 
250,000  square  miles  and  a  population,  in  1890,  of 
13,500,000.  In  1880  the  population  of  the  State 
equaled  that  of  the  Thirteen  Colonies  at  the 
close  of  the  Revolution.  The  eleventh  State  in 
the  Union  in  this  respect  in  1850,  in  1890  it  had 
advanced  to  third  rank.  "With  its  unsurpassed 
fertility  of  soil,  its  inexhaustible  supplies  of  fuel 
for  manufacturing  purposes,  its  system  of  rail- 
roads, surpassing  in  extent  that  of  any  other  State, 
there  is  little  risk  in  predicting  that  the  next 
forty  years  will  see  it  advanced  to  second,  if  not 
first  rank,  in  both  wealth  and  population. 

But  if  the  development  of  Illinois  on  material 
lines  has  been  marvelous,  its  contributions  to  the 
Nation  in  philanthropists  and  educators,  soldiers 
and  statesmen,  have  rendered  it  conspicuous.  A 
long  list  of  these  might  be  mentioned,  but  two 
names  from  the  ranks  of  Illinoisans  have  been,  by 
common  consent,  assigned  a  higher  place  than  all 
others,  and  have  left  a  deeper  impress  upon  the 
history  of  the  Nation  than  any  others  since  the 
days  of  Washington.  These  are,  Ulysses  S.  Grant, 
the  Organizer  of  Victory  for  the  Union  arms 
and  Conqueror  of  the  Rebellion,  and  Abraham 
Lincoln,  the  Great  Emancipator,  the  Preserver  of 
the  Republic,  and  its  Martyred  President. 


CHRONOLOGICAL    RECORD. 

Important  Events  in  Illinois  History. 

1673.— Joliet  and  Marquette  reach  Illinois  from  Gropn  Bay  by 
way  of  the  Upper  Mississippi  ami  Illinois  Rivers. 

1G74-5.— Marquette  makes  a  second  visit  to  Illinois  and  spends 
the  winter  on  the  present  site  of  Chicago. 

1680.—  Ls  Salle  and  Tonty  descend  the  Illinois  to  Peoria  Lake. 

1681.— Tonty  begins  the  erection  of  Fort  St.  Louis  on  "Starved 
Rock  "  in  La  Salle  County. 

1682.— La  Salle  and  Tonty  descend  the  Illinois  and  Mississippi 
Kivers  to  the  mouth  of  the  latter,  and  take  possession 
(  April  !>,  1682)  in  the  name  of  the  King  of  France. 

1700.— First  permanent  French  settlement  in  Illinois  and  Mis- 
sion of  St.  Sulpice  established  at  Cahokia. 

1700.— Kaskaskia  Indians  remove  from  the  Upper  Illinois  and 
locate  near  the  mouth  of  the  Kaskaskia  River.  French 
settlement  established  here  the  same  year  becomes  the 
town  of  Kaskaskia  and  future  capital  of  Illinois. 

1718.— The  first  Fort  Chartres.  erected  near  Kaskaskia. 

1718.— Fort  St.  Louis,  on  the  Upper  Illinois,  burned  by  Indians. 

1754.— Fort  Chartres  rebuilt  and  strengthened. 

1705.— The  Illinois  country  surrendered  by  the  French  to  the 
British  under  the  treaty  of  1763. 

1778.— i  July  4)  Col.  George  Rogers  Clark,  at  the  head  of  an  expe- 
dition organized  under  authority  of  Gov.  Patrick  Henry  of 
Virginia,  arrives  at  Kaskaskia.  The  occupation  of  Illinois 
by  the  American  troops  follows. 

1778.— Illinois  County  created  by  Act  of  the  Virginia  House  of 
Delegates,  for  the  government  of  the  settlements  north- 
west of  the  Ohio  River. 

1787.- Congress  adopts  the  Ordinance  of  1787,  organizing  the 
Northwest  Territory,  embracing  the  present  States  of 
Ohio.  Indiana,  Illinois.  Michigan  and  Wisconsin. 

1788.— General  Arthur  St.  Clair  appointed  Governor  of  North- 
west Territory. 

1790.— Si  Clair  County  organized. 

1795.— Randolph  County  organized. 

1800.— Northwest  Territory  divided  into  Ohio  and  Indiana  Ter- 
ritories. Illinois  being  embraced  in  the  latter. 

1809.— Illinois  Territory  set  off  from  Indiana,  and  Ninian 
Edwards  appointed  Governor. 

1818.— (Dec.  3)  Illinois  admitted  as  a  State. 

1820.  -State  capital  removed  from  Kaskaskia  to  Vandalia. 

1822-24. -Unsuccessful  attempt  to  make  Illinois  a  slave  State. 

1825.-  (  April  30)  General  La  Fayette  visits  Kaskaskia. 

1832.— Black  Hawk  War. 

1839.— (July  4 1  Springfield  becomes  the  third  capital  of  the  State 
under  an  Act  of  the  Legislature  passed  in  1837. 

1848.— The  second  Constitution  adopted. 

18UO.— Abraham  Lincoln  is  elected  President. 

1861.— War  of  the  Rebellion  begins. 

1803.— (Jan.  1)  Lincoln  issues  his  tiual  Proclamation  of  Eman- 
cipation. 

1864  —Lincoln's  second  election  to  the  Presidency. 

1865.— (  April  14)  Abraham  Lincoln  assassinated  in  Washington. 

1865.— (  May  4)  President  Lincoln's  funeral  in  Springtteld. 

1865.— The  War  of  the  Rebellion  ends. 

1868.— Gen.  U.  s.  Grant  elected  to  the  Presidency. 

1870.— The  third  State  Constitution  adopted. 


POPULATION  OF  ILLINOIS 
At  Each  Decennial  Census  from  1810  to  1910. 


1810  (23) 12.282 

1820  (24) 65,162 

1830  (20) 157.445 

1840  (14) 476,183 

1850  (11) 851,470 


1860  (4) 1,711,951 

1870  (4) 2,539,8S1 

1880  (4) 3.077,871 

1890  (3) 3826,351 

1900  (3) 1.821,550 

1910  (3) .'.,638.591 

NOTE. — Figures  in  parenthesis  indicate  the  raiik  of  the 
State  in  order  of  population. 


ILLINOIS  CITIKS 

Having  a  Population  uf  10,000  and  Over  (1910). 
Name.  Population.  Name.  Popu! 

Chicago     2.185.283  Belleville 

IVuria 66.05"  Oak  Park 

F.ast   St.    Louis 58.547  Kreeport 

Springfield 51.678  Alton 

Itockford 45,401  Waukegan 

(Julney 36.58T  Jacksonville 

Joliet 34.670  Cicero 

Hecatur 31.140  Cairo 

Aurora 29.807  Chicago  Heights 

n.-inville, 27,871  Streator 

Elgin 25.976  Knnkakec 

Bloomington 25.768  Champaign 

Evanston 24,978  Lasalle 

Rock     Island 24,335  Mattoon 

Mnllne 24.199  Lincoln 

Galesburg 22,089  Canton 


:ation. 
21.122 
19.444 
17..r.G" 
17,528 
16.069 
15.326 
14.557 
14,548 
14.525 
14.253 
13.986 
12.421 
11.537 
11.458 
10.892 
10,453 


HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA   OF   ILLINOIS. 


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INDEX. 


This  index  relatesexcluslvely  to  matter  embraced  In  the  article  under  the  title  "Illinois."    Subjects  of  general  State  history 
will  be  found  treated  at  length,  under  topical  heads,  hi  the  body  of  the  Encyclopedia. 


Admission  of  Illinois  as  a  State,  258. 

Altgeld,  John  P.,  administration  as  Gov- 
ernor. 279-80 ;  defeated  for  re-election,  2sl . 

Anderson,  Stinson  H.,264. 

Anti-Nebraska  Editorial  Convention.  256. 

Anti-slavery  contest  of  1822-24;  defeat  of  a 
convention  scheme,  261). 

Baker,  Col.  E.  D.,  263;  orator  at  laying 
the  corner-atone  of  State  capitol,264, 

Bateman,  Newton,  State  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction,  270,  274,275. 

Beveridge,  John  L.,  Congressman  and 
Lieutenant-governor;  becomes  Governor 
by  resignation  of  Governor  Oglesby,276. 

Birkbeck,  Morris,  260. 

Bissell,  William  H.,  Colonel  In  Mexican 
War.  265;  Governor,  269;  death,  270. 

Black  Hawk  War.  262. 

Blodgett,  Henry  W.,  Free  Soil  member  of 
the  Legislature,  268. 

Bloomington  Convention  (1856), 269. 

Boisbriant,  first  French  Commandant,  249. 

Bond,  Shadrach,  265;  Delegate  in  Congress, 
257;  first  Governor,  258. 

Breese,  Sidney,  259. 

Browne,    Thomas  C.,  260. 

Browning,  Orville  H.p  in  Bloomington 
Convention,  269;  U.  S.  Senator,  273. 

Cahokla,  first  French  settlement  at,  252. 

Camp  Douglas  conspiracy,  273. 

Canal  Scrip  Fraud ,270. 

Carlin,  Thomas,  elected  Governor,  263. 

Casey,  Zadoc,  elected  to  Congress ;  re- 
signs the  Lieutenant-Governorship,  262. 

Charlevoir  visits  Illinois,  247 

Chicago  and  Calumet  Rivers,  importance 
of  in  estimation  of  early  explorers,  247. 

Chicago  election  frauds,  278. 

Chicago,  fire  of  1871,  276. 

Chicagou,  Indian  Chief  for  whom  Chicago 
was  named,  248. 

Clark,  Col.  George  Rogers,  expedition  to 
Illinois;  capture  of  Kaskaskia,  251. 

Coles,  Edward,  emancipates  his  slaves; 
candidate  for  Governor,  259;  his  election, 
260;  persecuted  by  his  enemies,  261. 

Constitutional  Convention  of  1818,  258. 

Constitutional  Convention  of  1847,266. 

Constitutional  Convention  of  1862,272. 

Constitutional  Convention  of  1870,275. 

Cook,  Daniel  P.,  255:  Attorney -General, 
258;  elected  to  Congress,  260-61. 

Craig,  Capt.  Thomas,  expedition  against 
Indians  at  Peoria,  257. 

Cullom,  Shelby  M.,  Speaker  of  General  As- 
sembly, 270;  elected  Governor,  276;  fea- 
tures of  his  administration;  re-elected, 
277;  elected  to  U.  S.  Senate,  278. 

Davis,  David,  United  States  Senator,  277. 

Douglas,  Stephen  A.,  263;  Justice  Supreme 
Court,  264,  U.S.Senator,  266;  debates 
with  Lincoln.  268-70 ;  re-elected  U.  S.  Sen- 
ator, 270;  death,  272. 

Duncan,  Joseph,  Governor;  character  of 
his  administration,  262-63. 

Early  towns,  258. 

Earthquake  of  1811,256. 

Edwards.  Ninlan,  Governor  Illinois  Terri- 
tory, 255,  elected  U.  M.  Senator,  259; 
elected  Governor;  administration,  aud 
death,  261. 

Ewing,  William  L.  D.,  becomes  acting 
Governor;  occupant  of  many  oifices,  262. 

Explorers,  early  French, 244-5. 

Farwell,  Charles  B.,279 

Field- MoClHriiand  contest,  264. 

Fifer,  Joseph  W.,  elected  Governor,  279. 

Fisher,  Dr.  George.  Speaker  of  Territorial 
House  of  Representatives,  257. 

Ford,  Thomas,  Governor;  embarrassing 
questions  of  his  administration, 264. 

Fort  C'hartres,  surrendered  to  British,  250. 

Fort  Dearborn  massacre,  256-57. 

Fort  Gage  burned.  251. 

Fort  Massac,  startinj; point  on  the  Ohio  of 
Clark's  expedition,  251. 

Fort  St.  Louis,  246;  raided  and  burned  by 
Indians,  247 

Franklin,  Benjamin,  Indian  Commissioner 
for  Illinois  in  1775,251. 

French,  Augustus  C.,  Governor,  265-7. 

French  and  Indian  War,  250 


French  occupation;  settlement  about  Kas- 
kaskia and  Cahokia,  249. 

French  villages,  population  of  in  1765,251. 

Gibault.  Pierre,  252. 

Grant,  Uly»ses  S.,  arrival  at  Springfield; 
Colonel  of  Twenty-first  Illinois  Volun- 
teers, 271 :  elected  President,  275. 

Gresham,  Walter  Q.,  supported  by  Illinois 
Republicans  for  the  Presidency,  279. 

Hamilton,  John  M.,  Lieutenant-Governor, 
277;  succeeds  Gov.  Cullom,  278. 

Hansen-Shavv  contest,  260. 

Hardin,  John  J.,  263;  elected  to  Congress, 
264;  killed  at  Buena  Vista,  265. 

Harrison,  William  Henry,  first  Governor 
of  Indiana  Territory,  254. 

Henry,  Patrick,  Indian  Commissioner  for 
Illinois  Country;  assists  in.  planning 
Clark's  expedition,  251;  ex-officio  Gov- 
ernor of  territory  northwest  of  the  Ohio 
River 

Illinois,  its  rank  in  order  of  admission  into 
the  Union,  area  and  population,  241;  In- 
dian origin  of  the  name;  boundaries  and 
area;  geographical  location;  navigable 
streams,  242:  topography,  fauna  and 
flora,  213;  soil  and  climate.  243-44;  con- 
test for  occupation,  244:  part  of  Louisi- 
ana in  1721,  249;  surrendered  to  the 
British  in  1765,  251;  under  government  of 
Virginia,  252:  part  of  Indiana  Territory, 
254;  Territorial  Government  organized; 
Nlnian  Edwards  appointed  Governor, 
255;  admitted  as  a  State,  258 

Illinois    &  Michigan  Canal, 261. 

Illinois  Central  Railroad,  267-68. 

"Illinois  Country,"  boundaries  defined  by 
Captain  Plttman,  241;  Patrick  Henry, 
first  American  Governor,  252. 

Illinois  County  organized  by  Virginia 
House  of  Delegates,  252. 

Illinois  Territory  organized;  first  Territo- 
rial officers.  255. 

Indiana  Territory  organized.  254;  first 
Territorial  Legislature  elected,  255. 

Indian  tribes;  location  in  Illinois,  247. 

Internal  improvement  scheme,  263. 

Joliet,  Louis,  accompanied  by  Marquette, 
visits  Illinois  in  1673,245. 

Kane,  Eli  as  Kent,  258. 

Kansas- Nebraska  contest,  268. 

Kaskaskia  Indiana  remove  from  Upper 
Illinois  to  mouth  of  Kaskaskia,  248. 

Kenton,  Simon,  guide  for  Clark's  expedi- 
tion against  Kaskaskia,  251. 

Labor  disturbances,  270,  280,283. 

La  Fayette,  visit  of,  to  Kaskaskia,  261. 

La Salle,  expedition  to  Illinois  in  1679-80, 
245;  builds  Fort  Miami,  near  mouth  of 
St.  Joseph;  disasterof  Fort  Creve-Coaur; 
erection  of  Fort  St.  Louis,  246. 

Lincoln,  Abraham,  Representative  in  the 
General  Assembly,  263;  elected  to  Con- 
gress, 266;  unsuccessful  candidate  for 
the  United  States  Senate;  member  of 
Bloomington  Convention  of  1856; 
"  House-divided-against-itself"  speech, 
269;  elected  President.  270:  departure  for 
Washington,  271;  elected  for  a  second 
term, 273;  assassination  and  funeral, 274. 

Lincoln-Douglas  debates,  270. 

Lockwood,  Samuel  D.,  Attorney-General; 
Secretary  of  State;  opponent  of  pro- 
slavery  convention  scheme,  260. 

Logan.  Gen.  John  A.,  prominent  Union 
soldier,  272;  Congress man-at-large.274-75; 
elected  United  States  Senator,  276;  Re- 
publ ican  noui i nee  for  Vice- President ; 
third  election  as  Senator,  278. 
"LongNine,M263. 

Louisiana  united  with  Illinois,  254. 

Lovejoy,  Elijah  P.,  murdered  at  Alton,  263. 

Macalister  and  Stebbins  bonds,  270. 

Marquette,  Father  Jacques  (see  Joliet); 
his  mission  among  the  Kaskaskias,  248. 

Mason,  William  E.,  U.  S.  Senator,  282. 

McLean.  John,  Speaker;  first  Representa- 
ti vein  Congress;  U.S  Senator;  death, 26.5. 

Menard,  Pierre,  255;  President  of  Terri- 
torial Council,  257;  elected  Lieutenant- 
Go  vernor,  258;  anecdote  of,  259. 

Mexican  War,  265. 


Morgan,  Col.  George,  Indian  Agent  at  Kas- 
kaskia in  1776,251. 

Mormon  War,  264-65. 

New  Design  Settlement,  2o5. 

New  France,  244,  249. 

Nicolet.  Jean,  French  explorei ,  244-5 

Northwest  Territory  organized;  Gen.  Ar- 
thur St.  Clair  appointed  Governor,  253; 
first  Territorial  Legislature;  separated 
into  Territories  of  Ohio  and  Indiana,  254. 

Oglesby,  Richard  J.,  soldier  in  Civil  War, 
271;  elected  Governor,  274;  second  elec- 
tion: chosen  U.  S.  Senator,  276;  third 
election  to  governorship,  278. 

Ordinance  of  1787,253. 

'•  Paincourt  "  (early  name  for  St  Louis) 
settled  by  French  from  Illinois,  251. 

Palmer,  John  M.,  member  of  Peace  Con- 
ference of  1861,  271;  elected  Governor; 
prominent  events  of  his  administration, 
'*.75;  unsuccessful  Democratic  candidate 
for  Go  vernor;  elected  U.  S.  Senator,  279;. 
candidate  for  President,  282. 

Peace  Conference  of  1861,271. 

Peace  conventions  of  1863,273. 

Perrot,  Nicholas,  explorer,  245. 

Pittman,  Capt.  Philip,  defines  the  bounda- 
ries of  the  "Illinois  Country."  241. 

Pope,  Nathaniel,  Secretary  of  Illinois  Ter- 
ritory. 255;  Delegate  in  Congress;  serv- 
ice infixing  northern  boundary,  258. 

Prairies,  origin  of,  243. 

Randolph  County  organized,  254. 

Renault,  Philip  F.,  first  Importer  of  Afri- 
can slaves  to  Illinois.  249. 

Republican  State  Convention  of  1856,269. 

Reynolds,  John,  elected  Governor:  resigns 
to  take  seat  in  Congress,  262;  Speaker  of 
Illinois  House  of  Representatives.  268. 

Richardson,  William  A.,  candidate  for 
Governor,  270;  U.S.Senator,  272. 

Rocheblave,  Chevalier  de,  last  British 
Commandant  in  Illinois,  251;  sent  as  & 
prisoner  of  war  to  Williamsburg,  252. 

Shawneetown  Bank,  257. 

Shawneetown  flood,  283. 

Shields,  Gen.  James,  263;  elected  U.  S.  Sen- 
ator, 267;  defeated  for  re-election,  269. 

Southern  Hospitalfor  Insane  burned, 280. 

Spanish- American  War,  281. 

Springfield,  third  State  capital,  263;  erec- 
tion of  new  State  capitol  at,  authorizeu, 
275;  State  Bank,  259. 

St.  Clair,  Arthur,  first  Governor  of  North- 
west Territory,  253;  visits  Illinois,  254. 

St.  Clair  County  organized,  254. 

State  debt  reaches  its  maximum,  268. 

State  Fair  permanently  located,  281. 

Streams  and  navigation,  242. 

Supreme  Court  revolu  lionized,  ?64. 

Tanner,  John  R.,  State  Treasurer,  278; 
elected  Governor,  281-2. 

Thomas,  Jesse  B.,  255;  President  of  Con- 
stitutional Convention  of  1818,  258; 
elected  United  States  Senator,  259. 

Todd,C'ol.  John.  County-Lieutenant  of  Illi- 
nois County, 252. 

Tonty,  Henry  de  (see  La  Salle). 

Treaty  with  Indians  near  Alton, 257. 

Trumbull,  Lymaii,  Secretary  of  State.  264; 
elected  United  States  Senator.  269-70 ; 
Democratic  candidate  for  Governor,  277. 

Vandalia,  the  second  State  capital,  259. 

War  of  1812,  256;  expeditions  to  Peoria 
Lake,  257. 

War  of  the  Rebellion;  some  prominent 
Illinois  actors;  number  of  troops  fur- 
nished by  Illinnis;  important  battles  par- 
ticipated in,  271  72;  some  oilicers  who 
fell;,Orierson  raid.  272. 

Warren,  Hooper,  editor  Edwards  ville 
Spectator,  260. 

Wayne.  Gen.  Anthony, 254. 

Whig  mass-meeting  at  Springfield,  264. 

Wilniot  Proviso,  action  of  Illinois  Legisla- 
ture upon,  267. 

Wood,  John,  Lieutenant-Governor,  fills 
Bissell's  unexpired  term.  270. 

Yates,  Richard,  at  Bloomington  Conven- 
tion of  1856.  269;  Go  vernor,  270;  prorogues 
Legislature  of  1863;  elected  United  States 
Senator,  273. 


HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA   OP   ILLINOIS. 


ILES,  Elijah,  pioneer  merchant,  was  born  in 
Kentucky,  March  28, 1796;  received  the  rudiments 
of  an  education  in  two  winters'  schooling,  and 
began  his  business  career  by  purchasing  100  head 
of  yearling  cattle  upon  which,  after  herding 
them  three  years  in  the  valleys  of  Eastern  Ken- 
tucky, he  realized  a  profit  of  nearly  §3,000.  In 
1818  he  went  to  St.  Louis,  then  a  French  village 
of  2,500  inhabitants,  and,  after  spending  three 
years  as  clerk  in  a  frontier  store  at  "Old  Frank- 
lin, "  on  the  Missouri  River,  nearly  opposite  the 
present  town  of  Boonville,  in  1821  made  a  horse- 
back tour  through  Central  Illinois,  finally  locating 
at  Springfield,  which  had  just  been  selected  by 
a  board  of  Commissioners  as  the  temporary 
county-seat  of  Sangamon  County.  Here  he  soon 
brought  a  stock  of  goods  by  keel-boat  from  St. 
Louis  and  opened  the  first  store  in  the  new  town. 
Two  years  later  (1823),  in  conjunction  with 
Pascal  P.  Enos,  Daniel  P.  Cook  and  Thomas  Cox, 
he  entered  a  section  of  land  comprised  within  the 
present  area  of  the  city  of  Springfield,  which 
later  became  the  permanent  county-seat  and 
finally  the  State  capital.  Mr.  lies  became  the 
first  postmaster  of  Springfield,  and,  in  1826,  was 
elected  State  Senator,  served  as  Major  in  the 
Winnebago  War  (1827),  enlisted  as  a  private  in 
the  Black  Hawk  War  (1831-32),  but  was  soon 
advanced  to  the  rank  of  Captain.  In  1830  he 
sold  his  store  to  John  Williams,  who  had  been 
his  clerk,  and,  in  1838-39,  built  the  "American 
House,"  which  afterwards  became  the  temporary 
stopping-place  of  many  of  Illinois'  most  famous 
statesmen.  He  invested  largely  in  valuable 
farming  lands,  and,  at  his  death,  left  a  large 
estate.  Died,  Sept.  4,  1883. 

ILLINOIS  ASYLUM  FOR  INCURABLE  IN- 
SANE, an  institution  founded  under  an  act  of  the 
General  Assembly,  passed  at  the  session  of  1895, 
making  an  appropriation  of  §65,000  for  the  pur- 
chase of  a  site  and  the  erection  of  buildings  with 
capacity  for  the  accommodation  of  200  patients. 
The  institution  was  located  by  tho  Trustees  at 
Bartonville,  a  suburb  of  the  city  of  Peoria,  and 
the  erection  of  buildings  begun  in  1896.  Later 
these  were  found  to  be  located  on  ground  which 
had  been  undermined  in  excavating  for  coal,  and 
their  removal  to  a  different  location  was  under- 
taken in  1898.  The  institution  is  intended  to 
relieve  the  other  hospitals  for  the  Insane  by  the 
reception  of  patients  deemed  incurable. 

ILLINOIS  AND  MICHIGAN  CANAL,  a  water- 
way connecting  Lake  Michigan  with  the  Illinois 
River,  and  forming  a  connecting  link  in  the 
water-route  between  the  St.  Lawrence  and  the 


Gulf  of  Mexico  Its  summit  level  is  about  580 
feet  above  tide  water.  Its  point  of  beginning  is 
at  the  South  Branch  of  the  Chicago  River,  about 
five  miles  from  the  lake.  Thence  it  flows  some 
eight  miles  to  the  valley  of  the  Des  Plaines,  fol- 
lowing the  valley  to  the  mouth  of  the  Kankakee 
(forty-two  miles),  thence  to  its  southwestern 
terminus  at  La  Salle,  the  head  of  navigation  on 
the  Illinois.  Between  these  points  the  canal  has 
four  feeders — the  Calumet,  Des  Plaines,  Du  Page 
and  Kankakee.  It  passes  through  Lockport, 
Joliet,  Morris,  and  Ottawa,  receiving  accessions 
from  the  waters  of  the  Fox  River  at  the  latter 
point.  The  canal  proper  is  96  miles  long,  and  it 
has  five  feeders  whose  aggregate  length  is 
twenty-five  miles,  forty  feet  wide  and  four  feet 
deep,  with  four  aqueducts  and  seven  dams.  The 
difference  in  level  between  Lake  Michigan  and 
the  Illinois  River  at  La  Salle  is  one  hundred  and 
forty-five  feet.  To  permit  the  ascent  of  vessels, 
there  are  seventeen  locks,  ranging  from  three 
and  one  half  to  twelve  and  one-half  feet  in  lift, 
their  dimensions  being  110x18  feet,  and  admitting 
the  passage  of  boats  carrying  150  tons.  At  Lock- 
port,  Joliet,  Du  Page,  Ottawa  and  La  Salle  are 
large  basins,  three  of  which  supply  power  to  fac- 
tories. To  increase  the  water  supply,  rendered 
necessary  by  the  high  summit  level,  pumping 
works  were  erected  at  Bridgeport,  having  two 
thirty-eight  foot  independent  wheels,  each  capa- 
ble of  delivering  (through  buckets  of  ten  feet 
length  or  width)  15,000  cubic  feet  of  water  per 
minute.  These  pumping  works  were  erected  in 
1848,  at  a  cost  of  815,000,  and  were  in  almost  con- 
tinuous use  until  1870.  It  was  soon  found  that 
these  machines  might  be  utilized  for  the  benefit 
of  Chicago,  by  forcing  the  sewage  of  the  Chicago 
River  to  the  summit  level  of  the  canal,  and  allow- 
ing its  place  to  be  filled  by  pure  water  from  the 
lake.  This  pumping,  however,  cost  a  large  sum, 
and  to  obviate  this  expense  §2,955,340  was  ex- 
pended by  Chicago  in  deepening  the  canal  be- 
tween 1865  and  1871,  so  that  the  sewage  of  the 
south  division  of  the  city  might  be  carried  through 
the  canal  to  the  Des  Plaines.  This  sum  was 
returned  to  the  City  by  the  State  after  the  great 
fire  of  1871.  (As  to  further  measures  for  carry- 
ing off  Chicago  sewage,  see  Chicago  Drainage 
Canal.) 

In  connection  with  the  canal  three  locks  and 
dams  have  been  built  on  the  Illinois  River, — one 
at  Henry,  about  twenty-eight  miles  below  La 
Salle ;  one  at  the  mouth  of  Copperas  Creek,  about 
sixty  miles  below  Henry;  and  another  at  La 
Grange.  The  object  of  these  works  (the  first 


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two  being  practically  an  extension  of  the  canal) 
is  to  furnish  slack-water  navigation  through- 
out the  year.  The  cost  of  that  at  Henry  ($400,000) 
was  defrayed  by  direct  appropriation  from  the 
State  treasury.  Copperas  Creek  dam  cost  §410,831, 
of  which  amount  the  United  States  Government 
paid  $62,360.  The  General  Government  also  con- 
structed a  dam  at  La  Grange  and  appropriated 
funds  for  the  building  of  another  at  Kampsville 
Landing,  with  a  view  to  making  the  river  thor- 
oughly navigable  the  year  round.  The  beneficial 
results  expected  from  these  works  have  not  been 
realized  and  their  demolition  is  advocated. 

HISTORY.  —  The  early  missionaries  and  fur- 
traders  first  directed  attention  to  the  nearness  of 
the  waters  of  Lake  Michigan  and  the  Illinois. 
The  project  of  the  construction  of  a  canal  was 
made  the  subject  of  a  report  by  Albert  Gallatin, 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury  in  1808,  and,  in  1811,  a 
bill  on  the  subject  was  introduced  in  Congress  in 
connection  with  the  Erie  and  other  canal  enter- 
prises. In  1822  Congress  granted  the  right  of 
way  across  the  public  lands  "for  the  route  of  a 
canal  connecting  the  Illinois  River  with  the 
south  bend  of  Lake  Michigan,"  which  was  fol- 
lowed five  years  later  by  a  grant  of  300,000  acres 
of  land  to  aid  in  its  construction,  which  was  to 
be  undertaken  by  the  State  of  Illinois.  The 
earliest  surveys  contemplated  a  channel  100  miles 
long,  and  the  original  estimates  of  cost  varied 
between  §639,000  and  $716,000.  Later  surveys 
and  estimates  (1833)  placed  the  cost  of  a  canal 
forty  feet  wide  and  four  feet  deep  at  $4,040,000. 
In  1836  another  Board  of  Commissioners  was 
created  and  surveys  were  made  looking  to  the 
construction  of  a  waterway  sixty  feet  wide  at  the 
surface,  thirty-six  feet  at  bottom,  and  six  feet  in 
depth.  Work  was  begun  in  June  of  that  year ; 
was  suspended  in  1841 ;  and  renewed  in  1846, 
when  a  canal  loan  of  $1,000,000  was  negotiated. 
The  channel  was  opened  for  navigation  in  April, 
1848,  by  which  time  the  total  outlay  had  reached 
$6,170,226.  By  1871,  Illinois  had  liquidated  its 
entire  indebtedness  on  account  of  the  canal  and 
the  latter  reverted  to  the  State.  The  total  cost 
up  to  1879 — including  amount  refunded  to  Chi- 
cago— was  $9,513,831,  while  the  sum  returned  to 
the  State  from  earnings,  sale  of  canal  lands,  etc., 
amounted  to  $8,819,731.  In  1882  an  offer  was 
made  to  cede  the  canal  to  the  United  States  upon 
condition  that  it  should  be  enlarged  and  ex- 
tended to  the  Mississippi,  was  repeated  in  1887, 
but  has  been  declined. 

ILLINOIS  AND  MISSISSIPPI  CANAL  (gener- 
ally known  as  "Hennepin  Canal"),  a  projected 


navigable  water-way  in  course  of  construction 
(1899)  by  the  General  Government,  designed  to 
connect  the  Upper  Illinois  with  the  Mississippi 
River.  Its  object  is  to  furnish  a  continuous 
navigable  water-channel  from  Lake  Michigan,  at 
or  near  Chicago,  by  way  of  the  Illinois  &  Michi- 
gan Canal  (or  the  Sanitary  Drainage  Canal)  and 
the  Illinois  River,  to  the  Mississippi  at  the  mouth 
of  Rock  River,  and  finally  to  the  Gulf  of  Mexico. 

THE  ROUTE.  —  The  canal,  at  its  eastern  end, 
leaves  the  Illinois  River  one  and  three-fourths 
miles  above  the  city  of  Hennepin,  where  the 
river  makes  the  great  bend  to  the  south.  Ascend- 
ing the  Bureau  Creek  valley,  the  route  passes 
over  the  dividing  ridge  between  the  Illinois  River 
and  the  Mississippi  to  Rock  River  at  the  mouth 
of  Green  River;  thence  by  slack-water  down 
Rock  River,  and  around  the  lower  rapids  in  that 
stream  at  Milan,  to  the  Mississippi.  The  esti- 
mated length  of  the  main  channel  between  its 
eastern  and  western  termini  is  seventy-five  miles 
— the  distance  having  been  reduced  by  changes 
in  the  route  after  the  first  survey.  To  this  is  to 
be  added  a  "feeder"  extending  from  the  vicinity 
of  Sheffield,  on  the  summit-level  (twenty-eight 
miles  west  of  the  starting  point  on  the  Illinois), 
north  to  Rock  Falls  on  Rock  River  opposite  the 
city  of  Sterling  in  Whiteside  County,  for  the 
purpose  of  obtaining  an  adequate  supply  of  water 
for  the  main  canal  on  its  highest  level.  The 
length  of  this  feeder  is  twenty-nine  miles  and,  as 
its  dimensions  are  the  same  as  those  of  the  main 
channel,  it  will  be  navigable  for  vessels  of  the 
same  class  as  the  latter.  A  dam  to  be  constructed 
at  Sterling,  to  turn  water  into  the  feeder,  will 
furnish  slack-water  navigation  on  Rock  River  to 
Dixon,  practically  lengthening  the  entire  route 
to  that  extent. 

HISTORY. — The  subject  of  such  a  work  began  to 
be  actively  agitated  as  early  as  1871,  and,  under 
authority  of  various  acts  of  Congress,  preliminary 
surveys  began  to  be  made  by  Government  engi- 
neers that  year.  In  1890  detailed  plans  and  esti- 
mates, based  upon  these  preliminary  surveys, 
were  submitted  to  Congress  in  accordance  with 
the  river  and  harbor  act  of  August,  1888.  This 
report  became  the  basis  of  an  appropriation  in 
the  river  and  harbor  act  of  Sept.  19,  1890,  for 
carrying  the  work  into  practical  execution. 
Actual  work  was  begun  on  the  western  end  of  the 
canal  in  July,  1892,  and  at  the  eastern  end  in  the 
spring  of  1894.  Since  then  it  has  been  prosecuted 
as  continuously  as  the  appropriations  made  by 
Congress  from  year  to  year  would  permit.  Ac- 
cording to  the  report  of  Major  Marshall,  Chief  of 


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Engineers  in  charge  of  the  work,  for  the  fiscal 
year  ending  June  30,  1898,  the  construction  of  the 
canal  around  the  lower  rapids  of  Rock  River  (four 
and  one- half  miles),  with  three  locks,  three 
swing  bridges,  two  dams,  besides  various  build- 
ings, was  completed  and  that  portion  of  the  canal 
opened  to  navigation  on  April  17.  1895.  In  the 
early  part  of  1899,  the  bulk  of  the  excavajion 
and  masonry  on  the  eastern  section  was  practi- 
cally completed,  the  feeder  line  under  contract, 
and  five  out  of  the  eighteen  bridges  required  to 
be  constructed  in  place;  and  it  was  estimated 
that  the  whole  line,  with  locks,  bridges,  culverts 
and  aqueducts,  will  be  completed  within  two 
years,  at  the  farthest,  by  1902. 

DIMENSIONS,  METHODS  or  CONSTRUCTION,  COST, 
ETC. — As  already  stated,  the  length  of  the  main 
line  is  seventy-five  miles,  of  which  twenty-eight 
miles  (the  eastern  section)  is  east  of  the  junction 
of  the  feeder,  and  forty-seven  miles  (the  western 
section)  west  of  that  point — making,  with  the 
twenty-nine  miles  of  feeder,  a  total  of  one  hun- 
dred and  four  miles,  or  seven  miles  longer  than 
the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal.  The  rise  from  the 
Illinois  River  datum  to  the  summit-level  on  the 
eastern  section  is  accomplished  by  twenty-one 
locks  with  a  lift  of  six  to  fourteen  feet  each,  to 
reach  an  altitude  of  196  feet ;  while  the  descent 
of  ninety-three  feet  to  the  low-water  level  of  the 
Mississippi  on  the  western  end  is  accomplished 
through  ten  locks,  varying  from  six  to  fourteen 
feet  each.  The  width  of  the  canal,  at  the  water 
surface,  is  eighty  feet,  with  a  depth  below  the 
surface-line  of  seven  feet.  The  banks  are  rip- 
rapped  with  stone  the  entire  length  of  the  canal. 
The  locks  are  one  hundred  and  seventy  feet  long, 
between  the  quoins,  by  thirty-five  feet  in  width, 
admitting  the  passage  of  vessels  of  one  hundred 
and  forty  feet  in  length  and  thirty-t  wo  feet  beam 
and  each  capable  of  carrying  six  hundred  tons  of 
freight. 

The  bulk  of  the  masonry  employed  in  the  con- 
struction of  locks,  as  well  as  abutments  for 
bridges  and  aqueducts,  is  solid  concrete  manufac- 
tured in  place,  while  the  lock-gates  and  aque- 
ducts proper  are  of  steel — the  use  of  these 
materials  resulting  in  a  large  saving  in  the  first 
cost  as  to  the  former,  and  securing  greater  solid- 
ity and  permanence  in  all.  The  concrete  work, 
already  completed,  is  found  to  have  withstood 
the  effects  of  ice  even  more  successfully  than 
natural  stone.  The  smaller  culverts  are  of  iron 
piping  and  the  framework  of  all  the  bridges  of 
steel. 
The  earlier  estimates  placed  the  entire  cost  of 


construction  of  the  canal,  locks,  bridges,  build- 
ings, etc.,  at  $5,068,000  for  the  main  channel  and 
§1,858,000  for  the  Rock  River  feeder— a  total  of 
§6,926,000.  This  has  been  reduced,  however,  by 
changes  in  the  route  and  unexpected  saving  in 
the  material  employed  for  masonry  work.  The 
total  expenditure,  as  shown  by  official  reports, 
up  to  June  30,  1898,  was  §1,748,905.13.  The 
amount  expended  up  to  March  1,  1899,  approxi- 
mated $2,500,000,  while  the  amount  necessary  to 
complete  the  work  (exclusive  of  an  unexpended 
balance)  was  estimated,  in  round  numbers,  at 
§3,500,000. 

The  completion  of  this  work,  it  is  estimated, 
will  result  in  a  saving  of  over  400  miles  in  water 
transportation  between  Chicago  and  the  western 
terminus  of  the  canal.  In  order  to  make  the 
canal  available  to  its  full  capacity  between  lake 
points  and  the  Mississippi,  the  enlargement  of 
the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal,  both  as  to  width 
and  depth  of  channel,  will  be  an  indispensable 
necessity ;  and  it  is  anticipated  that  an  effort  will 
be  made  to  secure  action  in  this  direction  by  the 
Illinois  Legislature  at  its  next  session.  Another 
expedient  likely  to  receive  strong  support  will  be, 
to  induce  the  General  Government  to  accept  the 
tender  of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal  and,  by 
the  enlargement  of  the  latter  through  its  whole 
length— or,  from  Lockport  to  the  Illinois  River 
at  La  Salle,  with  the  utilization  of  the  Chicago 
Drainage  Canal — furnish  a  national  water-way 
between  the  lakes  and  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  of 
sufficient  capacity  to  accommodate  steamers  and 
other  vessels  of  at  least  600  tons  burthen. 

ILLINOIS  BAND,  THE,  an  association  consist- 
ing of  seven  young  men,  then  students  in  Yale 
College,  who,  in  the  winter  of  1828-29,  entered 
into  a  mutual  compact  to  devote  their  lives  to  the 
promotion  of  Christian  education  in  the  West, 
especially  in  Illinois.  It  was  composed  of  Theron 
Baldwin,  John  F.  Brooks,  Mason  Grosvenor, 
Elisha  Jenney,  William  Kirby,  Julian  M.  Sturte- 
vant  and  Asa  Turner.  All  of  these  came  to  Illi- 
nois at  an  early  day,  and  one  of  the  first  results 
of  their  efforts  was  the  founding  of  Illinois  Col- 
lege at  Jacksonville,  in  1829,  with  which  all 
became  associated  as  members  of  the  first  Board 
of  Trustees,  several  of  them  so  remaining  to  the 
close  of  their  lives,  while  most  of  them  were  con- 
nected with  the  institution  for  a  considerable 
period,  either  as  members  of  the  faculty  or  finan- 
cial agents — Dr.  Sturtevant  having  been  Presi- 
dent for  thirty-two  years  and  an  instructor  or 
professor  fifty-six  years.  (See  Baldwin,  Theron; 
Brooks,  John  F. ;  and  Sturtevant,  Julian  M. ) 


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ILLINOIS  CENTRAL  RAILROAD,  a  corpo- 
ration controlling  the  principal  line  of  railroad 
extending  through  the  entire  length  of  the  State 
from  north  to  south,  besides  numerous  side 
branches  acquired  by  lease  during  the  past  few 
years.  The  main  lines  are  made  up  of  three  gen- 
eral divisions,  extending  from  Chicago  to  Cairo, 
111.  (364.73  miles);  from  Centralia  to  Dubuque, 
Iowa,  (340.77  miles),  and  from  Cairo  to  New 
Orleans,  La.  (547.79  miles)— making  a  total  of 
1,253.29  miles  of  main  line,  of  which  705.5  miles 
are  in  Illinois.  Besides  this  the  company  con- 
trols, through  lease  and  stock  ownership,  a  large 
number  of  lateral  branches  which  are  operated 
by  the  company,  making  the  total  mileage 
officially  reported  up  to  June  30,  1898,  3,130.21 
miles.— (HISTORY.)  The  Illinois  Central  Railroad 
is  not  only  one  of  the  lines  earliest  projected  in 
the  history  of  the  State,  but  has  been  most  inti- 
mately connected  with  its  development.  The 
project  of  a  road  starting  from  the  mouth  of  the 
Ohio  and  extending  northward  through  the  State 
is  said  to  have  been  suggested  by  Lieut. -Gov. 
Alexander  M.  Jenkins  as  early  as  1832;  was 
advocated  by  the  late  Judge  Sidney  Breese  and 
others  in  1835  under  the  name  of  the  Wabash  & 
Mississippi  Railroad,  and  took  the  form  of  a 
charter  granted  by  the  Legislature  in  January, 
1836,  to  the  first  "Illinois  Central  Railroad  Com- 
pany," to  construct  a  road  from  Cairo  to  a  point 
near  the  southern  terminus  of  the  Illinois  & 
Michigan  Canal.  Nothing  was  done  under  this 
act,  although  an  organization  was  effected,  with 
Governor  Jenkins  as  President  of  the  Company. 
The  Company  surrendered  its  charter  the  next 
year  and  the  work  was  undertaken  by  the  State, 
under  the  internal  improvement  act  of  1837,  and 
considerable  money  expended  without  complet- 
ing any  portion  of  the  line.  The  State  having 
abandoned  the  enterprise,  the  Legislature,  in 
1843,  incorporated  the  "Great  Western  Railway 
Company"  under  what  came  to  be  known  as  the 
"Holbrook  charter,"  to  be  organized  under  the 
auspices  of  the  Cairo  City  &  Canal  Company, 
the  line  to  connect  the  termini  named  in  the 
charter  of  1836,  via  Vandalia,  Shelbyville, 
Decatur  and  Bloomington.  Considerable  money 
was  expended  under  this  charter,  but  the  scheme 
again  failed  of  completion,  and  the  act  was 
repealed  in  1845.  A  charter  under  the  same 
name,  with  some  modification  as  to  organization, 
was  renewed  in  1849.— In  January,  1850,  Senator 
Douglas  introduced  a  bill  in  the  United  States 
Senate  making  a  grant  to  the  State  of  Illinois  of 
alternate  sections  of  land  along  the  line  of  a 


proposed  road  extending  from  Cairo  to  Dunleithin 
the  northwest  corner  of  the  State,  with  a  branch 
to  Chicago,  which  bill  passed  the  Senate  in  May 
of  the  same  year  and  the  House  in  September, 
and  became  the  basis  of  the  Illinois  Central  Kail- 
road  Company  as  it  exists  to-day.  Previous  to 
the  passage  of  this  act,  however,  the  Cairo  City 
&  Canal  Company  had  been  induced  to  execute  a 
full  surrender  to  the  State  of  its  rights  and  privi- 
leges under  the  "Holbrook  charter."  This  was 
followed  in  February,  1851,  by  the  act  of  the 
Legislature  incorporating  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad  Company,  and  assigning  thereto  (under 
specified  conditions)  the  grant  of  lands  received 
from  the  General  Government.  This  grant 
covered  alternate  sections  within  six  miles  of  the 
line,  or  the  equivalent  thereof  (when  such  lands 
were  not  vacant),  to  be  placed  on  lands  within 
fifteen  miles  of  the  line.  The  number  of  acres 
thus  assigned  to  the  Company  was  2,595,000, 
(about  3,840  acres  per  mile),  which  were  con- 
veyed to  Trustees  as  security  for  the  performance 
of  the  work.  An  engineering  party,  organized 
at  Chicago,  May  21,  1851,  began  the  prelim- 
inary survey  of  the  Chicago  branch,  and 
before  the  end  of  the  year  the  whole  line  was 
surveyed  and  staked  out  The  first  contract  for 
grading  was  let  on  March  15,  1852,  being  for  that 
portion  between  Chicago  and  Kensington  (then 
known  as  Calumet),  14  miles.  This  was  opened 
for  traffic,  May  24,  1852,  and  over  it  the  Michigan 
Central,  which  had  been  in  course  of  construction 
from  the  east,  obtained  trackage  rights  to  enter 
Chicago.  Later,  contracts  were  let  for  other 
sections,  some  of  them  in  June,  and  the  last  on 
Oct.  14,  1852.  In  May,  1853,  the  section  from 
La  Salle  to  Bloomington  (61  miles)  was  com- 
pleted and  opened  for  business,  a  temporary 
bridge  being  constructed  over  the  Illinois  near 
La  Salle,  and  cars  hauled  to  the  top  of  the  bluff 
with  chains  and  cable  by  means  of  a  stationary 
engine.  In  July,  1854,  the  Chicago  Division  was 
put  in  operation  to  Urbana,  128  miles;  the  main 
line  from  Cairo  to  La  Salle  (301  miles),  completed 
Jan.  8,  1855,  and  the  line  from  La  Salle  to  Dunleith 
(now  East  Dubuque),  146.73  miles,  on  June  12, 
1855— the  entire  road  (705.5  miles)  being  com- 
pleted, Sept.  27,  1856. — (FINANCIAL  STATEMENT.) 
The  share  capital  of  the  road  was  originally 
fixed  at  $17,000,000,  but  previous  to  1869  it  had 
been  increased  to  $25,500,000,  and  during  1873-74 
to  $29,000,000.  The  present  capitalization  (1898) 
is  $163,352,593,  of  which  $52,500,000  is  in  stock, 
$52,680,925  in  bonds,  and  $51,367,000  in  miscel- 
laneous obligations.  The  total  cost  of  the  road 


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in  Illinois,  as  shown  by  a  report  made  in  1889,  was 
§35,110,609.  By  the  terms  of  its  charter  the 
corporation  is  exempt  from  taxation,  but  in  lieu 
thereof  is  required  to  pay  into  the  State  treasury, 
semi-annually,  seven  per  cent  upon  the  gross 
earnings  of  the  line  in  Illinois.  The  sum  thus 
paid  into  the  State  treasury  from  Oct.  31,  1855, 
when  the  first  payment  of  §29,751.59  was  made, 
up  to  and  including  Oct.  81,  1898,  aggregated 
$17,315,193.24.  The  last  payment  (October,  1898), 
amounted  to  $334,527.01.  The  largest  payment 
in  the  history  of  the  road  was  that  of  October, 
1893,  amounting,  for  the  preceding  six  months,  to 
$450,176.34.  The  net  income  of  the  main  line  in 
Illinois,  for  the  year  ending  June  30,  1898,  was 
§12,299,021,  and  the  total  expenditures  within  the 
State  $12,831,161.— (LEASED  LINES)  The  first 
addition  to  the  Illinois  Central  System  was  made 
in  1867  in  the  acquisition,  by  lease,  of  the  Dubuque 
&  Sioux  City  Railroad,  extending  from  Dubuque 
to  Sioux  Falls,  Iowa.  Since  then  it  has  extended 
its  Iowa  connections,  by  the  construction  of  new 
lines  and  the  acquisition  or  extension  of  others. 
The  most  important  addition  to  the  line  outside 
of  the  State  of  Illinois  was  an  arrangement 
effected,  in  1872,  with  the  New  Orleans,  Jackson  & 
Great  Northern,  and  the  Mississippi  Central  Rail- 
roads— with  which  it  previously  had  traffic  con- 
nections— giving  it  control  of  a  line  from  Jackson, 
Tenn.,  to  New  Orleans,  La.  At  first,  connection 
was  had  between  the  Illinois  Central  at  Cairo  and 
the  Southern  Divisions  of  the  system,  by  means 
of  transfer  steamers,  but  subsequently  the  gap 
was  filled  in  and  the  through  line  opened  to  traffic 
in  December,  1873.  In  1874  the  New  Orleans, 
Jackson  &  Great  Northern  and  the  Mississippi 
Central  roads  were  consolidated  under  the  title 
of  the  New  Orleans,  St.  Louis  &  Chicago  Railroad, 
but  the  new  corporation  defaulted  on  its  interest 
in  1876.  The  Illinois  Central,  which  was  the 
owner  of  a  majority  of  the  bonds  of  the  constitu- 
ent lines  which  went  to  make  up  the  New  Orleans, 
St.  Louis  &  Chicago  Railroad,  then  acquired 
ownership  of  the  whole  line  by  foreclosure  pro- 
ceedings in  1877,  and  it  was  reorganized,  on  Jan. 
1,  1878,  under  the  name  of  the  Chicago,  St.  Louis 
&  New  Orleans  Railroad,  and  placed  in  charge  of 
one  of  the  Vice- Presidents  of  the  Illinois  Central 
Company. — (ILLINOIS  BRANCHES.)  The  more  im- 
portant branches  of  the  Illinois  Central  within  the 
State  include:  (1)  The  Springfield  Division  from 
Chicago  to  Springfield  (111.47  miles),  chartered 
in  1867,  and  opened  in  1871  as  the  Oilman,  Clinton 
&  Springfield  Railroad ;  passed  into  the  hands  of 
a  receiver  in  1873,  sold  under  foreclosure  in  1876, 


and  leased,  in  1878,  for  fifty  years,  to  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad:  (2)  The  Rantoul  Division  from 
Leroy  to  the  Indiana  State  line  (66.21  miles  in 
Illinois),  chartered  in  1876  as  the  Havana,  Ran- 
toul &  Eastern  Railroad,  built  as  a  narrow-gauge 
line  and  operated  in  1881 ;  afterwards  changed  to 
standard-gauge,  and  controlled  by  the  Wabash, 
St.  Louis  &  Pacific  until  May,  1884,  when  it  passed 
into  the  hands  of  a  receiver ;  in  December  of  the 
same  year  taken  in  charge  by  the  bondholders ;  in 
1885  again  placed  in  the  hands  of  a  receiver,  and, 
in  October,  1886,  sold  to  the  Illinois  Central:  (3) 
The  Chicago,  Havana  &  Western  Railroad,  from 
Havana  to  Champaign,  with  a  branch  from  White- 
heath  to  Decatur  (total,  131.62  miles),  constructed 
as  the  western  extension  of  the  Indianapolis, 
Bloomington  &  Western,  and  opened  in  1873 ;  sold 
under  foreclosure  in  1879  and  organized  as  the 
Champaign,  Havana  &  Western;  in  1880  pur- 
chased by  the  Wabash,  St.  Louis  &  Pacific;  in 
1884  taken  possession  of  by  the  mortgage  trustees 
and,  in  September,  1886,  sold  under  foreclosure  to 
the  Illinois  Central  Railroad:  (4)  The  Freeport 
Division,  from  Chicago  by  way  of  Freeport  to 
Madison,  Wis.  (140  miles  in  Illinois),  constructed 
under  a  charter  granted  to  the  Chicago,  Madison 
&  Northern  Railroad  (which  see),  opened  for 
traffic  in  1888,  and  transferred  to  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad  Company  in  January,  1889 :  (5) 
The  Kankakee  &  Southwestern  (131.26  miles), 
constructed  from  Kankakee  to  Bloomington 
under  the  charters  of  the  Kankakee  &  Western 
and  the  Kankakee  &  Southwestern  Railroads; 
acquired  by  the  Illinois  Central  in  1878,  begun  in 
1880,  and  extended  to  Bloomington  in  1883 ;  and 
(6)  The  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute  (which 
see  under  its  old  name).  Other  Illinois  branch 
lines  of  less  importance  embrace  the  Blue  Island ; 
the  Chicago  &  Texas ;  the  Mound  City ;  the  South 
Chicago;  the  St.  Louis,  Belleville  &  Southern, 
and  the  St.  Charles  Air-Line,  which  furni.shes 
an  entrance  to  the  City  of  Chicago  over  an  ele- 
vated track.  The  total  length  of  these  Illinois 
branches  in  1898  was  919.72  miles,  with  the  main 
lines  making  the  total  mileage  of  the  company 
within  the  State  1 , 624. 22  miles.  For  several  years 
up  to  1895  the  Illinois  Central  had  a  connection 
with  St.  Louis  over  the  line  of  the  Terre  Haute  & 
Indianapolis  from  Effingham,  but  this  is  now 
secured  by  way  of  the  Springfield  Division  and 
the  main  line  to  Pana,  whence  its  trains  pass  over 
the  old  Indianapolis  &  St.  Louis — now  the  Cleve- 
land, Cinciunati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway. 
Between  June  30,  1897  and  April  30,  1898,  branch 
lines  in  the  Southern  States  (chiefly  in  Kentucky 


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and  Tennessee),  to  the  extent  of  670  miles,  were 
added  to  the  Illinois  Central  System.  The  Cairo 
Bridge,  constructed  across  the  Ohio  River  near 
its  mouth,  at  a  cost  of  §3,000,000,  for  the  purpose  of 
connecting  the  Northern  and  Southern  Divisions 
of  the  Illinois  Central  System,  and  one  of  the 
most  stupendous  >  structures  of  its  kind  in  the 
world,  belongs  wholly  to  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad  Company.  (See  Cairo  Bridge.) 

ILLINOIS  COLLEGE,  an  institution  of  learn- 
ing at  Jacksonville,  111.,  which  was  the  first  to 
graduate  a  collegiate  class  in  the  history  of  the 
State.  It  had  its  origin  in  a  movement  inaugu- 
rated about  1827  or  1828  to  secure  the  location,  at 
some  point  in  Illinois,  of  a  seminary  or  college 
which  would  give  the  youth  of  the  State  the 
opportunity  of  acquiring  a  higher  education. 
Some  of  the  most  influential  factors  in  this  move- 
ment were  already  citizens  of  Jacksonville,  or 
contemplated  becoming  such.  In  January,  1828, 
the  outline  of  a  plan  for  such  an  institution  was 
drawn  up  by  Rev.  John  M.  Ellis,  a  home  missionary 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  Hon.  Samuel  D. 
Lockwood,  then  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  State,  as  a  basis  for  soliciting  subscriptions 
for  the  organization  of  a  stock-company  to  carry 
the  enterprise  into  execution.  The  plan,  as  then 
•proposed,  contemplated  provision  for  a  depart- 
ment of  female  education,  at  least  until  a  separate 
institution  could  be  furnished — which,  if  not  a 
forerunner  of  the  co-educational  system  now  so 
much  in  vogue,  at  least  foreshadowed  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  Jacksonville  Female  Seminary, 
which  soon  followed  the  founding  of  the  college. 
A  few  mouths  after  these  preliminary  steps  were 
taken,  Mr.  Ellis  was  brought  into  communication 
with  a  group  of  young  men  at  Yale  College  (see 
"Illinois  Band")  who  had  entered  into  a  com- 
pact to  devote  their  lives  to  the  cause  of  educa- 
tional and  missionary  work  in  the  West,  and  out 
of  the  union  of  these  two  forces,  soon  afterwards 
effected,  grew  Illinois  College.  The  organization 
of  the  "Illinois"  or  "Yale  Band,"  was  formally 
consummated  in  February,  1829,  and  before  the 
close  of  the  year  a  fund  of  §10,000  for  the  purpose 
of  laying  the  foundation  of  the  proposed  institu- 
tion in  Illinois  had  been  pledged  by  friends  of 
education  in  the  East,  a  beginning  had  been  made 
in  the  erection  of  buildings  on  the  present  site  of 
Illinois  College  at  Jacksonville,  and,  in  Decem- 
ber of  the  same  year,  the  work  of  instruction  of 
a  preparatory  class  had  been  begun  by  Rev.  Julian 
M.  Sturtevant.who  had  taken  the  place  of  "avant- 
courier"  of  the  movement.  A  year  later  (1831) 
Rev.  Edward  Beecher,  the  oldest  son  of  the  inde- 


fatigable Lyman  Beecher,  and  brother  of  Henry 
Ward — already  then  well  known  as  a  leader  in 
the  ranks  of  those  opposed  to  slavery — had  be- 
come identified  with  the  new  enterprise  and 
assumed  the  position  of  its  first  President.  Such 
was  the  prejudice  against  "Yankees"  in  Illinois 
at  that  time,  and  the  jealousy  of  theological  influ- 
ence in  education,  that  it  was  not  until  1835  that 
the  friends  of  the  institution  were  able  to  secure 
a  charter  from  the  Legislature.  An  ineffectual 
attempt  had  been  made  in  1830,  and  when  it  was 
finally  granted,  it  was  in  the  form  of  an  "omni- 
bus bill"  including  three  other  institutions,  but 
with  restrictions  as  to  the  amount  of  real  estate 
that  might  be  held,  and  prohibiting  the  organiza- 
tion of  theological  departments,  both  of  which 
were  subsequently  repealed.  (See  Early  Col- 
leges.) The  same  year  the  college  graduated  its 
first  class,  consisting  of  two  members — Richard 
Yates,  afterwards  War  Governor  and  United 
States  Senator,  and  Rev.  Jonathan  Spillman,  the 
composer  of  "Sweet  Afton. "  Limited  as  was  this 
first  output  of  alumni,  it  was  politically  and 
morally  strong.  In  1843  a  medical  department 
was  established,  but  it  was  abandoned  five  years 
later  for  want  of  adequate  support.  Dr.  Beecher 
retired  from  the  Presidency  in  1844,  when  he  was 
succeeded  by  Dr.  Sturtevant,  who  continued  in 
that  capacity  until  1876  (thirty-two  years),  when 
he  became  Professor  Emeritus,  remaining  until 
1885 — his  connection  with  the  institution  cover- 
ing a  period  of  fifty-six  years.  Others  who  have 
occupied  the  position  of  President  include  Rufus 
C.  Crampton  (acting),  1876-82;  Rev.  Edward  A. 
Tanner,  1882-92;  and  Dr.  John  E.  Bradley,  the 
incumbent  from  1892  to  1899.  Among  the  earli- 
est and  influential  friends  of  the  institution, 
besides  Judge  Lockwood  already  mentioned,  may 
be  enumerated  such  names  as  Gov.  Joseph  Dun- 
can, Thomas  Mather,  Winthrop  S.  Oilman, 
Frederick  Collins  and  William  H.  Brown  (of 
Chicago),  all  of  whom  were  members  of  the  early 
Board  of  Trustees.  It  was  found  necessary  to 
maintain  a  preparatory  department  for  many 
years  to  fit  pupils  for  the  college  classes  proper, 
and,  in  1866,  Whipple  Academy  was  established 
and  provided  with  a  separate  building  for  this 
purpose.  The  standard  of  admission  to  the  col- 
lege course  has  been  gradually  advanced,  keeping 
abreast,  in  this  respect,  of  other  American  col- 
leges. At  present  the  institution  has  a  faculty  of 
15  members  and  an  endowment  of  some  §150,000, 
with  a  library  (1898)  numbering  over  15,000  vol- 
umes and  property  valued  at  §360,000.  Degrees 
are  conferred  in  both  classical  and  scientific 


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courses  in  the  college  proper.  The  list  of  alumni 
embraces  some  750  names,  including  many  who 
have  been  prominent  in  State  and  National 
affairs. 

ILLINOIS  COUNTY,  the  name  given  to  the 
first  civil  organization  of  the  territory  northwest 
of  the  Ohio  River,  after  its  conquest  by  Col.  George 
Rogers  Clark  in  1778.  This  was  done  by  act  of 
the  Virginia  House  of  Delegates,  passed  in 
October  of  the  same  year,  which,  among  other 
things,  provided  as  follows:  "The  citizens  of  the 
commonwealth  of  Virginia,  who  are  already  set- 
tled, or  shall  hereafter  settle,  on  the  western  side  of 
the  Ohio,  shall  be  included  in  a  distinct  county 
which  shall  be  called  Illinois  County;  and  the 
Governor  of  this  commonwealth,  with  the  advice 
of  the  Council, 'may  appoint  a  County-Lieutenant 
or  Commandant-in-chief  of  the  county  during 
pleasure,  who  shall  take  the  oath  of  fidelity  to 
this  commonwealth  and  the  oath  of  office  accord- 
ing to  the  form  of  their  own  religion.  And  all 
civil  offices  to  which  the  inhabitants  have  been 
accustomed,  necessary  for  the  preservation  of  the 
peace  and  the  administration  of  justice,  shall  be 
chosen  by  a  majority  of  the  citizens  of  their  re- 
spective districts,  to  be  convened  for  that  purpose 
by  the  County-Lieutenant  or  Commandant,  or  his 
deputy,  and  shall  be  commissioned  by  said 
County-Lieutenant."  As  the  Commonwealth  of 
Virginia,  by  virtue  of  Colonel  Clark's  conquest, 
then  claimed  jurisdiction  over  the  entire  region 
west  of  the  Ohio  River  and  east  of  the  Mississippi, 
Illinois  County  nominally  embraced  the  territory 
comprised  within  the  limits  of  the  present  States 
of  Ohio,  Indiana,  Illinois,  Michigan  and  Wiscon- 
sin, though  the  settlements  were  limited  to  the 
vicinity  of  Kaskaskia,  Vincennes  (in  the  present 
State  of  Indiana)  and  Detroit.  Col.  John  Todd, 
of  Kentucky,  was  appointed  by  Gov.  Patrick 
Henry,  the  first  Lieutenant-Commandant  under 
this  act,  holding  office  two  years.  Out  of  Illinois 
County  were  subsequently  organized  the  follow- 
ing counties  by  "order"  of  Gov.  Arthur  St.  Clair, 
after  his  assumption  of  the  duties  of  Governor, 
following  the  passage,  by  Congress,  of  the  Ordi- 
nance of  1787,  creating  the  Northwest  Territory, 


viz. : 

NAVE 

Washington 

Hamilton 


Knox 

Randolph 


COUXTY-SEAT 
Marietta 

Cincinnati  * 

SCahokia 
Prairie  du  Rocher 
Kaskaskia 
Post  St.  Vinceunea 
Kaskaskia 


DATE  op  ORGANIZATION 
July  27.  T788 
Jan.  4,  17SO 

April  27,  1790 

June  20.  1790 
Oct.  5,  1795 


Washington,  originally  comprising  the  State  of 
Ohio,  was  reduced,  on  the  organization  of  Hamil- 
ton County,  to  the  eastern  portion,  Hamilton 


County  embracing  the  west,  with  Cincinnati 
(originally  called  "Losantiville,"  near  old  Fort 
Washington)  as  the  county-seat.  St.  Clair,  the 
third  county  organized  out  of  this  territory,  at 
first  had  virtually  three  county-seats,  but  divi- 
sions and  jealousies  among  the  people  and  officials 
in  reference  to  the  place  of  deposit  for  the  records, 
resulted  in  the  issue,  five  years  later,  of  an  order 
creating  the  new  county  of  Randolph,  the  second 
in  the  "Illinois  Country" — these  (St.  Clair  and 
Randolph)  constituting  the  two  counties  into 
which  it  was  divided  at  the  date  of  organization 
of  Illinois  Territory.  Out  of  these  events  grew 
the  title  of  "Mother  of  Counties"  given  to  Illinois 
County  as  the  original  of  all  the  counties  in  the 
five  States  northwest  of  the  Ohio,  while  St.  Clair 
County  inherited  the  title  as  to  the  State  of 
Illinois.  (See  Illinois;  also  St.  Clair,  Arthur, 
and  Todd,  (Col.)  John.) 

ILLINOIS  FARMERS'  RAILROAD.  (See 
Jacksonville  &  St.  Louis  Railway.) 

ILLINOIS  FEMALE  COLLEGE,  a  flourishing 
institution  for  the  education  of  women,  located 
at  Jacksonville  and  incorporated  in  1847.  While 
essentially  unsectarian  in  teaching,  it  is  con- 
trolled by  the  Methodist  Episcopal  denomination. 
Its  first  charter  was  granted  to  the  "Illinois  Con- 
ference Female  Academy"  in  1847,  but  four  years 
later  the  charter  was  amended  and  the  name 
changed  to  the  present  cognomen.  The  cost  of 
building  and  meager  support  in  early  years 
brought  on  bankruptcy.  The  friends  of  the  insti- 
tution rallied  to  its  support,  however,  and  the 
purchasers  af  the  foreclosure  sale  (all  of  whom 
were  friends  of  Methodist  education)  donated  the 
property  to  what  was  technically  a  new  institu- 
tion. A  second  charter  was  obtained  from  the 
State  in  1863,  and  the  restrictions  imposed  upon 
the  grant  were  such  as  to  prevent  alienation  of 
title,  by  either  conveyance  or  mortgage.  While 
the  college  has  only  a  small  endowment  fund 
($2,000)  it  owns  560,000  worth  of  real  property, 
besides  59,000  invested  in  apparatus  and  library. 
Preparatory  and  collegiate  departments  are  main- 
tained, both  classical  and  scientific  courses  being 
established  in  the  latter.  Instruction  is  also 
given  in  fine  arts,  elocution  and  music.  The 
faculty  (1898)  numbers  15,  and  there  are  about  170 
students. 

ILLINOIS  FEMALE  REFORM  SCHOOL.  (See 
Home  for  Female  Offenders.) 

ILLINOIS  INDIANS,  a  confederation  belong- 
ing to  the  Algonquin  family  and  embracing  five 
tribes,  viz. :  the  Cahokias.  Kaskaskias,  Mitcha- 
gamies,  Peorias  and  Tamaroas.  They  early  occu- 


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pied  Illinois,  with  adjacent  portions  of  Iowa, 
Wisconsin  and  Missouri.  The  name  is  derived 
from  Illini,  "man,"  the  Indian  plural  "ek"  being 
changed  by  the  French  to  "ois. "  They  were 
intensely  warlike,  being  almost  constantly  in 
conflict  with  the  Winnebagoes,  the  Iroquois, 
Sioux  and  other  tribes.  They  were  migratory 
and  depended  for  subsistence  largely  on  the  sum- 
mer and  winter  hunts.  They  dwelt  in  rudely 
constructed  cabins,  each  accommodating  about 
eight  families.  They  were  always  faithful  allies 
of  the  French,  whom  they  heartily  welcomed  in 
1673.  French  missionaries  labored  earnestly 
among  them — notably  Fathers  Marquette,  Allouez 
and  Gravier  —  who  reduced  their  language  to 
grammatical  rules.  Their  most  distinguished 
Chief  was  Chicagou,  who  was  sent  to  France, 
where  he  was  welcomed  with  the  honors  accorded 
to  a  foreign  prince.  In  their  wars  with  the 
Foxes,  from  1712  to  1719,  they  suffered  severely, 
their  numbers  being  reduced  to  3,000  souls.  The 
assassination  of  Pontiac  by  a  Kaskaskian  in  1765, 
was  avenged  by  the  lake  tribes  in  a  war  of  ex- 
termination. After  taking  part  with  the  Miamis 
in  a  war  against  the  United  States,  they  partici- 
pated in  the  treaties  of  Greenville  and  Vincennes, 
and  were  gradually  removed  farther  and  farther 
toward  the  West,  the  small  remnant  of  about  175 
being  at  present  (1896)  on  the  Quapaw  reservation 
in  Indian  Territory.  (See  also  Cahokias;  Foxes; 
Iroquois;  KasJcaskias;  Mitchagamies;  Peorias; 
Tamaroas;  and  Winnebagoes.) 

ILLINOIS  INSTITUTION  FOR  THE  EDU- 
CATION OF  THE  BLIND,  located  at  Jackson- 
ville. The  institution  had  its  inception  in  a  school 
for  the  blind,  opened  in  that  town  in  1847,  by 
Samuel  Bacon,  who  was  himself  blind.  The 
State  Institution  was  created  by  act  of  the  Legis- 
lature, passed  Jan.  13,  1849,  which  was  introduced 
by  Richard  Yates,  then  a  Representative,  and 
was  first  opened  in  a  rented  house,  early  in  1850, 
under  the  temporary  supervision  of  Mr.  Bacon. 
Soon  afterward  twenty-two  acres  of  ground  were 
purchased  in  the  eastern  part  of  the  city  and  the 
erection  of  permanent  buildings  commenced.  By 
January,  1854,  they  were  ready  for  use,  but  fif- 
teen years  later  were  destroyed  by  fire.  Work  on 
a  new  building  was  begun  without  unnecessary 
delay  and  the  same  was  completed  by  1874. 
Numerous  additions  of  wings  and  shops  have 
since  been  made,  and  the  institution,  in  its  build- 
ings and  appointments,  is  now  one  of  the  most 
complete  in  the  country.  Instruction  (as  far  as 
practicable)  is  given  in  rudimentary  English 
branches,  and  in  such  mechanical  trades  and 


avocations  as  may  best  qualify  the  inmates  to  be- 
come self-supporting  upon  their  return  to  active 
life. 

ILLINOIS  MASONIC  ORPHANS'  HOME,  an 
institution  established  in  the  city  of  Chicago 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Masonic  Fraternity  of 
Illinois,  for  the  purpose  of  furnishing  a  home  for 
the  destitute  children  of  deceased  members  of  the 
Order.  The  total  receipts  of  the  institution,  dur- 
ing the  year  1895,  were  $29,204.98,  and  the 
expenditures,  $27,258.'?Q.  The  number  of  bene- 
ficiaries in  the  Home,  Dec.  31,  1895,  was  61.  The 
Institution  owns  real  estate  valued  at  $75,000. 

ILLINOIS  MIDLAND  RAILROAD.  (See  Terre 
Haute  &  Peoria  Railroad.) 

ILLINOIS  RIVER,  the  most  important  stream 
within  the  State ;  has  a  length  of  about  500  miles, 
of  which  about  245  are  navigable.  It  is  formed 
by  the  junction  of  the  Kankakee  and  Des  Plaines 
Rivers  at  a  point  in  Grundy  County,  some  45 
miles  southwest  of  Chicago.  Its  course  is  west, 
then  southwest,  and  finally  south,  until  it 
empties  into  the  Mississippi  about  20  miles  north 
of  the  mouth  of  the  Missouri.  The  Illinois  & 
Michigan  Canal  connects  its  \vaters  with  Lake 
Michigan.  Marquette  and  Joliet  ascended  the 
stream  in  1673  and  were  probably  its  first  white 
visitants.  Later  (1679-82)  it  was  explored  by 
La  Salle,  Tonty,  Hennepin  and  others. 

ILLINOIS  RIVER  RAILROAD.  (See  Chicago, 
Peoria  &  St.  Louis  Railroad  of  Illinois.) 

ILLINOIS  SANITARY  COMMISSION,  a  vol 
untary  organization  formed  pursuant  to  a  sug- 
gestion of  Governor  Yates,  shortly  after  the 
battle  of  Fort  Donelson  (1862).  Its  object  was 
the  relief  of  soldiers  in  actual  service,  whether  on 
the  march,  in  camp,  or  in  hospitals.  State  Agents 
were  appointed  for  the  distribution  of  relief,  for 
which  purpose  large  sums  were  collected  and  dis- 
tributed. The  work  of  the  Commission  was  later 
formally  recognized  by  the  Legislature  in  the 
enactment  of  a  law  authorizing  the  Governor  to 
appoint  "Military  State  Agents,"  who  should 
receive  compensation  from  the  State  treasury. 
Many  of  these  "agents"  were  selected  from  the 
ranks  of  the  workers  in  the  Sanitary  Commission, 
and  a  great  impetus  was  thereby  imparted  to  its 
voluntary  work.  Auxiliary  associations  were 
formed  all  over  the  State,  and  funds  were  readily 
obtained,  a  considerable  proportion  of  which  was 
derived  from  "Sanitary  Fairs." 

ILLINOIS  SCHOOL  OF  AGRICULTURE  AND 
MANUAL  TRAINING  FOR  BOYS,  an  institution 
for  the  training  of  dependent  boys,  organized 
under  the  act  of  March  28,  1895,  which  was  in 


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effect  a  re-enactment  of  the  statute  approved  in 
1883  and  amended  in  1885.  Its  legally  denned 
object  is  to  provide  a  home  and  proper  training 
for  such  boys  as  may  be  committed  to  its  charge. 
Commitments  are  made  by  the  County  Courts  of 
Cook  and  contiguous  counties.  The  school  is 
located  at  Glenwood,  in  the  county  of  Cook,  and 
was  first  opened  for  the  reception  of  inmates  in 
1888.  Its  revenues  are  derived,  in  part,  from 
voluntary  contributions,  and  in  part  from  pay- 
ments by  the  counties  sending  boys  to  the  institu- 
tion, which  payments  are  fixed  by  law  at  ten 
dollars  per  month  for  each  boy,  during  the  time 
he  is  actually  an  inmate.  In  1898  nearly  one-half 
of  the  entire  income  came  from  the  former 
source,  but  the  surplus  remaining  in  the  treasury 
at  the  end  of  any  fiscal  year  is  never  large.  The 
school  is  under  the  inspectional  control  of  the 
State  Commissioners  of  Public  Charities,  as 
though  it  were  an  institution  founded  and  main- 
tained by  the  State.  The  educational  curriculum 
closely  follows  that  of  the  ordinary  grammar 
schools,  pupils  being  trained  in  eight  grades,  sub- 
stantially along  the  lines  established  in  the  public 
schools.  In  addition,  a  military  drill  is  taught, 
with  a  view  to  developing  physical  strength, 
command  of  limbs,  and  a  graceful,  manly  car- 
riage. Since  the  Home  was  organized  there  have 
been  received  (down  to  1899),  2,333  boys.  The 
industrial  training  given  the  inmates  is  both 
agricultural  and  mechanical,  —  the  institution 
owning  a  good,  fairly-sized  farm,  and  operating 
well  equipped  industrial  shops  for  the  education 
of  pupils.  A  fair  proportion  of  the  boys  devote 
themselves  to  learning  trades,  and  not  a 
few  develop  into  excellent  workmen.  One  of  the 
purposes  of  the  school  is  to  secure  homes  for  those 
thought  likely  to  prove  creditable  members  of 
respectable  households.  During  the  eleven  years 
of  its  existence  nearly  2,200  boys  have  been  placed 
in  homes,  and  usually  with  the  most  satisfactory 
results.  The  legal  safeguards  thrown  around 
the  ward  are  of  a  comprehensive  and  binding 
sort,  so  far  as  regards  the  parties  who  take  the 
children  for  either  adoption  or  apprenticeship — 
the  welfare  of  the  ward  always  being  the  object 
primarily  aimed  at.  Adoption  is  preferred  to 
institutional  life  by  the  administration,  and  the 
result  usually  justifies  their  judgment.  Many  of 
the  pupils  are  returned  to  their  families  or 
friends,  after  a  mild  course  of  correctional  treat- 
ment. .  The  system  of  government  adopted  is 
analogous  to  that  of  the  "cottage  plan"  employed 
in  many  reformatory  institutions  throughout  the 
country.  An  "administration  building"  stands 


in  the  center  of  a  group  of  structures,  each  of 
which,  has  its  own  individual  name: — Clancy 
Hall,  Wallace,  Plymouth,  Beecher,  Pope,  Windsor, 
Lincoln,  Sunnyside  and  Sheridan.  While  never 
a  suppliant  for  benefactions,  the  Home  has  always 
attracted  the  attention  of  philanthropists  who 
are  interested  in  the  care  of  society's  waifs.  The 
average  annual  number  of  inmates  is  about  275. 

ILLINOIS  WESLEYAN  UNIVERSITY,  the 
leading  educational  institution  of  the  Methodist 
Church  in  Illinois,  south  of  Chicago;  incorpo- 
rated in  1853  and  located  at  Bloomington.  It  is 
co-educational,  has  a  faculty  of  34  instructors, 
and  reports  1,106  students  in  1896 — 458  male  and 
648  female.  Besides  the  usual  literary  and  scien- 
tific departments,  instruction  is  given  in  theology, 
music  and  oratory.  It  also  has  preparatory  and 
business  courses.  It  has  a  library  of  6,000  vol- 
umes and  reports  funds  and  endowment  aggre- 
gating $187,999,  and  property  to  the  value  of 
$380,999. 

ILLINOIS  &  INDIANA  RAILROAD.  (See 
Indiana,  Decatur  &  Western  Railway.} 

ILLINOIS  &  SOUTHEASTERN  RAILROAD. 
(See  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern  Railroad. ) 

ILLINOIS  &  SOUTHERN  IOWA  RAILROAD. 
(See  Wabash  Railroad. ) 

ILLINOIS  &  ST.  LOUIS  RAILROAD  &  COAL 
COMPANY.  (See  Louisville,  Evansville  &  St. 
Louis  (consolidated)  Railroad.) 

ILLINOIS  &  WISCONSIN  RAILROAD.  (See 
Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway.) 

ILLIOPOLIS,  a  village  in  Sangamon  County, 
on  the  Wabash  Railway,  20  miles  east  of  Spring- 
field. It  occupies  a  position  nearly  in  the  geo- 
graphical center  of  the  State  and  is  in  the  heart 
of  what  is  generally  termed  the  corn  belt  of  Cen- 
tral Illinois.  It  has  banks,  several  churches,  a 
graded  school  and  one  newspaper.  Population 
(1890),  689;  (1900),  744;  (1910),  849. 

INDIAN  MOUNDS.  (See  Mound-Builders, 
Works  of  The.) 

INDIAN  TREATIES.  The  various  treaties 
made  by  the  General  Government  with  the 
Indians,  which  affected  Illinois,  may  be  summa- 
rized as  follows :  Treaty  of  Greenville,  August  3, 
1795— ceded  11,808,409  acres  of  land  for  the  sum 
of  $210,000;  negotiated  by  Gen.  Anthony  Wayne 
with  the  Delawares,  Ottawas,  Miamis,  Wyandots, 
Shawnees,  Pottawatomies,  Chippewas,  Kaskas- 
kias,  Kickapoos,  Piankeshaws  and  Eel  River 
Indians:  First  Treaty  of  Fort  Wayne,  June  7, 
1803 — ceded  2,038,400  acres  in  consideration  of 
$4,000;  negotiated  by  Governor  Harrison  with 
the  Delawares,  Kickapoos,  Miamis,  Pottawato- 


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mies,  and  Shawnees :  First  Treaty  of  Vincennes, 
August  13,  1803— ceded 8,911,850  acres  for  $12, 000; 
negotiated  by  Governor  Harrison  with  the  Caho- 
kias,  Kaskaskias  and  Mitchagamies .  First  Treaty 
of  St.  Louis,  Nov.  3,  1804— ceded  14,803,520  acres 
in  consideration  of  $22,234;  negotiated  by  Gov- 
ernor Harrison  with  the  Sacs  and  Foxes:  Second 
Treaty  of  Vincennes,  Dec.  30, 1805— ceded  2,676,150 
acres  for  $4, 100 ;  negotiated  by  Governor  Harrison 
with  the  Piankeshaws:  Second  Treaty  of  Fort 
Wayne,  Sept.  30,  1809  — ceded  2,900,000  acres; 
negotiated  by  Governor  Harrison  with  the  Dela- 
wares,  Eel  River,  Miamis,  Pottawatomies  and 
Weas:  Third  Treaty  of  Vincennes,  Dec.  9,  1809 
—ceded  138,240  acres  for  $27,000;  negotiated  by 
Governor  Harrison  with  the  Kickapoos:  Second 
Treaty  of  St.  Louis,  Aug.  24,  1816— ceded  1,418,400 
acres  in  consideration  of  $12,000;  negotiated  by 
Governor  Edwards,  William  Clark  and  A.  Chou- 
teau  with  the  Chippewas,  Ottawas  and  Pottawato- 
mies: Treaty  of  Edwardsville,  Sept.  30,  1818— 
ceded  6,865,280  acres  for  $6,400;  negotiated  by 
Governor  Edwards  and  A.  Chouteau  with  the 
Illinois  and  Peorias:  Treaty  of  St.  Mary's,  Oct. 
2,  1818— ceded  11,000,000  acres  for  $33,000;  nego- 
tiated by  Gen.  Lewis  Cass  and  others  with  the 
Weas:  Treaty  of  Fort  Harrison,  Aug.  30,  1819— 
negotiated  by  Benjamin  Parke  with  the  Kicka- 
poos of  the  Vermilion,  ceding  3,173,120  acres  for 
$23,000:  Treaty  of  St.  Joseph,  Sept.  20,  1828— 
ceded  990,720  acres  in  consideration  of  $189,795; 
negotiated  by  Lewis  Cass  and  Pierre  Menard  with 
the  Pottawatomies :  Treaty  of  Prairie  du  Chien, 
Jan.  2,  1830— ceded  4,160,000  acres  for  $390,601; 
negotiated  by  Pierre  Menard  and  others  with 
the  Chippewas,  Ottawas  and  Pottawatomies: 
First  Treaty  of  Chicago,  Oct.  20,  1832— ceded 
1,536,000  acres  for  $460,348;  negotiated  with 
the  Pottawatomies  of  the  Prairie:  Treaty  of 
Tippecanoe,  Oct.  27,  1832— by  it  the  Pottawato- 
mies of  Indiana  ceded  737,000  acres,  in  consider- 
ation of  $406,121 :  Second  Treaty  of  Chicago,  Sept. 
26,  1833 — by  it  the  Chippewas,  Ottawas  and  Pot- 
tawatomies ceded  5,104,960  acres  for  $7,624,289: 
Treaties  of  Fort  Armstrong  and  Prairie  du  Chien, 
negotiated  1829  and  '32— by  which  the  Winne- 
bagoes  ceded  10,346,000  acres  in  exchange  for 
$5,195,252:  Second  Treaty  of  St.  Louis,  Oct.  27, 
1832 — the  Kaskaskias  and  Peorias  ceding  1,900 
acres  in  consideration  of  $155,780  (See  also 
Greenville,  Treaty  of.) 

INDIAN  TRIBES.  (See  Algonquins;  Illinois 
Indians;  Kaskaskias;  Kickapoos;  Miamis;  Outa- 
gamies;  Piankeshaws;  Pottawatomies;  Sacs  and 
Foxes;  Weas;  Winnebagoes.) 


INDIANA,  BLOOMINGTON  &  WESTERN 
RAILWAY.  (See  Peoria  &  Eastern  Railroad.) 

INDIANA,  DECATUR  &  WESTERN  RAIL- 
WAY. The  entire  length  of  line  is  152.5  miles,  of 
which  75.75  miles  (with  yard-tracks  and  sidings 
amounting  to  886  miles)  lie  within  Illinois.  It 
extends  from  Decatur  almost  due  east  to  the 
Indiana  State  line,  and  has  a  single  track  of 
standard  gauge,  with  a  right  of  way  of  100  feet 
The  rails  are  of  steel,  well  adapted  to  the  traffic, 
and  the  ballasting  is  of  gravel,  earth  and  cinders. 
The  bridges  (chiefly  of  wood)  are  of  standard 
design  and  well  maintained.  The  amount  of 
capital  stock  outstanding  (1898)  is  $1,824,000,  or 
11,998  per  mile;  total  capitalization  (including 
stock  and  all  indebtedness)  3,733,983.  The  total 
earnings  and  income  in  Illinois,  $240,850.  (His- 
TORY.)  The  first  organization  of  this  road  em- 
braced two  companies — the  Indiana  &  Illinois  and 
the  Illinois  &  Indiana — which  were  consolidated, 
in  1853,  under  the  name  of  the  Indiana  &  Illinois 
Central  Railroad  Company.  In  1875  the  latter 
was  sold  under  foreclosure  and  organized  as  the 
Indianapolis,  Decatur  &  Springfield  Railway 
Company,  at  which  time  the  section  from  Decatur 
to  Montezuma,  Ind.,  was  opened.  It  was  com- 
pleted to  Indianapolis  in  1880.  In  1882  it  was 
leased  to  the  Indiana,  Bloomington  &  Western 
Railroad  Company,  and  operated  to  1885,  when 
it  passed  into  the  hands  of  a  receiver,  was  sold 
under  foreclosure  in  1887  and  reorganized  under 
the  name  of  the  Indianapolis,  Decatur  &  West- 
ern. Again,  in  1889,  default  was  made  and  the 
property,  after  being  operated  by  trustees,  was 
sold  in  1894  to  two  companies  called  the  Indiana, 
Decatur  &  Western  Railway  Company  (in  Indi- 
ana) and  the  Decatur  &  Eastern  Railway  Com- 
pany (in  Illinois).  These  were  consolidated  in 
July,  1895,  under  the  present  name  (Indiana, 
Decatur  &  Western  Railway  Company).  In 
December,  1895,  the  entire  capital  stock  was 
purchased  by  the  Cincinnati,  Hamilton  &  Dayton 
Railway  Company,  and  the  line  is  now  operated 
as  a  part  of  that  system. 

INDIANA,  ILLINOIS  &  IOWA  RAILROAD. 
This  line  extends  from  Streator  Junction  1.8 
miles  south  of  Streator,  on  the  line  of  the  Streator 
Division  of  the  Wabash  Railroad,  easterly  to  the 
Indiana  State  Line.  The  total  length  of  the  line 
is  151.78  miles,  of  which  69.61  miles  are  in  Illi- 
nois. Between  Streator  Junction  and  Streator, 
the  line  is  owned  by  the  Wabash  Company,  but 
this  company  pays  rental  for  trackage  facilities. 
About  75  per  cent  of  the  ties  are  of  white-oak, 
the  remainder  being  of  cedar ;  the  rails  are  56-lb. 


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steel,  and  the  ballasting  is  of  broken  stone,  gravel, 
sand,  cinders  and  earth.  A  policy  of  permanent 
improvements  has  been  adopted,  and  is  being 
carried  forward.  The  principal  traffic  is  the 
transportation  of  freight.  The  outstanding  capi- 
tal stock  (June  30,  1898)  was  §3,597,800;  bonded 
debt,  §1.800,000;  total  capitalization,  §5,517,739; 
total  earnings  and  income  in  Illinois  for  1898, 
$413,967;  total  expenditures  in  the  State,  §303,- 
344. — (HISTORY.)  This  road  was  chartered  Dec. 
27,  1881,  and  organized  by  the  consolidation  of 
three  roads  of  the  same  name  (Indiana,  Illinois  & 
Iowa,  respectively),  opened  to  Momence,  111.,,  in 
1882,  and  through  its  entire  length,  Sept.  15,  1883. 

INDIANA  &  ILLINOIS  CENTRAL  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  Indiana,  Decatur  &  Western  Rail- 
way.) 

INDIANA  &  ILLINOIS  RAILROAD.  (See 
Indiana,  Decatur  &  Western  Railway.) 

INDIANA  &  ILLINOIS  SOUTHERN  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  St.  Louis,  Indianapolis  <fc  Eastern 
Railroad. ) 

INDIANAPOLIS,  BLOOMINGTON  &  WEST- 
ERN  RAILROAD.  (See  Illinois  Central  Rail- 
road; also  Peoria  &  Eastern  Railroad. ) 

INDIANAPOLIS,  DECATUR  &  SPRING- 
FIELD RAILROAD.  (See  Indiana,  Decatur  <fc 
Western  Railway.) 

INDIANAPOLIS,  DECATUR  &  WESTERN 
RAILWAY.  (See  Indiana,  Decatur  &  Western 
Railway. ) 

INDIANAPOLIS  &  ST.  LOUIS  RAILWAY. 
(See  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute  Railroad. ) 

INDUSTRIAL  HOME  FOR  THE  BLIND,  a 
State  Institution  designed  to  furnish  the  means 
of  employment  to  dependent  blind  persons  of 
both  sexes,  established  under  authority  of  an  act 
of  the  Legislature  passed  at  the  session  of  1893. 
The  institution  is  located  at  Douglas  Park  Boule- 
vard and  West  Nineteenth  Street,  in  the  city  of 
Chicago.  It  includes  a  four-story  factory  with 
steam-plant  attached,  besides  a  four-story  build- 
ing for  residence  purposes.  It  was  opened  in 
1894,  and,  in  December,  1897,  had  62  inmates,  of 
whom  12  were  females.  The  Fortieth  General 
Assembly  appropriated  §13,900  for  repairs,  appli- 
ances, library,  etc.,  and  §8,000  per  annum  for 
ordinary  expenses 

INGERSOLL,  Ebon  C.,  Congressman,  was  born 
in  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  12,  1831.  His  first 
remove  was  to  Paducah,  Ky.,  where  he  com- 
pleted his  education.  He  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar;  removing  this  time  to  Illi- 
nois and  settling  in  Gallatin  County,  in  1842.  In 
1856  he  was  elected  to  represent  Gallatin  County 


in  the  lower  house  of  the  General  Assembly;  in 
1862  was  the  Republican  candidate  for  Congress 
for  the  State-at-large,  but  defeated  by  J.  C. 
Allen;  and,  in  1864,  was  chosen  to  fill  the  unex- 
pired  term  of  Owen  Lovejoy,  deceased,  as  Repre- 
sentative in  the  Thirty-eighth  Congress.  He  was 
re-elected  to  the  Thirty-ninth,  Fortieth  and 
Forty-first  Congresses,  his  term  expiring,  March 
4,  1871.  He  was  a  brother  of  Col.  Robert  G. 
Ingersoll,  and  was,  for  some  years,  associated  with 
him  in  the  practice  of  law  at  Peoria,  his  home. 
Died,  in  Washington,  May  81,  1879. 

INGERSOLL,  Robert  Green,  lawyer  and  sol- 
dier, was  born  at  Dresden,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y., 
August  11,  1833.  His  father,  a  Congregational 
clergyman  of  pronounced  liberal  tendencies, 
removed  to  the  West  in  1843,  and  Robert's  boy- 
hood was  spent  in  Wisconsin  and  Illinois.  After 
being  admitted  to  the  bar,  he  opened  an  office  at 
Shawneetown,  in  partnership  with  his  brother 
Ebon,  afterwards  a  Congressman  from  Illinois. 
In  1857  they  removed  to  Peoria,  and,  in  1860, 
Robert  G.  was  an  unsuccessful  Democratic  can- 
didate for  Congress.  In  1862  he  was  commis- 
sioned Colonel  of  the  Eleventh  Illinois  Cavalry, 
which  had  been  mustered  in  in  December,  1861, 
and,  in  1864,  identified  himself  with  the  Repub- 
lican party.  In  February,  1867,  he  was  appointed 
by  Governor  Oglesby  the  first  Attorney-General 
of  the  State  under  the  new  law  enacted  that  year. 
As  a  lawyer  and  orator  he  won  great  distinction. 
He  nominated  James  G.  Elaine  for  the  Presidency 
in  the  Republican  Convention  of  1876,  at  Cincin- 
nati, in  a  speech  that  attracted  wide  attention  by 
its  eloquence.  Other  oratorical  efforts  which 
added  greatly  to  his  fame  include  "The  Dream  of 
the  Union  Soldier,"  delivered  at  a  Soldiers' 
Reunion  at  Indianapolis,  his  eulogy  at  his  brother 
Ebon's  grave,  and  his  memorial  address  on  occa- 
sion of  the  death  of  Roscoe  Conkling.  For  some 
twenty  years  he  was  the  most  popular  stump 
orator  in  the  West,  and  his  services  in  political 
campaigns  were  in  constant  request  throughout 
the  Union.  To  the  country  at  large,  in  his  later 
years,  he  was  known  as  an  uncompromising 
assailant  of  revealed  religion,  by  both  voice  and 
pen.  Among  his  best-known  publications  are 
"The  Gods"  (Washington,  1878);  "Ghosts" 
(1879);  "Mistakes  of  Moses"  (1879);  "Prose 
Poems  and  Selections"  (1884);  "The  Brain  and 
the  Bible"  (Cincinnati,  1882).  Colonel  Ingersoll's 
home  for  some  twenty  years,  in  the  later  part  of 
his  life,  was  in  the  city  of  New  York.  Died, 
suddenly,  from  heart  disease,  at  his  summer 
home  at  Dobb's  Ferry,  Long  Island,  July  21,  1899 


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I>'(«LIS,  Samuel  M.,  Superintendent  of  Public 
Instruction,  born  at  Marietta,  Pa.,  August  15, 
1838;  received  his  early  education  in  Ohio  and, 
in  1856,  came  to  Illinois,  graduating  with  first 
honors  from  the  Mendota  Collegiate  Institute  in 
1861.  The  following  year  he  enlisted  in  the  One 
Hundred  and  Fourth  Illinois  Infantry,  but,  hav- 
ing been  discharged  for  disability,  his  place  was 
filled  by  a  brother,  who  was  killed  at  Knoxville, 
Tenn.  In  1865  he  took  charge  of  an  Academy  at 
Hillsboro,  meanwhile  studying  law  with  the  late 
Judge  E.  Y.  Rice;  in  1868  he  assumed  the  super- 
intendency  of  the  public  schools  at  Greenville, 
Bond  County,  remaining  until  1883,  when  he 
became  Professor  of  Mathematics  in  the  Southern 
Normal  University  at  Carbondale,  being  trans- 
ferred, three  years  later,  to  the  chair  of  Literature, 
Rhetoric  and  Elocution.  In  1894  he  was  nomi- 
nated as  the  Republican  candidate  for  State 
Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction,  receiving 
a  plurality  at  the  November  election  of  123,593 
votes  over  his  Democratic  opponent.  Died,  sud- 
denly, at  Kenosha,  Wis.,  June  1,  1898. 

INTERNAL  IMPROVEMENT  POLICY,  a 
name  given  to  a  scheme  or  plan  of  internal  im- 
provement adopted  by  the  Tenth  General  Assem- 
bly (1837),  in  compliance  with  a  general  wish  of 
the  people  voiced  at  many  public  gatherings.  It 
contemplated  the  construction  of  an  extensive 
system  of  public  works,  chiefly  in  lines  of  rail- 
road which  were  not  demanded  by  the  commerce 
or  business  of  the  State  at  the  time,  but  which,  it 
was  believed,  would  induce  immigration  and 
materially  aid  in  the  development  of  the  State's 
latent  resources.  The  plan  adopted  provided  for 
the  construction  of  such  works  by  the  State,  and 
contemplated  State  ownership  and  management 
of  all  the  lines  of  traffic  thus  constructed.  The 
bill  passed  the  Legislature  in  February,  1837, 
but  was  disapproved  by  the  Executive  and  the 
Council  of  Revision,  on  the  ground  that  such 
enterprises  might  be  more  successfully  under- 
taken and  conducted  by  individuals  or  private 
corporations.  It  was,  however,  subsequently 
passed  over  the  veto  and  became  a  law,  the  dis- 
astrous effects  of  whose  enactment  were  felt  for 
many  years.  The  total  amount  appropriated  by 
the  act  was  §10,200,000,  of  which  §400,000  was 
devoted  to  the  improvement  of  waterways;  §250,- 
000  to  the  improvement  of  the  "Great  Western 
Mail  Route";  69,350,000  to  the  construction  of 
railroads,  and  §200,000  was  given  outright  to 
counties  not  favored  by  the  location  of  railroads 
or  other  improvements  within  their  borders.  In 
addition,  the  sale  of  §1,000,000  worth  of  canal 


lands  and  the  issuance  of  §500,000  in  canal  bonds 
were  authorized,  the  proceeds  to  be  used  in  the 
construction  of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal, 
§500,000  of  this  amount  to  be  expended  in  1838. 
Work  began  at  once.  Routes  were  surveyed  and 
contracts  for  construction  let,  and  an  era  of  reck- 
less speculation  began.  Large  sums  were  rapidly 
expended  and  nearly  §6,500,000  quickly  added  to 
the  State  debt.  The  system  was  soon  demon- 
strated to  be  a  failure  and  was  abandoned  for 
lack  of  funds,  some  of  the  "improvements" 
already  made  being  sold  to  private  parties  at  a 
heavy  loss.  This  scheme  furnished  the  basis  of 
the  State  debt  under  which  Illinois  labored  for 
many  years,  and  which,  at  its  maximum,  reached 
nearly  §17,000,000.  (See  Macallister  &  Stebbins 
Bonds;  State  Debt;  Tenth  General  Assembly; 
Eleventh  General  Assembly.) 

INUNDATIONS,  REMARKABLE.  The  most 
remarkable  freshets  (or  floods)  in  Illinois  history 
have  been  those  occurring  in  the  Mississippi 
River;  though,  of  course,  the  smaller  tributaries 
of  that  stream  have  been  subject  to  similar  con- 
ditions. Probably  the  best  account  of  early 
floods  has  been  furnished  by  Gov.  John  Reynolds 
in  his  "Pioneer  History  of  Illinois," — he  having 
been  a  witness  of  a  number  of  them.  The  first 
of  which  any  historical  record  has  been  pre- 
served, occurred  in  1770.  At  that  time  the  only 
white  settlements  within  the  present  limits  of 
the  State  were  in  the  American  Bottom  in  the 
vicinity  of  Kaskaskia,  and  there  the  most  serious 
results  were  produced.  Governor  Reynolds  says 
the  flood  of  that  year  (1770)  made  considerable 
encroachments  on  the  east  bank  of  the  river 
adjacent  to  Fort  Chartres,  which  had  originally 
been  erected  by  the  French  in  1718  at  a  distance 
of  three-quarters  of  a  mile  from  the  main 
channel.  The  stream  continued  to  advance  in 
this  direction  until  1772,  when  the  whole  bottom 
was  again  inundated,  and  the  west  wall  of  the 
fort,  having  been  undermined,  fell  into  the  river. 
The  next  extraordinary  freshet  was  in  1784,  when 
the  American  Bottom  was  again  submerged  and 
the  residents  of  Kaskaskia  and  the  neighboring 
villages  were  forced  to  seek  a  refuge  on  the  bluffs 
— some  of  the  people  of  Cahokia  being  driven  to 
St.  Louis,  then  a  small  French  village  on  Spanish 
soil.  The  most  remarkable  flood  of  the  present 
century  occurred  in  May  and  June,  1844,  as  the 
result  of  extraordinary  rains  preceded  by  heavy 
winter  snows  in  the  Rocky  Mountains  and  rapid 
spring  thaws.  At  this  time  the  American  Bot- 
tom, opposite  St.  Louis,  was  inundated  from  bluff 
to  bluff,  and  large  steamers  passed  over  the  sub- 


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merged  lands,  gathering  up  cattle  an  dot  her  kinds 
of  property  and  rescuing  the  imperiled  owners. 
Some  of  the  villages  affected  by  this  flood — as 
Cahokia,  Prairie  du  Rocher  and  Kaskaskia — have 
never  fully  recovered  from  the  disaster.  Another 
considerable  flood  occurred  in  1826,  but  it  was 
inferior  to  those  of  1784  and  1844.  A  notable 
flood  occurred  in  1851,  when  the  Mississippi, 
though  not  so  high  opposite  St.  Louis  as  in  1844, 
is  said  to  have  been  several  feet  higher  at  Quincy 
than  in  the  previous  year — the  difference  being 
due  to  the  fact  that  the  larger  portion  of  the 
flood  of  1844  came  from  the  Missouri  River,  its 
effects  being  most  noticeable  below  the  mouth  of 
that  stream.  Again,  in  1868,  a  flood  did  con- 
siderable damage  on  the  Upper  Mississippi,  reach- 
ing the  highest  point  since  1851.  Floods  of  a  more 
or  less  serious  character  also  occurred  in  1876, 
1880  and  again  in  1893.  Although  not  so  high  as 
some  of  those  previously  named,  the  loss  was  pro- 
portionately greater  owing  to  the  larger  area  of 
improved  lands.  The  flood  of  1893  did  a  great 
deal  of  damage  at  East  St.  Louis  to  buildings  and 
railroads,  and  in  the  destruction  of  other  classes 
of  property. — Floods  in  the  Ohio  River  have  been 
frequent  and  very  disastrous,  especially  in  the 
upper  portions  of  that  stream — usually  resulting 
from  sudden  thaws  and  ice-gorges  in  the  early 
spring.  With  one  exception,  the  highest  flood  in 
the  Ohio,  during  the  present  century,  was  that  of 
TTebruary,  1832,  when  the  water  at  Cincinnati 
reached  an  altitude  of  sixty-four  feet  three 
inches.  The  recorded  altitudes  of  others  of  more 
recent  occurrence  have  been  as  follows:  Dec. 
17,  1847  —  sixty -three  feet  seven  inches; 
1862— fifty-seven  feet  four  inches;  1882— fifty- 
eight  feet  seven  inches.  The  highest  point 
reached  at  New  Albany,  Ind.,  in  1883,  was 
seventy-three  feet — or  four  feet  higher  than  the 
flood  of  1832.  The  greatest  altitude  reached  in 
historic  times,  at  Cincinnati,  was  in  1884 — the  re- 
corded height  being  three-quarters  of  an  inch  in 
excess  of  seventy-one  feet.  Owing  to  the  smaller 
area  of  cultivated  lands  and  other  improvements 
in  the  Ohio  River  bottoms  within  the  State  of 
Illinois,  the  loss  has  been  comparatively  smaller 
than  on  the  Mississippi,  although  Cairo  has  suf- 
fered from  both  streams.  The  most  serious  dis- 
asters in  Illinois  territory  from  overflow  of  the 
Ohio,  occurred  in  connection  with  the  flood  of 
1883,  at  Shawneetown,  when,  out  of  six  hundred 
houses,  all  but  twenty-eight  were  flooded  to  the 
second  story  and  water  ran  to  a  depth  of  fifteen 
feet  in  the  main  street.  A  levee,  which  had  been 
constructed  for  the  protection  of  the  city  at  great 


expense,  was  almost  entirely  destroyed,  and  an 
appropriation  of  160,000  was  made  by  the  Legis- 
lature to  indemnify  the  corporation.  On  April 
3,  1898,  the  Ohio  River  broke  through  the  levee 
at  Shawneetown,  inundating  the  whole  city  and 
causing  the  loss  of  twenty-five  lives.  Much 
suffering  was  caused  among  the  people  driven 
from  their  homes  and  deprived  of  the  means  of 
subsistence,  and  it  was  found  necessary  to  send 
them  tents  from  Springfield  and  supplies  of  food 
by  the  State  Government  and  by  private  contri- 
butions from  the  various  cities  of  the  State.  The 
inundation  continued  for  some  two  or  three 
weeks. — Some  destructive  floods  have  occurred 
in  the  Chicago  River — the  most  remarkable,  since 
the  settlement  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  being  that 
of  March  12,  1849.  This  was  the  result  of  an  ice- 
gorge  in  the  Des  Plaines  River,  turning  the 
waters  of  that  stream  across  "the  divide"  into 
Mud  Lake,  and  thence,  by  way  of  the  South 
Branch,  into  the  Chicago  River.  The  accumula- 
tion of  waters  in  the  latter  broke  up  the  ice, 
which,  forming  into  packs  and  gorges,  deluged 
the  region  between  the  two  rivers.  When  the 
superabundant  mass  of  waters  and  ice  in  the  Chi- 
cago River  began  to  flow  towards  the  lake,  it  bore 
before  it  not  only  the  accumulated  pack-ice,  but 
the  vessels  which  had  been  tied  up  at  the  wharves 
and  other  points  along  the  banks  for  the  winter. 
A  contemporaneous  history  of  the  event  says  that 
there  were  scattered  along  the  stream  at  the  time, 
four  steamers,  six  propellers,  two  sloops,  twenty- 
four  brigs  and  fifty-seven  canal  boats.  Those  in 
the  upper  part  of  the  stream,  being  hemmed  in 
by  surrounding  ice,  soon  became  a  part  of  the 
moving  mass ;  chains  and  hawsers  were  snapped 
as  if  they  had  been  whip-cord,  and  the  whole 
borne  lakeward  in  indescribable  confusion.  The 
bridges  at  Madison,  Randolph  and  Wells  Streets 
gave  way  in  succession  before  the  immense 
mass,  adding,  as  it  moved  along,  to  the  general 
wreck  by  falling  spars,  crushed  keels  and  crashing 
bridge  timbers.  "Opposite  Kinzie  wharf,"  says 
the  record,  "the  river  was  choked  with  sailing- 
craft  of  every  description,  piled  together  in  inex- 
tricable confusion."  While  those  vessels  near 
the  mouth  of  the  river  escaped  into  the  lake  with 
comparatively  little  damage,  a  large  number  of 
those  higher  up  the  stream  were  caught  in  the. 
gorge  and  either  badly  injured  or  totally  wrecked. 
The  loss  to  the  city,  from  the  destruction  of 
bridges,  was  estimated  at  $20,000,  and  to  vessels  at 
§88,000— a  large  sum  for  that  time.  The  wreck 
of  bridges  compelled  a  return  to  the  primitive 
system  of  ferries  or  extemporized  bridges  made 


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MRS.  JOHN  GARDNER 


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of  boats,  to  furnish  means  of  communication 
between  the  several  divisions  of  the  city — a  con- 
dition of  affairs  which  lasted  for  several  months. 
— Floods  about  the  same  time  did  considerable 
damage  on  the  Illinois,  Fox  and  Rock  Rivers, 
their  waters  being  higher  than  in  1838  or  1833, 
which  were  memorable  flood  years  on  these  in- 
terior streams.  On  the  former,  the  village  of 
Peru  was  partially  destroyed,  while  the  bridges 
on  Rock  River  were  all  swept  away.  A  flood  in 
the  Illinois  River,  in  the  spring  of  1855,  resulted  in 
serious  damage  to  bridges  and  other  property  in 
the  vicinity  of  Ottawa,  and  there  were  extensive 
inundations  of  the  bottom  lands  along  that 
stream  in  1859  and  subsequent  years. — In  Febru- 
ary, 1857,  a  second  flood  in  the  Chicago  River, 
similar  to  that  of  1849,  caused  considerable  dam- 
age, but  was  less  destructive  than  that  of  the 
earlier  date,  as  the  bridges  were  more  substan- 
tially constructed. — One  of  the  most  extensive 
floods,  in  recent  times,  occurred  in  the  Mississippi 
River  during  the  latter  part  of  the  month  of 
April  and  early  in  May,  1897.  The  value  of  prop- 
erty destroyed  on  the  lower  Mississippi  was 
estimated  at  many  millions  of  dollars,  and  many 
lives  were  lost.  At  Warsaw,  111.,  the  water 
reached  a  height  of  nineteen  feet  four  inches 
above  low-water  mark  on  April  24,  and,  at  Quincy, 
nearly  nineteen  feet  on  the  28th,  while  the  river, 
at  points  between  these  two  cities,  was  from  ten 
to  fifteen  miles  wide.  Some  25,000  acres  of  farm- 
ing lands  between  Quincy  and  Warsaw  were 
flooded  and  the  growing  crops  destroyed.  At 
Alton  the  height  reached  by  the  water  was 
twenty-two  feet,  but  in  consequence  of  the 
strength  of  the  levees  protecting  the  American 
Bottom,  the  farmers  in  that  region  suffered  less 
than  on  some  previous  years. 

IPAVA,  a  town  in  Fulton  County,  on  one  of  the 
branches  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &.  Quincy 
Railroad,  10  miles  west-southwest  of  Lewistown, 
and  some  44  miles  north  of  Jacksonville.  The 
county  abounds  in  coal,  and  coal-mining,  as  well 
as  agriculture,  is  a  leading  industry  in  the  sur- 
rounding country.  Other  industries  are  the 
manufacture  of  flour  and  woolen  goods;  two 
banks,  four  churches,  a  sanitarium,  and  a  weekly 
newspaper  are  also  located  here.  Population 
(1890),  667;  (1900),  749;  (1910),  652. 

IRON  MANUFACTURES.  The  manufacture 
of  iron,  both  pig  and  castings,  direct  from  the 
furnace,  has  steadily  increased  in  this  State.  In 
1880,  Illinois  ranked  seventh  in  the  list  of  States 
producing  manufactured  iron,  while,  in  1890,  it 
had  risen  to  fourth  place,  Pennsylvania  (which 


produces  nearly  fifty  per  cent  of  the  total  product 
of  the  country)  retaining  the  lead,  with  Ohio  and 
Alabama  following.  In  1890  Illinois  had  fifteen 
complete  furnace  stacks  (as  against  ten  in  1880), 
turning  out  674,506  tons,  or  seven  per  cent  of  the 
entire  output.  Since  then  four  additional  fur- 
naces have  been  completed,  but  no  figures  are  at 
hand  to  show  the  increase  in  production.  During 
the  decade  between  1880  and  1890,  the  percentage 
of  increase  in  output  was  616.53.  The  fuel  used 
is  chiefly  the  native  bituminous  coal,  which  is 
abundant  and  cheap.  Of  this,  674,506  tons  were 
used;  of  anthracite  coal,  only  38,618  tons.  Of. 
the  total  output  of  pig-iron  in  the  State,  during 
1890,  616,659  tons  were  of  Bessemer.  Charcoal 
pig  is  not  made  in  Illinois. 

IRON  MOUNTAIN,  CHESTER  &  EASTERN 
RAILROAD.  (See  Wabash,  Chester  &  Western 
Railroad. ) 

IROQUOIS  COUNTY,  a  large  county  on  the 
eastern  border  of  the  State;  area,  1,100  square 
miles;  population  (1910),  35,543.  In  1830  two 
pioneer  settlements  mere  made  almost  simultane- 
ously,— one  at  Bunkum  (now  Concord)  and  the 
other  at  Milford.  Among  those  taking  up  homes 
at  the  former  were  Gurdon  8.  Hubbard,  Benja- 
min Fry,  and  Messrs.  Cartwright,  Thomas,  New- 
comb,  and  Miller.  At  Milford  located  Robert 
Hill,  Samuel  Rush,  Messrs.  Miles,  Pickell  and 
Parker,  besides  the  Cox,  Moore  and  Stanley 
families.  Iroquois  County  was  set  off  from  Ver- 
milion and  organized  in  1833, — named  from  the 
Iroquois  Indians,  or  Iroquois  River,  which  flows 
through  it.  The  Kickapoos  and  Pottawatomies 
did  not  remove  west  of  the  Mississippi  until 
1836-37,  but  were  always  friendly.  The  seat  of 
government  was  first  located  at  Montgomery, 
whence  it  was  removed  to  Middleport,  and  finally 
to  Watseka.  The  county  is  well  timbered  and 
the  soil  underlaid  by  both  coal  and  building 
stone.  Clay  suitable  for  brick  making  and  the 
manufacture  of  crockery  is  also  found.  The 
Iroquois  River  and  the  Sugar,  Spring  and  Beaver 
Creeks  thoroughly  drain  the  county.  An  abun- 
dance of  pure,  cold  water  may  be  found  anywhere 
by  boring  to  the  depth  of  from  thirty  to  eighty 
feet,  a  fact  which  encourages  grazing  and  the 
manufacture  of  dairy  products.  7^e  so'l  *s  rich, 
and  well  adapted  to  fruit  growing.  The  prin- 
cipal towns  are  Oilman  (population  1,112),  Wat- 
seka (2,017),  and  Milford  (957). 

IROQUOIS  RIVER,  (sometimes  called  Picka- 
mink),  rises  in  Western  Indiana  and  runs 
westward  to  Watseka,  111. ;  thence  it  flows  north- 
ward through  Iroauois  and  part  of  Kankakee 


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Counties,  entering  the  Kankakee  River  some  five 
miles  southeast  of  Kankakee.  It  is  nearly  120 
miles  long. 

IRVING,  a  village  in  Montgomery  County,  on 
the  line  of  the  Indianapolis  &  St.  Louis  Railroad, 
54  miles  east-northeast  of  Alton,  and  17  miles 
east  by  north  of  Litohfield;  has  five  churches, 
flouring  and  saw  mills,  creamery,  and  a  weekly 
newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  675;  (1910),  678. 

ISHAM,  Edward  S.,  lawyer,  was  born  at 
Bennington,  Vt.,  Jan.  15,  1836;  educated  at 
Lawrence  Academy  and  Williams  College,  Mass., 
taking  his  degree  at  the  latter  in  1857;  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  at  Rutland,  Vt.,  in  1858, 
coming  to  Chicago  the  same  year.  Mr.  Isham 
was  a  Representative  in  the  Twenty-fourth 
General  Assembly  (1864-66)  and,  in  1881,  his 
name  was  prominently  considered  for  a  position 
on  the  Supreme  bench  of  the  United  States.  He 
is  the  senior  member  of  the  firm  of  Isham,  Lin- 
coln &  Beale,  which  has  had  the  management  of 
some  of  the  most  important  cases  coming  before 
the  Chicago  courts.  Died  Feb.  16,  1902. 

JACKSON,  Kuiitiiiirton  Wolcott,  lawyer,  born 
in  Newark,  N.  J. ,  Jan.  28,  1841,  being  descended 
on  the  maternal  side  from  Oliver  Wolcott,  one  of 
the  signers  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence ; 
received  his  education  at  Phillips  Academy, 
Andover,  Mass.,  and  at  Princeton  College,  leav- 
ing the  latter  at  the  close  of  his  junior  year  to 
enter  the  army,  and  taking  part  in  the  battles  of 
Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville  and  Gettysburg, 
a  part  of  the  time  being  on  the  staff  of  Maj.-Gen. 
John  Newton,  and,  later,  with  Sherman  from 
Chattanooga  to  Atlanta,  finally  receiving  the 
rank  of  Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel  for  gallant  and 
meritorious  service.  Returning  to  civil  life  in 
1865,  he  entered  Harvard  Law  School  for  one 
term,  then  spent  a  year  in  Europe,  on  his  return 
resuming  his  legal  studies  at  Newark,  N.  J. ; 
came  to  Chicago  in  1867,  and  the  following  year 
was  admitted  to  the  bar ;  has  served  as  Supervisor 
of  South  Chicago,  as  President  of  the  Chicago 
Bar  Association,  and  (by  appointment  of  the 
Comptroller  of  the  Currency)  as  receiver  and 
attorney  of  the  Third  National  Bank  of  Chicago. 
Under  the  will  of  the  late  John  Crerar  he  became 
an  executor  of  the  estate,  and  a  trustee  of  the 
Crerar  Library.  Died  at  Newark.N.  J.,  Jan  3, 1901. 

JACKSON  COUNTY,  organized  in  1816,  and 
named  in  honor  of  Andrew  Jackson;  area,  580 
square  miles;  population  (1910),  35,143.  It  lies 
in  the  southwest  portion  of  the  State,  the  Mis- 
sissippi River  forming  its  principal  western 


boundary.  The  bottom  lands  along  the  river  are 
wonderfully  fertile,  but  liable  to  overflow.  It  is 
crossed  by  a  range  of  hills  regarded  as  a  branch 
of  the  Ozark  range.  Toward  the  east  the  soil  is 
warm,  and  well  adapted  to  fruit-growing.  One 
of  the  richest  beds  of  bituminous  coal  in  the  State 
crops  out  at  various  points,  varying  in  depth  from 
a  few  inches  to  four  or  five  hundred  feet  below  the 
surface.  Valuable  timber  and  good  building 
stone  are  found  and  there  are  numerous  saline 
springs.  Wheat,  tobacco  and  fruit  are  principal 
crops.  Early  pioneers,  with  the  date  of  their 
arrival,  were  as  follows:  1814,  W.  Boon;  1815, 
Joseph  Duncan  (afterwards  Governor) ;  1817, 
Oliver  Cross,  Mrs.  William  Kimmel,  S.  Lewis,  E. 
Harrold,  George  Butcher  and  W.  Eakin;  1818, 
the  Bysleys,  Mark  Bradley,  James  Hughes  and 
John  Barren.  Brownsville  was  the  first  county- 
seat  and  an  important  town,  but  owing  to  a  dis- 
astrous fire  in  1843,  the  government  was  removed 
to  Murphysboro,  where  Dr.  Logan  (father  of  Gen. 
John  A.  Logan)  donated  a  tract  of  land  for 
county-buildings.  John  A.  Logan  was  born  here. 
The  principal  towns  (with  their  respective  popu- 
lation, as  shown  by  the  United  States  Census  of 
1890),  were:  Murphysboro,  3,880;  Carbondale, 
2,382;  and  Grand  Tower,  634. 

JACKSONVILLE,  the  county-seat  of  Morgan 
County,  and  an  important  railroad  center;  popu- 
lation (1890)  about  13,000.  The  town  was  laid 
out  in  1825,  and  named  in  honor  of  Gen.  Andrew 
Jackson.  The  first  court  house  was  erected  in 
1826,  and  among  early  lawyers  were  Josiah  Lam- 
born,  John  J.  Hardin,  Stephen  A.  Douglas,  and 
later  Richard  Yates,  afterwards  the  "War  Gov- 
ernor" of  Illinois.  It  is  the  seat  of  several  im- 
portant State  institutions,  notably  the  Central 
Hospital  for  the  Insane,  and  Institutions  for  the 
Education  of  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  and  the  Blind^- 
besides  private  educational  institutions,  including 
Illinois  College,  Illinois  Conference  Female  Col- 
lege (Methodist),  Jacksonville  Female  Academy, 
a  Business  College  and  others.  The  city  has 
several  banks,  a  large  woolen  mill,  carriage  fac- 
tories, brick  yards,  planing  mills,  and  two  news- 
paper establishments,  each  publishing  daily  and 
weekly  editions.  It  justly  ranks  as  one  of  the 
most  attractive  and  interesting  cities  of  the  State, 
noted  for  the  hospitality  and  intelligence  of  its 
citizens.  Although  immigrants  from  Kentucky 
and  other  Southern  States  predominated  in  its 
early  settlement,  the  location  there  of  Illinois 
College  and  the  Jacksonville  Female  Academy, 
about  1830,  brought  to  it  many  settlers  of  New 
England  birth,  so  that  it  early  came  to  be 


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regarded  as  more  distinctively  New  England  in 
the  character  of  its  population  than  any  other 
town  in  Southern  Illinois.  Pop.  (1910),  15,326. 

JACKSONVILLE  FEMALE  ACADEMY,  an 
institution  for  the  education  of  young  ladies,  at 
Jacksonville,  the  oldest  of  its  class  in  the  State. 
The  initial  steps  for  its  organization  were  taken 
in  1830,  the  year  after  the  establishment  of  Illinois 
College.  It  may  be  said  to  have  been  an  offshoot 
of  the  latter,  these  two  constituting  the  originals 
of  that  remarkable  group  of  educational  and 
State  Institutions  which  now  exist  in  that  city. 
Instruction  began  to  be  given  in  the  Academy  in 
May,  1833,  under  the  principalship  of  Miss  Sarah 
C.  Crocker,  and,  in  1835,  it  was  formally  incorpo- 
rated by  act  of  the  Legislature,  being  the  first 
educational  institution  to  receive  a  charter  from 
that  body;  though  Illinois,  McKendree  and 
Shurtleff  Colleges  were  incorporated  at  a  later 
period  of  the  same  session.  Among  its  founders 
appear  the  names  of  Gov.  Joseph  Duncan,  Judge 
Samuel  D.  Lockwood,  Rev.  Julian  M.  Sturtevant 
(for  fifty  years  the  President  or  a  Professor  of  Illi- 
nois College),  John  P.  Wilkinson,  Rev.  John  M. 
Ellis,  David  B.  Ayers  and  Dr.  Ero  Chandler,  all 
of  whom,  except  the  last,  were  prominently 
identified  with  the  early  history  of  Illinois  Col- 
lege. The  list  of  the  alumnae  embraces  over  five 
hundred  names.  On  January  1,  1903,  Jacksonville 
Female  Academy  was  merged  with  Illinois  College, 
and  while  retaining  its  buildings  and  grounds,  it 
is  now  known  as  Academy  Hall. 

JACKSONVILLE,  LOUISVILLE  &  ST.  LOUIS 
RAILWAY.  (See  Jacksonville  &  St.  Louis  Rail- 
way.) 

JACKSONVILLE,  NORTHWESTERN  & 
SOUTHEASTERN  RAILROAD.  (See  Jackson- 
ville &  St.  Louis  Railway. ) 

JACKSONVILLE  &  ST.  LOUIS  RAILWAY. 
Originally  chartered  as  the  Illinois  Farmers'  Rail- 
road, and  constructed  from  Jacksonville  to 
Waverly  in  1870 ;  later  changed  to  the  Jacksonville, 
Northwestern  &  Southeastern  and  track  extended 
to  Virden  (31  miles) ;  in  1879  passed  into  the 
hands  of  a  new  company  under  the  title  of  the 
Jacksonville  Southeastern,  and  was  extended  as 
follows:  to  Litchfield  (1880),  23  miles;  to  Smith- 
boro  (1882),  29  miles;  to  Centralia  (1883),  29  miles 
— total,  112  miles.  In  1887  a  section  between 
Centralia  and  Driver's  (16V4  miles)  was  con- 
structed by  the  Jacksonville  Southeastern,  and 
operated  under  lease  by  the  successor  to  that 
line,  but,  in  1893,  was  separated  from  it  under 
the  name  of  the  Louisville  &  St.  Louis  Railway. 
By  the  use  of  five  miles  of  trackage  on  the  Louis- 


ville &  Nashville  Railroad,  connection  was 
obtained  between  Driver's  and  Mount  Vernon. 
The  same  year  (1887)  the  Jacksonville  Southeast- 
ern obtained  control  of  the  Litchfield,  Carrollton 
&  Western  Railroad,  from  Litchfield  to  Columbi- 
ana  on  the  Illinois  River,  and  the  Chicago,  Peoria 
&  St.  Louis,  embracing  lines  from  Peoria  to  St. 
Louis,  via  Springfield  and  Jacksonville.  The 
Jacksonville  Southeastern  was  reorganized  in  1890 
under  the  name  of  the  Jacksonville,  Louisville 
&  St.  Louis  Railway,  and,  in  1893,  was  placed  in 
the  hands  of  a  receiver.  The  Chicago,  Peoria  & 
St.  Louis  Divisions  were  subsequently  separated 
from  the  Jacksonville  line  and  placed  in  charge 
of  a  separate  receiver.  Foreclosure  proceedings 
began  in  1894  and,  during  1896,  the  road  was  sold 
under  foreclosure  and  reorganized  under  its  pres- 
ent title.  (See  Chicago,  Peoria  &  St.  Louis  Rail- 
road of  Illinois.)  The  capital  stock  of  the 
Jacksonville  &  St.  Louis  Railway  (June  30,  1897) 
was  $1,500,000;  funded  debt,  $2,300,000— total, 
$3,800,000. 

JAMES,  Colin  D.,  clergyman,  was  born  in  Ran- 
dolph County,  now  in  West  Virginia,  Jan.  15, 
1808;  died  at  Bonita,  Kan.,  Jan.  30,  1888.  He  was 
the  son  of  Rev.  Dr.  William  B.  James,  a  pioneer 
preacher  in  the  Ohio  Valley,  who  removed  to 
Ohio  in  1812,  settling  first  in  Jefferson  County  in 
that  State,  and  later  (1814)  at  Mansfield.  Subse- 
quently the  family  took  up  its  residence  at  Kelt's 
Prairie  in  Vigo  (now  Vermilion)  County,  Ind. 
Before  1830  Colin  D.  James  came  to  Illinois,  and, 
in  1834,  became  a  minister  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church,  remaining  in  active  ministerial 
work  until  1871,  after  which  he  accepted  a  super- 
annuated relation.  During  his  connection  with 
the  church  in  Illinois  he  served  as  station  preacher 
or  Presiding  Elder  at  the  following  points :  Rock 
Island  (1834);  Platteville  (1836);  Apple  River 
(1837) ;  Paris  (1838,  '42  and  '43) ;  Eugene  (1839) ; 
Georgetown  (1840);  Shelby  ville  (1841);  Graf  ton 
(1844  and '45) ;  Sparta  District  (1845-47) ;  Lebanon 
District  (1848-49) ;  Alton  District  (1850);  Bloom- 
ingtou  District  (1851-52) ;  and  later  at  Jackson- 
ville, Winchester,  Greenfield,  Island  Grove, 
Oldtown,  Heyworth,  Normal,  Atlanta,  McLean 
and  Shirley.  During  1861-62  he  acted  as  agent 
for  the  Illinois  Female  College  at  Jacksonville, 
and,  in  1871,  for  the  erection  of  a  Metho- 
dist church  at  Normal.  He  was  twice  married. 
His  first  wife  (Eliza  A.  Plasters  of  Living- 
ston) died  in  1849.  The  following  year  he  mar- 
ried Amanda  K.  Casad,  daughter  of  Dr.  Anthony 
W.  Casad.  He  removed  from  Normal  to  Evans- 
ton  in  1876,  and  from  the  latter  place  to 


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Kansas  in  1879.  Of  his  surviving  children, 
Edmund  J.  is  (1898)  Professor  in  the  University 
of  Chicago;  John  N.  is  in  charge  of  the  mag- 
netic laboratory  in  the  National  Observatory 
at  Washington,  D.  C.  ;  Benjamin  B.  is  Professor 
in  the  State  Normal  School  at  St.  Cloud,  Minn., 
and  George  F.  is  instructor  in  the  Cambridge 
Preparatory  School  of  Chicago. 

JAMES,  Edmund  Janes,  was  born,  May  21, 
1855,  at  Jacksonville,  Morgan  County,  111.,  the 
fourth  son  of  Rev.  Colin  Dew  James  of  the  Illi- 
nois Conference,  grandson  on  his  mother's  side 
of  Rev.  Dr.  Anthony  Wayne  Casad  and  great- 
grandson  of  Samuel  Stites  (all  of  whose  sketches 
appear  elsewhere  in  this  volume) ;  was  educated 
in  the  Model  Department  of  the  Illinois  State 
Normal  School  at  Bloomington  (Normal),  from 
which  he  graduated  in  June,  1873,  and  entered 
the  Northwestern  University,  at  Evanston,  111., 
in  November  of  the  same  year.  On  May  1,  1874, 
he  was  appointed  Recorder  on  the  United  States 
Lake  Survey,  where  he  continued  during  one 
season  engaged  in  work  on  the  lower  part  of  Lake 
Ontario  and  the  upper  St.  Lawrence.  He  entered 
Harvard  College,  Nov.  2,  1874,  but  went  to 
Europe  in  August,  1875,  entering  the  University 
of  Halle,  Oct.  16,  1875,  where  he  graduated, 
August  4,  1877,  with  the  degrees  of  A.M.  and 
Ph.D.  On  his  return  to  the  United  States  he  was 
elected  Principal  of  the  Public  High  School  in 
Evanston,  111.,  Jan.  1,  1878,  but  resigned  in  June, 
1879,  to  accept  a  position  in  the  Illinois  State 
Normal  School  at  Bloomington  as  Professor  of 
Latin  and  Greek,  and  Principal  of  the  High 
School  Department  in  connection  with  the  Model 
School.  Resigning  this  position  at  Christmas 
time,  1882,  he  went  to  Europe  for  study ;  accepted 
a  position  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  as 
Professor  of  Public  Administration,  in  Septem- 
ber, 1883,  where  he  remained  for  over  thirteen 
years.  While  here  he  was,  for  a  time,  Secretary 
of  the  Graduate  Faculty  and  organized  the  in- 
struction in  this  Department.  He  was  also 
Director  of  the  Wharton  School  of  Finance  and 
Economy,  the  first  attempt  to  organize  a  college 
course  in  the  field  of  commerce  and  industry. 
During  this  time  he  officiated  as  editor  of  "The 
Political  Economy  and  Public  Law  Series"  issued 
by  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  Resigning 
his  position  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania  on 
Feb.  1,  1896,  he  accepted  that  of  Professor  of  Pub- 
lic Administration  and  Director  of  the  University 
Extension  Division  in  the  University  of  Chicago, 
where  he  has  since  continued.  Professor  James 
has  been  identified  with  the  progress  of  economic 


studies  in  the  United  States  since  the  early 
eighties.  He  was  one  of  the  organizers  and  one 
of  the  first  Vice-Presidents  of  the  American 
Economic  Association.  On  Dec.  14,  1889,  he 
founded  the  American  Academy  of  Political  and 
Social  Science  with  headquarters  at  Philadelphia, 
became  its  first  President,  and  has  continued  such 
to  the  present  time.  He  was  also,  for  some  years, 
editor  of  its  publications.  The  Academy  has 
now  become  the  largest  Association  in  the  world 
devoted  to  the  cultivation  of  economic  and  social 
subjects.  He  was  one  of  the  originators  of,  and 
one  of  the  most  frequent  contributors  to,  "Lalor's 
Cyclopaedia  of  Political  Science";  was  also  the 
pioneer  in  the  movement  to  introduce  into  the 
United  States  the  scheme  of  public  instruction 
known  as  University  Extension;  was  the  first 
President  of  the  American  Society  for  the  Exten- 
sion of  University  Teaching,  under  whose  auspices 
the  first  effective  extension  work  was  done  in  this 
country,  and  has  been  Director  of  the  Extension 
Division  in  the  University  of  Chicago  since  Febru- 
ary, 1896.  He  has  been  especially  identified  with 
the  development  of  higher  commercial  education 
in  the  United  States.  From  his  position  as 
Director  of  the  Wharton  School  of  Finance  and 
Economy  he  has  affected  the  course  of  instruc- 
tion in  this  Department  in  a  most  marked  way. 
He  was  invited  by  the  American  Bankers' 
Association,  in  the  year  1892,  to  make  a  careful 
study  of  the  subject  of  Commercial  Education  in 
Europe,  and  his  report  to  this  association  on  the 
Education  of  Business  Men  in  Europe,  republished 
by  the  University  of  Chicago  in  the  year  1898, 
has  become  a  standard  authority  on  this  subject. 
Owing  largely  to  his  efforts,  departments  similar 
to  the  Wharton  School  of  Finance  and  Economy 
have  been  established  under  the  title  of  College 
of  Commerce,  College  of  Commerce  and  Politics, 
and  Collegiate  Course  in  Commerce,  in  the  Uni- 
versities of  California  and  Chicago,  and  Columbia 
University.  He  has  been  identified  with  the 
progress  of  college  education  in  general,  espe- 
cially in  its  relation  to  secondary  and  elementary 
education,  and  was  one  of  the  early  advocates  of 
the  establishment  of  departments  of  education  in 
our  colleges  and  universities,  the  policy  of  which 
is  now  adopted  by  nearly  all  the  leading  institu- 
tions. He  was,  for  a  time,  State  Examiner  of 
High  Schools  in  Illinois,  and  was  founder  of  "The 
Illinois  School  Journal,"  long  one  of  the  most 
influential  educational  periodicals  in  the  State, 
now  changed  in  name  to  "School  and  Home." 
He  has  been  especially  active  in  the  establish- 
ment of  public  kindergartens  in  different  cities, 


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and  has  been  repeatedly  offered  the  headship  of 
important  institutions,  among  them  being  the 
University  of  Iowa,  the  University  of  Illinois, 
and  the  University  of  Cincinnati.  He  has  served 
as  V ice-President  of  the  National  Municipal 
League;  of  the  American  Association  for  the 
Advancement  of  Science,  and  the  American 
Economic  Association,  and  of  the  Board  of  Trus 
tees  of  the  Illinois  State  Historical  Library ;  is  a 
member  of  the  American  Philosophical  Society, 
of  tiie  Pennsylvania  Historical  Society,  of  the 
National  Council  of  Education,  and  of  the  British 
Association  for  the  Advancement  of  Science.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Committee  of  Thirteen  of 
the  National  Teachers'  Association  on  college 
entrance  requirements;  is  a  member  of  various 
patriotic  and  historical  societies,  including  the 
Sons  of  the  American  Revolution,  the  Society  of 
the  Colonial  "Wars,  the  Holland  and  the  Huguenot 
Society.  He  is  the  author  of  more  than  one  hun- 
dred papers  and  monographs  on  various  economic, 
educational,  legal  and  administrative  subjects. 
Professor  James  was  married,  August  22,  1879,  to 
Anna  Margarethe  Lauge,  of  Halle,  Prussia, 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Wilhelm  Roderich  Lange, 
and  granddaughter  of  the  famous  Professor  Ger- 
lach  of  the  University  of  Halle. 

JAMESON,  John  Alexander,  lawyer  and  jur- 
ist, was  born  at  Irasburgh,  Vt.,  Jan.  25,  1824; 
graduated  from  the  University  of  Vermont  in 
1846.  After  several  years  spent  in  teaching,  he 
began  the  study  of  law,  and  graduated  from  the 
Dane  Law  School  (of  Harvard  College)  in  1853. 
Coming  west  the  same  year  he  located  at  Free- 
port,  111.,  but  removed  to  Chicago  in  1856.  In 
1865  he  was  elected  to  the  bench  of  the  Superior 
Court  of  Chicago,  remaining  in  office  until  1883. 
During  a  portion  of  this  period  he  acted  as  lec- 
turer in  the  Union  College  of  Law  at  Chicago, 
and  as  editor  of  "The  American  Law  Register." 
His  literary  labors  were  unceasing,  his  most 
notable  work  being  entitled  "Constitutional  Con- 
ventions; their  History,  Power  and  Modes  of 
Proceeding."  He  was  also  a  fine  classical 
scholar,  speaking  and  reading  German,  French, 
Spanish  and  Italian,  and  was  deeply  interested 
in  charitable  and  reformatory  work.  Died,  sud- 
denly, in  Chicago,  June  16,  1890. 

JAREOT,  Nicholas,  early  French  settler  of  St. 
Clair  County,  was  born  in  France,  received'  a 
liberal  education  and,  on  account  of  the  disturbed 
condition  there  in  the  latter  part  of  the  last  cen- 
tury, left  his  native  country  about  1790.  After 
spending  some  time  at  Baltimore  and  New 
Orleans,  he  arrived  at  Cahokia,  111.,  in  1794,  and 


became  a  permanent  settler  there.  He  early  be- 
came a  Major  of  militia  and  engaged  in  trade 
with  the  Indians,  frequently  visiting  Prairie  du 
Chien,  St.  Anthony's  Falls  (now  Minneapolis)  and 
the  Illinois  River  in  his  trading  expeditions,  and, 
on  one  or  two  occasions,  incurring  great  risk  of 
life  from  hostile  savages.  He  acquired  a  large 
property,  especially  in  lands,  built  mills  and 
erected  one  of  the  earliest  and  finest  brick  houses 
in  that  part  of  the  country.  He  also  served  as 
Justice  of  the  Peace  and  Judge  of  the  County 
Court  of  St.  Clair  County.  Died,  in  1823.— Vital 
(Jarrot),  son  of  the  preceding,  inherited  a  large 
landed  fortune  from  his  father,  and  was  an 
enterprising  and  public-spirited  citizen  of  St. 
Clair  County  during  the  last  generation.  He 
served  as  Representative  from  St.  Clair  County 
in  the  Eleventh,  Twentieth,  Twenty-first  and 
Twenty-second  General  Assemblies,  in  the  first 
being  an  associate  of  Abraham  Lincoln  and 
always  his  firm  friend  and  admirer.  At  the 
organization  of  the  Twenty-second  General 
Assembly  (1857),  he  received  the  support  of  the 
Republican  members  for  Speaker  of  the  House  in 
opposition  to  Col.  W.  R.  Morrison,  who  was 
elected.  He  sacrificed  a  large  share  of  his  prop- 
erty in  a  public-spirited  effort  to  build  up  a 
rolling  mill  at  East  St.  Louis,  being  reduced 
thereby  from  affluence  to  poverty  President 
Lincoln  appointed  him  an  Indian  Agent,  which 
took  him  to  the  Black  Hills  region,  where  he 
died,  some  years  after,  from  toil  and  exposure,  at 
the  age  of  73  years. 

JASPER  COUNTY,  in  the  eastern  part  of 
Southern  Illinois,  having  an  area  of  484  square 
miles,  and  a  population  (in  1910)  of  18,157.  It  was 
organized  in  1831  and  named  for  Sergeant  Jasper 
of  Revolutionary  fame.  The  county  was  placed  un- 
der township  organization  in  1860.  The  first  Board 
of  County  Commissioners  consisted  of  B.  Rey- 
nolds, W.  Richards  and  George  Mattingley.  The 
Embarras  River  crosses  the  county.  The  general 
surface  is  level,  although  gently  undulating  in 
some  portions.  Manufacturing  is  carried  on  in  a 
small  way;  but  the  people  are  principally  inter- 
ested in  agriculture,  the  chief  products  consisting 
of  wheat,  potatoes,  sorghum,  fruit  and  tobacco. 
"Wool-growing  is  an  important  industry.  Newton 
is  the  county-seat,  with  a  population  (in  1890)  of 
1,428. 

JATNE,  (Dr.)  Gershom,  early  physician,  was 
born  in  Orange  County,  N.  Y.,  October,  1791 ;  served 
as  Surgeon  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  came  to  Illinois 
in  1819,  settling  in  Springfield  in  1821;  was  one 
of  the  Commissioners  appointed  to  construct  the 


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first  State  Penitentiary  (1827),  and  one  of  the  first 
Commissioners  of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal. 
His  oldest  daughter  (Julia  Maria)  became  the 
wife  of  Senator  TrumbulL  Dr.  Jayne  died  at 
Springfield,  in  1867.— Dr.  William  (Jayne),  son  of 
the  preceding,  was  born  in  Springfield,  I1L,  Oct.  8, 
182G;  educated  by  private  tutors  and  at  Illinois 
College,  being  a  member  of  the  class  of  1847,  later 
receiving  the  degree  of  A.M.  He  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Phi  Alpha  Society  while  in  that 
institution ;  graduated  from  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  Missouri  State  University;  in  1860  was 
elected  State  Senator  for  Sangamon  County,  and, 
the  following  year,  was  appointed  by  President 
Lincoln  Governor  of  the  Territory  of  Dakota, 
later  serving  as  Delegate  in  Congress  from  that 
Territory.  In  1869  he  was  appointed  Pension 
Agent  for  Illinois,  also  served  for  four  terms  as 
Mayor  of  his  native  city,  and  is  now  Vice-Presi- 
dent  of  the  First  National  Bank,  Springfield 

JEFFERSON  COUNTY,  a  south-central  county, 
cut  off  from  Edwards  and  White  Counties  in 
1819,  when  it  was  separately  organized,  being 
named  in  honor  of  Thomas  Jefferson.  Its  area  is 
466  square  miles,  and  its  population  (1910),  29,111. 
The  Big  Muddy  River,  with  one  or  two  tributaries, 
flows  through  the  county  in  a  southerly  direc- 
tion. Along  tne  banks  of  streams  a  variety  of 
hardwood  timber  is  found.  The  railroad  facilities 
are  advantageous.  Tne  surface  Is  level  and  the 
soil  rich.  Cereals  and  truit  are  easily  produced. 
A  fine  bed  or  limestone  (seven  to  fifteen  feet 
thick)  crosses  the  middle  of  the  county.  It  has 
been  quarried  and  found  well  adapted  to  building 
purposes.  The  county  possesses  an  abundance  of 
running  water,  much  of  which  is  slightly  im- 
pregnated with  salt.  The  upper  coal  measure 
underlies  the  entire  county,  but  the  seam  is 
scarcely  more  than  two  reet  thick  at  any  point. 
The  chief  industry  is  agriculture,  though  lumber 
is  manufactured  to  some  extent.  Mount  Vernon, 
the  county-seat,  was  incorporated  as  a  city  in  1872. 
Its  population  in  1890  was  3,233.  It  has  several 
manufactories  and  is  the  seat  of  the  Appellate 
Court  for  the  Southern  Judicial  District  of  the 
State. 

JEFFERY,  Edward  Turner,  Railway  President 
and  Manager,  born  in  Liverpool,  Eng.,  April  6, 
1843,  his  father  being  an  engineer  in  the  British 
navy ;  about  1850  came  with  his  widowed  mother 
to  Wheeling,  Va  ,  and,  in  1856,  to  Chicago,  where 
he  secured  employment  as  office-boy  in  the 
machinery  department  of  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad.  Here  he  finally  became  an  apprentice 
and,  passing  through  various  grades  of  the  me- 


chanical department,  in  May,  1877,  became  General 
Superintendent  of  the  Road,  and,  in  1885,  General 
Manager  of  the  entire  line.  In  1889  he  withdrew 
from  the  Illinois  Central  and,  for  several  years 
past,  has  been  President  and  General  Manager  of 
the  Denver  &  Rio  Grande  Railway,  with  head- 
quarters at  Denver,  Colo.  Mr.  Jeffery's  career  as 
a  railway  man  has  been  one  of  the  most  conspicu- 
ous and  successful  in  the  history  of  American 
railroads 

JENKINS,  Alexander  M.,  Lieutenant-Governor 
(1834-36),  came  to  Illinois  in  his  youth  and  located 
in  Jackson  County,  being  for  a  time  a  resident  of 
Brownsville,  the  first  county-seat  of  Jackson 
County,  where  he  was  engaged  in  trade.  Later 
he  studied  law  and  became  eminent  in  his  pro- 
fession in  Southern  Illinois.  In  1830  Mr.  Jenkins 
was  elected  Representative  in  the  Seventh  General 
Assembly,  was  re-elected  in  1832,  serving  during 
his  second  term  as  Speaker  of  the  House,  and  took 
part  the  latter  year  in  the  Black  Hawk  War  as 
Captain  of  a  company.  In  1834  Mr.  Jenkins  was 
elected  Lieutenant-Governor  at  the  same  time 
with  Governor  Duncan,  though  on  an  opposing 
ticket,  but  resigned,  in  1836,  to  become  President 
of  the  first  Illinois  Central  Railroad  Company, 
which  was  chartered  that  year.  The  charter  of 
the  road  was  surrendered  in  1837,  when  the  State 
had  in  contemplation  the  policy  of  building  a 
system  of  roads  at  its  own  cost  For  a  time  he 
was  Receiver  of  Public  Moneys  in  the  Land  Office 
at  Edwardsville.  and,  in  1847,  was  elected  to  the 
State  Constitutional  Convention  of  that  year 
Other  positions  held  by  him  included  that  of  Jus- 
tice of  the  Circuit  Court  for  the  Third  Judicial 
Circuit,  to  which  he  was  elected  in  1859,  and 
re-elected  in  1861,  but  died  in  office,  February  13, 
1864.  Mr.  Jenkins  was  an  uncle  of  Gen.  John  A. 
Logan,  who  read  law  with  him  after  his  return 
from  the  Mexican  War. 

JEXXEY,  William  Le  Baron,  engineer  and 
architect,  born  at  Fairhaven,  Mass.,  Sept.  25, 
1832;  was  educated  at  Phillips  Academy,  An- 
dover,  graduating  in  1849;  at  17  took  a  trip 
around  the  world,  and,  after  a  year  spent  in  the 
Scientific  Department  of  Harvard  College,  took  a 
course  in  the  Ecole  Centrale  des  Artes  et  Manu- 
factures in  Paris,  graduating  in  1856.  He  then 
served  for  a  year  as  engineer  on  the  Tehuantepec 
Railroad,  and,  in  1861,  was  made  an  Aid  on  the 
staff  of  General  Grant,  being  transferred  the  next 
year  to  the  staff  of  General  Sherman,  with  whom 
lie  remained  three  years,  participating  in  many 
of  the  most  important  battles  of  the  war  in  the 
West.  Later,  he  was  engaged  in  the  preparation 


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of  maps  of  General  Sherman's  campaigns,  which 
were  published  in  the  "Memoirs"  of  the  latter. 
In  1868  he  located  in  Chicago,  and  afterward  gave 
his  attention  almost  solely  to  architecture,  the 
result  being  seen  in  some  of  Chicago's  most  note- 
worthy buildings.  Died  June  15,  1907. 

JERSEY  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  western 
portion  of  the  middle  division  of  the  State, 
bordering  on  the  Illinois  and  Mississippi  Rivers. 
Originally  a  part  of  Greene  County,  it  was  sepa- 
rately organized  in  1839,  with  an  area  of  360  square 
miles.  There  were  a  few  settlers  in  the  county 
as  early  as  1816-17  Jersey  ville,  the  county-seat, 
was  platted  in  1834,  a  majority  of  the  early  resi- 
dents being  natives  of,  or  at  least  emigrants  from, 
New  Jersey  The  mild  climate,  added  to  the 
character  of  the  soil,  is  especially  adapted  to 
fruit-growing  and  stock-raising  The  census  of 
1900  gave  the  population  of  the  county  as  14,612 
and  of  Jersey  ville,  3,517.  Grafton,  near  the 
junction  of  the  Mississippi  with  the  Illinois,  had 
a  population  of  927.  The  last  mentioned  town  is 
noted  for  its  stone  quarries,  which  employ  a 
number  of  men.  Pop.  (1910),  13,954. 

JERSEYYILLE,  a  city  and  county -seat  of  Jer- 
sey County,  the  point  of  junction  of  the  Chicago 
&  Alton  and  the  Chicago,  Peoria  &  St.  Louis 
Railways,  19  miles  north  of  Alton  and  45  miles 
north  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.  The  city  is  in  an  agri 
cultural  district,  but  has  manufactories  of  flour, 
plows,  carriages  and  wagons,  shoe  factory  and 
watch-making  machinery.  It  contains  a  hand- 
some courthouse,  completed  in  1894,  nine 
churches,  a  graded  public  school,  besides  a  sep- 
arate school  for  colored  children,  a  convent, 
library,  telephone  system,  electric  lights,  artesian 
wells,  and  one  paper,  daily  and  weekly.  Pop. 
(1900),  3,517;  (1910),  4,113. 

JO  DAVIESS  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  north- 
west corner  of  the  State;  has  an  area  of  650  square 
miles;  population  (1910),  22,657.  It  was  first 
explored  by  Le  Seuer,  who  reported  the  discovery 
of  lead  in  1700.  Another  Frenchman  (Bouthil- 
lier)  was  the  first  permanent  white  settler,  locat- 
ing on  the  site  of  the  present  city  of  Galena  in 
1820.  About  the  same  time  came  several  Ameri- 
can families;  a  trading  post  was  established,  and 
the  hamlet  was  known  as  Fredericks'  Point,  so 
called  after  one  of  the  pioneers.  In  1822  the 
Government  reserved  from  settlement  a  tract  10 
miles  square  along  the  Mississippi,  with  a  view  of 
controlling  the  mining  interest.  In  1823  mining 
privileges  were  granted  upon  a  royalty  of  one- 
sixth,  and  the  first  smelting  furnace  was  erected 
the  same  year.  Immigration  increased  rapidly 


and,  inside  of  three  years,  the  ''Point"  had  a  popu- 
lation of  150,  and  a  post-office  was  established 
with  a  fortnightly  mail  to  and  from  Vandalia, 
then  the  State  capital.  In  1827  county  organiza- 
tion was  effected,  the  county  being  named  in 
honor  of  Gen.  Joseph  Hamilton  Daviess,  who  was 
killed  in  the  Battle  of  Tippecanoe.  The  original 
tract,  however,  has  been  subdivided  until  it  now 
constitutes  nine  counties.  The  settlers  took  an 
active  part  in  both  the  Winnebago  and  Black 
Hawk  Wars.  In  1846-47  the  mineral  lands  were 
placed  on  the  market  by  the  Government,  and 
quickly  taken  by  corporations  and  individuals. 
The  scenery  is  varied,  and  the  soil  (particularly 
in  the  east)  well  suited  to  the  cultivation  of 
grain.  The  county  is  well  wooded  and  well 
watered,  and  thoroughly  drained  by  the  Fever 
and  Apple  Rivers.  The  name  Galena  was  given 
to  the  county-seat  (originally,  as  has  been  said, 
Fredericks'  Point)  by  Lieutenant  Thomas,  Gov- 
ernment Surveyor,  in  1827,  in  which  year  it  was 
platted.  Its  general  appearance  is  picturesque. 
Its  early  growth  was  extraordinary,  but  later 
(particularly  after  the  growth  of  Chicago)  it 
received  a  set-back.  In  1841  it  claimed  2,000 
population  and  was  incorporated ,  in  1870  it  had 
about  7,000  population,  and,  in  1900,  5,005.  The 
names  of  Grant,  Rawlins  and  E.  B.  Washburne 
are  associated  with  its  history.  Other  important 
towns  in  the  county  are  Warren  (population 
1,327),  East  Dubuque  (1,146)  and  Elizabeth  (659). 

JOHNSON,  Caleb  C.,  lawyer  and  legislator, 
was  born  in  Whiteside  County,  111. ,  May  23,  1844, 
educated  in  the  common  schools  and  at  the 
Military  Academy  at  Fulton,  111. ;  served  during 
the  Civil  War  in  the  Sixty-ninth  and  One  Hun- 
dred and  Fortieth  Regiments  Illinois  Volunteers ; 
in  1877  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and,  two  years 
later,  began  practice.  He  has  served  upon  the 
Board  of  Township  Supervisors  of  Whiteside 
County;  in  1884  was  elected  to  the  House  of 
Representatives  of  the  Thirty-fourth  General 
Assembly,  was  re-elected  in  1886,  and  again  in 
1896.  He  also  held  the  position  of  Deputy  Col- 
lector of  Internal  Revenue  for  his  District  during 
the  first  Cleveland  administration,  and  was  a 
delegate  to  the  Democratic  National  Convention 
of  1888. 

JOHNSON,  (Rev.)  Herrick,  clergyman  and 
educator,  was  born  near  Fonda,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  21, 
1832;  graduated  at  Hamilton  College,  1857,  and 
at  Auburn  Theological  Seminary,  1860;  held  Pres- 
byterian pastorates  in  Troy,  Pittsburg  and  Phila- 
delphia ;  in  1874  became  Professor  of  Homiletics 
and  Pastoral  Theology  in  Auburn  Theological 


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Seminary,  and,  in  1880,  accepted  a  pastorate  in 
Chicago,  also  becoming  Lecturer  on  Sacred  Rhet- 
oric in  McCormick  Theological  Seminary.  In 
1883  he  resigned  his  pastorate,  devoting  his  atten- 
tion thereafter  to  the  duties  of  his  professorship. 
He  was  Moderator  of  the  Presbyterian  General 
Assembly  at  Springfield,  in  1882,  and  has  served 
as  President,  for  many  years,  of  the  Presbyterian 
Church  Board  of  Aid  for  Colleges,  and  of  the 
Board  of  Trustees  of  Lake  Forest  University, 
Besides  many  periodical  articles,  he  has  published 
several  volumes  on  religious  subjects. 

JOHNSON,  Hosmer  A.,  M.D.,  LI.. I).,  physi- 
cian, was  born  near  Buffalo,  N  Y.,  Oct.  6,  1822; 
at  twelve  removed  to  a  farm  in  Lapeer  County, 
Mich.  In  spite  of  limited  school  privileges,  at 
eighteen  he  secured  a  teachers'  certificate,  and, 
by  teaching  in  the  winter  and  attending  an 
academy  in  the  summer,  prepared  for  college, 
entering  the  University  of  Michigan  in  1846  and 
graduating  in  1849.  In  1850  he  became  a  student 
of  medicine  at  Rush  Medical  College  in  Chicago, 
graduating  in  1852,  and  the  same  year  becoming 
Secretary  of  the  Cook  County  Medical  Society, 
and,  the  year  following,  associate  editor  of  "The 
Illinois  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal."  For 
three  years  he  was  a  member  of  the  faculty  of 
Rush,  but,  in  1858,  resigned  to  become  one  of  the 
founders  of  a  new  medical  school,  which  has  now 
become  a  part  of  Northwestern  University. 
During  the  Civil  War,  Dr.  Johnson  was  Chair- 
man of  the  State  Board  of  Medical  Examiners ; 
later  serving  upon  the  Board  of  Health  of  Chi- 
cago, and  upon  the  National  Board  of  Health.  He 
was  also  attending  physician  of  Cook  County 
Hospital  and  consulting  physician  of  the  Chicago 
Charitable  Eye  and  Ear  Infirmary.  At  the  time 
of  the  great  fire  of  1871,  he  was  one  of  the  Direct- 
ors of  the  Chicago  Relief  and  Aid  Society.  His 
connections  with  local,  State  and  National  Soci- 
eties and  organizations  (medical,  scientific,  social 
and  otherwise)  wero  very  numerous.  He  trav- 
eled extensively,  both  in  this  country  and  in 
Europe,  during  his  visits  to  the  latter  devoting 
much  time  to  the  study  of  foreign  sanitary  con- 
ditions, and  making  further  attainments  in  medi- 
cine and  surgery.  In  1883  the  degree  of  LL.D. 
was  conferred  upon  him  by  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity. During  his  later  years,  Dr  Johnson  was 
engaged  almost  wholly  in  consultations.  Died, 
Feb.  26,  1891. 

JOHNSON  COUNTY,  lies  in  the  southern  por- 
tion of  the  State,  and  is  one  of  the  smallest 
counties,  having  an  area  of  only  340  square  miles, 
and  a  population  (1910)  of  14.331— named  for  Col. 


Richard  M.  Johnson.  Its  organization  dates  back 
to  1812.  A  dividing  ridge  (forming  a  sort  of 
water  shed)  extends  from  east  to  west,  the 
waters  of  the  Cache  and  Bay  Rivers  running 
south,  and  those  of  the  Big  Muddy  and  Saline 
toward  the  north.  A  minor  coal  seam  of  variable 
thickness  (perhaps  a  spur  from  the  regular  coal- 
measures)  crops  out  here  and  there.  Sandstone 
and  limestone  are  abundant,  and,  under  cliffs 
along  the  bluffs,  saltpeter  has  been  obtained  in 
small  quantities.  Weak  copperas  springs  are 
numerous.  The  soil  is  rich,  the  principal  crops 
being  wheat,  corn  and  tobacco.  Cotton  is  raised 
for  home  consumption  and  fruit-culture  receives 
some  attention.  Vienna  is  the  county-seat,  with 
a  population,  in  1890,  of  828. 

JOHNSTON,  Noah,  pioneer  and  banker,  was 
born  in  Hardy  County,  Va.,  Dec.  20,  1799,  and, 
at  the  age  of  12  years,  emigrated  with  his  father 
to  Woodford  County,  Ky.  In  1824  he  removed 
to  Indiana,  and,  a  few  years  later,  to  Jefferson 
County,  111.,  where  he  began  farming.  He  sub- 
sequently engaged  in  merchandising,  but  proving 
unfortunate,  turned  his  attention  to  politics, 
serving  first  as  County  Commissioner  and  then  as 
County  Clerk.  In  1838  he  was  elected  to  the 
State  Senate  for  the  counties  of  Hamilton  and 
Jefferson,  serving  four  years;  was  Enrolling  and 
Engrossing  Clerk  of  the  Senate  during  the  session 
of  1844-45,  and,  in  1846,  elected  Representative  in 
the  Fifteenth  General  Assembly.  The  following 
year  he  was  made  Paymaster  in  the  United  States 
Army,  serving  through  the  Mexican  War;  in 
1852  served  with  Abraham  Lincoln  and  Judge 
Hugh  T.  Dickey  of  Chicago,  on  a  Commission 
appointed  to  investigate  claims  against  the  State 
for  the  construction  of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan 
Canal,  and,  in  1854,  was  appointed  Clerk  of  the 
Supreme  Court  for  the  Third  Division,  being 
elected  to  the  same  position  in  1861.  Other  posi- 
tions held  by  him  included  those  of  Deputy  United 
States  Marshal  under  the  administration  of  Presi- 
dent Polk,  Commissioner  to  superintend  the  con- 
struction of  the  Supreme  Court  Building  at  Mount 
Vernon,  and  Postmaster  of  that  city.  He  was 
also  elected  Representative  again  in  1866.  The 
later  years  of  his  life  were  spent  as  President  of 
the  Mount  Vernon  National  Bank.  Died,  No- 
vember, 1891,  in  his  92d  year. 

JOLIET,  the  county-seat  of  Will  County,  situ- 
ated in  the  Des  Plaines  River  Valley,  36  miles 
southwest  of  Chicago,  on  the  Illinois  &  Michigan 
Canal,  and  the  intersecting  point  of  five  lines  of 
railway.  A  good  quality  of  calcareous  building 
stone  underlies  the  entire  region,  and  is  exten- 


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si vely  quarried,  Gravel,  sand,  and  clay  are  also 
easily  obtained  in  considerable  quantities. 
Within  twenty  miles  are  productive  coal  mines. 
The  Northern  Illinois  Penitentiary  and  a  female 
penal  institute  stand  just  outside  the  city  limits 
on  the  north.  Joliet  is  an  important  manufac- 
turing center,  the  census  of  1900  crediting  the 
city  with  455  establishments,  having  $15,452,196 
capital,  employing  6,523  hands,  paying  $3,957,529 
wages  and  §17,891,836  for  raw  material,  turning 
out  an  annual  product  valued  at  527,765,104  The 
leading  industries  are  the  manufacture  of  foundry 
and  machine-shop  products,  engines,  agricultural 
implements,  pig-iron.  Bessemer  steel,  steel 
bridges,  rods,  tin  cans,  wallpaper,  matches,  beer, 
saddles,  paint,  furniture,  pianos,  and  stoves, 
besides  quarrying  and  stone  cutting.  The  Chi- 
cago Drainage  Canal  supplies  valuable  water- 
power.  The  city  has  many  handsome  public 
buildings  and  private  residences,  among  the 
former  being  four  high  schools,  Government 
postoffice  building,  two  public  libraries,  and  two 
public  hospitals.  It  also  has  two  public  and  two 
school  parks,  three  daily  and  three  weekly  papers. 
Pop.  (1890),  23,264;  (1900),  29,353;  (1910),  34,670. 

JOLIET,  AURORA  &  NORTHERN  RAIL- 
WAY. (See  Elgin,  Joliet  &  Eastern  Railway.) 

JOLIET,  Louis,  a  French  explorer,  born  at 
Quebec,  Canada,  Sept.  21,  1645,  educated  at  the 
Jesuits'  College,  and  early  engaged  in  the  fur- 
trade.  In  1669  he  was  sent  to  investigate  the 
copper  mines  on  Lake  Superior,  but  his  most 
important  servioe  began  in  1673,  when  Frontenao 
commissioned  him  to  explore.  Starting  from  the 
missionary  station  of  St.  Ignace,  with  Father 
Marquette,  he  went  up  the  Fox  River  within  ths 
present  State  of  Wisconsin  and  down  the  Wis- 
consin to  the  Mississippi,  which  he  descended  as 
far  as  the  mouth  of  the  Arkansas.  He  was  the 
first  to  discover  that  the  Mississippi  flows  to  the 
Gulf  rather  than  to  the  Pacific.  He  returned  to 
Green  Bay  via  the  Illinois  River,  and  (as  believed) 
the  sites  of  the  present  cities  of  Joliet  and  Chicago. 
Although  later  appointed  royal  hydrographer 
and  given  the  island  of  Anticosti,  he  never 
revisited  the  Mississippi.  Some  historians  assert 
that  this  was  largely  due  to  the  influential  jeal- 
ousy of  La  Salle.  Died,  in  Canada,  in  May,  1700. 

JOLIET  &  BLUE  ISLAND  RAILWAY,  con 
stituting  a  part  of  and  operated  by  the  Calumet 
&  Blue  Island— a  belt  line,  21  miles  in  length,  of 
standard  gauge  and  laid  with  60-lb.  steel  rails. 
The  company  provides  terminal  facilities  at  Joliet, 
although  originally  projected  to  merely  run  from 
that  city  to  a  connection  with  the  Calumet  & 


Blue  Island  Railway.  The  capital  stock  author- 
ized and  paid  in  is  $100,000.  The  company's 
general  offices  are  in  Chicago. 

JOLIET  &  NORTHERN  INDIANA  RAIL- 
ROAD,  a  road  running  from  Lake,  Ind.,  to  Joliet, 
111.,  45  miles  (of  which  29  miles  are  in  Illinois), 
and  leased  in  perpetuity,  from  Sept.  7,  1854  (the 
date  of  completion),  to  the  Michigan  Central  Rail- 
road Company,  which  owns  nearly  all  its  stock. 
Its  capital  stock  is  8300,000,  and  its  funded  debt, 
$80,000.  Other  forms  of  indebtedness  swell  the 
total  amount  of  capital  invested  (1895)  to  $1,- 
143,201.  Total  earnings  and  income  in  Illinois  in 
1894,  $89,017;  total  expenditures,  $62,370.  (See 
Michigan  Central  Railroad.) 

JONES,  Alfred  M.,  politician  and  legislator, 
was  born  in  New  Hampshire,  Feb.  5,  1837,  brought 
to  McIIenry  County,  111.,  at  10  years  of  age,  and, 
at  16,  began  life  in  the  pineries  and  engaged  in 
rafting  on  the  Mississippi.  Then,  after  two 
winters  in  school  at  Rockxord,  and  a  short  season 
in  teaching,  he  spent  a  year  in  the  book  and 
jewelry  business  at  Warren,  Jo  Daviess  County. 
The  following  year  (1858)  he  made  a  trip  to  Pike's 
Peak,  but  meeting  disappointment  in  his  expec- 
tations in  regard  to  mining,  returned  almost 
immediately.  The  next  few  years  were  spent  in 
various  occupations,  including  law  and  real 
estate  business,  until  1872,  when  he  was  elected 
to  the  Twenty-eighth  General  Assembly,.  €,nd 
re-elected  two  years  later.  Other  positions 
successively  held  by  him  were  those  of  Commis- 
sioner of  the  Joliet  Penitentiary,  Collector  of 
Internal  Revenue  for  the  Sterling  District,  and 
United  States  Marshal  for  the  Northern  District 
of  Illinois.  He  was,  for  fourteen  years,  a  member 
of  the  Republican  State  Central  Committee,  dur- 
ing twelve  years  of  that  period  being  its  chair- 
man. From  1885,  Mr.  Jones  was  manager  of  the 
Bethesda  Mineral  Springs  at  Waukesha,  Wis., 
but  found  time  to  make  his  mark  in  Wisconsin 
politics  also.  Died  July  8,  1910. 

JONES,  John  Rice,  first  English  lawyer  in  Illi- 
nois, was  born  in  Wales,  Feb.  11,  1759 ;  educated 
at  Oxford  in  medicine  and  law,  and,  after  prac- 
ticing the  latter  in  London  for  a  short  time,  came 
to  America  in  1784,  spending  two  years  in  Phila- 
delphia, where  he  made  the  acquaintance  of 
Dr.  Benjamin  Rush  and  Benjamin  Franklin;  in 
1786,  having  reached  the  Falls  of  the  Ohio,  he 
joined  Col.  George  Rogers  Clark's  expedition 
against  the  Indians  on  the  Wabash.  This  having 
partially  failed  through  the  discontent  and 
desertion  of  the  troops,  he  remained  at  Vincennes 
four  years,  part  of  the  time  as  Commissary- 


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General  of  the  garrison  there.  In  1790  he  went  to 
Kaskaskia,  but  eleven  years  later  returned  to  Vin- 
cennes,  being  commissioned  the  same  year  by 
Gov.  William  Henry  Harrison,  Attorney-General 
of  Indiana  Territory,  and,  in  1805,  becoming  a 
member  of  the  first  Legislative  Council.  He  was 
Secretary  of  the  convention  at  Vincennes,  in 
December,  1802,  which  memorialized  Congress  to 
suspend,  for  ten  years,  the  article  in  the  Ordi- 
nance of  1787  forbidding  slavery  in  the  Northwest 
Territory.  In  1808  he  removed  a  second  time  to 
Kaskaskia,  remaining  two  years,  when  he  located 
within  the  present  limits  of  the  State  of  Missouri 
(then  the  Territory  of  Louisiana),  residing  suc- 
cessively at  St.  Genevieve,  St.  Louis  and  Potosi, 
at  the  latter  place  acquiring  large  interests  in 
mineral  lands.  He  became  prominent  in  Mis- 
souri politics,  served  as  a  member  of  the  Conven- 
tion which  framed  the  first  State  Constitution, 
was  a  prominent  candidate  for  United  States 
Senator  before  the  first  Legislature,  and  finally 
elected  by  the  same  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  dying  in  office  at  St.  Louis,  Feb.  1,  1824. 
He  appears  to  have  enjoyed  an  extensive  practice 
among  the  early  residents,  as  shown  by  the  fact 
that,  the  year  of  his  return  to  Kaskaskia,  he  paid 
taxes  on  more  than  16,000  acres  of  land  in  Monroe 
County,  to  say  nothing  of  his  possessions  about 
Vincennes  and  his  subsequent  acquisitions  in 
Missouri.  He  also  prepared  the  first  revision  of 
laws  for  Indiana  Territory  when  Illinois  com- 
posed a  part  of  it. — Rice  (Jones),  son  of  the  pre- 
ceding by  a  first  marriage,  was  born  in  Wales, 
Sept.  28,  1781;  came  to  America  with  his  par- 
ents, and  was  educated  at  Transylvania  University 
and  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  taking  a 
medical  degree  at  the  latter,  but  later  studying 
law  at  Litchfield,  Conn.,  and  locating  at  Kaskas- 
kia in  1806.  Described  as  a  young  man  of  brilliant 
talents,  he  took  a  prominent  part  in  politics  and, 
at  a  special  election  held  in  September,  1808,  was 
elected  to  the  Indiana  Territorial  Legislature,  by 
the  party  known  as  "Divisionists'' — i.  e.,  in  favor 
of  the  division  of  the  Territory — which  proved 
successful  in  the  organization  of  Illinois  Territory 
the  following  year.  Bitterness  engendered  in 
this  contest  led  to  a  challenge  from  Shadrach 
Bond  (afterwards  first  Governor  of  the  State)> 
which  Jones  accepted;  but  the  affair  was  ami- 
cably adjusted  on  the  field  without  an  exchange  of 
shots.  One  Dr.  James  Dunlap,  who  had  been 
Bond's  second,  expressed  dissatisfaction  with  the 
settlement;  a  bitter  factional  fight  was  main- 
tained between  the  friends  of  the  respective 
parties,  ending  in  the  assassination  of  Jones,  who 


was  shot  by  Dunlap  on  the  street  in  Kaskaskia, 
Dec.  7,  1808 — Jones  dying  in  a  few  minutes, 
while  Dunlap  fled,  ending  his  days  in  Texas. — 
Gen.  John  Rice  (Jones),  Jr.,  another  son,  was 
born  at  Kaskaskia,  Jan.  8,  1792,  served  under 
Capt.  Henry  Dodge  in  the  War  of  1812,  and,  in 
1831,  went  to  Texas,  where  he  bore  a  conspicuous 
part  in  securing  the  independence  of  that  State 
from  Mexico,  dying  there  in  1845 — the  year  of  its 
annexation  to  the  United  States.  —  'George 
Wallace  (Jones),  fourth  son  of  John  Rice  Jones 
(1st),  was  born  at  Vincennes,  Indiana  Territory, 
April  12,  1804;  graduated  at  Transylvania  Uni- 
versity, in  1825;  served  as  Clerk  of  the  United 
States  District  Court  in  Missouri  in  1826,  and  as 
Aid  to  Gen.  Dodge  in  the  Black  Hawk  War;  in 
1834  was  elected  Delegate  in  Congress  from 
Michigan  Territory  (then  including  the  present 
States  of  Michigan,  Wisconsin  and  Iowa),  later 
serving  two  terms  as  Delegate  from  Iowa  Terri- 
tory, and,  on  its  admission  as  a  State,  being  elected 
one  of  the  first  United  States  Senators  and  re- 
elected  in  1852 ;  in  1859,  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Buchanan  Minister  to  Bogota,  Colombia, 
but  recalled  in  1861  on  account  of  a  letter  to 
Jefferson  Davis  expressing  sympathy  with  the 
cause  of  the  South,  and  was  imprisoned  for  two 
months  in  Fort  Lafayette.  In  1838  he  was  the  sec- 
ond of  Senator  Cilley  in  the  famous  Cilley-Graves 
duel  near  Washington,  which  resulted  in  the 
death  of  the  former.  After  his  retirement  from 
office,  General  Jones'  residence  was  at  Dubuque, 
Iowa,  where  he  died,  July  22,  1896,  in  the  93d 
year  of  his  age. 

JONES,  Micliae',  early  politician,  was  a  Penn- 
sylvanian  by  birth,  who  came  to  Illinois  in  Terri- 
torial days,  and,  as  early  as  1809,  was  Register  of 
the  Land  Office  at  Kaskaskia;  afterwards 
removed  to  Shawneetown  and  represented 
Gallatin  County  as  a  Delegate  to  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  of  1818  and  as  Senator  in  the 
first  four  General  Assemblies,  and  also  as  Repre- 
sentative in  the  Eighth.  He  was  a  candidate  for 
United  States  Senator  in  1819,  but  was  defeated 
by  Governor  Edwards,  and  was  a  Presidential 
Elector  in  1820.  He  is  represented  to  have  been  a 
man  of  considerable  ability  but  of  bitter  passions, 
a  supporter  of  the  scheme  for  a  pro-slavery  con- 
stitution and  a  bitter  opponent  of  Governor 
Edwards. 

JONES,  J.  Russell,  capitalist,  was  born  at 
Conneaut,  Ashtabula  County,  Ohio,  Feb.  17,  1823; 
after  spending  two  years  as  clerk  in  a  store  in  his 
native  town,  pame  to  Chicago  in  1838;  spent  the 
next  two  years  at  Rockton,  when  he  accepted  a 


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clerkship  in  a  leading  mercantile  establishment 
at  Galena,  finally  being  advanced  to  a  partner- 
ship, which  was  dissolved  in  1856.  In  1860  he 
was  elected,  as  a  Republican,  Representative  in 
the  Twenty-second  General  Assembly,  and,  in 
March  following,  was  appointed  by  President 
Lincoln  United  States  Marshal  for  the  Northern 
District  of  Illinois.  In  1869,  by  appointment  of 
President  Grant,  he  became  Minister  to  Belgium, 
remaining  in  office' until  1875,  when  he  resigned 
and  returned  to  Chicago.  Subsequently  he 
declined  the  position  of  Secretary  of  the  Interior, 
but  was  appointed  Collector  of  the  Port  of  Chi- 
cago, from  which  he  retired  in  1888.  Mr.  Jones 
served  as  member  of  the  National  Republican 
Committee  for  Illinois  in  1868.  In  1863  he  organ- 
ized the  West  Division  Street  Railway,  laying 
the  foundation  of  ample  fortune.  Died  Apr.  11,  1909. 
JONES,  William,  pioneer  merchant,  was  born 
at  Charlemont,  Mass.,  Oct.  22,  1789,  but  spent  his 
boyhood  and  early  manhood  in  New  York  State, 
ultimately  locating  at  Buffalo,  where  he  engaged 
in  business  as  a  grocer,  and  also  held  various 
public  positions.  In  1831  he  made  a  tour  of 
observation  westward  by  way  of  Detroit,  finally 
reaching  Fort  Dearborn,  which  he  again  visited 
in  1832  and  in  '33,  making  small  investments  eacli 
time  in  real  estate,  which  afterwards  appreciated 
immensely  in  value.  In  1834,  in  partnership 
with  Byram  King  of  Buffalo,  Mr.  Jones  engaged 
in  the  stove  and  hardware  business,  founding  in 
Chicago  the  firm  of  Jones  &  King,  and  the  next 
year  brought  his  family.  While  he  never  held 
any  important  public  office,  he  was  one  of  the 
most  prominent  of  those  early  residents  of  Chicago 
through  whose  enterprise  and  public  spirit  the 
city  was  made  to  prosper.  He  held  the  office  of 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  served  in  the  City  Council, 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  city  fire  depart- 
ment, served  for  twelve  years  (1840-52)  on  the 
Board  of  School  Inspectors  (for  a  considerable 
time  as  its  President),  and  contributed  liberally 
to  the  cause  of  education,  including  gifts  of 
§50,000  to  the  old  Chicago  University,  of  which 
he  was  a  Trustee  and,  for  some  time,  President  of 
its  Executive  Committee.  Died,  Jan.  18,  1868.— 
Fernando  (Jones),  son  of  the  preceding,  was  born 
at  Forestville,  Chautauqua  County,  N.  Y.,  May 
26,  1820,  having,  for  some  time  in  his  boyhood, 
Millard  Fillmore  (afterwards  President)  as  his 
teacher  at  Buffalo,  and,  still  later,  Reuben  E.  Fen- 
ton  (afterwards  Governor  and  a  United  States 
Senator)  as  classmate.  After  coming  to  Chicago, 
in  1835,  he  was  employed  for  some  time  as  a  clerk 
in  Government  offices  and  by  the  Trustees  of  the 


Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal;  spent  a  season  at 
Canandaigua  Academy,  N.  Y. ;  edited  a  periodical 
at  Jackson,  Mich.,  for  a  year  or  two,  but  finally 
coming  to  Chicago,  opened  an  abstract  and  title 
office,  in  which  he  was  engaged  at  the  time  of  the 
fire  of  1871,  and  which,  by  consolidation  with  two 
other  firms,  became  the  foundation  of  the  Title 
Guarantee  and  Trust  Company,  which  still  plays 
an  important  part  in  the  real-estate  business  of 
Chicago.  Mr.  Jones  held  various  public  positions, 
including  that  of  Trustee  of  Hospital  for  the  Insane 
at  Jacksonville,  and  for  years  was  a  Trustee  of 
University  of  Chicago.  Died  Nov.  8,  1911. — Kiler 
Kent  (Jones),  another  son,  was  one  of  the  found- 
ers of  "The  Gem  of  the  Prairies"  newspaper,  out 
of  which  grew  "The  Chicago  Tribune";  was  for 
many  years  a  citizen  of  Quincy,  111.,  and  promi- 
nent member  of  the  Republican  State  Central 
Committee,  and,  for  a  time,  one  of  the  publishers 
of  "The  PrairiQ  Farmer."  Died,  in  Quincy, 
August  20,  1886. 

JONESBORO,  the  county -seat  of  Union  County, 
situated  about  a  mile  west  of  the  line  of  the  Illi- 
nois Central  Railroad.  It  is  some  30  miles  north 
of  Cairo,  with  which  it  is  connected  by  the  Mobile 
&  Ohio  R.  R.  It  stands  in  the  center  of  a  fertile 
territory,  largely  devoted  to  fruit-growing,  and  is 
an  important  shipping-point  for  fruit  and  early 
vegetables;  has  a  silica  mill,  pickle  factory  and  a 
bank.  There  are  also  four  churches,  and  one 
weekly  newspaper,  as  well  as  a  graded  school. 
Population  (1900),  1,130;  (1910),  1,169. 

JOSLYN,  Merritt  L.,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Livingston  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1827,  came  to  Illi- 
nois in  1839,  his  father  settling  in  McHenry 
County,  where  the  son,  on  arriving  at  manhood, 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  the  law.  The  latter 
became  prominent  in  political  circles  and,  in 
1856,  was  a  Buchanan  Presidential  Elector.  On 
the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he  allied  himself 
with  the  Republican  party ;  served  as  a  Captain 
in  the  Thirty-sixth  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry, 
and,  in  1864,  was  elected  to  the  Twenty-fourth 
General  Assembly  from  McHenry  County,  later 
serving  as  Senator  during  the  sessions  of  the 
Thirtieth  and  Thirty-first  Assemblies  (1876-80). 
After  the  death  of  President  Garfield,  he  was 
appointed  by  President  Arthur  Assistant  Secre- 
tary of  the  Interior,  serving  to  the  close  of  the 
administration.  Returning  to  his  home  at  Wood- 
stock, 111.,  he  resumed  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion, and,  from  1889,  served  as  Master  in  Chancery 
for  McHenry  County.  Died  Oct.  16,  1904. 

JOUETT,  Charles,  Chicago's  first  lawyer,  was 
born  in  Virginia  in  1772,  studied  law  at  Charlottes- 


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ville  in  that  State;  in  1802  was  appointed  by 
President  Jefferson  Indian  Agent  at  Detroit  and, 
in  1805,  acted  as  Commissioner  in  conducting  a 
treaty  with  the  Wyandottes,  Ottawas  and  other 
Indians  of  Northwestern  Ohio  and  Michigan  at 
Maumee  City,  Ohio.  In  the  fall  of  the  latter  year 
he  was  appointed  Indian  Agent  at  Fort  Dearborn, 
serving  there  until  the  year  before  the  Fort  Dear- 
born Massacre.  Removing  to  Mercer  County, 
Ky.,  in  1811,  he  was  elected  to  a  Judgeship  there, 
but,  in  1815,  was  reappointed  by  President  Madi- 
son Indian  Agent  at  Fort  Dearborn,  remaining 
until  1818,  when  he  again  returned  to  Kentucky. 
In  1819  he  was  appointed  to  a  United  States 
Judgeship  in  the  newly  organized  Territory  of 
Arkansas,  but  remained  only  a  few  months,  when 
he  resumed  his  residence  in  Kentucky,  dying 
there,  May  28,  1834. 

JOURNALISM.  (See  Newspapers,  Early.) 
JUDD,  Norman  Buel,  lawyer,  legislator,  For- 
eign Minister,  was  born  at  Rome,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  10, 
1815,  where  he  read  law  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar.  In  1836  he  removed  to  Chicago  and  com- 
menced practice  in  the  (then)  frontier  settle- 
ment. He  early  rose  to  a  position  of  prominence 
and  influence  in  public  affairs,  holding  various 
municipal  offices  and  being  a  member  of  the 
State  Senate  from  1844  to  1860  continuously.  In 
1860  he  was  a  Delegate-at-large  to  the  Republican 
National  Convention,  and,  in  1861,  President  Lin- 
coln appointed  him  Minister  Plenipotentiary  to 
Prussia,  where  he  represented  this  country  for 
four  years.  He  was  a  warm  personal  friend  of 
Lincoln,  and  accompanied  him  on  his  memorable 
journey  from  Springfield  to  Washington  in  1861. 
In  1870  he  was  elected  to  the  Forty-first  Congress. 
Died,  at  Chicago,  Nov.  10,  1878. 

JUDD,  S.  Corning,  lawyer  and  politician,  born 
in  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  July  21,  1827;  was 
educated  at  Aurora  Academy,  taught  for  a  time  in 
Canada  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  New  York 
in  1848;  edited  "The  Syracuse  Daily  Star"  in  1849, 
and,  in  1850,  accepted  a  position  in  the  Interior 
Department  in  Washington.  Later,  he  resumed 
his  place  upon  "The  Star,"  but,  in  1854,  removed 
to  Lewistown,  Fulton  County,  111.,  and  began 
practice  with  his  brother-in-law,  the  late  W  C. 
Goudy.  In  1873  he  removed  to  Chicago,  entering 
into  partnership  with  William  Fitzhugh  White- 
house,  son  of  Bishop  Whitehouse,  and  became 
prominent  in  connection  with  some  ecclesiastical 
trials  which  followed.  In  1SGO  lie  was  a  Demo- 
cratic candidate  for  Presidential  Elector  and, 
during  the  war,  was  a  determined  opponent  of 
the  war  policy  of  the  Government,  as  such  mak- 


ing an  unsuccessful  campaign  for  Lieutenant- 
Governor  in  1864.  In  1885  lie  was  appointed 
Postmaster  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  serving  until 
1889.  Died,  in  Chicago,  Sept.  22,  1895. 

JUDICIAL  SYSTEM,  THE.  The  Constitution 
of  1818  vested  the  judicial  power  of  the  State  in 
one  Supreme  Court,  and  sucli  inferior  courts  as 
the  Legislature  might  establish.  The  former 
consisted  of  one  Chief  Justice  and  three  Associ- 
ates, appointed  by  joint  ballot  of  the  Legislature ; 
but,  until  1825,  when  a  new  act  went  into  effect, 
they  were  required  to  perform  circuit  duties  in 
the  several  counties,  while  exercising  appellate 
jurisdiction  in  their  united  capacity  In  1824  the 
Legislature  divided  the  State  into  five  circuits, 
appointing  one  Circuit  Judge  for  each,  but,  two 
years  later,  these  were  legislated  out  of  office,  and 
circuit  court  duty  again  devolved  upon  the 
Supreme  Judges,  the  State  being  divided  into 
four  circuits.  In  1829  a  new  act  authorized  the 
appointment  of  one  Circuit  Judge,  who  was 
assigned  to  duty  in  the  territory  northwest  of  the 
Illinois  River,  the  Supreme  Justices  continuing 
to  perform  circuit  duty  in  the  four  other  circuits. 
This  arrangement  continued  until  1835,  when  the 
State  was  divided  into  six  judicial  circuits,  and, 
five  additional  Circuit  Judges  having  been 
elected,  the  Supreme  Judges  were  again  relieved 
from  circuit  court  service.  After  this  no  mate- 
rial changes  occurred  except  in  the  increase  of  the 
number  of  circuits  until  1841,  the  whole  number 
then  being  nine.  At  this  time  political  reasons 
led  to  an  entire  reorganization  of  the  courts.  An 
•  act  passed  Feb.  10,  1841,  repealed  all  laws  author- 
izing the  election  of  Circuit  Judges,  and  provided 
for  the  appointment  of  five  additional  Associate 
Judges  of  the  Supreme  Court,  making  nine  in 
all;  and,  for  a  third  time,  circuit  duties  devolved 
upon  the  Supreme  Court  Judges,  the  State  being 
divided  at  the  same  time  into  nine  circuits. 

By  the  adoption  of  the  Constitution  of  1848  the 
judiciary  system  underwent  an  entire  change,  all 
judicial  officers  being  made  elective  by  the 
people.  The  Constitution  provided  for  a  Supreme 
Court,  consisting  of  three  Judges,  Circuit  Courts. 
County  Courts,  and  courts  to  be  held  by  Justices 
of  the  Peace.  In  addition  to  these,  the  Legisla- 
ture had  the  power  to  create  inferior  civil  and 
criminal  courts  in  cities,  but  only  upon  a  uniform 
plan.  For  the  election  of  Supreme  Judges,  the 
State  was  divided  into  three  Grand  Judicial  Divi- 
sions. The  Legislature  might,  however,  if  it  saw 
fit,  provide  for  the  election  of  all  three  Judges  on 
a  general  ticket,  to  be  voted  throughout  the 
State-at-large ;  but  this  power  was  never  exer- 


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cised.  Appeals  lay  from  the  Circuit  Courts  to  the 
Supreme  Court  for  the  particular  division  in 
which  the  county  might  be  located,  although,  by 
unanimous  consent  of  all  parties  in  interest,  an 
appeal  might  be  transferred  to  another  district. 
Nine  Circuit  Courts  were  established,  but  the 
number  might  be  increased  at  the  discretion  of 
the  General  Assembly.  Availing  itself  of  its 
constitutional  power  and  providing  for  the  needs 
of  a  rapidly"  growing  community,  the  Legislature 
gradually  increased  the  number  of  circuits  to 
thirty.  The  term  of  office  for  Supreme  Court 
Judges  was  nine,  and,  for  Circuit  Judges,  six 
years.  Vacancies  were  to  be  filled  by  popular 
election,  unless  the  unexpired  term  of  the 
deceased  or  retiring  incumbent  was  less  than  one 
year,  in  which  case  the  Governor  was  authorized 
to  appoint.  Circuit  Courts  were  vested  with 
appellate  jurisdiction  from  inferior  tribunals,  and 
each  was  required  to  hold  at  least  two  terms 
annually  in  each  county,  as  might  be  fixed  by 
statute. 

The  Constitution  of  1870,  without  changing  the 
mode  of  election  or  term  of  office,  made  several 
changes  adapted  to  altered  conditions.  As 
regards  the  Supreme  Court,  the  three  Grand 
Divisions  were  retained,  but  the  number  of 
Judges  was  increased  to  seven,  chosen  from  a  like 
number  of  districts,  but  sitting  together  to  con- 
stitute a  full  court,  of  which  four  members  con- 
stitute a  quorum.  A  Chief  Justice  is  chosen  by 
the  Court,  and  is  usually  one  of  the  Judges 
nearing  the  expiration  of  his  term.  The  minor 
officers  include  a  Reporter  of  Decisions,  and  one 
Clerk  in  each  Division.  By  an  act  passed  in  1897, 
the  three  Supreme  Court  Divisions  were  consoli- 
dated in  one,  the  Court  being  required  to  hold  its 
sittings  in  Springfield,  and  hereafter  only  one 
Clerk  will  be  elected  instead  of  three  as  hereto- 
fore. The  salaries  of  Justices  of  the  Supreme 
Court  are  fixed  by  law  at  $5,000  each. 

The  State  was  divided  in  1873  into  twenty-seven 
circuits  (Cook  County  being  a  circuit  by  itself), 
and  one  or  more  terms  of  the  circuit  court  are 
required  to  be  held  each  year  in  each  county  in 
the  State.  The  jurisdiction  of  the  Circuit  Courts 
is  both  original  and  appellate,  and  includes  mat- 
ters civil  and  criminal,  in  law  and  in  equity. 
The  Judges  are  elected  by  districts,  and  hold  office 
for  six  years  In  1877  the  State  was  divided  into 
thirteen  judicial  circuits  (exclusive  of  Cook 
County),  but  without  reducing  the  number  of 
Judges  (twenty-six)  already  in  office,  and  the 
election  of  one  additional  Judge  (to  serve  two 
years)  was  ordered  in  each  district,  thus  increas- 


ing the  number  of  Judges  to  thirty-nine.  Again 
in  1897  the  Legislature  passed  an  act  increasing 
the  number  of  judicial  circuits,  exclusive  of  Cook 
County,  to  seventeen,  while  the  number  of 
Judges  in  each  circuit  remained  the  same,  so 
that  the  whole  number  of  Judges  elected  that 
year  outside  of  Cook  County  was  fifty-one.  The 
salaries  of  Circuit  Judges  are  $3,500  per  year, 
except  in  Cook  County,  where  they  are  $7,000. 
The  Constitution  also  provided  for  the  organiza- 
tion of  Appellate  Courts  after  the  year  1874,  hav- 
ing uniform  jurisdiction  in  districts  created  for 
that  purpose.  These  courts  are  a  connecting 
link  between  the  Circuit  and  the  Supreme  Courts, 
and  greatly  relieve  the  crowded  calendar  of  the 
latter.  In  1877  the  Legislature  established  four 
of  these  tribunals :  one  for  the  County  of  Cook ; 
one  to  include  all  the  Northern  Grand  Division 
except  Cook  County;  the  third  to  embrace  the 
Central  Grand  Division,  and  the  fourth  the  South- 
ern. Each  Appellate  Court  is  held  by  three  Cir- 
cuit Court  Judges,  named  by  the  Judges  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  each  assignment  covering  three 
years,  and  no  Judge  either  allowed  to  receive 
extra  compensation  or  sit  in  review  of  his  own 
rulings  or  decisions.  Two  terms  are  held  in  each 
District  every  year,  and  these  courts  have  no 
original  jurisdiction. 

COOK  COCNTY. — The  judicial  system  of  Cook 
County  is  different  from  that  of  the  rest  of  the 
State.  The  Constitution  of  1870  made  the  county 
an  independent  district,  and  exempted  it  from 
being  subject  to  any  subsequent  redistricting. 
The  bench  of  the  Circuit  Court  in  Cook  County, 
at  first  fixed  at  five  Judges,  has  been  increased 
under  the  Constitution  to  fourteen,  who  receive 
additional  compensation  from  the  county  treas- 
ury. The  Legislature  has  the  constitutional 
right  to  increase  the  number  of  Judges  according 
to  population.  In  1849  the  Legislature  estab- 
lished the  Cook  County  Court  of  Common  Pleas. 
Later,  this  became  the  Superior  Court  of  Cook 
County,  which  now  (1898)  consists  of  thirteen 
Judges.  For  this  court  there  exists  the  same 
constitutional  provision  relative  to  an  increase  of 
Judges  as  in  the  case  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  Cook 
County. 

JUDY,  Jacob,  pioneer,  a  native  of  Switzer- 
land, who,  having  come  to  the  United  States  at 
an  early  day,  remained  some  years  in  Maryland, 
when,  in  1786,  he  started  west,  spending  two 
years  near  Louisville,  Ky.,  finally  arriving  at 
Kaskaskia,  111.,  in  1788.  In  1792  he  removed  to 
New  Design,  in  Monroe  County,  and,  in  1800, 
located  within  the  present  limits  of  Madison 


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County,  where  he  died  in  1807. — Samuel  (Judy), 
son  of  the  preceding,  born  August  19,  1773,  was 
brought  by  his  father  to  Illinois  in  1788,  and  after- 
wards became  prominent  in  political  affairs  and 
famous  as  an  Indian  fighter.  On  the  organization 
of  Madison  County  he  became  one  of  the  first 
County  Commissioners,  serving  many  years.  He 
also  commanded  a  body  of  "Rangers"  in  the 
Indian  campaigns  during  the  War  of  1812,  gain- 
ing the  title  of  Colonel,  and  served  as  a  member 
from  Madison  County  in  the  Second  Territorial 
Council  (1814-15).  Previous  to  1811  he  built  the 
first  brick  house  within  the  limits  of  Madison 
County,  which  still  stood,  not  many  years  since, 
a  few  miles  from  Edwardsville.  Colonel  Judy 
died  in  1838.— Jacob  (Judy),  eldest  son  of  Samuel, 
was  Register  of  the  Land  Office  at  Edwardsville, 
1845-49.— Thomas  (Judy),  younger  son  of  Samuel, 
was  born,  Dec.  19,  1804,  and  represented  Madison 
County  in  the  Eighteenth  General  Assembly 
(1852-54).  His  death  occurred  Oct.  4,  1880. 

JUDY,  James  William,  soldier,  was  born  in 
Clark  County,  Ky.,  May  8,  1822— his  ancestors 
on  his  father's  side  being  from  Switzerland,  and 
those  on  his  mother's  from  Scotland ;  grew  up  on 
a  farm  and,  in  1852,  removed  to  Menard  County, 
111. ,  where  he  has  since  resided.  In  August,  1862, 
he  enlisted  as  a  private  soldier,  was  elected  Cap- 
tain of  his  company,  and,  on  its  incorporation  as 
part  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Fourteenth  Regi- 
ment Illinois  Volunteers  at  Camp  Butler,  was 
chosen  Colonel  by  acclamation.  The  One  Hun- 
dred and  Fourteenth,  as  part  of  the  Fifteenth 
Army  Corps  under  command  of  that  brilliant 
soldier,  Gen.  Wm.  T.  Sherman,  was  attached  to 
the  Army  of  the  Tennessee,  and  took  part  in  the 
entire  siege  of  Vicksburg,  from  May,  1863,  to  the 
surrender  on  the  3d  of  July  following.  It  also 
participated  in  the  siege  of  Jackson,  Miss.,  and 
numerous  other  engagements.  After  one  year's 
service,  Colonel  Judy  was  compelled  to  resign  by 
domestic  affliction,  having  lost  two  children  by 
death  within  eight  days  of  each  other,  while 
others  of  his  family  were  dangerously  ill.  On 
his  retirement  from  the  army,  he  became  deeply 
interested  in  thorough-bred  cattle,  and  is  now  the 
most  noted  stock  auctioneer  in  the  United  States 
— having,  in  the  past  thirty  years,  sold  more 
thorough-bred  cattle  than  any  other  man  living 
— his  operations  extending  from  Canada  to  Cali- 
fornia, and  from  Minnesota  to  Texas.  Colonel 
Judy  was  elected  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of 
Agriculture  in  1874,  and  so  remained  continu- 
ously until  1896 — except  two  years — also  serving 
as  President  of  the  Board  from  1894  to  1896.  He 


bore  a  conspicuous  part  in  securing  the  location 
of  the  State  Fair  at  Springfield  in  1894,  and  the 
improvements  there  made  under  his  administra- 
tion have  not  been  paralleled  in  any  other  State. 
Originally,  and  up  to  1856,  an  old-line  Whig, 
Colonel  Judy  has  since  been  an  ardent  Repub- 
lican ;  and  though  active  in  political  campaigns, 
has  never  held  a  political  office  nor  desired  one, 
being  content  with  the  discharge  of  his  duty  as  a 
patriotic  private  citizen. 

KAXAX,  Michael  F.,  soldier  and  legislator,  was 
born  in  Essex  County,  N.  Y.,  in  November,  1837, 
at  twenty  years  of  age  removed  to  Macon  County, 
111.,  and  engaged  in  farming.  During  the  Civil 
War  he  enlisted  in  the  Forty-first  Illinois  Volun- 
teers (Col.  I.  C.  Pugh's  regiment),  serving  nearly 
four  years  and  retiring  with  the  rank  of  Captain. 
After  the  war  he  served  six  years  as  Mayor  of  the 
city  of  Decatur.  In  1894  he  was  elected  State 
Senator,  serving  in  the  Thirty-ninth  and  Fortieth 
General  Assemblies.  Captain  Kanan  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic, 
and  a  member  of  the  first  Post  of  the  order  ever 
established — that  at  Decatur. 

KAXK,  a  village  of  Greene  County,  on  the 
Jacksonville  Division  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton 
Railway,  40  miles  south  of  Jacksonville.  It  has 
a  bank  and  a  weekly  paper.  Population  (1880), 
408;  (1890),  551;  (1900),  588;  (1910),  521. 

KANE,  Elias  Kent,  early  United  States  Sena- 
tor, is  said  by  Lanman's  "Dictionary  of  Congress" 
to  have  been  born  in  New  York,  June  7,  1796. 
The  late  Gen.  Geo.  W.  Smith,  of  Chicago,  a  rela- 
tive of  Senator  Kane's  by  marriage,  in  a  paper 
read  before  the  Illinois  State  Bar  Associatior 
(1895),  rejecting  other  statements  assigning  the 
date  of  the  Illinois  Senator's  birth  to  various 
years  from  1786  to  1796,  expresses  the  opinion, 
based  on  family  letters,  that  he  was  really  born 
in  1794.  He  was  educated  at  Yale  College,  gradu- 
ating in  1812,  read  law  in  New  York,  and  emi- 
grated to  Tennessee  in  1813  or  early  in  1814,  but, 
before  the  close  of  the  latter  year,  removed  to  Illi- 
nois, settling  at  Kaskaskia.  His  abilities  were 
recognized  by  his  appointment,  early  in  1818,  as 
Judge  of  the  eastern  circuit  under  the  Territorial 
Government.  Before  the  close  of  the  same  year 
he  served  as  a  member  of  the  first  State  Consti- 
tutional Convention,  and  was  appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Bond  the  first  Secretary  of  State  under  the 
new  State  Government,  but  resigned  on  the 
accession  of  Governor  Coles  in  1822.  Two  years 
later  he  was  elected  to  the  General  Assembly  as 
Representative  from  Randolph  County,  but 


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resigned  before  the  close  of  the  year  to  accept  a 
seat  in  the  United  States  Senate,  to  which  he  was 
elected  in  1824,  and  re-elected  in  1830.  Before 
the  expiration  of  his  second  term  (Dec.  12,  1835), 
having  reached  the  age  of  a  little  more  than  40 
years,  he  died  in  Washington,  deeply  mourned 
by  his  fellow-members  of  Congress  and  by  his 
constituents.  Senator  Kane  was  a  cousin  of  the 
distinguished  Chancellor  Kent  of  New  York, 
through  his  mother's  family,  while,  on  his 
father's  side,  he  was  a  relative  of  the  celebrated 
Arctic  explorer,  Elisha  Kent  Kane. 

KANE  COUNTY,  one  of  the  wealthiest  and 
most  progressive  counties  in  the  State,  situated  in 
the  northeastern  quarter.  It  has  an  area  of  540 
square  miles,  and  population  (1910),  of  91,862; 
was  named  for  Senator  Elias  Kent  Kane.  Tim- 
ber and  water  are  abundant,  Fox  River  flowing 
through  the  county  from  north  to  south.  Immi- 
gration began  in  183 !,  and  received  a  new  impetus 
in  183.'5,  when  the  Pottawatomies  were  removed 
west  of  the  Mississippi.  A  school  was  established 
in  1834,  and  a  church  organized  in  1835.  County 
organization  was  effected  in  June,  1836,  and  the 
public  lands  came  on  the  market  in  1842.  The 
Civil  War  record  of  the  county  is  more  than 
creditable,  the  number  of  volunteers  exceeding 
the  assessed  quota.  Farming,  grazing,  manufac- 
turing and  dairy  industries  chiefly  engage  the 
attention  of  the  people.  The  county  lias  many 
flourishing  cities  and  towns.  Geneva  is  the  county- 
seat.  (See  Aurora.  Dundee,  Eldora,  Elgin,  Geneva 
and  St.  Charles. ) 

KANGLEY,  a  village  of  La  Salle  County,  on 
the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railway,  three 
miles  northwest  of  Streator.  There  are  several 
coal  shafts  here.  Pop.  (1900),  1,004;  (1910),  380. 

KANKAKEE,  a  city  and  county-seat  of  Kanka- 
kee  County,  on  Kankakee  River  and  111.  Cent. 
Railroad,  at  intersection  of  the  "Big  Four"  with 
the  Indiana,  111.  &  Iowa  Railroad,  56  miles  south  of 
Chicago.  It  is  an  agricultural  and  stock-raising 
region,  near  extensive  coal  fields  and  bog  iron 
ore;  has  water-power,  flour  and  paper  mills,  agri- 
cultural implement,  furniture,  and  piano  fac- 
tories, knitting  and  novelty  works,  besides  two 
quarries  of  valuable  building  stone.  The  East- 
ern Hospital  for  the  Insane  is  located  here. 
There  are  three  papers  (daily  and  weekly),  four 
banks,  five  schools,  water-works,  gas  and  electric 
light,  electric  cai  lines,  and  Government  postoffice 
building  Pop  (1900),  13,595;  (1910),  13,986. 

KANKAKEE  COUNTY,  a  wealthy  and  popu- 
lous county  in  the  northeast  section  of  the  State, 
having  an  area  of  680  square  miles — receiving  its 


name  from  its  principal  river.  It  was  set  apart 
from  Will  and  Iroquois  Counties  under  the  act 
passed  in  1853,  the  owners  of  the  site  of  the 
present  city  of  Kankakee  contributing  $5,000 
toward  the  erection  of  county  buildings.  Agri- 
culture, manufacturing  and  coal-mining  are  the 
principal  pursuits.  The  first  white  settler  was 
one  Noah  Vasseur,  a  Frenchman,  and  the  first 
American,  Thomas  Durham.  Pop.  (1880),  25,047; 
(1890),  28,732;  (1900),  37,154;  (1910),  40,752. 

KANKAKEE  RIVER,  a  sluggish  stream,  rising 
in  St.  Joseph  County,  Ind. ,  and  flowing  west- 
southwest  through  English  Lake  and  a  flat  marshy 
region,  into  Illinois.  In  Kankakee  County  it 
unites  with  the  Iroquois  from  the  south  and  the 
Des  Plaines  from  the  north,  after  the  junction 
with  the  latter,  taking  the  name  of  the  Illinois. 

KANKAKEE  &  SENECA  RAILROAD,  a  line 
lying  wholly  in  Illinois,  42.08  miles  in  length.  It 
has  a  capital  stock  of  $10,000,  bonded  debt  of 
§650,000  and  other  forms  of  indebtedness  (1895) 
reaching  $557, 629;  total  capitalization,  $1,217,629. 
This  road  was  chartered  in  1881,  and  opened  in 
1882.  It  connects  with  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati, 
Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railroad,  and  the  Chicago, 
Rock  Island  &  Pacific,  and  is  owned  jointly  by 
these  two  lines,  but  operated  by  the  former,  (See 
Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Rail- 
road. ) 

KANSAS,  a  village  in  Edgar  County,  on  the 
Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  and 
the  Chicago  &  Ohio  River  Railways,  156  miles 
northeast  of  St.  Louis,  104  miles  west  of  Indian- 
apolis, 13  miles  east  of  Charleston  and  11  miles 
west-southwest  of  Paris.  The  surrounding  region 
is  agricultural  and  stock-raising.  Kansas  has  tile 
works,  two  grain  elevators,  a  canning  factory, 
and  railway  machine  shops,  beside  four  churches, 
a  collegiate  institute,  a  National  bank  and  a 
weekly  newspaper.  Population  (1880) ,  723 ;  (1890) , 
1,037;  (1900),  1,049;  (1910),  945. 

KASKASKIA,  a  village  of  the  Illinois  Indians, 
and  later  a  French  trading  post,  first  occupied  in 
1700.  It  passed  into  the  hands  of  the  British 
after  the  French-Indian  War  in  1765,  and  was 
captured  by  Col.  George  Rogers  Clark,  at  the  head 
of  a  force  of  Virginia  troops,  in  1778.  (See  Clark, 
George  Rogers.)  At  that  time  the  white  inhab- 
itants were  almost  entirely  of  French  descent. 
The  first  exercise  of  the  elective  franchise  in  Illi- 
nois occurred  here  in  the  year  last  named,  and,  in 
1804,  the  United  States  Government  opened  a 
land  office  there.  For  many  years  the  most 
important  commercial  town  in  the  Territory,  it 
remained  the  Territorial  and  State  capital  down 


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to  1819,  when  the  seat  of  government  was  re- 
moved to  Vandalia.  Originally  situated  on  the 
west  side  of  the  Kaskaskia  River,  some  six  miles 
from  the  Mississippi,  early  in  1899  its  site  had 
been  swept  away  by  the  encroachments  of  the 
latter  stream,  so  that  practically  all  that  is  left  of 
the  principal  town  of  Illinois,  in  Territorial  days,  is 
simply  it*  name.  Pop.  (1910),  142. 

KASKASKIA  INDIANS,  one  of  the  five  tribes 
constituting  the  Illinois  confederation  of  Algon 
quin  Indians.  About  the  year  1700  they  removed 
from  what  is  now  La  Salle  County,  to  Southern 
Illinois,  where  they  established  themselves  along 
the  banks  of  the  river  which  bears  their  name. 
They  were  finally  removed,  with  their  b-ethren 
of  the  Illinois,  west  of  the  Mississippi,  and,  as  a 
distinct  tribe,  have  become  extinct. 

KASKASKIA  RIVER,  rises  in  Champaign 
County,  and  flows  southwest  through  the  coun- 
ties of  Douglas,  Coles,  Moultrie,  Shelby,  Fayette, 
Clinton  and  St.  Clair,  thence  southward  through 
Randolph,  and  empties  into  the  Mississippi  River 
near  Chester.  It  is  nearly  300  miles  long,  and 
flows  through  a  fertile,  undulating  country,  which 
forms  part  of  the  great  coal  field  of  the  State. 

KEITH,  Edson,  Sr.,  merchant  and  manufac- 
turer, born  at  Barre,  Vt.,  Jan.  28,  1833,  was  edu- 
cated at  home  and  in  the  district  schools ;  spent 
1850-54  in  Montpelier,  coming  to  Chicago  the 
latter  year  and  obtaining  employment  in  a  retail 
dry-goods  store.  In  1860  he  assisted  in  establish- 
ing the  firm  of  Keith,  Faxon  &  Co. ,  now  Edson 
Keith  &  Co. ;  is  also  President  of  the  corporation 
of  Keith  Brothers  &  Co. ,  a  Director  of  the  Metro- 
politan National  Bank,  and  the  Edison  Electric 
Light  Company.—  Elbridge  G.  (Keith),  banker, 
brother  of  the  preceding,  was  born  at  Barre,  Vt., 
July  16,  1840;  attended  local  schools  and  Barre 
Academy ;  came  to  Chicago  in  1857,  the  next  year 
taking  a  position  as  clerk  in  the  house  of  Keith, 
Faxon  &  Co.,  in  1865  becoming  a  partner  and,  in 
1884,  being  chosen  President  of  the  Metropolitan 
National  Bank,  where  he  still  remains.  Mr. 
Keith  was  a  member  of  the  Republican  National 
Convention  of  1880,  and  belongs  to  several  local 
literary,  political  and  social  clubs ;  was  also  one 
of  the  Directors  of  the  World's  Columbian  Expo- 
sition of  1892-93. 

KEITHSBURG,  a  town  in  Mercer  County  on 
the  Mississippi  River,  at  the  intersection  of  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  and  the  Iowa  Cen- 
tral Railways;  100  miles  west-northwest  of 
Peoria.  Principal  industries  are  fisheries,  ship- 
ping, manufacture  of  pearl  buttons  and  oilers ;  has 
one  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  1,300;  (1910),  1,515. 


KELLOGG,  Hiram  Huntlngton,  clergyman 
and  educator,  was  born  at  Clinton  (then  Whites- 
town),  N.  Y.,  in  February,  1803.  graduated  at 
Hamilton  College  and  Auburn  Seminary,  after 
which  he  served  for  some  years  as  pastor  at 
various  places  in  Central  New  York.  Later,  he 
established  the  Young  Ladies'  Domestic  Seminary 
at  Clinton,  claimed  to  be  the  first  ladies'  semi- 
nary in  the  State,  and  the  first  experiment  in  the 
country  uniting  manual  training  of  girls  with 
scholastic  instruction,  antedating  Mount  Hoi 
yoke,  Oberlin  and  other  institutions  which  adopted 
this  system.  Color  was  no  bar  to  admission  to 
the  institution,  though  the  daughters  of  some  of 
the  wealthiest  families  of  the  State  were  among 
its  pupils.  Mr.  Kellogg  was  a  co-laborer  with 
Gerritt  Smith,  Beriah  Green,  the  Tappans,  Garri- 
son and  others,  in  the  effort  to  arouse  public  senti- 
ment in  opposition  to  slavery.  In  1836  he  united 
with  Prof.  George  W.  Gale  and  others  in  the 
movement  for  the  establishment  of  a  colony  and 
the  building  up  of  a  Christian  and  anti-slavery 
institution  in  the  West,  which  resulted  in  the 
location  of  the  town  of  Galesburg  and  the  found, 
ing  there  of  Knox  College.  Mr.  Kellogg  was 
chosen  the  first  President  of  the  institution  and, 
in  1841,  left  his  thriving  school  at  Clinton  to 
identify  himself  with  the  new  enterprise,  which, 
in  its  infancy,  was  a  manual-labor  school.  In  the 
West  he  soon  became  the  ally  and  co-laborer  of 
such  men  as  Owen  Lovejoy,  Ichabod  Codding, 
Dr.  C.  V.  Dyer  and  others,  in  the  work  of  extirpat- 
ing slavery.  In  1843  he  visited  England  as  a 
member  of  the  World's  Peace  Convention,  re- 
maining abroad  about  a  year,  during  which  time 
he  made  the  acquaintance  of  Jacob  Bright  and 
others  of  the  most  prominent  men  of  that  day  in 
England  and  Scotland.  Resigning  the  Presidency 
of  Knox  College  in  1847,  he  returned  to  Clinton 
Seminary,  and  was  later  engaged  in  various  busi- 
ness enterprises  until  1861,  when  he  again  re- 
moved to  Illinois,  and  was  engaged  .in  preaching 
and  teaching  at  various  points  during  the 
remainder  of  his  life,  dying  suddenly,  at  his 
home  school  at  Mount  Forest,  111.,  Jan.  1,  1881. 

KELLOGG,  William  Pitt,  was  born  at  Orwell, 
Vt.,  Dec.  8,  1831,  removed  to  Illinois  in  1848, 
studied  law  at  Peoria,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1854,  and  began  practice  in  Fulton  County.  He 
was  a  candidate  for  Presidential  Elector  on  the 
Republican  ticket  in  1856  and  1860,  being  elected 
the  latter  year.  Appointed  Chief  Justice  of 
Nebraska  in  1861,  he  resigned  to  accept  the 
colonelcy  of  the  Seventh  Illinois  Cavalry  Fail- 
ing health  caused  his  retirement  from  the  army 


1. — Old  Kaskaskia  from  Garrison  Hill  (1893).  2. —  Kaskaskia  Hotel  where  LaFayette  was  feted  in 
1825.  3. — First  Illinois  State  House,  1818.  4. — Interior  of  Room  (1893)  where  LaFayette 
banquet  was  held.  5. — Pierre  Menard  Mansion.  6. — House  of  Chief  Ducoign,  last  of  the 
Cascasquias  (Kaskaskias). 


1.— Remnant  of  Old  Kaskaskia  (1898).  2.— View  on  Principal  Street  (1891).  3.— Gen.  John 
Edgar's  House  (1891).  4.— House  of  Gov.  Bond  (1891).  5.— "Chenu  Mansion"  where  La- 
Fayette  was  entertained,  as  it  appeared  in  1898.  6. — Old  State  Hous?  (1900). 


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after  the  battle  of  Corinth.  In  1865  he  was 
appointed  Collector  of  the  Port  at  New  Orleans. 
Thereafter  he  became  a  conspicuous  figure  in 
both  Louisiana  and  National  politics,  serving  as 
United  States  Senator  from  Louisiana  from  1868 
to  1871,  and  as  Governor  from  1872  to  1876,  during 
the  stormiest  period  of  reconstruction,  and  mak- 
ing hosts  of  bitter  personal  and  political  enemies 
as  well  as  warm  friends.  An  unsuccessful  attempt 
was  made  to  impeach  him  in  1876.  In  1877  he  was 
elected  a  second  time  to  the  United  States  Senate 
by  one  of  two  rival  Legislatures,  being  awarded 
his  seat  after  a  bitter  contest.  At  the  close  of  his 
term  (1883)  he  took  his  seat  in  the  lower  house  to 
which  he  was  elected  in  1882,  serving  until  1885. 
While  retaining  his  residence  in  Louisiana,  Mr. 
Kellogg  has  spent  much  of  his  time  of  late  years 
in  Washington  City. 

KENDALL  COUNTY,  a  northeastern  county, 
with  an  area  of  321  square  miles  and  a  population 
(1910)  of  10,777.  The  surface  is  rolling  and  the 
soil  fertile,  although  generally  a  light,  sandy 
loam.  The  county  was  organized  in  1841,  out  of 
parts  of  Kane  and  La  Salle,  and  was  named  in 
honor  of  President  Jackson's  Postmaster  General. 
The  Fox  River  (running  southwestwardly 
through  the  county),  with  its  tributaries,  affords 
ample  drainage  and  considerable  water'  power; 
the  railroad  facilities  are  admirable;  timber  is 
abundant.  Yorkville  and  Oswego  have  been 
rivals  for  the  county-seat,  the  distinction  finally 
resting  with  the  former.  Among  the  pioneers 
may  be  mentioned  Messrs.  John  Wilson,  Ed- 
ward Ament,  David  Carpenter,  Samuel  Smith, 
the  Wormley  and  Pierce  brothers,  and  E. 
Morgan. 

KENDRICK,  Adin  A.,  educator,  was  born  at 
Ticonderoga,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  7,  1836;  educated  at 
Granville  Academy,  N.  Y.,  and  Middlebury  Col- 
lege; removed  to  Janesville,  Wis.,  in  1857,  studied 
law  and  began  practice  at  Monroe,  in  that  State, 
a  year  later  removing  to  St.  Louis,  where  he  con- 
tinued practice  for  a  short  time.  Then,  having 
abandoned  the  law,  after  a  course  in  the  Theolog- 
ical Seminary  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  in  1861  he 
became  pastor  of  the  North  Baptist  Church  in 
Chicago,  but,  in  1865,  removed  to  St.  Louis, 
where  he  remained  in  pastoral  work  until  1872, 
when  he  assumed  the  Presidency  of  Shurtleff 
College  at  Upper  Alton,  111. 

KEJfNEY,  a  village  and  railway  station  in 
Dewitt  County,  at  the  intersection  of  the  Spring- 
field Division  of  the  Illinois  Central  and  the 
Peoria,  Decatur  &  Evansville  Railroads,  36  miles 
northeast  of  Springfield.  The  town  has  two  banks 


and  two  newspapers ;  the  district  is  agricultural. 
Pop.  (1890),  497;  (1900),  584;  (1910),  ,570. 

KENT,  (Rev.)  Aratus,  pioneer  and  Congrega- 
tional missionary,  was  born  in  Suffield,  Conn,  in 
1794,  educated  at  Yale  and  Princeton  and,  in  1829, 
as  a  Congregational  missionary,  came  to  the 
Galena  lead  mines — then  esteemed  "a  place  so 
hard  no  one  else  would  take  it."  In  less  than  two 
years  he  had  a  Sunday-school  with  ten  teachers 
and  sixty  to  ninety  scholars,  and  had  also  estab- 
lished a  day-school,  which  he  conducted  himself. 
In  1831  he  organized  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church  of  Galena,  of  which  he  remained  pastor 
until  1848,  when  he  became  Agent  of  the  Home 
Missionary  Society.  He  was  prominent  in  laying 
the  foundations  of  Beloit  College  and  Rockford 
Female  Seminary,  meanwhile  contributing  freely 
from  his  meager  salary  to  charitable  purposes. 
Died  at  Galena,  Nov.  8,  1869. 

KEOKUK,  (interpretation,  "The  Watchful 
Fox"),  a  Chief  of  the  Sacs  and  Foxes,  born  on 
Rock  River,  about  1780.  He  had  the  credit  of 
shrewdness  and  bravery,  which  enabled  him 
finally  to  displace  his  rival,  Black  Hawk.  He 
always  professed  ardent  friendship  for  the  whites, 
although  this  was  not  infrequently  attributed  to 
a  far-seeing  policy.  He  earnestly  dissuaded 
Black  Hawk  from  the  formation  of  his  confeder- 
acy, and  when  the  latter  was  forced  to  surrender 
himself  to  the  United  States  authorities,  he  was 
formally  delivered  to  the  custody  of  Keokuk.  By 
the  Rock  Island  treaty,  of  September,  1832,  Keo- 
kuk was  formally  recognized  as  the  principal 
Chief  of  the  Sacs  and  Foxes,  and  granted  a  reser- 
vation on  the  Iowa  River,  40  miles  square.  Here 
he  lived  until  1845,  when  he  removed  to  Kansas, 
where,  in  June,  1848,  he  fell  a  victim  to  poison, 
supposedly  administered  by  some  partisan  of 
Black  Hawk.  (See  Black  Hawk  and  Black  Hawk 
War.) 

KERFOOT,  Samuel  H.,  real-estate  operator, 
was  born  in  Lancaster,  Pa.,  Dec.  18,  1823,  and 
educated  under  the  tutorship  of  Rev.  Dr.  Muh- 
lenburg  at  St.  Paul's  College,  Flushing,  Long 
Island,  graduating  at  the  age  of  19.  He  was 
then  associated  with  a  brother  in  founding  St. 
James  College,  in  Washington  County,  Md.,  but, 
in  1848,  removed  to  Chicago  and  engaged  in  the 
real-estate  business,  in  which  he  was  one  of  the 
oldest  operators  at  the  time  of  his  death,  Dec.  28, 
1896.  He  was  one  of  the  founders  and  a  life 
'member  of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society  and  of 
the  Chicago  Academy  of  Sciences,  and  associated 
with  other  learned  and  social  organizations.  He 
was  also  a  member  of  the  original  Real  Estate 


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and  Stock  Board  of  Chicago  and  its  first  Presi- 
dent. 

KEWANEE,  a  city  in  Henry  County,  on  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  131 
miles  southwest  of  Chicago.  Agriculture  and 
coal-mining  are  chief  industries  of  the  surround- 
ing country.  The  city  contains  eighteen  churches, 
six  graded  schools,  a  public  library  of  10,000 
volumes,  three  national  banks,  one  weekly  and 
two  daily  papers.  It  has  extensive  manufactories 
employing  four  to  five  thousand  hands,  the  out- 
put including  tubing  and  soil-pipe,  boilers,  pumps 
and  heating  apparatus,  agricultural  implements, 
etc.  Population  (1890),  4,569;  (1900),  8,382;  (1910), 
9,307. 

KEYES,  Willard,  pioneer,  was  born  at  New- 
fane,  Windsor  County,  Vt.,  Oct.  28,  1792;  spent 
his  early  life  on  a  farm,  enjoying  only  such  edu- 
cational advantages  as  could  be  secured  by  a  few 
months'  attendance  on  school  in  winter ;  in  1817 
started  west  by  way  of  Mackinaw  and,  crossing 
Wisconsin  (then  an  unbroken  wilderness),  finally 
reached  Prairie  du  Chien,  after  which  lie  spent  a 
year  in  the  "pineries."  In  1819  he  descended  the 
Mississippi  with  a  raft,  his  attention  en  route 
being  attracted  by  the  present  site  of  the  city  of 
Quincy,  to  which,  after  two  years  spent  in  exten- 
sive exploration  of  the  "Military  Tract"  in  the 
interest  of  certain  owners  of  bounty  lands,  he 
again  returned,  finding  it  still  unoccupied. 
Then,  after  two  years  spent  in  farming  in  Pike 
County,  in  1824  he  joined  his  friend,  the  late 
Gov.  John  Wood,  who  had  built  the  first  house  in 
Quincy  two  years  previous.  Mr.  Keyes  thus 
became  one  of  the  three  earliest  settlers  of 
Quincy,  the  other  two  being  John  Wood  and  a 
Major  Rose.  On  the  organization  of  Adams 
County,  in  January,  1825,  he  was  appointed  a 
member  of  the  first  Board  of  County  Commission- 
ers, which  held  its  first  meeting  in  his  house. 
Mr.  Keyes  acquired  considerable  landed  property 
about  Quincy,  a  portion  of  which  he  donated  to 
the  Chicago  Theological  Seminary,  thereby  fur- 
nishing means  for  the  erection  of  "Willard  Hall" 
in  connection  with  that  institution.  His  death 
occurred  in  Quincy,  Feb.  7,  1872. 

KICKAPOOS,  a  tribe  of  Indians  whose  eth- 
nology is  closely  related  to  that  of  the  Masrou- 
tins.  The  French  orthography  of  the  word  was 
various,  the  early  explorers  designating  them  as 
"Kic-a-pous, "  "Kick-a-poux,"  "Kick-a-bou,"  and 
"Quick-a-pous. "  The  significance  of  the  name  is 
uncertain,  different  authorities  construing  it  to 
mean  "the  otter's  foot"  and  the  "rabbit's  ghost," 
according  to  dialect.  From  1602,  when  the  tribe 


was  first  visited  by  Samuel  Champlain,  the  Kicka- 
poos  were  noted  as  a  nation  of  warriors.  They 
fought  against  Christianization,  and  were,  for 
some  time,  hostile  to  the  French,  although  they 
proved  efficient  allies  of  the  latter  during  the 
French  and  Indian  War.  Their  first  formal 
recognition  of  the  authority  of  the  United  States 
was  in  the  treaty  of  Edwardsville  (1819),  in  which 
reference  was  made  to  the  treaties  executed  at 
Vincennes  (1805  and  1809).  Nearly  a  century 
before,  they  had  left  their  seats  in  Wisconsin  and 
established  villages  along  the  Rock  River  and 
near  Chicago  (1712-15).  At  the  time  of  the 
Edwardsville  treaty  they  had  settlements  in  the 
valleys  of  the  Wabash,  Embarras,  Kaskaskia, 
Sangamon  and  Illinois  Rivers.  While  they 
fought  bravely  at  the  battle  of  Tippecanoe,  their 
chief  military  skill  lay  in  predatory  warfare.  As 
compared  with  other  tribes,  they  were  industri- 
ous, intelligent  and  cleanly.  In  1832-33  they 
were  removed  to  a  reservation  in  Kansas.  Thence 
many  of  them  drifted  to  the  southwest,  join- 
ing roving,  plundering  bands.  In  language, 
manners  and  customs,  the  Kickapoos  closely 
resembled  the  Sacs  and  Foxes,  with  whom  some 
ethnologists  believe  them  to  have  been  more  or 
less  closely  connected. 

KILPATRICK,  Thomas  M.,  legislator  and 
soldier,  was  born  in  Crawford  County,  Pa.,  June 
1,  1807.  He  learned  the  potter's  trade,  and,  at 
the  age  of  27,  removed  to  Scott  County,  111.  He 
was  a  deep  thinker,  an  apt  and  reflective  student 
of  public  affairs,  and  naturally  eloquent.  He 
was  twice  elected  to  the  State  Senate  (1840  and 
'44),  and,  in  1846,  was  the  Whig  candidate  for 
Governor,  but  was  defeated  by  Augustus  C. 
French,  Democrat.  In  1850  he  emigrated  to 
California,  but,  after  a  few  years,  returned  to 
Illinois  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  campaigns 
of  1858  and  1860.  On  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
War  he  was  commissioned  Colonel  of  the  Twenty- 
eighth  Illinois  Volunteers,  for  which  regiment  he 
had  recruited  a  company.  He  was  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Shiloh,  April  6,  1862,  while  leading  a 
charge. 

KIXDERHOOK,  a  village  and  railway  station 
in  Pike  County,  on  the  Hannibal  Division  of  the 
Wabash    Railway,  13   miles    east    of    Hannibal. 
Population  (1890),  473;  (1900),  370;  (1910;,  371. 

KING,  John  Lyle,  lawyer,  was  born  in  Madison, 
Ind.,  in  1825 — the  son  of  a  pioneer  settler  who 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  Hanover  College 
and  of  the  Presbyterian  Theological  Seminary 
there,  which  afterwards  became  the  "Presby- 
terian Theological  Seminary  of  the  Northwest, " 


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now  the  McCormick  Theological  Seminary  of 
Chicago.  After  graduating  at  Hanover,  Mr.  King 
began  the  study  of  law  with  an  uncle  at  Madison, 
and  the  following  year  was  admitted  to  the  bar. 
In  1853  he  was  elected  to  the  Indiana  Legislature 
and,  while  a  member  of  that  body,  acted  as  Chair- 
man of  the  Committee  to  present  Louis  Kossutli, 
the  Hungarian  patriot  and  exile,  to  the  Legisla- 
ture ;  also  took  a  prominent  part,  during  the  next 
few  years,  in  the  organization  of  the  Republican 
party.  Removing  to  Chicago  in  1856,  he  soon 
became  prominent  in  his  profession  there,  and,  in 
I860,  was  elected  City  Attorney  over  Col.  James  A. 
Mulligan,  who  became  eminent  a  year  or  two  later, 
in  connection  with  the  war  for  the  Union.  Hav- 
ing a  fondness  for  literature,  Mr.  King  wrote  much 
for  the  press  and,  in  1878,  published  a  volume  of 
sporting  experiences  with  a  party  of  professional 
friends  in  the  woods  and  waters  of  Northern  Wis 
consin  and  Michigan,  under  the  title,  "Trouting 
on  the  Brule  River,  or  Summer  Wayfaring  in  the 
Northern  Wilderness."  Died  in  Chicago,  April  17, 
1892. 

KING,  William  H.,  lawyer,  was  born  at  Clifton 
Park,  Saratoga  County,  N.Y.,  Oct.  23, 1817;  gradu- 
ated from  Union  College  in  1840,  studied  law  at 
Waterford  and,  having  been  admitted  to  the  bar 
the  following  year,  began  practice  at  the  same 
place.  In  1853  he  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he 
held  a  number  of  important  positions,  including 
the  Presidency  of  the  Chicago  Law  Institute,  the 
Chicago  Bar  Association,  the  Chicago  Board  of 
Education,  and  the  Union  College  Alumni 
Association  of  the  Northwest.  In  1870  he  was 
elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  Twenty- 
seventh  General  Assembly,  and,  during  the  ses- 
sions following  the  fire  of  1871  prepared  the  act 
for  the  protection  of  titles  to  real  estate,  made 
necessary  by  the  destruction  of  the  records  in  the 
Recorder's  office.  Mr.  King  received  the  degree 
of  LL.  D  from  his  Alma  Mater  in  1879.  Died,  in 
Chicago,  Feb.  6,  1892. 

KINGMAN,  Martin,  was  born  at  Deer  Creek, 
Tazewell  County,  111.,  April  1,  1844;  attended 
school  at  Washington,  111.,  then  taught  two  or 
three  years,  and,  in  June,  1862,  enlisted  in  the 
Eighty-sixth  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers,  serv- 
ing three  years  without  the  loss  of  a  day — a  part 
of  the  time  on  detached  service  in  charge  of  an 
ambulance  corps  and,  later,  as  Assistant  Quarter- 
master. Returning  from  the  war  with  the  rank 
of  First  Lieutenant,  in  August,  1865,  he  went  to 
Peoria,  where  he  engaged  in  business  and  has  re- 
mained ever  since.  He  is  now  connected  with  the 
following  business  concerns:  Kingman  &  Co., 


manufacturers  and  dealers  in  farm  machinery, 
buggies,  wagons,  etc. ,  The  Kingman  Plow  Com- 
pany, Bank  of  Illinois,  Peoria  Cordage  Company, 
Peoria  General  Electric  Company,  and  National 
Hotel  Company,  besides  various  outside  enter- 
prises— all  large  concerns  in  each  of  which  he  is  a 
large  stockholder  and  a  Director.  Mr.  Kingman 
was  Canal  Commissioner  for  six  years — this  being 
his  only  connection  with  politics.  During  1898  he 
was  also  chosen  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Peoria 
Provisional  Regiment  organized  for  the  Spanish- 
American  War.  His  career  in  connection  with 
the  industrial  development  of  Peoria  has  been 
especially  conspicuous  and  successful. 

KINKADE  (or  Kinkead),  William,  a  native  of 
Tennessee,  settled  in  what  is  now  Lawrence 
County,  in  1817,  and  was  elected  to  the  State 
Senate  in  1822,  but  appears  to  have  served  only 
one  session,  as  he  was  succeeded  in  the  Fourth 
General  Assembly  by  James  Bird.  Although  a 
Tennesseean  by  birth,  he  was  one  of  the  most 
aggressive  opponents  of  the  scheme  for  making 
Illinois  a  slave  State,  being  the  only  man  who 
made  a  speech  against  the  pro-slavery  convention 
resolution,  though  this  was  cut  short  by  the 
determination  of  the  pro-con ventionists  to  permit 
no  debate.  Mr.  Kinkade  was  appointed  Post- 
master at  Lawrenceville  by  President  John 
Quincy  Adams,  and  held  the  position  for  many 
years.  He  died  in  1846. 

KINMUJfDY,  a  city  in  Marion  County,  on  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad,  229  miles  south  of 
Chicago  and  24  miles  northeast  of  Centralia. 
Agriculture,  stock-raising,  fruit-growing  and 
coal-mining  are  the  principal  industries  of  the 
surrounding  country.  Kinmundy  has  flouring 
mills  and  brick-making  plants,  with  other 
manufacturing  establishments  of  minor  impor- 
tance. There  are  five  churches,  a  bank  and  a 
weekly  newspaper.  Population  (1890),  1,045; 
(1900),  1,221;  (1910),  997, 

KIN1VEY,  William,  Lieutenant-Governor  of 
Illinois  from  1826  to  1830 ;  was  born  in  Kentucky  in 
1781  and  came  to  Illinois  early  in  life,  finally 
settling  in  St.  Clair  County.  Of  limited  educa- 
tional advantages,  he  was  taught  to  read  by  his 
wife  after  marriage.  He  became  a  Baptist 
preacher,  was  a  good  stump-orator;  served  two 
sessions  in  the  State  Senate  (the  First  and  Third), 
was  a  candidate  for  Governor  in  1834,  but  was 
defeated  by  Joseph  Duncan ;  in  1838  was  elected 
by  the  Legislature  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Public  Works,  becoming  its  President.  Died 
in  1843.— William  C.  (Kinney),  son  of  the  preced- 
ing, was  born  in  Illinois,  served  as  a  member  of 


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the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1847  and  as 
Representative  in  the  Nineteenth  General  Assem- 
bly (1855),  and,  in  1857,  was  appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Bissell  Adjutant-General  of  the  State, 
dying  in  office  the  following  year. 

KITfZIE,  John,  Indian-trader  and  earliest  citi- 
zen of  Chicago,  was  born  in  Quebec,  Canada,  in 
1763.  His  father  was  a  Scotchman  named 
McKenzie,  but  the  son  dropped  the  prefix  "Me," 
and  the  name  soon  came  to  be  spelled  "Kinzie" 
— an  orthography  recognized  by  the  family.  Dur- 
ing his  early  childhood  his  father  died,  and  his 
mother  gave  him  a  stepfather  by  the  name  of 
William  Forsythe.  When  ten  years  old  he  left 
home  and,  for  three  years,  devoted  himself  to 
learning  the  jeweler's  trade  at  Quebec.  Fasci- 
nated by  stories  of  adventure  in  the  West,  he 
removed  thither  and  became  an  Indian-trader. 
In  1804  he  established  a  trading  post  at  what  is 
now  the  site  of  Chicago,  being  the  first  solitary 
white  settler.  Later  he  established  other  posts 
on  the  Rock,  Illinois  and  Kankakee  Rivers.  He 
was  twice  married,  and  the  father  of  a  numerous 
family.  His  daughter  Maria  married  Gen. 
David  Hunter,  and  his  daughter-in-law,  Mrs. 
John  H.  Kinzie,  achieved  literary  distinction  as 
the  authoress  of  "Wau  Bun,"  etc.  (N.  Y.  1850.) 
Died  in  Chicago,  Jan.  6,  1828.— John  Harris 
(Kinzie),  son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  at  Sand- 
wich, Canada,  July  7,  1803,  brought  by  his  par- 
ents to  Chicago,  and  taken  to  Detroit  after  the 
massacre  of  1812,  but  returned  to  Chicago  in 
1816.  Two  years  later  his  father  placed  him  at 
Mackinac  Agency  of  the  American  Fur  Com- 
pany, and,  in  1824,  he  was  transferred  to  Prairie 
du  Chien.  The  following  year  he  was  Sub-Agent 
of  Indian  affairs  at  Fort  Winnebago,  where  he 
witnessed  several  important  Indian  treaties.  In 
1830  he  went  to  Connecticut,  where  he  was 
married,  and,  in  1833,  took  up  his  permanent  resi- 
dence in  Chicago,  forming  a  partnership  with 
Gen.  David  Hunter,  his  brother-in-law,  in  the 
forwarding  business.  In  1841  he  was  appointed 
Registrar  of  Public  Lands  by  President  Harrison, 
but  was  removed  by  Tyler.  In  1848  he  was 
appointed  Canal  Collector,  and,  in  1849,  President 
Taylor  commissioned  him  Receiver  of  Public 
Moneys.  In  1861  he  was  commissioned  Pay- 
master in  the  army  by  President  Lincoln,  which 
office  he  held  until  his  death,  which  occurred  on 
a  railroad  train  near  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  June  21,  1865. 

KIRRY,  Edward  P.,  lawyer  and  legislator, 
was  born  in  Putnam  County,  111.,  Oct.  28,  1834— 
the  son  of  Rev.  William  Kirby,  one  of  the  found- 
ers and  early  professors  of  Illinois  College  at 


Jacksonville;  graduated  at  Illinois  College  in 
1854,  then  taught  several  years  at  St.  Louis  ana 
Jacksonville;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1864, 
and,  in  1873,  was  elected  County  Judge  of  Morgan 
County  as  a  Republican;  was  Representative  in 
the  General  Assembly  from  Morgan  County 
(1891-93) ;  also  served  for  several  years  as  Trustee 
of  the  Central  Hospital  for  the  Insane  and,  for  a 
long  period,  as  Trustee  and  Treasurer  of  Illinois 
College. 

KIRK,  (Gen.)  Edward  >*.,  soldier,  was  born  of 
Quaker  parentage  in  Jefferson  County,  Ohio,  Feb. 
29,  1828;  graduated  at  the  Friends'  Academy,  at 
Mount  Pleasant  in  the  same  State,  and,  after 
teaching  for  a  time,  began  the  study  of  law, 
completing  it  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  where  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1853.  A  year  later  he 
removed  to  Sterling,  111.,  where  he  continued  in 
his  profession  until  after  the  battle  of  the  first 
Bull  Run,  when  he  raised  a  regiment.  The  quota 
of  the  State  being  already  full,  this  was  not  im- 
mediately accepted;  but,  after  some  delay,  was 
mustered  in  in  September,  1861,  as  the  Thirty- 
fourth  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers,  with  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  as  Colonel.  In  the  field  he 
soon  proved  himself  a  brave  and  dashing  officer; 
at  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  though  wounded  through 
the  shoulder,  he  refused  to  leave  the  field.  After 
remaining  with  the  army  several  days,  inflam- 
matory fever  set  in,  necessitating  his  removal  to 
the  hospital  at  Louisville,  where  he  lay  between 
life  and  death  for  some  time.  Having  partially 
recovered,  in  August,  1862,  he  set  out  to  rejoin 
his  regiment,  but  was  stopped  en  route  by  an 
order  assigning  him  to  command  at  Louisville. 
In  November  following  he  was  commissioned 
Brigadier-General  for  "heroic  action,  gallantry 
and  ability"  displayed  on  the  field.  In  the  last 
days  of  December,  1862,  he  had  sufficiently  re- 
covered to  take  part  in  the  series  of  engagements 
at  Stone  River,  where  he  was  again  wounded, 
this  time  fatally.  He  was  taken  to  his  home  in 
Illinois,  and,  although  he  survived  several 
months,  the  career  of  one  of  the  most  brilliant 
and  promising  soldiers  of  the  war  was  cut  short 
by  his  death,  July  21,  1863. 

KIRKLAND,  Joseph,  journalist  and  author, 
was  born  at  Geneva,  N.  Y. ,  Jan.  7,  1830 — the  son 
of  Prof.  William  Kirkland  of  Hamilton  College ; 
was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Michigan  in  1835, 
where  he  remained  until  1856,  when  he  came  to 
the  city  of  Chicago.  In  1861  he  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  the  Twelfth  Illinois  Infantry  (three- 
months'  men),  was  elected  Second  Lieutenant, 
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General  McClellan,  serving  there  and  on  the  staff 
of  General  Fitz-John  Porter  until  the  retirement 
of  the  latter,  meanwhile  taking  part  in  the  Pen- 
insular campaign  and  in  the  battle  of  Antietam. 
Returning  to  Chicago  he  gave  attention  to  some 
coal-mining  property  near  Danville,  but  later 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1880. 
A  few  years  later  he  produced  his  first  novel, 
and,  from  1890,  devoted  his  attention  solely  to 
literary  pursuits,  for  several  years  being  liter- 
ary editor  of  "The  Chicago  Tribune."  His  works 
— several  of  which  first  appeared  as  serials  in  the 
magazines — include  "Zury,  the  Meanest  Man  in 
Spring  County"  (1885);  "The  McVeys"  (1887); 
"The  Captain  of  Co.  K."  (1889),  besides  the  "His- 
tory of  the  Chicago  Massacre  of  1812,"  and  "The 
Story  of  Chicago' ' — the  latter  in  two  volumes.  At 
the  time  of  his  death  he  had  just  concluded,  in 
collaboration  with  Hon.  John  Moses,  the  work  of 
editing  a  two-volume  "History  of  Chicago,"  pub- 
lished by  Messrs.  Munsell  &  Co.  (1895).  Died,  in 
Chicago,  April  29,  1894.— Elizabeth  Stansbury 
(Kirkland),  sister  of  the  preceding — teacher  and 
author — was  born  at  Geneva,  N.  Y. ,  came  to  Chicago 
in  1867  and,  five  years  later,  established  a  select 
school  for  young  ladies,  out  of  which  grew  what 
is  known  as  the  "Kirkland  Social  Settlement," 
which  was  continued  until  her  death,  July  30, 
1896.  She  was  the  author  of  a  number  of  vol- 
umes of  decided  merit,  written  with  the  especial 
object  of  giving  entertainment  and  instruction  to 
the  young — including  "Six  Little  Cooks,"  "Dora's 
Housekeeping,"  "Speech  and  Manners,"  a  Child's 
"History  of  France,"  a  "History  of  England," 
"History  of  English  Literature,"  etc.  At  her 
death  she  left  a  "History  of  Italy"  ready  for  the 
hands  of  the  publishers. 

KIRKPATRICK,  John,  pioneer  Methodist 
preacher,  was  born  in  Georgia,  whence  he  emi- 
grated in  1802;  located  at  Springfield,  111.,  at  an 
early  day,  where  he  built  the  first  horse-mill  in 
that  vicinity ;  in  1829  removed  to  Adams  County, 
and  finally  to  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  where  he  died  in 
1845.  Mr.  Kirkpatrick  is  believed  to  have  been  the 
first  local  Methodist  preacher  licensed  in  Illinois. 
•  Having  inherited  three  slaves  (a  woman  and  two 
boys)  while  in  Adams  County,  he  brought  them 
to  Illinois  and  gave  them  their  freedom.  The 
boys  were  bound  to  a  man  in  Quincy  to  learn  a 
trade,  but  mysteriously  disappeared — presumably 
having  been  kidnaped  with  the  connivance  of 
the  man  in  whose  charge  they  had  been  placed. 

KIRKWOOD,  a  city  in  Warren  County,  once 
known  as  "Young  America,"  situated  about  six 
miles  southwest  of  Momuouth,  on  the  Chicago, 


Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad;  is  a  stock-ship- 
ping point  and  in  an  agricultural  region.  The 
town  has  two  bunks,  five  churches,  and  one  weekly 
newspaper  Pop.  (1900),  1,008;  (1910),  926. 

KISHWAUKEE  RIVER,  rises  in  McHenry 
County,  runs  west  through  Boone,  and  enters 
Rock  River  in  Winnebago  County,  eight  miles 
below  Rockford.  It  is  75  miles  long.  An  afflu- 
ent called  the  South  Kishwaukee  River  runs 
north-northeast  and  northwest  through  De  Kalb 
County,  and  enters  the  Kiskwaukee  in  Winne- 
bago County,  about  eight  miles  southeast  of 
Rockford. 

KITCHELL,  Wickliff,  lawyer  and  Attorney- 
General  of  Illinois,  was  born  in  New  Jersey, 
May  21,  1789.  Feb.  29,  1812,  he  was  married, 
at  Newark,  N.  J.,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Ross, 
and  the  same  year  emigrated  west,  passing 
down  the  Ohio  on  a  flat-boat  from  Pittsburg, 
Pa.,  and  settled  near  Cincinnati  In  1814 
he  became  a  resident  of  Southern  Indiana, 
where  he  was  elected  sheriff,  studied  law 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  finally  becom- 
ing a  successful  practitioner.  In  1817  he  removed 
to  Palestine,  Crawford  County,  111.,  where,  in 
1820,  he  was  elected  Representative  in  the  Second 
General  Assembly,  and  was  also  a  member  of  the 
State  Senate  from  1828  to  1832.  In  1838  he  re- 
moved to  Hillsboro,  Montgomery  County,  was 
appointed  Attorney-General  in  1839,  serving  until 
near  the  close  of  the  following  year,  when  he 
resigned  to  take  his  seat  as  Representative  in 
the  Twelfth  General  Assembly.  Between  1846 
and  1854  he  was  a  resident  of  Fort  Madison,  Iowa, 
but  the  latter  year  returned  to  Hillsboro.  During 
his  early  political  career  Mr.  Kitchell  had  been  a 
Democrat ;  but,  on  the  passage  of  the  Kansas-Neb- 
raska act,  became  an  earnest  Republican.  Pub- 
lic-spirited and  progressive,  he  was  in  advance  of 
his  time  on  many  public  questions.  Died,  Jan. 
2,  1869.— Alfred  (Kitchell),  son  of  the  preceding, 
lawyer  and  Judge,  born  at  Palestine,  111.,  March 
29,  1820;  was  educated  at  Indiana  State  Univer- 
sity and  Hillsboro  Academy,  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1841,  and,  the  following  year,  commenced 
practice  at  Olney;  was  elected  State's  Attorney 
in  1843,  through  repeated  re-elections  holding  the 
office  ten  years ;  was  a  member  of  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  of  1847  and,  in  1849,  was 
elected  Judge  of  Richland  County ;  later  assisted 
in  establishing  the  first  newspaper  published  in 
Olney,  and  in  organizing  the  Republican  party 
there  in  1856;  in  1859  was  elected  Judge  of  the 
Twenty-fifth  Judicial  Circuit,  serving  one  term. 
He  was  also  influential  in  procuring  a  charter  for 


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the  Ohio  &  Mississippi  Railroad,  and  in  the  con- 
struction of  the  line,  being  an  original  corporator 
and  subsequently  a  Director  of  the  Company. 
Later  he  removed  to  Galesburg,  where  he  died, 
Nov.  11,  1876.— Edward  (Kitchell),  another  son, 
was  born  at  Palestine,  111.,  Dec.  21,  1829;  was 
educated  at  Hillsboro  Academy  until  1846,  when 
he  removed  with  his  father's  family  to  Fort 
Madison,  Iowa,  but  later  returned  to  Hillsboro  to 
continue  his  studies ;  in  1852  made  the  trip  across 
the  plains  to  California  to  engage  in  gold  mining, 
but  the  following  year  went  to  Walla  Walla, 
Washington  Territory,  where  he  opened  a  law 
office;  in  1854  returned  to  Illinois,  locating  at 
Olney,  Richland  County,  forming  a  partnership 
with  Horace  Hayward,  a  relative,  in  the  practice 
of  law.  Here,  having  taken  position  against  the 
repeal  of  the  Missouri  Compromise,  he  became, 
in  1856,  the  editor  of  the  first  Republican  news- 
paper published  in  that  part  of  Illinois  known  as 
"Egypt,"  with  his  brother,  Judge  Alfred  Kitchell, 
being  one  of  the  original  thirty-nine  Republicans 
in  Richland  County.  In  1862  he  assisted  in 
organizing  the  Ninety-eighth  Regiment  Illinois 
Volunteers  at  Centralia,  which,  in  the  following 
year  having  been  mounted,  became  a  part  of  the 
famous  "Wilder  Brigade."  At  first  he  was  com- 
missioned Lieutenant-Colonel,  but  succeeded  to 
the  command  of  the  regiment  after  the  wounding 
of  Colonel  Funkhouser  at  Chickamauga  in  Sep- 
tember, 1863;  was  finally  promoted  to  the  colo- 
nelcy in  July,  1865,  and  mustered  out  with  the 
rank  of  Brigadier-General  by  brevet.  Resuming 
the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Olney,  he  was, 
in  1866,  the  Republican  candidate  for  Congress  in 
a  district  strongly  Democratic;  also  served  as 
Collector  of  Internal  Revenue  for  a  short  time 
and,  in  1868,  was  Presidential  Elector  for  the 
same  District.  Died,  at  Olney,  July  11,  1869.— 
John  Wickliff  (Kitchell),  youngest  son  of  Wick- 
liff  Kitchell,  was  born  at  Palestine,  Crawford 
County,  111.,  May  30,  1835,  educated  at  Hillsboro, 
read  law  at  Fort  Madison,  Iowa,  and  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  that  State.  At  the  age  of  19  years  he 
served  as  Assistant  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives at  Springfield,  and  was  Reading  Clerk 
of  the  same  body  at  the  session  of  1861.  Previous 
to  the  latter  date  he  had  edited  "The  Montgomery 
County  Herald,"  and  later,  "The  Charleston 
Courier."  Resigning  his  position  as  Reading 
Clerk  in  1861,  he  enlisted  under  the  first  call  of 
President  Lincoln  in  the  Ninth  Illinois  Volun- 
teers, served  as  Adjutant  of  the  regiment  and 
afterwards  as  Captain  of  his  company.  At  the 
expiration  of  his  term  of  enlistment  lie  established 


"The  Union  Monitor"  at  Hillsboro,  which  he  con- 
ducted until  drafted  into  the  service  in  1864, 
serving  until  the  close  of  the.  war.  In  1866  he 
removed  to  Pana  (his  present  residence),  resum- 
ing practice  there ;  was  a  candidate  for  the  State 
Senate  the  same  year,  and,  in  1870,  was  the 
Republican  nominee  for  Congress  in  that  District. 

KNICKERBOCKER,  Joshua  C.,  lawyer,  was 
born  in  Gallatin,  Columbia  County,  N.  Y.,  Sept. 
26,  1827;  brought  by  his  father  to  Alden,  McHenry 
County,  111.,  in  1844,  and  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  that  place;  removed  to  Chicago  in 
1860,  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in 
1862 ;  served  on  the  Board  of  Supervisors  and  in 
the  City  Council  and,  in  1868,  was  elected  Repre- 
sentative in  the  General  Assembly,  serving  one 
term.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the  State  Board 
of  Education  from  1875  to  '77,  and  the  latter 
year  was  elected  Probate  Judge  for  Cook  County, 
serving  until  his  death,  Jan.  5,  1890. 

KNIGHTS  OF  PYTHIAS,  a  secret  semi-mili- 
tary and  benevolent  association  founded  in  the 
City  of  Washington,  D.  C.,  Feb.  19,  1864,  Justus 
H.  Rathbone  (who  died  Dec.  9,  1889)  being  its 
recognized  founder.  The  order  was  established 
in  Illinois,  May  4,  1869,  by  the  organization  of 
"Welcome  Lodge,  No.  1,"  in  the  city  of  Chicago. 
On  July  1,  1869,  this  Lodge  had  nineteen  mem- 
bers. At  the  close  of  the  year  four  additional 
Lodges  had  been  instituted,  having  an  aggregate 
membership  of  245.  Early  in  the  following  year, 
on  petition  of  these  five  Lodges,  approved  by  the 
Grand  Chancellor,  a  Grand  Lodge  of  the  Order 
for  the  State  of  Illinois  was  instituted  in  Chicago, 
with  a  membership  of  twenty-nine  Past  Chancel- 
lors as  representatives  of  the  five  subordinate 
Lodges — the  total  membership  of  these  Lodges  at 
that  date  being  382.  December  31,  1870,  the 
total  membership  in  Illinois  had  increased  to  850. 
June  30,  1895,  the  total  number  of  Lodges  in  the 
State  was  525,  and  the  membership  38,441.  The 
assets  belonging  to  the  Lodges  in  Illinois,  on 
Jan.  1,  1894,  amounted  to  $418,151.77. 

KNOWLTON,  Dexter  A.,  pioneer  and  banker, 
was  born  in  Fairfield,  Herkimer  County,  N.  Y., 
March  3,  1812,  taken  to  Chautauqua  County  in 
infancy  and  passed  his  childhood  and  youth  on  a 
farm.  Having  determined  on  a  mercantile  ca- 
reer, he  entered  an  academy  at  Fredonia,  paying 
his  own  way ;  iu  1838  started  on  a  peddling  tour 
for  the  West,  and,  in  the  following  year,  settled 
at  Freeport,  111.,  where  he  opened  a  general  store; 
in  1843  began  investments  in  real  estate,  finally 
laying  off  sundry  additions  to  the  city  of  Free- 
port,  from  which  he  realized  large  profits.  He 


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was  also  prominently  connected  with  the  Galena 
&  Chicago  Union  Railroad  and,  in  1850,  became 
a  Director  of  the  Company,  remaining  in  office 
some  twelve  years.  In  1852  he  was  the  Free-Soil 
candidate  for  Governor  of  Illinois,  but  a  few  years 
later  became  extensively  interested  in  the  Con» 
gress  &  Empire  Spring  Company  at  Saratoga, 
N.  Y. ;  then,  after  a  four  years'  residence  in 
Brooklyn,  returned  to  Freeport  in  1870,  where  he 
engaged  in  banking  business,  dying  in  that  city, 
March  10,  1876. 

KNOX,  Joseph,  lawyer,  was  born  at  Blanford, 
Mass.,  Jan.  11,  1805;  studied  law  with  his 
brother,  Gen.  Alanson  Knox,  in  his  native  town, 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1828,  subsequently 
removing  to  Worcester,  in  the  same  State,  where 
lie  began  the  practice  of  his  profession.  In  1837 
he  removed  west,  locating  at  Stephenson,  now 
Rock  Island,  111. ,  where  he  continued  in  practice 
for  twenty-three  years.  During  the  greater  part 
of  that  time  he  was  associated  with  Hon.  John 
W.  Drury,  under  the  firm  name  of  Knox  &  Drury, 
gaining  a  wide  reputation  as  a  lawyer  throughout 
Northern  Illinois.  Among  the  important  cases  in 
which  he  took  part  during  his  residence  in  Rock 
Island  was  the  prosecution  of  the  murderers  of 
Colonel  Davenport  in  1845.  In  1852  he  served  as  a 
Democratic  Presidential  Elector,  but  in  the  next 
campaign  identified  himself  with  the  Republican 
party  as  a  supporter  of  John  C.  Fremont  for  the 
Presidency.  In  1860  he  removed  to  Chicago  and, 
two  years  later,  was  appointed  State's  Attorney 
by  Governor  Yates,  remaining  in  office  until  suc- 
ceeded by  his  partner,  Charles  H.  Reed.  After 
coming  to  Chicago  he  was  identified  with  a  num- 
ber of  notable  cases.  His  death  occurred,  August 
6,  1881. 

KNOX  COLLEGE,  a  non-sectarian  institution 
for  the  higher  education  of  the  youth  of  both 
sexes,  located  at  Galesburg,  Knox  County.  It 
was  founded  in  1837,  fully  organized  in  1841,  and 
graduated  its  first  class  in  1846.  The  number  of 
graduates  from  that  date  until  1894,  aggregated 
867.  In  1893  it  had  663  students  in  attendance, 
and  a  faculty  of  20  professors.  Its  library  con- 
tains about  6,000  volumes.  Its  endowment 
amounts  to  §300,000  and  its  buildings  are  valued 
at  $150,000.  Dr.  Newton  Bateman  was  at  its 
head  for  more  than  twenty  years,  and,  on  his  res- 
ignation (1893),  John  H.  Finley,  Ph.D.,  became 
its  President,  but  resigned  in  1899. 

KNOX  COUNTY,  a  wealthy  interior  county 
west  of  the  Illinois  River,  having  an  area  of  720 
square  miles  and  a  population  (1910)  of  46,159.  It 
was  named  in  honor  of  Gen.  Henry  Knox.  Its 


territorial  limits  were  defined  by  legislative 
enactment  in  1825,  but  the  actual  organization 
dates  from  1830,  when  Riggs  Pennington,  Philip 
Hash  and  Charles  Hansford  were  named  the  first 
Commissioners.  Knoxville  was  the  first  county- 
seat  selected,  and  here  (in  the  winter  of  1830-31) 
was  erected  the  first  court  house,  constructed 
of  logs,  two  stories  in  height,  at  a  cost  of 
$192.  The  soil  is  rich,  and  agriculture  flour- 
ishes. The  present  county-seat  (1911)  is  Gales- 
burg,  well  known  for  its  educational  institutions, 
the  best  known  of  which  are  Knox  College, 
founded  in  1837,  and  Lombard  University, 
founded  in  1851.  A  flourishing  Episcopal  Semi- 
nary is  located  at  Knoxville,  and  Hedding  Col- 
lege at  Abingdon. 

KNOXVILLE,  a  city  in  Knox  County,  on  the 
Galesburg-Peoria  Division  of  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Quincy  Railroad,  50  miles  west  of 
Peoria,  and  5  miles  east  of  Galesburg;  was 
formerly  the  county-seat,  and  still  contains  the 
fair  grounds  and  almshouse.  The  municipal  gov- 
ernment is  composed  of  a  mayor,  six  aldermen, 
with  seven  heads  of  departments.  It  has  electric 
lighting  and  street-car  service,  good  water-works, 
flouring  mills,  banks,  numerous  churches,  three 
public  schools,  one  weekly  paper,  and  is  the  seat  of 
St.  Mary's  school  for  girls,  and  St.  Alban's  for  boys. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,728;  (1900),  1,857;  (1910),  1,818. 

KOERNER,  (•  ustav  us,  lawyer  and  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  was  born  in  Germany  in  1809,  and 
received  a  university  education.  He  was  a  law- 
yer by  profession,  and  emigrated  to  Illinois  in 
1833,  settling  finally  at  Belleville.  He  at  once 
affiliated  with  the  Democratic  party,  and  soon 
became  prominent  in  politics.  In  1842  he  was 
elected  to  the  General  Assembly,  and  three  years 
later  was  appointed  to  the  bench  of  the  State 
Supreme  Court.  In  1852  he  was  elected  Lieuten- 
ant-Governor  on  the  ticket  headed  by  Joel  A. 
Matteson;  but,  at  the  close  of  his  term,  became 
identified  with  the  Republican  party  and  was  a 
staunch  Union  man  during  the  Civil  War,  serving 
for  a  time  as  Colonel  on  General  Fremont's  and 
General  Halleck's  staffs.  In  1862  President  Lin- 
coln made  him  Minister  to  Spain,  a  post  which  he 
resigned  in  January,  1865.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Chicago  Convention  of  1860  that  nominated 
Lincoln  for  the  Presidency;  was  a  Republican 
Presidential  Elector  in  1868,  and  a  delegate  to  the 
Cincinnati  Convention  of  1872  that  named  Horace 
Greeley  for  the  Presidency.  In  1867  lie  served  as 
President  of  the  first  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
Soldiers'  Orphans'  Home,  and,  in  1870,  was 
elected  to  the  Legislature  a  second  time.  The 


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following  year  lie  was  appointed  a  member  of  the 
first  Board  of  Railroad  and  Warehouse  Commis- 
sioners, and  served  as  its  President.  He  is  the 
author  of  "Collection  of  the  Important  General 
Laws  of  Illinois,  with  Comments"  (in  German, 
St.  Louis,  1838);  "From  S"pain"  (Frankfort  on- 
the-Main,  1866);  "Das  Deutsche  Element  in  den 
Vereiningten  Staaten"  (Cincinnati,  1880,  second 
edition,  New  York,  1885) ;  and  a  number  of  mono- 
graphs. Died,  at  Belleville,  April  9,  1896. 

KOHLSAAT,  Christian  C.,  Judge  of  United 
States  Court,  was  born  in  Edwards  County,  111., 
Jan.  8,  1844 — his  father  being  a  native  of  Germany 
who  settled  in  Edwards  County  in  1825,  while  his 
mother  was  born  in  England.  The  family 
removed  to  Galena  in  1854,  where  young  Kohlsaat 
attended  the  public  schools,  later  taking  a  course 
in  Chicago  University,  after  which  he  began  the 
study  of  law.  In  1867  he  became  a  reporter  on 
"The  Chicago  Evening  Journal,"  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  the  same  year,  and,  in  1868,  accepted 
a  position  in  the  office  of  the  County  Clerk,  where 
he  kept  the  records  of  the  County  Court  under 
Judge  Bradwell's  administration.  During  the 
sessions  of  the  Twenty-seventh  General  Assembly 
(1871-72) ,  he  served  as  First  Assistant  Enrolling 
and  Engrossing  Clerk  of  the  House,  after  which 
he  began  practice;  in  1881  was  the  Republican 
nominee  for  County  Judge,  but  was  defeated  by 
Judge  Prendergast;  served  as  member  of  the 
Board  of  West  Side  Park  Commissioners,  1884-90 ; 
in  1890  was  appointed  Probate  Judge  of  Cook 
County  (as  successor  to  Judge  Knickerbocker, 
who  died  in  January  of  that  year),  and  was 
elected  to  the  office  in  November  following,  and 
re-elected  in  1894,  as  he  was  again  in  1898.  Early 
in  1899  lie  was  appointed,  03'  President  McKinley, 
Judge  of  the  United  States  District  Court  for  the 
Northern  District  of  Illinois,  as  successor  to  Judge 
Grosscup,  who  had  been  appointed  United  States 
Circuit  Judge  in  place  of  Judge  Showalter, 
deceased.  . 

KOHLSAAT,  Herman  H.,  editor  and  news- 
paper publisher,  was  born  in  Edwards  County, 
111.,  March  22,  1853,  and  taken  the  following  year 
to  Galena,  where  he  remained  until  12  years  of 
age,  when  the  family  removed  to  Chicago.  Here, 
after  attending  the  public  schools  some  three 
years,  he  became  a  cash-boy  in  the  store  of  Car- 
son, Pirie  &  Co.,  a  year  later  rising  to  the  position 
of  cashier,  remaining  two  years.  Then,  after 
having  been  connected  with  various  business 
concerns,  he  became  the  junior  member  of  the 
firm  of  Blake,  Shaw&  Co.,  for  whom  he  had  been 
a  traveling  salesman  some  five  years.  In  1880  he 


became  associated  with  the  Dake  Bakery,  in  con- 
nection with  which  lie  laid  the  foundation  of  an 
extensive  business  by  establishing  a  system  of 
restaurants  and  lunch  counters  in  the  business 
portions  of  the  city.  In  1891 ,  after  a  somewhat  pro- 
tracted visit  to  Europe,  Mr  Kohlsaat  bought  a  con- 
trolling interest  in  "The  Chicago  Inter  Ocean," 
but  withdrew  early  in  1894.  In  April,  1895,  he  be- 
came principal  proprietor  of  "The  Chicago  Times- 
Herald,  "as  the  successor  of  the  late  James  W. 
Scott,  who  died  suddenly  in  New  York,  soon  after 
effecting  a  consolidation  of  Chicago's  two  Demo- 
cratic papers,  "The  Times"  and  "Herald,"  in  one 
concern.  Although  changing  the  political  status 
of  the  paper  from  Democratic  to  Independent, 
Mr.  Kohlsaat's  liberal  enterprise  has  won  for  it 
an  assured  success.  He  is  also  owner  and  pub- 
lisher of  "The  Chicago  Evening  Post."  His 
whole  business  career  has  been  one  of  almost 
phenomenal  success  attained  by  vigorous  enter- 
prise and  high-minded,  honorable  methods.  Mr. 
Kohlsaat  is  one  of  the  original  incorporators  of 
the  University  of  Chicago,  of  which  he  continues 
to  be  one  of  the  Trustees. 

KROME,  William  Henry,  lawyer,  born  of  Ger- 
man parentage,  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  July  1,  1842; 
in  1851  was  brought  by  his  father  to  Madison 
County,  111. ,  where  he  lived  and  worked  for  some 
years  on  a  farm.  He  acquired  his  education  in 
the  common  schools  and  at  McKendree  College, 
graduating  from  the  latter  in  1803.  After  spend- 
ing his  summer  months  in  farm  labor  and  teach- 
ing school  during  the  winter,  for  a  year  or  two, 
he  read  law  for  a  time  with  Judge  M.  G.  Dale  of 
Edwardsville,  and,  in  1866,  entered  the  law 
department  of  Michigan  University,  gradu- 
ating in  1869,  though  admitted  the  year  previous 
to  practice  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  Illinois.  Mr. 
Krome  has  been  successively  the  partner  of 
Judge  John  G.  Irwin,  Hon  W  F.  L.  Haclley  (late 
Congressman  from  the  Eighteenth  District)  and 
C.  W  Terry.  He  has  held  the  office  of  Mayor  of 
Edwardsville  (1873),  State  Senator  (1874-78),  and, 
in  1893,  was  a  prominent  candidate  before  the 
Democratic  judicial  convention  for  the  nomina- 
tion for  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  to  succeed 
Justice  Scholfield,  deceased.  He  is  also  President 
of  the  Madison  County  State  Bank. 

KUEFFJTER,  William  C.,  lawyer  and  soldier, 
was  born  in  Germany  and  came  to  St.  Clair 
County,  111.,  in  1861  Early  in  1865  he  was  com- 
missioned Colonel  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Forty- 
ninth  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  one  of  the 
latest  regiments  organized  for  the  Civil  War,  and 
was  soon  after  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Brevet 


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Brigadier-General,  serving  until  January,  1866. 
Later,  General  Kueffner  studied  law  at  St.  Louis, 
and  having  graduated  in  1871,  established  himself 
in  practice  at  Belleville,  where  lie  has  since 
resided.  He  was  a  successful  contestant  for  a 
seat  in  the  Republican  National  Convention  of 
1880  from  the  Seventeenth  District. 

KUYKENDALL,  Andrew  J.,  lawyer  and  legis- 
lator, was  born  of  pioneer  parents  in  Gallatin 
(now  Hardin)  County,  111.,  March  3,  1815;  was 
self-educated  chiefly,  but  in  his  early  manhood 
adopted  the  law  as  a  profession,  locating  at 
Vienna  in  Johnson  County,  where  he  continued 
to  reside  to  the  end  of  his  life.  In  1842  he  was 
elected  a  Representative  in  the  Thirteenth  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  and  re-elected  two  years  later ;  in 
1850  became  State  Senator,  serving  continuously 
in  the  same  body  for  twelve  years;  in  1861  en- 
listed, and  was  commissioned  Major,  in  the 
Thirty-first  Illinois  Volunteers  (Gen.  John  A. 
Logan's  regiment),  but  was  compelled  to  resign, 
in  May  following,  on  acount  of  impaired  health. 
Two  years  later  (1864)  he  was  elected  Represent- 
ative in  the  Thirty-ninth  Congress,  serving  one 
term ;  and,  after  several  years  in  private  life,  was 
again  returned  to  the  State  Senate  in  1878,  serving 
in  the  Thirty- first  and  Thirty-second  General 
Assemblies.  In  all,  Major  Kuykendall  saw 
twenty  years'  service  in  the  State  Legislature,  of 
which  sixteen  were  spent  in  the  Senate  and  four 
in  the  House,  besides  two  years  in  Congress.  A 
zealous  Democrat  previous  to  the  war,  he  was  an 
ardent  supporter  of  the  war  policy  of  the  Govern- 
ment, and,  in  1864,  presided  over  the  "Union" 
(Republican)  State  Convention  of  that  year.  He 
was  also  a  member  of  the  Senate  Finance  Com- 
mittee in  the  session  of  1859,  which  had  the  duty 
of  investigating  the  Matteson  "canal  scrip  fraud." 
Died,  at  Vienna,  111.,  May  11,  1891. 

LABOR  TROUBLES.  1.  THE  RAILROAD 
STRIKE  OF  1877.— By  this  name  is  generally  char- 
acterized the  labor  disturbances  of  1877,  which, 
beginning  at  Pittsburg  in  July,  spread  over  the 
entire  country,  interrupting  transportation,  and, 
for  a  time,  threatening  to  paralyze  trade.  Illi- 
nois suffered  severely.  The  primary  cause  of  the 
troubles  was  the  general  prostration  of  business 
resulting  from  the  depression  of  values,  which 
affected  manufacturers  and  merchants  alike.  A 
reduction  of  expenses  became  necessary,  and  the 
wages  of  employes  were  lowered.  Dissatisfaction 
and  restlessness  on  the  part  of  the  latter  ensued, 
which  found  expression  in  the  ordering  of  a  strike 
among  railroad  operatives  on  a  larger  scale  than 


had  ever  been  witnessed  in  this  country.  In  Illi- 
nois, Peoria,  Decatur,  Braidwood,  East  St.  Louis, 
Galesburg,  La  Salle  and  Chicago  were  the  prin- 
cipal points  affected.  In  all  these  cities  angry, 
excited  men  formed  themselves  into  mobs,  which 
tore  up  tracks,  took  possession  of  machine  shops, 
in  some  cases  destroyed  roundhouses,  applied  the 
torch  to  warehouses,  and,  for  a  time,  held  com- 
merce by  the  throat,  not  only  defying  the  law, 
but  even  contending  in  arms  against  the  military 
sent  to  disperse  them.  The  entire  force  of  the 
State  militia  was  called  into  service,  Major- 
General  Arthur  C.  Ducat  being,  in  command. 
The  State  troops  were  divided  into  three  brigades, 
commanded  respectively  by  Brigadier-Generals 
Torrence,  Bates  and  Pavey.  General  Ducat 
assumed  personal  command  at  Braidwood,  where 
were  sent  the  Third  Regiment  and  the  Tenth 
Battalion,  who  suppressed  the  riots  at  that  point 
with  ease.  Col.  Joseph  W.  Stambaugh  and 
Lieut. -Col.  J.  B.  Parsons  were  the  respective 
regimental  commanders.  Generals  Bates  and 
Pavey  were  in  command  at  East  St.  Louis, 
where  the  excitement  was  at  fever  heat,  the 
mobs  terrorizing  peaceable  citizens  and  destroy- 
ing much  property.  Governor  Cullom  went  to 
this  point  in  person.  Chicago,  however,  was  the 
chief  railroad  center  of  the  State,  and  only 
prompt  and  severely  repressive  measures  held  in 
check  one  of  the  most  dangerous  mobs  which 
ever  threatened  property  and  life  in  that  city. 
The  local  police  force  was  inadequate  to  control 
the  rioters,  and  Mayor  Heath  felt  himself  forced 
to  call  for  aid  from  the  State.  Brig.  -Gen.  Joseph 
T.  Torrence  then  commanded  the  First  Brigade, 
I.  N.  G.,  with  headquarters  at  Chicago.  Under 
instructions  from  Governor  Cullom,  he  promptly 
and  effectively  co-operated  with  the  municipal 
authorities  in  quelling  the  uprising.  He  received 
valuable  support  from  volunteer  companies,  some 
of  which  were  largely  composed  of  Union  veter- 
ans. The  latter  were  commanded  by  such  ex- 
perienced commanders  as  Generals  Reynolds, 
Martin  Beem,  and  O.  L.  Mann,  and  Colonel  Owen 
Stuart.  General  Lieb  also  led  a  company  of 
veterans  enlisted  by  himself,  and  General  Shaff- 
ner  and  Major  James  H.  D.  Daly  organized  a 
cavalry  force  of  150  old  soldiers,  who  rendered 
efficient  service.  The  disturbance  was  promptly 
subdued,  transportation  resumed,  and  trade  once 
more  began  to  move  in  its  accustomed  channels. 
2.  THE  STRIKE  OF  1894. — This  was  an  uprising 
which  originated  in  Chicago  and  was  incited  by  a 
comparatively  young  labor  organization  called 
the  American  Railway  Union.  In  its  inception  it 


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was  sympathetic,  its  ostensible  motive,  at  the 
outset,  being  the  righting  of  wrongs  alleged  to 
have  been  suffered  by  employes  of  the  Pullman 
Palace  Car  Company..  The  latter  quit  work  on 
May  11,  and,  on  June  22,  the  American  Railway 
Union  ordered  a  general  boycott  against  all  rail- 
road companies  hauling  Pullman  cars  after  June 
26.  The  General  Managers  of  the  lines  entering 
Chicago  took  prompt  action  (June  25)  looking 
toward  mutual  protection,  protesting  against  the 
proposed  boycott,  and  affirming  their  resolution 
to  adhere  to  existing  contracts,  any  action  on  the 
part  of  the  strikers  to  the  contrary  notwithstand- 
ing. Trouble  began  on  the  26th.  The  hauling  of 
freight  was  necessarily  soon  discontinued;  sub- 
urban traffic  was  interrupted ;  switching  had  to 
be  done  by  inexperienced  hands  under  police  or 
military  protection  (officials  and  clerks  some- 
times throwing  the  levers),  and  in  the  presence  of 
large  crowds  of  law-defying  hoodlums  gathered 
along  the  tracks,  avowedly  through  sympathy 
with  the  strikers,  but  actually  in  the  hope  of 
plunder.  Trains  were  sidetracked,  derailed,  and, 
in  not  a  few  instances,  valuable  freight  was 
burned.  Passengers  were  forced  to  undergo  the 
inconvenience  of  being  cooped  up  for  hours  in 
crowded  cars,  in  transit,  without  food  or  water, 
sometimes  almost  within  sight  of  their  destina- 
tion, and  sometimes  threatened  with  death  should 
they  attempt  to  leave  their  prison  houses.  The 
mobs,  intoxicated  by  seeming  success,  finally  ven- 
tured to  interfere  with  the  passage  of  trains 
carrying  the  United  States  mails,  and,  at  this 
juncture,  the  Federal  authorities  interfered. 
President  Cleveland  at  once  ordered  the  protec- 
tion of  all  mail  trains  by  armed  guards,  to  be 
appointed  by  the  United  States  Marshal.  An 
additional  force  of  Deputy  Sheriffs  was  also  sworn 
in  by  the  Sheriff  of  Cook  County,  and  the  city 
police  force  was  augmented.  The  United  States 
District  Court  also  issued  a  restraining  order, 
directed  against  the  officers  and  members  of  the 
American  Railway  Union,  as  well  as  against  all 
other  persons  interfering  with  the  business  of 
railroads  carrying  the  mails.  Service  was  readily 
accepted  by  the  officers  of  the  Union,  but  the 
copies  distributed  among  the  insurgent  mob  were 
torn  and  trampled  upon.  Thereupon  the  Presi- 
dent ordered  Federal  troops  to  Chicago,  both  to 
protect  Government  property  (notably  the  Sub- 
treasury)  and  to  guard  mail  trains.  The  Gov- 
ernor (John  P.  Altgeld)  protested,  but  without 
avail.  A  few  days  later,  the  Mayor  of  Chicago 
requested  the  State  Executive  to  place  a  force  of 
State  militia  at  his  control  for  the  protection  of 


property  and  the  prevention  of  bloodshed.  Gen- 
eral Wheeler,  with  the  entire  second  division  of 
the  I.  N.  G.,  at  once  received  orders  to  report  to 
the  municipal  authorities.  The  presence  of  the 
militia  greatly  incensed  the  turbulent  crowds, 
yet  it  proved  most  salutary.  The  troops  displayed 
exemplary  firmness  under  most  trying  circum- 
stances, dispersing  jeering  and  threatening 
crowds  by  physical  force  or  bayonet  charges,  the 
rioters  being  fired  upon  only  twice.  Gradually 
order  was  restored.  The  disreputable  element 
subsided,  and  wiser  and  more  conservative  coun- 
sels prevailed  among  the  ranks  of  the  strikers. 
Impediments  to  traffic  were  removed  and  trains 
were  soon  running  as  though  no  interruption  had 
occurred.  The  troops  were  withdrawn  (first  the 
Federal  and  afterwards  those  of  the  State),  and 
the  courts  were  left  to  deal  with  the  subject  in 
accordance  with  the  statutes.  The  entire  execu- 
tive board  of  the  American  Railway  Union  were 
indicted  for  conspiracy,  but  the  indictments  were 
never  pressed.  The  officers,  however,  were  all 
found  guilty  of  contempt  of  court  in  having  dis- 
obeyed the  restraining  order  of  the  Federal 
court,  and  sentenced  to  terms  in  the  county  jail. 
Eugene  V.  Debs,  the  President  of  the  Union,  was 
convicted  on  two  charges  and  given  a  sentence 
of  six  months  on  each,  but  the  two  sentences  were 
afterward  made  concurrent.  The  other  members 
of  the  Board  received  a  similar  sentence  for  three 
months  each.  All  but  the  Vice-President,  George 
W.  Howard,  served  their  terms  at  Woodstock, 
McHenry  County.  Howard  was  sent  to  the  Will 
County  jail  at  Joliet. 

LACEY,  Ly man,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was  born  in 
Tompkins  County,  N.  Y.,  May  6,  1832.  In  1837 
his  parents  settled  in  Fulton  County,  111.  He 
graduated  from  Illinois  College  in  1855  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1856,  commencing  practice 
at  Havana,  Mason  County,  the  same  year.  In 
1862  he  was  elected,  as  a  Democrat,  to  represent 
the  counties  of  Mason  and  Menard  in  the  lower 
house  of  the  Legislature ;  was  elected  to  the  Cir- 
cuit Court  bench  in  1873,  and  re-elected  in  1879, 
'85  and  '91;  also  served  for  several  years  upon 
the  bench  of  the  Appellate  Court. 

LACON,  a  city  and  county-seat  of  Marshall 
County,  situated  on  the  Illinois  River,  and  on  the 
Dwight  and  Lacon  branch  of  the  Chicago  & 
Alton  Railroad,  130  miles  southwest  of  Chicago. 
A  pontoon  bridge  connects  it  with  Sparland  on 
the  opposite  bank  of  the  Illinois.  The  surround- 
ing country  raises  large  quantities  of  grain,  for 
which  Lacon  is  a  shipping  point.  The  river  in 
navigable  by  steamboats  to  this  point.  The  city 


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has  grain  elevators,  woolen  mills,  marble  works, 
a  carriage  factory  and  a  national  bank.  It  also  has 
water  works,  an  excellent  telephone  system,  good 
drainage,  and  is  lighted  by  electricity.  There 
are  seven  churches,  a  graded  school  and  two 
weekly  newspapers.  Population  (1880),  1,814; 
(1890),  1,649;  (1900),  1,601;  (1910),  1,495. 

LA  FAYETTE  (Marquis  de),  VISIT  OF.  An 
event  of  profound  interest  in  the  history  of  Illi- 
nois, during  the  year  1825,  was  the  visit  to  the 
State  by  the  Marquis  cle  La  Fayette,  who  had 
been  the  ally  of  the  American  people  during 
their  struggle  for  independence.  The  distin- 
guished Frenchman  having  arrived  in  the  coun- 
try during  the  latter  part  of  1834,  the  General 
Assembly  in  session  at  Vandalia,  in  December  of 
that  year,  adopted  an  address  inviting  him  to 
visit  Illinois.  This  was  communicated  to  La 
Fayette  by  Gov.  Edward  Coles,  who  had  met  the 
General  in  Europe  seven  years  before.  Governor 
Coles'  letter  and  the  address  of  the  General 
Assembly  were  answered  with  an  acceptance  by 
La  Fayette  from  Washington,  under  date  of  Jan. 
16,  1825.  The  approach  of  the  latter  was  made  by 
way  of  New  Orleans,  the  steamer  Natchez  (by 
which  General  La  Fayette  ascended  the  Mis- 
sissippi) arriving  at  the  old  French  village  of 
Carondelet,  below  St.  Louis,  on  the  28th  of  April. 
Col.  William  S.  Hamilton,  a  son  of  Alexander 
Hamilton,  and  at  that  time  a  Representative  in 
the  General  Assembly  from  Sangamon  County, 
as  well  as  an  Aid-de-Camp  on  the  staff  of  Gov- 
ernor Coles,  was  dispatched  from  the  home  of  the 
latter  at  Edwardsville,  to  meet  the  distinguished 
visitor,  which  he  did  at  St.  Louis.  On  Saturday, 
April  30,  the  boat  bearing  General  La  Fayette, 
with  a  large  delegation  of  prominent  citizens  of 
Missouri,  left  St.  Louis,  arriving  at  Kaskaskia, 
where  a  reception  awaited  him  at  the  elegant 
residence  of  Gen.  John  Edgar,  Governor  Coles 
delivering  an  address  of  welcome.  The  presence 
of  a  number  of  old  soldiers,  who  had  fought  under 
La  Fayette  at  Brandy  wine  and  Yorktown,  consti- 
tuted an  interesting  feature  of  the  occasion.  This 
was  followed  by  a  banquet  at  the  tavern  kept  by 
Colonel  Sweet,  and  a  closing  reception  at  the  house 
of  William  Morrison,  Sr.,  a  member  of  the  cele- 
brated family  of  that  name,  and  one  of  the  lead- 
ing merchants  of  Kaskaskia.  Among  those 
participating  in  the  reception  ceremonies,  who 
were  then,  or  afterwards  became,  prominent 
factors  in  State  history,  appear  the  names  of  Gen. 
John  Edgar,  ex-Governor  Bond,  Judge  Nathaniel 
Pope  Elias  Kent  Kane,  ex-Lieutenant-Governor 
Menard,  Col.  Thomas  Mather  and  Sidney  Breese, 


a  future  United  States  Senator  and  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court.  The  boat  left  Kaskaskia  at 
midnight  for  Nashville,  Tenn.,  Governor  Coles 
accompanying  the  party  and  returning  with  it  to 
Shawneetown,  where  an  imposing  reception  was 
given  and  an  address  of  welcome  delivered  by 
Judge  James  Hall,  on  May  14,  1825.  A  few 
hours  later  General  La  Fayette  left  on  his  way  up 
the  Ohio. 

LAFAYETTE,  BLOOMINGTON  &  MISSIS- 
SIPPI RAILROAD.  (See  Lake  Erie  &  Western 
Railroad. ) 

LAFLIJf,  Matthew,  manufacturer,  was  born 
at  Southwick,  Hampden  County,  Mass.,  Dec.  16, 
1803;  in  his  youth  was  clerk  for  a  time  in  the 
store  of  Laflin  &  Loomis,  powder  manufacturers, 
at  Lee,  Mass.,  later  becoming  a  partner  in  the 
Canton  Powder  Mills.  About  1832  he  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  axes  at  Saugerties,  N.  Y., 
which  proving  a  failure,  he  again  engaged  in 
powder  manufacture,  and,  in  1837,  came  to  Chi- 
cago, where  he  finally  established  a  factory —his 
firm,  in  1840,  becoming  Laflin  &  Smith,  and, 
later,  Laflin,  Smith  &  Co.  Becoming  largely 
interested  in  real  estate,  he  devoted  his  atten- 
tion chiefly  to  that  business  after  1849,  with 
great  success,  not  only  in  Chicago  but  else- 
where, having  done  much  for  the  develop- 
ment of  Waukesha,  Wis.,  where  he  erected  one 
of  the  principal  hotels — the  "Fountain  Spring 
House" — also  being  one  of  the  original  stock- 
holders of  the  Elgin  Watch  Company.  Mr. 
Laflin  was  a  zealous  supporter  of  the  Government 
during  the  war  for  the  preservation  of  the  Union, 
and,  before  his  death,  made  a  donation  of  $75,- 
000  for  a  building  for  the  Chicago  Academy  of 
Sciences,  which  was  erected  in  the  western  part 
of  Lincoln  Park.  Died,  in  Chicago,  May  20,  1897. 

LA  GRANGE,  a  village  in  Cook  County,  and 
one  of  the  handsomest  suburbs  of  Chicago,  from 
which  it  is  distant  15  miles,  south-southwest,  on 
the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Qulncy  Railroad.  The 
streets  are  broad  and  shaded  and  there  are  many 
handsome  residences.  The  village  is  lighted  by 
electricity,  and  has  public  water-works,  seven 
churches,  a  high  school  and  a  weekly  paper. 
Pop.  (1890),  2,314;  (1900),  3,969;  (1910),  5,282. 

LA  HARPE,  a  city  in  Hancock  County,  on  the 
Toledo,  Peoria  &  Western  Railway,  83  miles  west 
by  south  from  Peoria  and  20  miles  south-south- 
east of  Burlington,  Iowa.  Brick,  tile  and  cigars 
constitute  the  manufactured  output.  La  Harpe 
has  two  banks,  five  churches,  a  graded  and  a  high 
school,  a  seminary,  and  three  weekly  papers. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,113;  (1900),  1,591;  (1910),  1,349. 


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LAKE  COUNTY,  in  the  extreme  northeast 
corner  of  the  State,  having  an  area  of  394  square 
miles,  and  a  population  (1910)  of  55,058.  It  was 
cut  off  from  McHenry  County  and  separately 
organized  in  1839.  Pioneer  settlers  began  to 
arrive  in  1839,  locating  chiefly  along  the  Des 
Plaines  River.  The  Indians  vacated  the  region 
the  following  year.  The  first  County  Commission- 
ers (E.  E.  Hunter,  William  Brown  and  E.  C. 
Berrey)  located  the  county-seat  at  Libertyville, 
but,  in  1841,  it  was  removed  to  Little  Fort,  now 
Waukegan.  The  county  derives  its  name  from 
the  fact  that  some  forty  small  lakes  are  found 
within  its  limits.  The  surface  is  undulating  and 
about  equally  divided  between  sand,  prairie  and 
second-growth  timber.  At  Waukegan  there  are 
several  maufacturing  establishments,  and  the 
Glen  Flora  medicinal  spring  attracts  many  in- 
valids. Highland  Park  and  Lake  Forest  are  resi- 
dence towns  of  great  beauty  situated  on  the  lake 
bluff,  populated  largely  by  the  families  of  Chicago 
business  men. 

LAKE  ERIE  &  MISSISSIPPI  RAILROAD. 
(See  Lake  Erie  &  Western  Railroad.) 

LAKE  ERIE  &  WESTERN  RAILROAD.  Of 
the  710.61  miles  which  constitute  the  entire 
length  of  this  line,  only  118.6  are  within  Illinois. 
This  portion  extends  from  the  junction  of  the 
Peoria  &  Pekin  Union  Railway,  on  .the  east  side 
of  the  Illinois  River  opposite  Peoria,  to  the  Indi- 
ana State  line.  It  is  a  single-track  road  of 
standard  gauge.  About  one-sixth  of  the  line  in 
Illinois  is  level,  the  grade  nowhere  exceeding  40 
feet  to  the  mile.  The  track  is  of  56  and  60-pound 
steel  rails,  and  lightly  ballasted.  The  total 
capital  of  the  road  (1898)— including  §23,680,000 
capital  stock,  $10,875,000  bonded  debt  and  a  float- 
ing debt  of  $1,479,809— was  $36,034,809,  or  $50,- 
708  per  mile.  The  total  earnings  and  income  in 
Illinois  for  1898  were  $559,743,  and  the  total 
expenditures  for  the  same  period,  $457,713.— 
(HISTORY.)  The  main  line  of  the  Illinois  Division 
of  the  Lake  Erie  &  Western  Railroad  was  acquired 
by  consolidation,  in  1880,  of  the  Lafayette,  Bloom- 
ington  &  Mississippi  Railroad  (Similes  in  length), 
which  had  been  opened  in  1871,  with  certain  Ohio 
and  Indiana  lines.  In  May,  1885,  the  line  thus 
formed  was  consolidated,  without  change  of  name, 
with  the  Lake  Erie  &  Mississippi  Railroad,  organ- 
ized to  build  an  extension  of  the  Lake  Erie  & 
Western  from  Bloomington  to  Peoria  (43  miles). 
The  road  was  sold  under  foreclosure  in  1886,  and 
the  present  company  organized,  Feb.  9,  1887. 

LAKE  FOREST,  a  city  in  Lake  County,  on 
Lake  Michigan  and  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Rail- 


way, 28  miles  north  by  west  from  Chicago.  It  is 
the  seat  of  Lake  Forest  University;  has  four 
schools,  five  churches,  one  bank,  gas  and  electric 
light  system,  electric  car  line,  water  system,  fire 
department  and  hospital,  and  one  weekly  local 
paper.  Pop.  (1900),  2,215;  (1910),  3,349. 

LAKE  FOREST  UNIVERSITY,  an  institution 
of  learning  comprising  six  distinct  schools,  viz. : 
Lake  Forest  Academy,  Ferry  Hall  Seminary, 
Lake  Forest  College,  Rush  Medical  College,  Chi- 
cago College  of  Dental  Surgery,  and  the  Chicago 
College  of  Law.  The  three  first  named  are 
located  at  Lake  Forest,  while  the  three  profes- 
sional schools  are  in  the  city  of  Chicago.  The 
college  charter  was  granted  in  1857,  but  the 
institution  was  not  opened  until  nineteen  years 
later,  and  the  professional  schools,  which  were 
originally  independent,  were  not  associated  until 
1887.  In  1894  there  were  316  undergraduates  at 
Lake  Forest,  in  charge  of  forty  instructors.  Dur- 
ing the  same  year  there  were  in  attendance  at  the 
professional  schools,  1,557  students,  making  a 
total  enrollment  in  the  University  of  1,873. 
While  the  institution  is  affiliated  with  the  Pres- 
byterian denomination,  the  Board  of  Trustees  is 
self-perpetuating.  The  Academy  and  Seminary 
are  preparatory  schools  for  the  two  sexes,  re- 
spectively. Lake  Forest  College  is  co-educational 
and  organized  upon  the  elective  plan,  having 
seventeen  departments,  a  certain  number  of 
studies  being  required  for  graduation,  and  work 
upon  a  major  subject  being  required  for  three 
years.  The  schools  at  Lake  Forest  occupy  fifteen 
buildings,  standing  within  a  campus  of  sixty-five 
acres. 

LAKE  MICHIGAN,  one  of  the  chain  of  five 
great  northern  lakes,  and  the  largest  lake  lying 
wholly  within  the  United  States.  It  lies  between 
the  parallels  of  41°  35'  and  46°  North  latitude,  its 
length  being  about  335  miles.  Its  width  varies 
from  50  to  88  miles,  its  greatest  breadth  being 
opposite  Milwaukee.  Its  surface  is  nearly  600 
feet  above  the  sea-level  and  its  maximum  depth 
is  estimated  at  840  feet.  It  has  an  area  of  about 
20,000  square  miles.  It  forms  the  eastern  bound- 
.  ary  of  Wisconsin,  the  western  boundary  of  the 
lower  peninsula  of  Michigan  and  a  part  of  the 
northern  boundary  of  Illinois  and  Indiana.  Its 
waters  find  their  outlet  into  Lake  Huron  through 
the  straits  of  Mackinaw,  at  its  northeast  extrem- 
ity, and  are  connected  with  Lake  Superior  by  the 
Sault  Ste.  Marie  River.  It  contains  few  islands, 
and  these  mainly  in  its  northern  part,  the  largest 
being  some  fifteen  miles  long.  The  principal 
rivers  which  empty  into  this  lake  are  the  Fox, 


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Menominee,  Manistee,  Muskegon,  Kalamazoo, 
Grand  and  St.  Joseph.  Chicago,  Milwaukee, 
Racine  and  Manitowoc  are  the  chief  cities  on  its 
banks. 

LAKE  SHORE  &  MICHIGAN  SOUTHERN 
RAILWAY.  The  main  line  extends  from  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  to  Chicago,  111.,  a  distance  of  539  miles, 
with  various  branches  of  leased  and  proprietary 
lines  located  in  the  States  of  Michigan,  New 
York  and  Ohio,  making  the  mileage  of  lines 
operated  1,415.63  miles,  of  which  862.15  are  owned 
by  the  company — only  14  miles  being  in  Illinois. 
The  total  earnings  and  income  in  Illinois,  in  1898, 
were  §453,946,  and  the  expenditures  for  the  same 
period,  $360,971.— (HISTORY.)  The  company  was 
formed  in  1869,  from  the  consolidation  of  the 
Michigan  Southern  &  Northern  Indiana,  the 
Cleveland,  Painesville  &  Ashtabula,  and  the 
Buffalo  &  Erie  Railroad  Companies.  The  propri- 
etary roads  have  been  acquired  since  the  consoli- 
dation. 

LAMB,  James  L.,  pioneer  merchant,  was  born 
in  Connellsville,  Pa.,  Nov.  7,  1800;  at  12  years  of 
age  went  to  Cincinnati  to  serve  as  clerk  in  the 
store  of  a  distant  relative,  came  to  Kaskaskia,  111., 
in  1820,  and  soon  after  engaged  in  mercantile 
business  with  Thomas  Mather,  who  had  come  to 
Illinois  two  years  earlier.  Later,  the  firm  estab- 
lished a  store  at  Chester  and  shipped  the  first 
barrels  of  pork  from  Illinois  to  the  New  Orleans 
market.  In  1831  Mr.  Lamb  located  in  Springfield, 
afterwards  carrying  on  merchandising  and  pork- 
packing  extensively ;  also  established  an  iron 
foundry,  which  continued  in  operation  until  a  few 
years  ago.  Died,  Dec.  3,  1873. 

LAMB,  Martha  J.  R.  N.,  magazine  editor  and 
historian,  was  born  (Martha  Joan  Reade  Nash)  at 
Plainfield,  Mass.,  August  13,  1829,  received  a 
thorough  education  and,  after  her  marriage  in 
1852  to  Charles  A.  Lamb,  resided  for  eight  years 
in  Chicago,  111.,  where  she  was  one  of  the  prin- 
cipal founders  of  the  Home  for  the  Friendless  and 
Half  Orphan  Asylum,  and  Secretary  of  the 
Sanitary  Fair  of  1863.  In  1866  she  removed  to 
New  York  and  gave  her  after  life  to  literary  work, 
from  1883  until  her  death  being  editor  of  "The 
Magazine  of  American  History,"  besides  furnish- 
ing numerous  papers  on  historical  and  other  sub- 
jects ;  also  publishing  some  sixteen  volumes,  one 
of  her  most  important  works  being  a  "History  o' 
New  York  City,"  in  two  volumes.  She  was  a 
member  of  nearly  thirty  historical  and  other 
learned  societies.  Died,  Jan.  2,  1893. 

LAMBORN,  Josiah,  early  lawyer  and  Attor- 
ney-General; born  in  Washington  County,  Ky  , 


and  educated  at  Transylvania  University;  was 
Attorney-General  of  the  State  by  appointment  of 
Governor  Carlin,  1840-43,  at  that  time  being  a 
resident  of  Jacksonville.  He  is  described  by  his 
contemporaries  as  an  able  and  brilliant  man,  but 
of  convivial  habits  and  unscrupulous  to  such  a 
degree  that  his  name  was  mixed  up  with  a  num- 
ber of  official  scandals.  Separated  from  his 
family,  he  died  of  delirium  tremens,  at  White- 
hall, Greene  County. 

LAMOILLE,  a  village  of  Bureau  County,  on  the 
Mendota-Fulton  branch  of  the  Chicago,  Burling- 
ton &  Quincy  Railway,  9  miles  northwest  of  Men- 
dota;  in  rich  fanning  and  stock-raising  region; 
has  a  bank,  three  churches,  fine  school-building, 
and  one  weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  576;  (1910),  555. 

LAMON,  Ward  Hill,  lawyer,  was  born  at 
Mill  Creek,  Frederick  County,  W.  Va.,  Jan.  6, 
1828;  received  a  common  school  education  and 
wa&  engaged  in  teaching  for  a  time ;  also  began 
the  study  of  medicine,  but  relinquished  it  for  the 
law.  About  1847-48  he  located  at  Danville,  111., 
subsequently  read  law  with  the  late  Judge  Oliver 
L.  Davis,  attending  lectures  at  the  Louisville 
Law  School,  where  he  had  Gen.  John  A.  Logan 
for  a  class-mate.  On  admission  to  the  bar,  he 
became  the  Danville  partner  of  Abraham  Lincoln 
— the  partnership  being  in  existence  as  early  as 
1852.  In  1859  he  removed  to  Bloomington,  and, 
in  the  Presidential  campaign  of  1860,  was  a  zeal- 
ous supporter  of  Mr.  Lincoln.  In  February,  1861, 
he  was  chosen  by  Mr.  Lincoln  to  accompany  him 
to  Washington,  making  the  perilous  night  jour- 
ney through  Baltimore  in  Mr.  Lincoln's  company. 
Being  a  man  of  undoubted  courage,  as  well  as 
almost  giant  stature,  he  soon  received  the  ap- 
pointment of  Marshal  of  the  District  of  Columbia, 
and,  in  the  first  weeks  of  the  new  administration, 
made  a  confidential  visit  to  Colonel  Anderson, 
then  in  command  at  Fort  Sumter,  to  secure 
accurate  information  as  to  the  situation  there. 
In  May,  1861,  he  obtained  authority  to  raise  a 
regiment,  of  which  he  was  commissioned  Colonel, 
remaining  in  the  field  to  December,  when  he 
returned  to  the  discharge  of  his  duties  as  Marshal 
at  Washington,  but  was  absent  from  Washington 
on  the  night  of  the  assassination — April  14,  1865. 
Resigning  his  office  after  this  event,  he  entered 
into  partnership  for  the  practice  of  law  with  the 
late  Jeremiah  S.  Black  of  Pennsylvania.  Some 
years  later  he  published  the  first  volume  of  a  pro- 
posed Life  of  Lincoln,  using  material  which  he 
obtained  from  Mr.  Lincoln's  Springfield  partner. 
William  H.  Herndon,  but  the  second  volume  was 
never  issued.  His  death  occurred  at  Martins- 


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burg,  W.  Va.,  not  far  from  his  birthplace,  May 
7,  1893.  Colonel  Lamon  married  a  daughter  of 
Judge  Stephen  T.  Logan,  of  Springfield. 

LANARK,  a  city  in  Carroll  County,  19  miles  by 
rail  southwest  of  Freeport,  and  7  miles  east  of 
Mount  Carroll  The  surrounding  country  is 
largely  devoted  to  grain-growing,  and  Lanark 
has  two  elevators  and  is  an  important  shipping- 
point.  Manufacturing  of  various  descriptions  is 
carried  on.  The  city  has  two  banks  (one  Na- 
tional and  one  State),  eight  churches,  a  graded 
and  high  school,  and  a  weekly  newspaper.  Popu- 
lation (1900),  1,306;  (1910),  1,175. 

LANDES,  Silas  Z.,  ex-Congressman,  was  born 
in  Augusta  County,  Va.,  May  15,  1843.  In  early 
youth  he  removed  to  Illinois,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  of  this  State  in  August,  1863,  and  has 
been  in  active  practice  at  Mount  Carmel  since 
1864.  In  1872  he  was  elected  State's  Attorney 
for  Wabash  County,  was  re-elected  in  1876,  and 
again  in  1880.  He  represented  the  Sixteenth  Illi- 
nois District  in  Congress  from  1885  to  1889,  being 
elected  as  a  Democrat.  Died  May  23,  1910. 

LANDRIGAN,  John,  farmer  and  legislator,  was 
born  in  County  Tipperary,  Ireland,  in  1832,  and 
brought  to  America  at  one  year  of  age,  his 
parents  stopping  for  a  time  in  New  Jersey.  His 
early  life  was  spent  at  Lafayette,  Ind.  After 
completing  his  education  in  the  seminary  there, 
he  engaged  in  railroad  and  canal  contracting. 
Coming  to  Illinois  in  1858,  he  purchased  a  farm 
near  Albion,  Edwards  County,  where  he  has 
since  resided.  He  has  been  twice  elected  as  a 
Democrat  to  the  House  of  Representatives  (1868 
and  '74)  and  twice  to  the  State  Senate  (1870 
and  '96),  and  has  been,  for  over  twenty  years, 
a  member  of  the  State  Agricultural  Society — 
for  four  years  of  that  time  being  President 
of  the  Board,  and  some  sixteen  years  Vice- Presi- 
dent. 

LANE,  Albert  Grannis,  educator,  was  born  in 
Cook  County,  111.,  March  15,  1841,  and  educated 
in  the  public  schools,  graduating  with  the  first 
class  from  the  Chicago  High  School  in  1858.  He 
immediately  entered  upon  the  business  of  teach- 
ing as  Principal,  but,  in  1869,  was  elected  Super- 
intendent of  Schools  for  Cook  County.  After 
three  years'  service  as  cashier  of  a  bank,  he  was 
elected  County  Superintendent,  a  second  time,  in 
1877,  and  regularly  every  four  years  thereafter 
until  1890.  In  1891  he  was  chosen  Superintend- 
ent of  Schools  for  the  city  of  Chicago,  to  fill  the 
vacancy  caused  by  the  resignation  of  Superin- 
tendent Howland — a  position  which  he  continued 
to  fill  until  the  appointment  of  E.  B.  Andrews, 


Superintendent,  when  he  became  First  Assistant 
Superintendent.  Died  Aug.  22,  1906. 

LANE,  Edward,  ex-Congressman,  was  born  in 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  March  27,  1842,  and  became  a 
resident  of  Illinois  at  the  age  of  16.  After  receiv- 
ing an  academic  education  he  studied  law  and 
was  admitted  to  the  Illinois  bar  in  February, 
1865.  Since  then  he  has  been  a  successful  prac- 
titioner at  Hillsboro.  From  1869  to  1873  he  served 
as  County  Judge.  In  1886  he  was  the  successful 
Democratic  candidate  for  Congress  from  the 
Seventeenth  Illinois  District  and  re-elected  for 
three  successive  terms,  but  was  defeated  by 
Frederick  Remann  (Republican)  in  1894,  and 
again  by  W.  F.  L.  Hadley,  at  a  special  election,  in 
1895,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of 
Mr.  Remann. 

LANPHIER,  Charles  H.,  journalist,  was  born 
at  Alexandria,  Va.,  April  14,  1820;  from  4  years 
of  age  lived  in  Washington  City ;  in  1836  entered 
the  office  as  an  apprentice  of  "The  State  Regis- 
ter" at  Vandalia,  111.,  (then  owned  by  his  brother- 
in-law,  William  Walters).  Later,  the  paper  was 
removed  to  Springfield,  and  Walters,  having 
enlisted  for  the  Mexican  war  in  1846,  died  at  St. 
Louis,  en  route  to  the  field.  Lanphier,  having 
thus  succeeded  to  the  management,  and,  finally, 
to  the  proprietorship  of  the  paper,  was  elected 
public  printer  at  the  next  session  of  the  Legisla- 
ture, and,  in  1847,  took  into  partnership  George 
Walker,  who  acted  as  editor  until  1858.  Mr.  Lau- 
phier  continued  the  publication  of  the  paper  until 
1863,  aud  then  sold  out.  During  the  war  he 
was  one  of  the  State  Board  of  Army  Auditors 
appointed  by  Governor  Yates;  was  elected 
Circuit  Clerk  in  1864  and  re-elected  in  1868, 
and,  in  1872,  was  Democratic  candidate  for 
State  Treasurer  but  defeated  with  the  rest  of  his 
party.  Died  March  17,  1903. 

LARCOM,  Lucy,  author  and  teacher,  born  at 
Beverly,  Mass.,  in  1826;  attended  a  grammar 
school  and  worked  in  a  cotton  mill  at  Lowell, 
becoming  one  of  the  most  popular  contributors  to 
"The  Lowell  Offering,"  a  magazine  conducted  by 
the  factory  girls,  thereby  winning  the  acquaint- 
ance and  friendship  of  the  poet  Whittier.  In 
1846  she  came  to  Illinois  and,  for  three  years,  was 
a  student  at  Monticello  Female  Seminary,  near 
Alton,  meanwhile  teaching  at  intervals  in  the 
v.'cinity.  Returning  to  Massachusetts  she  taught 
for  six  years;  in  1865  established  "Our  Young 
Folks,"  of  which  she  was  editor  until  1874.  Her 
books,  botli  poetical  and  prose,  have  taken  a 
high  rank  for  their  elevated  literary  and  moral 
tone.  Died,  in  Boston,  April  17,  1893. 


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LARNED,  Edward  Clianninir,  lawyer,  was  born 
in  Providence,  R.  I.,  July  14,  1820;  graduated  at 
Brown  University  in  1840 ;  was  Professor  of  Mathe- 
matics one  year  in  Kemper  College,  Wis.,  then 
studied  law  and,  in  1847,  came  to  Chicago.  He 
was  an  earnest  opponent  of  slavery  and  gained 
considerable  deserved  celebrity  by  a  speech 
which  he  delivered  in  1851,  in  opposition  to  the 
fugitive  slave  law.  He  was  a  warm  friend  of 
Abraham  Lincoln  and,  in  1860,  made  speeches  in 
his  support ;  was  an  active  member  of  the  Union 
Defense  Committee  of  Chicago  during  the  war, 
and,  in  1861,  was  appointed  by  Mr.  Lincoln 
United  States  District  Attorney  of  the  Northern 
District  of  Illinois,  but  compelled  to  resign  by 
failing  health.  Being  absent  in  Europe  at  the 
time  of  the  fire  of  1871,  he  returned  immediately 
and  devoted  his  attention  to  the  work  of  the 
Relief  and  Aid  Society.  Making  a  second  visit  to 
Europe  in  1872-73,  he  wrote  many  letters  for  the 
press,  also  doing  much  other  literary  work  in 
spite  of  declining  health.  Died  at  Lake  Forest, 
111.,  September,  1884. 

LA  SALLE,  a  city  in  La  Salle  County,  99  miles 
southwest  of  Chicago,  situated  on  the  Illinois 
River  at  southern  terminus  of  the  Illinois  & 
Michigan  Canal,  and  at  intersection  of  three 
trunk  lines  of  railroads.  Bituminous  coal 
abounds  and  is  extensively  mined;  zinc  smelting 
and  the  manufacture  of  glass  and  hydraulic  and 
Portland  cement  are  leading  industries;  has  an 
abundant  supply  of  fine  sand  for  glass  manufacture; 
is  connected  with  adjacent  towns  by  electric  rail- 
ways, and  with  Peoria  by  daily  river  packets;  two 
daily  papers.  Pop.  (1900),  10,446;  (1910),  11,537. 

LA  SALLE,  Reni  Robert  Cavelier,  Sieur  de, 
a  famous  explorer,  born  at  Rouen,  France,  in 
1643;  entered  the  Jesuit  order,  but  conceiving 
that  he  had  mistaken  his  vocation,  came  to 
America  in  1666.  He  obtained  a  grant  of  land 
about  the  Lachine  Rapids  of  the  St.  Lawrence, 
above  Montreal.  It  was  probably  his  intention 
to  settle  there  as  a  grand  seigneur;  but,  becoming 
interested  in.  stories  told  him  by  some  Seneca 
Indians,  he  started  two  years  later  in  quest  of  a 
great  waterway,  which  he  believed  led  to  the 
South  Sea  (Pacific  Ocean)  and  afforded  a  short 
route  to  China.  He  passed  through  Lake  Ontario, 
and  is  believed  to  have  discovered  the  Ohio.  The 
claim  that  he  reached  the  Illinois  River  at  this 
time  has  been  questioned.  Having  re-visited 
France  in  1677  he  was  given  a  patent  of  nobility 
and  extensive  land-grants  in  Canada.  In  1679  he 
visited  the  Northwest  and  explored  the  great 
lakes,  finally  reaching  the  head  of  Lake  Michi- 


gan and  erecting  a  fort  near  the  mouth  of  the  St. 
Joseph  River.  From  there  he  made  a  portage  to 
the  Illinois,  which  he  descended  early  in  1680  to 
Lake  Peoria,  where  he  began  the  erection  of  a 
fort  to  which,  in  consequence  of  the  misfortunes 
attending  the  expedition,  was  given  the  name  of 
Creve-Coaur.  Returning  from  here  to  Canada  for 
supplies,  in  the  following  fall  he  again  appeared 
in  Illinois,  but  found  his  fort  at  Lake  Peoria  a 
ruin  and  his  followers,  whom  he  had  left  there, 
gone.  Compelled  again  to  return  to  Canada,  in 
the  latter  part  of  1681  he  set  out  on  his  third 
expedition  to  Illinois,  and  making  the  portage  by 
way  of  the  Chicago  and  Des  Plaines  Rivers, 
reached  "Starved  Rock,"  near  the  present  city  of 
Ottawa,  where  his  lieutenant,  Tonty,  had  already 
begun  the  erection  of  a  fort.  In  1682,  accom- 
panied by  Tonty,  he  descended  the  Illinois  and 
Mississippi  Rivers,  reaching  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  on 
April  9.  He  gave  the  region  the  name  of  Louisi- 
ana. In  1683  he  again  returned  to  France  and 
was  commissioned  to  found  a  colony  at  the  mouth 
of  the  Mississippi,  which  he  unsuccessfully 
attempted  to  do  in  1684,  the  expedition  finally 
landing  about  Matagorda  Bay  in  Texas.  After 
other  fruitless  attempts  (death  and  desertions 
having  seriously  reduced  the  number  of  his  colo- 
nists), while  attempting  to  reach  Canada,  he  was 
murdered  by  his  companions  near  Trinity  River 
in  the  present  State  of  Texas,  March  19,  1687. 
Another  theory  regarding  La  Salle's  ill-starred 
Texas  expedition  is,  that  he  intended  to  establish 
a  colony  west  of  the  Mississippi,  with  a  view  to 
contesting  with  the  Spaniards  for  the  possession 
of  that  region,  but  that  the  French  government 
failed  to  give  him  the  support  which  had  been 
promised,  leaving  him  to  his  fate. 

LA  SALLE  COUNTS,  one  of  the  wealthiest 
counties  in  the  northeastern  section,  being  second 
in  size  and  in  population  in  the  State  It  was 
organized  in  1831,  and  has  an  area  of  1,152  square 
miles;  population  (1900),  87,776.  The  history  of 
this  region  dates  back  to  1675,  when  Marquette 
established  a  mission  at  an  Indian  village  on  the 
Illinois  River  about  where  Utica  now  stands, 
eight  miles  west  of  Ottawa.  La  Salle  (for  whom 
the  county  is  named)  erected  a  fort  here  in  1682, 
which  was,  for  many  years,  the  headquarters  for 
French  missionaries  and  traders.  Later,  the 
Illinois  Indians  were  well-nigh  exterminated 
by  starvation,  at  the  same  point,  which  has  be- 
come famous  in  Western  history  as  "Starved 
Rock."  The  surface  of  the  county  is  undulat- 
ing and  slopes  toward  the  Illinois  River.  The 
soil  is  rich,  and  timber  abounds  on  the  bluffs  and 


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along  the  streams.  Water  is  easily  procured. 
Four  beds  of  coal  underlie  the  entire  county,  and 
good  building  stone  is  quarried  at  a  depth  of  150 
to  200  feet.  Excellent  hydraulic  cement  is  made 
from  the  calciferous  deposit,  Utica  being  espe- 
cially noted  for  this  industry.  The  First  Ameri- 
can settlers  came  about  the  time  of  Captain  Long's 
survey  of  a  canal  route  (1816).  The  Illinois  & 
Michigan  Canal  was  located  by  a  joint  corps  of 
State  and  National  engineers  in  1830.  (See  Illi- 
nois &  Michigan  Canal.)  During  the  Black 
Hawk  War,  La  Salle  County  was  a  prominent 
base  of  military  operations.  Pop.  (1910),  90,132. 

LATHROP,  William,  lawyer  and  Congress- 
man, was  born  in  Genesee  County,  N.  Y.,  April 
17,  1825.  His  early  education  was  acquired  in 
the  common  schools.  Later  he  read  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  commencing  practice  in 
1851,  making  his  home  in  Central  New  York  until 
his  removal  to  Illinois.  In  1856  he  represented 
the  Rockford  District  in  the  lower  house  of  the 
General  Assembly,  and,  in  1876,  was  elected,  as  a 
Republican,  to  represent  the  (then)  Fourth  Illi- 
nois District  in  Congress. 

LA  YANTUM,  the  name  given,  in  the  latter 
part  of  the  seventeenth  century,  to  the  principal 
village  of  the  Illinois  Indians,  situated  on  the 
Illinois  River,  near  the  present  town  of  Utica,  in 
La  Salle  County.  (See  Starved  Rock. ) 

LAWLER,  Frank,  was  born  at  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  June  25,  1842.  His  first  active  occupation 
was  as  a  news-agent  on  railroads,  which  business 
he  followed  for  three  years.  He  learned  the 
trade  of  a  ship-calker,  and  was  elected  to  the 
Presidency  of  the  Ship-Carpenters'  and  Ship- 
Calkers'  Association.  While  yet  a  young  man  he 
settled  in  Chicago  and,  in  1869,  was  appointed  to 
a  clerical  position  in  the  postoffice  in  that  city ; 
later,  served  as  a  letter-carrier,  and  as  a  member 
of  the  City  Council  (1876-84).  In  1884  he  was 
elected  to  Congress  from  the  Second  District, 
which  he  represented  in  that  body  for  three  suc- 
cessive terms.  While  serving  his  last  year  in 
Congress  (1890)  he  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate 
on  the  Democratic  ticket  for  Sheriff  of  Cook 
County;  in  1893  was  an  unsuccessful  applicant 
for  the  Chicago  postmastership,  was  defeated  as 
an  Independent-Democrat  for  Congress  in  1894, 
but,  in  1895,  was  elected  Alderman  for  the  Nine- 
teenth Ward  of  the  city  of  Chicago.  Died,  Jan. 
17,  1896. 

LAWLER,  (Gen.)  Michael  K.,  soldier,  was 
born  in  County  Kildare,  Ireland,  Nov.  16,  1814, 
brought  to  the  United  States  in  1816,  and,  in  1819, 
to  Gallatin  County,  111.,  where  his  father  began 


farming.  The  younger  Lawler  early  evinced  a 
military  taste  by  organizing  a  military  company 
in  1842,  of  which  he  served  as  Captain  three  or 
four  years.  In  1846  he  organized  a  company  for  the 
Mexican  War,  which  was  attached  to  the  Third 
Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers  (Colonel  Forman's), 
and,  at  the  end  of  its  term  of  enlistment,  raised 
a  company  of  cavalry,  with  which  he  served 
to  the  end  of  the  war — in  all,  seeing  two  and 
a  half  years'  service.  He  then  resumed  the 
peaceful  life  of  a  farmer;  but,  on  the  breaking 
out  of  the  rebellion,  again  gave  proof  of  his  patri- 
otism by  recruiting  the  Eighteenth  Illinois  Volun- 
teer Infantry — the  first  regiment  organized  in 
the  Eighteenth  Congressional  District — of  which 
he  was  commissioned  Colonel,  entering  into  the 
three  years'  service  in  May,  1861.  His  regiment 
took  part  in  most  of  the  early  engagements  in 
Western  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  including  the 
capture  of  Fort  Donelson,  where  it  lost  heavily. 
Colonel  Lawler  himself  being  severely  wounded. 
Later,  he  was  in  command,  for  some  time,  at 
Jackson,  Tenn. ,  and,  in  November,  1862,  was  com- 
missioned Brigadier-General  "for  gallant  and 
meritorious  service."  He  was  also  an  active 
participant  in  the  operations  against  Vicksburg, 
and  was  thanked  on  the  field  by  General  Grant 
for  his  service  at  the  battle  of  Big  Black,  pro- 
nounced by  Charles  A.  Dana  (then  Assistant 
Secretary  of  War)  "one  of  the  most  splendid 
exploits  of  the  war. "  After  the  fall  of  Vicksburg 
he  took  part  in  the  siege  of  Jackson,  Miss.,  and 
in  the  campaigns  on  the  Teche  and  Red  River,  and 
in  Texas,  also  being  in  command,  for  six  months, 
at  Baton  Rouge,  La.  In  March,  1865,  he  was 
brevetted  Major-General,  and  mustered  out, 
January,  1866,  after  a  service  of  four  years  and 
seven  months.  He  then  returned  to  his  Gallatin 
County  farm,  where  lie  died,  July  26,  1882. 

LAWLER,  Thomas  G.,  soldier  and  Com- 
mander-in-Chief  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the 
Republic,  was  born  in  Liverpool,  Eng.,  April 
7,  1844;  was  brought  to  Illinois  by  his  parents 
in  childhood,  and,  at  I7  years  of « age,  enlisted 
in  the  Nineteenth  Illinois  Volunteers,  serv- 
ing first  as  a  private,  then  as  Sergeant,  later 
being  elected  First  Lieutenant,  and  (although 
not  mustered  in,  for  two  months)  during  the 
Atlanta  campaign  being  in  command  of  his  com- 
pany, and  placed  on  the  roll  of  honor  by  order  of 
General  Rosecrans.  He  participated  in  every 
battle  in  which  his  regiment  was  engaged,  and, 
at  the  battle  of  Missionary  Ridge,  was  the  first 
man  of  his  command  over  the  enemy's  works. 
After  the  war  he  became  prominent  as  an  officer 


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of  the  Illinois  National  Guard,  organizing  the 
Rockford  Rifles,  in  1876,  and  serving  as  Colonel  of 
the  Third  Regiment  for  seven  years;  was  ap- 
pointed Postmaster  at  Rockford  by  President 
Hayes,  but  removed  by  Cleveland  in  1885;  re- 
appointed  by  Harrison  and  again  displaced  on  the 
accession  of  Cleveland.  He  was  one  of  the 
organizers  of  G.  L.  Nevius  Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of 
which  he  served  as  Commander  twenty-six  years ; 
in  1882  was  elected  Department  Commander  for 
the  State  of  Illinois  and,  in  1894,  Commander-in- 
Chief ,  serving  one  year. 

LAWRENCE,  Charles  B.,  jurist,  was  born  at 
Vergennes,  Vt.,  Dec.  17,  1820.  After  two  years 
spent  at  Middlebury  College,  he  entered  the 
junior  class  at  Union  College,  graduating  from 
the  latter  in  1841.  He  devoted  two  years  to 
teaching  in  Alabama,  and  began  reading  law  at 
Cincinnati  in  1843,  completing  his  studies  at  St. 
Louis,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and 
began  practice  in  1844.  The  following  year  he 
removed  to  Quincy,  111. ,  where  he  was  a  promi- 
nent practitioner  for  ten  years.  The  years 
1856-58  he  spent  in  foreign  travel,  with  the  pri- 
mary object  of  restoring  his  impaired  health.  On 
his  return  home  he  began  farming  in  Warren 
County,  with  the  same  end  in  view.  In  1861  he 
accepted  a  nomination  to  the  Circuit  Court  bench 
and  was  elected  without  opposition.  Before  the 
expiration  of  his  term,  in  1864,  he  was  elected  a 
Justice  of  the  Illinois  Supreme  Court  for  the 
Northern  Grand  Division,  and,  in  1870,  became 
Chief  Justice.  At  this  time  his  home  was  at 
Galesburg.  Failing  of  a  re-election  in  1873,  he 
removed  to  Chicago,  and  at  once  became  one  of 
the  leaders  of  the  Cook  County  bar.  Although 
persistently  urged  by  personal  and  political 
friends,  to  permit  his  name  to  be  used  in  connec- 
tion with  a  vacancy  on  the  bench  of  the  United 
States  Supreme  Court,  he  steadfastly  declined. 
In  1877  he  received  the  votes  of  the  Republicans 
in  the  State  Legislature  for  United  States  Senator 
against  David  Davis,  who  was  elected.  Died,  at 
Decatur,  Ala.,  April  9,  1883. 

LAWRENCE  COUNTY,  one  of  the  eastern 
counties  in  the  "southern  tier,"  originally  a  part 
of  Edwards,  but  separated  from  the  latter  in 
1821,  and  named  for  Commodore  Lawrence.  In 
1910  its  area  was  362  square  miles,  and  its  popu- 
lation 22,661.  The  first  English-speaking  settlers 
seem  to  have  emigrated  from  the  colony  at  Vin- 
cennes,  Ind.  St.  Francisville,  in  the  southeast- 
ern portion,  and  Allison  prairie,  in  the  northeast, 
were  favored  by  the  American  pioneers.  Settle- 
ment was  more  or  less  desultory  until  after  the 


War  of  1812.  Game  was  abundant  and  the  soil 
productive.  About  a  dozen  negro  families  found 
homes,  in  1819,  near  Lawrenceville,  and  a  Shaker 
colony  was  established  about  Charlottesville  the 
same  year.  Among  the  best  remembered  pio- 
neers are  the  families  of  Lautermann,  Chubb, 
Kincaid,  Buchanan  and  Laus — the  latter  having 
come  from  South  Carolina.  Toussaint  Dubois, 
a  Frenchman  and  father  of  Jesse  K.  Dubois,  State 
Auditor  (1857-64),  was  a  large  land  proprietor  at 
.an  early  day,  and  his  house  was  first  utilized  as  a 
court  house.  The  county  is  richer  in  historic 
associations  than  in  populous  towns.  Lawrence- 
ville, the  county-seat,  was  credited  with  865 
inhabitants  by  the  census  of  1890.  St.  Francis- 
ville and  Sumner  are  flourishing  towns. 

LAWRENCEVILLE,  the  county-seat  of  Law- 
rence County,  is  situated  on  the  Embarras  River, 
at  the  intersection  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
Southwestern  and  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati, 
Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railways,  9  miles  west  of 
Vincennes,  Ind.,  and  139  miles  east  of  St.  Louis. 
It  has  a  courthouse,  four  churches,  a  graded 
school  and  two  weekly  newspapers.  Population 
(1890),  865;  (1900),  1,300;  (1910),  3,235. 

LAWSON,  Victor  F.,  journalist  and  newspaper 
proprietor,  was  born  in  Chicago,  of  Scandinavian 
parentage,  Sept.  9,  1850.  After  graduating  at  the 
Chicago  High  School,  he  prosecuted  his  studies 
at  Phillips  Academy,  Andover,  Mass.,  and  at 
Harvard  University.  In  August,  1876,  he  pur- 
chased an  interest  in  "The  Chicago  Daily  News," 
being  for  some  time  a  partner  of  Melville  E. 
Stone,  but  became  sole  proprietor  in  1888,  pub- 
lishing morning  and  evening  editions.  He 
reduced  the  price  of  the  morning  edition  to  one 
cent,  and  changed  its  name  to  "The  Chicago 
Record."  He  has  always  taken  a  deep  interest 
in  the  cause  of  popular  education,  and,  in  1888, 
established  a  fund  to  provide  for  the  distribution 
of  medals  among  public  school  children  of  Chi- 
cago, the  award  to  be  made  upon  the  basis  of 
comparative  excellence  in  the  preparation  of 
essays  upon  topics  connected  with  American 
history. 

LEBANON,  a  city  in  St.  Clair  County,  situated 
on  Silver  Creek,  and  on  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
Southwestern  Railroad,  11  miles  northeast  of 
Belleville  and  24  miles  east  of  St.  Louis;  is  lo- 
cated in  an  agricultural  and  coal-mining  region. 
Its  manufacturing  interests  are  limited,  a  flour- 
ing mill  being  the  chief  industry  of  this  charac- 
ter. The  city  has  electric  lights  and  electric 
trolley  line  connecting  with  Belleville  and  St. 
Louis;  also  has  a  bank,  eight  churches,  one 


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weekly  paper  and  is  an  important  educational  center, 
being  the  seat  of  McKendree  College,  founded  in 
1828.  Pop.  (1900),  1,812;  (1910),  1,907. 

LEE  COUNTY,  one  of  the  third  tier  of  counties 
south  of  the  Wisconsin  State  line;  named  for 
Richard  Henry  Lee  of  Revolutionary  fame;  area, 
728  square  miles;  population  (1910),  27,750.  It 
was  cut  off  from  Ogle  County,  and  separately 
organized  in  1839.  In  1840  the  population  was 
but  little  over  2,000.  Charles  F.  Ingals,  Nathan 
R.  Whitney  and  James  P.  Dixon  were  the  first 
County-Commissioners.  Agriculture  is  the  prin- 
cipal pursuit,  although  stone  quarries  are  found 
here  and  there,  notably  at  Ashton.  The  county- 
seat  is  Dixon,  where,  in  1828,  one  Ogee,  a  half- 
breed,  built  a  cabin  and  established  a  ferry  across 
the  Rock  River.  In  1830,  John  Dixon,  of  New 
York,  purchased  Ogee's  interest  for  $1,800.  Set- 
tlement and  progress  were  greatly  retarded  by 
the  Black  Hawk  War,  but  immigration  fairly  set 
in  in  1838.  The  first  court  house  was  built  in 
1840,  and  the  same  year  the  United  States  Land 
Office  was  removed  from  Galena  to  Dixon,  CoL 
John  Dement,  an  early  pioneer,  being  appointed 
Receiver.  Dixon  was  incorporated  as  a  city  in 
1859,  and,  in  1910,  had  a  population  of  7,216. 

LEGISLATIVE  APPORTIONMENT.  (See 
Apportionment,  Legislative. ) 

LEGISLATURE.    (See  General  Assemblies.) 

LELAND,  a  village  of  La  Salle  County,  on  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railway,  29  miles 
southwest  of  Aurora.  Population  (1910),  545. 

LKLAMl,  Edwin  S.,  lawyer  and  Judge,  was 
born  at  Dennysville,  Me.,  August  28,  1812,  and 
admitted  to  the  bar  at  Dedham,  Mass.,  in  1834. 
In  1835  he  removed  to  Ottawa,  111.,  and,  in  1839, 
to  Oregon,  Ogle  County,  where  he  practiced  for 
four  years.  Returning  to  Ottawa  in  1843,  he 
rapidly  rose  in  his  profession,  until,  in  1852,  he 
was  elected  to  the  Circuit  Court  bench  to  fill  the 
unexpired  term  of  Judge  T.  Lyle  Dickey,  who 
had  resigned.  In  1866  Governor  Oglesby  ap- 
pointed him  Circuit  Judge  to  fill  the  unexpired 
term  of  Judge  Hollister.  He  was  elected  by 
popular  vote  in  1867,  and  re-elected  in  1873,  being 
assigned  to  the  Appellate  Court  of  the  Second 
District  in  1877.  He  was  prominently  identified 
with  the  genesis  of  the  Republican  party,  whose 
tenets  he  zealously  championed.  He  was  also 
prominent  in  local  affairs,  having  been  elected 
the  first  Republican  Mayor  of  Ottawa  (1856), 
President  of  the  Board  of  Education  and  County 
Treasurer.  Died,  June,  24,  1889. 

LEMEN,  James,  Sr.,  pioneer,  was  born  in  Berk- 
eley County,  Va.,  Nov.  20,  1760;  served  as  a  soldier 


in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  being  present  at 
the  surrender  of  Cornwallis  at  Yorktown  in  1781 ; 
in  1786  came  to  Illinois,  settling  at  the  village  of 
New  Design,  near  the  present  site  of  Waterloo,  in 
Monroe  County.  He  was  a  man  of  enterprise 
and  sterling  integrity,  and  ultimately  became  the 
head  of  one  of  the  most  prominent  and  influential 
families  in  Southern  Illinois.  He  is  said  to  have 
been  the  first  person  admitted  to  the  Baptist 
Church  by  immersion  in  Illinois,  finally  becoming 
a  minister  of  that  denomination.  Of  a  family  of 
eight  children,  four  of  his  sons  became  ministers. 
Mr.  Lemen's  prominence  was  indicated  by  the 
fact  that  he  was  approached  by  Aaron  Burr,  with 
offers  of  large  rewards  for  his  influence  in  found- 
ing that  ambitious  schemer's  projected  South- 
western Empire,  but  the  proposals  were 
indignantly  rejected  and  the  scheme  denounced. 
Died,  at  Waterloo,  Jan.  8, 1822.— Robert  (Lemen), 
oldest  son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  in  Berkeley 
County,  Va.,  Sept.  25,  1783;  came  with  his  father 
to  Illinois,  and,  after  his  marriage,  settled  in  St. 
Clair  County.  He  held  a  commission  as  magis- 
trate and,  for  a  time,  was  United  States  Marshal 
for  Illinois  under  the  administration  of  John 
Quincy  Adams.  Died  in  Ridge  Prairie,  St.  Clair 
County,  August  24,  1860. — Rev.  Joseph  (Lemen), 
the  second  son,  was  born  in  Berkeley  County, 
Va.,  Sept.  8,  1785,  brought  to  Illinois  in  1786,  and, 
on  reaching  manhood,  married  Mary  Kinney,  a 
daughter  of  Rev.  William  Kinney,  who  after- 
wards became  Lieutenant-Governor  of  the  State. 
Joseph  Lemen  settled  in  Ridge  Prairie,  in  the 
northern  part  of  St.  Clair  County,  and  for  many 
years  supplied  the  pulpit  of  the  Bethel  Baptist 
church,  which  had  been  founded  in  1809  on  the 
principle  of  opposition  to  human  slavery.  His 
death  occurred  at  his  home,  June  29,  1861. — Rev. 
James  (Lemen),  Jr.,  the  third  son,  was  born  in 
Monroe  County,  111.,  Oct.  8,  1787;  early  united 
with  the  Baptist  Church  and  became  a  minister 
— assisting  in  the  ordination  of  his  father,  whose 
sketch  stands  at  the  head  of  this  article.  He 
served  as  a  Delegate  from  St.  Clair  County  in  the 
first  State  Constitutional  Convention  (1818),  and  as 
Senator  in  the  Second,  Fourth  and  Fifth  General 
Assemblies.  He  also  preached  extensively  in 
Illinois,  Missouri,  and  Kentucky,  and  assisted  in 
the  organization  of  many  churches,  although  his 
labors  were  chiefly  within  his  own.  Mr.  Lemen 
was  the  second  child  of  American  parents  born  in 
Illinois— Enoch  Moore  being  the  first.  Died, 
Feb.  8,  1870.— William  (Lemen),  the  fourth  son, 
born  in  Monroe  County,  111.,  in  1791;  served  as  a 
soldier  in  the  Black  Hawk  War.  Died  in  Monroe 


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County,  in  1857.— Rev.  Josiah  (Lemen),  the 
fifth  son,  born  in  Monroe  County,  111.,  August  15, 
1794;  was  a  Baptist  preacher.  Died  near  Du- 
quoin,  July  11,  1867.— Rev.  Moses  (Lemen),  the 
sixth  son,  born  in  Monroe  County,  111.,  in  1797; 
became  a  Baptist  minister  early  in  life,  served  as 
Representative  in  the  Sixth  General  Assembly 
(1828-30)  for  Monroe  County.  Died,  in  Montgom- 
ery County,  111.,  March  5,  1859. 

LEMONT,  a  city  in  Cook  County,  25  miles 
southwest  of  Chicago,  on  the  Des  Plaines  River 
and  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad.  A  thick 
vein  of  Silurian  limestone  (Athens  marble)  is 
extensively  quarried  here,  constituting  the  chief 
industry.  Owing  to  the  number  of  industrial 
enterprises,  Lemont  is  at  times  the  temporary 
home  of  a  large  number  of  workmen.  The  city 
has  a  bank,  electric  lights,  six  churches,  two 
papers,  five  public  and  four  private  schools,  one 
business  college,  aluminum  and  concrete  works. 
Population  of  the  township  (1900),  4,441;  of  the 
city  (1910),  2,284. 

LE  MOYNE,  John  V.,  ex-Congressman,  was 
born  in  Washington  County,  Pa.,  in  1838,  and 
graduated  from  Washington  College,  Pa.,  in 
1847.  He  studied  law  at  Pittsburg,  where  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1852.  He  at  once  removed 
to  Chicago,  where  he  continued  a  permanent 
resident  and  active  practitioner.  In  1872  he  was 
a  candidate  for  Congress  on  the  Liberal  Repub- 
lican ticket,  but  was  defeated  by  Charles  B.  Far- 
well,  Republican.  In  1874  he  was  again  a 
candidate  against  Mr.  Farwell.  Both  claimed 
the  election,  and  a  contest  ensued  which  was 
decided  by  the  House  in  favor  of  Mr.  Le  Moyne. 

LENA,  a  village  in  Stephenson  County,  on  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad,  13  miles  northwest  of 
Freeport  and  38  miles  east  of  Galena.  It  is  in  a 
farming  and  dairying  district,  but  has  some 
manufactures,  the  making  of  caskets  being  the 
principal  industry  in  this  line.  There  are  six 
churches,  two  banks,  and  one  newspaper.  Popu- 
lation (1890),  1,270;  (1900),  1,252;  (1910),  1,168. 

LEONARD,  Edward  F.,  Railway  President, 
was  born  in  Connecticut  in  1836 ;  graduated  from 
Union  College,  N.  Y.,  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
and  came  to  Springfield,  111.,  in  1858;  served  for 
several  years  as  clerk  in  the  office  of  the  State 
Auditor,  was  afterwards  connected  with  the  con- 
struction of  the  "St.  Louis  Short  Line"  (now  a 
part  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railway),  and  was 
private  secretary  of  Governor  Cullom  during  his 
first  term.  For  several  years  he  has  been  Presi- 
dent of  the  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Western  Railroad, 
with  headquarters  at  Peoria. 


LEROY,  a  city  in  McLean  County,  15  miles 
southwest  of  Bloomington;  has  two  banks,  sev- 
eral churches,  a  graded  school  and  a  plow  factory. 
Two  weekly  papers  are  published  there.  Popu- 
lation (1890),  1,258;  (1900),  1,629;  (1910),  1,702. 

LEVER ETT,  Washington  and  Warren,  edu- 
cators and  twin-brothers,  whose  careers  were 
strikingly  similar;  born  at  Brookline,  Mass.,  Dec. 
19,  1805,  and  passed  their  boyhood  on  a  farm;  in 
1827  began  a  preparatory  course  of  study  under 
an  elder  brother  at  Roxbury,  Mass.,  entered 
Brown  University  as  freshmen,  the  next  year,  and 
graduated  in  1832.  Warren,  being  in  bad  health, 
spent  the  following  winter  in  South  Carolina, 
afterwards  engaging  in  teaching,  for  a  time,  and 
in  study  in  Newton  Theological  Seminary,  while 
Washington  served  as  tutor  two  years  in  his 
Alma  Mater  and  in  Columbian  College  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.,  then  took  a  course  at  Newton, 
graduating  there  in  1836.  The  same  year  he 
accepted  the  chair  of  Mathematics  in  Shurtleff 
College  at  Upper  Alton,  remaining,  with  slight 
interruption,  until  1868.  Warren,  after  suffering 
from  hemorrhage  of  the  lungs,  came  west  in  the 
fall  of  1837,  and,  after  teaching  for  a  few  months 
at  Greenville,  Bond  County,  in  1839  joined  his 
brother  at  Shurtleff  College  as  Principal  of  the 
preparatory  department,  subsequently  being 
advanced  to  the  chair  of  Ancient  Languages, 
which  he  continued  to  occupy  until  June,  1868, 
when  he  retired  in  the  same  year  with  his  brother. 
After  resigning  he  established  himself  in  the  book 
business,  which  was  continued  until  his  death, 
Nov.  8,  1872.  Washington,  the  surviving  brother, 
continued  to  be  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  Shurtleff  College,  and  to  discharge  the 
duties  of  Librarian  and  Treasurer  of  the  institu- 
tion. Died,  Dec.  13,  1889. 

LEWIS  INSTITUTE,  an  educational  institu- 
tion based  upon  a  bequest  of  Allen  C.  Lewis,  in 
the  city  of  Chicago,  established  in  1895.  It  main- 
tains departments  in  law,  the  classics,  prepara- 
tory studies  and  manual  training,  and  owns 
property  valued  at  §1,600,000,  with  funds  and 
endowment  amounting  to  $1,100,000.  No  report 
is  made  of  the  number  of  pupils. 

LEWIS,  John  H.,  ex-Congressman,  was  born 
in  Tompkins  County,  N.  Y.,  July  21,  1830. 
When  six  years  old  he  accompanied  his  parents 
to  Knox  County,  111.,  where  he  attended  the 
public  schools,  read  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1860.  The  same  year  he  was  elected  Clerk 
of  the  Circuit  Court  of  Knox  County.  In  1874  he 
was  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  General 
Assembly,  and,  in  1880,  was  the  successful  Repub- 


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lican  candidate  for  Congress  from  the  old  Ninth 
District.  In  1882,  lie  was  a  candidate  for  re- 
election from  the  same  district  (then  the  Tenth), 
but  was  defeated  by  Nicholas  E.  Worthington, 
his  Democratic  opponent. 

LEWISTOWX,  the  county-seat  of  Fulton 
County,  located  on  two  lines  of  railway,  fifty 
miles  southwest  of  Peoria  and  sixty  miles  north- 
west of  Springfield.  It  contains  flour  and  saw- 
mills, carriage  and  wagon,  can-making,  duplex-scales 
and  evener  factories;  is  in  a  farming,  live-stock  and 
coal-mining  district;  has  several  churches,  one  daily 
and  three  weekly  newspapers,  also  excellent  public 
schools.  Pop.  (1900),  2,504;  (1910),  2,312. 

LEXIXGTOX,a  city  in  McLean  County,  on  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad,  110  miles  south  of 
Chicago  and  16  miles  northeast  of  Bloomington. 
The  surrounding  region  is  agricultural  and  stock- 
raising,  and  the  town  has  a  flourishing  trade  in 
horses  and  other  live-stock.  Tile  is  manufac- 
tured here,  and  the  town  has  two  banks,  five 
churches,  a  high  school  and  one  weekly  paper. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,187;  (1900),  1,415;  (1910),  1,318. 

LIBERTTVILLE,  a  village  of  Lake  County,  on 
the  main  line  of  the  Chicago  &  Madison  Division 
of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway,  35 
miles  north-northwest  of  Chicago.  The  region  is 
agricultural  and  dairying.  The  town  has  some 
manufactures,  two  banks  and  a  weekly  paper.  Pop. 
(1890),  550;  (1900),  864;  (1910),  1,724. 

LIBRARIES.  (STATISTICAL.  )— A  report  of  the 
Commissioner  of  Education  for  1895-96,  on  the 
subject  of  "Public,  Society  and  School  Libraries 
in  the  United  States,"  presents  some  approximate 
statistics  of  libraries  in  the  several  States,  based 
upon  the  reports  of  librarians,  so  far  as  they 
could  be  obtained  in  reply  to  inquiries  sent  out 
from  the  Bureau  of  Education  in  Washington. 
As  shown  by  the  statistical  tables  embodied  in 
this  report,  there  were  348  libraries  in  Illinois 
reporting  300  volumes  and  over,  of  which  134 
belonged  to  the  smallest  class  noted, or  those  con- 
taining less  than  1,000  volumes.  The  remaining 
214  were  divided  into  the  following  classes: 

Containing  300,000  and  less  than  500,000  volumes  1 


100,000 

50.000 

25,000 

10,000 

5,000 

1,000 


300,000 

100,000 

50,000 

25,000 

10,000 

5,000 


2 
1 
5 

27 

34 

144 


A  general  classification  of  libraries  of  1,000 
volumes  and  over,  as  to  character,  divides  them 
into,  General,  91;  School,  36;  College,  42;  College 
Society,  7;  Law,  3;  Theological,  7;  State,  2;  Asy- 


lum and  Reformatory,  4;  Young  Men's  Christian 
Association,  2;  Scientific,  6;  Historical,  3;  Soci- 
ety, 8;  Medical,  Odd  Fellows  and  Social,  1  each. 
The  total  number  of  volumes  belonging  to  the 
class  of  1,000  volumes  and  over  was  1,822,580  with 
447,108  pamphlets;  and,  of  the  class  between  300 
and  1,000  volumes,  66,992 — making  a  grand  total  of 
1.889,572  volumes.  The  library  belonging  to  the 
largest  (or  300,000)  class,  is  that  of  the  University 
of  Chicago,  reporting  305,000  volumes,  with 
180,000  pamphlets,  while  the  Chicago  Public 
Library  and  the  Newberry  Library  belong  to  the 
second  class,  reporting,  respectively,  217,065  vol- 
umes with  42,000  pamphlets,  and  135,244  volumes 
and  35,654  pamphlets.  (The  report  of  the  Chi- 
cago Public  Library  for  1898  shows  a  total,  for 
that  year,  of  235,385  volumes  and  44,069  pam- 
phlets.) 

As  to  sources  of  support  or  method  of  adminis- 
tration, 42  of  the  class  reporting  1,000  volumes 
and  over,  are  supported  by  taxation ;  27,  by  appro- 
priations by  State,  County  or  City;  20,  from 
endowment  funds;  54,  from  membership  fees  and 
dues;  16,  from  book-rents;  26,  from  donations, 
leaving  53  to  be  supported  from  sources  not 
stated.  The  total  income  of  131  reporting  on  this 
subject  is  $787,262;  the  aggregate  endowment 
of  17  of  this  class  is  $2,283,197,  and  the  value  of 
buildings  belonging  to  36  is  estimated  at  82,981,- 
575.  Of  the  214  libraries  reporting  1,000  volumes 
and  over,  88  are  free,  28  are  reference,  and  158 
are  both  circulating  and  reference. 

The  free  public  libraries  in  the  State  containing 
3,000  volumes  and  over,  in  1896,  amounted  to  39. 
The  following  list  includes  those  of  this  class  con- 
taining 10,000  volumes  and  over: 


(1896) 


Chicago,  Public  Library 

Peoria, 

Springfield, 

Rockford, 

Quincy,  and  Reading  Room 

Galesburg  

Elgin,  Gail  Borden  Public  Library 

Bloomington,  Withers 

Evanston,  Free 

Decatur,         " 

Belleville, 

Aurora, 

Rock  Island, 

Joliet, 


217.065 
.J7.604 
28,639 
28,000 
19,400 
18,469 
17,000 
16,068 
15,515 
14,766 
14,511 
14,350 
12,634 
22,325 


The  John  Crerar  Library  (a  scientific  reference 
library) — established  in  the  City  of  Chicago  in 
1894,  on  the  basis  of  a  bequest  of  the  late  John 
Crerar,  estimated  as  amounting  to  fully  83,000,- 
000— is  rapidly  adding  to  its  resources,  having, 
in  the  four  years  of  its  history,  acquired  over 
40,000  volumes.  With  its  princely  endowment, 


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it  is  destined,  in  the  course  of  a  few  years,  to  be 
reckoned  one  of  the  leading  libraries  of  its  class 
in  the  United  States,  as  it  is  one  of  the  most 
modern  and  carefully  selected. 

The  Newberry  and  Chicago  Historical  Society 
Libraries  fill  an  important  place  for  reference  pur- 
poses, especially  on  historical  subjects.  A  tardy 
beginning  has  been  made  in  building  up  a  State 
Historical  Library  in  Springfield ;  but,  owing  to 
the  indifference  of  the  Legislature  and  the  meager 
support  it  has  received,  the  State  which  was,  for 
nearly  a  hundred  years,  the  theater  of  the  most 
important  events  in  the  development  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi Valley,  has,  as  yet,  scarcely  accomplished 
anything  worthy  of  its  name  in  collecting  and 
preserving  the  records  of  its  own  history. 

In  point  of  historical  origin,  next  to  the  Illinois 
State  Library,  which  dates  from  the  admission 
of  the  State  into  the  Union  in  1818,  the  oldest 
library  in  the  State  is  that  of  the  McCormick 
Theological  Seminary,  which  is  set  down  as  hav- 
ing had  its  origin  in  1825,  though  this  occurred 
in  another  State.  The  early  State  College  Li- 
braries follow  next  in  chronological  order:  Shurt- 
leff  College,  at  Upper  Alton,  1837 ;  Illinois  College, 
at  Jacksonville,  1829;  McKendree  College,  at 
Lebanon,  1834;  Rockford  College,  1849;  Lombard 
University,  at  Oalesburg,  1852.  In  most  cases, 
however,  these  are  simply  the  dates  of  the  estab- 
lishment of  the  institution,  or  the  period  at  which 
instruction  began  to  be  given  in  the  school  which 
finally  developed  into  the  college. 

The  school  library  is  constantly  becoming  a 
more  important  factor  in  the  liberal  education  of 
the  youth  of  the  State.  Adding  to  this  the  "Illi- 
nois Pupils'  Reading  Circle,"  organized  by  the 
State  Teachers'  Association  some  ten  years  ago, 
but  still  in  the  experimental  stage,  and  the  sys- 
tem of  "traveling libraries,"  set  on  foot  at  a  later 
period,  there  is  a  constant  tendency  to  enlarge 
the  range  of  popular  reading  and  bring  the  public 
library,  in  some  of  its  various  forms,  within  the 
reach  of  a  larger  class. 

THE  FREE  PUBLIC  LIBRARY  LAW  OF  ILLINOIS. 
— The  following  history  and  analysis  of  the  Free 
Public  Library  Law  of  Illinois  is  contributed,  for 
the  "Historical  Encyclopedia,"  by  E.  S.  Willcox, 
Librarian  of  the  Peoria  Public  Library : 

The  Library  Law  passed  by  the  Legislature 
of  Illinois  in  1872  was  the  first  broadly  planned, 
comprehensive  and  complete  Free  Public  Li- 
brary Law  placed  on  the  statute  book  of  any 
State  in  the  Union.  It  is  true,  New  Hamp- 
shire, in  1849,  and  Massachusetts,  in  1851, 
had  taken  steps  in  this  direction,  with  three  or 
four  brief  sections  of  laws,  permissive  in  their 


character  rather  than  directive,  but  lacking  the 
vitalizing  qualities  of  our  Illinois  law,  in  that 
they  provided  no  sufficiently  specific  working 
method — no  sailing  directions — for  starting  and 
administering  such  free  public  libraries.  They 
seem  to  have  had  no  influence  on  subsequent 
library  legislation,  while,  to  quote  the  language 
of  Mr.  Fletcher  in  his  "Public  Libraries  in 
America,"  "the  wisdom  of  the  Illinois  law,  in  this 
regard,  is  probably  the  reason  why  it  has  been  so 
widely  copied  in  other  States." 

By  this  law  of  1872  Illinois  placed  herself  at  the 
head  of  her  sister  States  in  encouraging  the 
spread  of  general  intelligence  among  the  people; 
but  it  is  also  a  record  to  be  equally  proud  of,  that, 
within  less  than  five  years  after  her  admission  to 
the  Union,  Dec.  3,  1818 — that  is,  at  the  first  ses- 
sion of  her  Third  General  Assembly— a  general 
Act  was  passed  and  approved,  Jan.  31,  1823, 
entitled :  "An  act  to  incorporate  such  persons  as 
may  associate  for  the  purpose  of  procuring  and 
erecting  public  libraries  in  this  State,"  with  the 
following  preamble  • 

"WHEREAS,  a  disposition  for  Improvement  in  useful 
knowledge  has  manifested  itself  In  various  parts  of  this 
State,  by  associating  for  procuring  and  erecting  public 
libraries;  and,  whereas.  It  is  of  the  utmost  importance  to 
the  public  that  the  sources  of  information  should  be  multi- 
plied, and  institutions  for  that  purpose  encouraged  and  pro- 
moted: Sec.  1.  Be  it  enacted,  "etc. 

Then  follow  ten  sections,  covering  five  and  a 
half  pages  of  the  published  laws  of  that  session, 
giving  explicit  directions  as  to  the  organizing 
and  maintaining  of  such  Associations,  with  pro- 
visions as  enlightened  and  liberal  as  we  could  ask 
for  to-day.  The  libraries  contemplated  in  this  act 
are,  of  course,  subscription  libraries,  the  only 
kind  known  at  that  time,  free  public  libraries 
supported  by  taxation  not  having  come  into 
vogue  in  that  early  day. 

It  is  the  one  vivifying  quality  of  the  Illinois 
law  of  1872,  that  it  showed  how  to  start  a  free 
public  library,  how  to  manage  it  when  started 
and  how  to  provide  it  with  the  necessary  funds. 
It  furnished  a  full  and  minute  set  of  sailing 
directions  for  the  ship  it  launched,  and,  moreover, 
was  not  loaded  down  with  useless  limitations. 

With  a  few  exceptions — notably  the  Boston 
Public  Library,  working  under  a  special  charter, 
and  an  occasional  endowed  library,  like  the  Astor 
Library — all  public  libraries  in  those  days  were 
subscription  libraries,  like  the  great  Mercantile 
Libraries  of  New  York,  St.  Louis  and  Cincinnati, 
with  dues  of  from  S3  to  §10  from  each  member 
per  year.  With  dues  at  $4  a  year,  our  Peoria 
Mercantile  Library,  at  its  best,  never  had  over 
286  members  in  any  one  year.  Compare  this  with 
our  present  public  membership  of  6,500,  and  it 
will  be  seen  that  some  kind  of  a  free  public 
library  law  was  needed.  That  was  the  conclu- 
sion I,  as  one  of  the  Directors  of  the  Peoria  Mer- 
cantile Library,  came  to  in  1869.  We  had  tried 
every  expedient  for  years,  in  the  way  of  lecture 
courses,  concerts,  spelling  matches,  "Drummer 
Boy  of  Shiloh,"  and  begging,  to  increase  our 
membership  and  revenue.  So  far,  and  no  farther, 
seemed  to  be  the  rule  with  all  subscription 
libraries.  They  did  not  reach  the  masses  who 
needed  them  most.  And,  for  this  manifest  rea- 


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son:  the  necessary  cost  of  annual  dues  stood  in 
the  way;  the  women  and  young  people  who 
wanted  something  to  read,  who  thirsted  for 
knowledge,  and  who  are  the  principal  patrons  of 
the  free  public  library  to-day,  did  not  hold  the 
family  purse-strings;  while  the  men,  who  did 
hold  the  purse-strings,  did  not  particularly  care 
for  books. 

It  was  my  experience,  derived  as  a  Director  in 
the  Peoria  Slercantile  Library  when  it  was  still  a 
small,  struggling  subscription  library,  that  sug- 
gested the  need  of  a  State  law  authorizing  cities 
and  towns  to  tax  themselves  for  the  support  of 
public  libraries,  as  they  already  did  for  the  sup- 
port of  public  schools.  When,  in  1870,  I 
submitted  the  plan  to  some  of  my  friends,  they 
pronounced  it  Quixotic — the  people  would  never 
consent  to  pay  taxes  for  libraries.  To  which  I 
replied,  that,  until  sometime  in  the  '50's,  we 
had  no  free  public  schools  in  this  State. 

I  then  drew  up  the  form  of  a  law,  substantially 
as  it  now  stands;  and,  after  submitting  it  to 
Justin  Winsor,  then  of  the  Boston  Public  Li- 
brary ;  William  F.  Poole,  then  in  Cincinnati,  and 
William  T.  Harris,  then  in  St.  Louis,  I  placed  it 
in  the  hands  of  my  friend,  Mr.  Samuel  Caldwell, 
in  December,  1870,  who  took  it  with  him  to 
Springfield,  promising  to  do  what  he  could  to  get 
it  through  the  Legislature,  of  which  he  was  a 
member  from  Peoria.  The  bill  was  introduced 
by  Mr.  Caldwell,  March  23.  1871,  as  House  bill 
No.  563,  and  as  House  bill  No.  563  it  finally 
received  the  Governor's  signature  and  became  a 
law,  March  7,  1872. 

The  essential  features  of  our  Illinois  law  are: 

/.  The  power  of  initiative  in  starting  a  free 
public  library  lies  in  the  City  Council,  and  not  in 
an  appeal  to  the  voters  of  the  city  at  a  general 
election. 

It  is  a  weak  point  in  the  English  public  libra- 
ries act  that  this  initiative  is  left  to  the  electors  or 
voters  of  a  city,  and,  in  several  London  and  pro- 
vincial districts,  the  proposed  law  has  been 
repeatedly  voted  down  by  the  very  people  it  was 
most  calculated  to  benefit,  from  fear  of  a  little 
extra  taxation. 

//.  The  amount  of  tax  to  be  levied  is  permissive, 
not  mandatory. 

We  can  trust  to  the  public  spirit  of  our  city 
authorities,  supported  by  an  intelligent  public 
sentiment,  to  provide  for  the  library  needs.  A 
mandatory  law,  requiring  the  levying  of  a  certain 
fixed  percentage  of  the  city's  total  assessment, 
might  invite  extravagance,  as  it  has  in  several 
instances  where  a  mandatory  law  is  in  force. 

777.  The  Library  Board  has  exclusive  control  of 
library  appropriations. 

This  is  to  be  interpreted  that  Public  Library 
Boards  are  separate  and  distinct  departments  of 
the  city  administration;  and  experience  has 
shown  that  they  are  as  capable  and  honest  in 
handling'  money  as  School  Boards  or  City 
Councils. 

TV.  Library  Boards  consist  of  nine  members  to 
serve  for  three  years. 

V.  The  members  of  the  Board  are  appointed  by 
the  Mayor,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  City 
Council,  from  the  citizens  at  large  with  reference 
to  their  fitness  for  such  office. 


VI.  An  annual  report  is  to  be  made  by  the 
Board  to  the  City  CouneO,  statinr/  the  condition 
of  their  trust  on  the  first  day  of  June  of  each 
year. 

This,  with  slight  modifications  adapting  it  to 
villages,  towns  and  townships,  is,  in  substance, 
the  Free  Public  Library  Law  of  Illinois.  Under 
its  beneficent  operation  flourishing  free  public 
libraries  have  been  established  in  the  principal 
cities  and  towns  of  our  State — slowly,  at  first, 
but,  of  late  years,  more  rapidly  as  their  usefulness 
has  become  apparent. 

No  argument  is  now  needed  to  show  the  im- 
portance— the  imperative  necessity — of  the  widest 
possible  diffusion  of  intelligence  among  the  people 
of  a  free  State.  Knowledge  and  ignorance — the 
one  means  civilization,  the  other,  barbarism. 
Give  a  man  the  taste  for  good  books  and  the 
means  of  gratifying  it,  and  you  can  hardly  fail  of 
making  him  a  better,  happier  man  and  a  wiser 
citizen.  You  place  him  in  contact  with  the  best 
society  in  every  period  of  history ;  you  set  before 
him  nobler  examples  to  imitate  and  safer  paths 
to  follow. 

We  have  no  way  of  foretelling  how  many  and 
how  great  benefits  will  accrue  to  society  and  the 
State,  in  the  future,  from  the  comparatively 
modern  introduction  of  the  free  public  library 
into  our  educational  system;  but  when  some 
youthful  Abraham  Lincoln,  poring  over  JEsop's 
Fables,  Weems'  Life  of  Washington  and  a  United 
States  History,  by  the  flickering  light  of  a  pine- 
knot  in  a  log-cabin,  rises  at  length  to  be  the  hope 
and  bulwark  of  a  nation,  then  we  learn  what  the 
world  may  owe  to  a  taste  for  books.  In  the  gen- 
eral spread  of  intelligence  through  our  free 
schools,  our  free  press  and  our  free  libraries,  lies 
our  only  hope  that  our  free  American  institutions 
shall  not  decay  and  perish  from  the  earth. 

"  Knowledge  Is  the  only  good,  Ignorance  the  only  evil." 
"  Let  knowledge  grow  from  more  to  more.1' 

LJEUTENAJfT-GOTERNORS    OF    ILLINOIS. 

The  office  of  Lieutenant-Governor,  created  by  the 
Constitution  of  1818,  has  been  retained  in  each  of 
the  subsequent  Constitutions,  being  elective  by 
the  people  at  the  same  time  with  that  of  Gov- 
ernor. The  following  is  a  list  of  the  Lieutenant- 
Governors  of  the  State,  from  the  date  of  its 
admission  into  the  Union  to  the  present  time 
(1899),  with  the  date  and  length  of  each  incum- 
bent's term:  Pierre  Menard,  1818-22;  Adolphus 
Frederick  Hubbard,  1822-26;  William  Kinney, 
1826-J50;  Zadoc  Casey,  1830-33;  William  Lee  D. 
Ewing  (succeeded  to  the  office  as  President  of  the 
Senate),  1833-34;  Alexander  M.  Jenkins,  1834-36; 
William  H.  Davidson  (as  President  of  the 
Senate),  1836-38;  Stinson  H.  Anderson,  1838-42; 
John  Moore,  1842-46;  Joseph  B.  Wells,  1846-49; 
William  McMurtry,  1849-53;  Gustavus  Koerner, 
1853-57;  John  Wood,  1857-60;  Thomas  A.  Mar- 
shall (as  President  of  the  Senate),  Jan.  7-14,  1861 ; 
Francis  A.  Hoffman,  1861-65;  William  Bross, 
1865-69;  John  Dougherty,  1869-73;  John  L. 


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Beveridge,  Jan.  13-23,  1873;  as  President  of  the 
Senate  John  Early,  1873-75,  and  A.  A.  Glenn, 
1875-77;  Andrew  Shuman,  1877-81;  John  M.  Hamil- 
ton, 1881-83;  William  J.  Campbell  (as  President  of 
the  Senate),  1883-85;  John  C.  Smith,  1885-89; 
Lyman  B.  Ray,  1889-93;  Joseph  B,  Gill,  1893-97; 
William  A.  Northcott,  1897-1905;  Lawrence  Y. 
Sherman,  1905-09;  John  G.  Oglesby,  1709—. 

LIMESTONE.  Illinois  ranks  next  to  Pennsyl- 
vania in  its  output  of  limestone,  the  United 
States  Census  Report  for  1890  giving  the  number 
of  quarries  as  104,  and  the  total  value  of  the 
product  as  $2,190,604.  In  the  value  of  stone  used 
for  building  purposes  Illinois  far  exceeds  any 
other  State,  the  greater  proportion  of  the  output 
in  Pennsylvania  being  suitable  only  for  flux. 
Next  to  its  employment  as  building  stone,  Illinois 
limestone  is  chiefly  used  for  street-work,  a  small 
percentage  being  used  for  flux,  and  still  less  for 
bridge-work,  and  but  little  for  burning  into  lime. 
The  quarries  in  this  State  employ  3,383  hands,  and 
represent  a  capital  of  §3,316,616,  in  the  latter  par- 
ticular also  ranking  next  to  Pennsylvania.  The 
quarries  are  found  in  various  parts  of  the  State, 
but  the  most  productive  and  most  valuable  are  in 
the  northern  section. 

LINCOLN,  an  incorporated  city,  and  county- 
seat  of  Logan  County,  at  the  intersection  of  the 
Chicago  &  Alton,  the  Champaign  and  Havana 
and  the  Peoria,  Decatur  and  Evansville  Divi- 
sions of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad ;  is  28  miles 
northeast  of  Springfield,  and  157  miles  southwest 
of  Chicago.  The  surrounding  country  is  devoted 
to  agriculture,  stock-raising  and  coal-mining. 
Considerable  manufacturing  is  carried  on,  among 
the  products  being  flour,  brick  and  drain  tile. 
The  city  has  water-works,  fire  department,  gas 
and  electric  lighting  plant,  telephone  system, 
machine  shops,  eighteen  churches,  good  schools, 
three  national  banks,  a  public  library,  electric 
street  railway,  and  two  daily  and  two  weekly  papers. 
Besides  common  schools,  it  is  the  seat  of  Lincoln 
University  (a  Cumberland  Presbyterian  institution, 
founded  in  1865).  The  Odd  Fellows'  Orphans' 
Home  and  the  Illinois  (State)  Asylum  for  Feeble- 
Minded  Children  are  also  located  here,  the  inmates 
of  the  latter  numbering  some  1,500.  Pop.  (1890), 
6,725;  (1900),  8,962;  (1910),  10,892. 

LINCOLN,  Abraham,  sixteenth  President  of  the 
United  States,  was  born  in  Hardin  County,  Ky. , 
Feb.  12,  1809,  of  Quaker-English  descent,  his 
grandfather  having  emigrated  from  Virginia  to 
Kentucky  about  1780,  where  he  was  killed  by  the 
Indians  in  1784.  Thomas  Lincoln,  the  father  of 
Abraham,  settled  in  Indiana  in  1816,  and  removed 


to  Macon  County  in  1830.  Abraham  -was  the 
issue  of  his  father's  first  marriage,  his  mother's 
maiden  name  being  Nancy  Hanks.  The  early 
occupations  of  the  future  President  were  varied. 
He  served  at  different  times  as  farm-laborer,  flat- 
boatman,  country  salesman,  merchant,  surveyor, 
lawyer,  State  legislator,  Congressman  and  Presi- 
dent. In  1832  he  enlisted  for  the  Black  Hawk 
War,  and  was  chosen  Captain  of  his  company 
was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  the  Legislature 
the  same  year,  but  elected  two  years  later 
About  this  time  he  turned  his  attention  to  the 
study  of  law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1836, 
and,  one  year  later,  began  practice  at  Springfield. 
By  successive  re-elections  he  served  in  the  House 
until  1842,  when  he  declined  a  re-election.  In 
1838,  and  again  in  1840,  he  was  the  Whig  candi- 
date for  Speaker  of  the  House,  on  both  occasions 
being  defeated  by  William  L.  D.  Ewing.  In  1841 
he  was  an  applicant  to  President  William  Henry 
Harrison  for  the  position  of  Commissioner  of  the 
General  Land  Office,  the  appointment  going  to 
Justin  Butterfield.  His  next  official  position  was 
that  of  Representative  in  the  Thirtieth  Congress 
(1847-49).  From  that  time  he  gave  his  attention 
to  his  profession  until  1855,  when  he  was  a  lead- 
ing candidate  for  the  United  States  Senate  in 
opposition  to  the  principles  of  the  Nebraska  Bill, 
but  failed  of  election,  Lyman  Trumbull  being 
chosen.  In  1856,  he  took  a  leading  part  in  the 
organization  of  the  Republican  party  at  Bloom- 
ington,  and,  in  1858,  was  formally  nominated  by 
the  Republican  State  Convention  for  the  United 
States  Senate,  later  engaging  in  a  joint  debate 
with  Senator  Douglas  on  party  issues,  during 
which  they  delivered  speeches  at  seven  different 
cities  of  the  State.  Although  he  again  failed  to 
secure  the  prize  of  an  election,  owing  to  the  char- 
acter of  the  legislative  apportionment  then  in 
force,  which  gave  a  majority  of  the  Senators  and 
Representatives  to  a  Democratic  minority  of  the 
voters,  his  burning,  incisive  utterances  on  the 
subject  of  slavery  attracted  the  attention  of  the 
whole  country,  and  prepared  the  way  for  the 
future  triumph  of  the  Republican  party.  Previ- 
ous to  this  he  had  been  four  times  (1840,  '44,  '52, 
and  '56)  on  the  ticket  of  his  party  as  candidate 
for  Presidential  Elector.  In  1860,  he  was  the 
nominee  of  the  Republican  party  for  the  Presi- 
dency and  was  chosen  by  a  decisive  majority  in 
the  Electoral  College,  though  receiving  a  minor- 
ity of  the  aggregate  popular  vote.  Unquestion- 
ably his  candidacy  was  aided  by  internal 
dissensions  in  the  Democratic  party.  His  election 
and  his  inauguration  (on  March  4,  1861)  were 


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made  a  pretext  for  secession,  and  he  met  the 
issue  with  promptitude  and  firmness,  tempered 
with  kindness  and  moderation  towards  the  se- 
cessionists. He  was  re-elected  to  the  Presidency 
in  1864,  the  vote  in  the  Electoral  College  standing 
212  for  Lincoln  to  21  for  his  opponent,  Gen. 
George  B.  McClellan.  The  history  of  Mr.  Lin- 
coln's life  in  the  Presidential  chair  is  the  history 
of  the  whole  country  during  its  most  dramatic 
period.  Next  to  his  success  in  restoring  the 
authority  of  the  Government  over  the  whole 
Union,  history  will,  no  doubt,  record  his  issuance 
of  the  Emancipation  Proclamation  of  January, 
1863,  as  the  most  important  and  far-reaching  act 
of  his  administration.  And  yet  to  this  act,  which 
has  embalmed  his  memory  in  the  hearts  of  the 
lovers  of  freedom  and  human  justice  in  all  ages 
and  in  all  lands,  the  world  over,  is  due  his  death 
at  the  hands  of  the  assassin,  J.  Wilkes  Booth,  in 
Washington  City,  April  15,  1865,  as  the  result  of 
an  assault  made  upon  him  in  Ford's  Theater  the 
evening  previous — his  death  occurring  one  week 
after  the  fall  of  Richmond  and  the  surrender  of 
Lee's  army — just  as  peace,  with  the  restoration  of 
the  Union,  was  assured.  A  period  of  National 
mourning  ensued,  and  he  was  accorded  the  honor 
of  a  National  funeral,  his  remains  being  finally 
laid  to  rest  in  a  mausoleum  in  Springfield.  His 
profound  sympathy  with  every  class  of  sufferers 
during  the  War  of  the  Rebellion ;  his  forbearance 
in  the  treatment  of  enemies;  his  sagacity  in 
giving  direction  to  public  sentiment  at  home  and 
in  dealing  with  international  questions  abroad; 
his  courage  in  preparing  the  way  for  the  removal 
of  slavery — the  bone  of  contention  between  the 
warring  sections — have  given  him  a  place  in  the 
affections  of  the  people  beside  that  of  Washington 
himself,  and  won  for  him  the  respect  and  admi- 
ration of  all  civilized  nations. 

LINCOLN,  Robert  Todd,  lawyer,  member  of 
the  Cabinet  and  Foreign  Minister,  the  son  of 
Abraham  Lincoln,  was  born  in  Springfield,  111., 
August  1,  1843,  and  educated  in  the  home  schools 
and  at  Harvard  University,  graduating  from  the 
latter  in  1864.  During  the  last  few  months  of 
the  Civil  War,  he  served  on  the  staff  of  General 
Grant  with  the  rank  of  Captain.  After  the  war 
he  studied  law  and,  on  his  admission  to  the  bar, 
settled  in  Chicago,  finally  becoming  a  member  of 
the  firm  of  Lincoln  &  Isham.  In  1880,  he  was 
chosen  a  Presidential  Elector  on  the  Republican 
ticket,  and,  in  March  following,  appointed  Secre- 
tary of  War  by  President  Garfield,  serving  to  the 
close  of  the  term.  In  1889  he  became  Minister  to 
England  by  appointment  of  President  Harrison, 


gaining  high  distinction  as  a  diplomatist.  This 
was  the  last  public  office  held  by  him.  After  tbe 
death  of  George  M.  Pullman  he  became  Acting 
President  of  the  Pullman  Palace  Car  Company, 
later  being  formally  elected  to  that  office,  which 
(1899)  he  still  holds.  Mr.  Lincoln's  name  has 
been  frequently  mentioned  in  connection  with 
the  Republican  nomination  for  the  Presidency, 
but  its  use  has  not  been  encouraged  bv  him. 

LINCOLN  AND  DOUGLAS  DEBATE,  a  name 
popularly  given  to  a  series  of  joint  discussions 
between  Abraham  Lincoln  and  Stephen  A.  Doug- 
las, held  at  different  points  in  the  State  during  the 
summer  and  autumn  of  1858,  while  both  were 
candidates  for  the  position  of  United  States  Sena- 
tor. The  places  and  dates  of  holding  these 
discussions  were  as  follows:  At  Ottawa,  August 
21;  at  Freeport,  August  27;  at  Jonesboro,  Sept. 
15;  at  Charleston,  Sept.  18;  at  Galesburg,  Oct.  7; 
at  Quincy,  Oct.  13 ;  at  Alton,  Oct.  15.  Immense 
audiences  gathered  to  hear  these  debates,  which 
have  become  famous  in  the  political  history  of 
the  Nation,  and  the  campaign  was  the  most  noted 
in  the  histo-y  of  any  State.  It  resulted  in  the 
securing  by  Douglas  of  a  re-election  to  the  Senate ; 
but  his  answers  to  the  shrewdly-couched  interrog- 
atories of  Lincoln  Ixl  to  the  alienation  of  his 
Southern  following,  the  disruption  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  in  1860,  and  the  defeat  of  his  Presi- 
dential aspirations,  with  the  placing  of  Mr. 
Lincoln  prominently  before  the  Nation  as  a 
sagacious  political  leader,  and  his  final  election 
to  the  Presidency. 

LINCOLN  UNIVERSITY,  an  institution  located 
at  Lincoln,  Logan  County,  111.,  incorporated  in 
1865.  It  is  co-educational,  has  a  faculty  of  eleven 
instructors  and,  for  1896-8,  reports  209  pupils — 
ninety-one  male  and  118  female.  Instruction 
is  given  in  the  classics,  the  sciences,  music,  fine 
arts  and  preparatory  studies.  The  institution 
has  a  library  of  3,000  volumes,  and  reports  funds 
and  endowment  amounting  to  860,000,  with 
property  valued  at  855,000. 

LINDER,  Usher  F.,  lawyer  and  politician,  was 
born  in  Elizabethtown,  Hardin  County,  Ky.  (ten 
miles  from  the  birthplace  of  Abraham  Lincoln), 
March  20,  1809;  came  to  Illinois  in  1835,  finally 
locating  at  Charleston,  Coles  Count}- ;  after  travel- 
ing the  circuit  a  few  months  was  elected  Repre- 
sentative in  the  Tentli  General  Assembly  (1836), 
but  resigned  before  the  close  of  the  session  to 
accept  the  office  of  Attorney-General,  which  he 
held  less  than  a  year  and  a  half,  when  he  resigned 
that  also.  Again,  in  1846,  he  was  elected  to  the 
Fifteenth  General  Assembly  and  re-elected  to  the 


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Sixteenth  and  Seventeenth,  afterwards  giving  his 
attention  to  the  practice  of  his  profession.  Mr. 
Linder,  in  his  best  days,  was  a  fluent  speaker  with 
some  elements  of  eloquence  which  gave  him  a 
wide  popularity  as  a  campaign  orator.  Originally 
a  Whig,  on  the  dissolution  of  that  party  he 
became  a  Democrat,  and,  in  1860,  was  a  delegate 
to  the  Democratic  National  Convention  at 
Charleston,  S  C.,  and  at  Baltimore.  During  the 
last  four  years  of  Ins  life  he  wrote  a  series  of 
articles  under  the  title  of  "Reminiscences  of  the 
Early  Bench  and  Bar  of  Illinois,"  which  was  pub- 
lished in  book  form  in  1876.  Died  in  Chicago, 
June  5,  1876. 

LINEGAR,  David  T.,  legislator,  was  born  in 
Ohio,  Feb.  12,  1830;  came  to  Spencer  County, 
Ind.,  in  1840,  and  to  Wayne  County,  111.,  in  1858, 
afterward  locating  at  Cairo,  where  he  served  as 
Postmaster  during  the  Civil  War ;  was  a  Repub- 
lican Presidential  Elector  in  1872,  but  afterwards 
became  a  Democrat,  and  served  as  such  in  the 
lower  branch  of  the  General  Assembly  (1880-86). 
Died  at  Cairo,  Feb.  2,  1886. 

LIPPO'COTT,  Charles  E.,  State  Auditor,  was 
born  at  Edwardsville,  111.,  Jan.  26,  1825;  attended 
Illinois  College  at  Jacksonville,  but  did  not 
graduate;  in  1849  graduated  from  the  St.  Louis 
Medical  College,  and  began  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine at  Chandlerville,  Cass  County.  In  1852  he 
went  to  California,  remaining  there  five  years, 
taking  an  active  part  in  the  anti-slavery  contest, 
and  serving  as  State  Senator  (1853-55).  In  1857, 
having  returned  to  Illinois,  he  resumed  practice 
at  Chandlerville,  and,  in  1861,  under  authority  of 
Governor  Yates,  recruited  a  company  which  was 
attached  to  the  Thirty-third  Illinois  Infantry  as 
Company  K,  and  of  which  he  was  commissioned 
Captain,  having  declined  the  lieutenant-colo- 
nelcy. Within  twelve  months  he  became  Colonel, 
and,  on  Sept.  16,  1865,  was  mustered  out  as  brevet 
Brigadier-General.  In  1866  he  reluctantly  con- 
sented to  lead  the  Republican  forlorn  hope  as  a 
candidate  for  Congress  in  the  (then)  Ninth  Con- 
gressional District,  largely  reducing  the  Demo- 
cratic majority.  In  1867  he  was  elected  Secretary 
of  the  State  Senate,  and  the  same  year  chosen 
Doorkeeper  of  the  House  of  Representatives  at 
Washington.  In  1868  he  was  elected  State  Audi- 
tor, and  re-elected  in  1872 ;  also  served  as  Perma- 
nent President  of  the  Republican  State  Conven- 
tion of  1878.  On  the  establishment  of  the  Illinois 
Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home  at  Quincy,  he  became 
its  first  Superintendent,  assuming  his  duties  in 
March,  1887,  but  died  Sept.  13,  following,  as  a 
result  of  injuries  received  from  a  runaway  team 


while  driving  through  the  grounds  of  the  institu- 
tion a  few  days  previous.  —  Emily  Webster 
Chandler  (Lippincott),  wife  of  the  preceding, 
was  born  March  13,  1833,  at  Chandlerville,  Cass 
County,  111. ,  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Charles  Chand- 
ler, a  prominent  physician  widely  known  in  that 
section  of  the  State ;  was  educated  at  Jacksonville 
Female  Academy,  and  married,  Dec.  25,  1851,  to 
Dr.  (afterwards  General)  Charles  E.  Lippincott. 
Soon  after  the  death  of  her  husband,  in  Septem- 
ber, 1887,  Mrs.  Lippincott,  who  had  already 
endeared  herself  by  her  acts  of  kindness  to  the 
veterans  in  the  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home,  was 
appointed  Matron  of  the  institution,  serving  until 
her  death,  May  21,  1895.  The  respect  in  which 
she  was  held  by  the  old  soldiers,  to  whose  com- 
fort and  necessities  she  had  ministered  in  hos- 
pital and  elsewhere,  was  shown  in  a  most  touching 
manner  at  the  time  of  her  death,  and  on  the 
removal  of  her  remains  to  be  laid  by  the  side  of 
her  husband,  in  Oak  Ridge  Cemetery  at  Spring- 
field. 

LIPPINCOTT,  (Rev.)  Thomas,  early  clergy- 
man, was  born  in  Salem,  N.  J.,  in  1791;  in  1817 
started  west,  arriving  in  St.  Louis  in  February, 
1818 ;  the  same  year  established  himself  in  mer- 
cantile business  at  Milton,  then  a  place  of  some 
importance  near  Alton.  This  place  proving 
unhealthy,  ho  subsequently  removed  to  Edwards- 
ville, where  he  was  for  a  time  employed  as  clerk 
in  the  Land  Office.  He  afterwards  served  as 
Secretary  of  the  Senate  (1822-23).  That  he  was  a 
man  of  education  and  high  intelligence,  as  well 
as  a  strong  opponent  of  slavery,  is  shown  by  his 
writings,  in  conjunction  with  Judge  Samuel  D. 
Lockwood,  George  Churchill  and  others,  in  oppo- 
sition to  the  scheme  for  securing  the  adoption  of 
a  pro-slavery  Constitution  in  Illinois  in  1824.  In 
1825  he  purchased  from  Hooper  Warren  "The 
Edwardsville  Spectator,"  which  he  edited  for  a 
year  or  more,  but  soon  after  entered  the  ministry 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church  and  became  an  influ- 
ential factor  in  building  up  that  denomination  in 
Illinois.  He  was  also  partly  instrumental  hi 
securing  the  location  of  Illinois  College  at  Jack- 
sonville. He  died  at  Pana,  111.,  April  13,  1869. 
Gen.  Charles  E.  Lippincott,  State  Auditor 
(1869-77),  was  a  son  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

LHJUOR  LAWS.  In  the  early  history  of  the 
State,  the  question  of  the  regulation  of  the  sale  of 
intoxicants  was  virtually  relegated  to  the  control 
of  the  local  authorities,  who  granted  license,  col- 
lected fees,  and  fixed  the  tariff  of  charges.  As 
early  as  1851,  however,  the  General  Assembly, 
with  a  view  to  mitigating  what  it  was  felt  had 


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become  a  growing  evil,  enacted  a  law  popularly 
known  as  the  "quart  law,"  which,  it  was  hoped, 
•would  do  away  with  the  indiscriminate  sale  of 
liquor  by  the  glass.  The  law  failed  to  meet  the 
expectation  of  its  framers  and  supporters,  and,  in 
1855,  a  prohibitory  law  was  submitted  to  the  elect- 
ors, which  was  rejected  at  th6  polls.  Since  that 
date  a  general  license  system  has  prevailed,  except 
in  certain  towns  and  cities  where  prohibitory 
ordinances  were  adopted.  The  regulations  gov- 
erning the  traffic,  therefore,  have  been  widely 
variant  in  different  localities.  The  Legislature, 
however,  has  always  possessed  the  same  constitu- 
tional power  to  regulate  the  sale  of  intoxicants, 
as  aconite,  henbane,  strychnine,  or  other  poisons. 
In  1879  the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance 
Union  began  the  agitation  of  the  license  question 
from  a  new  standpoint.  In  March  of  that  year,  a 
delegation  of  Illinois  women,  headed  by  Miss 
Frances  E.  Willard,  presented  to  the  Legislature 
a  monster  petition,  signed  by  80,000  voters  and 
100,000  women,  praying  for  the  amendment  of 
the  State  Constitution,  so  as  to  give  females  above 
the  age  of  21  the  right  to  vote  upon  the  granting 
of  licenses  in  the  localities  of  their  residences. 
Miss  Willard  and  Mrs.  J.  Ellen  Foster,  of  Iowa, 
addressed  the  House  in  its  favor,  and  Miss 
Willard  spoke  to  the  Senate  on  the  same  lines. 
The  measure  was  defeated  in  the  House  by  a  vote 
of  fifty-five  to  fifty-three,  and  the  Senate  took  no 
action.  In  1881  the  same  bill  was  introduced 
anew,  but  again  failed  of  passage.  Nevertheless, 
persistent  agitation  was  not  without  its  results. 
In  1883  the  Legislature  enacted  what  is  generally 
termed  the  "High  License  Law,"  by  the  provi- 
sions of  which  a  minimum  license  of  $500  per 
annum  was  imposed  for  the  sale  of  alcoholic 
drinks,  and  $150  for  malt  liquors,  with  the 
authority  on  the  part  of  municipalities  to  impose 
a  still  higher  rate  by  ordinance.  This  measure 
was  made  largely  a  partisan  issue,  the  Repub- 
licans voting  almost  solidly  for  it,  and  the  Demo- 
crats almost  solidly  opposing  it.  The  bill  was 
promptly  signed  by  Governor  Hamilton.  The 
liquor  laws  of  Illinois,  therefore,  at  the  present 
time  are  based  upon  local  option,  high  license  and 
local  supervision.  The  criminal  code  of  the  State 
contains  the  customary  provisions  respecting  the 
sale  of  stimulants  to  minors  and  other  prohibited 
parties,  or  at  forbidden  times,  but,  in  the  larger 
cities,  many  of  the  provisions  of  the  State  law 
are  rendered  practically  inoperative  by  the 
municipal  ordinances,  or  absolutely  nullified  by 
the  indifference  or  studied  neglect  of  the  local 
officials. 


LITCHFIELD,  the  principal  city  of  Montgom- 
ery County,  at  the  intersection  of  Cincinnati, 
Chicago  &  St.  Louis,  the  Wabash  and  the  Illinois 
Central,  with  three  other  short-line  railways,  43 
miles  south  of  Springfield  and  47  miles  northeast 
of  St.  Louis.  The  surrounding  country  is  fer- 
tile, undulating  prairie,  in  which  are  found  coal, 
oil  and  natural  gas.  A  coal  mine  is  operated 
within  the  corporate  limits.  Grain  is  extensively 
raised,  and  Litchfield  has  several  elevators,  flour- 
ing mills,  a  can  factory,  briquette  works,  etc. 
The  output  of  the  manufacturing  establishments 
also  includes  foundry  and  machine  shop  prod- 
ucts, brick  and  tile,  brooms,  ginger  ale  and  cider. 
The  city  is  lighted  by  both  gas  and  electricity, 
and  has  a  Holly  water-works  system,  a  public 
library  and  public  parks,  two  banks,  twelve 
churches,  high  and  graded  schools,  and  an  Ursu- 
line  convent,  a  Catholic  hospital,  and  two 
monthly,  two  weekly,  and  two  daily  periodicals. 
Population  (1890),  5,811;  (1900),  5,918;  (1910), 
5,971. 

LITCHFIELD,  CARROLLTON  &  WESTERN 
RAILROAD,  a  line  which  extends  from  Colum- 
biana,  on  the  Illinois  River,  to  Barnett,  111.,  51.5 
miles ;  is  of  standard  gauge,  the  track  being  laid 
with  fifty-six  pound  steel  rails.  It  was  opened 
for  business,  in  three  different  sections,  from  1883 
to  1887,  and  for  three  years  was  operated  in  con- 
nection with  the  Jacksonville  Southeastern 
Railway.  In  May,  1890,  the  latter  was  sold  under 
foreclosure,  and,  in  November,  1893,  the  Litch- 
field, Carrollton  &  Western  reverted  to  the 
former  owners.  Six  months  later  it  passed  into 
the  hands  of  a  receiver,  by  whom  (up  to  1898)  it 
has  since  been  operated.  The  general  offices 
are  at  Carlinville 

LITTLE,  George,  merchant  and  banker,  was 
born  in  Columbia,  Pa.,  in  1808;  came  to  Rush- 
ville,  111.,  in  1836,  embarking  in  the  mercantile 
business,  which  he  prosecuted  sixty  years.  In 
1865  he  established  the  Bank  of  Rushville,  of 
which  he  was  President,  in  these  two  branches  of 
business  amassing  a  large  fortune.  Died,  March 
5,  1896. 

LITTLE  VERMILIO>*  RIVER  rises  in  Ver- 
milion County,  111.,  and  flows  eastwardly  into 
Indiana,  emptying  into  the  Wabash  in  Vermilion 
Count}',  Iiul. 

LITTLE  WABASH  RIVER,  rises  in  Effingham 
and  Cumberland  Counties,  flows  east  and  south 
through  Clay,  Wayne  and  White,  and  enters  the 
Wabash  River  about  8  miles  above  the  mouth  of 
the  latter.  Its  estimated  length  is  about  180 
miles. 


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LITTLER,  David  T.,  lawyer  and  State  Senator, 
was  born  at  Clifton,  Greene  County,  Ohio,  Feb. 
7,  183C ;  was  educated  in  tbe  common  schools  in 
his  native  State  and,  at  twenty-one,  removed  to 
Lincoln,  111.,  where  he  worked  at  the  carpenter's 
trade  for  two  years,  meanwhile  studying  law.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1860,  soon  after  was 
elected  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  later  appointed 
Master  in  Chancery.  In  1866  he  was  appointed 
by  President  Johnson  Collector  of  Internal 
Revenue  for  the  Eighth  District,  but  resigned  in 
1868,  removing  to  Springfield  the  same  year, 
where  he  entered  into  partnership  with  the  late 
Henry  S.  Greene,  Milton  Hay  being  admitted  to 
the  firm  soon  after,  the  partnership  continuing 
until  1881.  In  1882  Mr.  Littler  was  elected 
Representative  in  the  Thirty-fourth  General 
Assembly  from  Sangamon  County,  was  re-elected 
in  1886,  and  returned  to  the  Senate  in  1894,  serv- 
ing in  the  latter  body  four  years.  In  both  Houses 
Mr.  Littler  took  a  prominent  part  in  legislation  on 
the  revenue  question.  Died  June  23,  1902. 

LIYERMORE,  Mary  Ashton,  reformer  and  phi- 
lanthropist, was  born  (Mary  Ashton  Rice)  in 
Boston,  Mass.,  Dec.  19,  1821;  taught  for  a  time  in 
a  female  seminary  in  Charlestown,  and  spent  two 
years  as  a  governess  iu  Southern  Virginia;  later 
married  Rev.  Daniel  P.  Livermore,  a  Uni versa!  ist 
minister,  who  held  pastorates  at  various  places  in 
Massachusetts  and  at  Quincy,  111.,  becoming 
editor  of  "The  New  Covenant"  at  Chicago,  in 
1857.  During  this  time  Mrs.  Livermore  wrote 
much  for  denominational  papers  and  in  assisting 
her  husband;  in  1862  was  appointed  an  agent, 
and  traveled  extensively  in  the  interest  of  the 
United  States  Sanitary  Commission,  visiting 
hospitals  and  camps  in  the  Mississippi  Valley; 
also  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  great  North- 
western Sanitary  Fair  at  Chicago  in  1863.  In  her 
later  years  she  labored  and  lectured  extensively  in 
the  interest  of  woman  suffrage  and  temperance,  was 
also  the  author  of  several  volumes,  one  entitled 
"Pen  Pictures  of  Chicago"  (1865).  Her  last  home 
was  in  Boston.  Died  May  23,  1905. 

LIVINGSTON  COUNTY,  situated  about  mid- 
way between  Chicago  and  Springfield.  The  sur- 
face is  rolling  toward  the  east,  but  is  level  in  the 
west;  area,  1,026  square  miles;  population  (1900), 
42,035,  named  for  Edward  Livingston.  It  was 
organized  in  1837,  the  first  Commissioners  being 
Robert  Breckenridge,  Jonathan  Moon  and  Daniel 
Rockwood.  Pontiac  was  selected  as  the  county- 
seat,  the  proprietors  donating  ample  lands  and 
§3,000  in  cash  for  the  erection  of  public  buildings. 
Vermilion  River  and  Indian  Creek  are  the  prin- 


cipal streams.  Coal  underlies  the  entire  county, 
and  shafts  are  in  successful  operation  at  various 
points.  It  is  one  of  the  chief  agricultural  coun- 
ties of  the  State,  the  yield  of  oats  and  corn  being 
large.  Stock-raising  is  also  extensively  carried 
on.  The  development  of  the  county  really  dates 
from  the  opening  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Rail- 
road in  1854,  since  which  date  it  has  been  crossed 
by  numerous  other  lines.  Pontiac,  the  county- 
seat,  is  situated  on  the  Vermilion,  is  a  railroad 
center  and  the  site  of  the  State  Reform  School. 
Its  population  in  1890  was  2,784.  Dwight  has 
attained  a  wide  reputation  as  the  seat  of  the 
parent  "Keeley"  Institute  for  the  cure  of  the 
liquor  habit.  County  population  (1910),  40,465. 

LOCKPORT,  a  village  in  Will  County,  laid  out 
in  1837  and  incorporated  in  1853;  situated  33 
miles  southwest  of  Chicago,  on  the  Des  Plaines 
River,  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal,  the  Atchi- 
son,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  and  the  Chicago  &  Alton 
Railroads.  The  surrounding  region  is  agricul- 
tural ;  limestone  is  extensively  quarried.  Manu- 
factures are  flour,  oatmeal,  brass  goods,  paper 
and  strawboard.  It  has  ten  churches,  a  public 
and  high  school,  parochial  schools,  a  bank,  gas 
plant,  electric  car  lines,  and  one  weekly  paper. 
The  controlling  works  of  the  Chicago  Drainage 
Canal  and  offices  of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal 
are  located  here.  Population  (1890),  2,449; 
(1900),  2,659;  (1910),  2,555. 

LOCKWOOD,  Samuel  Drake,  jurist,  was  born 
at  Poundridge,  Westchester  County,  N.  Y., 
August  2,  1789,  left  fatherless  at  the  age  of  ten, 
after  a  few  months  at  a  private  school  in  New 
Jersey,  he  went  to  live  with  an  uncle  (Francis 
Drake)  at  Waterford,  N.  Y.,  with  whom  he 
studied  law,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Batavia, 
N.  Y.,  in  1811.  In  1813  he  removed  to  Auburn, 
and  later  became  Master  in  Chancery.  In  1818 
he  descended  the  Ohio  River  upon  a  flat-boat  in 
company  with  William  H.  Brown,  afterwards  of 
Chicago,  and  walking  across  the  country  from 
Shawneetown.  arrived  at  Kaskaskia  in  Decem- 
ber, but  finally  settled  at  Carmi,  where  he 
remained  a  year.  In  1821  he  was  elected  Attor- 
ney-General of  the  State,  but  resigned  the  fol- 
lowing year  to  accept  the  position  of  Secretary  of 
State,  to  which  he  was  appointed  by  Governor 
Coles,  and  which  he  filled  only  three  months, 
when  President  Monroe  made  him  Receiver  of 
Public  Moneys  at  Edwardsville.  About  the  same 
time  he  was  also  appointed  agent  of  the  First 
Board  of  Canal  Commissioners.  The  Legislature 
of  1824-25  elected  him  Judge  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  his  service  extending  until  the  adoption 


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of  the  Constitution  of  1848,  which  he  assisted  in 
framing  as  a  Delegate  from  Morgan  County.  In 
1851  he  was  made  State  Trustee  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad,  which  office  he  held  until  his 
death.  He  was  always  an  uncompromising 
antagonist  of  slavery  and  a  leading  supporter  of 
Governor  Coles  in  opposition  to  the  plan  to  secure 
a  pro-slavery  Constitution  in  1824.  His  personal 
and  political  integrity  was  recognized  by  all 
parties.  From  1828  to  1853  Judge  Lockwood  was 
a  citizen  of  Jacksonville,  where  he  proved  him- 
self an  efficient  friend  and  patron  of  Illinois  Col- 
lege, serving  for  over  a  quarter  of  a  century  as 
one  of  its  Trustees,  and  was  also  influential  in 
securing  several  of  the  State  charitable  institu- 
tions there.  His  later  years  were  spent  at 
Batavia,  where  he  died,  April  23, 1874,  in  the  85th 
year  of  his  age. 

LODA,  a  village  of  Iroquois  County,  on  the 
Chicago  Division  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railway, 
4  miles  north  of  Paxton.  The  region  is  agricul- 
tural, and  the  town  has  considerable  local  trade. 
It  also  has  a  bank  and  one  weekly  paper. 
Pop.  (1890),  598;  (1900),  668;  (1910),  603. 

LOGAN,  Cornelius  Ambrose,  physician  and 
diplomatist,  born  at  Deerfield,  Mass.,  August  6, 
1836,  the  son  of  a  dramatist  of  the  same  name ; 
was  educated  at  Auburn  Academy  and  served  as 
Medical  Superintendent  of  St.  John's  Hospital, 
Cincinnati,  and,  later,  as  Professor  in  the  Hos- 
pital at  Leavenworth,  Kan.  In  1873  he  was 
appointed  United  States  Minister  to  Chili,  after- 
wards served  as  Minister  to  Guatemala,  and  again 
(1881)  as  Minister  to  Chili,  remaining  until  1883. 
He  was  for  twelve  years  editor  of  "The  Medical 
Herald,"  Leavenworth,  Kan.,  and  edited  the 
works  of  his  relative,  Gen.  John  A.  Logan  (1886), 
besides  contributing  to  foreign  medical  publi- 
cations and  publishing  two  or  three  volumes  on 
medical  and  sanitary  questions.  Resides  in 
Chicago. 

LOGAN,  John,  physician  and  soldier,  was  born 
in  Hamilton  County,  Ohio,  Dec.  30,  1809;  at  six 
years  of  age  was  taken  to  Missouri,  his  family 
settling  near  the  Grand  Tower  among  the  Shaw- 
nee  and  Delaware  Indians.  He  began  business 
as  clerk  in  a  New  Orleans  commission  house,  but 
returning  to  Illinois  in  1830,  engaged  in  the 
blacksmith  trade  for  two  years ;  in  1831  enlisted 
in  the  Ninth  Regiment  Illinois  Militia  and  took 
part  in  the  Indian  troubles  of  that  year  and  the 
Black  Hawk  War  of  1832,  later  being  Colonel  of 
the  Forty-fourth  Regiment  State  Militia.  At  the 
close  of  the  Black  Hawk  War  he  settled  in 
Carlinville,  and  having  graduated  in  medicine, 


engaged  in  practice  in  that  place  until  1861.  At 
the  beginning  of  the  war  he  raised  a  company 
for  the  Seventh  Illinois  Volunteers,  but  the  quota 
being  already  full,  it  was  not  accepted.  He  was 
finally  commissioned  Colonel  of  the  Thirty - 
second  Illinois  Volunteers,  and  reported  to  Gen- 
eral Grant  at  Cairo,  in  January,  1862,  a  few  weeks 
later  taking  part  in  the  battles  of  Forts  Heury 
and  Donelson.  Subsequently  he  had  command 
of  the  Fourth  Division  of  the  Army  of  the  Ten- 
nessee under  General  Hurlbut.  His  regiment 
lost  heavily  at  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  he  himself 
being  severely  wounded  and  compelled  to  leave 
the  field.  In  December,  1864,  he  was  discharged 
with  the  brevet  rank  of  Brigadier-General.  In 
1866  Colonel  Logan  was  appointed  by  President 
Johnson  United  States  Marshal  for  the  Southern 
District  of  Illinois,  serving  until  1870,  when  he 
resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Carlin- 
ville. Originally  a  Democrat,  he  became  a 
Republican  on  the  organization  of  that  party, 
serving  as  a  delegate  to  the  first  Republican  State 
Convention  at  Bloomington  in  1856.  He  was  a 
man  of  strong  personal  characteristics  and  an 
earnest  patriot.  Died  at  his  home  at  Carlinville, 
August  24,  1885. 

LOGAN,  John  Alexander,  soldier  and  states- 
man, was  born  at  old  Brownsville,  the  original 
county-seat  of  Jackson  County,  111.,  Feb.  9,  1826, 
the  son  of  Dr.  John  Logan,  a  native  of  Ireland 
and  an  early  immigrant  into  Illinois,  where  he 
attained  prominence  as  a  public  man.  Young 
Logan  volunteered  as  a  private  in  the  Mexican 
War,  but  was  soon  promoted  to  a  lieutenancy, 
and  afterwards  became  Quartermaster  of  his 
regiment.  He  was  elected  Clerk  of  Jackson 
County  in  1849,  but  resigned  the  office  to  prose- 
cute his  law  studies.  Having  graduated  from 
Louisville  University  in  1851,  he  entered  into 
partnership  with  his  uncle,  Alexander  M.  Jenk- 
ins ;  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  as  a  Democrat 
in  1852,  and  again  in  1856,  having  been  Prosecut- 
ing Attorney  in  the  interim.  He  was  chosen  a 
Presidential  Elector  on  the  Democratic  ticket  in 
1856,  was  elected  to  Congress  in  1858,  and  again 
in  1860,  as  a  Douglas  Democrat.  During  the 
special  session  of  Congress  in  1861,  he  left  his 
seat,  and  fought  in  the  ranks  at  Bull  Run.  In 
September,  1861,  he  organized  the  Thirty-first 
Regiment  Illinois  Infantry,  and  was  commis- 
sioned by  Governor  Yates  its  Colonel.  His  mili- 
tary career  was  brilliant,  and  he  rapidly  rose  to 
be  Major-General.  President  Johnson  tendered 
him  the  mission  to  Mexico,  which  he  declined. 
In  1866  he  was  elected  as  a  Republican  to  Con- 


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gross  for  the  State-at-large,  and  acted  as  one  of 
the  managers  in  the  impeachment  trial  of  the 
President;  was  twice  re-elected  and,  in  1871,  was 
chosen  United  States  Senator,  as  he  was  again  in 
1879.  In  1884  he  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate 
for  the  Presidential  nomination  at  the  Republican 
Convention  in  Chicago,  but  was  finally  placed  on 
the  ticket  for  the  Vice-Presidency  with  James  G. 
Blaine,  the  ticket  being  defeated  in  November 
following.  In  1885  he  was  again  elected  Senator, 
but  died  during  his  term  at  Washington,  Dec.  26, 
1886.  General  Logan  was  the  author  of  "The 
Great  Conspiracy"  and  of  "The  Volunteer  Soldier 
of  America."  In  1897  an  equestrian  statue  was 
erected  to  his  memory  on  the  Lake  Front  Park  in 
Chicago. 

LOGAN,  Stephen  Trigg,  eminent  Illinois  jurist, 
was  born  in  Franklin  County,  Ky.,  Feb.  24,  1800; 
studied  law  at  Glasgow,  Ky.,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  before  attaining  his  majority.  After 
practicing  in  his  native  State  some  ten  years,  in 
1832  he  emigrated  to  Illinois,  settling  in  Sanga- 
mon  County,  one  year  later  opening  an  office  at 
Springfield.  In  1835  he  was  elevated  to  the 
bench  of  the  First  Judicial  Circuit ;  resigned  two 
years  later,  was  re-commissioned  in  1839,  but 
again  resigned.  In  1842,  and  again  in  1844 
and  1846,  he  was  elected  to  the  General  Assem- 
bly; also  served  as  a  member  of  the  Consti- 
tutional Convention  of  1847.  Between  1841 
and  1844  he  was  a  partner  of  Abraham  Lin- 
coln. In  1854  he  was  again  chosen  a  member 
of  the  lower  house  of  the  Legislature,  was 
a  delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Conven- 
tion in  1860,  and,  in  1861,  was  commissioned 
by  Governor  Yates  to  represent  Illinois  in  the 
Peace  Conference,  which  assembled  in  Wash- 
ington. Soon  afterward  he  retired  to  private 
life.  As  an  advocate  his  ability  was  widely 
recognized.  Died  at  Springfield,  July  17,  1880. 

LOGAN  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  central  part 
of  the  State,  and  having  an  area  of  about  620 
square  miles.  Its  surface  is  chiefly  a  level  or 
moderately  undulating  prairie,  with  some  high 
ridges,  as  at  Elkhart.  Its  soil  is  extremely  fertile 
and  well  drained  by  numerous  creeks.  Coal- 
mining is  successfully  carried  on.  The  other 
staple  products  are  corn,  wheat,  oats,  hay,  cattle 
and  pork.  Settlers  began  to  locate  in  1819-22, 
and  the  county  was  organized  in  1839,  being 
originally  cut  off  from  Sangamon.  In  1840  a 
portion  of  Tazewell  was  added  and,  in  1845,  a 
part  of  De  Witt  County.  It  was  named  in  honor 
of  Dr.  John  Logan,  father  of  Senator  John  A. 
Logan.  Postville  was  the  first  county-seat,  but, 


in  1847,  a  change  was  made  to  Mount  Pulaski, 
and,  later,  to  Lincoln,  which  is  the  present  capi- 
tal. Pop.  (1900),  28,680;  (1910),  30,216. 

LOMBARD,  a  village  of  Dupage  County,  on  the 
Chicago  Great  Western  and  the  Chicago  &  North 
Western  Railways,  20  miles  west  of  Chicago.  Pop. 
(1900),  590;  (1910),  883. 

LOMBARD  UNIVERSITY,  an  institution  at 
Galesburg  under  control  of  the  Universalist 
denomination,  founded  in  1851.  It  has  prepara- 
tory, collegiate  and  theological  departments. 
The  collegiate  department  includes  both  classical 
and  scientific  courses,  with  a  specially  arranged 
course  of  three  years  for  young  women,  who  con- 
stitute nearly  half  the  number  of  students.  The 
University  lias  an  endowment  of  $200,000,  and 
owns  additional  property,  real  and  personal,  of 
the  value  of  $100,000.  In  1898  it  reported  a  fac- 
ulty of  thirteen  professors,  with  an  attendance  of 
191  students. 

LONDON  MILLS,  a  village  and  railway  station 
of  Fulton  County,  on  the  Fulton  Narrow  Gauge 
and  Iowa  Central  Railroads,  19  miles  southeast 
of  Galesburg.  The  district  is  agricultural;  the 
town  has  banks  and  a  weekly  paper;  fine  brick  clay 
is  mined.  Pop.  (1900),  528,'  (1910),  555. 

LONG,  Stephen  Harriman,  civil  engineer,  was 
born  in  Hopkinton,  N.  H.,  Dec.  30,  1784;  gradu- 
ated at  Dartmouth  College  in  1809,  and,  after 
teaching  some  years,  entered  the  United  States 
Army  in  December,  1814,  as  a  Lieutenant  in  the 
Corps  of  Engineers,  acting  as  Assistant  Professor 
of  Mathematics  at  West  Point;  in  1816  was  trans- 
ferred to  the  Topographical  Engineers  with  the 
brevet  rank  of  Major.  From  1818  to  1823  he  had 
charge  of  explorations  between  the  Mississippi 
River  and  the  Rocky  Mountains,  and,  in  1823-24, 
to  the  sources  of  the  Mississippi.  One  of  the 
highest  peaks  of  the  Rocky  Mountains  was  named 
in  his  honor.  Between  1827  and  1830  he  was 
employed  as  a  civil  engineer  on  the  Baltimore  & 
Ohio  Railroad,  and  from  1837  to  1840,  as  Engineer  - 
in-Chief  of  the  Western  &  Atlantic  Railroad,  in 
Georgia,  \vhere  he  introduced  a  system  of  curves 
and  a  new  kind  of  truss  bridge  afterwards  gener- 
ally adopted.  On  the  organization  of  the  Topo- 
graphical Engineers  as  a  separate  corps  in  1838, 
he  became  Major  of  that  body,  and,  in  1861,  chief, 
with  the  rank  of  Colonel.  An  account  of  his 
first  expedition  to  the  Rocky  Mountains  (1819-20) 
by  Dr.  Edwin  James,  was  published  in  1823,  and 
the  following  year  appeared  "Long's  Expedition 
to  the  Source  of  St.  Peter's  River,  Lake  of  the 
Woods,  Etc."  He  was  a  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Philosophical  Society  and  the  author  of  the 


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first  original  treatise  on  railroad  building  ever 
published  in  this  country,  under  the  title  of 
"Railroad  Manual"  (1829).  During  the  latter 
days  of  his  life  his  home  was  at  Alton,  111.,  where 
he  died,  Sept.  4,  1864.  Though  retired  from 
active  service  in  June,  1863,  he  continued  in  the 
discharge  of  important  duties  up  to  his  death. 

LOXGENECKER,  Joel  M.,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Crawford  County,  111.,  June  12,  1847;  before 
reaching  his  eighteenth  year  he  enlisted  in  the 
Fifth  Illinois  Cavalry,  serving  until  the  close  of  the 
war.  After  attending  the  high  school  at  Robinson 
and  teaching  for  some  time,  he  began  the  study 
of  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Olney  in 
1870 ;  served  two  years  as  City  Attorney  and  four 
(1877-81)  as  Prosecuting  Attorney,  in  the  latter 
year  removing  to  Chicago.  Here,  in  1884,  he  be- 
came the  assistant  of  Luther  Laflin  Mills  in  the 
office  of  Prosecuting  Attorney  of  Cook  County, 
retaining  that  position  with  Mr.  Mills'  successor, 
Judge  Grinnell.  On  the  promotion  of  the  latter 
to  the  bench,  in  1886,  Mr.  Longenecker  succeeded 
to  the  office  of  Prosecuting  Attorney,  continuing 
in  that  position  until  1892.  While  in  this  office 
he  conducted  a  large  number  of  important  crimi- 
nal cases,  the  most  important,  perhaps,  being  the 
trial  of  the  murderers  of  Dr.  Cronin,  in  which  he 
gained  a  wide  reputation  for  skill  and  ability  as 
a  prosecutor  in  criminal  cases.  Died  Sept.  19,  1906. 

LOOMIS,  (Rev.)  Hnbbell,  clergyman  and  edu- 
cator, was  born  in  Colchester,  Conn.,  May  81, 
1775 ;  prepared  for  college  in  the  common  schools 
and  at  Plainfield  Academy,  in  his  native  State, 
finally  graduating  at  Union  College,  N.  Y.,  in 
1799 — having  supported  himself  during  a  con- 
siderable part  of  his  educational  course  by 
manual  labor  and  teaching.  He  subsequently 
studied  theology,  and,  for  twenty-four  years, 
served  as  pastor  of  a  Congregational  church  at 
Willington,  Conn.,  meanwhile  fitting  a  number 
of  young  men  for  college,  including  among  them 
Dr.  Jared  Sparks,  afterwards  President  of  Har- 
vard College  and  author  of  numerous  historical 
works.  About  1829  his  views  on  the  subject  of 
baptism  underwent  a  change,  resulting  in  his 
uniting  himself  with  the  Baptist  Church.  Com- 
ing to  Illinois  soon  after,  he  spent  some  time  at 
Kaskaskia  and  Edwardsville,  and,  in  1832,  located 
at  Upper  Alton,  where  he  became  a  prominent 
factor  in  laying  the  foundation  of  Shurtleff  Col- 
lege, first  by  the  establishment  of  the  Baptist 
Seminary,  of  which  he  was  the  Principal  for 
several  years,  and  later  by  assisting,  in  1835,  to 
secure  the  charter  of  the  college  in  which  the 
seminary  was  merged.  His  name  stood  first  on 


the  list  of  Trustees  of  the  new  institution,  and, 
in  proportion  to  his  means,  he  was  a  liberal  con- 
tributor to  its  support  in  the  period  of  its  infancy. 
The  latter  years  of  his  life  were  spent  among  his 
books  in  literary  and  scientific  pursuits.  Died  at 
Upper  Alton,  Dec.  15,  1872,  at  the  advanced  age 
of  nearly  98  years.— A  son  of  his— Prof.  Ellas 
Loomls — an  eminent  mathematician  and  natural- 
ist, was  the  author  of  "Loomis'  Algebra"  and 
other  scientific  text-books,  in  extensive  use  in  the 
colleges  of  the  country.  He  held  professorships 
in  various  institutions  at  different  times,  the  last 
being  that  of  Natural  Philosophy  and  Astronomy 
in  Yale  College,  from  1860  up  to  his  death  in  1889. 

LORIMER,  William,  Member  of  Congress,  was 
born  in  Manchester,  England,  of  Scotch  parent- 
age, April  27,  1861;  came  with  his  parents  to 
America  at  five  years  of  age,  and,  after  spending 
some  years  in  Michigan  and  Ohio,  came  to  Chi- 
cago in  1870,  where  he  entered  a  private  school. 
Having  lost  his  father  by  death  at  twelve  years 
of  age,  he  became  an  apprentice  in  the  sign-paint- 
ing business;  was  afterwards  an  employe  on  a 
street-railroad,  finally  engaging  in  the  real-estate 
business  and  serving  as  an  appointee  of  Mayor 
Roche  and  Mayor  Washburne  in  the  city  water 
department.  In  1892  he  was  the  Republican 
nominee  for  Clerk  of  the  Superior  Court,  but  was 
defeated.  Two  years  later  he  was  elected  to  the 
Fifty- fourth  Congress  from  the  Second  Illinois 
District,  and  re-elected  in  1896,  as  he  was  again 
in  1898.  His  plurality  in  1896  amounted  to  26,736 
votes. 

LOUISVILLE,  the  county-seat  of  Clay  County; 
situated  on  the  Little  Wabash  River  and  on  the 
Springfield  Division  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
Southwestern  Railroad.  It  is  100  miles  south- 
southeast  of  Springfield  and  7  miles  north  of 
Flora;  has  a  courthouse,  three  churches,  a  high 
school,  a  savings  bank  and  one  weekly  newspaper. 
Pop.  (1890),  637;  (1900),  646;  (1910),  670. 

LOUISVILLE,  EVAXSVILLE  &  NEW  AL- 
BA\Y  RAILROAD.  (See  Louisville,  EransviUe 
&  St.  Louis  (Consolidated)  Railroad.} 

LOUISVILLE,  EVAXSVILLE  &  ST.  LOUIS 
(Consolidated)  RAILROAD.  The  length  of  this 
entire  line  is  358.55  miles,  of  which  nearly  150 
miles  are  operated  in  Illinois.  It  crosses  the  State 
from  East  St.  Louis  to  Mount  Carmel,  on  the 
Wabash  River.  Within  Illinois  the  system  uses 
a  single  track  of  standard  gauge,  laid  with  steel 
rails  on  white-oak  ties.  The  grades  are  usually 
light,  although,  as  the  line  leaves  the  Mississippi 
bottom,  the  gradient  is  about  two  per  cent  or 
105.6  feet  per  mile.  The  total  capitalization 


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(1898)  was  $18,236,246,  of  which  §4,247,909  was  in 
stock  and  $10,568,350  in  bonds.— (HISTORY.)  The 
original  corporation  was  organized  in  both  Indi- 
ana and  Illinois  in  1869,  and  the  Illinois  section  of 
ihe  line  opened  from  Mount  Carmel  to  Albion  (18 
miles)  in  January,  1873.  The  Indiana  division 
was  sold  under  foreclosure  in  1876  to  the  Louis- 
ville, New  Albany  &  St.  Louis  Railway  Com- 
pany, while  the  Illinois  division  was  reorganized 
in  1878  under  the  name  of  the  St.  Louis,  Mount 
Carmel  &  New  Albany  Railroad.  A  few  months 
later  the  two  divisions  were  consolidated  under 
the  name  of  the  former.  In  1881  this  line  was 
again  consolidated  with  the  Evansville,  Rockport 
&  Eastern  Railroad  (of  Indiana),  taking  the  name 
of  the  Louisville,  Evansville  &  St.  Louis  Railroad. 
In  1889,  by  a  still  further  consolidation,  it 
absorbed  several  short  lines  in  Indiana  and  Illi- 
nois— those  in  the  latter  State  being  the  Illinois 
&  St.  Louis  Railroad  and  Coal  Company,  the 
Belleville,  Centralia  &  Eastern  (projected  from 
Belleville  to  Mount  Vernon)  and  the  Venice  & 
Carondelet — the  new  organization  assuming  the 
present  name — Louisville,  Evansville  &  St.  Louis 
(Consolidated)  Railroad. 

LOUISVILLE  &  NASHVILLE  RAILROAD,  a 
corporation  operating  an  extensive  system  of 
railroads,  chiefly  south  of  the  Ohio  River  and 
extending  through  Kentucky  and  Tennessee 
into  Indiana.  The  portion  of  the  line  in  Illinois 
(known  as  the  St.  Louis,  Evansville  &  Nashville 
line)  extends  from  East  St.  Louis  to  the  Wabash 
River,  in  White  County  (133.64  miles),  with 
branches  from  Belleville  to  O'Fallon  (6.07  miles), 
and  from  McLeansboro  to  Shawneetown  (40.7 
miles)— total,  180.41  miles.  The  Illinois  Divi- 
sion, though  virtually  owned  by  the  operating 
line,  is  formally  leased  from  the  Southeast  &  St. 
Louis  Railway  Company,  whose  corporate  exist- 
ence is  merely  nominal.  The  latter  company 
acquired  title  to  the  property  after  foreclosure 
in  November,  1880,  and  leased  it  in  perpetuity  to 
the  Louisville  &  Nashville  Company.  The  total 
earnings  andjncome  of  the  leased  line  in  Illinois, 
for  1898,  were  §1,052,789,  and  the  total  expendi- 
tures (including  §47,198  taxes)  were  §657,125. 

LOUISVILLE  &  ST.  LOUIS  RAILWAY.  (See 
Jacksonville  cfc  St.  Louis  Railway. ) 

LOVEJOT,  Elijah  Parish,  minister  and  anti- 
slavery  journalist,  was  born  at  Albion,  Maine, 
Nov.  9,  1802 — the  son  of  a  Congregational  minis- 
ter. He  graduated  at  Waterville  College  in  1826, 
came  west  and  taught  school  in  St.  Louis  in 
1827,  and  became  editor  of  a  Whig  paper  there  in 
1829.  Later,  he  studied  theology  at  Princeton 


and  was  licensed  as  a  Presbyterian  minister  in 
1833.  Returning  to  St.  Louis,  he  started  "The 
Observer" — a  religious  weekly,  which  condemned 
slave-holding.  Threats  of  violence  from  the 
pro-slavery  -party  induced  him  to  remove  his 
paper,  presses,  etc.,  to  Alton,  in  July,  1836.  Three 
times  within  twelve  months  his  plant  was  de- 
stroyed by  a  mob.  A  fourth  press  having  been 
procured,  a  number  of  his  friends  agreed  to  pro- 
tect it  from  destruction  in  the  warehouse  where 
it  was  stored.  On  the  evening  of  Nov.  7,  1837,  a 
mob,  having  assembled  about  the  building,  sent 
one  of  their  number  to  the  roof  to  set  it  on  fire. 
Lovejoy,  with  two  of  his  friends,  stepped  outside 
to  reconnoiter,  when  he  was  shot  down  by  parties 
in  ambush,  breathing  his  last  a  few  minutes 
later.  His  death  did  much  to  strengthen  the 
anti-slavery  sentiment  north  of  Mason  and 
Dixon's  line.  His  party  regarded  him  as  a 
martyr,  and  his  death  was  made  the  text  for 
many  impassioned  and  effective  appeals  in  oppo- 
sition to  an  institution  which  employed  moboc- 
racy  and  murder  in  its  efforts  to  suppress  free 
discvission.  (See  Alton  Riots.) 

LOVEJOY,  Owen,  clergyman  and  Congressman, 
was  born  at  Albion,  Maine,  Jan.  6,  1811.  Being 
the  son  of  a  clergyman  of  small  means,  he  was 
thrown  upon  his  own  resources,  but  secured  a 
collegiate  education,  graduating  at  Bowdoin 
College.  In  1836  he  removed  to  Alton,  III,  join- 
ing his  brother,  Elijah  Parish  Lovejoy,  who  was 
conducting  an  anti-slavery  and  religious  journal 
there,  and  whose  assassination  by  a  pro-slavery 
mob  he  witnessed  the  following  year.  (See  Alton 
Riots  and  Elijah  P.  Lovejoy.)  This  tragedy 
induced  him  to  devote  his  life  to  a  crusade 
against  slavery.  Having  previously  begun  the 
study  of  theology,  he  was  ordained  to  the  minis- 
try and  officiated  for  several  years  as  pastor  of  a 
Congregational  church  at  Princeton.  In  1847  he 
was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  on  the  "Liberty"  ticket,  but,  in 
1854,  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  upon  that 
issue,  and  earnestly  supported  Abraham  Lincoln 
for  United  States  Senator.  Upon  his  election  to 
the  Legislature  he  resigned  his  pastorate  at 
Princeton,  his  congregation  presenting  him  with 
a  solid  silver  service  in  token  of  their  esteem.  In 
1856  he  was  elected  a  Representative  in  Congress 
by  a  majority  of  7,000,  and  was  re-elected  for 
three  successive  terms.  As  an  orator  he  had  few 
equals  in  the  State,  while  his  courage  in  the 
support  of  his  principles  was  indomitable.  In 
the  campaigns  of  1856,  '58  and  '60  he  rendered 
valuable  service  to  the  Republican  party,  as  he 


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did  later  in  upholding  the  cause  of  the  Union  in 
Congress.  He  died  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Marcli  25, 
1864. 

LOVINGTO>,  a  village  of  Moultrie  County,  on 
the  Terre  Haute-Peoria  branch  of  the  Vandalia 
Line  and  the  Bement  &  Altaraont  Division  of  the 
Wabash  Railway,  23  miles  southeast  of  Decatur. 
The  town  ships  grain  and  live-stock,  has  a  bank,  a 
newspaper,  water-works,  electric  lights  and  tele- 
phone. Pop.  (1900),  815;  (1910),  1,011. 

LUDLAM,  (Dr.)  Reuben,  physician  and  author, 
was  born  at  Camden,  N.  J.,  Oct.  11,  1831,  the  son 
of  Dr.  Jacob  Watson  Ludlam,  an  eminent  phy- 
sician who,  in  his  later  years,  became  a  resident 
of  Evanston,  111.  The  younger  Ludlam,  having 
taken  a  course  in  an  academy  at  Bridgeton, 
N.  J.,  at  sixteen  years  of  age  entered  upon  the 
study  of  medicine  with  his  father,  followed  by  a 
course  of  lectures  at  the  University  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, where  he  graduated,  in  1852.  Having 
removed  to  Chicago  the  following  year,  he  soon 
after  began  an  investigation  of  the  homoeopathic 
system  of  medicine,  which  resulted  in  its  adop- 
tion, and,  a  few  years  later,  had  acquired  such 
prominence  that,  in  1859,*he  was  appointed  Pro- 
fessor of  Physiology  and  Pathology  in  the  newly 
established  Hahnemann  Medical  College  in  the 
city  of  Chicago,  with  which  he  continued  to  be 
connected  for  nearly  forty  years.  Besides  serving 
as  Secretary  of  the  institution  at  its  inception,  he 
had,  as  early  as  1854,  taken  a  position  as  one  of  the 
editors  of  "The  Chicago  Homoeopath,"  later 
being  editorially  associated  with  "The  North 
American  Journal  of  Homoeopathy, "  published  in 
New  York  City,  and  "The  United  States  Medical 
and  Surgical  Journal'  of  Chicago.  He  also 
served  as  President  of  numerous  medical  associ- 
ations, and,  in  1877,  was  appointed  by  Governor 
Cullom  a  member  of  the  State  Board  of  Health, 
serving,  by  two  subsequent  reappointments,  for  a 
period  of  fifteen  years.  In  addition  to  his  labors 
.as  a  lecturer  and  practitioner,  Dr.  Ludlam  was 
one  of  the  most  prolific  authors  on  professional 
lines  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  besides  numerous 
monographs  on  special  topics,  having  produced  a 
"Course  of  Clinical  Lectures  on  Diphtheria" 
(1863);  "Clinical  and  Didactic  Lectures  on  the 
Diseases  of  Women"  (1871),  and  a  translation 
from  the  French  of  "Lectures  on  Clinical  Medi- 
cine" (1880).  The  second  work  mentioned  is 
recognized  as  a  valuable  text-book,  and  has 
passed  through  seven  or  eight  editions.  A  few 
years  after  his  first  connection  with  the  Hahne 
mann  Medical  College,  Dr.  Ludlam  became  Pro- 
fessor of  Obstetrics  and  Gynecology,  and,  on  the 


death  of  President  C.  S.  Smith,  was  chosen 
President  of  the  institution.  Died  suddenly  from 
heart  disease,  while  preparing  to  perform  a  surgi- 
cal operation  on  a  patient  in  the  Hahnemann 
Medical  College,  April  29,  1899. 

LU>*DY,  Benjamin,  early  anti-slavery  journal- 
ist, was  born  in  New  Jersey  of  Quaker  par- 
entage ;  at  19  worked  as  a  saddler  at  Wheeling, 
Va.,  where  he  first  gained  a  practical  knowledge 
of  the  institution  of  slavery;  later  carried  on 
business  at  Mount  Pleasant  and  St.  Clairsville,  O., 
where,  in  1815,  he  organized  an  anti-slavery 
association  under  the  name  of  the  "Union 
Humane  Society,"  also  contributing  anti-slavery 
articles  to  "The  Philanthropist,"  a  paper  pub- 
lished at  Mount  Pleasant.  Removing  to  St. 
Louis,  in  1819,  he  took  a  deep  interest  in  the  con- 
test over  the  admission  of  Missouri  as  a  slave  State. 
Again  at  Mount  Pleasant,  in  1821,  he  began  the 
issue  of  "The  Genius  of  Universal  Emancipation, " 
a  monthly,  which  he  soon  removed  to  Jonesbor- 
ough,  Tenn.,  and  finally  to  Baltimore  in  1824, 
when  it  became  a  weekly.  Mr.  Lundy's  trend 
towards  colonization  is  shown  in  the  fact  that  he 
made  two  visits  (1825  and  1829)  to  Hayti,  with  a 
view  to  promoting  the  colonization  of  emanci- 
pated slaves  in  that  island.  Visiting  the  East  in 
1828,  he  made  the  acquaintance  of  William  Lloyd 
Garrison,  who  became  a  convert  to  his  views  and 
a  firm  ally.  The  following  winter  he  was  as- 
saulted by  a  slave-dealer  in  Baltimore  and  nearly 
killed ;  soon  after  removed  his  paper  to  Washing- 
ton and,  later,  to  Philadelphia,  where  it  took  the 
name  of  "The  National  Enquirer,"  being  finally 
merged  into  "The  Pennsylvania  Freeman."  In 
1838  his  property  was  burned  by  the  pro-slavery 
mob  which  fired  Pennsylvania  Hall,  and,  in  the 
following  winter,  he  removed  to  Lowell,  La  Salle 
Co.,  111.,  with  a  view  to  reviving  his  paper  there, 
but  the  design  was  frustrated  by  his  early  death, 
which  occurred  August  22,  1839.  The  paper 
however,  was  revived  by  Zebina  Eastman  under 
the  name  of  "The  Genius  of  Liberty,  "but  was  re- 
moved to  Chicago,  in  1842,  and  issued  under  the 
name  of  "The  Western  Citizen."  (See  Eastman, 
Zebina.) 

LTJXT,  Orrington,  capitalist  and  philanthro- 
pist, was  born  in  Bowdoinham,  Maine,  Dec.  24, 
1815;  came  to  Chicago  in  1842,  and  engaged  in 
the  grain  commission  business,  becoming  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Trade  at  its  organization. 
Later,  he  became  interested  in  real  estate  oper- 
ations, fire  and  life  insurance  and  in  railway 
enterprises,  being  one  of  the  early  promoters  of 
the  Chicago  &  Galena  Union,  now  a  part  of  the 


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Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railroad.  He  also  took 
an  active  part  in  municipal  affairs,  and,  during 
the  War,  was  an  efficient  member  of  the  "War 
Finance  Committee."  A  liberal  patron  of  all 
moral  and  benevolent  enterprises,  as  shown  by 
his  cooperation  with  the  "Relief  and  Aid  Soci- 
ety" after  the  fire  of  1871,  and  his  generous  bene- 
factions to  the  Young  Men's  Christian  Association 
and  feeble  churches,  his  most  efficient  service 
was  rendered  to  the  cause  of  education  as  repre- 
sented in  the  Northwestern  University,  of  which 
he  was  a  Trustee  from  its  organization,  and  much 
of  the  time  an  executive  officer.  To  his  noble 
benefaction  the  institution  owes  its  splendid 
library  building,  erected  some  years  ago  at  a 
cost  of  $100,000.  In  the  future  history  of  Chi- 
cago, Mr.  Lunt's  name  will  stand  beside  that  of 
J.  Young  Scammon,  Walter  L.  Newberry,  John 
Crerar,  and  others  of  its  most  liberal  benefactors. 
Died,  at  his  home  in  Evanston,  April  5,  1897. 

LUSK,  John  T.,  pioneer,  was  born  in  South 
Carolina,  Nov.  7,  1784;  brought  to  Kentucky  in 
1791  by  his  father  (James  Lusk),  who  established 
a  ferry  across  the  Ohio,  opposite  the  present  town 
of  Golconda,  in  Pope  County,  111.  Lusk's  Creek, 
which  empties  into  the  Ohio  in  that  vicinity, 
took  its  name  from  this  family.  In  1803  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  came  to  Madison  County,  111., 
and  settled  near  Edwardsville.  During  the  War 
of  1812-14  he  was  engaged  in  the  service  as  a 
"Ranger."  When  Edwardsville  began  its 
growth,  he  moved  into  the  town  and  erected  a 
house  of  hewn  logs,  a  story  and  a  half  high  and 
containing  three  rooms,  which  became  the  first 
hotel  in  the  town  and  a  place  of  considerable 
historical  note.  Mr.  Lusk  held,  at  different 
periods,  the  positions  of  Deputy  Circuit  Clerk, 
County  Clerk,  Recorder  and  Postmaster,  dying, 
Dec.  22,  1857. 

LUTHERANS,  The.  While  this  sect  in  Illi- 
nois, as  elsewhere,  is  divided  into  many  branches, 
it  is  a  unit  in  accepting  the  Bible  as  the  only  in- 
fallible rule  of  faith,  in  the  use  of  Luther's  small 
Catechism  in  instruction  of  the  young,  in  the 
practice  of  infant  baptism  and  confirmation  at 
an  early  age,  and  in  acceptance  of  the  Augsburg 
Confession.  Services  are  conducted,  in  various 
sections  of  the  country,  in  not  less  than  twelve 
different  languages.  The  number  of  Lutheran 
ministers  in  Illinois  exceeds  400,  who  preach 
in  the  English,  German,  Danish,  Swedish,  Fin- 
nish and  Hungarian  tongues.  The  churches 
over  which  they  preside  recognize  allegiance 
to  eight  distinct  ecclesiastical  bodies,  denomi- 
nated synods,  as  follows:  The  Northern,  South- 


ern, Central  and  Wartburg  Synods  of  the 
General  Synod;  the  Illinois-Missouri  District  of 
the  Synodical  Conference;  the  Synod  for  the 
Norwegian  Evangelical  Church;  the  Swedish- 
Augustana,  and  the  Indiana  Synod  of  the  General 
Council.  To  illustrate  the  large  proportion  of  the 
foreign  element  in  this  denomination,  reference 
may  be  made  to  the  fact  that,  of  sixty-three 
Lutheran  churches  in  Chicago,  only  four  use  the 
English  language.  Of  the  remainder,  thirty- 
seven  make  use  of  the  German,  ten  Swedish,  nine 
Norwegian  and  three  Danish.  The  whole  num- 
ber of  communicants  in  the  State,  in  1892,  was 
estimated  at  90,000.  The  General  Synod  sustains 
a  German  Theological  Seminary  in  Chicago. 
(See  also  Religious  Denominations. 

LYONS,  a  village  of  Cook  County,  12  miles 
southwest  of  Chicago.  Population  (1880),  486; 
(1890),  732;  (1900),  951;  (1910),  1,483. 

MACALISTER    &    STEBBINS    BONDS,   the 

name  given  to  a  class  of  State  indebtedness 
incurred  in  the  year  1841,  through  the  hypothe- 
cation, by  John  D.Whiteside  (then  Fund  Com- 
missioner of  the  State  of  Illinois),  with  Messrs. 
Macalister  &  Stebbins,  brokers  of  New  York 
City,  of  804  interest-bearing  bonds  of  $1,000  each, 
payable  in  1865,  upon  which  the  said  Macalistei 
&  Stebbins  advanced  to  the  State  $261,560.83. 
This  was  done  with  the  understanding  that  the 
firm  would  make  further  advances  sufficient  to 
increase  the  aggregate  to  forty  per  cent  of  the 
face  value  of  the  bonds,  but  upon  which  no 
further  advances  were  actually  made.  In  addi- 
tion to  these,  there  were  deposited  with  the  same 
firm,  within  the  next  few  months,  with  a  like 
understanding,  internal  improvement  bonds  and 
State  scrip  amounting  to  f  109,215. 44— making  the 
aggregate  of  State  securities  in  their  hands  $913,- 
215.44,  upon  which  the  State  had  received  only 
the  amount  already  named — being  28.64  per  cent 
of  the  face  value  of  such  indebtedness.  Attempts 
having  been  made  by  the  holders  of  these  bonds 
(with  whom  they  had  been  hypothecated  by 
Macalister  &  Stebbins),  to  secure  settlement  on 
their  par  face  value,  the  matter  became  the  sub- 
ject of  repeated  legislative  acts,  the  most  impor- 
tant of  which  were  passed  in  1847  and  1849 — both 
reciting,  in  their  respective  preambles,  the  history 
of  the  transaction.  The  last  of  these  provided 
for  the  issue  to  Macalister  &  Stebbins  of  new 
bonds,  payable  in  1865,  for  the  amount  of  princi- 
pal and  interest  of  the  sum  actually  advanced 
and  found  to  be  due,  conditioned  upon  the  sur- 
render, by  them,  of  the  original  bonds  and  other 


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evidences  of  indebtedness  received  by  them  in 
1841.  This  the  actual  holders  refused  to  accept, 
and  brought  the  case  before  the  Supreme  Court 
in  an  effort  to  compel  the  Governor  (who  was 
then  ex-officio  Fund  Commissioner)  to  recognize 
the  full  face  of  their  claim.  This  the  Supreme 
Court  refused  to  do,  on  the  ground  that,  the 
executive  being  a  co-ordinate  branch  of  the  Gov- 
ernment, they  had  no  authority  over  his  official 
acts.  In  1859  a  partial  refunding  of  these  bonds, 
to  the  amount  of  §114,000,  was  obtained  from 
Governor  Bissell,  who,  being  an  invalid,  was 
probably  but  imperfectly  acquainted  with  their 
history  and  previous  legislation  on  the  subject. 
Representations  made  to  him  led  to  a  suspension 
of  the  proceeding,  and,  as  the  bonds  were  not 
transferable  except  on  the  books  of  the  Funding 
Agency  in  the  office  of  the  State  Auditor,  they 
were  treated  as  illegal  and  void,  and  were  ulti 
mately  surrendered  by  the  holders  on  the  basis 
originally  fixed,  without  loss  to  the  State.  In 
1865  an  additional  act  was  passed  requiring  the 
presentation,  for  payment,  of  the  portion  of  the 
original  bonds  still  outstanding,  on  pain  of  for- 
feiture, and  this  was  finally  done. 

MACK,  Alonzo  W.,  legislator,  was  born  at  More- 
town,  Vt.,  in  1822;  at  16  years  of  age  settled  at 
Kalamazoo,  Mich.,  later  began  the  study  of  medi- 
cine and  graduated  at  Laporte,  Ind.,  in  1844. 
Then,  having  removed  to  Kankakee,  111.,  he 
adopted  the  practice  of  law ;  in  1858  was  elected 
Representative,  and,  in  1860  and  '64,  to  the 
Senate,  serving  through  five  continuous  sessions 
(1858-68).  In  1862  he  assisted  in  organizing  the 
Seventy-sixth  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers,  of 
which  he  was  commissioned  Colonel,  but  resigned, 
in  January  following,  to  take  his  seat  in  the 
Senate.  Colonel  Mack,  who  was  a  zealous  friend 
of  Governor  Yates,  was  one  of  the  leading  spirits 
in  the  establishment  of  "The  Chicago  Repub- 
lican, "  in  May,  1865,  and  was  its  business  mana- 
ger the  first  year  of  its  publication,  but  disagreeing 
with  the  editor,  Charles  A.  Dana,  both  finally 
retired.  Colonel  Mack  then  resumed  the  practice 
of  law  in  Chicago,  dying  there,  Jan.  4,  1871. 

MACKINAW,  the  first  county-seat  of  Tazewell 
County,  at  intersection  of  two  railroad  lines,  18 
miles  southeast  of  Peoria.  The  district  is  agri- 
cultural and  stock-raising.  There  are  manufacto- 
ries of  farm  implements,  pressed  brick,  harness, 
wagons  and  carriages,  also  a  State  bank  and  a 

weekly  i  aper.     Pop.  (1900),  859;  (1910),  725. 

MAC  MILLAN,  Thomas  C.,  Clerk  of  United 
States  District  Court,  was  born  at  Stranraer, 
Scotland,  Oct.  4,  1850;  came  with  his  parents,  in 


1857,  to  Chicago,  where  he  graduated  from  the 
High  School  and  spent  some  time  in  the  Chicago 
University;  in  1873  became  a  reporter  on  "The 
Chicago  Inter  Ocean;"  two  years  later  accom- 
panied an  exploring  expedition  to  the  Black  Hills 
and,  in  1875-76,  represented  that  paper  with 
General  Crook  in  the  campaign  against  the  Sioux 
After  an  extended  tour  in  Europe,  he  assumed 
charge  of  the  "Curiosity  Shop"  department  of 
"The  Inter  Ocean,"  served  on  the  Cook  County 
Board  of  Education  and  as  a  Director  of  the  Chi 
cago  Public  Library,  besides  eight  years  in  the 
General  Assembly— 1885-89  in  the  House  and  1889- 
93  in  the  Senate.  In  January,  1896,  Mr.  MacMillan 
was  appointed  Clerk  of  the  United  States  District 
Court  at  Chicago.  He  has  been  a  Trustee  of  Illi- 
nois College  since  1886,  and,  in  1885,  received  the 
honorary  degree  of  A.M.  from  that  institution. 

MACOMB,  the  county-seat  of  McDonough 
County,  situated  on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  Railroad,  59  miles  northeast  of  Quincy, 
39  miles  southwest  of  Galesburg.  The  principal 
manufactures  are  sewer-pipes,  drain-tile,  pot- 
tery, and  school-desk  castings.  The  city  has 
interurban  electric  car  line,  banks,  nine  churches, 
high  school  and  three  daily  and  weekly  papers; 
is  the  seat  of  the  Western  Illinois  State  Normal 
School,  Preparatory  School  and  Business  College. 
Pop.  (1890),  4,052;  (1900),  5,375;  (1910),  5,774. 

MACON,  a  village  in  Macon  County,  on  the  Illi- 
nois Central  Railroad,  10  miles  south  by  west  of 
Decatur.  Macon  County  is  one  of  the  most  fer- 
tile in  the  corn  belt,  and  the  city  is  an  important 
shipping-point  for  corn.  It  has  wagon  and  cigar 
factories,  four  churches,  a  graded  school,  and  a 
weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  705;  (1910),  683. 

MACON  COUNTY,  situated  near  the  geograph- 
ical center  of  the  State.  The  census  of  1910  gave 
its  area  as  580  square  miles,  and  its  population, 
54,186.  It  was  organized  in  1829,  and  named  for 
Nathaniel  Macon,  a  revolutionary  soldier  and 
statesman.  The  surface  is  chiefly  level  prairie, 
although  in  parts  there  is  a  fair  growth  of  timber. 
The  county  is  well  drained  by  the  Sangamon 
River  and  its  tributaries.  The  soil  is  that  high 
grade  of  fertility  which  one  might  expect  in  the 
corn  belt  of  the  central  portion  of  the  State. 
Besides  corn,  oats,  rye  and  barley  are  extensively 
cultivated,  while  potatoes,  sorghum  and  wool  are 
among  the  products.  Decatur  is  the  county-seat 
and  principal  city  in  the  heart  of  a  rich  agricul 
tural  region.  Maroa,  in  the  northern  part  of  the 
county,  enjoys  considerable  local  trade. 

MACOUPIN  COUNTY,  a  south-central  county, 
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of  50,685  in  1910.  The  word  Macoupin  is  of 
Indian  derivation,  signifying  ''white  potato." 
The  county,  originally  a  part  of  Madison,  and 
later  of  Greene,  was  separately  organized  in  1829, 
under  the  supervision  of  Seth  Hodges,  William 
Wiloox  and  Theodorus  Davis.  The  first  court 
house  (of  logs)  was  erected  in  1830.  It  contained 
but  two  rooms,  and  in  pleasant  weather  juries 
were  wont  to  retire  to  a  convenient  grove  to 
deliberate  upon  their  findings.  The  surface  of 
the  county  is  level,  with  narrow  belts  of  timber 
following  the  course  of  the  streams.  The  soil  is 
fertile,  and  both  corn  and  wheat  are  extensively 
raised  While  agriculture  is  the  chief  industry 
in  the  south,  stock-raising  is  successfully  carried 
on  in  the  north.  Carlinville  is  the  county-seat 
and  Bunker  Hill,  Stanton,  Virden  and  Girard  the 
other  principal  towns. 

MAC  YEAGH,  Franklin,  merchant,  lawyer 
and  politician,  was  born  on  a  farm  in  Chester 
County,  Pa.,  graduated  from  Yale  University  in 
1862,  and,  two  years  later,  from  Columbia  Law 
School,  New  York.  He  was  soon  compelled  to 
abandon  practice  on  account  of  ill-health,  and 
removed  to  Chicago,  in  September,  18G5,  where  he 
embarked  in  business  as  a  wholesale  grocer.  In 
1874  he  was  chosen  President  of  the  Volunteer 
Citizens'  Association,  which  inaugurated  many 
important  municipal  reforms.  He  was  thereafter 
repeatedly  urged  to  accept  other  offices,  among 
them  the  mayorality,  but  persistently  refused 
until  1894,  when  he  accepted  a  nomination  for 
United  States  Senator  by  a  State  Convention  of 
the  Democratic  Party.  He  made  a  thorough  can- 
vass of  the  State,  but  the  Republicans  having 
gained  control  of  the  Legislature,  he  was 
defeated.  At  present  (1911)  Mr.  MacVeagh  occupies 
the  office  of  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  in  Washing- 
ton, to  which  he  was  appointed  by  Pres.Taft  in  1909. 

MADISON  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  southwest 
division  of  the  State,  and  bordering  on  the  Mis- 
sissippi River.  Its  area  is  about  740  square  miles. 
The  surface  of  the  county  is  hilly  along  the  Mis- 
sissippi bluffs,  but  generally  either  level  or  only 
slightly  undulating  in  the  interior.  The  "Ameri- 
can Bottom"  occupies  a  strip  of  country  along 
the  western  border,  four  to  six  miles  wide,  as  far 
north  as  Alton,  and  is  exceptionally  fertile.  The 
county  was  organized  in  1812,  being  the  first 
county  set  off  from  St.  Clair  County  after  the 
organization  of  Illinois  Territory,  in  1809,  and  the 
third  within  the  Territory.  It  was  named  in 
honor  of  James  Madison,  then  President  of  the 
United  States.  At  that  time  it  embraced  sub- 
stantially the  whole  of  the  northern  part  of  the 


State,  but  its  limits  were  steadily  reduced  by 
excisions  until  1843.  The  soil  is  fertile,  corn, 
wheat,  oats,  hay,  and  potatoes  being  raised  and 
exported  in  large  quantities.  Coal  seams  under- 
lie the  soil,  and  carboniferous  limestone  crops  out 
in  the  neighborhood  of  Alton.  American  settlers 
began  first  to  arrive  about  1800,  the  Judys,  Gill- 
hams  and  Whitesides  being  among  the  first,  gen- 
erally locating  in  the  American  Bottom,  and 
laying  the  foundation  for  the  present  county. 
In  the  early  history  of  the  State,  Madison  County 
was  the  home  of  a  large  number  of  prominent 
men  who  exerted  a  large  influence  in  shaping  its 
destiny.  Among  these  were  Governor  Edwards, 
Governor  Coles,  Judge  Samuel  D.  Lockwood,  and 
many  more  whose  names  are  intimately  inter- 
woven with  State  history.  The  county-seat  is  at 
Edwardsville,  and  Alton  is  the  principal  city. 
Population  of  the  county  (1910),  89,847. 

MAGRUDER,  Benjamin  D.,  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  was  born  near  Natchez,  Miss., 
Sept.  27,  1838;  graduated  from  Yale  College  in 
1856,  and,  for  three  years  thereafter,  engaged  in 
teaching  in  his  father's  private  academy  at 
Baton  Rouge,  La.,  and  in  reading  law.  In  1859 
he  graduated  from  the  law  department  of  the 
University  of  Louisiana,  and  the  same  year 
opened  an  office  at  Memphis,  Tenn.  At  the  out- 
break of  the  Civil  War,  his  sympathies  being 
strongly  in  favor  of  the  Union,  he  came  North, 
and,  after  visiting  relatives  at  New  Haven, 
Conn.,  settled  at  Chicago,  in  June,  1861.  While 
ever  radically  loyal,  he  refrained  from  enlisting 
or  taking  part  in  political  discussions  during  the 
war,  many  members  of  his  immediate  family 
being  in  the  Confederate  service.  He  soon 
achieved  and  easily  maintained  a  high  standing 
at  the  Chicago  bar;  in  1868  was  appointed  Master 
in  Chancery  of  the  Superior  Court  of  Cook 
County,  and,  in  1885,  was  elected  to  succeed 
Judge  T.  Lyle  Dickey  on  the  bench  of  the 
Supreme  Court,  being  re-elected  for  a  full  term 
of  nine  years  in  1888,  and  again  in  1897.  He  was 
Chief  Justice  in  1891-92.  Died  April  21,  1910. 

MADISON,  a  village  and  station  in  the  western 
part  of  Madison  County,  opposite  the  city  of  St. 
Louis,  and  at  the  junction  of  several  lines  of  railroad 
with  the  St.  Louis  Bridge  Terminal;  has  rolling  mills, 
foundries  and  other  manufacturing  enterprises;  is 
also  an  important  shipping  point  for  river  transpor- 
tation; has  two  weekly  papers.  Pop.  (1910),  5,046. 

MALTBY,  Jasper  A.,  soldier,  was  born  in  Ash- 
tabula  County,  Ohio,  Nov.  3,  1826,  served  as  a 
private  in  the  Mexican  War  and  was  severely 
wounded  at  Chapultepec.  After  his  discharge  he 


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trie  lights,  has  six  churches,  good  schools  and 
two  weekly  newspapers;  also  two  large  pickle 
factories.  Pop.  (1900),  2,005;  (1910),  1,936. 

MARINE,  a  village  of  Madison  County,  on  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad,  27  miles  northeast  of  St. 
Louis.  Several  of  its  earliest  settlers  were  sea  cap- 
tains from  the  East,  from  whom  the  "Marine 
Settlement"  obtained  its  name;  has  one  newspaper. 
Pop.  (1900),  666;  (1910),  685. 

MARION,  the  county-seat  of  Williamson 
County,  172  miles  southeast  of  Springfield,  on  the 
Illinois  Central  and  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois 
Railroads ;  in  agricultural  and  coal  region ;  has 
cotton  and  woolen  mills,  electric  cars,  water- 
works, ice  and  cold-storage  plant,  pressed  brick 
factory,  churches,  a  graded  school,  one  daily  and 
two  weekly  papers.  Pop.  (1900),  2,510;  (1910),  7,093. 

MARION  COU>'TY,  located  near  the  center  of 
the  southern  half  of  the  State,  with  an  area  of 
576  square  miles;  was  organized  in  1823,  and,  by 
the  census  of  1910,  had  a  population  of  35,094. 
About  half  the  county  is  prairie,  the  chief  prod- 
ucts being  tobacco,  wool  and  fruit.  The 
remainder  is  timbered  land.  It  is  watered  by  the 
tributaries  of  the  Kaskaskia  and  Little  Wabash 
Rivers.  The  bottom  lands  have  a  heavy  growth 
of  choice  timber,  and  a  deep,  rich  soil.  A  large 
portion  of  the  county  is  underlaid  with  a  thin 
vein  of  coal,  and  the  rocks  all  belong  to  the  upper 
coal  measures.  Sandstone  and  building  sand  are 
also  abundant.  Ample  shipping  facilities  are 
afforded  by  the  Illinois  Central  and  theBaltimore  & 
Ohio  (S.W.)  Railroads.  Salem  is  the  county-seat, 
but  Centralia  is  the  largest  and  most  important 
town,  being  a  railroad  junction  and  center  of  an 
extensive  fruit-trade.  Sandoval  is  a  thriving 
town  at  the  junction  of  the  Illinois  Central  and 
the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern  Railroads. 

MARISSA,  a  village  of  St.  Clair  County,  on  the 
St.  Louis  &  Cairo  Short  Line  Railroad,  39  miles 
southeast  of  St.  Louis.  It  is  in  a  farming  and 
mining  district;  has  two  banks,  a  newspaper  and 
a  magazine.  Pop.  (1900),  1,086;  (1910),  2,004. 

MA.ROA,  a  city  in  Macon  County,  on  the  Illi- 
nois Central  Railroad,  13  miles  nortli  of  Decatur 
and  81  miles  south  of  Bloomington.  The  city  has 
three  elevators,  an  agricultural  implement  fac- 
tory, water-works  system,  electric  light  plant, 
telephone  service,  two  banks,  one  newspaper, 
three  churches  and  a  graded  school.  Population 
(1890),  1,164;  (1900),  1,213;  (1910),  1,160. 

MARQUETTE,  (Father)  Jacques,  a  French 
missionary  and  explorer,  born  at  Laon,  France, 
in  1637.  He  Iwcame  a  Jesuit  at  the  age  of  17,  and, 
twelve  years  later  (1666),  was  ordained  a  priest. 


The  same  year  he  sailed  for  Canada,  landing  at 
Quebec.  For  eighteen  months  lie  devoted  him- 
self chiefly  to  the  study  of  Indian  dialects,  and, 
in  1668,  accompanied  a  party  of  Nez-Perces  to 
Lake  Superior,  where  he  founded  the  mission  of 
Sault  Ste.  Marie.  Later,  after  various  vicissi- 
tudes, he  went  to  Mackinac,  and,  in  that  vicinity, 
founded  the  Mission  of  St.  Ignace  and  built  a 
rude  church.  In  1673  he  accompanied  Joliet  on 
his  voyage  of  discovery  down  the  Mississippi,  the 
two  setting  .out  from  Green  Bay  on  May  17,  and 
reaching  the  Mississippi,  by  way  of  the  Fox  and 
Wisconsin  Rivers,  June  17.  (For  an  interesting 
translation  of  Marquette's  quaint  narrative  of  the 
expedition,  see  Shea's  "Discovery  and  Explo- 
ration of  the  Mississippi,''  N.  Y.,  1852.)  In  Sep- 
tember, 1673,  after  leaving  the  Illinois  and  stop- 
ping for  some  time  among  the  Indians  near 
''Starved  Rock,"  he  returned  to  Green  Bay  much 
broken  in  health.  In  October,  1674,  under  orders 
from  his  superior,  he  set  out  to  establish  a  mis- 
sion at  Kaskaskia  on  the  Upper  Illinois.  In 
December  he  reached  the  present  site  of  Chicago, 
where  he  was  compelled  to  halt  because  of 
exhaustion.  On  March  29,  1675,  he  resumed  his 
journey,  and  reached  Kaskaskia,  after  much 
suffering,  on  April  8.  After  laboring  indefati- 
gably  and  making  many  converts,  failing  health 
compelled  him  to  start  on  his  return  to  Macki- 
nac. Before  the  voyage  was  completed  he  died, 
May  18.  1675,  at  the  mouth  of  a  stream  which 
long  bore  his  name — but  is  not  the  present  Mar- 
quette  River — on  the  eastern  shore  of  Lake  Michi- 
gan. His  remains  were  subsequently  removed  to 
Point  St.  Ignace.  He  was  the  first  to  attempt  to 
explain  the  lake  tides,  and  modern  science  has 
not  improved  his  theory. 

MARSEILLES,  a  city  on  the  Illinois  River,  in 
La  Salle  County,  8  miles  east  of  Ottawa,  and  77 
miles  southwest  of  Chicago,  on  the  line  of  the 
Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railroad.  Ex- 
cellent water  power  is  furnished  by  a  dam  across 
the  river.  The  city  lias  several  factories,  among 
the  leading  products  being  flour,  paper  and 
agricultural  implements.  Coal  is  mined  in  the 
vicinity.  The  grain  trade  is  large,  sufficient  to 
support  three  elevators.  There  are  two  papers,  one 
issuing  a  daily  edition.  Pop.  (1900),  2,559; 
(1910),  3,291. 

MARSH,  Benjamin  F.,  Congressman,  born  in 
Wy the  Township,  Hancock  County,  111.,  was  edu- 
cated at  private  schools  and  at  Jubilee  College, 
leaving  the  latter  institution  one  year  before 
graduation.  He  read  law  under  the  tutelage  of  his 
brother,  Judge  J.  W.  Marsh,  of  Warsaw,  and  was 


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admitted  to  the  bar  in  1860.  The  same  year  he  was 
an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  State's  Attorney. 
Immediately  upon  the  first  call  for  troops  in  1861, 
he  raised  a  company  of  cavalry,  and,  going  to 
Springfield,  tendered  it  to  Governor  Yates.  No 
cavalry  having  been  called  for,  the  Governor  felt 
constrained  to  decline  it.  On  his  way  home  Mr. 
Marsh  stopped  at  Quincy  and  enlisted  as  a  private 
in  the  Sixteenth  Illinois  Infantry,  in  which  regi- 
ment he  served  until  July  4,  1861,  when  Gov- 
ernor Yates  advised  him  by  telegraph  of  Ids 
readiness  to  accept  his  cavalry  company. 
Returning  to  Warsaw  he  recruited  another  com- 
pany within  a  few  days,  of  which  he  was  com- 
missioned Captain,  and  which  was  attached  to 
the  Second  Illinois  Cavalry.  He  served  in  the 
army  until  January,  1866,  being  four  times 
wounded,  and  rising  to  the  rank  of  Colonel.  On 
his  return  home  he  interested  himself  in  politics. 
In  1869  he  was  a  Republican  candidate  for  the 
State  Constitutional  Convention,  and.  in  1876, 
was  elected  to  represent  the  Tenth  Illinois  Dis- 
trict in  Congress,  and  re-elected  in  1878  and  1880. 
In  1885  he  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  Rail- 
road and  Warehouse  Commission,  serving  until 
1889.  In  1894  he  was  again  elected  to  Congress 
from  his  old  district,  which,  under  the  new 
apportionment,  had  become  the  Fifteenth,  was 
re-elected  in  1896,  and  again  in  1898.  In  the 
Fifty-fifth  Congress  he  was  a  member  of  the 
House  Committee  on  Military  Affairs  and  Chair- 
man of  Committee  on  Militia.  Died  June  2,  1905. 

MARSH,  William,  jurist,  was  born  at  Moravia, 
N.  Y.,  May  11,  1822;  was. educated  at  Groton 
Academy  and  Union  College,  graduating  from 
the  latter  in  1842.  He  studied  law,  in  part,  in 
the  office  of  Millard  Fillmore,  at  Buffalo,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1845,  practicing  at  Ithaca 
until  1854,  when  he  removed  to  Quincy,  111.  Here 
he  continued  in  practice,  in  partnership,  at  differ- 
ent periods,  with  prominent  lawyers  of  that  city, 
until  elected  to  the  Circuit  bench  in  1885,  serv- 
ing until  1891.  Died,  April  14,  1894. 

MARSHALL,  the  county-seat  of  Clark  County, 
and  an  incorporated  city,  16K  miles  southwest  of 
Terre  Haute,  Ind. ,  and  a  point  of  intersection  of 
the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis 
and  the  Vandalia  Railroads.  The  surrounding 
country  is  devoted  to  farming  and  stock-raising. 
The  city  has  woolen,  flour,  saw  and  planing  mills, 
and  milk  condensing  plant.  It  has  two  banks, 
eight  churches  and  a  good  public  school  system, 
which  includes  city  and  township  high  schools, 
and  two  newspapers.  Pop.  (1890),  1,900;  (1900), 
2,077;  (1910),  2,569. 


MARSHALL,  Samuel  S.,  lawyer  and  Con- 
gressman, was  born  in  Gallatin  County,  111.,  in 
1824;  studied  law  and  soon  after  located  at 
McLeansboro.  In  1846  he  was  chosen  a  member 
of  the  lower  house  of  the  Fifteentli  General 
Assembly,  but  resigned,  early  in  the  following 
year,  to  become  State's  Attorney,  serving  until 
1848 ;  was  Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  from  1851 
to  1854,  and  again  from  1861  to  1865 ;  was  delegate 
from  the  State-at-large  to  the  Charleston  and 
Baltimore  Conventions  of  1860,  and  to  the 
National  Union  Convention  at  Philadelphia  in 
1866.  In  1861  he  received  the  complimentary 
vote  of  his  party  in  the  Legislature  for  United 
States  Senator,  and  was  similarly  honored  in  the 
Fortieth  Congress  (1867)  by  receiving  the  Demo- 
cratic support  for  Speaker  of  the  House.  He 
was  first  elected  to  Congress  in  1854,  re-elected  in 
1856,  and,  later,  served  continuously  from  1865  to 
1875,  when  he  returned  to  the  practice  of  his 
profession.  Died,  July  26,  1890. 

MARSHALL  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  north- 
central  part  of  the  State,  with  an  area  of  350 
square  miles — named  for  Chief  Justice  John  Mar- 
shall. Settlers  began  to  arrive  in  1827,  and 
county  organization  was  effected  in  1839.  The 
Illinois  River  bisects  the  county,  which  is  also 
drained  by  Sugar  Creek.  The  surface  is  gener- 
ally level  prairie,  except  along  the  river,  although 
occasionally  undulating.  The  soil  is  fertile, 
corn,  wheat,  hay  and  oats  forming  the  staple 
agricultural  products.  Hogs  are  raised  in  great 
number,  and  coal  is  extensively  mined.  Lacon 
is  the  county-seat.  Population  (1880),  15,053; 
(1890),  13,653;  (1900),  16,370;  (1910),  15,679. 

MARTIN,  (Gen.)  James  S.,  ex  Congressman 
and  soldier,  was  born  in  Scott  County,  Va., 
August  19,  1826,  educated  in  the  common 
schools,  and,  at  the  age  of  20,  accompanied  his 
parents  to  Southern  Illinois,  settling  in  Marion 
County.  He  served  as  a  non-commissioned 
officer  in  the  war  with  Mexico.  In  1849,  he  was 
elected  Clerk  of  the  Marion  County  Court,  which 
office  he  filled  for  twelve  years.  By  profession  he 
was  a  lawyer,  and  was  in  active  practice  when 
not  in  public  or  military  life.  For  a  number  of 
years  he  was  a  member  of  the  Republican  State 
Central  Committee.  In  1862  he  was  commis- 
sioned Colonel  of  the  One  Hundred  and  Eleventh 
Illinois  Volunteers,  and,  at  the  close  of  the  war, 
brevetted  Brigadier-General.  On  his  return  home 
he  was  elected  County  Judge  of  Marion  County, 
and,  in  1868,  appointed  United  States  Pension 
Agent.  The  latter  post  he  resigned  in  1872,  hav- 
ing been  elected,  as  a  Republican,  to  represent 


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the  Sixteenth  District  in  the  Forty-third  Con- 
gress. He  was  Department  Commander  of  the 
Grand  Army  (1889-90).  Died  Nov.  20,  1907. 

MARTINSVILLE,  a  village  of  Clark  County, 
on  the  Terra  Haute  &  Indianapolis  (Vandalia)  Rail- 
road, 11  miles  southwest  of  Marshall;  has  a  bank, 
flouring  mills  and  one  weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1890), 
779;  (1900),  1,000;  (1910),  1,500. 

MASCOTJTAH,  a  city  in  St.  Clair  County,  25 
miles  from  St.  Louis  and  11  miles  east  of  Belle- 
ville, on  the  line  of  the  Louisville  &  Nashville 
Railroad.  Coal-mining  and  agriculture  are  the 
principal  industries  of  the  surrounding  country. 
The  city  has  flour  mills,  a  brickyard,  dairy, 
school,  churches,  and  electric  line;  also  bank  and  two 
weekly  papers.  Pop.  (1900),  2,171;  (1910),  2,081. 

MASON,  Roswell  B.,  civil  engineer,  was  born 
in  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  19,  1805;  in  his 
boyhood  was  employed  as  a  teamster  on  the  Erie 
Canal,  a  year  later  (1822)  accepting  a  position  as 
rodman  under  Edward  F.  Gay,  assistant-engineer 
in  charge  of  construction.  Subsequently  he  was 
employed  on  the  Schuylkill  and  Morris  Canals, 
on  the  latter  becoming  assistant-engineer  and, 
finally,  chief  and  superintendent.  Other  works 
with  which  Mr.  Mason  was  connected  in  a  similar 
capacity  were  the  Pennsylvania  Canal  and  the 
Housatonic,  New  York  &  New  Haven  and  the 
Vermont  Valley  Railroads.  In  1851  he  came 
west  and  took  charge  of  the  construction  of  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad,  a  work  which  required 
five  years  for  its  completion.  The  next  four 
years  were  spent  as  contractor  in  the  construction 
of  roads  in  Iowa  and  Wisconsin,  until  I860,  when 
he  became  Superintendent  of  the  Chicago  & 
Alton  Railroad,  but  remained  only  one  year,  in 
1861  accepting  the  position  of  Controller  of  the 
land  department  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad, 
which  he  retained  until  1867.  The  next  two 
years  were  occupied  in  the  service  of  the  State  in 
lowering  the  summit  of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan 
Canal.  In  1869  he  was  elected  Mayor  of  the  city 
of  Chicago,  and  it  was  in  the  closing  days  of 
his  term  that  the  great  fire  of  1871  occurred, 
testing  his  executive  ability  to  the  utmost.  From 
1873  to  1883  he  served  as  one  of  the  Trustees  of 
the  Illinois  Industrial  University,  and  was  one  of 
the  incorporators,  and  a  life-long  Director,  of  the 
Presbyterian  Theological  Seminary  of  the  North- 
west. Died,  Jan.  1,  1892.— Edward  Gay  (Mason), 
son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  at  Bridgeport, 
Conn.,  August  23,  1839;  came  with  his  father's 
family,  in  1852,  to  Chicago,  where  he  attended 
school  for  several  years,  after  which  he  entered 
Yale  College,  graduating  there  in  1860.  He  then 


studied  law,  and,  later,  became  a  member  of  the 
law  firm  of  Mattocks  &  Mason,  but  subsequently, 
in  conjunction  with  two  brothers,  organized  the 
firm  of  Mason  Brothers,  for  the  prosecution  of  a 
real-estate  and  law  business.  In  1881  Mr.  Mason 
was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Chicago  Musical 
Festival,  which  was  instrumental  in  bringing 
Theodore  Thomas  to  Chicago.  In  1887  he  became 
President  of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  as  the 
successor  of  Elihu  B.  Washburne,  retaining  the 
position  until  his  death,  Dec.  18,  1898.  During 
his  incumbency,  the  commodious  building,  now 
occupied  by  the  Historical  Society  Library,  was 
erected,  and  he  added  largely  to  the  resources  of 
the  Society  by  the  collection  of  rare  manuscripts 
and  other  historical  records.  He  was  the  author 
of  several  historical  works,  including  "Illinois  in 
the  Eighteenth  Century,"  "Kaskaskia  and  Its 
Parish  Records,"  besides  papers  on  La  Salle  and 
the  first  settlers  of  Illinois,  and  "The  Story  of 
James  Willing— An  Episode  of  the  American 
Revolution."  He  also  edited  a  volume  entitled 
"Early  Chicago  and  Illinois,"  which  was  pub- 
lished under  the  auspices  of  the  Chicago  Histor- 
ical Society.  Mr.  Mason  was,  for  several  years,  a 
Trustee  of  Yale  University  and,  about  the  time  of 
his  death,  was  prominently  talked  of  for  President 
of  that  institution,  as  successor  to  President 
Timothy  Dwight. 

MASON,  William  E.,  United  States  Senator, 
was  born  at  Franklinville,  Cattaraugus  County, 
N.  Y.,  July  7,  1850,  and  accompanied  his  parents 
to  Bentonsport,  Iowa,  in  1858.  He  was  educated 
at  the  Bentonsport  Academy  and  at  Birmingham 
College.  From  1866  to  1870  he  taught  school,  the 
last  two  years  at  Des  Moines.  In  that  city  he 
studied  law  with  Hon.  Thomas  F.  Withrow,  who 
afterward  admitted  him  to  partnership.  In  1872 
he  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  has  since  prac- 
ticed his  profession.  He  soon  embarked  in  poli- 
tics, and,  in  1878,  was  elected  to  the  lower  house 
of  the  General  Assembly,  and,  in  1882,  to  the 
State  Senate.  In  1884  he  was  the  regular  Repub- 
lican candidate  for  Congress  in  the  Third  Illinois 
District  (then  strongly  Republican),  but,  owing 
to  party  dissensions,  was  defeated  by  James  H. 
Ward,  a  Democrat.  In  1886,  and  again  in  1888, 
he  was  elected  to  Congress,  but,  in  1890,  was 
defeated  for  re-election  by  Allan  C.  Durborow. 
He  is  a  vigorous  and  effective  campaign  speaker. 
In  1897  he  was  elected  United  States  Senator, 
receiving  in  the  Legislature  125  votes  to  77  for 
John  P.  Altgeld,  the  Democratic  candidate. 

MASON  CITY,  a  prosperous  city  in  Mason 
County,  at  the  intersection  of  the  Chicago  & 


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Alton  and  the  Havana  branch  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroads,  18  miles  west  by  north  of 
Lincoln,  and  about  30  miles  north  of  Springfield. 
Being  in  the  heart  of  a  rich  corn-growing  district, 
it  is  an  important  shipping  point  for  that  com- 
modity. It  has  four  churches,  two  banks,  two 
newspapers,  brick  works,  flour-mills,  grain-ele- 
vators and  a  carriage  factory.  Population  (1880), 
1,714;  (1890),  1,869;  (1900),  1,890;  (1910),  1,842. 

MASON  COUNTY,  organized  in  1841,  with  a 
population  of  about  2,000;  population  (1910), 
17,377,  and  area  of  518  square  miles — named  for  a 
county  in  Kentucky.  It  lies  a  little  northwest 
of  the  center  of  the  State,  the  Illinois  and  Sanga- 
mon  Rivers  forming  its  west  and  its  south  bound- 
aries. The  soil,  while  sandy,  is  fertile.  The 
chief  staple  is  corn,  and  the  county  offers  excel- 
lent opportunities  for  viticulture.  The  American 
pioneer  of  Mason  County  was  probably  Maj. 
Ossian  B.  Ross,  who  settled  at  Havana  in  1832. 
Not  until  1837,  however,  can  immigration  be  said 
to  have  set  in  rapidly.  Havana  was  first  chosen 
as  the  county -seat,  but  Bath  enjoyed  the  honor 
for  a  few  years,  the  county  offices  being  per- 
manently removed  to  the  former  point  in  1851. 
Mason  City  is  an  important  shipping  point  on  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad 

MASONS,  ANCIENT  ORDER  OF  FREE  AND 
ACCEPTED.  (See  Free-Masons. ) 

MASSAC  COUNTY,  an  extreme  southern 
county  of  the  State  and  one  of  the  smallest,  its 
area,  being  but  little  more  than  240  square  miles, 
with  a  population  (1910)  of  14,200 — named  for 
Fort  Massac,  within  its  borders.  The  surface  is 
hilly  toward  the  north,  but  the  bottom  lands 
along  the  Ohio  River  are  swampy  and  liable  to 
frequent  overflows.  A  considerable  portion  of  the 
natural  resources  consists  of  timber — oak,  wal- 
nut, poplar,  hickory,  cypress  and  cottonwood 
abounding.  Saw-mills  are  found  in  nearly  every 
town,  and  considerable  grain  and  tobacco  are 
raised.  The  original  settlers  were  largely  from 
Ohio,  Kentucky  and  North  Carolina,  and  hospi- 
tality is  traditional.  Metropolis,  on  the  Ohio 
River,  is  the  county-seat.  It  was  laid  off  in  1839, 
although  Massac  County  was  not  separately 
organized  until  1843.  At  Massac  City  may  be 
seen  the  ruins  of  the  early  French  fort  of  that 
name. 

MASSAC  COUNTY  REBELLION,  the  name 
commonly  given  to  an  outbreak  of  mob  violence 
which  occurred  in  Massac  County,  in  1845-46.  An 
arrested  criminal  having  asserted  that  an  organ- 
ized band  of  thieves  and  robbers  existed,  and 
having  given  the  names  of  a  large  number  of  the 


alleged  members,  popular  excitement  rose  to 
fever  heat.  A  company  of  self-appointed  "regu- 
lators"' was  formed,  whose  acts  were  so  arbitrary 
that,  at  the  August  election  of  1846,  a  Sheriff  and 
County  Clerk  were  elected  on  the  avowed  issue 
of  opposition  to  these  irregular  tactics.  This 
served  to  stimulate  the  "regulators"  to  renewed 
activity.  Many  persons  were  forced  to  leave  the 
county  on  suspicion,  and  others  tortured  into 
making  confession.  In  consequence,  some  leading 
"regulators"  were  thrown  into  jail,  only  to  be  soon 
released  by  their  friends,  who  ordered  the  Sheriff 
and  County  Clerk  to  leave  the  county.  The  feud 
rapidly  grew,  both  in  proportions  and  in  inten- 
sity. Governor  French  made  two  futile  efforts  to 
restore  order  through  mediation,  and  the  ordinary 
processes  of  law  were  also  found  unavailing. 
Judge  Scates  was  threatened  with  lynching 
Only  60  men  dared  to  serve  in  the  Sheriff's  posse, 
and  these  surrendered  upon  promise  of  personal 
immunity  from  violence.  This  pledge  was  not 
regarded,  several  members  of  the  posse  being  led 
away  as  prisoners,  some  of  whom,  it  was  believed, 
were  drowned  in  the  Ohio  River.  All  the  incarcer- 
ated "regulators"  were  again  released,  the  Sheriff 
and  his  supporters  were  once  more  ordered  to 
leave,  and  fresh  seizures  and  outrages  followed 
each  other  in  quick  succession.  To  remedy  this 
condition  of  affairs,  the  Legislature  of  1847  enacted 
a  law  creating  district  courts,  under  the  provi- 
sions of  which  a  Judge  might  hold  court  in  any 
county  in  his  circuit.  This  virtually  conferred 
upon  the  Judge  the  right  to  change  the  venue  at 
his  own  discretion,  and  thus  secure  juries  unbiased 
by  local  or  partisan  feeling.  The  effect  of  this 
legislation  was  highly  beneficial  in  restoring 
quiet,  although  the  embers  of  the  feud  still 
smoldered  and  intermittently  leaped  into  flame 
for  several  years  thereafter. 

MATHENY,  Charles  R.,  pioneer,  was  born  in 
Loudoun  County,  Va.,  March  6, 1786,  licensed  as  a 
Methodist  preacher,  in  Kentucky,  and,  in  1805, 
came  to  St.  Clair  County  (then  in  Indiana  Terri- 
tory), as  a  missionary.  Later,  he  studied  law  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar;  served  in  the  Third 
Territorial  (1817)  and  the  Second  State  Legisla- 
tures (1820-22);  removed,  in  1821,  to  the  newly 
organized  county  of  Sangamon,  where  he  was 
appointed  the  first  County  Clerk,  remaining  in 
office  eighteen  years,  also  for  some  years  holding, 
at  the  same  time,  the  offices  of  Circuit  Clerk, 
Recorder  and  Probate  Judge.  Died,  while 
County  Clerk,  in  1839.— Noah  W.  (Matheny),  son 
of  the  preceding,  was  born  in  St.  Clair  County,  111. , 
July  31.  1815;  was  assistant  of  his  father  in  the 


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County  Clerk's  office  in  Sangamon  County,  and, 
on  the  death  of  the  latter,  (November,  1839),  was 
elected  his  successor,  and  re-elected  for  eight  con- 
secutive terms,  serving  until  1873.  Died,  April 
30,  1877. — James  H.  (Matheny),  another  son, 
born  Oct.  30,  1818,  in  St.  Clair  County;  served  in 
his  youth  as  Clerk  in  various  local  offices ;  was  a 
member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1847, 
elected  Circuit  Clerk  in  1852,  at  the  close  of  his 
term  beginning  the  practice  of  law;  was  com- 
missioned Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  One  Hundred 
and  Fourteenth  Illinois  Volunteers,  in  October, 
1862,  and,  after  the  siege  of  Vicksburg,  served  as 
Judge  Advocate  until  July,  1864,  when  he 
resigned.  He  then  returned  to  his  profession, 
but,  in  1873,  was  elected  County  Judge  of  Sanga- 
mon County,  holding  the  office  by  repeated  re- 
elections  until  his  death,  Sept.  7,  1890, — having 
resided  in  Springfield  68  years. 

MATHER,  Thomas,  pioneer  merchant,  was 
born,  April  24,  1795,  at  Simsbury,  Hartford 
County,  Conn. ;  in  early  manhood  was  engaged 
for  a  time  in  business  in  New  York  City,  but,  in 
the  spring  of  1818,  came  to  Kaskaskia,  111.,  where 
he  soon  after  became  associated  in  business  with 
James  L.  Lamb  and  others.  This  firm  was 
afterwards  quite  extensively  engaged  in  trade 
with  New  Orleans.  Later  he  became  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  town  of  Chester.  In  1820  Mr. 
Mather  was  elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the 
Second  General  Assembly  from  Randolph 
County,  was  re-elected  to  the  Third  (serving  for 
a  part  of  the  session  as  Speaker),  and  again  to  the 
Fourth,  but,  before  the  expiration  of  his  last  term, 
resigned  to  accept  an  appointment  from  Presi- 
dent John  Quincy  Adams  as  Commissioner  to 
locate  the  military  road  from  Independence  to 
Santa  Fe,  and  to  conclude  treaties  with  the 
Indians  along  the  line.  In  the  Legislature  of 
1822  he  was  one  of  the  most  determined  oppo- 
nents of  the  scheme  for  securing  a  pro-slavery 
Constitution.  In  1828  he  was  again  elected  to 
the  House  and,  in  1832,  to  the  Senate  for  a  term 
01  four  years.  He  also  served  as  Colonel  on  the 
staff  of  Governor  Coles,  and  was  supported  for  the 
United  States  Senate,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused 
by  the  death  of  John  McLean,  in  1830.  Having 
removed  to  Springfield  in  1835,  he  became  promi- 
nent in  business  affairs  there  in  connection  with 
his  former  partner,  Mr.  James  L.  Lamb;  in  1837 
was  appointed  a  member  of  the  first  Board  of 
Fund  Commissioners  for  the  State  under  the 
internal  improvement  system;  also  served  seven 
years  as  President  of  the  Springfield  branch  of 
the  State  Bank;  was  connected,  as  a  stock- 


holder, with  the  construction  of  the  Sangamon  & 
Morgan  (now  Wabash)  Railroad,  extending  from 
Springfield  to  the  Illinois  river  at  Naples,  and 
was  also  identified,  financially,  with  the  old  Chi- 
cago &  Galena  Union  Railroad.  From  1835  until 
his  death,  Colonel  Mather  served  as  one  of  the 
Trustees  of  Illinois  College  at  Jacksonville,  and 
was  a  liberal  contributor  to  the  endowment  of 
that  institution.  His  death  occurred  during  a 
visit  to  Philadelphia,  March  28,  1853. 

JMATTESON,  Joel  Aldrich,  ninth  regularly 
elected  Governor  of  Illinois  (1853-57),  was  born 
in  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  August  8,  1808;  after  some 
experience  in  business  and  as  a  teacher,  in  1831 
he  went  to  South  Carolina,  where  he  was  foreman 
in  the  construction  of  the  first  railroad  in  that 
State.  In  1834  he  removed  to  Illinois,  where  he 
became  a  contractor  on  the  Illinois  &  Michigan 
Canal,  and  also  engaged  in  manufacturing  at 
Joliet.  After  serving  three  terms  in  the  State 
Senate,  he  was  elected  Governor  in  1852,  and,  in 
1855,  was  defeated  by  Lyman  Trumbull  for  the 
United  States  Senatorship.  At  the  close  of  his 
gubernatorial  term  he  was  complimented  by  the 
Legislature,  and  retired  to  private  life  a  popular 
man.  Later,  there  were  developed  grave  scandals 
in  connection  with  the  refunding  of  certain 
canal  scrip,  with  which  his  name — unfortunately 
— was  connected.  He  turned  over  property  to 
the  State  of  the  value  of  nearly  §250,000,  for  its 
indemnification.  He  finally  took  up  his  resi- 
dence in  Chicago,  and  later  spent  considerable 
time  in  travel  in  Europe.  He  was  for  many 
years  the  lessee  and  President  of  the  Chicago  & 
Alton  Railroad.  Died  in  Chicago,  Jan.  31,  1873. 

MATTHEWS,  Asa  C.,  ex-Comptroller  of  the 
United  States  Treasury,  was  born  in  Pike  County, 
111.,  March  22,  1833;  graduated  from  Illinois  Col- 
lege in  1855,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  three 
years  later.  Upon  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War, 
he  abandoned  a  remunerative  practice  at  Pitts- 
field  to  enlist  in  the  army,  and  was  elected  and 
commissioned  a  Captain  in  the  Ninety-ninth  Illi- 
nois Volunteers.  He  rose  to  the  rank  of  Colonel, 
being  mustered  out  of  the  service  in  August, 
1865.  He  was  appointed  Collector  of  Internal 
Revenue  in  1869,  and  Supervisor  for  the  District 
composed  of  Illinois.  Wisconsin  and  Michigan,  in 
1875.  Being  elected  to  the  Thirtieth  General 
Assembly  in  1876,  he  resigned  his  office,  and  was 
re-elected  to  the  Legislature  in  1878.  On  the 
death  of  Judge  Higbee,  Governor  Hamilton 
appointed  Mr.  Matthews  to  fill  the  vacancy  thus 
created  on  the  bench  of  the  Sixth  Circuit,  his 
term  expiring  ir.  1885.  In  1888  he  was  elected  to 


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the  Thirty-sixth  General  Assembly  and  was 
chosen  Speaker  of  the  House.  In  May,  1889, 
President  Harrison  named  him  First  Comp- 
troller of  the  United  States  Treasury,  and  the 
House,  by  a  unanimous  vote,  expressed  its  grati- 
fication at' his  selection.  Col.  Matthews  served  as 
Department  Commander  of  the  G.  A.  R.  of  Illinois, 
1907-08.  Died  at  his  home  inPittsfield,  June  14, 1908. 

MATTHEWS,  Milton  W.,  lawyer  and  journal- 
ist, was  born  in  Clark  County,  111.,  March  1,  1846, 
educated  in  the  common  schools,  and,  near  the 
close  of  the  war,  served  in  a  100-days'  regiment ; 
began  teaching  in  Champaign  County  in  1865, 
studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1867 ; 
in  1873  was  appointed  Master  in  Chancery,  served 
two  terms  as  Prosecuting  Attorney,  and,  in  1888, 
was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  meanwhile,  from 
1879,  discharging  the  duties  of  editor  of  "The 
Champaign  County  Herald,"  of  which  he  was 
also  proprietor.  During  his  last  session  in  the 
State  Senate  (1891-92)  he  served  as  President  pro 
tem.  of  that  body;  was  also  President  of  the 
State  Press  Association  and  served  on  the  staff  of 
Governor  Fifer,  with  the  rank  of  Colonel  of  the 
Illinois  National  Guard.  Died,  at  Urbana,  May 
10,  1892. 

MATTOON,  an  important  city  in  Coles  County, 
172  miles  west  of  south  from  Chicago  and  56  miles 
west  of  Terre  Haute,  Ind. ;  a  point  of  junction  for 
three  lines  of  railway,  and  an  important  shipping 
point  for  corn  and  broom  corn,  which  are  both 
extensively  grown  in  the  surrounding  region.  It 
has  several  banks,  foundries,  machine  shops, 
brick  and  tile-works,  flour-mills,  broom  factories, 
with  three  daily  and  two  weekly  newspapers;  also 
has  good  graded  schools  and  a  high  school.  The 
repair  shops  of  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago 
&  St.  Louis  Railroad  are  located  here.  Pop.  (1890), 
6,833;  (1900),  9,622;  (1910),  11,456. 

MAXWELL,  Philip,  M.D.,  pioneer  physician, 
was  born  at  Guilford,  Vt,  April  3, 1799,  graduated 
in  medicine  and  practiced  for  a  time  at  Sackett's 
Harbor,  also  serving  in  the  New  York  Legisla- 
ture; was  appointed  Assistant  Surgeon  at  Fort 
Dearborn,  in  1833,  remaining  intil  the  abandon- 
ment of  the  fort  at  the  end  of  1836.  In  1838  he 
was  promoted  Surgeon,  and  served  with  Gen. 
Zachary  Taylor  in  the  campaign  against  the  Semi- 
noles  in  Florida,  but  resumed  private  practice  in 
Chicago  in  1844 ;  served  two  terms  as  Represent- 
ative in  the  General  Assembly  (1848-52)  and,  in 
1855,  settled  on  the  shores  of  Lake  Geneva,  Wis., 
where  he  died,  Nov.  5,  1859. 

MAY,  William  L.,  early  lawyer  and  Congress- 
man, was  born  in  Kentucky,  came  at  an  early  day 


to  Edwardsville,  111. ,  and  afterwards  to  Jackson- 
ville; was  elected  from  Morgan  County  to  the 
Sixth  General  Assembly  (1828),  and  the  next  year 
removed  to  Springfield,  having  been  appointed  by 
President  Jackson  Receiver  of  Public  Moneys  for 
the  Land  Office  there  He  was  twice  elected  to 
Congress  (1834  and  '36),  the  first  year  defeating 
Benjamin  Mills,  a  brilliant  lawyer  of  Galena. 
Later,  May  became  a  resident  of  Peoria,  but 
finally  removed  to  California,  where  he  died. 

MAYO,  Walter  L.,  legislator,  was  born  in  Albe- 
marle  County  Va.,  March  7,  1810;  came  to 
Edwards  County,  111.,  in  1828,  and  began  teach- 
ing. He  took  part  in  the  Black  Hawk  War 
(1831-32),  being  appointed  by  Governor  Reynolds 
Quartermaster  of  a  battalion  organized  in  that 
section  of  the  State.  He  had  previously  been 
appointed  County  Clerk  of  Edwards  County  to  fill 
a  vacancy,  and  continued,  by  successive  re-elec- 
tions, to  occupy  the  position  for  thirty-seven 
years — also  acting,  for  a  portion  of  the  time,  as 
Circuit  Clerk,  Judge  of  Probate  and  County  Treas- 
urer. In  1870  he  was  elected  Representative  in 
the  Twenty-seventh  General  Assembly  for  the 
Edwards  County  District.  On  the  evening  of  Jan. 
18,  1878,  he  mysteriously  disappeared,  having 
been  last  seen  at  the  Union  Depot  at  East  St. 
Louis,  when  about  to  take  the  train  for  his  home 
at  Albion,  and  is  supposed  to  have  been  secretly 
murdered.  No  trace  of  his  body  or  of  the  crime 
was  ever  discovered,  and  the  affair  has  remained 
one  of  the  mysteries  of  the  criminal  history  of 
Illinois. 

MAYWOOD,  a  village  of  Cook  County,  and 
suburb  of  Chicago,  10  miles  west  of  that  city,  on 
the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  and  the  Chicago 
Great  Western  Railways;  has  churches,  two 
weekly  newspapers,  public  schools  and  some 
manufactures.  Pop.  (1900),  4,532;  (1910),  8,033. 

MCALLISTER,  William  K.,  jurist,  was  born  in 
Washington  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1818.  After 
admission  to  the  bar  he  commenced  practice  at 
Albion,  N.  Y.,  and,  in  1854,  removed  to  Chicago. 
In  1866  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  bench  of  the 
Superior  Court  of  that  city,  but  was  defeated  by 
Judge  Jameson.  Two  years  later  he  was  chosen 
Judge  of  the  Recorder's  Court,  and,  in  1870,  was 
elected  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  which 
position  he  resigned  in  1875,  having  been  elected 
a  Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  Cook  County  to 
fill  a  vacancy.  He  was  re-elected  for  a  full  term 
and  assigned  to  Appellate  Court  duty  in  1879. 
He  was  elected  for  a  third  time  in  1885,  but, 
before  the  expiration  of  his  term,  he  died,  Oct. 
29,  1888. 


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Me  ARTHUR,  John,  soldier,  was  born  in  Ers- 
kine,  Scotland,  Nov.  17,  1826;  worked  at  his 
father's  trade  of  blacksmith  until  23  years  old, 
when,  coining  to  the  United  States,  he  settled  in 
Chicago.  Here  he  became  foreman  of  a  boiler- 
making  establishment,  later  acquiring  an  estab- 
lishment of  his  own.  Having  joined  the  Twelfth 
Illinois  Volunteers  at  the  beginning  of  the  war, 
with  a  company  of  which  he  was  Captain,  he 
was  chosen  Lieutenant-Colonel,  still  later  Colonel, 
and,  in  March,  1862,  promoted  to  Brigadier-Gen- 
eral for  gallantry  in  the  assault  on  Fort  Donelson, 
where  he  commanded  a  brigade.  At  Shiloh  he 
was  wounded,  but  after  having  his  wound  dressed, 
returned  to  the  fight  and  succeeded  to  the  com- 
mand of  the  Second  Division  when  Gen.  W.  H.  L. 
Wallace  fell  mortally  wounded.  He  commanded 
a  division  of  McPherson's  corps  in  the  operations 
against  Vicksburg,  and  bore  a  conspicuous  part  in 
the  battle  of  Nashville,  where  he  commanded  a 
division  under  Gen.  A.  J.  Smith,  winning  a  brevet 
Major-Generalship  by  his  gallantry.  General 
McArthur  was  Postmaster  of  Chicago  from  1873 
to  1877.  Died  March  16,  1906. 

McCAGG,  Ezra  Butler,  lawyer,  was  born  at 
Kinderhook,  N  Y.,  Nov.  22,  1825;  studied  law  at 
Hudson,  and,  coming  to  Chicago  in  1847,  entered 
the  law  office  of  J.  Young  Scammon,  soon  after- 
wards becoming  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Scam- 
mon &  McCagg.  During  the  war  Mr.  McCagg 
was  an  active  member  of  the  United  States  Sani- 
tary Commission,  and  (for  some  years  after  the 
fire  of  1871)  of  the  Relief  and  Aid  Society;  also  a 
life-member  and  officer  of  the  Chicago  Historical 
Society,  besides  being  identified  with  several  State 
and  municipal  boards.  His  standing  in  his  pro- 
fession is  shown  by  the  fact  that  he  was  more  than 
once  offered  a  non-partisan  nomination  for  Justice 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  but  declined  it.  He  held  a 
high  rank  in  literary  circles,  as  well  as  a  connoisseur 
in  art,  and  was  owner  of  a  large  private  library  col- 
lected since  the  destruction  of  one  by  the  fire  of 
1871.  Died  Aug.  2,  1908. 

McCARTNEY,  James,  lawyer  and  ex-Attorney 
General,  was  born  of  Scotch  parentage  in  the 
north  of  Ireland,  Feb.  14,  1835;  at  two  years  of 
age  was  brought  to  the  United  States  and,  until 
1845,  resided  in  Pennsylvania,  when  his  parents 
removed  to  Trumbull  County,  Ohio.  Here  he 
spent  his  youth  in  general  farm  work,  meanwhile 
attending  a  high  school  and  finally  engaging  in 
teaching.  In  1856  he  began  the  study  of  law  at 
Warren,  Ohio,  which  he  continued  a  year  later  in 
the  office  of  Harding  &  Reed,  at  Monmouth,  111. ; 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  January,  1858,  and 


began  practice  at  Monmouth,  removing  the  fol- 
lowing year  to  Galva.  In  April,  1861,  he  enlisted 
in  what  afterwards  became  the  Seventeenth 
Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers,  was  commissioned 
a  First  Lieutenant,  but,  a  year  later,  was  com- 
pelled to  resign  on  account  of  ill-health.  A  few 
months  later  he  re-enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred 
and  Twelfth  Illinois,  being  soon  promoted  to  a 
captaincy,  although  serving  much  of  the  time  as 
Judge  Advocate  on  courts-martial,  and,  for  one 
year,  as  Acting  Assistant  Adjutant-General  in  the 
Army  of  the  Ohio.  At  the  conclusion  of  his  term 
of  service  in  the  army,  he  resumed  the  practice 
of  his  profession  at  Fairfield,  111. ;  in  1880  was 
nominated  and  elected,  as  a  Republican,  Attorney- 
General  of  the  State,  and,  during  his  last  year  in 
office,  began  the  celebrated  "Lake  Front  suits" 
which  finally  terminated  successfully  for  the 
city  of  Chicago.  Since  retiring  from  office,  Gen- 
eral McCartney  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession,  chiefly  in  Springfield  and  Chi- 
cago, having  been  a  resident  of  the  latter  city 
since  1890. 

McCARTNEY,  Robert  Wilson,  lawyer  and 
jurist,  was  born  in  Trumbull  County,  Ohio, 
March  19,  1843,  spent  a  portion  of  his  boyhood  in 
Pennsylvania,  afterwards  returning  to  Youngs- 
town,  Ohio,  where  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the 
Sixth  Ohio  Cavalry.  He  was  severely  wounded 
at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg,  lying  two  days  and 
nights  on  the  field  and  enduring  untold  suffering. 
As  soon  as  able  to  take  the  field  he  was  commis- 
sioned, by  Governor  Curtin,  a  Captain  in  the 
Eighty -third  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  serving  in 
the  army  of  the  Potomac  to  the  close  of  the  war, 
and  taking  part  in  the  grand  review  at  Washing- 
ton in  May,  1865.  After  the  war  he  took  a  course 
in  a  business  college  at  Pittsburg,  removed  to 
Cleveland  and  began  the  study  of  law,  but  soon 
came  to  Illinois,  and,  having  completed  his  law 
studies  with  his  brother,  J.  T.  McCartney,  at 
Metropolis,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1868 ;  also 
edited  a  Republican  paper  there,  became  inter- 
ested in  lumber  manufacture  and  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  that  city. 
In  1873  he  was  elected  County  Judge  of  Massac 
County,  serving  nine  years,  when  (1882)  he  was 
elected  Representative  in  the  Thirty-third  Gen- 
eral Assembly.  At  the  close  of  his  term  in  the 
Legislature  he  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Circuit 
Court  for  the  first  Circuit,  serving  from  1885  to 
1891.  Died,  Oct.  27,  1893.  Judge  McCartney 
was  able,  public-spirited  and  patriotic.  The  city 
of  Metropolis  owes  to  him  the  Free  Public  Library 
bearing  his  name. 


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McCLAUGHRY,  Robert  Wilson,  penologist, 
was  born  at  Fountain  Green,  Hancock  County, 
111.,  July  22,  1839,  being  descended  from  Scotch- 
Irish  ancestry — his  grandfather,  who  was  a  native 
of  the  North  of  Ireland,  having  come  to  America 
in  his  youth  and  served  in  the  War  of  the  Revolu- 
tion. The  subject  of  this  sketch  grew  up  on  a 
farm,  attending  school  in  the  winter  until  1854, 
then  spent  the  next  two  winters  at  an  academy, 
and,  in  1856,  began  a  course  in  Monmouth  Col- 
lege, where  he  graduated  in  1860.  The  following 
year  he  spent  as  instructor  in  Latin  in  the  same 
institution,  but,  in  1861,  became  editor  of  "The 
Carthage  Republican,''  a  Democratic  paper, 
which  he  made  a  strong  advocate  of  the  cause  of 
the  Union,  meanwhile,  both  by  his  pen  and  on 
the  stump,  encouraging  enlistments  in  the  army. 
About  the  first  of  July,  1862,  having  disposed  of 
his  interest  in  the  paper,  he  enlisted  in  a  company 
of  which  he  was  unanimously  chosen  Captain, 
and  which,  with  four  other  companies  organized 
in  the  same  section,  became  the  nucleus  of  the 
One  Hundred  and  Eighteenth  Illinois  Volunteers. 
The  regiment  having  been  completed  at  Camp 
Butler,  he  was  elected  Major,  and  going  to  the 
field  in  the  following  fall,  took  part  in  General 
Sherman's  first  movement  against  Vicksburg  by 
way  of  Chickasaw  Bayou,  in  December,  1862. 
Later,  as  a  member  of  Osterhaus'  Division  of  Gen- 
eral McGlernand's  corps,  he  participated  with  his 
regiment  in  the  capture  of  Arkansas  Post,  and  in 
the  operations  against  Vicksburg  which  resulted 
in  the  capture  of  that  stronghold,  in  July,  1863. 
He  then  joined  the  Department  of  the  Gulf  under 
command  of  General  Banks,  but  was  compelled 
by  sickness  to  return  north.  Having  sufficiently 
recovered,  he  spent  a  few  months  in  the  recruit- 
ing service  (1864),  but,  in  May  of  that  year,  was 
transferred,  by  order  of  President  Lincoln,  to  the 
Pay  Department,  as  Additional-Paymaster,  with 
the  rank  of  Major,  being  finally  assigned  to  duty 
at  Springfield,  where  he  remained,  paying  off  Illi- 
nois regiments  as  mustered  out  of  the  service, 
until  Oct.  13,  1865,  when  he  was  honorably  dis- 
charged. A  few  weeks  later  he  was  elected 
County  Clerk  of  Hancock  County,  serving  four 
years.  In  the  meantime  he  engaged  in  the  stone 
business,  as  head  of  the  firm  of  R.  W.  McClaughry 
&  Co. ,  furnishing  stone  for  the  basement  of  the 
State  Capitol  at  Springfield  and  for  bridges  across 
the  Mississippi  at  Quincy  and  Keokuk — later 
being  engaged  in  the  same  business  at  St.  Gene- 
vieve,  Mo.,  with  headquarters  at  St.  Louis.  Com- 
pelled to  retire  by  failing  health,  he  took  up  his 
residence  at  Monmouth  in  1873,  but,  in  1874,  was 


called  to  the  wardenship  of  the  State  Peniten- 
tiary at  Joliet.  Here  he  remained  until  December, 
1888,  when  he  resigned  to  accept  the  superin- 
tendency  of  the  Industrial  Reformatory  at 
Huntingdon,  Pa.,  but,  in  May,  1891,  accepted 
from  Mayor  Washburne  the  position  of  Chief  of 
Police  in  Chicago,  continuing  in  service,  under 
Mayor  Harrison,  until  August,  1893,  when  he 
became  Superintendent  of  the  Illinois  State 
Reformatory  at  Pontiac.  Early  in  1897  he  was 
again  offered  and  accepted  the  position  of  Warden 
of  the  State  Penitentiary  at  Joliet.  Here  he  re- 
mained until  1899,  when  he  received  from  Presi- 
dent McKinley  the  appointment  of  Warden  of  the 
Military  Prison  at  Fort  Leaven  worth,  Kan., 
which  position  he  now  (1899)  occupies.  Major  Mc- 
Claughry's  administration  of  penal  and  reforma- 
tory institutions  has  been  eminently  satisfactory, 
and  he  has  taken  rank  as  one  of  the  most  success- 
ful penologists  in  the  country. 

McCLELLATf,  Robert  H.,  lawyer  and  banker, 
was  born  in  Washington  County,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  3, 
1823;  graduated  at  Union  College,  Schenectady, 
in  1847,  and  then  studied  law  with  Hon.  Martin  I. 
Townsend,  of  Troy,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1850.  The  same  year  he  removed  to  Galena,  III ; 
during  his  first  winter  there,  edited  "The  Galena 
Gazette,"  and  the  following  spring  formed  a 
partnership  with  John  M.  Douglas,  afterwards 
General  Solicitor  and  President  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad,  which  ended  with  the  removal 
of  the  latter  to  Chicago,  when  Mr.  McClellan 
succeeded  him  as  local  attorney  of  the  road  at 
Galena.  In  1864  Mr.  McClellan  became  President 
of  the  Bank  of  Galena — later  the  "National  Bank 
of  Galena" — remaining  for  over  twenty  years. 
He  was  also  largely  interested  in  local  manufac- 
tories and  financial  institutions  elsewhere.  He 
served  as  a  Republican  Representative  in  the 
Twenty-second  General  Assembly  (1861-62),  and 
as  Senator  (1876-80),  and  maintained  a  high  rank 
as  a  sagacious  and  judicious  legislator.  Liberal, 
public  spirited  and  patriotic,  his  name  was  prom- 
inently connected  with  all  movements  for  the 
improvement  of  his  locality  and  the  advancement 
of  the  interests  of  the  State.  Died  July  23,  1902. 

McCLERTfAND,  John  Alexander,  a  volunteer 
officer  in  the  Civil  War  and  prominent  Demo- 
cratic politician,  was  born  in  Breckenridge 
County,  Ky.,  May  30,  1812,  brought  to  Shawnee- 
town  in  1816,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1832, 
and  engaged  in  journalism  for  a  time.  He  served 
in  the  Black  Hawk  War,  and  was  elected  to  the 
Legislature  in  1836,  and  again  in  1840  and  '42. 
The  latter  year  he  was  elected  to  Congress,  serv- 


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ing  four  consecutive  terms,  but  declining  a 
renomination,  being  about  to  remove  to  Jackson- 
ville, where  he  resided  from  1851  to  1856.  Twice 
(1840  and  '52)  he  was  a  Presidential  Elector  on 
the  Democratic  ticket.  In  1856  he  removed  to 
Springfield,  and,  in  1859,  re-entered  Congress  as 
Representative  of  the  .Springfield  District;  was 
re-elected  in  I860,  but  resigned  in  1861  to  accept 
a  commission  as  Brigadier-General  of  Volunteers 
from  President  Lincoln,  being  promoted  Major- 
General  early  in  1862.  He  participated  in  the 
battles  of  Belmont,  Fort  Donelson,  Shiloh  and 
before  Vicksburg,  and  was  in  command  at  the 
capture  of  Arkansas  Post,  but  was  severely  criti- 
cised for  some  of  his  acts  during  the  Vicksburg 
campaign  and  relieved  of  his  command  by  Gen- 
eral Grant.  Having  finally  been  restored  by 
order  of  President  Lincoln,  he  participated  in  the 
campaign  in  Louisiana  and  Texas,  but  resigned 
his  commission  in  1864.  General  McClernand 
presided  over  the  Democratic  National  Conven- 
tion of  1876,  and,  in  1886,  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Cleveland  one  of  the  members  of  the  Utah 
Commission,  serving  through  President  Harri- 
son's administration.  He  was  also  elected 
Circuit  Judge  in  1870,  as  succ  essor  to  Hon.  B.  S. 
Edwards,  who  had  resigned.  Died  Sept.  20,  1900. 
McCLURG,  Alexander  C.,  soldier  and  pub- 
lisher, was  born  in  Philadelphia  but  grew  up  in 
Pittsburg,  where  his  father  was  an  iron  manu- 
facturer. He  graduated  at  Miami  University. 
Oxford,  Ohio. ,  and,  after  studying  law  for  a  time 
with  Chief  Justice  Lowrie  of  Pennsylvania,  came 
to  Chicago  in  1859,  and  entered  the  bookstore  of 
S.  C.  Griggs  &  Co.,  as  a  junior  clerk.  Early  in 
1861  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion,  but  the  quota  of  three-months'  men 
being  already  full,  his  services  were  not  accepted. 
In  August,  1862,  he  became  a  member  of  the 
"Crosby  Guards,"  afterwards  incorporated  in  the 
Eighty -eighth  Illinois  Infantry  (Second  Board  of 
Trade  Regiment),  and  was  unanimously  elected 
Captain  of  Company  H.  After  the  battle  of 
Perryville,  he  was  detailed  as  Judge  Advocate  at 
Nashville,  and,  in  the  following  year,  offered  the 
position  of  Assistant  Adjutant-General  on  the 
staff  of  General  McCook,  afterwards  serving  in  a 
similar  capacity  on  the  staffs  of  Generals  Thomas, 
Sheridan  and  Baird.  He  took  part  in  the  defense 
of  Chattanooga  and,  at  the  battle  of  Missionary 
Ridge,  had  two  horses  shot  under  him ;  was  also 
with  the  Fourteenth  Army  Corps  in  the  Atlanta 
campaign,  and,  at  the  request  of  Gen.  Jeff.  C. 
Davis,  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of  Colonel  and 
brevetted  Brigadier-General  —  later,  being  pre- 


sented with  a  sword  bearing  the  names  of  the 
principal  battles  in  which  he  was  engaged, 
besides  being  especially  complimented  in  letters 
by  Generals  Sherman,  Thomas,  Baird,  Mitchell, 
Davis  and  others.  He  was  invited  to  enter  the 
regular  army  at  the  close  of  the  war,  but  pre- 
ferred to  return  to  private  life,  and  resumed  his 
former  position  with  S.  C.  Griggs  &  Co.,  soon 
after  becoming  a  junior  partner  in  the  concern, 
of  which  he  later  became  the  chief.  In  the  various 
mutations  through  which  this  extensive  firm  has 
gone,  General  McClurg  became  a  leading  factor  until, 
in  his  later  years,  he  stood  at  the  head  of  the  most 
extensive  publishing  firm  west  of  New  York.  Died 
April  15,  1901. 

McCONNEL,  Murray,  pioneer  and  lawyer,  was 
born  in  Orange  County,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  5,  1798,  and 
educated  in  the  common  schools;  left  home  at 
14  years  of  age  and,  after  a  year  at  Louisville, 
spent  several  years  flat-boating,  trading  and 
hunting  in  the  West,  during  this  period  visiting 
Arkansas,  Texas  and  Kansas,  finally  settling  on  a 
farm  near  Herculaneum,  Mo.  In  1823  he  located 
in  Scott  (then  a  part  of  Morgan)  County,  111.,  but 
when  the  town  of  Jacksonville  was  laid  out, 
became  a  citizen  of  that  place.  During  the  Black 
Hawk  War  (July  and  August,  1832),  he  served  on 
the  staff  of  Gen.  J.  D.  Henry  with  the  rank  of 
Major ;  in  1837  was  appointed  by  Governor  Dun- 
can a  member  of  the  Board  of  Public  Works  for 
the  First  Judicial  District,  in  this  capacity  having 
charge  of  the  construction  of  the  railroad  l>etween 
Meredosia  and  Springfield  (then  known  as  the 
Northern  Cross  Railroad)— the  first  public  rail- 
road built  in  the  State,  and  the  only  one  con- 
structed during  the  "internal  improvement"  era 
following  1837.  He  also  held  a  commission  from 
Governor  French  as  Major-General  of  State  Mi- 
litia, in  1855  was  appointed  by  President  Pierce 
Fifth  Auditor  of  the  Treasury  Department,  but 
retired  in  1859.  In  1832,  on  his  return  from 
the  Black  Hawk  War,  he  was  elected  a  Repre- 
sentative in  the  State  Legislature  from  Morgan 
County,  and,  in  1864,  was  elected  to  the  State 
Senate  for  the  District  composed  of  Morgan, 
Menard,  Cass,  Schuyler  and  Brown  Counties, 
serving  until  1868.  Though  previously  a  Demo- 
crat and  a  delegate  to  the  Democratic. National 
Convention  of  1860,  he  was  an  earnest  supporter 
of  the  war  policy  of  the  Government,  and  was 
one  of  four  Democratic  Senators,  in  the  General 
Assembly  of  1865,  who  voted  for  the  ratification 
of  the  Thirteenth  Amendment  of  the  National 
Constitution,  prohibiting  slavery  in  the  United 
States.  His  death  occurred  by  assassination,  by 


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some  unknown  person,  in  his  office  at  Jackson- 
ville, Feb.  9,  1869.— John  Ludluin  (McConnel), 
son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  in  Jacksonville, 
111.,  Nov.  11,  1826,  studied  law  and  graduated  at 
Transylvania  Law  School;  in  1846  enlisted  as  a 
private  in  the  Mexican  War,  became  First  Lieu- 
tenant and  was  promoted  Captain  after  the  battle 
of  Buena  Vista,  where  he  was  twice  wounded. 
After  the  war  he  returned  to  Jacksonville  and 
wrote  several  books  illustrative  of  Western  life 
and  character,  which  were  published  between 
1850  and  1853.  At  the  time  of  his  death— Jan. 
17.  1862— he  was  engaged  in  the  preparation  of  a 
"History .of  Early  Explorations  in  America,"  hav- 
ing special  reference  to  the  labors  of  the  early 
Roman  Catholic  missionaries. 

McCONNELL,  (Gen).  John,  soldier,  was  born 
in  Madison  County,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  5,  1824,  and  came 
with  his  parents  to  Illinois  when  about  sixteen 
years  of  age.  His  father  (James  McConnell)  was 
a  native  of  Ireland,  who  came  to  the  United 
States  shortly  before  the  War  of  1812,  and,  after 
remaining  in  New  York  until  1840,  came  to  San- 
gamon  County,  111.,  locating  a  few  miles  south  of 
Springfield,  where  he  engaged  extensively  in 
sheep-raising.  He  was  an  enterprising  and  pro- 
gressive agriculturist,  and  was  one  of  the  founders 
of  the  State  Agricultural  Society,  being  President 
of  the  Convention  of  1852  which  resulted  in  its 
organization.  His  death  took  place,  Jan.  7,  1867. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  engaged  with  his 
father  and  brothers  in  the  farming  and  stock 
business  until  1861,  when  he  raised  a  company 
for  the  Third  Illinois  Cavalry,  of  which  he  was 
elected  Captain,  was  later  promoted  Major,  serv- 
ing until  March,  1863,  during  that  time  taking 
part  in  some  of  the  important  battles  of  the  war 
in  Southwest  Missouri,  including  Pea  Ridge,  and 
was  highly  complimented  by  his  commander, 
Gen.  G.  M.  Dodge,  for  bravery.  Some  three 
months  after  leaving  the  Third  Cavalry,  he  was 
commissioned  by  Governor  Yates  Colonel  of  the 
Fifth  Illinois  Cavalry,  and,  in  March,  1865,  was 
commissioned  Brevet  Brigadier-General,  his  com- 
mission being  signed  by  President  Lincoln  on 
April  14,  1865,  the  morning  preceding  the  night 
of  his  assassination.  During  the  latter  part  of 
his  service,  General  McConnell  was  on  duty  in 
Texas,  being  finally  mustered  out  in  October, 
1865.  After  the  death  of  his  father,  and  until 
1879,  lie  continued  in  the  business  of  sheep-raising 
and  farming,  being  for  a  time  the  owner  of 
several  extensive  farms  in  Sangamon  County, 
but,  in  1879,  engaged  in  the  insurance  business 
in  Springfield,  where  he  died,  March  14,  1898. 


McCONJfELL,  Samuel  P.,  son  of  the  preceding, 
was  born  at  Springfield,  111.,  on  July  5,  1849. 
After  completing  his  literary  studies  he  read  law 
at  Springfield  in  the  office  of  Stuart,  Edwards  & 
Brown,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1872,  soon 
after  establishing  himself  in  practice  in  Chicago. 
After  various  partnerships,  in  which  he  was  asso- 
ciated with  leading  lawyers  of  Chicago,  he  was 
elected  Judge  of  the  Cook  County  Circuit  Court, 
in  1889,  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  death  of 
Judge  W.  K.  McAllister,  serving  until  1894,  when 
he  resigned  to  give  his  attention  to  private  prac- 
tice. Although  one  of  the  youngest  Judges  upon 
the  bench,  Judge  McConnell  was  called  upon, 
soon  after  his  election,  to  preside  at  the  trial  of 
the  conspirators  in  the  celebrated  Cronin  murder 
case,  in  which  he  displayed  great  ability.  He  has 
also  had  charge,  as  presiding  Judge,  of  a  number 
of  civil  suits  of  great  importance  affecting  cor- 
porations. 

McCORMICK,  Cyrus  Hall,  inventor  and  manu- 
facturer, born  in  Rockbridge  County,  Va.,  Feb.  15, 
1809.  In  youth  he  manifested  unusual  mechani- 
cal ingenuity,  and  early  began  attempts  at  the 
manufacture  of  some  device  for  cutting  grain,  his 
first  finished  machine  being  produced  in  1831. 
Though  he  had  been  manufacturing  for  years 
in  a  small  way,  it  was  not  until  1844  that  his 
first  machine  was  shipped  to  the  West,  and, 
in  1847,  he  came  to  Chicago  with  a  view  to 
establishing  its  manufacture  in  the  heart  of  the 
region  where  its  use  would  be  most  in  demand. 
One  of  his  early  partners  in  the  business  was 
William  B.  Ogden,  afterwards  so  widely  known 
in  connection  with  Chicago's  railroad  history. 
The  business  grew  on  his  hands  until  it  became 
one  of  the  largest  manufacturing  interests  in  the 
United  States.  Mr.  McCormick  was  a  Democrat, 
and,  in  1860,  he  bought  "The  Chicago  Times." 
and  having  united  it  with  "The  Herald,"  which 
he  already  owned,  a  few  months  later  sold  the 
consolidated  concern  to  Wilbur  F.  Storey.  "The 
Interior,"  the  Northwestern  mouthpiece  of  the 
Presbyterian  faith,  had  been  founded  by  a  joint 
stock-company  in  1870,  but  was  burned  out  in 
1871  and  removed  to  Cincinnati.  In  January, 
1872,  it  was  returned  to  Chicago,  and,  at  the 
beginning  of  the  following  year,  it  became  the 
property  of  Mr.  McCormick  in  conjunction  with 
Dr.  Gray,  who  has  been  its  editor  and  manager 
ever  since.  Mr.  McCormick's  most  liberal  work 
was  undoubtedly  the  endowment  of  the  Presby- 
terian Theological  Seminary  in  Chicago,  which 
goes  by  his  name.  His  death  occurred,  May  13, 
1884,  after  a  business  life  of  almost  unprece- 


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dented  success,  and    after  conferring  upon  the 
agriculturists  of  the  country  a  boon  of  inestimable 
value. 
McCORMICK   THEOLOGICAL   SEMINARY,  a 

Presbyterian  school  of  theology  in  Chicago,  be- 
ing the  outgrowth  of  an  institution  originally  con- 
nected with  Hanover  College,  Ind.,  in  1830.  In 
1859  the  late  Cyrus  H.  McCormick  donated  $100,- 
000  to  the  school,  and  it  was  removed  to  Chicago, 
where  it  was  opened  in  September,  with  a  class 
of  fifteen  students.  Since  then  nearly  $300,000 
have  been  contributed  toward  a  building  fund  by 
Mr.  McCormick  and  his  heirs,  besides  numerous 
donations  to  the  same  end  made  by  others.  The 
number  of  buildings  is  nine,  four  being  for  the 
general  purposes  of  the  institution  (including 
dormitories),  and  five  being  houses  for  the  pro- 
fessors. The  course  of  instruction  covers  three 
annual  terms  of  seven  months  each,  and  includes 
didactic  and  polemic  theology,  biblical  and 
ecclesiastical  history,  sacred  rhetoric  and  pastoral 
theology,  church  government  and  the  sacra- 
ments, New  Testament  literature  and  exegesis, 
apologetics  and  missions,  and  homiletics.  The 
faculty  consists  of  eight  professors,  one  adjunct 
professor,  and  one  instructor  in  elocution  and 
vocal  culture.  Between  200  and  300  students  are 
enrolled,  including  post-graduates. 

McCULLOCH,  David,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was 
born  in  Cumberland  County,  Pa.,  Jan.  25,  1832; 
received  his  academic  education  at  Marshall  Col- 
lege, Mercersburg,  Pa.,  graduating  in  the  class  of 
1852.  Then,  after  spending  some  six  months  as 
a  teacher  in  his  native  village,  he  came  west, 
arriving  at  Peoria  early  in  1853.  Here  he  con- 
ducted a  private  school  for  two  years,  when,  in 
1855,  he  began  the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of 
Manning  &  Merriman,  being  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1857.  Soon  after  entering  upon  his  law  studies 
he  was  elected  School  Commissioner  for  Peoria 
County,  serving,  by  successive  re-elections,  three 
terms  (1855-61).  At  the  close  of  this  period  he 
was  taken  into  partnership  with  his  old  precep- 
tor, Julius  Manning,  who  died,  July  4,  1862.  In 
1877  he  was  elected  Circuit  Judge  for  the  Eighth 
Circuit,  under  the  law  authorizing  the  increase  of 
Judges  in  each  circuit  to  three,  and  was  re- 
elected  in  1879,  serving  until  1885.  Six  years  of 
this  period  were  spent  as  a  Justice  of  the  Appellate 
Court  for  the  Third  Appellate  District.  On 
retiring  from  the  bench,  Judge  McCulloch  entered 
into  partnership  with  his  son,  E.  D.  McCulloch, 
which  is  still  maintained.  Politically,  Judge 
McCulloch  was  reared  as  a  Democrat,  but  during 
the  Civil  War  became  a  Republican.  Since  1886 


he  has  been  identified  with  the  Prohibition  Party, 
although,  as  the  result  of  questions  arising  during 
the  Spanish-American  War,  giving  a  cordial 
support  to  the  policy  of  President  McKinley.  In 
religious  views  was  a  Presbyterian,  and  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  McCormick  Theological 
Seminary,  Chicago.  Died  Sept.  17,  1907. 

McCTJLLOUGH,  James  Skiles,  Auditor  of 
Public  Accounts,  was  born  in  Mercersburg, 
Franklin  County,  Pa.,  May  4,  1843;  in  1854  came 
with  his  father  to  Urbana,  111.,  and  grew  up  on  a 
farm  in  that  vicinity,  receiving  such  education  as 
could  be  obtained  in  the  public  schools.  In  1862, 
at  the  age  of  19  years,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in 
Company  G,  Seventy-sixth  Illinois  Volunteer 
Infantry,  and  served  during  the  next  three  years 
in  the  Departments  of  the  Mississippi  and  the  Gulf, 
meanwhile  participating  in  the  campaign  against 
Vicksburg,  and,  near  the  close  of  the  war,  in  the 
operations  about  Mobile.  On  the  9th  of  April, 
1865,  while  taking  part  in  the  assault  on  Fort 
Blakely,  near  Mobile,  his  left  arm  was  torn  to 
pieces  by  a  grape-shot,  compelling  its  amputation 
near  the  shoulder.  His  final  discharge  occurred 
in  July,  1865.  Returning  home  he  spent  a  year  in 
school  at  Urbana,  after  which  he  was  a  student  in 
the  Soldiers'  College  at  Fulton,  111. ,  for  two  years. 
He  then  (1868)  entered  the  office  of  the  County 
Clerk  of  Champaign  County  as  a  deputy,  remain- 
ing until  1873,  when  he  was  chosen  County  Clerk, 
serving  by  successive  re-elections  until  1896.  The 
latter  year  he  received  the  nomination  of  the 
Republican  Party  for  Auditor  of  Public  Accounts, 
and,  at  the  November  election,  was  elected  by  a 
plurality  of  138,000  votes  over  his  Democratic 
opponent.  He  was  serving  his  sixth  term  as 
County  Clerk  when  chosen  Auditor,  having 
received  the  nomination  of  his  party  on  each 
occasion  without  opposition. 

McDAITNOLD,  John  J.,  lawyer  and  ex-Con 
gressman,  was  born  in  Brown  County,  111.,  August 
29,  1851,  acquired  his  early  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  his  native  county  and  in  a  private 
school ;  graduated  from  the  Law  Department  of 
the  Iowa  State  University  in  1874,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  Illinois  the  same  year, 
commencing  practice  at  Mount  Sterling.  In  1885 
he  was  made  Master  in  Chancery,  in  1886,  elected 
County  Judge,  and  re-elected  in  1890,  resigning 
his  seat  in  October,  1892,  to  accept  an  election  by 
the  Democrats  of  the  Twelfth  Illinois  District  as 
Representative  in  the  Fifty-third  Congress. 
After  retiring  from  Congress  (March  4,  1895),  Mr. 
McDannold  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  law.  Died  Feb.  3,  1904. 


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McDOJfOUGH  COUNTY,  organized  under  an 
act  passed,  Jan.  25, 1826,  and  attached,  for  judicial 
purposes,  to  Schuyler  County  until  1830.  Its 
present  area  is  576  square  miles — named  in  honor 
of  Commodore  McDonough.  The  first  settlement 
in  the  county  was  at  Industry,  on  the  site  of 
which  William  Carter  (the  pioneer  of  the 
county)  built  a  cabin  in  1826.  James  and  John 
Vance  and  William  Job  settled  in  the  vicinity  in 
the  following  year.  Out  of  this  settlement  grew 
Blandinsville.  William  Pennington  located  on 
Spring  Creek  in  1828,  and,  in  1831,  James  M. 
Campbell  erected  the  first  frame  house  on  the 
site  of  the  present  city  of  Macomb.  The  first 
sermon,  preached  by  a  Protestant  minister  in  the 
county,  was  delivered  in  the  Job  settlement  by 
Rev.  John  Logan,  a  Baptist.  Among  the  early 
officers  were  John  Huston,  County  Treasurer; 
William  Southward,  Sheriff;  Peter  Hale,  Coro- 
ner, and  Jesse  Bartlett,  Surveyor.  The  first 
term  of  the  Circuit  Court  was  held  in  1830,  and 
presided  over  by  Hon.  Richard  M.  Young.  The 
first  railway  to  cross  the  county  was  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  (1857).  Since  then  other 
lines  have  penetrated  it,  and  there  are  numerous 
railroad  centers  and  shipping  points  of  consider- 
able importance.  Population  (1880),  25,037; 
(1890),  27,467;  (1900),  28,412;  (1910),  26,887. 

McDOUGALL,  James  Alexander,  lawyer  and 
United  States  Senator,  was  born  in  Bethlehem, 
Albany  County,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  19,  1817;  educated 
at  the  Albany  grammar  school,  studied  law  and 
settled  in  Pike  County,  111.,  in  1837;  was  Attor- 
ney-General of  Illinois  four  years  (1843-47) ;  then 
engaged  in  engineering  and,  in  1849,  organized 
and  led  an  exploring  expedition  to  the  Rio  del 
Norte,  Gila  and  Colorado  Rivers,  finally  settling 
at  San  Francisco  and  engaging  in  the  practice  of 
law.  In  1850  he  was  elected  Attorney-General  of 
California,  served  several  terms  in  the  State 
Legislature,  and,  in  1852,  was  chosen,  as  a  Demo- 
crat, to  Congress,  but  declined  a  re-election ;  in 
1860  was  elected  United  States  Senator  from  Cali- 
fornia, serving  as  a  War  Democrat  until  1867. 
At  the  expiration  of  his  senatorial  term  he  retired 
to  Albany,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died,  Sept.  3,  1867. 
Though  somewhat  irregular  in  habits,  he  was,  at 
times,  a  brilliant  and  effective  speaker,  and,  dur- 
ing the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  rendered  valuable 
aid  to  the  Union  cause. 

McFARLAND,  Andrew,  M.D.,  alienist,  was 
born  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  July  14,  1817,  graduated 
at  Jefferson  Medical  College,  Philadelphia,  in 
1841,  and,  after  being  engaged  in  general  practice 
for  a  few  years,  was  invited  to  assume  the  man- 


agement of  the  New  Hampshire  Asylum  for  the 
Insane  at  Concord.  Here  he  remained  some 
eight  years,  during  which  he  acquired  consider- 
able reputation  in  the  treatment  of  nervous  and 
mental  disorders.  In  1854  he  was  offered  and 
accepted  the  position  of  Medical  Superintendent 
of  the  Illinois  State  (now  Central)  Hospital  for 
the  Insane  at  Jacksonville,  entering  upon  his 
duties  in  June  of  that  year,  and  continuing  his 
connection  with  that  institution  for  a  period  of 
more  than  sixteen  years.  Having  resigned  his 
position  in  the  State  Hospital  in  June,  1870,  he 
soon  after  established  the  Oaklawn  Retreat,  at 
Jacksonville,  a  private  institution  for  the  treat- 
ment of  insane  patients,  which  he  conducted 
with  a  great  degree  of  success,  and  with  which 
he  was  associated  during  the  remainder  of  his 
life,  dying,  Nov.  22,  1891.  Dr.  McFarland's  serv- 
ices were  in  frequent  request  as  a  medical  expert 
in  cases  before  the  courts,  invariably,  however, 
on  the  side  of  the  defense.  The  last  case  in  which 
he  appeared  as  a  witness  was  at  the  trial  of  Charles 
F.  Guiteau,  the  assassin  of  President  Garfield, 
whom  he  believed  to  be  insane. 

McGAHEY,  David,  settled  in  Crawford  County, 
111.,  in  1817,  and  served  as  Representative  from 
that  County  in  the  Third  and  Fourtli  General 
Assemblies  (1822-26),  and  as  Senator  in  the 
Eighth  and  Ninth  (1832-36).  Although  a  native 
of  Tennessee,  Mr.  McGahey  was  a  strong  opponent 
of  slavery,  and,  at  the  session  of  1822,  was  one  of 
those  who  voted  against  the  pro-slavery  Constitu- 
tion resolution.  He  continued  to  reside  in  Law- 
rence County  until  his  death  in  1851. — James  D. 
(McGahey),  a  son  of  the' preceding,  was  elected 
to  the  Ninth  General  Assembly  from  Crawford 
County,  in  1834,  but  died  during  his  term  of 
service. 

McGAXX,  Lawrence  Edward,  ex-Congressman, 
was  born  in  Ireland,  Feb.  2,  1852.  His  father 
having  died  in  1884,  the  following  year  his 
mother  emigrated  to  the  United  States,  settling 
at  Milford,  Mass.,  where  he  attended  the  public 
schools.  In  1865  he  came  to  Chicago,  and,  for 
fourteen  years,  found  employment  as  a  shoe- 
maker. In  1879  he  entered  the  municipal  service 
as  a  clerk,  and,  on  Jan.  1,  1885,  was  appointed 
City  Superintendent  of  Streets,  resigning  in  May, 
1891.  He  was  elected  in  1892,  as  a  Democrat,  to 
represent  the  Second  Illinois  District  in  the 
Fifty-second  Congress,  and  re-elected  to  the  Fifty- 
third.  In  1894  he  was  a  candidate  for  re-election 
and  received  a  certificate  of  election  by  a  small 
majority  over  Hugh  R.  Belknap  (Republican). 
An  investigation  having  shown  his  defeat,  he 


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magnanimously  surrendered  his  seat  to  his  com- 
petitor without  a  contest.  He  has  large  business 
interests  in  Chicago,  especially  in  street  railroad 
property,  being  President  of  an  important  elec- 
tric line. 

McHENRY,  a  village  in  McHenry  County,  situ- 
ated on  the  Fox  River  and  the  Chicago  &  North- 
western Railway.  The  river  is  here  navigable  for 
steamboats  of  light  draft,  which  ply  between  the 
town  and  Fox  Lake,  a  favorite  resort  for  sports- 
men. The  town  has  bottling  works,  a  creamery, 
marble  and  granite  works,  cigar  factory,  flour 
mills,  brewery,  bank,  four  churches,  and  one 
weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  1,013;  (1910),  1,031. 

McHENRY,  William,  legislator  and  soldier  of 
the  Black  Hawk  War,  came  from  Kentucky  to 
Illinois  in  1809,  locating  in  White  County,  and 
afterwards  became  prominent  as  a  legislator  and 
soldier  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  in  the  Black  Hawk 
War  of  1832,  serving  in  the  latter  as  Major  of 
the  "Spy  Battalion"  and  participating  in  the 
battle  of  Bad  Axe.  He  also  served  as  Represent- 
ative in  the  First,  Fourth,  Fifth  and  Ninth  Gen- 
eral Assemblies,  and  as  Senator  in  the  Sixth  and 
Seventh.  While  serving  his  last  term  in  the 
House  (1835),  he  died  and  was  buried  at  Vandalia, 
then  the  State  capital.  McHenry  County — organ- 
ized by  act  of  the  Legislature,  passed  at  a  second 
session  during  the  winter  of  1835-36 — was  named 
in  his  honor 

McHENRY  COUNTY,  lies  in  the  northern  por- 
tion of  the  State,  bounded  on  the  north  by  Wis- 
consin— named  for  Gen.  William  McHenry.  Its 
area  is  612  square  miles.  With  what  is  now  the 
County  of  Lake,  it  was  erected  into  a  county  in 
1836,  the  county-seat  being  at  McHenry.  Three 
years  later  the  eastern  part  was  set  off  as  the 
County  of  Lake,  and  the  county-seat  of  McHenry 
County  removed  to  Woodstock,  the  geograph- 
ical center.  The  soil  is  well  watered  by  living 
springs  and  is  highly  productive.  Hardwood 
groves  are  numerous.  Fruits  and  berrias  are 
extensively  cultivated,  but  the  herbage  is  espe- 
cially adapted  to  dairying,  Kentucky  blue  grass 
being  "indigenous.  Large  quantities  of  milk  are 
daily  shipped  to  Chicago,  and  the  annual  pro- 
duction of  butter  and  cheese  reaches  into  the 
millions  of  pounds.  The  geological  formations 
comprise  the  drift  and  the  Cincinnati  and  Niagara 
groups  of  rocks.  Near  Fox  River  are  found 
gravel  ridges.  Vegetable  remains  and  logs  of 
wood  have  been  found  at  various  depths  in  the 
drift  deposits ;  in  one  instance  a  cedar  log,  seven 
inches  in  diameter,  having  been  discovered  forty- 
two  feet  below  the  surface.  Peat  is  found  every- 


where, although  the  most  extensive  deposits  are 
in  the  northern  half  of  the  county,  where  they 
exist  in  sloughs  covering  several  thousands  of 
acres.  Several  lines  of  railroad  cross  the  county, 
and  every  important  village  is  a  railway  station. 
Woodstock,  Marengo,  and  Harvard  are  the  prin- 
cipal towns.  Population  (1880),  24,908;  (1890), 
26,114;  (1900),  29,759;  (1910),  32,509. 

McINTOSH,  (Capt.)  Alexander,  was  born  in 
Fulton  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1822;  at  19  years  of 
age  entered  an  academy  at  Gal  way  Center, 
remaining  three  years ;  in  1845  removed  to  Joliet, 
111.,  and,  two  years  later,  started  "The  Joliet 
True  Democrat,"  but  sold  out  the  next  year,  and, 
in  1849,  went  to  California.  Returning  in  1852,  he 
bought  back  "The  True  Democrat,"  which  he 
edited  until  1857,  meanwhile  (1856)  having  been 
elected  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  and  Recorder 
of  Will  County.  In  1863  he  was  appointed  by 
President  Lincoln  Captain  and  Assistant  Quarter- 
master, serving  under  General  Sherman  in  1864 
and  in  the  "March  to  the  Sea,"  and,  after  the 
war,  being  for  a  time  Post  Quartermaster  at 
Mobile.  Having  resigned  in  1866,  he  engaged  in 
mercantile  business  at  Wilmington,  Will  County; 
but,  in  1869,  bought  "The  Wilmington  Independ- 
ent," which  he  published  until  1873.  The  next 
year  he  returned  to  Joliet,  and,  a  few  months 
after,  became  political  editor  of  "The  Joliet 
Republican,"  and  was  subsequently  connected,  in 
a  similar  capacity,  with  other  papers,  including 
"The  Phoenix"  and  "The  Sun"  of  the  same  city. 
Died,  in  Joliet,  Feb.  2,  1899. 

McKENDREE,  William,  Methodist  Episcopal 
Bishop,  was  born  in  Virginia,  in  1757,  enlisted  as 
a  private  in  the  War  of  the  Revolution,  but  later 
served  as  Adjutant  and  in  the  commissary  depart- 
ment. He  was  converted  at  30  years  of  age,  and 
the  next  year  began  preaching  in  his  native 
State,  being  advanced  to  the  position  of  Presiding 
Elder;  in  1800  was  transferred  to  the  West,  Illi- 
nois falling  within  his  District.  Here  he  remained 
until  his  elevation  to  the  episcopacy  in  1808. 
McKendree  College,  at  Lebanon,  received  its 
name  from  him,  together  with  a  donation  of  480 
acres  of  land.  Died,  near  Nashville,  Tenn. ,  March 
5,  1835. 

McKENDREE  COLLEGE,  one  of  the  earnest  of 
Illinois  colleges,  located  at  Lebanon  and  incorpo- 
rated in  1835.  Its  founding  was  suggested  by 
Rev.  Peter  Cartwright,  and  it  may  be  said  to 
have  had  its  inception  at  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Conference  held  at  Mount  Carmel,  in  September, 
1827.  The  first  funds  for  its  establishment  were 
subscribed  by  citizens  of  Lebanon,  who  contrib- 


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uted  from  their  scanty  means,  §1,385.  Instruc- 
tion began,  Nov.  34,  1828,  under  Rev.  Edward 
Ames,  afterwards  a  Bishop  of  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal Church.  In  1830  Bishop  McKendree  made 
a  donation  of  land  to  the  infant  institution,  and 
the  school  was  named  in  his  honor.  It  cannot  be 
said  to  have  become  really  a  college  until  1836, 
and  its  first  class  graduated  in  1841.  University 
powers  were  granted  it  by  an  amendment  to  its 
charter  in  1839.  At  present  the  departments  are 
as  follows:  Preparatory,  business,  classical, 
scientific,  law,  music  and  oratory.  The  institu- 
tion owns  property  to  the  value  of  $90,000,  includ- 
ing an  endowment  of  §25,000,  and  has  about  200 
students,  of  both  sexes,  and  a  faculty  of  ten 
instructors.  (See  Colleges,  Early.) 

McLAREN,  William  Edward,  Episcopal  Bishop, 
was  born  at  Geneva,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  13,  1831;  gradu- 
ated at  Washington  and  Jefferson  College  (Wash- 
ington, Pa.)  in  1851,  and,  after  six  years  spent  in 
teaching  and  in  journalistic  work,  entered  Alle- 
gheny Theological  Seminary,  graduating  and 
entering  the  Presbyterian  ministry  in  1860.  For 
three  years  he  was  a  missionary  at  Bogota,  South 
America,  and  later  in  charge  of  churches  at 
Peoria,  111.,  and  Detroit,  Mich.  Having  entered 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  he  was  made  a 
deacon  in  July,  1872,  and  ordained  priest  the  fol- 
lowing October,  immediately  thereafter  assuming 
the  pastorate  of  Trinity  Church,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
In  July,  1875,  he  was  elected  Bishop  of  the  Prot- 
estant Episcopal  Diocese  of  Illinois,  which  then 
included  the  whole  State.  Subsequently,  the 
dioceses  of  Quincy  and  Springfield  were  erected 
therefrom,  Bishop  McLaren  remaining  at  the 
head  of  the  Chicago  See.  During  his  episcopate, 
church  work  has  been  active  and  effective,  and 
the  Western  Theological  Seminary  in  Chicago 
has  been  founded.  His  published  works  include 
numerous  sermons,  addresses  and  poems,  besides 
a  volume  entitled  "Catholic  Dogma  the  Antidote 
to  Doubt"  (New  York,  1884).  Died  Feb.  19,  1905. 

MCLAUGHLIN,  Robert  K.,  early  lawyer  and 
State  Treasurer,  was  born  in  Virginia,  Oct.  25, 
1779;  before  attaining  his  majority  went  to  Ken- 
tucky, and,  about  1815,  removed  to  Illinois,  set- 
tling finally  at  Belleville,  where  he  entered  upon 
the  practice  of  law.  The  first  public  position 
held  by  him  seems  to  have  been  that  of  Enrolling 
and  Engrossing  Clerk  of  both  Houses  of  the  Third 
(or  last)  Territorial  Legislature  (1816-18).  In 
August,  1819,  he  entered  upon  the  duties  of  State 
Treasurer,  as  successor  to  John  Thomas,  who  had 
been  Treasurer  during  the  whole  Territorial 
period,  serving  until  January,  1823.  Becoming  a 


citizen  of  Vandalia,  by  the  removal  thither  of  the 
State  capital  a  few  months  later,  he  continued  to 
reside  there  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  subse- 
quently represented  the  Fayette  District  as 
Representative  in  the  Fifth  General  Assembly, 
and  as  Senator  in  the  Sixth,  Seventh  and  Tenth, 
and,  in  1837,  became  Register  of  the  Land  Office 
at  Vandalia,  serving  until  1845.  Although  an 
uncle  of  Gen.  Joseph  Duncan,  he  became  a  can- 
didate for  Governor  against  the  latter,  in  1834, 
standing  third  on  the  list.  He  married  a  Miss 
Bond,  a  niece  of  Gov.  Shadrach  Bond,  under 
whose  administration  he  served  as  State  Treasurer. 
Died,  at  Vandalia,  May  29,  1862. 

McLEAN,  a  village  of  McLean  County,  on  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railway,  14  miles  southwest  of 
Bloomington,  in  a  farming,  dairying  and  stock- 
growing  district;  has  one  weekly  paper.  Popu- 
lation (1900),  532;  (1910),  707. 

McLEAN,  John,  early  United  States  Senator, 
was  born  in  North  Carolina  in  1791,  brought  by 
his  father  to  Kentucky  when  four  years  old,  and. 
at  23,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  removed  to 
Illinois,  settling  at  Shawneetown  in  1815.  Pos- 
sessing oratorical  gifts  of  a  high  order  and  an 
almost  magnetic  power  over  men,  coupled  with 
strong  common  sense,  a  keen  sense  of  humor  and, 
great  command  of  language,  he  soon  attained 
prominence  at  the  bar  and  as  a  popular  speaker. 
In  1818  he  was  elected  the  first  Representative  in 
Congress  from  the  new  State,  defeating  Daniel  P. 
Cook,  but  served  only  a  few  months,  being  de- 
feated by  Cook  at  the  next  election.  He  was 
three  times  elected  to  the  Legislature,  serving 
once  as  Speaker.  In  1824  he  was  chosen  United 
States  Senator  to  succeed  Governor  Edwards  (who 
had  resigned),  serving  one  year.  In  1828  he  was 
elected  for  a  second  time  by  a  unanimous  vote, 
but  lived  to  serve  only  one  session,  dying  at 
Shawneetown,  Oct.  4,  1830.  In  testimony  of  the 
public  appreciation  of  the  loss  which  the  State 
had  sustained  by  his  death,  McLean  County  was 
named  in  his  honor. 

McLEAN  COUNTY,  the  largest  county  of  the 
State,  having  an  area  of  1,161  square  miles,  is 
central  as  to  the  region  north  of  the  latitude  of 
St.  Louis  and  about  midway  between  that  city 
and  Chicago — was  named  for  John  McLean,  an 
early  United  States  Senator.  The  early  immi- 
grants were  largely  from  Ohio,  although  Ken- 
tucky and  New  York  were  well  represented.  The 
county  was  organized  in  1830,  the  population  at 
that  time  being  about  1,200.  The  greater  portion 
of  the  surface  is  high,  undulating  prairie,  with 
occasional  groves  and  belts  of  timber.  On  the 


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creek  bottoms  are  found  black  walnut,  sycamore, 
buckeye,  black  ash  and  elm,  while  the  sandy 
ridges  are  covered  with  scrub  oak  and  black-jack. 
The  soil  is  extremely  fertile  (generally  a  rich, 
brown  loam) ,  and  the  entire  county  is  underlaid 
with  coal.  The  chief  occupations  are  stock-rais- 
ing, coal-mining,  agriculture  and  manufactures. 
Sugar  and  Mackinaw  Creeks,  with  their  tribu- 
taries, afford  thorough  drainage.  Sand  and 
gravel  beds  are  numerous,  but  vary  greatly  in 
depth.  At  Chenoa  one  has  been  found,  in  boring 
for  coal,  thirty  feet  thick,  overlaid  by  forty-five 
feet  of  the  clay  common  to  this  formation.  The 
upper  seam  of  coal  in  the  Bloomington  shafts  is 
No.  6  of  the  general  section,  and  the  lower,  No.  4 ; 
the  latter  averaging  four  feet  in  thickness.  The 
principal  towns  are  Bloomington  (the  county- 
seat),  Normal,  Lexington,  LeRoy  and  Chenoa. 
Population  (1900),  67,843;  (1910),  68,008. 

McLEANSBORO,  a  city  and  the  county- seat  of 
Hamilton  County,  upon  a  branch  of  the  Louis- 
ville &  Nashville  Railroad,  102  miles  east  south- 
east of  St.  Louis  and  about  48  miles  southeast  of 
Centralia.  The  people  are  enterprising  and  pro- 
gressive, the  city  is  up-to-date  and  prosperous, 
supporting  three  banks  and  six  churches.  Two 
weekly  newspapers  are  published  here.  Popula- 
tion (1890),  1,355;  (1900),  1,758;  (1910),  1,796. 

McMULLIN,  James  C.,  Railway  Manager,  was 
born  at  Watertown,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  13,  1836;  began 
work  as  Freight  and  Ticket  Agent  of  tha  Great 
Western  Railroad  (now  Wabash),  at  Decatur,  111., 
May,  1857,  remaining  until  1860,  when  he 
accepted  the  position  of  Freight  Agent  of  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  at  Springfield.  Here  he  re- 
mained until  Jan.  1,  1863,  when  he  was  trans- 
ferred in  a  similar  capacity  to  Chicago;  in 
September,  1864,  became  Superintendent  of  the 
Northern  Division  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton,  after- 
wards successively  filling  the  positions  of  Assist- 
ant General  Superintendent  (1867),  General 
Superintendent  (1868-78)  and  General  Manager 
(1878-83).  The  latter  year  he  was  elected  Vice- 
President,  remaining  in  office  some  ten  years, 
when  ill-health  compelled  his  retirement.  Died, 
in  Chicago,  Dec.  30,  1896. 

McMURTET,  William,  Lieutenant-Governor, 
was  born  in  Mercer  County,  Ky.,  Feb.  20,  1801; 
removed  from  Kentucky  to  Crawford  County, 
Ind.,  and,  in  1829,  came  to  Knox  County,  111., 
settling  in  Henderson  Township.  He  was  elected 
Representative  in  the  Tenth  General  Assembly 
(1836),  and  to  the  Senate  in  1842,  serving  in  the 
Thirteenth  and  Fourteenth  General  Assemblies. 
In  1848  he  was  elected  Lieutenant-Governor  on 


the  same  ticket  with  Gov.  A.  C.  French,  being 
the  first  to  hold  the  office  under  the  Constitution 
adopted  that  year.  In  1862  he  assisted  in  raising 
the  One  Hundred  and  Second  Regiment  Illinois 
Volunteers,  and,  although  advanced  in  years, 
was  elected  Colonel,  but  a  few  weeks  later  was 
compelled  to  accept  a  discharge  on  account  of 
failing  health.  Died,  April  10,  1875. 

McNEELET,  Thompson  W.,  lawyer  and  ex-Con- 
gressman, was  born  in  Jacksonville,  111.,  Oct.  5, 
1835,  and  graduated  at  Lombard  University, 
Galesburg,  at  the  age  of  21.  The  following  year 
he  was  licensed  to  practice,  but  continued  to  pur- 
sue his  professional  studies,  attending  the  Law 
University  at  Louisville,  Ky.,  from  which  insti- 
tution he  graduated  in  1859.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1862,  and 
chairman  of  the  Democratic  State  Central  Com- 
mittee in  1878.  From  1869  to  1873  he  represented 
his  District  in  Congress,  resuming  his  practice 
at  Petersburg,  Menard  County,  after  his  retire- 
ment. 

McNULTA,  John,  soldier  and  ex-Congressman, 
was  born  in  New  York  City,  Nov.  9,  1837,  received 
an  acadepiic  education,  was  admitted  to  the  bar, 
and  settled  at  Bloomington,  in  this  State,  while 
yet  a  young  man.  On  May  3,  1861,  he  enlisted  as 
a  private  in  the  Union  army,  and  served  until 
August  9,  1865,  rising,  successively,  to  the  rank 
of  Captain,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  Colonel  and 
Brevet  Brigadier-General.  From  1869  to  1873  he 
was  a  member  of  the  lower  house  of  the  General 
Assembly  from  McLean  County,  and,  in  1872,  was 
elected  to  the  Forty-third  Congress,  as  a  Repub- 
lican. General  McNulta  has  been  prominent  in 
the  councils  of  the  Republican  party,  standing 
second  on  the  ballot  for  a  candidate  for  Governor, 
in  the  State  Convention  of  1888,  and  serving  as 
Permanent  President  of  the  State  Convention  of 
1890.  In  1896  he  was  one  of  the  most  earnest 
advocates  of  the  nomination  of  Mr.  McKinley  for 
President.  Some  of  his  most  important  work, 
within  the  past  few  years,  has  been  performed  in 
connection  with  receiverships  of  certain  railway 
u,nd  other  corporations,  especially  that  of  the 
"Wabash,  St.  Louis  &  Pacific  Railroad,  from  1884 
to  1890.  He  is  now  (1898)  Receiver  of  the  National 
Bank  of  Illinois,  Chicago.  Died  Feb.  22,  1900. 

McPHERSON,  Simeon  J.,  clergyman,  de- 
scended from  the  Clan  McPherson  of  Scotland, 
was  born  at  Mumford,  Monroe  County,  N.  Y.,  Jan. 
19,  1850;  prepared  for  college  at  Leroy  and  Fulton, 
and  graduated  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  in  1874.  Then, 
after  a  year's  service  as  teacher  of  mathematics 
at  his  Alma  Mater,  he  entered  the  Theological 


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Seminary  there,  and  graduated  from  that  depart- 
ment in  1879,  having  in  the  meantime  traveled 
through  Europe,  Egypt  and  Palestine.  He  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  Rochester  Presbytery 
in  1877,  and  spent  three  years  (1879-82)  in  pas- 
toral labor  at  East  Orange,  N.  J. ;  when  he  ac- 
cepted a  call  to  the  Second  Presbyterian  Church 
of  Chicago,  remaining  until  the  early  part  of  1899, 
when  lie  tendered  his  resignation  to  accept  the 
position  of  Director  of  the  Lawrenceville  Prepar- 
atory Academy  of  Princeton  College,  N.  J. 

McROBERTS,  Josiah,  jurist,  was  born  in 
Monroe  County,  111.,  June  12,  1820;  graduated 
from  St.  Mary's  College  (Mo.)  in  1839;  studied 
law  at  Danville,  111.,  with  his  brother  Samuel, 
and,  in  1842,  entered  the  law  department  of 
Transylvania  University,  graduating  in  1844, 
after  which  he  at  once  began  practice.  In  1846 
he  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  for  the  Cham- 
paign and  Vermilion  District,  at  the  expiration  of 
his  term  removing  to  Joliet.  In  1852  he  was 
appointed  by  Governor  Matteson  Trustee  of  the 
Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal,  which  office  he  held 
for  four  years.  In  1866  he  was  appointed  Circuit 
Court  Judge  by  Governor  Oglesby,  to  fill  a  va- 
cancy, and  was  re-elected  in  1867,  '73,  '79,  and  '85, 
but  died  a  few  months  after  his  last  election. 

McROBERTS,  Samuel,  United  States  Sena- 
tor, was  born  in  Monroe  County,  111.,  Feb.  20, 
1799;  graduated  from  Transylvania  University  in 
1819;  in  1821,  was  elected  the  first  Circuit  Clerk 
of  his  native  county,  and,  in  1825,  appointed 
Circuit  Judge,  which  office  he  held  for  three 
years.  In  1828  he  was  elected  State  Senator, 
representing  the  district  comprising  Monroe, 
Clinton  and  Washington  Counties.  Later  he  was 
appointed  United  States  District  Attorney  by 
President  Jackson,  but  soon  resigned  to  become 
Receiver  of  Public  Moneys  at  Danville,  by- 
appointment  of  President  Van  Buren,  and,  in 
1839,  Solicitor  of  the  General  Land  Office  at 
Washington.  Resigning  the  latter  office  in  the 
fall  of  1841,  at  the  next  session  of  the  Illinois 
Legislature  he  was  elected  United  States  Senator 
to  succeed  John  M.  Robinson,  deceased.  Died,  at 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  March  22,  1843,  being  suc- 
ceeded by  James  Semple. 

McYICKER,  James  Hubert,  actor  and  theat- 
rical manager,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  Feb. 
14,  1822;  thrown  upon  his  own  resources  by  the 
death  of  his  father  in  infancy  and  the  necessity 
of  assisting  to  support  his  widowed  mother,  he 
early  engaged  in  various  occupations,  until,  at 
the  age  of  15,  he  became  an  apprentice  in  the 
office  of  "The  St.  Louis  Republican,"  three  years 


later  becoming  a  journeyman  printer.  He  first 
appeared  on  the  stage  in  the  St.  Charles  Theater, 
New  Orleans,  in  1843;  two  years  later  was  prin- 
cipal comedian  in  Rice's  Theater,  Chicago,  re- 
maining until  1852,  when  he  made  a  tour  of  the 
country,  appearing  in  Yankee  characters.  About 
1855  he  made  a  tour  of  England  and,  on  his 
return,  commenced  building  his  first  Chicago 
theater,  which  was  opened,  Nov.  3,  1857,  and  was 
conducted  with  varied  fortune  until  burned  down 
in  the  great  fire  of  1871.  Rebuilt  and  remodeled 
from  time  to  time,  it  burned  down  a  second  time 
in  August,  1890,  the  losses  from  these  several  fires 
having  imposed  upon  Mr.  McVicker  a  heavy 
burden.  Although  an  excellent  comedian,  Mr. 
McVicker  did  not  appear  on  the  stage  after  1882, 
from  that  date  giving  his  attention  entirely  to 
management.  He  enjoyed  in  an  eminent  degree 
the  respect  and  confidence,  not  only  of  the 
profession,  but  of  the  general  public.  Died  in 
Chicago,  March  7,  1896. 

McWILLIAMS,  David,  banker,  D wight,  111., 
was  born  in  Belmont  County,  Ohio,  Jan.  14,  1834; 
was  brought  to  Illinois  in  infancy  and  grew  up  on 
a  farm  until  14  years  of  age,  when  he  entered  the 
office  of  the  Pittsfield  (Pike  County)  "Free  Press" 
as  an  apprentice.  In  1849  he  engaged  in  the 
lumber  trade  with  his  father,  the  management  of 
which  devolved  upon  him  a  few  years  later.  In 
the  early  50's  he  was,  for  a  time,  a  student  in 
Illinois  College  at  Jacksonville,  but  did  not 
graduate;  in  1855  removed  to  D  wight,  Livingston 
County,  then  a  new  town  on  the  line  of  the  Chi- 
cago &  Alton  Railroad,  which  had  been  completed 
to  that  point  a  few  months  previous.  Here  he 
erected  the  first  store  building  in  the  town,  and 
put  in  a  $2,000  stock  of  goods  on  borrowed  capi- 
tal, remaining  in  the  mercantile  business  for 
eighteen  years,  and  retaining  an  interest  in  the 
establishment  seven  years  longer.  In  the  mean- 
time, while  engaged  in  merchandising,  he  began 
a  banking  business,  which  was  -enlarged  on  his 
retirement  from  the  former,  receiving  his  entire 
attention.  The  profits  derived  from  his  banking 
business  were  invested  in  farm  lands  until  he 
became  one  of  the  largest  land-owners  in  Living- 
ston County.  Mr.  McWilliams  was  one  of  the 
original  members  of  the  first  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  organized  at  Dwight,  and  served  as  a 
lay  delegate  to  several  General  Conferences  of 
that  denomination,  as  well  as  a  delegate  to  the 
Ecumenical  Council  in  London  in  1881;  was  also 
a  liberal  contributor  to  the  support  of  vari- 
ous literary  and  theological  institutions  of  the 
church,  and  had  served  for  many  years  as  a  Trus- 


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tee  of  the  Northwestern  University  at  Evanston. 
In  politics  he  was  a  zealous  Republican,  and 
repeatedly  served  as  a  delegate  to  the  State  Con- 
ventions of  that  party,  including  the  Bloomington 
Convention  of  1856,  and  was  a  candidate  for  Presi- 
dential Elector  for  the  Ninth  District  on  the  Elaine 
ticket  in  1884  He  made  several  extended  tours 
in  Europe  and  other  foreign  countries,  the  last 
including  a  trip  to  Egypt  and  the  Holy  Land, 
during  1898-99.  Died  May  17,  1909. 

MECHANICSBURG,  a  village  of  Sangamon 
County,  near  the  Wabash  Railway,  13  miles  east 
of  Springfield.  Population  (1880),  396;  (1890), 
426;  (1900),  476;  (1910),  417. 

MEDILL,  Joseph,  editor  and  newspaper  pub- 
lisher, was  born,  April  6, 1823,  in  the  vicinity  (now 
a  part  of  the  city)  of  St.  John,  N.  B. ,  of  Scotch- 
Irish  parentage,  but  remotely  of  Huguenot 
descent.  At  nine  years  of  age  he  accompanied 
his  parents  to  Stark  County,  Ohio,  where  he 
enjoyed  such  educational  advantages  as  belonged 
to  that  region  and  period.  He  entered  an  acad- 
emy with  a  view  to  preparing  for  college,  but  his 
family  having  suffered  from  a  fire,  he  was  com- 
pelled to  turn  his  attention  to  business;  studied 
law,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1846,  and  began 
practice  at  New  Philadelphia,  in  Tuscarawas 
County.  Here  he  caught  the  spirit  of  journalism 
by  frequent  visits  to  the  office  of  a  local  paper, 
learned  to  set  type  and  to  work  a  hand-press.  In 
1849  he  bought  a  paper  at  Coshocton,  of  which  he 
assumed  editorial  charge,  employing  his  brothers 
as  assistants  in  various  capacities.  The  name  of 
this  paper  was  "The  Coshocton  Whig,"  which 
he  soon  changed  to  "The  Republican,"  in  which 
he  dealt  vigorous  blows  at  political  and  other 
abuses,  which  several  times  brought  upon  him 
assaults  from  his  political  opponents — that  being 
the  style  of  political  argument  in  those  days. 
Two  years  later,  having  sold  out  "The  Repub- 
lican," he  established  "The  Daily  Forest  City"  at 
Cleveland — a  Whig  paper  with  free-soil  proclivi- 
ties. The  following  year  "The  Forest  City"  was 
consolidated  with  "The  Free- Democrat,"  a-Free- 
Soil  paper  under  the  editorship  of  John  C. 
Vaughan,  a  South  Carolina  Abolitionist,  the  new 
paper  taking  the  name  of  "The  Cleveland 
Leader."  Mr.  Medill,  with  the  co-operation  of 
Mr.  Vaughan,  then  went  to  work  to  secure  the 
consolidation  of  the  elements  opposed  to  slavery 
in  one  compact  organization.  In  this  he  was 
aided  by  the  introduction  of  the  Kansas-Nebraska 
Bill  in  Congress,  in  December,  1853,  and,  before 
its  passage  in  May  following,  Mr.  Medill  had 
begun  to  agitate  the  question  of  a  union  of  all 


opposed  to  that  measure  in  a  new  party  under  the 
name  "Republican."  During  the  winter  of 
1854-55  he  received  a  call  from  Gen.  J.  D.  Web- 
ster, at  that  time  part  owner  of  "The  Chicago 
Tribune,"  which  resulted  in  his  visiting  Chicago 
a  few  months  later,  and  his  purchase  of  an  inter- 
est in  the  paper,  his  connection  with  the  concern 
dating  from  June  18,  1855.  He  was  almost 
immediately  joined  by  Dr.  Charles  H.  Ray,  who 
had  been  editor  of  "The  Galena  Jeffersonian," 
and,  still  later,  by  J.  C.  Vaughan  and  Alfred 
Cowles,  who  had  been  associated  with  him  on 
"The  Cleveland  Leader."  Mr.  Medill  assumed 
the  position  of  managing  editor,  and,  on  the 
retirement  of  Dr.  Ray,  in  1863,  became  editor-in- 
chief  until  1866,  when  he  gave  place  to  Horace 
White,  now  of  "The  New  York  Evening  Post." 
During  the  Civil  War  period  he  was  a  zealous 
supporter  of  President  Lincoln's  emancipation 
policy,  and  served,  for  a  time,  as  President  of  the 
"Loyal  League,"  which  proved  such  an  influ- 
ential factor  in  upholding  the  hands  of  the  Gov- 
ernment during  the  darkest  period  of  the 
rebellion.  In  1869  Mr.  Medill  was  elected  to  the 
State  Constitutional  Convention,  and,  in  that 
body,  was  the  leading  advocate  of  the  principle 
of  "minority  representation"  in  the  election  of 
Representatives,  as  it  was  finally  incorporated 
in  the  Constitution.  In  1871  he  was  appointed 
by  President  Grant  a  member  of  the  first  Civil 
Service  Commission,  representing  a  principle  to 
which  he  ever  remained  thoroughly  committed. 
A  few  weeks  after  the  great  fire  of  the  same 
year,  he  was  elected  Mayor  of  the  city  of  Chicago. 
The  financial  condition  of  the  city  at  the  time, 
and  other  questions  in  issue,  involved  great  diffi- 
culties and  responsibilities,  which  he  met  in  a 
way  to  command  general  approval.  During  his 
administration  the  Chicago  Public  Library  was 
established,  Mr.  Medill  delivering  the  address  at 
its  opening,  Jan.  1,  1873.  Near  the  close  of  his 
term  as  Mayor,  he  resigned  the  office  and  spent 
the  following  year  in  Europe.  Almost  simultane- 
ously with  his  return  from  his  European  trip,  he 
secured  a  controlling  interest  in  "The  Tribune," 
resuming  control  of  the  paper,  Nov.  9,  1874, 
which,  as  editor-in-chief,  he  retained  for  the 
remainder  of  his  life  of  nearly  twenty-five  years. 
The  growth  of  the  paper  in  business  and  influence, 
from  the  beginning  of  his  connection  with  it,  was 
one  of  the  marvels  of  journalism,  making  it  easily 
one  of  the  most  successful  newspaper  ventures 
in  the  United  States,  if  not  in  the  world.  Early 
in  December,  1898,  Mr.  Medill  went  to  San 
Antonio,  Texas,  hoping  to  receive  relief  in  that 


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mild  climate  from  a  chronic  disease  which  had 
been  troubling  him  for  years,  but  died  in  that 
city,  March  16,  1899,  within  three  weeks  of  hav- 
ing reached  his  76th  birthday.  The  conspicuous 
features  of  his  character  were  a  strong  individu- 
ality and  indomitable  perseverance,  which  led 
him  never  to  accept  defeat.  A  few  weeks  previ- 
ous to  his  death,  facts  were  developed  going  to 
show  that,  in  1881,  he  was  offered,  by  President 
Garfield,  the  position  of  Postmaster-General, 
which  was  declined,  when  he  was  tendered  the 
choice  of  any  position  in  the  Cabinet  except  two 
which  had  been  previously  promised;  also,  that 
he  was  offered  a  position  in  President  Harrison's 
Cabinet,  in  1889. 

MEDILL,  (Maj.)  William  H.,  soldier,  was 
born  at  Massillon,  Ohio,  Nov.  5,  1835;  in  1855, 
came  to  Chicago  and  was  associated  with  "The 
Prairie  Farmer."  Subsequently  he  was  editor  of 
"The  Stark  County  (Ohio)  Republican,"  but 
again  returning  to  Chicago,  at  the  beginning  of 
the  war,  was  employed  on  "The  Tribune,"  of 
which  his  brother  (Hon.  Joseph  Medill)  was 
editor.  After  a  few  months'  service  in  Barker's 
Dragoons  (a  short-time  organization),  in  Septem- 
ber, 1861,  he  joined  the  Eighth  Illinois  Cavalry 
(Colonel  Farnsworth's),  and,  declining  an  election 
as  Major,  was  chosen  Senior  Captain.  The  regi- 
ment soon  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  By 
the  promotion  of  his  superior  officers  Captain 
Medill  was  finally  advanced  to  the  command, 
and.'during  the  Peninsular  campaign  of  1862,  led 
his  troops  on  a  reconnoissance  within  twelve  miles 
of  Richmond.  At  the  battle  of  Gettysburg  he 
had  command  of  a  portion  of  his  regiment,  acquit- 
ting himself  with  great  credit.  A  few  days  after, 
while  attacking  a  party  of  rebels  who  were 
attempting  to  build  a  bridge  across  the  Potomac 
at  Williamsburg,  he  received  a  fatal  wound 
through  the  lungs,  dying  at  Frederick  City,  July 
16,  1863. 

MEEKER,  Moses,  pioneer,  was  born  in  New- 
ark, N.  J.,  June  17,  1790;  removed  to  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  in  1817,  engaging  in  the  manufacture  of 
white  lead  until  1822,  when  he  headed  a  pioneer 
expedition  to  the  frontier  settlement  at  Galena, 
111.,  to  enter  upon  the  business  of  smelting  lead- 
ore.  He  served  as  Captain  of  a  company  in  the 
Black  Hawk  War,  later  removing  to  Iowa 
County,  Wis.,  where  he  built  the  first  smelting 
works  in  that  Territory,  served  in  the  Territorial 
Legislature  (1840-43)  and  in  the  first  Constitu- 
tional Convention  (1846).  A  "History  of  the 
Early  Lead  Regions,"  by  him,  appears  in  the 
sixth  volume  of  "The  Wisconsin  Historical  Soci- 


ety Collections."  Died,  at  Shullsburg,  Wis., 
July  7,  1865. 

MELROSE,  a  suburb  of  Chicago,  11  miles  west 
of  the  initial  station  of  the  Chicago  &  North- 
western Railroad,  upon  which  it  is  located.  It 
has  two  or  three  churches,  some  manufacturing 
establishments  and  one  weekly  paper.  Popula- 
tion (1900).  2,592;  (1910),  4,805. 

MEMBRE,  Zenobius,  French  missionary,  was 
born  in  France  in  1645 ;  accompanied  La  Salle  on 
his  expedition  to  Illinois  in  1679,  and  remained  at 
Fort  Creve-Coeur  with  Henry  de  Tonty ;  descended 
the  Mississippi  with  La  Salle  in  1682 ;  returned  to 
France  and  wrote  a  history  of  the  expedition, 
and,  in  1684,  accompanied  La  Salle  on  his  final 
expedition ;  is  supposed  to  have  landed  with  La 
Salle  in  Texas,  and  there  to  have  been  massacred 
by  the  natives  in  1687.  (See  La  Salle  and  Tonty. ) 

MENARD,  Pierre,  French  pioneer  and  first 
Lieutenant-Governor,  was  born  at  St.  Antoine, 
Can.,  Oct.  7,  1766;  settled  at  Kaskaskia,  in  1790, 
and  engaged  in  trade.  Becoming  interested  in 
politics,  he  was  elected  to  the  Territorial  Council 
of  Indiana,  and  later  to  the  Legislative  Council  of 
Illinois  Territory,  being  presiding  officer  of  the 
latter  until  the  admission  of  Illinois  as  a  State. 
He  was,  for  several  years,  Government  Agent, 
and  in  this  capacity  negotiated  several  important 
treaties  with  the  Indians,  of  whose  characteris- 
tics he  seemed  to  have  an  intuitive  perception.  He 
was  of  a  nervous  temperament,  impulsive  and 
generous.  In  1818  he  was  elected  the  first  Lieu- 
tenant-Governor of  the  new  State.  His  term  of 
office  having  expired,  he  retired  to  private  life 
and  the  care  of  his  extensive  business.  He  died 
at  Kaskaskia,  in  June,  1844,  leaving  what  was 
then  considered  a  large  estate.  Among  his  assets, 
however,  were  found  a  large  number  of  promis- 
sory notes,  which  he  had  endorsed  for  personal 
friends,  besides  many  uncollectable  accounts 
from  poor  people,  to  whom  he  had  sold  goods 
through  pure  generosity.  Menard  County  was 
named  for  him,  and  a  statue  in  his  honor  stands 
in  the  capitol  grounds  at  Springfield,  erected  by 
the  son  of  his  old  partner — Charles  Pierre  Chou- 
teau,  of  St.  Louis. 

MENAHD  COUNTY,  near  the  geographical 
center  of  the  State,  and  originally  a  part  of 
Sangamon,  but  separately  organized  in  1839,  the 
Provisional  Commissioners  being  Joseph  Wat- 
kins,  William  Engle  and  George  W.  Simpson. 
Th<»  county  was  named  in  honor  of  Pierre  Menard, 
who  settled  at  Kaskaskia  prior  to  the  Territorial 
organization  of  Illinois.  (See  Menard,  Pierre.) 
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agriculture  underwent  a  change.  Stock-raising 
is  now  extensively  carried  on.  Three  fine  veins 
of  bituminous  coal  underlie  the  county.  Among 
early  American  settlers  may  be  mentioned  the 
Clarys,  Matthew  Rogers,  Amor  Batterton,  Solo- 
mon Pruitt  and  William  Gideon.  The  names  of 
Meadows,  Montgomery,  Green,  Boyer  and  Grant 
are  also  familiar  to  early  settlers.  The  county 
furnished,  a  company  of  eighty -six  volunteers  for 
the  Mexican  War.  The  county-seat  is  at  Peters- 
burg. The  area  of  the  county  is  311  square  miles; 
and  its  population,  under  census  (1910),  12,796. 
In  1829  was  laid  out  the  town  of  Salem,  now 
extinct,  but  for  some  years  the  home  of  Abraham 
Lincoln,  who  was  once  its  Postmaster,  and  who 
marched  thence  to  the  Black  Hawk  War  as 
Captain  of  a  company. 

MENDON,  a  town  of  Adams  County,  on  the 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Division  of  the  Chicago, 
Bui-lington  &  Quincy  Railway,  15  miles  northeast 
of  Quincy ;  has  a  bank  and  a  newspaper ;  is  sur- 
rounded by  a  farming  and  stock-raising  district. 
Pop.  (1890),  640;  (1900),  627;  (1910),  640. 

MEXDOTA,  a  city  in  La  Salle  County,  founded 
i  11 1853,  at  the  junction  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington 
&  Quincy  with  its  Rochelle  and  Fulton  branches 
and  the  Illinois  Central  Railway,  80  miles  south- 
west of  Chicago.  It  has  eight  churches,  three 
graded  and  two  high  schools,  and  a  public  li- 
brary. Wartzburg  Seminary  (Lutheran,  opened 
in  1853)  is  located  here.  The  chief  industrial 
plants  are  two  iron  foundries,  machine  shops, 
plow  works  and  a  brewery.  The  city  has  three 
banks  and  four  weekly  newspapers.  The  sur- 
rounding country  is  agricultural  and  the  city  has 
considerable  local  trade.  Population  (1890), 
3,542;  (1900),  3,736;  (1910),  3,806. 

MERGER  COUNTY,  a  western  county,  with  an 
area  of  550  square  miles  and  a  population  (1910) 
of  19,723 — named  for  Gen.  Hugh  Mercer.  The 
Mississippi  forms  the  western  boundary,  and 
along  this  river  the  earliest  American  settlements 
were  made.  William  Dennison,  a  Pennsylvanian, 
settled  in  New  Boston  Township  in  1828,  and, 
before  the  expiration  of  a  half  dozen  years,  the 
Vannattas,  Keith,  Jackson,  Wilson,  Farlow, 
Bridges,  Perry  and  Fleharty  had  arrived.  Mer- 
cer County  was  separated  from  Warren,  and 
specially  organized  in  1825.  The  soil  is  a  rich, 
black  loam,  admirably  adapted  to  the  cultivation 
of  cereals.  A  good  quality  of  building  stone  is 
found  at  various  points.  Aledo  is  the  county- 
seat.  The  county  lies  on  the  outskirts  of  the 
Illinois  coal  fields  and  mining  was  commenced 
in  1845. 


MERCY  HOSPITAL,  located  in  Chicago,  and 
the  first  permanent  hospital  in  the  State — char- 
tered in  1847  or  1848  as  the  "Illinois  General 
Hospital  of  the  Lakes."  No  steps  were  taken 
toward  organization  until  1850,  when,  with  a 
scanty  fund  scarcely  exceeding  $150,  twelve  beds 
were  secured  and  placed  on  one  floor  of  a  board- 
ing house,  whose  proprietress  was  engaged  as 
nurse  and  stewardess.  Drs.  N.  S.  Davis  and 
Daniel  Brainard  were,  respectively,  the  first 
physician  and  surgeon  in  charge.  In  1851  the 
hospital  was  given  in  charge  of  the  Sisters  of 
Mercy,  who  at  once  enlarged  and  improved  the 
accommodations,  and,  in  1852,  changed  its  name 
to  Mercy  Hospital.  Three  or  four  years  later,  a 
removal  was  made  to  a  building  previously  occu- 
pied as  an  orphan  asylum.  Being  the  only  pub- 
lic hospital  in  the  city,  its  wards  were  constantly 
overcrowded,  and,  in  1869,  a  more  capacious  and 
better  arranged  building  was  erected.  This 
edifice  it  has  continued  to  occupy,  although  many 
additions  and  improvements  have  been,  and  are 
still  being,  made.  The  Sisters  of  Mercy  own  the 
grounds  and  buildings,  and  manage  the  nursing 
and  all  the  domestic  and  financial  affairs  of  the 
institution.  The  present  medical  staff  (1896) 
consists  of  thirteen  physicians  and  surgeons, 
besides  three  internes,  or  resident  practitioners. 

MEREDOSIA,  a  town  in  Morgan  County,  on 
the  east  bank  of  the  Illinois  River  and  on  the 
Wabash  Railway,  some  58  miles  west  of  Spring- 
field ;  is  a  grain  shipping  point  and  fishing  and 
hunting  resort  It  was  the  first  Illinois  River 
point  to  be  connected  witti  the  State  capital  by 
railroad  in  1838.  Pop.  (1900),  700;  (1910),  951. 

MERRIAM,  (Col.)  Jonathan,  soldier,  legisla- 
tor and  farmer,  was  born  in  Vermont,  Nov.  1, 
1834;  was  brought  to  Springfield,  111.,  when  two 
years  old,  living  afterwards  at  Alton,  his  parents 
finally  locating,  in  1841,  in  Tazewell  County, 
where  he  now  resides — when  not  officially  em- 
ployed— pursuing  the  occupation  of  a  farmer.  He 
was  educated  at  Wesleyan  University,  Blooming- 
ton,  and  at  McKendree  College;  entered  the 
Union  army  in  1862,  being  commissioned  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel of  the  One  Hundred  and  Seven- 
teenth Illinois  Infantry,  and  serving  to  the  close 
of  the  war.  During  the  Civil  War  period  he  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  "Union  League  of 
America,"  which  proved  so  influential  a  factor 
in  sustaining  the  war  policy  of  the  Government. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  State  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1869-70;  an  unsuccessful  Repub- 
lican nominee  for  Congress  in  1870;  served  as 
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District  from  1873  to  '83,  was  a  Representative  in 
the  Thirty-ninth  and  Fortieth  General  Assem- 
blies, and,  in  1897,  was  appointed,  by  President 
McKinley,  Pension  Agent  for  the  State  of  Illinois, 
with  headquarters  in  Chicago.  Thoroughly  pa- 
triotic and  of  incorruptible  integrity,  he  has  won 
the  respect  and  confidence  of  all  in  every  public 
position  he  has  been  called  to  fill. 

MERRILL,  Stephen  Mason,  Methodist  Episco- 
pal Bishop,  was  born  in  Jefferson  County,  Ohio, 
Sept.  16,  1825,  entered  the  Ohio  Conference  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  in  1864,  as  a  travel- 
ing preacher,  and,  four  years  later,  became  editor 
of  "The  Western  Christian  Advocate,"  at  Cin- 
cinnati. He  was  ordained  Bishop  at  Brooklyn  in 
1872,  and,  after  two  years  spent  in  Minnesota, 
removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  still  resides.  The 
degree  of  D.D.  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University,  in  1868,  and  that  of  LL.D. 
by  the  Northwestern  University,  in  1886.  He  has 
published  "Christian  Baptism"  (Cincinnati, 
1876);  "New  Testament  Idea  of  Hell"  (1878); 
"Second  Coming  of  Christ"  (1879);  "Aspects  of 
Christian  Experience"  (1882) ;  "Digest  of  Metho- 
dist Law"  (1885) ;  and  "Outlines  of  Thought  on 
Probation"  (1886).  Died  Nov.  12,  1905. 

MERRITT,  John  W.,  journalist,  was  born  in 
New  York  City,  July  4,  1806;  studied  law  and 
practiced,  for  a  time,  with  the  celebrated  James 
T.  Brady  as  a  partner.  In  1841  he  removed  to 
St.  Clair  County,  111.,  purchased  and,  from  1848 
to  '51,  conducted  "The  Belleville  Advocate"; 
later,  removed  to  Salem,  111.,  where  he  established 
"The  Salem  Advocate" ;  served  as  Assistant  Sec- 
retary of  the  State  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1862,  and  as  Representative  in  the  Twenty-third 
General  Assembly.  In  1864  he  purchased  "The 
State  Register"  at  Springfield,  and  was  its  editor 
for  several  years.  Died,  Nov.  16,  1878. — Thomas 
E.  (Merritt),  son  of  the  preceding,  lawyer  and 
politician,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  April  29, 
1834;  at  six  years  of  age  was  brought  by  his 
father  to  Illinois,  where  he  attended  the  common 
schools  and  later  learned  the  trade  of  carriage- 
painting.  Subsequently  he  read  law,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  at  Springfield,  in  1862.  In 
1868  he  was  elected,  as  a  Democrat,  to  the  lower 
house  of  the  General  Assembly  from  the  Salem 
District,  and  was  re-elected  to  the  same  body  in 
1870,  '74,  '76,  '86  and  '88.  He  also  served  two 
terms  in  the  Senate  (1878-'86),  making  an  almost 
continuous  service  in  the  General  Assembly  of 
eighteen  years.  He  has  repeatedly  been  a  mem- 
ber of  State  conventions  of  his  party,  and  stands 
as  one  of  its  trusted  representatives. — Maj.-Gen. 


TVesley  (Merritt),  another  son,  was  born  in  New 
York,  June  16,  1836,  came  with  his  father  to  Illi- 
nois in  childhood,  and  was  appointed  a  cadet  at 
West  Point  Military  Academy  from  this  State, 
graduating  in  1860 ;  became  a  Second  Lieutenant 
in  the  regular  army,  the  same  year,  and  was  pro- 
moted to  the  rank  of  First  Lieutenant,  a  year 
later.  After  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War,  he 
was  rapidly  promoted,  reaching  the  rank  of 
Brigadier-General  of  Volunteers  in  1862,  and 
being  mustered  out,  in  1866,  with  the  brevet  rank 
of  Major-General.  He  re-entered  the  regular 
arniy  as  Lieutenant-Colonel,  was  promoted  to  a 
colonelcy  in  1876,  and,  in  1887,  received  a  com- 
mission as  Brigadier-General,  in  1897  becoming 
Major-General.  He  was  in  command,  for  a  time, 
of  the  Department  of  the  Missouri,  but,  on  his 
last  promotion,  was  transferred  to  the  Depart- 
ment of  the  East,  with  headquarters  at  Gov- 
ernor's Island,  N.  Y.  Soon  after  the  beginning 
of  the  war  with  Spain,  he  was  assigned  to  the 
command  of  the  land  forces  destined  for  the 
Philippines,  and  appointed  Military  Governor  of 
the  Islands.  Towards  the  close  of  the  year  he 
returned  to  the  United  States  and  resumed  his  old 
command  at  New  York.  Died  Dec.  3,  1910. 

MESSINGER,  John,  pioneer  surveyor  and  car- 
tographer, was  born  at  West  Stockbridge,  Mass. , 
in  1771,  grew  up  on  a  farm,  but  secured  a  good 
education,  especially  in  mathematics.  Going  to 
Vermont  in  1783,  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  car- 
penter and  mill- wright ;  removed  to  Kentucky  in 
1799,  and,  in  1802,  to  Illinois  (then  a  part  of  Indi- 
ana Territory),  locating  first  in  the  American 
Bottom  and,  later,  at  New  Design  within  the 
present  limits  of  Monroe  County.  Two  years 
later  he  became  the  proprietor  of  a  mill,  and, 
between  1804  and  1806,  taught  one  of  the  earliest 
schools  in  St.  Clair  County.  The  latter  year  he 
took  up  the  vocation  of  a  surveyor,  which  he  fol- 
lowed for  many  years  as  a  sub-contractor  under 
William  Rector,  surveying  much  of  the  land  in 
St.  Clair  and  Randolph  Counties,  and,  still  later, 
assisting  in  determining  the  northern  boundary 
of  the  State.  He  also  served  for  a  time  as  a 
teacher  of  mathematics  in  Rock  Spring  Seminary ; 
in  1821  published  "A  Manual,  or  Hand-Book, 
intended  for  Convenience  in  Practical  Survey- 
ing," and  prepared  some  of  the  earlier  State  and 
county  maps.  In  1808  he  was  elected  to  the 
Indiana  Territorial  Legislature,  to  fill  a  vacancy, 
and  took  part  in  the  steps  which  resulted  in  set- 
ting up  a  separate  Territorial  Government  for 
Illinois,  the  following  year.  He  also  received  an 
appointment  as  the  first  Surveyor  of  St.  Clair 


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County  under  the  new  Territorial  Government; 
was  chosen  a  Delegate  from  St.  Clair  County  to 
the  Convention  of  1818,  which  framed  the  first 
State  Constitution,  and,  the  same  year,  was 
elected  a  Representative  in  the  First  General 
Assembly,  serving  as  Speaker  of  that  body. 
After  leaving  New  Design,  the  later  years  of  his 
life  were  spent  on  a  farm  two  and  a  half  miles 
north  of  Belleville,  where  he  died  in  1846. 

METAMORA,  a  town  of  Woodford  County,  on 
a  branch  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad,  19 
miles  east-northeast  of  Peoria  and  some  thirty 
miles  northwest  of  Blootnington;  is  center  of  a 
fine  farming  district.  The  town  has  a  creamery, 
soda  factory,  one  bank,  three  churches,  one 
weekly  paper,  schools  and  a  park.  Population 
(1900),  758;  (1910),  694.  Metamora  was  the 
county-seat  of  Woodford  County  until  1899,  when 
the  seat  of  justice  was  removed  to  Eureka. 

METCALF,  Andrew  W.,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Guernsey  County,  Ohio,  August  6,  1828 ;  educated 
at  Madison  College  in  his  native  State,  graduating 
in  1846,  and,  after  studying  law  at  Cambridge, 
Ohio,  three  years,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1850.  The  following  year  he  went  to  Appleton, 
Wis.,  but  remained  only  a  year,  when  he  removed 
to  St.  Louis,  then  to  Edwardsville,  and  shortly 
after  to  Alton,  to  take  charge  of  the  legal  busi- 
ness of  George  T.  Brown,  then  publisher  of  "The 
Alton  Courier."  In  1853  he  returned  to  Edwards- 
ville to  reside  permanently,  and,  in  1859,  was 
appointed  by  Governor  Bissell  State's  Attorney 
for  Madison  County,  serving  one  year.  In  1864 
he  was  elected  State  Senator  for  a  term  of  four 
years ;  was  a  delegate  to  the  Republican  National 
Convention  of  1872,  and,  in  1876,  a  lay  delegate 
from  the  Southern  Illinois  Conference  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  to  the  General  Con- 
ference at  Baltimore ;  has  also  been  a  Trustee  of 
McKendree  College,  at  Lebanon,  111.,  for  more 
than  twenty-five  years. 

METHODIST  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH,  one  of 
the  most  numerous  Protestant  church  organiza- 
tions in  the  United  States  and  in  Illinois.  Rev. 
Joseph  Lillard  was  the  first  preacher  of  this  sect 
to  settle  in  the  Northwest  Territory,  and  Capt. 
Joseph  Ogle  was  the  first  class-leader  (1795).  It 
is  stated  that  the  first  American  preacher  in  the 
American  Bottom  was  Rev.  Hosea  Riggs  (1796). 
Rev.  Benjamin  Young  took  charge  of  the  first 
Methodist  mission  in  1803,  and,  in  1804,  this  mis- 
sion was  attached  to  the  Cumberland  (Tenn.) 
circuit.  Revs.  Joseph  Oglesby  and  Charles  R. 
Matheny  were  among  the  early  circuit  riders.  In 
1820  there  were  seven  circuits  in  Illinois,  and,  in 


1830,  twenty-eight,     the    actual     membership 
exceeding  10,000.     The  first  Methodist  service  in 
Chicago  was  held  by  Rev.  Jesse  Walker,  in  1826. 
The  first   Methodist    society  in    that    city    was 
organized  by  Rev.   Stephen  R.   Beggs,  in  June, 

1831.  By  1835  the  number  of    circuits  had  in- 
creased to  61,  with  370  ministers  and  15,000  mem- 
bers.    Rev.  Peter  Cartwright    was    among    the 
early  revivalists.     The  growth  of  this  denomi- 
nation in  the  State  has  been  extraordinary.     By 
1890,  it  had  nearly  2,000  churches,  937  ministers, 
and  151,000  members — the  total  number  of  Metho- 
dists in  the  United  States,  by  the  same  census; 
being  4,980,240.     The  church  property  owned  in 
1890  (including  parsonages)  approached  $111,000,- 
000,  and  the  total  contributions  were  estimated 
at  §2,073,923.     The  denomination  in  Illinois  sup- 
ports two  theological  seminaries  and  the  Garrett 
Biblical  Institute   at   Evanston.      "The    North- 
western Christian  Advocate,"  with  a  circulation 
of  some  30,000,   is  its  official  organ   in  Illinois. 
(See  also  Religious  Denominations.) 

METROPOLIS  CITY,  the  county -seat  of  Massao 
County,  156  miles  southeast  of  St.  Louis,  situated 
on  the  Ohio  River  and  on  the  St.  Louis  and 
Paducah  Division  of  the  Illinois  Central  Rail- 
road. The  city  was  founded  in  1839,  on  the  site 
of  old  Fort  Massac,  which  was  erected  by  the 
French,  aided  by  the  Indians,  about  1711.  Its 
industries  consist  largely  of  various  forms  of 
wood -working.  Saw  and  planing  mills  are  a 
commercial  factor;  other  establishments  turn 
out  wheel,  buggy  and  wagon  material,  barrel 
staves  and  heads,  boxes  and  baskets,  and  veneers. 
There  are  also  flouring  mills  and  potteries.  The 
city  has  a  public  library,  two  banks,  water- 
works, electric  lights,  numerous  churches,  high 
and  graded  schools,  one  daily  and  three  weekly 
papers.  Pop.  (1900),  4,069;  (1910),  4,055. 

MEXICAN  WAR.  Briefly  stated,  this  war 
originated  in  the  annexation  of  Texas  to  the 
United  States,  early  in  1846.  There  was  a  dis- 
agreement as  to  the  western  boundary  of  Texas. 
Mexico  complained  of  encroachment  upon  her 
territory,  and  hostilities  began  with  the  battle  of 
Palo  Alto,  May  8,  and  ended  with  the  treaty  of 
peace,  concluded  at  Guadalupe  Hidalgo,  near  the 
City  of  Mexico,  Feb.  2,  1848.  Among  the  most 
prominent  figures  were  President  Polk,  under 
whose  administration  annexation  was  effected, 
and  Gen.  Zachary  Taylor,  who  was  chief  in  com- 
mand in  the  field  at  the  beginning  of  the  war,  and 
was  elected  Folk's  successor.  Illinois  furnished 
more  than  her  full  quota  of  troops  for  the  strug- 
gle. May  13,  1846,  war  was  declared.  On  May 


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25,  Governor  Ford  issued  his  proclamation  calling 
for  the  enlistment  of  three  regiments  of  infantry, 
the  assessed  quota  of  the  State.  The  response 
was  prompt  and  general.  Alton  was  named  as 
the  rendezvous,  and  Col.  (afterwards  General) 
Sylvester  Churchill  was  the  mustering  officer. 
The  regiments  mustered  in  were  commanded, 
respectively,  by  Col.  John  J.  Hardin,  Col.  Wm.  H. 
Bissell  (afterwards  Governor)  and  Col.  Ferris 
Forman.  An  additional  twelve  months'  regiment 
(the  Fourth)  was  accepted,  under  command  of 
Col.  E.  D.  Baker,  who  later  became  United  States 
Senator  from  Oregon,  and  fell  at  the  battle  of 
Ball's  Bluff,  in  October,  1861.  A  second  call  was 
made  in  April,  1847,  under  which  Illinois  sent 
two  more  regiments,  for  the  war,  towards  the 
Mexican  frontier.  These  were  commanded  by 
Col.  Edward  W.  B.  Newby  and  Col.  James 
Collins.  Independent  companies  were  also 
tendered  and  accepted.  Besides,  there  were 
some  150  volunteers  who  joined  the  regiments 
already  in  the  field.  Commanders  of  the  inde- 
pendent companies  were  Capts.  Adam  Dunlap, 
of  Schuyler  County;  Wyatt  B.  Stapp,  of  War- 
ren; Michael  K.  Lawler,  of  Shawneetown,  and 
Josiah  Little.  Col.  John  J.  Hardin,  of  the  First, 
was  killed  at  Buena  Vista,  and  the  official  mor- 
tuary list  includes  many  names  of  Illinois'  best 
and  bravest  sons.  After  participating  in  the 
battle  of  Buena  Vista,  the  Illinois  troops  shared 
in  the  triumphal  entry  into  the  City  of  Mexico, 
on  Sept.  16,  1847,  and  (in  connection  with  those 
from  Kentucky)  were  especially  complimented  in 
General  Taylor's  official  report.  The  Third  and 
Fourth  regiments  won  distinction  at  Vera  Cruz, 
Cerro  Gordo  and  the  City  of  Mexico.  At  the 
second  of  these  battles,  General  Shields  fell 
severely  (and,  as  supposed  for  a  time,  mortally) 
wounded.  Colonel  Baker  succeeded  Shields,  led 
a  gallant  charge,  and  really  turned  the  day  at 
Cerro  Gordo.  Among  the  officers  honorably 
named  by  General  Scott,  in  his  official  report,  were 
Colonel  Forman,  Major  Harris,  Adjutant  Fondey, 
Capt.  J.  S.  Post,  and  Lieutenants  Hammond  and 
Davis.  All  the  Illinois  troops  were  mustered  out 
between  May  25,  1847  and  Nov.  7,  1848,  the  inde- 
pendent companies  being  the  last  to  quit  the 
service.  The  total  number  of  volunteers  was 
6,123,  of  whom  86  were  killed,  and  160  wounded, 
12  of  the  latter  dying  of  their  wounds.  Gallant 
service  in  the  Mexican  War  soon  became  a  pass- 
port to  political  preferment,  and  some  of  the 
brave  soldiers  of  1846-47  subsequently  achieved 
merited  distinction  in  civil  life.  Many  also  be- 
came distinguished  soldiers  in  the  War  of  the 


Rebellion,  including  such  names  as  John  A. 
Logan,  Richard  J.  Oglesby,  M.  K.  Lawler,  James 
D.  Morgan,  W.  H.  L.  Wallace,  B.  M.  Prentiss, 
W.  R.  Morrison,  L.  F.  Ross,  and  others.  The 
cost  of  the  war,  with  $15,000,000  paid  for  territory 
annexed,  is  estimated  at  $166,500,000  and  the 
extent  of  territory  acquired,  nearly  1,000,000 
square  miles  —  considerably  more  than  the 
whole  of  the  present  territory  of  the  Republic  of 
Mexico. 

MEYER,  John,  lawyer  and  legislator,  was  born 
in  Holland,  Feb.  27,  1852;  came  to  Chicago  at  the 
age  of  12  years ;  entered  the  Northwestern  Uni- 
versity, supporting  himself  by  labor  during  vaca- 
tions and  by  teaching  in  a  night  school,  until  his 
third  year  in  the  university,  when  he  became  a 
student  in  the  Union  College  of  Law,  being 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1879;  was  elected  from 
Cook  County  to  the  Thirty-fifth  General  Assembly 
(1884),  and  re-elected  to  the  Thirty-sixth,  Thirty- 
eighth  and  Thirty-ninth,  being  chosen  Speaker  of 
the  latter  (Jan.  18,  1895).  Died  in  office,  at  Free- 
port,  111.,  July  3,  1895,  during  a  special  session  of 
the  General  Assembly. 

MIAMIS,  The.  The  preponderance  of  author- 
ity favors  the  belief  that  this  tribe  of  Indians  was 
originally  a  part  of  the  Ill-i-ni  or  Illinois,  but  the 
date  of  their  separation  from  the  parent  stock 
cannot  be  told.  It  is  likely,  however,  that  it 
occurred  before  the  French  pushed  their  explo- 
rations from  Canada  westward  and  southward, 
into  and  along  the  Mississippi  Valley.  Father 
Dablon  alludes  to  the  presence  of  Miamis  (whom 
he  calls  Ou-mi-a-mi)  in  a  mixed  Indian  village, 
near  the  mouth  of  Fox  River  of  Wisconsin,  in 
1670.  The  orthography  of  their  name  is  varied. 
The  Iroquois  and  the  British  generally  knew 
them  as  the  "T  wight  wees,"  and  so  they  were 
commonly  called  by  the  American  colonists. 
The  Weas  and  Piankeshaws  were  of  the  same 
tribe  When  La  Salle  founded  his  colony  at 
Starved  Rock,  the  Miamis  had  villages  which 
could  muster  some  1,950  warriors,  of  which  the 
Weas  had  500  and  the  Piankeshaws  150,  the  re- 
maining 1,300  being  Miamis  proper.  In  1671 
(according  to  a  written  statement  by  Charlevoix 
in  1721),  the  Miamis  occupied  three  villages: 
— one  on  the  St.  Joseph  River,  one  on  the  Mau- 
mee  and  one  on  the  "Ouabache"  (Wabash). 
They  were  friendly  toward  the  French  until 
1694,  when  a  large  number  of  them  were 
massacred  by  a  party  of  Sioux,  who  carried 
firearms  which  had  been  furnished  them  by 
the  Frenchmen.  The  breach  thus  caused  was 
never  closed.  Having  become  possessed  of  guns 


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themselves,  the  Miamis  were  able,  not  only  to 
hold  their  own,  but  also  to  extend  their  hunting 
grounds  as  far  eastward  as  the  Scioto,  alternately 
warring  with  the  French,  British  and  Americans. 
General  Harrison  says  of  them  that,  ten  years 
before  the  treaty  of  Greenville,  they  could  have 
brought  upon  the  field  a  body  of  3,000  "of  the 
finest  light  troops  in  the  world,"  but  lacking  in 
discipline  and  enterprise.  Border  warfare  and 
smallpox,  however,  had,  by  that  date  (1795), 
greatly  reduced  their  numerical  strength.  The 
main  seat  of  the  Miamis  was  at  Fort  Wayne, 
whose  residents,  because  of  their  superior  num- 
bers and  intelligence,  dominated  all  other  bands 
except  the  Piankeshaws.  The  physical  and 
moral  deterioration  of  the  tribe  began  immedi- 
ately after  the  treaty  of  Greenville.  Little  by 
little,  they  ceded  their  lands  to  the  United  States, 
the  money  received  therefor  being  chiefly  squan- 
dered in  debauchery.  Decimated  by  vice  and 
disease,  the  remnants  of  this  once  powerful  abo- 
riginal nation  gradually  drifted  westward  across 
the  Mississippi,  whence  their  valorous  sires  had 
emigrated  two  centuries  before.  The  small  rem- 
nant of  the  band  finally  settled  in  Indian  Terri- 
tory, but  they  have  made  comparatively  little 
progress  toward  civilization.  '(See  also  Pianke- 
shaws; Weas.) 

MICHAEL  REESE  HOSPITAL,  located  in 
Chicago,  under  care  of  the  association  known  as 
the  United  Hebrew  Charities.  Previous  to  1871 
this  association  maintained  a  small  hospital  for 
the  care  of  some  of  its  beneficiaries,  but  it  was 
destroyed  in  the  conflagration  of  that  year,  and  no 
immediate  effort  to  rebuild  was  made.  In  1880, 
however,  Michael  Reese,  a  Jewish  gentleman 
who  had  accumulated  a  large  fortune  in  Cali- 
fornia, bequeathed  §97,000  to  the  organization. 
With  this  sum,  considerably  increased  by  addi- 
tions from  other  sources,  an  imposing  building 
was  erected,  well  arranged  and  thoroughly 
equipped  for  hospital  purposes.  The  institution 
thus  founded  was  named  after  its  principal  bene- 
factor. Patients  are  received  without  discrimi- 
nation as  to  race  or  religion,  and  more  than  half 
those  admitted  are  charity  patients.  The  present 
medical  staff  consists  of  thirteen  surgeons  and 
physicians,  several  of  whom  are  eminent 
specialists. 

MICHIGAN  CENTRAL  RAILROAD.  The 
main  line  of  this  road  extends  from  Chicago 
to  Detroit,  270  miles,  with  trackage  facilities 
from  Kensington,  14  miles,  over  the  line  of  the 
Illinois  Central,  to  its  terminus  in  Chicago. 
Branch  lines  (leased,  proprietary  and  operated)  in 


Canada,  Michigan,  Indiana  and  Illinois  swell  the 
total  mileage  to  1,643.56  miles.— (HISTORY.)  The 
company  was  chartered  in  1846,  and  purchased 
from  the  State  of  Michigan  the  line  from  Detroit 
to  Kalamazoo,  144  miles.of  which  construction  had 
been  begun  in  1836.  The  road  was  completed  to 
Michigan  City  in  1850,  and,  in  May,  1852,  reached 
Kensington,  111.  As  at  present  constituted,  the 
road  (with  its  auxiliaries)  forms  an  integral  part 
of  what  is  popularly  known  as  the  "Vanderbilt 
System."  Only  35  miles  of  the  entire  line  are 
operated  in  Illinois,  of  which  29  belong  to  the 
Joliet  &  Northern  Indiana  branch  (which  see). 
The  outstanding  capital  stock  (1898)  was  $18,- 
738,000  and  the  funded  debt,  $19,101,000.  Earn- 
ings in  Illinois  the  same  year,  §484,002;  total 
operating  expenses,  $540,905;  taxes,  $24,250. 

MICHIGAN,  LAKE.     (See  Lake  Michigan.) 

MIHALOTZY,  Geza,  soldier,  a  native  of  Hun- 
gary and  compatriot  of  Kossuth  in  the  Magyar 
struggle;  came  to  Chicago  in  1848,  in  1861  enlisted 
in  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-fourth  Illinois 
Volunteers  (first  "Hecker  regiment"),  and,  on 
the  resignation  of  Colonel  Hecker,  a  few  weeks 
later,  was  promoted  to  the  Colonelcy.  A  trained 
soldier,  he  served  with  gallantry  and  distinction, 
but  was  fatally  wounded  at  Buzzard's  Roost,  Feb. 
24,  1864,  dying  at  Chattanooga,  March  11,  1864. 

MILAN,  a  town  of  Rock  Island  County,  on  the 
Rock  Island  &  Peoria  Railway,  six  miles  south  of 
Rock  Island;  in  a  farming  region  on  Rock  River; 
has  several  mills,  a  bank  and  a  newspaper.  Pop. 
(1890),  692;  (1900),  719;  (1910),  727. 

M1LBURN,  (Rev.)  William  Henry,  clergy- 
man, was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Sept.  26,  1826. 
At  the  age  of  five  years  he  almost  totally  lost 
sight  in  both  eyes,  as  the  result  of  an  accident, 
and  subsequent  malpractice  in  their  treatment. 
For  a  time  he  was  able  to  decipher  letters  with 
difficulty,  and  thus  learned  to  read.  In  the  face 
of  such  obstacles  he  carried  on  his  studies  until 
12  years  of  age,  when  he  accompanied  his  father's 
family  to  Jacksonville,  111.,  and,  five  years  later, 
became  an  itinerant  Methodist  preacher.  For  a 
time  he  rode  a  circuit  covering  200  miles,  preach 
ing,  on  an  average,  ten  times  a  week,  for  $100  per 
year.  In  1845,  while  on  a  Mississippi  steamboat, 
he  publicly  rebuked  a  number  of  Congressmen, 
who  were  his  fellow  passengers,  for  intemperance 
and  gaming.  This  resulted  in  his  being  made 
Chaplain  of  the  House  of  Representatives.  From 
1848  to  1850  he  was  pastor  of  a  church  at  Mont- 
gomery, Ala.,  during  which  time  he  was  tried 
for  heresy,  and  later  became  pastor  of  a  "Free 
Church."  Again,  in  1853,  he  was  chosen  Chap- 


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lain  of  Congress.  While  in  Europe,  in  1859,  he 
took  orders  in  the  Episcopal  Church,  but  returned 
to  Methodism  in  1871.  He  was  twice  chosen 
Chaplain  of  the  House  (1885  and  '87)  and  three 
times  (1893,  '95  and  '97)  elected  to  the  same  posi- 
tion in  the  Senate.  He  was  generally  known  as 
"the  blind  preacher"  and  achieved  considerable 
prominence  by  his  eloquence  as  a  lecturer  on 
"What  a  Blind  Man  Saw  in  Europe."  Among 
his  published  writings  are,  "Rifle,  Axe  and  Sad- 
dlebags" (1856),  "Ten  Years  of  Preacher  Life" 
(1858)  and  "Pioneers,  Preachers  and  People  of  the 
Mississippi  Valley"  (1860).  Died  April  10,  1903. 

MILCHRIST,  Thomas  E.,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
the  Isle  of  Man  in  1839,  and,  at  the  age  of  eight 
years,  came  to  America  with  his  parents,  who 
settled  in  Peoria,  111.  Here  he  attended  school 
and  worked  on  a  farm  until  the  beginning  of  the 
Civil  War,  when  he  enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred 
and  Twelfth  Illinois  Volunteers,  serving  until 
1865,  and  being  discharged  with  the  rank  of  Cap- 
tain. After  the  war  he  read  law  with  John  I. 
Bennett — then  of  Galena,  but  later  Master  in 
Chancery  of  the  United  States  Court  at  Chicago 
—was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1867,  and,  for  a 
number  of  years,  served  as  State's  Attorney  in 
Henry  County.  In  1888  he  was  a  delegate  from 
Illinois  to  the  Republican  National  Convention, 
and  the  following  year  was  appointed  by  Presi- 
dent Harrison  United  States  District  Attorney 
for  the  Northern  District  Of  Illinois.  Since 
retiring  from  office  in  1893,  Mr.  Milchrist  has  been 
engaged  in  private  practice  in  Chicago.  In  1898 
he  was  elected  a  State  Senator  for  the  Fifth  Dis- 
trict (city  of  Chicago)  in  the  Forty-first  General 
Assembly. 

MILES,  Nelson  A.,  Major-General,  was  born 
at  Westminster,  Mass.,  August  8,  1839,  and,  at 
the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  was  engaged 
in  mercantile  pursuits  in  the  city  of  Boston.  In 
October,  1861,  he  entered  the  service  as  a  Second 
Lieutenant  in  a  Massachusetts  regiment,  dis- 
tinguished himself  at  the  battles  of  Fair  Oaks, 
Charles  City  Cross  Roads  and  Malvern  Hill, 
in  one  of  which  he  was  wounded.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1862,  he  was  Colonel  of  the  Sixty- 
first  New  York,  which  he  led  at  Fredericksburg 
and  at  Chancellorsville,  where  he  was  again 
severely  wounded.  He  commanded  the  First 
Brigade  of  the  First  Division  of  the  Second  Army 
Corps  in  the  Richmond  campaign,  and  was  made 
Brigadier-General,  May  12,  1864,  and  Major- 
General,  by  brevet,  for  gallantry  shown  at  Ream's 
Station,  in  December  of  the  same  year.  At  the 
close  of  the  war  he  was  commissioned  Colonel  of 


the  Fortieth  United  States  Infantry,  and  distin- 
guished himself  in  campaigns  against  the  Indians ; 
became  a  Brigadier-General  in  1880,  and  Major- 
General  in  1890,  in  the  interim  being  in  command 
of  the  Department  of  the  Columbia,  and,  after 
1890,  of  the  Missouri,  with  headquarters  at  Chi- 
cago. Here  he  did  much  to  give  efficiency  and 
importance  to  the  post  at  Fort  Sheridan,  and,  in 
1894,  rendered  valuable  service  in  checking  the 
strike  riots  about  Chicago.  Near  the  close  of  the 
year  he  was  transferred  to  the  Department  of  the 
East,  and,  on  the  retirement  of  General  Schofield 
in  1895,  was  placed  in  command  of  the  army, 
with  headquarters  in  Washington.  During  the 
Spanish-American  war  (1898)  General  Miles  gave 
attention  to  the  fitting  out  of  troops  for  the  Cuban 
and  Porto  Rican  campaigns,  and  visited  Santiago 
during  the  siege  conducted  by  General  Shafter, 
but  took  no  active  command  in  the  field  until  the 
occupation  of  Porto  Rico,  which  was  conducted 
with  rare  discrimination  and  good  judgment,  and 
with  comparatively  little  loss  of  life  or  suffering 
to  the  troops. 

MILFORD,  a  prosperous  village  of  Iroquois 
County,  on  the  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois  Rail- 
road, 88  miles  south  of  Chicago;  is  in  a  rich  farm- 
ing region;  has  water  and  sewerage  systems, 
electric  lights,  two  brick  and  tile  works,  three 
large  grain  elevators,  flour  mill,  three  churches, 
good  schools,  a  public  library  and  a  weekly  news- 
paper. It  is  an  important  shipping  point  for 
grain  and  live-stock.  Population  (1890),  957; 
(1900),  1,077;  (1910),  1,316. 

MILITARY  BOUNTY  LANDS.  (See  Military 
Tract.) 

MILITARY  TRACT,  a  popular  name  given  to 
a  section  of  the  State,  set  apart  under  an  act  of 
Congress,  passed,  May  6,  1812,  as  bounty-lands  for 
soldiers  in  the  war  with  Great  Britain  commenc- 
ing the  same  year.  Similar  reservations  in  the 
Territories  of  Michigan  and  Louisiana  (now 
Arkansas)  were  provided  for  in  the  same  act. 
The  lands  in  Illinois  embraced  in  this  act  were 
situated  between  the  Illinois  and  Mississippi 
Rivers,  and  extended  from  the  junction  of  these 
Streams  due  north,  by  the  Fourth  Principal  Merid- 
ian, to  the  northern  boundary  of  Township  15 
north  of  the  "Base  Line."  This  "base  line" 
started  about  opposite  the  present  site  of  Beards- 
town,  and  extended  to  a  point  on  the  Mississippi 
about  seven  miles  north  of  Quincy.  The  north- 
ern border  of  the  "Tract"  was  identical  with 
the  northern  boundary  of  Mercer  County,  which, 
extended  eastward,  reached  the  Illinois  about 
the  present  village  of  De  Pue,  in  the  southeastern 


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part  of  Bureau  County,  where  the  Illinois  makes 
a  great  bend  towards  the  south,  a  few  miles  west 
of  the  city  of  Peru.  The  distance  between  the 
Illinois  and  the  Mississippi,  by  this  line,  was  about 
90  miles,  and  the  entire  length  of  the  "Tract," 
from  its  northern  boundary  to  the  junction  of 
the  two  rivers,  was  computed  at  169  miles, — con- 
sisting of  90  miles  north  of  the  "base  line"  and  79 
miles  south  of  it,  to  the  junction  of  the  rivers. 
The  "Tract"  was  surveyed  in  1815-16.  It  com- 
prised 207  entire  townships  of  six  miles  square, 
each,  and  61  fractional  townships,  containing  an 
area  of  5,360,000  acres,  of  which  3,500,000  acres— 
a  little  less  than  two-thirds — were  appropriated  to 
military  bounties.  The  residue  consisted  partly 
of  fractional  sections  bordering  on  rivers,  partly  of 
fractional  quarter-sections  bordering  on  township 
lines,  and  containing  more  or  less  than  160  acres, 
and  partly  of  lands  that  were  returned  by  the  sur- 
veyors as  unfit  for  cultivation.  In  addition  to 
this,  there  were  large  reservations  not  coming 
within  the  above  exceptions,  being  the  overplus 
of  lands  after  satisfying  the  military  claims,  and 
subject  to  entry  and  purchase  on  the  same  con- 
ditions as  other  Government  lands.  The  "Tract" 
thus  embraced  the  present  counties  of  Calhoun, 
Pike,  Adams,  Brown,  Schuyler,  Hancock,  Mc- 
Donough,  Fulton,  Peoria,  Stark,  Knox,  Warren, 
Henderson  and  Mercer,  with  parts  of  Henry, 
Bureau,  Putnam  and  Marshall — or  so  much  of 
them  as  was  necessary  to  meet  the  demand  for 
bounties.  Immigration  to  this  region  set  in  quite 
actively  about  1823,  and  the  development  of  some 
portions,  for  a  time,  was  very  rapid ;  but  later,  its 
growth  was  retarded  by  the  conflict  of  "tax- 
titles"  and  bounty-titles  derived  by  purchase 
from  the  original  holders.  This  led  to  a  great 
deal  of  litigation,  and  called  for  considerable 
legislation;  but  since  the  adjustment  of  these 
questions,  this  region  has  kept  pace  with  the  most 
favored  sections  of  the  State,  and  it  now  includes 
some  of  the  most  important  and  prosperous  towns 
and  cities  and  many  of  the  finest  farms  in 
Illinois. 

MILITIA.  Illinois,  taught  by  the  experiences 
of  the  War  of  1812  and  the  necessity  of  providing 
for  protection  of  its  citizens  against  the  incur- 
sions of  Indians  on  its  borders,  began  the  adop- 
tion, at  an  early  date,  of  such  measures  as  were 
then  common  in  the  several  States  for  the  main- 
tenance of  a  State  militia.  The  Constitution  of 
1818  made  the  Governor  "Commander-in-Chief 
of  the  army  and  navy  of  this  State,"  and  declared 
that  the  militia  of  the  State  should  "consist  of 
all  free  male  able-bodied  persons  (negroes,  mu- 


lattoes  and  Indians  excepted)  resident  in  the 
State,  oetween  the  ages  of  18  and  45  years,"  and 
this  classification  was  continued  in  the  later  con- 
stitutions, except  that  of  1870,  which  omits  all 
reference  to  the  subject  of  color.  In  each  there 
is  the  same  general  provision  exempting  persons 
entertaining  "conscientious  scruples  against 
bearing  arms,"  although  subject  to  payment  of 
an  equivalent  for  such  exemption.  The  first  law 
on  the  subject,  enacted  by  the  first  General 
Assembly  (1819),  provided  for  the  establishment 
of  a  general  militia  system  for  the  State ;  and  the 
fact  that  this  was  modified,  amended  or  wholly 
changed  by  acts  passed  at  the  sessions  of  1821, 
'23,  '25,  '26,  '27,  '29,  '33,  '37  and  '39,  shows  the 
estimation  in  which  the  subject  was  held.  While 
many  of  these  acts  were  of  a  special  character, 
providing  for  a  particular  class  of  organization, 
the  general  law  did  little  except  to  require  per- 
sons subject  to  military  duty,  at  stated  periods,  to 
attend  county  musters,  which  were  often  con- 
ducted in  a  very  informal  manner,  or  made  the 
occasion  of  a  sort  of  periodical  frolic.  The  act  of 
July,  1833  (following  the  Black  Hawk  War), 
required  an  enrollment  of  "all  free,  white,  male 
inhabitants  of  military  age  (except  such  as  might 
be  exempt  under  the  Constitution  or  laws)"; 
divided  the  State  into  five  divisions  by  counties, 
each  division  to  be  organized  into  a  certain  speci- 
fied number  of  brigades.  This  act  was  quite 
elaborate,  covering  some  twenty-four  pages,  and 
provided  for  regimental,  battalion  and  company 
musters,  defined  the  duties  of  officers,  manner  of 
election,  etc.  The  act  of  1837  encouraged  the 
organization  of  volunteer  companies.  The  Mexi- 
can War  (1845-47)  gave  a  new  impetus  to  this 
class  of  legislation,  as  also  did  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion  (1861-65).  While  the  office  of  Adju- 
tant-General had  existed  from  the  first,  its  duties 
— except  during  the  Black  Hawk  and  Mexican 
Wars — were  rather  nominal,  and  were  discharged 
without  stated  compensation,  the  incumbent 
being  merely  Chief-of-staff  to  the  Governor  as 
Commander-in-Chief.  The  War  of  the  Rebellion 
at  once  brought  it  into  prominence,  as  an  impor- 
tant part  of  the  State  Government,  which  it  has 
since  maintained.  The  various  measures  passed, 
during  this  period,  belong  rather  to  the  history  of 
the  late  war  than  to  the  subject  of  this  chapter. 
In  1865,  however,  the  office  was  put  on  a  different 
footing,  and  the  important  part  it  had  played, 
during  the  preceding  four  years,  was  recognized 
by  the  passage  of  "an  act  to  provide  for  the  ap- 
pointment, and  designate  the  work,  fix  the  pay 
and  prescribe  the  duties,  of  the  Adjutant-General 


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of  Illinois."  During  the  next  four  years,  its 
most  important  work  was  the  publication  of 
eight  volumes  of  war  records,  containing  a  com- 
plete roster  of  the  officers  and  men  of  the  various 
regiments  and  other  military  organizations  from 
Illinois,  with  an  outline  of  their  movements  and 
a  list  of  the  battles  in  which  they  were  engaged. 
To  the  Adjutant-General's  office,  as  now  adminis- 
tered, is  entrusted  the  custody  of  the  war- 
records,  battle-flags  and  trophies  of  the  late  war. 
A  further  step  was  taken,  in  1877,  in  the  passage 
of  an  act  formulating  a  military  code  and  provid- 
ing for  more  thorough  organization.  Modifying 
amendments  to  this  act  were  adopted  in  1879  and 
1885.  While,  under  these  laws,  "all  able-bodied 
male  citizens  of  this  State,  between  the  ages  of  18 
and  45"  (with  certain  specified  exceptions),  are 
declared  "subject  to  military  duty,  and  desig- 
nated as  the  Illinois  State  Militia,"  provision  is 
made  for  the  organization  of  a'body  of  "active 
militia,"  designated  as  the  "Illinois  National 
Guard,"  to  consist  of  "not  more  than  oighty-four 
companies  of  infantry,  two  batteries  of  artillery 
and  two  troops  of  cavalry,"  recruited  by  volun- 
tary enlistments  for  a  period  of  three  years,  with 
right  to  re-enlist  for  one  or  more  years.  The 
National  Guard,  as  at  present  constituted,  con- 
sists of  three  brigades,  with  a  total  force  of  about 
9,000  men,  organized  into  nine  regiments,  besides 
the  batteries  and  cavalry  already  mentioned 
Gatling  guns  are  used  by  the  artillery  and  breech- 
loading  rifles  by  the  infantry.  Camps  of  instruc- 
tion are  held  for  the  regiments,  respectively — one 
or  more  regiments  participating  —  each  year, 
usually  at  "Camp  Lincoln"  near  Springfield, 
when  regimental  and  brigade  drills,  competitive 
rifle  practice  and  mock  battles  are  had.  An  act 
establishing  the  "Naval  Militia  of  Illinois,"  to 
consist  of  "not  more  than  eight  divisions  or  com- 
panies," divided  into  two  battalions  of  four  divi- 
sions each,  was  passed  by  the  General  Assembly 
of  1893 — the  whole  to  be  under  the  command  of 
an  officer  with  the  rank  of  Commander.  The 
commanding  officer  of  each  battalion  is  styled  a 
"Lieutenant-Commander,"  and  both  the  Com- 
mander and  Lieutenant-Commanders  have  their 
respective  staffs — their  organization,  in  other 
respects,  being  conformable  to  the  laws  of  the 
United  States.  A  set  of  "Regulations,"  based 
upon  these  several  laws,  has  been  prepared  by  the 
Adjutant-General  for  the  government  of  the 
various  organizations.  The  Governor  is  author- 
ized, by  law,  to  call  out  the  militia  to  resist  inva- 
sion, or  to  suppress  violence  and  enforce  execution 
of  the  laws,  when  called  upon  by  the  civil  author- 


ities of  any  city,  town  or  county.  This  authority, 
however,  is  exercised  with  great  discretion,  and 
only  when  the  local  authorities  are  deemed  unable 
to  cope  with  threatened  resistance  to  law  The 
officers  of  the  National  Guard,  when  called  into 
actual  service  for  the  suppression  of  riot  or  the 
enforcement  of  the  laws,  receive  the  same  com- 
pensation paid  to  officers  of  the  United  States 
army  of  like  grade,  while  the  enlisted  men  receive 
$2  per  day.  During  the  time  they  are  at  any 
encampment,  the  officers  and  men  alike  receive 
$1  per  day.  with  necessary  subsistence  and  cost 
of  transportation  to  and  from  the  encampment. 
(For  list  of  incumbents  in  Adjutant-General's 
office,  see  Adjutants-General;  see,  also,  Spanish- 
American  War  ) 

MILLER,  James  II.,  Speaker  of  the  House  of 
Representatives,  was  born  in  Ohio,  May  29,  1843; 
in  early  life  came  to  Toulon,  Stark  County,  111., 
where  he  finally  engaged  in  the  practice  of  law. 
At  the  beginning  of  the  Rebellion  he  enlisted  in 
the  Union  army,  but  before  being  mustered  into 
the  service,  received  an  injury  which  rendered 
him  a  cripple  for  life.  Though  of  feeble  physical 
organization  and  a  sufferer  from  ill-health,  he 
was  a  man  of  decided  ability  and  much  influence. 
He  served  as  State's  Attorney  of  Stark  County 
(1872-76)  and,  in  1884,  was  elected  Representative 
in  the  Thirty-fourth  General  Assembly,  at  the 
following  session  being  one  of  the  most  zealous 
supporters  of  Gen.  John  A.  Logan,  in  the  cele- 
brated contest  which  resulted  in  the  election  of 
the  latter,  for  the  third  time,  to  the  United  States 
Senate.  By  successive  re-elections  he  also  served 
in  the  Thirty-fifth  and  Thirty-sixth  General 
Assemblies,  during  the  session  of  the  latter  being 
chosen  Speaker  of  the  House,  as  successor  to 
A.  C.  Matthews,  who  had  been  appointed,  during 
the  session,  First  Comptroller  of  the  Treasury  at 
Washington.  In  the  early  part  of  the  summer 
of  1890,  Mr.  Miller  visited  Colorado  for  the  bene- 
fit of  his  health,  but,  a  week  after  his  arrival  at 
Manitou  Springs,  died  suddenly,  June  27,  1890. 

MILLS,  Benjamin,  lawyer  and  early  poli- 
tician, was  a  native  of  Western  Massachusetts, 
and  described  by  his  contemporaries  as  a  highly 
educated  and  accomplished  lawyer,  as  well  as  a 
brilliant  orator.  The  exact  date  of  his  arrival  in 
Illinois  cannot  be  determined  with  certainty,  but 
he  appears  to  have  been  in  the  "Lead  Mine 
Region"  about  Galena,  as  early  as  1826  or  '27,  and 
was  notable  as  one  of  the  first  "Yankees"  to 
locate  in  that  section  of  the  State.  He  was 
elected  a  Representative  in  the  Eighth  General 
Assembly  (1832),  his  district  embracing  the 


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counties  of  Peoria,  Jo  Daviess,  Putnam,  La  Salle 
and  Cook,  including  all  the  State  north  of  Sanga- 
mon  (as  it  then  stood),  and  extending  from  the 
Mississippi  River  to  the  Indiana  State  line.  At 
this  session  occurred  the  impeachment  trial  of 
Theophilus  W.  Smith,  of  the  Supreme  Court,  Mr. 
Mills  acting  as  Chairman  of  the  Impeachment 
Committee,  and  delivering  a  speech  of  great 
power  and  brilliancy,  which  lasted  two  or  three 
days.  In  1834  he  was  a  candidate  for  Congress 
from  the  Northern  District,  but  was  defeated  by 
William  L.  May  (Democrat),  as  claimed  by  Mr. 
Mill's  friends,  unfairly.  He  early  fell  a  victim 
to  consumption  and,  returning  to  Massachusetts. 
died  in  Berkshire  County,  in  that  State,  in  1841. 
Hon.  R.  H.  McClellan,  of  Galena,  says  of  him: 
"He  was  a  man  of  remarkable  ability,  learning 
and  eloquence,"  while  Governor  Ford,  in  his 
"History  of  Illinois,"  testifies  that,  "by  common 
consent  of  all  his  contemporaries,  Mr.  Mills  was 
regarded  as  the  most  popular  and  brilliant  lawyer 
of  his  day  at  the  Galena  bar." 

MILLS,  Henry  A.,  State  Senator,  was  born  at 
New  Hartford,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1827; 
located  at  Mount  Carroll,  Carroll  County,  111.,  in 
1856,  finally  engaging  in  the  banking  business  at 
that  place.  Having  served  in  various  local 
offices,  he  was,  in  1874,  chosen  State  Senator  for 
the  Eleventh  District,  but  died  at  Galesburg 
before  the  expiration  of  his  term,  July  7,  1877. 

MILLS,  Luther  Lull  in,  lawyer,  was  born  at 
North  Adams,  Mass.,  Sept.  3,  1848;  brought  to 
Chicago  in  infancy,  and  educated  in  the  public 
schools  of  that  city  and  at  Michigan  State  Uni- 
versity. In  1868  he  began  the  study  of  law,  was 
admitted  to  practice  three  years  later,  and,  in 
1876,  was  elected  State's  Attorney,  being  re- 
elected  in  1880.  While  in  this  office  he  was  con- 
nected with  some  of  the  most  important  cases 
ever  brought  before  the  Chicago  courts. 
Although  he  held  no  official  position  except  that 
already  mentioned,  his  abilities  at  the  bar  and  on 
the  rostrum  were  widely  recognized,  and  his 
services,  as  an  attorney  and  an  orator,  have  been 
in  frequent  demand.  Died  Jan.  18,  1909. 

MILLSTADT,  a  town  in  St.  Clair  County,  on 
branch  of  Mobile  &  Ohio  Railroad,  14  miles  south- 
southeast  of  St.  Louis;  has  electric  lights, 
churches,  schools,  bank,  newspaper,  coal  mines, 
and  manufactures  flour,  beer  and  butter.  Popu- 
lation (1890),  1,186;  (1900),  1,172;  (1910),  1,140. 

MILWAUKEE  &  ST.  PAUL  RAILWAY.  (See 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway.) 

MINER,  Orlin  H.,  State  Auditor,  was  born  in 
Vermont,  May  13,  1825;  from  1834  to  '51  he  lived 


in  Ohio,  the  latter  year  coming  to  Chicago,  where 
he  worked  at  his  trade  of  watch-  maker.  In  1855 
he  went  to  Central  America  and  was  with  Gen- 
eral William  Walker  at  Greytown.  Returning  to 
Illinois,  he  resumed  his  trade  at  Springfield;  in 
1857  he  was  appointed,  by  Auditor  Dubois,  chief 
clerk  in  the  Auditor's  office,  serving  until  1864, 
when  he  was  elected  State  Auditor  as  successor 
to  his  chief.  Retiring  from  office  in  1869,  he 
gave  attention  to  his  private  business.  He  was 
one  of  the  founders  and  a  Director  of  the  Spring- 
field Iron  Company.  Died  in  1879. 

MINIER,  a  village  of  Tazewell  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Jacksonville  Division  of  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  and  the  Terre  Haute  &  Peoria 
Railroads,  26  miles  southeast  of  Peoria;  is  in  fine 
farming  district  and  has  several  grain  elevators, 
some  manufactures,  two  banks  and  a  newspaper. 
Pop.  (1890),  064;  (1900),  746;  (1910),  690. 

MINONK,  a  city  in  Woodford  County,  29  miles 
north  of  Bloomington  and  53  miles  northeast  of 
Peoria,  on  the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  and 
the  Illinois  Central  Railways.  The  surrounding 
region  is  agricultural,  though  much  coal  is 
mined  in  the  vicinity.  The  city  has  brick  yards, 
tile  factories,  steam  flouring-mills,  several  grain 
elevators,  two  private  banks  and  two  weekly 
newspapers.  Population  (1880),  1,913;  (1890), 
2,316;  (1900),  2,546;  (1910),  2,070. 

MINORITY  REPRESENTATION,  a  method  of 
choosing  members  of  the  General  Assembly  and 
other  deliberative  bodies,  designed  to  secure  rep- 
resentation, in  such  bodies,  to  minority  parties. 
In  Illinois,  this  method  is  limited  to  the  election 
of  members  of  the  lower  branch  of  the  General 
Assembly  —  except  as  to  private  corporations, 
which  may,  at  their  option,  apply  it  in  the  election 
of  Trustees  or  Directors.  In  the  apportionment 
of  members  of  the  General  Assembly  (see  Legis- 
lative Apportionment),  the  State  Constitution 
requires  that  the  Senatorial  and  Representative 
Districts  shall  be  identical  in  territory,  each  of 
such  Districts  being  entitled  to  choose  one  Sena- 
tor and  three  Representatives.  The  provisions  of 
the  Constitution,  making  specific  application  of 
the  principle  of  "minority  representation"  (or 
"cumulative  voting, "  as  it  is  sometimes  called), 
declares  that,  in  the  election  of  Representatives, 
"each  qualified  voter  may  cast  as  many  votes  for 
one  candidate  as  there  are  Representatives,  or 
(he)  may  distribute  the  same,  or  equal  parts 
thereof,  among  the  candidates  as  he  shall  see 
fit."  (State  Constitution,  Art.  IV,  sections  7  and 
8.)  In  practice,  this  provision  gives  the  voter 
power  to  cast  three  votes  for  one  candidate,  two 


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votes  for  one  candidate  and  one  for  another,  or 
one  and  a  half  votes  to  each  of  two  candidates, 
or  he  may  distribute  his  vote  equally  among 
three  candidates  (giving  one  to  each);  but  no 
other  division  is  admissible  without  invalidating 
his  ballot  as  to  this  office.  Other  forms  of  minor- 
ity representation  have  been  proposed  by  various 
writers,  among  whom  Mr.  Thomas  Hare,  John 
Stuart  Mill,  and  Mr.  Craig,  of  England,  are  most 
prominent ;  but  that  adopted  in  Illinois  seems  to 
be  the  simplest  and  most  easy  of  application. 

MINSHALL,  William  A.,  legislator  and  jurist, 
a  native  of  Ohio  who  came  to  Rushville,  111. ,  at 
an  early  dayj  and  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
law;  served  as  Representative  in  the  Eighth, 
Tenth  and  Twelfth  General  Assemblies,  and  as 
Delegate  to  the  State  Constitutional  Convention 
of  1847.  He  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Circuit 
Court  for  the  Fifth  Circuit,  under  the  new  Con- 
stitution, in  1848,  and  died  in  office,  Nov.  5,  1852, 
being  succeeded  by  the  late  Judge  Pinkney  H. 
Walker. 

MISSIONARIES,  EARLY.  The  earliest  Chris- 
tian missionaries  in  Illinois  were  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  faith.  As  a  rule,  these  accompanied  the 
French  explorers  and  did  not  a  little  toward  the 
extension  of  French  dominion.  They  were  usually 
members  of  one  of  two  orders — the  "Recollects," 
founded  by  St.  Francis,  or  the  "Jesuits,"  founded 
by  Loyola.  Between  these  two  bodies  of  ecclesi- 
astics existed,  at  times,  a  strong  rivalry;  the 
former  having  been  earlier  in  the  field,  but  hav- 
ing been  virtually  subordinated  to  the  latter  by 
Cardinal  Richelieu.  The  controversy  between 
the  two  orders  gradually  involved  the  civil 
authorities,  and  continued  until  the  suppression 
of  the  Jesuits,  in  France,  in  1764.  The  most  noted 
of  the  Jesuit  missionaries  were  Fathers  Allouez, 
Gravier,  Marquette,  Dablon,  Pinet,  Rasle,  Lamo- 
ges,  Binneteau  and  Marest.  Of  the  Recollects, 
the  most  conspicuous  were  Fathers  Membre, 
Douay,  Le  Clerq,  Hennepin  and  Ribourde. 
Besides  these,  there  were  also  Father  Bergier  and 
Montigny,  who,  belonging  to  no  religious  order, 
were  called  secular  priests.  The  first  Catholic 
mission,  founded  in  Illinois,  was  probably  that  at 
the  original  Kaskaskia,  on  the  Illinois,  in  the 
present  county  of  La  Salle,  where  Father  Mar- 
quette did  missionary  work  in  1673,  followed  by 
Allouez  in  1677.  (See  Allouez,  Claude  Jean.) 
The  latter  was  succeeded,  in  1688,  by  Father  Grav- 
ier, who  was  followed,  in  1692,  by  Father  Sebas- 
tian Rasle,  but  who,  returning  in  1694,  remained 
until  1695,  when  he  was  succeeded  by  Pinet 
and  Binneteau.  In  1700  Father  Marest  was 


in  charge  of  the  mission,  and  the  number  of 
Indians  among  whom  he  labored  was,  that  year, 
considerably  diminished  by  the  emigration  of  the 
Kaskaskias  to  the  south.  Father  Gravier,  about 
this  time,  labored  among  the  Peorias,  but  was 
incapacitated  by  a  wound  received  from  the 
medicine  man  of  the  tribe,  which  finally  resulted 
in  his  death,  at  Mobile,  in  1706.  The  Peoria  station 
remained  vacant  for  a  time,  but  was  finally  filled 
by  Father  Deville.  Another  early  Catholic  mis- 
sion in  Illinois  was  that  at  Cahokia.  While  the 
precise  date  of  its  establishment  cannot  be  fixed 
with  certainty,  there  is  evidence  that  it  was  in 
existence  in  1700,  being  the  earliest  in  that  region. 
Among  the  early  Fathers,  who  ministered  to  the 
savages  there,  were  Pinet,  St.  Cosme,  Bergier  and 
Lamoges.  This  mission  was  at  first  called  the 
Tamaroa,  and,  later,  the  mission  of  St.  Sulpice. 
It  was  probably  the  first  permanent  mission  in  the 
Illinois  Country.  Among  those  in  charge,  down 
to  1718,  were  Fathers  de  Montigny,  Damon  (prob- 
ably), Varlet,  de  la  Source,  and  le  Mercier.  In 
1707,  Father  Mermet  assisted  Father  Marest  at 
Kaskaskia,  and,  in  1720,  that  mission  became  a 
regularly  constituted  parish,  the  incumbent  being 
Father  de  Beaubois.  Rev.  Philip  Boucher 
preached  and  administered  the  sacraments  at 
Fort  St.  Louis,  where  he  died  in  1719,  having 
been  preceded  by  Fathers  Membre  and  Ribourde 
in  1680,  and  by  Fathers  Douay  and  Le  Clerq  in 
1687-88.  The  persecution  and  banishment,  of  the 
early  Jesuit  missionaries,  by  the  Superior  Council 
of  Louisiana  (of  which  Illinois  had  formerly  been 
a  part),  in  1763,  is  a  curious  chapter  in  State  his- 
tory. That  body,  following  the  example  of  some 
provincial  legislative  bodies  in  France,  officially 
declared  the  order  a  dangerous  nuisance,  and 
decreed  the  confiscation  of  all  its  property,  in- 
cluding plate  and  vestments,  and  the  razing  of 
its  churches,  as  well  as  the  banishment  of  its 
members.  This  decree  the  Louisiana  Council 
undertook  to  enforce  in  Illinois,  disregarding  the 
fact  that  that  territory  had  passed  under  the 
jurisdiction  of  Great  Britain.  The  Jesuits  seem 
to  have  offered  no  resistance,  either  physical  or 
legal,  and  all  members  of  the  order  in  Illinois 
were  ruthlessly,  and  without  a  shadow  of  author- 
ity, carried  to  New  Orleans  and  thence  deported 
to  France.  Only  one — Father  Sebastian  Louis 
Meurin — was  allowed  to  return  to  Illinois ;  and  he, 
only  after  promising  to  recognize  the  ecclesiastical 
authority  of  the  Superior  Council  as  supreme, 
and  to  hold  no  communication  with  Quebec  or 
Rome.  The  labors  of  the  missionaries,  apart 
from  spiritual  results,  were  of  great  value.  They 


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perpetuated  the  records  of  early  discoveries, 
reduced  the  language,  and  even  dialects,  of  the 
aborigines,  to  grammatical  rules,  and  preserved 
the  original  traditions  and  described  the  customs 
of  the  savages.  (Authorities:  Shea  and  Kip's 
"Catholic  Missions,"  "Magazine  of  Western  His- 
tory," Winsor's  "America,"  and  Shea's  "Catholic 
Church  in  Colonial  Days.") 

MISSISSIPPI  RIVER.  (Indian  name,  "Missi 
Sipi,"  the  "Great  Water.")  Its  head  waters  are 
in  the  northern  part  of  Minnesota,  1,680  feet 
above  tide-water.  Its  chief  source  is  Itasca 
Lake,  which  is  1,575  feet  higher  than  the  sea, 
and  which  is  fed  by  a  stream  having  its  source 
within  one  mile  of  the  head  waters  of  the  Red 
River  of  the  North.  From  this  sheet  of  water  to 
the  mouth  of  the  river,  the  distance  is  variously 
estimated  at  from  3,000  to  3,160  miles.  Lake 
Itasca  is  in  lat.  47°  10'  north  and  Ion.  95°  2Q'  west 
from  Greenwich.  The  river  at  first  runs  north- 
ward, but  soon  turns  toward  the  east  and  expands 
into  a  series  of  small  lakes.  Its  course,  as  far  as 
Crow  Wing,  is  extremely  sinuous,  below  which 
point  it  runs  southward  to  St.  Cloud,  thence  south- 
eastward to  Minneapolis,  where  occur  the  Falls  of 
St.  Anthony,  establishing  a  complete  barrier  to 
navigation  for  the  lower  Mississippi.  In  less  than 
a  mile  the  river  descends  66  feet,  including  a  per- 
pendicular fall  of  17  feet,  furnishing  an  immense 
water-power,  which  is  utilized  in  operating  flour- 
ing-mills  and  other  manufacturing  establish- 
ments. A  few  miles  below  St.  Paul  it  reaches 
the  western  boundary  of  Wisconsin,  where  it 
expands  into  the  long  and  beautiful  Lake  Pepin, 
bordered  by  picturesque  limestone  bluffs,  some 
400  feet  high.  Below  Dubuque  its  general  direc- 
tion is  southward,  and  it  forms  the  boundary 
between  the  States  of  Iowa,  Missouri,  Arkansas 
and  the  northern  part  of  Louisiana,  on  the 
west,  and  Illinois,  Kentucky,  Tennessee  and  Mis- 
sissippi, on  the  east.  After  many  sinuous  turn- 
ings in  its  southern  course,  it  enters  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico  by  three  principal  passes,  or  mouths,  at 
the  southeastern  extremity  of  Plaquemines 
Parish,  La.,  in  lat.  29°  north  and  Ion.  89"  12' 
west.  Its  principal  affluents  on  the  right  are  the 
Minnesota,  Iowa,  Des  Moines,  Missouri,  Arkansas 
and  Red  Rivers,  and,  on  the  left,  the  Wisconsin, 
Illinois  and  Ohio.  The  Missouri  River  is  longer 
than  that  part  of  the  Mississippi  above  the  point 
of  junction,  the  distance  from  its  source  to  the 
delta  of  the  latter  being  about  4,300  miles,  which 
exceeds  that  of  any  other  river  in  the  world. 
The  width  of  the  stream  at  St.  Louis  is  about 
8.500  feet,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Ohio  nearly  4,500 


feet,  and  at  New  Orleans  about  2,500  feet.  The 
mean  velocity  of  the  current  between  St.  Louis 
and  the  Gulf  of  Mexico  is  about  five  to  five  and 
one-half  miles  per  hour.  The  average  depth 
below  Red  River  is  said  to  be  121  feet,  though,  in 
the  vicinity  of  New  Orleans,  the  maximum  is  said 
to  reach  150  feet.  The  principal  rapids  below  the 
Falls  of  St.  Anthony  are  at  Rock  Island  and  the 
Des  Moines  Rapids  above  Keokuk,  the  former 
having  twenty-two  feet  fall  and  the  latter 
twenty-four  feet.  A  canal  around  the  Des 
Moines  Rapids,  along  the  west  bank  of  the  river, 
aids  navigation.  The  alluvial  banks  which  pre- 
vail on  one  or  both  shores  of  the  lower  Mississippi, 
often  spread  out  into  extensive  "bottoms"  which 
are  of  inexhaustible  fertility.  The  most  impor- 
tant of  these  above  the  mouth  of  the  Ohio,  is  the 
"American  Bottom,"  extending  along  the  east 
bank  from  Alton  to  Chester.  Immense  sums 
have  been  spent  in  the  construction  of  levees  for 
the  protection  of  the  lands  along  the  lower  river 
from  overflow,  as  also  in  the  construction  of  a 
system  of  jetties  at  the  mouth,  to  improve  navi- 
gation by  deepening  the  channel. 

MISSISSIPPI  RIYER  BRIDGE,  THE,  one  of 
the  best  constructed  railroad  bridges  in  the  West, 
spanning  the  Mississippi  from  Pike,  111. ,  to  Loui- 
siana, Mo.  The  construction  company  was  char- 
tered, April  25,  1872,  and  the  bridge  was  ready  for 
the  passage  of  trains  on  Dec.  24,  1873.  On  Dec. 
3,  1877,  it  was  leased  in  perpetuity  by  the  Chicago 
&  Alton  Railway  Company,  which  holds  all  its 
stock  and  $150,000  of  its  bonds  as  an  investment, 
paying  a  rental  of  §60, 000  per  annum,  to  be  applied 
in  the  payment  of  7  per  cent  interest  on  stock  and 
6  per  cent  on  bonds.  In  1894,  §71,000  was  paid  for 
rental,  §16,000  going  toward  a  sinking  fund. 

MOBILE  &  OHIO  RAILROAD.  This  company 
operates  160.6  miles  of  road  in  Illinois,  of  which 
151.6  are  leased  from  the  St.  Louis  &  Cairo  Rail- 
road. (See  St.  Louis  &  Cairo  Railroad. ) 

3IOLI \E,  a  flourishing  manufacturing  city  in 
Rock  Island  County,  incorporated  in  1872,  on  the 
Mississippi  above  Rock  Island  and  opposite 
Davenport,  Iowa;  is  168  miles  south  of  west  from 
Chicago,  and  the  intersecting  point  of  three 
trunk  lines  of  railway.  Moline,  Rock  Island  and 
Davenport  are  connected  by  steam  and  street 
railways,  bridges  and  ferries.  All  three  obtain 
water-power  from  the  Mississippi.  The  region 
around  Moline  is  rich  in  coal,  and  several  pro- 
ductive mines  are  operated  in  the  vicinity.  It  is 
an  important  manufacturing  point,  its  chief  out- 
puts being  agricultural  implements,  filters,  malle- 
able iron,  steam  engines,  vehicles,  lumber,  organs 


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(pipe  and  reed),  paper,  lead-roofing,  wind-mills, 
milling  machinery,  and  furniture.  The  city  has 
admirable  water-works,  several  churches,  good 
schools,  gas  and  electric  light  plants,  a  public 
library,  five  banks,  two  daily  and  three  weekly 
papers;  also  has  an  extensive  electric  power  plant, 
electric  street  cars  and  mterurban  line.  Pop.  (1890), 
12,000;  (1900),  17,248;  (1910),  24,199. 

MOLONEY,  Maurice  T.,  ex- Attorney-General, 
was  born  in  Ireland,  in  1849 ;  came  to  America  in 
18G7,  and,  after  a  course  in  the  Seminary  of  "Our 
Lady  of  the  Angels"  at  Niagara  Falls,  studied 
theology ;  then  taught  for  a  time  in  Virginia  and 
studied  law  at  the  University  of  that  State, 
graduating  in  1871,  finally  locating  at  Ottawa, 
111. ,  where  he  served  three  years  as  State's  Attor- 
ney of  La  Salle  County,  and,  in  1892,  was  nomi- 
nated and  elected  Attorney-General  on  the 
Democratic  State  ticket,  serving  until  January, 
1897. 

MOMENCE,  a  town  in  Kankakee  County,  situ- 
ated on  the  Kankakee  River  and  at  the  intersec- 
tion of  the  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois  and  the 
Indiana,  Illinois  &  Iowa  Railroads,  54  miles  south 
of  Chicago;  has  water  power,  a  flouring  mill, 
enameled  brick  factory,  railway  repair  shops,  two 
banks,  two  newspapers,  five  churches  and  two 
schools.  Pop.  (1900),  2,026;  (1910),  2,201. 

MONMOUTH,  the  county-seat  of  Warren 
County,  26  miles  east  of  the  Mississippi  River;  at 
point  of  intersection  of  two  lines  of  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  and  the  Iowa  Central  Rail- 
ways. The  Santa  Fe  enters  Monmouth  on  the 
Iowa  Central  lines.  The  surrounding  country  is 
agricultural  and  coal  yielding.  The  city  has 
manufactories  of  agricultural  implements,  sewer- 
pipe,  pottery,  paving  brick,  and  cigars.  Mon- 
mouth College  (United  Presbyterian)  was 
chartered  in  1857,  and  the  library  of  this  institu- 
tion, with  that  of  Warren  County  (also  located 
at  Monmouth)  aggregates  30,000  volumes.  There 
are  three  national  banks,  two  daily,  three  weekly 
papers  and  one  monthly  college  periodical.  Mon- 
mouth has  had  a  prosperous  growth,  and  has  a 
postoffice  building  erected  by  the  Government. 
Pon.  (1890),  5,936;  (1900),  7,460;  (1910),  9,128. 

MONMOUTH  COLLEGE,  an  educational  insti- 
tution, controlled  by  the  United  Presbyterian 
denomination,  but  non-sectarian;  located  at  Mon- 
mouth. It  was  founded  in  1856,  its  first  class 
graduating  in  1858.  Its  Presidents  have  been 
Drs.  D.  A.  Wallace  (1856-78)  and  J.  B.  McMichael, 
the  latter  occupying  the  position  from  1878  until 
1897.  In  1896  the  faculty  consisted  of  fifteen 
instructors  and  the  number  of  students  was  289. 


The  college  campus  covers  ten  acres,  tastefully 
laid  out.  The  institution  confers  four  degrees — 
A.B.,  B.S.,  M.B.,  and  B.L.  For  the  conferring 
of  the  first  three,  four  years'  study  is  required; 
for  the  degree  of  B.L.,  three  years. 

MONROE,  George  D.,  State  Senator,  was  born 
in  Jefferson  County,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  24,  1844,  and 
came  with  his  parents  to  Illinois  in  1849.  His 
father  having  been  elected  Sheriff  of  Will  County 
in  1864,  he  became  a  resident  of  Joliet,  serving 
as  a  deputy  in  his  father's  office.  In  1865  he 
engaged  in  merchandising  as  the  partner  of  his 
father,  which  was  exchanged,  some  fifteen  years 
later,  for  the  wholesale  grocery  trade,  and,  finally, 
for  the  real-estate  and  mortgage-loan  business,  in 
which  he  is  still  employed.  He  has  also  been 
extensively  engaged  in  the  stone  business  some 
twenty  years,  being  a  large  stockholder  in  the 
Western  Stone  Company  and  Vice-President  of 
the  concern.  In  1894  Mr.  Monroe  was  elected,  as 
a  Republican,  to  the  State  Senate  from  the 
Twenty-fifth  District,  serving  in  the  Thirty-ninth 
and  Fortieth  General  Assemblies,  and  proving 
himself  one  of  the  most  influential  members  of 
that  body. 

MONROE  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  southwest 
part  of  the  State,  bordering  on  the  Mississippi — 
named  for  President  Monroe.  Its  area  is  about 
380  square  miles.  It  was  organized  in  1816  and 
included  within  its  boundaries  several  of  the 
French  villages  which  constituted,  for  many 
years,  a  center  of  civilization  in  the  West. 
American  settlers,  however,  began  to  locate  in 
the  district  as  early  as  1781.  The  county  has  a 
diversified  surface  and  is  heavily  timbered.  The 
soil  is  fertile,  embracing  both  upland  and  river 
bottom.  Agriculture  and  the  manufacture  and 
shipping  of  lumber  constitute  leading  occupations 
of  the  citizens.  Waterloo  is  the  county-seat. 
Population  (1900),  13,847;  (1910),  13,508. 

MONTGOMERY  COUNTY,  an  interior  county, 
situated  northeast  of  St.  Louis  and  south  of  Spring- 
field; area  740  square  miles,  population  (1910), 
35,311 — derives  its  name  from  Gen.  Richard 
Montgomery.  The  earliest  settlements  by  Ameri- 
cans were  toward  the  close  of  1816,  county  organi- 
zation being  effected  five  years  later.  The  entire 
population,  at  that  time,  scarcely  exceeded  100 
families.  The  surface  is  undulating,  well  watered 
and  timbered.  The  seat  of  county  government  is 
located  at  Hillsboro.  Litchfield  is  an  important 
town.  Here  are  situated  car-shops  and  some 
manufacturing  establishments.  Conspicuous  in 
the  county's  history  as  pioneers  were  Harris 
Reavis.  Henry  Pyatt,  John  Levi,  Aaron  Casey 


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John  Tillson,  Hiram  Rountree,  the  -Wrights 
(Joseph  and  Charles),  the  Hills  (John  and 
Henry),  William  McDavid  and  John  Kussell. 

MONTICELLO,  a  city  and  the  county-seat  of 
Piatt  County,  on  the  Sangamon  River,  midway 
between  Chicago  and  St.  Louis,  on  the  Kankakee 
and  Bloomington  Division  of  the  Illinois  Central, 
and  the  Chicago  and  St.  Louis  Division  of  the 
Wabash  Railways.  It  lies  within  the  "corn  belt, " 
and  stock-raising  is  extensively  carried  on  in  the 
surrounding  country.  Among  the  city  industries 
are  a  foundry  and  machine  shops,  steam  flour  and 
planing  mills,  broom,  cigar  and  harness-making, 
and  patent  fence  and  tile  works.  The  city  is 
lighted  by  electricity,  has  several  elevators,  an 
excellent  water  system,  numerous  churches  and 
good  schools,  with  banks  and  two  weekly  papers. 
Pop.  (1900),  1,982;  (1910).  1,981. 

MONTICELLO  FEMALE  SEMINARY,  the 
second  institution  established  in  Illinois  for  the 
higher  education  of  women — Jacksonville  Female 
Seminary  being  the  first.  It  was  founded 
through  the  munificence  of  Capt.  Benjamin 
Godfrey,  who  donated  fifteen  acres  for  a  site,  at 
Godfrey,  Madison  County,  and  gave  $53,000 
toward  erecting  and  equipping  the  buildings. 
The  institution  was  opened  on  April  11,  1838, 
with  sixteen  young  lady  pupils,  Rev.  Theron 
Baldwin,  one  of  the  celebrated  "Yale  Band," 
being  the  first  Principal.  In  1845  he  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Miss  Philena  Fobes,  and  she,  in  turn, 
by  Miss  Harriet  N.  Haskell,  in  1866,  who  still 
remains  in  charge.  In  November,  1883,  the 
seminary  building,  with  its  contents,  was  burned ; 
but  the  institution  continued  its  sessions  in  tem- 
porary quarters  until  the  erection  of  a  new  build- 
ing, which  was  soon  accomplished  through  the 
generosity  of  alumnae  and  friends  of  female  edu- 
cation throughout  the  country.  The  new  struc- 
ture is  of  stone,  three  stories  in  height,  and 
thoroughly  modern.  The  average  number  of 
pupils  is  150,  with  fourteen  instructors,  and  the 
standard  of  the  institution  is  of  a  high  character. 

MOORE,  Clifton  H.,  lawyer  and  financier,  was 
born  at  Kirtland,  Lake  County,  Ohio,  Oct.  26, 
1817 ;  after  a  brief  season  spent  in  two  academies 
and  one  term  in  the  Western  Reserve  Teachers' 
Seminary,  at  Kirtland,  in  1839  he  came  west 
and  engaged  in  teaching  at  Pekin,  111.,  while 
giving  his  leisure  to  the  study  of  law.  He  spent 
the  next  year  at  Tremont  as  Deputy  County  and 
Circuit  Clerk,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Spring- 
field in  1841,  and  located  soon  after  at  Clinton, 
DeWitt  County,  which  has  since  been  his  home. 
In  partnership  with  the  late  Judge  David  Davis, 


of  Bloomington,  Mr.  Moore,  a  few  years  later, 
began  operating  extensively  in  Illinois  lands,  and 
became  one  of  the  largest  land  proprietors  in  the 
State,  besides  being  interested  in  a  number  of 
manufacturing  ventures  and  a  local  bank.  The 
only  official  position  of  importance  he  held  was 
that  of  Delegate  to.  the  State  Constitutional  Con- 
vention of  1869-70.  He  was  an  enthusiastic  col- 
lector of  State  historical  and  art  treasures,  of  which 
he  possessed  one  of  the  most  valuable  private  col- 
lections in  Illinois.  Died  April  29,  1901. 

MOORE,  Henry,  pioneer  lawyer,  came  to  Chi- 
cago from  Concord,  Mass.,  in  1834,  and  was 
almost  immediately  admitted  to  the  bar,  also 
acting  for  a  time  as  a  clerk  in  the  office  of  Col. 
Richard  J.  Hamilton,  who  held  pretty  much  all 
the  county  offices  on  the  organization  of  Cook 
County.  Mr.  Moore  was  one  of  the  original 
Trustees  of  Rush  Medical  College,  and  obtained 
from  the  Legislature  the  first  charter  for  a  gas 
company  in  Chicago.  In  1838  he  went  to  Ha- 
vana, Cuba,  for  the  benefit  of  his  failing  health, 
but  subsequently  returned  to  Concord,  Mass., 
where  he  died  some  years  afterward. 

MOORE,  James,  pioneer,  was  born  in  the  State 
of  Maryland  in  1750 ;  was  married  in  his  native 
State,  about  1772,  to  Miss  Catherine  Biggs,  later 
removing  to  Virginia.  In  1777  he  came  to  the 
Illinois  Country  as  a  spy,  preliminary  to  the  con- 
templated expedition  of  Col.  George  Rogers 
Clark,  which  captured  Kaskaskia  in  July,  1778. 
After  the  Clark  expedition  (in  which  he  served 
as  Captain,  by  appointment  of  Gov.  Patrick 
Henry),  he  returned  to  Virginia,  where  he 
remained  until  1781,  when  he  organized  a  party 
of  emigrants,  which  he  accompanied  to  Illinois, 
spending  the  winter  at  Kaskaskia.  The  following 
year  they  located  at  a  point  in  the  northern  part 
of  Monroe  County,  which  afterwards  received 
the  name  of  Bellefontaine.  After  his  arrival  in 
Illinois,  he  organized  a  company  of  "Minute 
Men,"  of  which  he  was  chosen  Captain.  He  was 
a  man  of  prominence  and  influence  among  the 
early  settlers,  but  died  in  1788.  A  numerous  and 
influential  family  of  his  descendants  have  grown 
up  in  Southern  Illinois. — John  (Moore),  son  of 
the  preceding,  was  born  in  Maryland  in  1773,  and 
brought  by  his  father  to  Illinois  eight  years  later. 
He  married  a  sister  of  Gen.  John  D.  Whiteside, 
who  afterwards  became  State  Treasurer,  and  also 
served  as  Fund  Commissioner  of  the  State  of  Illi- 
nois under  the  internal  improvement  system. 
Moore  was  an  officer  of  the  State  Militia,  and 
served  in  a  company  of  rangers  during  the  War 
of  1812;  was  also  the  first  County  Treasurer  of 


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Monroe  County.  Died,  July  4,  1833.— James  B. 
(Moore),  the  third  son  of  Capt.  James  Moore,  was 
born  in  1780,  and  brought  to  Illinois  by  his  par- 
ents; in  his  early  manhood  he  followed  the 
business  of  keel-boating  on  the  Mississippi  and 
Ohio  Rivers,  visiting  New  Orleans,  Pittsburg  and 
other  points ;  became  a  prominent  Indian  fighter 
during  the  War  of  1812,  and  was  commissioned 
Captain  by  Governor  Edwards  and  authorized  to 
raise  a  company  of  mounted  rangers;  also 
served  as  Sheriff  of  Monroe  County,  by  appoint- 
ment of  Governor'  Edwards,  in  Territorial  days; 
was  Presidential  Elector  in  1820,  and  State  Sena- 
tor for  Madison  County  in  1836-40,  dying  in  the 
latter  year. — Enoch  (Moore),  fourth  son  of  Capt. 
James  Moore,  the  pioneer,  was  born  in  the  old 
block-house  at  Bellefontaine  in  1782,  being  the 
first  child  born  of  American  parents  in  Illinois ; 
served  as  a  "ranger"  in  the  company  of  his 
brother,  James  B. ;  occupied  the  office  of  Clerk  of 
the  Circuit  Court,  and  afterwards  that  of  Judge 
of  Probate  of  Monroe  County  during  the  Terri- 
torial period ;  was  Delegate  to  the  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1818,  and  served  as  Representative 
from  Monroe  County  in  the  Second  General 
Assembly,  later  filling  various  county  offices  for 
some  twenty  years.  He  died  in  1848. 

MOORE,  Jesse  H.,  clergyman,  soldier  and  Con- 
gressman, born  near  Lebanon,  St.  Glair  County, 
111.,  April  22,  1817,  and  graduated  from  McKen- 
dree  College  in  1842.  For  thirteen  years  he  was 
a  teacher,  during  portions  of  this  period  being 
successively  at  the  head  of  three  literary  insti- 
tutions in  the  West.  In  1849  he  was  ordained  a 
minister  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  but 
resigned  pastorate  duties  in  1862,  to  take  part  in 
the  War  for  the  Union,  organizing  the  One  Hun- 
dred and  Fifteenth  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers, 
of  which  he  was  commissioned  Colonel,  also  serving 
as  brigade  commander  during  the  last  year  of  the 
war,  and  being  brevetted  Brigadier-General  at  its 
close.  After  the  war  he  re-entered  the  ministry, 
but,  in  1868,  while  Presiding  Elder  of  the  Decatur 
District,  he  was  elected  to  the  Forty-first  Con- 
gress as  a  Republican,  being  re-elected  in  1870 ; 
afterwards  served  as  Pension  Agent  at  Spring- 
field, and,  in  1881,  was  appointed  United  States 
Consul  at  Callao,  Peru,  dying  in  office,  in  that 
city,  July  11,  1883. 

MOORE,  John,  Lieutenant-Governor  (1842-46) ; 
was  born  in  Lincolnshire,  Eng. ,  Sept.  8,  1793; 
came  to  America  and  settled  in  Illinois  in  1830, 
spending  most  of  his  life  as  a  resident  of  Bloom- 
ington.  In  1838  he  was  elected  to  the  lower 
branch  of  the  Eleventh  General  Assembly  from 


the  McLean  District,  and,  in  1840,  to  the  Senate, 
but  before  the  close  of  his  term,  in  1842,  was 
elected  Lieutenant-Governor  with  Gov.  Thomas 
Ford.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Mexican  War  he 
took  a  conspicuous  part  in  recruiting  the  Fourth 
Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers  (Col.  E.  D.  Baker's), 
of  which  he  was  chosen  Lieutenant-Colonel, 
serving  gallantly  throughout  the  struggle.  In 
1848  he  was  appointed  State  Treasurer,  as  succes- 
sor of  Milton  Carpenter,  who  died  in  office.  In 
1850  he  was  elected  to  the  same  office,  and  con- 
tinued to  discharge  its  duties  until  1857,  when  he 
was  succeeded  by  James  Miller.  Died,  Sept.  23, 
1863. 

MOORE,  Risdon,  pioneer,  was  born  in  Dela- 
ware in  1760 ;  removed  to  North  Carolina  in  1789, 
and,  a  few  years  later,  to  Hancock  County,  Ga., 
where  he  served  two  terms  in  the  Legislature. 
He  emigrated  from  Georgia  in  1812,  and  settled 
in  St.  Clair  County,  111. — besides  a  family  of  fif- 
teen white  persons,  bringing  with  him  eighteen 
colored  people — the  object  of  his  removal  being 
to  get  rid  of  slavery.  He  purchased  a  farm  in 
what  was  known  as  the  "Turkey  Hill  Settle- 
ment," about  four  miles  east  of  Belleville,  where 
he  resided  until  his  death  in  1828.  Mr.  Moore 
became  a  prominent  citizen,  was  elected  to  the 
Second  Territorial  House  of  Representatives,  and 
was  chosen  Speaker,  serving  as  such  for  two  ses- 
sions (1814-15).  He  was  also  Representative  from 
St.  Clair  County  in  the  First,  Second  and  Third 
General  Assemblies  after  the  admission  of  Illinois 
into  the  Union.  In  the  last  of  these  he  was,  one 
of  the  most  zealous  opponents  of  the  pro-slavery 
Convention  scheme  of  1822-24.  He  left  a  numer- 
ous and  highly  respected  family  of  descendants, 
who  were  afterwards  prominent  in  public  affairs.  — 
William  (Moore),  his  son,  served  as  a  Captain  in 
the  War  of  1812,  and  also  commanded  a  company 
in  the  Black  Hawk  War.  He  represented  St. 
Clair  County  in  the  lower  branch  of  the  Ninth 
and  Tenth  General  Assemblies;  was  a  local 
preacher  of  the  Methodist  Church,  and  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  McKendree  Col- 
lege at  the  time  of  his  death  in  1849. — Risdon 
(Moore),  Jr.,  a  cousin  of  the  first  named  Risdon. 
Moore,  was  a  Representative  from  St.  Clair  County 
in  the  Fourth  General  Assembly  and  Senator  in 
the  Sixth,  but  died  before  the  expiration  of  his 
term,  being  succeeded  at  the  next  session  by 
Adam  W.  Snyder. 

MOORE,  Stephen  Richey,  lawyer,  was  born  of 
Scotch  ancestry,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  Sept.  22. 
1832;  in  1851,  entered  Farmers'  College  near  Cin- 
cinnati, graduating  in  1856,  and,  having  qualified 


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himself  for  the  practice  of  law,  located  the  fol- 
lowing year  at  Kankakee,  111.,  which  has  since 
been  his  home.  In  1858  he  was  employed  in 
defense  of  the  late  Father  Chiniquy,  who  recently 
died  in  Montreal,  in  one  of  the  celebrated  suits 
begun  against  him  by  dignitaries  of  the  Roman 
Catholic  Church.  Mr.  Moore  is  a  man  of  strik- 
ing appearance  and  great  independence  of  char- 
acter, a  Methodist  in  religious  belief  and  has 
generally  acted  politically  in  co-operation  with 
the  Democratic  party,  though  strongly  anti- 
slavery  in  his  views.  In  1872  he  was  a  delegate 
to  the  Liberal  Republican  Convention  at  Cin- 
cinnati which  nominated  Mr.  Greeley  for  the 
Presidency,  and,  in  1896,  participated  in  the  same 
way  in  the  Indianapolis  Convention  which  nomi- 
nated Gen.  John  M.  Palmer  for  the  same  office,  in 
the  following  campaign  giving  the  "Gold  Democ- 
racy" a  vigorous  support. 

MORAN,  Thomas  A.,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was 
born  at  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  Oct.  7,  1839;  received 
his  preliminary  education  in  the  district  schools 
of  Wisconsin  (to  which  State  his  father's  family 
had  removed  in  1846),  and  at  an  academy  at 
Salem,  Wis. ;  began  reading  law  at  Kenosha  in 
1859,  meanwhile  supporting  himself  by  teaching. 
In  May,  1865,  he  graduated  from  the  Albany 
(N.  Y.)  Law  School,  and  the  same  year  com- 
menced practice  in  Chicago,  rapidly  rising  to  the 
front  rank  of  his  profession.  In  1879  he  was 
elected  a  Judge  of  the  Cook  County  Circuit  Court, 
and  re-elected  in  1885.  At  the  expiration  of  his 
second  term  he  resumed  private  practice.  While 
on  the  bench  he  at  first  heard  only  common  law 
cases,  but  later  divided  the  business  of  the  equity 
side  of  the  court  with  Judge  Tuley.  In  June, 
1886,  he  was  assigned  to  the  bench  of  the  Appel- 
late Court,  of  which  tribunal  he  was,  for  a  year, 
Chief  Justice.  Died  Nov.  18,  1904. 

MORGAN,  James  Dady,  soldier,  was  born  in 
Boston,  Mass.,  August  1,  1810,  and,  at  16  years  of 
age,  went  for  a  three  years'  trading  voyage  on 
the  ship  "Beverly."  When  thirty  days  out  a 
mutiny  arose,  and  shortly  afterward  the  vessel 
was  burned.  Morgan  escaped  to  South  America, 
.and,  after  many  hardships,  returned  to  Boston. 
In  1834  he  removed  to  Quincy,  111.,  and  engaged 
in  mercantile  pursuits;  aided  in  raising  the 
"Quincy  Grays"  during  the  Mormon  difficulties 
(1844-45) ;  during  the  Mexican  War  commanded  a 
company  in  the  First  Regiment  Illinois  Volun- 
teers ;  in  1861  became  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the 
Tenth  Regiment  in  the  three  months'  service, 
and  Colonel  on  reorganization  of  the  regiment 
for  three  years ;  was  promoted  Brigadier-General 


in  July,  1862,  for  meritorious  service ;  commanded 
a  brigade  at  Nashville,  and,  in  March,  1865,  was 
brevetted  Major-General  for  gallantry  at  Benton- 
ville,  N.  C.,  being  mustered  out,  August  24,  1865. 
After  the  war  he  resumed  business  at  Quincy, 
111.,  being  President  of  the  Quincy  Gas  Company 
and  Vice-President  of  a  bank;  was  also  Presi- 
dent, for  some  time,  of  the  Society  of  the  Army 
of  the  Cumberland.  Died,  at  Quincy,  Sept.  12, 1896. 

MORGAN  COUNTY,  a  central  county  of  the 
State,  lying  west  of  Sangamon,  and  bordering  on 
the  Illinois  River — named  for  Gen.  Daniel  Mor- 
gan; area,  563  square  miles;  population  (1910), 
34,420.  The  earliest  American  settlers  were 
probably  Elisha  and  Seymour  Kellogg,  who 
located  on  Mauvaisterre  Creek  in  1818.  Dr.  George 
Caldwell  came  in  1820,  and  was  the  first  phy- 
sician, and  Dr.  Ero  Chandler  settled  on  the  pres- 
ent site  of  the  city  of  Jacksonville  in  1821. 
Immigrants  began  to  arrive  in  large  numbers 
about  1822,  and,  Jan.  31,  1823.  the  county  was 
organized,  the  first  election  being  held  at  the 
house  of  James  G.  Swinerton,  six  miles  south- 
west of  the  present  city  of  Jacksonville.  Olm- 
stead's  Mound  was  the  first  county-seat,  but  this 
choice  was  only  temporary.  Two  years  later, 
Jacksonville  was  selected,  and  has  ever  since  so 
continued.  (See  Jacksonville.)  Cass  County 
was  cut  off  from  Morgan  in  1837,  and  Scott 
County  in  1839.  About  1837  Morgan  was  the 
most  populous  county  in  the  State.  The  county 
is  nearly  equally  divided  between  woodland  and 
prairie,  and  is  well  watered.  Besides  the  Illinois 
River  on  its  western  border,  there  are  several 
smaller  streams,  among  them  Indian,  Apple, 
Sandy  and  Mauvaisterre  Creeks.  Bituminous 
coal  underlies  the  eastern  part  of  the  county,  and 
thin  veins  crop  out  along  the  Illinois  River 
bluffs.  Sandstone  lias  also  been  quarried. 

MORGAN  PARK,  a  suburban  village  of  Cook 
County,  13  miles  south  of  Chicago,  on  the  Chi- 
cago, Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railway ;  is  the  seat 
of  the  Academy  (a  preparatory  branch)  of  the 
University  of  Chicago  and  the  Scandinavian  De- 
partment of  the  Divinity  School  connected  with 
the  same  institution.  Pop.  (1890),  1,027;  (1900), 
2,329;  (1910),  3,694.  Annexed  to  Chicago  in  1911. 

MORMONS,  a  religious  sect,  founded  by  Joseph 
Smith,  Jr.,  at  Fayette,  Seneca  County,  N.  Y., 
August  6,  1830,  sty  ling  themselves  the  "Church  of 
Jesus  Christ  of  Latter- Day  Saints."  Membership 
in  1892  was  estimated  at  230,000,  of  whom  some 
20,000  were  outside  of  the  United  States.  Their 
religious  teachings  are  peculiar.  They  avow  faith 
in  the  Trinity  and  in  the  Bible  (as  by  them 


MILETUS  C.  HOUSTON 

(Twenty-three  years  of  age) 


MRS.  MILETUS  C.  HOUSTON 

(Eighteen  years  of  age) 


MILETUS  C.  HOUSTON 


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interpreted).  They  believe,  however,  that  the 
"Book  of  Mormon'' — assumed  to  be  of  divine 
origin  and  a  direct  revelation  to  Smith— is  of 
equal  authority  with  the  Scriptures,  if  not  supe- 
rior to  them.  Among  their  ordinances  are 
baptism  and  the  laying-on  of  hands,  and,  in  their 
church  organization,  they  recognize  various  orders 
— apostles,  prophets,  pastors,  teachers,  evangel- 
ists, etc.  They  also  believe  in  the  restoration  of 
the  Ten  Tribes  and  the  literal  re  assembling  of 
Israel,  the  return  and  rule  of  Christ  in  person, 
and  the  rebuilding  of  Zion  in  America.  Polyg- 
amy is  encouraged  and  made  an  article  of  faith, 
though  professedly  not  practiced  under  existing 
laws  in  the  United  States.  The  supreme  power 
is  vested  in  a  President,  who  has  authority  in 
temporal  and  spiritual  affairs  alike;  although 
there  is  less  effort  now  than  formerly,  on  the  part 
of  the  priesthood,  to  interfere  in  temporalities. 
Driven  from  New  York  in  1831,  Smith  and  his 
followers  first  settled  at  Kirtland,  Ohio.  There, 
for  a  time,  the  sect  flourished  and  built  a  temple ; 
but,  within  seven  years,  their  doctrines  and  prac- 
tices excited  so  much  hostility  that  they  were 
forced  to  make  another  removal.  Their  next 
settlement  was  at  Far  West,  Mo. ;  but  here  the 
hatred  toward  them  became  so  intense  as  to 
result  in  open  war.  From  Missouri  they 
recrossed  the  Mississippi  and  founded  the  city 
of  Nauvoo,  near  Commerce,  in  Hancock  County, 
111.  The  charter  granted  by  the  Legislature  was 
an  extraordinary  instrument,  and  well-nigh  made 
the  city  independent  of  the  State.  Nauvoo  soon 
obtained  commercial  importance,  in  two  years 
becoming  a  city  of  some  16,000  inhabitants.  The 
Mormons  rapidly  became  a  powerful  factor  in 
State  politics,  when  there  broke  out  a  more 
bitter  public  enmity  than  the  sect  had  yet  en- 
countered. Internal  dissensions  also  sprang  up, 
and,  in  1844,  a  discontented  Mormon  founded  a 
newspaper  at  Nauvoo,  in  which  he  violently 
assailed  the  prophet  and  threatened  him  with 
exposure.  Smith's  answer  to  this  was  the  de- 
struction of  the  printing  office,  and  the  editor 
promptly  secured  a  warrant  for  his  arrest,  return- 
able at  Carthage.  Smith  went  before  a  friendly 
justice  at  Nauvoo,  who  promptly  discharged  him, 
but  lie  positively  refused  to  appear  before  the 
Carthage  magistrate.  Thereupon  the  latter 
issued  a  second  warrant,  charging  Smith  with 
treason.  This  also  was  treated  with  contempt. 
The  militia  was  called  out  to  make  the  arrest,  and 
the  Mormons,  who  had  formed  a  strong  military 
organization,  armed  to  defend  their  leader. 
After  a  few  trifling  clashes  between  the  soldiers 


and  the  "Saints,"  Smith  was  persuaded  to  sur- 
render and  go  to  Carthage,  the  county-seat,  where 
he  was  incarcerated  in  the  county  jail.  Within 
twenty-four  hours  (on  Sunday,  June  27,  1844),  a 
mob  attacked  the  prison.  Joseph  Smith  and  his 
brother  Hyrum  were  killed,  and  some  of  their 
adherents,  who  had  accompanied  them  to  jail, 
were  wounded.  Brigham  Young  (then  an 
apostle)  at  once  assumed  the  leadership  and, 
after  several  months  of  intense  popular  excite- 
ment, in  the  following  year  led  his  followers 
across  the  Mississippi,  finally  locating  (1847)  in 
Utah.  (See  also  Nauvoo.)  There  their  history 
has  not  been  free  from  charges  of  crime;  but, 
whatever  may  be  the  character  of  the  leaders, 
they  have  succeeded  in  building  up  a  prosperous 
community  in  a  region  which  they  found  a  vir- 
tual desert,  a  little  more  than  forty  years  ago. 
The  polity  of  the  Church  has  been  greatly  modi- 
fied in  consequence  of  restrictions  placed  upon  it 
by  Congressional  legislation,  especially  in  refer- 
ence to  polygamy,  and  by  contact  with  other 
communities.  (See  Smith,  Joseph. ) 

MORRIS,  a  city  and  the  county-seat  of  Grundy 
County,  on  the  Illinois  River,  the  Illinois  & 
.  Michigan  Canal,  and  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  & 
Pacific  Railroad,  61  miles  southwest  of  Chicago. 
It  is  an  extensive  grain  market,  and  the  center  of 
a  region  rich  in  bituminous  coal.  There  is  valu- 
able water-power  here,  and  much  manufacturing 
is  done,  including  builders'  hardware,  plows,  iron 
specialties,  paper  car-wheels,  brick  and  tile,  flour 
and  plamng-mills,  oatmeal  and  tanned  leather. 
There  are  also  a  normal  and  scientific  school,  two 
national  banks  and  two  daily  and  two  weekly  news- 
papers. Population  (1880),  3,486;  (1890),  3,653; 
(1900),  4,273;  (1910),  4,563. 

MORRIS,  Buckner  Smith,  early  lawyer  born 
at  Augusta,  Ky.,  August  19,  1800;  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1827,  and,  for  seven  years  thereafter, 
continued  to  reside  in  Kentucky,  serving  two 
terms  in  the  Legislature  of  that  State.  In  1834 
he  removed  to  Chicago,  took  an  active  part  in 
the  incorporation  of  the  city,  and  was  elected  its 
second  Mayor  in  1838.  In  1840  he  was  a  Whig 
candidate  for  Presidential  Elector,  Abraham 
Lincoln  running  on  the  same  ticket,  and,  in 
1852,  was  defeated  as  the  Whig  candidate  for 
Secretary  of  State.  He  was  elected  a  Judge  of 
the  Seventh  Circuit  in  1851,  but  declined  a  re- 
nomination  in  1855.  In  1856  he  accepted  the 
American  (or  Know-Nothing)  nomination  for 
Governor,  and,  in  1860,  that  of  the  Bell-Everett 
party  for  the  same  office.  He  was  vehemently 
opposed  to  the  election  of  either  Lincoln  or 


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Breckenridge  to  the  Presidency,  believing  that 
civil  war  would  result  in  either  event.  A  shadow 
was  thrown  across  his  life,  in  1864,  by  his  arrest 
and  trial  for  alleged  complicity  in  a  rebel  plot  to 
burn  and  pillage  Chicago  and  liberate  the 
prisoners  of  war  held  at  Camp  Douglas.  The 
trial,  however,  which  was  held  at  Cincinnati, 
resulted  in  his  acquittal.  Died,  in  Kentucky, 
Dec.  18,  1879.  Those  who  knew  Judge  Morris,  in 
his  early  life  in  the  city  of  Chicago,  describe  him 
as  a  man  of  genial  and  kindly  disposition,  in  spite 
of  his  opposition  to  the  abolition  of  slavery— a 
fact  which,  no  doubt,  had  much  to  do  with  his 
acquittal  of  the  charge  of  complicity  with  the 
Camp  Douglas  conspiracy,  as  the  evidence  of  his 
being  in  communication  with  the  leading  con- 
spirators appears  to  have  been  conclusive.  (See 
Camp  Douglas  Conspiracy.) 

MORRIS,  Freeman  P.,  lawyer  and  politician, 
was  born  in  Cook  County,  111.,  March  19,  1854, 
labored  on  a  farm  and  attended  the  district 
school  in  his  youth,  but  completed  his  education 
in  Chicago,  graduating  from  the  Union  College 
of  Law,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1874, 
when  he  located  at  Watseka,  Iroquois  County. 
In  1884  he  was  elected,  as  a  Democrat,  to  the. 
House  of  Representatives  from  the  Iroquois  Dis- 
trict, and  has  since  been  re-elected  in  1888,  '94, 
'96,  being  one  of  the  most  influential  members  of 
his  party  in  that  body.  In  1893  he  was  appointed 
by  Governor  Altgeld  Aid-de-Camp,  with  the  rank 
of  Colonel,  on  his  personal  staff,  but  resigned  in 
1896. 

MORRIS,  Isaac  Newton,  lawyer  and  Congress- 
man, was  born  at  Bethel,  Clermont  County, 
Ohio,  Jan.  22,  1812;  educated  at  Miami  Univer- 
sity, admitted  to  the  bar  in  1835,  and  the  next 
year  removed  to  Quincy,  111. ;  was  a  member  and 
President  of  the  Board  of  Canal  Commissioners 
(1842-43),  served  in  the  Fifteenth  General  Assem- 
bly (1846-48) ;  was  elected  to  Congress  as  a  Demo- 
crat in  1856,  and  again  in  1858,  but  opposed  the 
admission  of  Kansas  under  the  Lecompton  Con- 
stitution ;  in  1868  supported  General  Grant— who 
had  been  his  friend  in  boyhood — for  President, 
and,  in  1870,  was  appointed  a  member  of  the 
Union  Pacific  Railroad  Commission.  Died,  Oct. 
29,  1879. 

MORRISON,  a  city,  the  county -seat  of  White- 
side  County,  founded  in  1855 ;  is  a  station  on  the 
Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railroad,  124  miles 
west  of  Chicago.  Agriculture,  dairying  and 
stock-raising  are  the  principal  pursuits  in  the 
surrounding  region.  The  city  has  good  water- 
works, sewerage,  electric  lighting  and  several 


manufactories,  including  carriage  and  refriger- 
ator works;  also  has  numerous  churches,  a  large 
graded  school,  a  public  library  and  adequate 
banking  facilities,  and  two  weekly  papers. 
Greenhouses  for  cultivation  of  vegetables  for 
winter  market  are  carried  on.  Pop.  (1910),  2,410. 

MORRISON,  Isaac  L.,  lawyer  and  legislator, 
born  in  Barren  County,  Ky.,  in  1826;  was  edu- 
cated in  the  common  schools  and  the  Masonic 
Seminary  of  his  native  State;  admitted  to  the 
bar,  and  came  to  Illinois  in  1851,  locating  at 
Jacksonville,  where  he  became  a  leader  of 
the  bar  and  of  the  Republican  party,  which  he 
assisted  to  organize  as  a  member  of  its  first  State 
Convention  at  Bloomington,  in  1856.  He  was  also 
a  delegate  to  the  Republican  National  Convention 
of  1864,  which  nominated  Abraham  Lincoln  for 
the  Presidency  a  second  time.  Mr.  Morrison  was 
three  times  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the 
General  Assembly  (1876,  '78  and  '82),  and,  by  his 
clear  judgment  and  incisive  powers  as  a  public 
speaker,  took  a  high  rank  as  a  leader  in  that 
body.  In  his  later  years  he  gave  his  attention 
solely  to  the  practice  of  his  profession  in  Jackson- 
ville, where  he  died  Feb.  27,  1901. 

MORRISON,  James  Lowery  Donaldson,  poli- 
tician, lawyer  and  Congressman,  was  born  at  Kas- 
kaskia,  111.,  April  12,  1816;  at  the  age  of  16  was 
appointed  a  midshipman  in  the  United  States 
Navy,  but  leaving  the  service  in  1836,  read  law 
with  Judge  Nathaniel  Pope,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar,  practicing  at  Belleville.  He  was  elected 
to  the  lower  house  of  the  General  Assembly  from 
St.  Clair  County,  in  1844,  and  to  the  State  Senate 
in  1848,  and  again  in  '54.  In  1852  he  was  an 
unsuccessful  candidate  for  the  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernorship on  the  Whig  ticket,  but,  on  the  disso- 
lution of  that  party,  allied  himself  with  the 
Democracy,  and  was,  for  many  years,  its  leader  in 
Southern  Illinois.  In  1855  he  was  elected  to  Con- 
gress to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the  resigna- 
tion of  Lyman  Trumbull,  who  had  been  elected  to 
the  United  States  Senate.  In  1860  he  was  a  can- 
didate before  the  Democratic  State  Convention 
for  the  nomination  for  Governor,  but  was  defeated 
by  James  C.  Allen.  After  that  year  he  took  no 
prominent  part  in  public  affairs.  At  the  outbreak 
of  the  Mexican  War  he  was  among  the  first  to 
raise  a  company  of  volunteers,  and  was  commis- 
sioned Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Second  Regiment 
(Colonel  Bissell's).  For  gallant  services  at  Buena 
Vista,  the  Legislature  presented  him  with  a 
sword.  He  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  incor- 
poration of  railroads,  and,  it  is  claimed,  drafted 
and  introduced  in  the  Legislature  the  charter  of 


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the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  in  1851.  Died,  at 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  August  14,  1888. 

MORRISON,  William,  pioneer  merchant,  came 
from  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  toKaskaskia,  111.,  in  1790, 
as  representative  of  the  mercantile  house  of 
Bryant  &  Morrison,  of  Philadelphia,  and  finally 
established  an  extensive  trade  throughout  the 
Mississippi  Valley,  supplying  merchants  at  St. 
Louis,  St.  Genevieve,  Cape  Girardeau  and  New 
Madrid.  He  is  also  said  to  have  sent  an  agent 
with  a  stock  of  goods  across  the  plains,  with  a 
view  to  opening  up  trade  with  the  Mexicans  at 
Sauta  Fe,  about  1804,  but  was  defrauded  by  the 
agent,  who  appropriated  the  goods  to  his  own 
benefit  without  accounting  to  his  employer. 
He  became  the  principal  merchant  in  the  Terri- 
tory, doing  a  thriving  business  in  early  days, 
when  Kaskaskia  was  the  principal  supply  point 
for  merchants  throughout  the  valley.  He  is  de- 
scribed as  a  public-spirited,  enterprising  man,  to 
whom  was  due  the  chief  part  of  the  credit  for 
securing  construction  of  a  bridge  across  the  Kas- 
kaskia River  at  the  town  of  that  name.  He  died 
at  Kaskaskia  in  1837,  and  was  buried  in  the  ceme- 
tery there. — Robert  (Morrison),  a  brother  of  the 
preceding,  came  to  Kaskaskia  in  1793,  was 
appointed  Clerk  of  the  Common  Pleas  Court  in 
1801,  retaining  the  position  for  many  years, 
besides  holding  other  local  offices.  He  was  the 
father  of  Col.  James  L.  D.  Morrison,  politician 
and  soldier  of  the  Mexican  War,  whose  sketch  is 
given  elsewhere. — Joseph  (Morrison),  the  oldest 
son  of  William  Morrison,  went  to  Ohio,  residing 
there  several  years,  but  finally  returned  to  Prairie 
du  Rocher,  where  he  died  in  1845.  —  James, 
another  son,  went  to  Wisconsin;  William  located 
at  Belleville,  dying  there  in  1843;  while  Lewis* 
another  son,  settled  at  Covington,  Washington 
County,  111.,  where  he  practiced  medicine  up  to 
1851;  then  engaged  in  mercantile  business  at 
Chester,  dying  there  in  1856. 

MORRISON,  William  Rails,  ex-Congressman, 
Inter-State  Commerce  Commissioner,  was  born, 
Sept.  14,  1825,  in  Monroe  County,  111.,  and  edu- 
cated at  McKendree  College ;  served  as  a  private 
in  the  Mexican  War,  at  its  close  studied  law,  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1855;  in  1852  was 
elected  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  Monroe 
County,  but  resigned  before  the  close  of  his  term, 
accepting  the  office  of  Representative  in  the  State 
Legislature,  to  which  he  was  elected  in  1854 ;  was 
re-elected  in  1856,  and  again  in  1858,  serving  as 
Speaker  of  the  House  during  the  session  of  1859. 
In  1861  he  assisted  in  organizing  the  Forty-ninth 
Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers  and  was  commis- 


sioned Colonel.  The  regiment  was  mustered  in, 
Dec.  31,  1861,  and  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Fort 
Donelson  in  February  following,  where  he  was 
severely  wounded.  While  yet  in  the  service,  in 
1862,  he  was  elected  to  Congress  as  a  Democrat, 
when  he  resigned  his  commission,  but  was  de- 
feated for  re-election,  in  1864,  by  Jehu  Baker,  as 
he  was  again  in  1866.  In  1870  he  was  again 
elected  to  the  General  Assembly,  and,  two  years 
later  (1872),  returned  to  Congress  from  the  Belle- 
ville District,  after  which  he  served  in  that  body, 
by  successive  re-elections,  nine  terms  and  until 
1887,  being  for  several  terms  Chairman  of  the 
House  Ways  and  Means  Committee  and  promi- 
nent in  the  tariff  legislation  of  that  period.  In 
March,  1887,  President  Cleveland  appointed  him 
a  member  of  the  first  Inter-State  Commerce  Com- 
mission for  a  period  of  five  years ;  at  the  close  of 
his  term  he  was  reappointed,  by  President  Harri- 
son, for  a  full  term  of  six  years,  serving  a  part  of 
the  time  as  President  of  the  Board,  and  retiring 
from  office  in  1898.  Died  Sept.  29,  1909. 

MORRISON  VILLE,  a  town  in  Christian 
County,  situated  on  the  Wabash  Railway,  40 
miles  southwest  of  Decatur  and  20  miles  north- 
norther.st  of  Litchfield.  Grain  is  extensively 
raised  in  the  surrounding  region,  and  Morrison- 
ville,  with  its  elevators  and  mill,  is  an  important 
shipping-point.  It  has  brick  and  tile  works, 
a  pump  factory,  electric  lights,  banks,  several 
churches,  graded  and  high  schools,  and  a  weekly 
paper.  Pop.  (1900),  934;  (1910),  1,126. 

MORTON,  a  village  of  Tazewell  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe 
and  the  Terre  Haute  &  Peoria  Railroads,  10  miles 
southeast  of  Peoria;  has  factories,  a  bank  and  a 
newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  894;  (1910),  1,004. 

MORTON,  Joseph,  pioneer  farmer  and  legisla- 
tor, was  born  in  Virginia,  August  1,  1801 ;  came 
to  Madison  County,  111.,  in  1819,  and  the  follow- 
ing year  to  Morgan  County,  when  he  engaged  in 
farming  in  the  vicinity  of  Jacksonville.  He 
served  as  a  member  of  the  House  in  the  Tenth 
and  Fifteenth  General  Assemblies,  and  as  Senator 
in  the  Eighteenth  and  Nineteenth.  He  was  a 
Democrat  in  politics,  but,  on  questions  of  State 
and  local  policy,  was  non-partisan,  faithfully 
representing  the  interests  of  his  constituents. 
Died,  at  his  home  near  Jacksonville,  March  2, 1881. 

MOSES,  Adolph,  lawyer,  was  born  in  Speyer, 
Germany,  Feb.  27,  1837,  and,  until  fifteen  years 
of  age,  was  educated  in  the  public  and  Latin 
schools  of  his  native  country ;  in  the  latter  part 
of  1852,  came  to  America,  locating  in  New 
Orleans,  and,  for  some  years,  being  a  law  student 


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in  Louisiana  University,  under  the  preceptorship 
of  Randall  Hunt  and  other  eminent  lawyers  of 
that  State.  In  the  early  days  of  the  Civil  War 
he  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Confederacy,  serving 
some  two  years  as  an  officer  of  the  Twenty-first 
Louisiana  Regiment.  Coming  north  at  the  expi- 
ration of  this  period,  he  resided  for  a  time  in 
Quincy,  111.,  but,  in  1869,  removed  to  Chicago, 
where  he  took  a  place  in  the  front  rank  at  the 
bar,  and  where  he  spent  his  last  years.  Although 
in  sympathy  with  the  general  principles  of  the 
Democratic  party,  Judge  Moses  was  an  independent 
voter,  as  shown  by  the  fact  that  he  voted  for 
General  Grant  for  President  in  1868,  and  supported 
the  leading  measures  of  the  Republican  party  in 
1896.  He  was  editor  and  publisher  of  "  The  National 
Corporation  Reporter,"  established  in  1890,  which 
was  devoted  to  the  discussion  of  corporation  inter- 
ests. Died  Nov.  6,  1905. 

MOSES,  John,  lawyer  and  author,  was  born  at 
Niagara  Falls,  Canada,  Sept.  18,  1825;  came  to 
Illinois  in  1837,  his  family  locating  first  at  Naples, 
Scott  County.  He  pursued  the  vocation  of  a 
teacher  for  a  time,  studied  law,  was  elected  Clerk 
of  the  Circuit  Court  for  Scott  County  in  1856,  and 
served  as  County  Judge  from  1857  to  1861.  The 
latter  year  he  became  the  private  secretary  of 
Governor  Yates,  serving  until  1863,  during  that 
period  assisting  in  the  organization  of  seventy- 
seven  •  regiments  of  Illinois  Volunteers.  While 
serving  in  this  capacity,  in  company  with  Gov- 
ernor Yates,  he  attended  the  famous  conference 
of  loyal  Governors,  held  at  Altoona,  Pa.,  in  Sep- 
tember, 1862,  and  afterwards  accompanied  the 
Governors  in  their  call  upon  President  Lincoln,  a 
few  days  after  the  issue  of  the  preliminary  proc- 
lamation of  emancipation.  Having  received  the 
appointment,  from  President  Lincoln,  of  Assessor 
of  Internal  Revenue  for  the  Tenth  Illinois  Dis- 
trict, he  resigned  the  position  of  private  secretary 
to  Governor  Yates.  In  1874  he  was  chosen 
Representative  in  the  Twenty-ninth  General 
Assembly  for  the  District  composed  of  Scott, 
Pike  and  Calhoun  Counties ;  served  as  a  delegate 
to  the  National  Republican  Convention  at  Phila- 
delphia, in  1872,  and  as  Secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Railroad  and  Warehouse  Commissioners  for 
three  years  (1880-83).  He  was  then  appointed 
Special  Agent  of  the  Treasury  Department,  and 
assigned  to  duty  in  connection  with  the  customs 
revenue  at  Chicago.  In  1887  he  was  chosen  Sec- 
retary of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  serving 
until  1893.  While  connected  with  the  Chicago 
Historical  Library  he  brought  out  the  most  com- 
plete History  of  Illinois  yet  published,  in  two 


volumes,  and  also,  in  connection  with  the  late 
Major  Kirkland,  edited  a  History  of  Chicago  in 
two  large  volumes.  Other  literary  work  done  by 
Judge  Moses,  includes  "Personal  Recollections  of 
Abraham  Lincoln"  and  "Richard  Yates,  the 
War  Governor  of  Illinois,"  in  the  form  of  lectures 
or  addresses.  Died  in  Chicago,  July  3,  1898. 

MOULTON,  Samuel  W.,  lawyer  and  Congress- 
man, was  born  at  Wenham,  Mass.,  Jan.  20,  1822, 
where  he  was  educated  in  the  public  schools. 
After  spending  some  years  in  the  South,  he 
removed  to  Illinois  (1845),  where  he  studied  law, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar,  commencing  prac- 
tice at  Shelbyville.  From  1852  to  1859  he  was  a 
member  of  the  lower  house  of  the  General  Assem- 
bly; in  1857,  was  a  Presidential  Elector  on  the 
Buchanan  ticket,  and  was  President  of  the  State 
Board  of  Education  from  1859  to  1876.  In  1864 
he  was  elected,  as  a  Republican,  Representative  in 
Congress  for  the  State-at-large,  being  elected 
again,  as  a  Democrat,  from  the  Shelbyville  Dis- 
trict, in  1880  and  '82.  During  his  last  few  years 
(including  the  campaign  of  1896)  Mr.  Moulton  acted 
in  co-operation  with  the  Republican  party.  Died 
June  3,  1905. 

MOULTRIE  COUNTY,  a  comparatively  small 
county  in  the  eastern  section  of  the  middle  tier  of 
the  State — -named  for  a  revolutionary  hero.  Area, 
340  square  miles,  and  population  (by  the  census 
of  1910),  14,630.  Moultrie  was  one  of  the  early 
"stamping  grounds"  of  the  Kickapoos,  who  were 
always  friendly  to  English-speaking  settlers.  The 
earliest  immigrants  were  from  .  the  Southwest, 
but  arrivals  from  Northern  States  soon  followed. 
County  organization  was  effected  in  1843,  both 
Shelby  and  Macon  Counties  surrendering  a  portion 
of  territory.  A  vein  of  good  bituminous  coal 
underlies  the  county,  but  agriculture  is  the  more 
important  industry.  Sullivan  is  the  county -seat, 
selected  in  1845.  In  1890  its  population  was  about 
1,700.  Hon.  Richard  J.  Oglesby  (former  Gover- 
nor, Senator  and  a  Major-General  in  the  Civil 
War)  began  the  practice  of  law  here. 

MOUND-BUILDERS,  WORKS  OF  THE.  One 
of  the  most  conclusive  evidences  that  the  Mis- 
sissippi Valley  was  once  occupied  by  a  people 
different  in  customs,  character  and  civilization 
from  the  Indians  found  occupying  the  soil  when 
the  first  white  explorers  visited  it,  is  the  exist- 
ence of  certain  artificial  mounds  and  earthworks, 
of  the  origin  and  purposes  of  which  the  Indians 
seemed  to  have  no  knowledge  or  tradition.  These 
works  extend  throughout  the  valley  from  the 
Allegheny  to  the  Rocky  Mountains,  being  much 
more  numerous,  however,  in  some  portions  than 


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in  others,  and  also  varying  greatly  in  form.  This 
fact,  with  the  remains  found  in  some  of  them,  has 
been  regarded  as  evidence  that  the  purposes  of 
their  construction  were  widely  variant.  They 
have  consequently  been  classified  by  archaeolo- 
gists as  sepulchral,  religious,  or  defensive,  while 
some  seem  to  have  had  a  purpose  of  which 
writers  on  the  subject  are  unable  to  form  any 
satisfactory  conception,  and  which  are,  therefore, 
still  regarded  as  an  unsolved  mystery.  Some  of 
the  most  elaborate  of  these  works  are  found  along 
the  eastern  border  of  the  Mississippi  Valley, 
especially  in  Ohio ;  and  the  fact  that  they  appear 
to  belong  to  the  defensive  class,  has  led  to  the 
conclusion  that  this  region  was  occupied  by  a  race 
practically  homogeneous,  and  that  these  works 
were  designed  to  prevent  the  encroachment  of 
hostile  races  from  beyond  the  Alleghenies.  Illi- 
nois being  in  the  center  of  the  valley,  compara- 
tively few  of  these  defensive  works  are  found 
here,  those  of  this  character  which  do  exist  being 
referred  to  a  different  era  and  race.  (See  Forti- 
fications, Prehistoric.)  While  these  works  are 
numerous  in  some  portions  of  Illinois,  their  form 
and  structure  give  evidence  that  they  were 
erected  by  a  peaceful  people,  however  bloody 
may  have  been  some  of  the  rites  performed  on 
those  designed  for  a  religious  purpose.  Their 
numbers  also  imply  a  dense  population.  This  is 
especially  true  of  that  portion  of  the  American 
Bottom  opposite  the  city  of  St.  Louis,  which  is 
the  seat  of  the  most  remarkable  group  of  earth 
works  of  this  character  on  the  continent.  The 
central,  or  principal  structure  of  this  group,  is 
known,  locally,  as  the  great  "Cahokia  Mound," 
being  situated  near  the  creek  of  that  name  which 
empties  into  the  Mississippi  just  below  the  city 
of  East  St.  Louis.  It  is  also  called  "Monks' 
Mound,"  from  the  fact  that  it  was  occupied  early 
in  the  present  century  by  a  community  of  Monks 
of  La  Trappe,  a  portion  of  whom  succumbed  to 
the  malarial  influences  of  the  climate,  while  the 
survivors  returned  to  the  original  seat  of  their 
order.  This  mound,  from  its  form  and  com- 
manding size,  has  been  supposed  to  belong  to  the 
class  called  "temple  mounds,"  and  has  been  de- 
scribed as  "the  monarch  of  all  similar  structures" 
and  the  "best  representative  of  its  class  in  North 
America."  The  late  William  Me  Adams,  of 
Alton,  who  surveyed  this  group  some  years  since, 
in  his  "Records  of  Ancient  Races,"  gives  the  fol- 
lowing description  of  this  principal  structure : 

"In  the  center  of  a  great  mass  of  mounds  and 
earth-works  there  stands  a  mighty  pyramid 
whose  base  covers  nearly  sixteen  acres  of  ground. 


It  is  not  exactly  square,  being  a  parallelogram  a 
little  longer  north  and  south  than  east  and  west. 
Some  thirty  feet  above  the  base,  on  the  south  side, 
is  an  apron  or  terrace,  on  which  now  grows  an 
orchard  of  considerable  size.  This  terrace  is 
approached  from  the  plain  by  a  graded  roadway. 
Thirty  feet  above  this  terrace,  and  on  the  west 
side,  is  another  much  smaller,  on  which  are  now 
growing  some  forest  trees.  The  top,  which  con- 
tains an  acre  and  a  half,  is  divided  into  two 
nearly  equal  parts,  the  northern  part  being  four 
or  five  feet  the  higher.  .  .  .  On  the  north, 
east  and  south,  the  structure  still  retains  its 
straight  side,  that  probably  has  changed  but  little 
since  the  settlement  of  the  country  by  white 
men,  but  remains  in  appearance  to-day  the  same 
as  centuries  ago.  The  west  side  of  the  pyramid, 
however,  has  its  base  somewhat  serrated  and 
seamed  by  ravines,  evidently  made  by  rainstorms 
and  the  elements.  From  the  second  terrace  a 
well,  eighty  feet  in  depth,  penetrates  the  base  of 
the  structure,  which  is  plainly  seen  to  be  almost 
wholly  composed  of  the  black,  sticky  soil  of  the 
surrounding  plain.  It  is  not  an  oval  or  conical 
mound  or  hill,  but  a  pyramid  with  straight 
sides."  The  approximate  height  of  this  mound 
is  ninety  feet.  When  first  seen  by  white  men, 
this  was  surmounted  by  a  small  conical  mound 
some  ten  feet  in  height,  from  which  human 
remains  and  various  relics  were  taken  while 
being  leveled  for  the  site  of  a  house.  Messrs. 
Squier  and  Davis,  in  their  report  on  "Ancient 
Monuments  of  the  Mississippi  Valley,"  published 
by  the  Smithsonian  Institute  (1848),  estimate  the 
contents  of  the  structure  at  20,000,000  cubic  feet. 
A  Mr.  Breckenridge,  who  visited  these  mounds 
in  1811  and  published  a  description  of  them,  esti- 
mates that  the  construction  of  this  principal 
mound  must  have  required  the  work  of  thousands 
of  laborers  and  years  of  time.  The  upper  terrace, 
at  the  time  of  his  visit,  was  occupied  by  the 
Trappists  as  a  kitchen  garden,  and  the  top  of  the 
structure  was  sown  in  wheat.  He  also  found 
numerous  fragments  of  flint  and  earthern  ves- 
sels, and  concludes  that  "a  populous  city  once 
existed  here,  similar  to  those  of  Mexico  described 
by  the  first  conquerors.  The  mounds  were  sites 
of  temples  or  monuments  to  great  men."  Accord- 
ing to  Mr.  McAdams,  there  are  seventy-two 
mounds  of  considerable  size  within  two  miles  of 
the  main  structure,  the  group  extending  to  the 
mouth  of  the  Cahokia  and  embracing  over  one 
hundred  in  all.  Most  of  these  are  square,  rang- 
ing from  twenty  to  fifty  feet  in  height,  a  few  are 
oval  and  one  or  two  conical.  Scattered  among 


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the  mounds  are  also  a  number  of  small  lakes, 
evidently  of  artificial  origin.  From  the  fact 
that  there  were  a  number  of  conspicuous 
mounds  on  the  Missouri  side  of  the  river, 
on  the  present  site  of  the  city  of  St.  Louis 
and  its  environs,  it  is  believed  that  they  all 
belonged  to  the  same  system  and  had  a  common 
purpose;  the  Cahokia  Mound,  from  its  superior 
size,  being  the  center  of  the  group — and  probably 
used  for  sacrificial  purposes.  The  whole  number 
of  these  structures  in  the  American  Bottom, 
whose  outlines  were  still  visible  a  few  years  ago, 
was  estimated  by  Dr.  J.  W.  Foster  at  nearly  two 
hundred,  and  the  presence  of  so  large  a  number 
in  close  proximity,  has  been  accepted  as  evidence 
of  a  large  population  in  the  immediate  vicinity. 
Mr.  McAdams  reports  the  finding  of  numerous 
specimens  of  pottery  and  artificial  ornaments  and 
implements  in  the  Cahokia  mounds  and  in  caves 
and  mounds  between  Alton  and  the  mouth  of  the 
Illinois  River,  as  well  as  on  the  latter  some 
twenty-five  miles  from  its  mouth.  Among  the 
relics  found  in  the  Illinois  River  mounds  was  a 
burial  vase,  and  Mr.  McAdams  says  that,  in 
thirty  years,  he  has  unearthed  more  than  a 
thousand  of  these,  many  of  which  closely 
resemble  those  found  in  the  mounds  of  Europe. 
Dr.  Foster  also  makes  mention  of  an  ancient 
cemetery  near  Chester,  in  which  "each  grave, 
when  explored,  is  found  to  contain  a  cist  enclos- 
ing a  skeleton,  for  the  most  part  far  gone  in 
decay.  These  cists  are  built  up  and  covered  with 
slabs  of  limestone,  which  here  abound. " — Another 
noteworthy  group  of  mounds — though  far  inferior 
to  the  Cahokia  group — exists  near  Hutsonville  in 
Crawford  County.  As  described  in  the  State 
Geological  Survey,  this  group  consists  of  fifty- 
five  elevations,  irregularly  dispersed  over  an  area 
of  1,000  by  1,400  to  1,500  feet,  and  varying  from 
fourteen  to  fifty  feet  in  diameter,  the  larger  ones 
having  a  height  of  five  to  eight  feet.  From  their 
form  and  arrangement  these  are  believed  to  have 
been  mounds  of  habitation.  In  the  southern  por- 
tion of  this  group  are  four  mounds  of  peculiar 
construction  and  larger  size,  each  surrounded 
by  a  low  ridge  or  earthwork,  with  openings  facing 
towards  each  other,  indicating  that  they  were 
defense-works.  The  location  of  this  group — a 
few  miles  from  a  prehistoric  fortification  at 
Merom,  on  the  Indiana  side  of  the  Wabash,  to 
which  the  name  of  "Fort  Azatlan"  has  been 
given — induces  the  belief  that  the  two  groups, 
like  those  in  the  American  Bottom  and  at  St. 
Louis,  were  parts  of  the  same  system. — Professor 
Engelman,  in  the  part  of  the  State  Geological 


Survey  devoted  to  Massac  County,  alludes  to  a 
remarkable  group  of  earthworks  in  the  Black 
Bend  of  the  Ohio,  as  an  "extensive"  system  of 
"fortifications  and  mounds  which  probably 
belong  to  the  same  class  as  those  in  the  Missis- 
sippi Bottom  opposite  St.  Louis  and  at  other 
points  farther  up  the  Ohio."  In  the  report  of 
Government  survey  by  Dan  W.  Beckwith,  in  1834, 
mention  is  made  of  a  very  large  mound  on  the 
Kankakee  River,  near  the  mouth  of  Rock  Creek, 
now  a  part  of  Kankakee  County.  This  had  a 
base  diameter  of  about  100  feet,  with  a  height  of 
twenty  feet,  and  contained  the  remains  of  a 
large  number  of  Indians  killed  in  a  celebrated 
battle,  in  which  the  Illinois  and  Chippewas,  and 
the  Delawares  and  Shawnees  took  part.  Near 
by  were  two  other  mounds,  said  to  contain  the 
remains  of  the  chiefs  of  the  two  parties.  In  this 
case,  mounds  of  prehistoric  origin  had  probably 
been  utilized  as  burial  places  by  the  aborigines  at 
a  comparatively  recent  period.  Related  to  the 
Kankakee  mounds,  in  location  if  not  in  period  of 
construction,  is  a  group  of  nineteen  in  number  on 
the  site  of  the  present  city  of  Morris,  in  Grundy 
County.  Within  a  circuit  of  three  miles  of 
Ottawa  it  has  been  estimated  that  there  were 
3,000  mounds — though  many  of  these  are  believed 
to  have  been  of  Indian  origin.  Indeed,  the  whole 
Illinois  Valley  is  full  of  these  silent  monuments 
of  a  prehistoric  age,  but  they  are  not  generally  of 
the  conspicuous  character  of  those  found  in  the 
vicinity  of  St.  Louis  and  attributed  to  the  Mound 
Builders. — A  very  large  and  numerous  group  of 
these  monuments  exists  along  the  bluffs  of  the 
Mississippi  River,  in  the  western  part  of  Rock 
Island  and  Mercer  Counties,  chieriy  between 
Drury's  Landing  and  New  Boston.  Mr.  J.  E. 
Stevenson,  in  "The  American  Antiquarian,"  a 
few  years  ago,  estimated  that  there  were  2,500  of 
these  within  a  circuit  of  fifty  miles,  located  in 
groups  of  two  or  three  to  100,  varying  in  diameter 
from  fifteen  to  150  feet,  with  an  elevation  of  two 
to  fifteen  feet.  There  are  also  numerous  burial 
and  sacrificial  mounds  in  the  vicinity  of  Chilli- 
cothe,  on  the  Illinois  River,  in  the  northeastern 
part  of  Peoria  County. — There  are  but  few  speci- 
mens of  the  animal  or  effigy  mounds,  of  which  so 
many  exist  in  Wisconsin,  to  be  found  in  Illinois ; 
and  the  fact  that  these  are  found  chiefly  on  Rock 
River,  leaves  no  doubt  of  a  common  origin  with 
the  Wisconsin  groups.  The  most  remarkable  of 
these  is  the  celebrated  "Turtle  Mound,"  within 
the  present  limits  of  the  city  of  Rockford — though 
some  regard  it  as  having  more  resemblance  to  an 
alligator.  This  figure,  which  is  maintained  in  a 


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good  state  of  preservation  by  the  citizens,  has  an 
extreme  length  of  about  150  feet,  by  fifty  in 
width  at  the  front  legs  and  thirty-nine  at  the 
hind  legs,  and  an  elevation  equal  to  the  height 
of  a  man.  There  are  some  smaller  mounds  in 
the  vicinity,  and  some  bird  effigies  on  Rock  River 
some  six  miles  below  Rockford.  There  is  also  an 
animal  effigy  near  the  village  of  Hanover,  in  Jo 
Daviess  County,  with  a  considerable  group  of 
round  mounds  and  embankments  in  the  immedi- 
ate vicinity,  besides  a  smaller  effigy  of  a  similar 
character  on  the  north  side  of  the  Pecatonica  in 
Stephenson  County,  some  ten  miles  east  of  Free- 
port.  The  Rock  River  region  seems  to  have  been 
a  favorite  field  for  the  operations  of  the  mound- 
builders,  as  shown  by  the  number  and  variety  of 
these  structures,  extending  from  Sterling,  in 
Whiteside  County,  to  the  Wisconsin  State  line.  A 
large  number  of  these  were  to  be  found  in  the 
vicinity  of  the  Kishwaukee  River  in  the  south- 
eastern part  of  Winnebago  County.  The  famous 
prehistoric  fortification  on  Rock  River,  just 
beyond  the  Wisconsin  boundary — which  seems  to 
have  been  a  sort  of  counterpart  of  the  ancient 
Fort  Azatlan  on  the  Indiana  side  of  the  Wabash 
— appears  to  have  had  a  close  relation  to  the 
works  of  the  mound-builders  on  the  same  stream 
in  Illinois. 

MOUND  CITY,  the  county-seat  of  Pulaski 
County,  on  the  Ohio  River,  seven  miles  north  of 
Cairo;  is  on  a  branch  line  of  the  Illinois  Central 
and  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St. 
Louis  Railroad.  The  chief  industries  are  lumber- 
ing and  ship-building;  also  has  furniture,  canning 
and  other  factories.  One  of  the  United  States 
National  Cemeteries  is  located  here.  The  town 
has  a  bank  and  four  weekly  papers.  Population 
(1890),  2,550;  (1900),  2,705;  (1910),  2,837. 

MOUNT  CARMEL,  a  city  and  the  county-seat 
of  Wabash  County;  is  the  point  of  junction  of 
the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati.  Chicago  &  St.  Louis 
and  the  Southern  Railroads,  182  miles  northeast 
of  Cairo,  and  24  miles  southwest  of  Vincennes, 
Ind. ;  situated  on  the  Wabash  River,  which  sup- 
plies good  water-power  for  saw  mills,  flouring 
mills,  and  some  other  manufactures.  The  town 
has  railroad  shops  and  two  daily  and  two  weekly 
papers.  Agriculture  and  lumbering  are  the  prin- 
cipal pursuits  of  the  people  of  the  surrounding  dis- 
trict. Pop. (1890), 3,376;  (1900), 4,311;  (1910),6,934. 

MOUNT  CARROLL,  the  county-seat  of  Carroll 
County,  an  incorporated  city,  founded  in  1843; 
is  128  miles  southwest  of  Chicago,  on  the  Chi- 
cago, Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railroad.  Farming, 
stock-raising  and  mining  are  the  principal  indus- 


tries. It  has  five  churches,  excellent  schools, 
good  libraries,  two  daily  and  two  semi-weekly 
newspapers.  Pop.  (1900),  1,965;  (1910),  1,759. 

MOUNT  CARROLL  SEMINARY,  a  young 
ladies'  seminary,  located  at  Mount  Carroll,  Carroll 
County;  incorporated  in  1852;  had  a  faculty  of 
thirteen  members  in  1896,  with  126  pupils,  prop- 
erty valued  at  $100,000,  and  a  library  of  5,000 
volumes. 

MOUNT  MORRIS,  a  town  in  Ogle  County,  situ- 
ated on  the  Chicago  &  Iowa  Division  of  the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  108  miles 
west  by  north  from  Chicago,  and  24  miles  south- 
west of  Rockford;  is  the  seat  of  Mount  Morris 
College  and  flourishing  public  school;  has  hand- 
some stone  and  brick  buildings,  three  churches 
and  two  weekly  papers.  Pop.  (1910),  1,132. 

MOUNT  OLIVE,  a  village  of  Macoupin  County, 
on  the  Chicago,  Peoria  &  St.  Louis  and  the 
Wabash  Railways,  68  miles  southwest  of  Decatur ; 
in  a  rich  agricultural  and  coal-mining  region. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,986;  (1900),  2,935;  (1910),  3,501. 

MOUNT  PULASKI,  a  village  and  railroad  junc- 
tion in  Logan  County,  21  miles  northwest  of 
Decatur  and  24  miles  northeast  of  Springfield. 
Agriculture,  coal-mining  and  stock-raising  are 
leading  industries.  It  is  also  an  important  ship- 
ping point  for  grain,  and  contains  several 
elevators  and  flouring  mills.  Population  (1880), 
1,125;  (1890),  1,357;  (1900),  1,643;  (1910),  1,511. 

MOUNT  STERLING,  a  city,  the  county-seat  of 
Brown  County,  midway  between  Quincy  and 
Jacksonville,  on  the  Wabash  Railway.  It  is  sur- 
rounded by  a  rich  farming  country,  and  has  ex- 
tensive deposits  of  clay  and  coal.  It  contains  six 
churches  and  four  schools  (two  large  public,  and 
two  parochial).  The  town  is  lighted  by  elec- 
tricity and  has  public  water-works.  Wagons, 
brick,  tile  and  earthenware  are  manufactured 
here;  city  also  has  carding  and  flouring  mills,  and 
one  semi- weekly  and  one  weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1890) 
1,655;  (1900),  1,960;  (1910),  1,986. 

MOUNT  VERNON,  a  city  and  county-seat  of 
Jefferson  County,  on  three  trunk  lines  of  railroad, 
77  miles  east-southeast  of  St.  Louis;  is  the  center 
of  a  rich  agricultural  and  coal  region ;  has  many 
flourishing  manufactories,  including  car-works,  a 
plow  factory,  flouring  mills,  pressed  brick  fac- 
tory, canning  factory,  and  is  an  important  ship- 
ping-point for  grain,  vegetables  and  fruits.  The 
Appellate  Court  for  the  Southern  Grand  Division 
is  held  here,  and  the  city  has  nine  churches,  fine 
school  buildings,  a  Carnegie  library,  two  banks, 
heating  plant,  two  daily  and  two  weekly  papers. 
Pop.  (1890),  3,233;  (1900),  5,216;  (1910),  8,007. 


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MOUNT  VERNON  &  GRAYVILLE  RAILROAD. 

(See  Peoria,  Decatur  &  Evansville  Railway.) 

MO  WE  AQUA,  a  village  of  Shelby  County,  on 
the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  16  miles  south  of 
Decatur;  is  in  rich  agricultural  and  stock-raising 
section;  has  coal  mine,  three  banks  and  two 
newspapers.  Pop.  (1900),  1,478;  (1910),  1,513. 

MUDD,  (Col.)  John  J.,  soldier,  was  born  in 
St.  Charles  County,  Mo.,  Jan.  9,  1820;  his  father 
having  died  in  1833,  his  mother  removed  to  Pike 
County,  111.,  to  free  her  children  from  the  influ- 
ence of  slavery.  In  1849,  and  again  in  1850,  he 
made  the  overland  journey  to  California,  each 
time  returning  by  the  Isthmus,  his  last  visit  ex- 
tending into  1851.  In  1854  he  engaged  in  the 
commission  business  in  St.  Louis,  as  head  of  the 
firm  of  Mudd  &  Hughes,  but  failed  in  the  crash 
of  1857;  then  removed  to  Chicago,  and,  in  1861, 
was  again  in  prosperous  business.  While  on  a 
business  visit  in  New  Orleans,  in  December,  1860, 
he  had  an  opportunity  of  learning  the  growing 
spirit  of  secession,  being  advised  by  friends  to 
leave  the  St.  Charles  Hotel  in  order  to  escape  a 
mob.  In  September,  1861,  he  entered  the  army 
as  Major  of  the  Second  Illinois  Cavalry  (Col. 
Silas  Noble),  and,  in  the  next  few  months,  was 
stationed  successively  at  Cairo,  Bird's  Point  and 
Paducah,  Ky.,  and,  in  February,  1862,  led  the 
advance  of  General  McClernand's  division  in  the 
attack  on  Fort  Donelson.  Here  he  was  severely 
wounded ;  but,  after  a  few  weeks  in  hospital  at  St. 
Louis,  was  sufficiently  recovered  to  rejoin  his 
regiment  soon  after  the  battle  of  Shiloh.  Unable 
to  perform  cavalry  duty,  he  was  attached  to  the 
staff  of  General  McClernand  during  the  advance 
on  Corinth,  but,  in  October  following,  at  the  head 
of  400  men  of  his  regiment,  was  transferred  to 
the  command  of  General  McPherson.  Early  in 
1863  he  was  promoted  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and 
soon  after  to  a  colonelcy,  taking  part  in  the 
movement  against  Vicksburg.  June  13,  he  was 
again  severely  wounded,  but,  a  few  weeks  later, 
was  on  duty  at  New  Orleans,  and  subsequently 
participated  in  the  operations  in  Southwestern 
Louisiana  and  Texas.  On  May  1,  1864,  he  left 
Baton  Rouge  for  Alexandria,  as  Chief  of  Staff  to 
General  McClernand,  but  two  days  later,  while 
approaching  Alexandria  on  board  the  steamer, 
was  shot  through  the  head  and  instantly  killed. 
He  was  a  gallant  soldier  and  greatly  beloved  by 
his  troops. 

MULBERRY GROVE,  a  village  of  Bond  County, 
on  the  Terre  Haute  &  Indianapolis  (Vandalia) 
Railroad,  8  miles  northeast  of  Greenville;  has  a 
local  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  632;  (1910),  716. 


MULLIGAJf,  James  A.,  soldier,  was  born  of 
Irish  parentage  at  Utica,  N.  Y.,  June  25,  1830;  in 
1836  accompanied  his  parents  to  Chicago,  and, 
after  graduating  from  the  University  of  St. 
Mary's  of  the  Lake,  in  1850,  began  the  study  of 
law.  In  1851  he  accompanied  John  Lloyd  Ste- 
phens on  his  expedition  to  Panama,  and  on  his 
return  resumed  his  professional  studies,  at  the 
same  time  editing  "The  Western  Tablet,"  a 
weekly  Catholic  paper.  At  the  outbreak  of  the 
Rebellion  he  recruited,  and  was  made  Colonel  of 
the  Twenty-third  Illinois  Regiment,  known  as 
the  Irish  Brigade.  He  served  with  great  gallan- 
try, first  in  the  West  and  later  in  the  East,  being 
severely  wounded  and  twice  captured.  He 
declined  a  Brigadier-Generalship,  preferring  to 
remain  with  his  regiment.  He  was  fatally 
wounded  during  a  charge  at  the  battle  of  Win- 
chester. While  being  carried  off  the  field  he 
noticed  that  the  colors  of  his  brigade  were  en- 
dangered. "Lay  me  down  and  save  the  flag,"  he 
ordered.  His  men  hesitated,  but  he  repeated  the 
command  until  it  was  obeyed.  Before  they 
returned  he  had  been  borne  away  by  the  enemy, 
and  died  a  prisoner,  at  Winchester,  Va.,  July  26, 
1864. 

MUNN,  Daniel  W.,  lawyer  and  soldier,  was 
born  in  Orange  County,  Vt.,  in  1834;  graduated 
at  Thetford  Academy  in  1852,  when  he  taught 
two  years,  meanwhile  beginning  the  study  of 
law.  Removing  to  Coles  County,  111.,  in  1855,  he 
resumed  his  law  studies,  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1858,  and  began  practice  at  Hillsboro,  Mont- 
gomery County.  In  1862  he  joined  the  One 
Hundred  and  Twenty-sixth  Regiment  Illinois 
Volunteers,  with  the  rank  of  Adjutant,  but  the 
following  year  was  appointed  Colonel  of  the  First 
Alabama  Cavalry.  Compelled  to  retire  from  the 
service  on  account  of  declining  health,  he  re- 
turned to  Cairo,  111.,  where  he  became  editor  of 
"The  Daily  News";  in  1866  was  elected  to  the 
State  Senate,  serving  four  years;  served  as  Presi- 
dential Elector  in  1868 ;  was  the  Republican  nomi- 
nee for  Congress  in  1870,  and  the  following  year 
was  appointed  by  President  Grant  Supervisor  of 
Internal  Revenue  for  the  District  including  the 
States  of  Illinois,  Michigan  and  Wisconsin. 
Removing  to  Chicago,  he  began  practice  there  in 
1875,  in  which  he  has  since  been  engaged.  He 
has  been  prominently  connected  with  a  number 
of  important  cases  before  the  Chicago  courts. 

MTJNJf,  Sylvester  W.,  lawyer,  soldier  and  legis- 
lator, was  born  about  1818,  and  came  from  Ohio 
at  thirty  years  of  age,  settling  at  Wilmington, 
Will  County,  afterwards  removing  to  Joliet, 


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PLAT  OF  LAND  OWNED  BY  PATRICK  HOWARD 

Known  as  the  Beaver-Dam  Farm — Situated  in  Town  13  North,  Range  4  West  of  the 
Third  P.  M.,  in  Sangamon  County,  Illinois — Containing  1880  Acres— Showing  previous  own- 
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where  he  practiced  law.  During  the  War  he 
served  as  Major  of  the  Yates  Phalanx  (Thirty- 
ninth  Illinois  Volunteers) ;  later,  was  State's 
Attorney  for  Will  County  and  State  Senator  in 
the  Thirty-first  and  Thirty-second  General 
Assemblies.  Died,  at  Joliet,  Sept.  11,  1888.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Illinois  State  Bar  Associ- 
ation from  its  organization. 

MURPHY,  Everett  J.,  ex-Member  of  Con- 
gress, was  born  in  Nashville,  111.,  July  24,  1852; 
in  early  youth  removed  to  Sparta,  where  he  was 
educated  in  the  high  schools  of  that  place ;  at  the 
age  of  fourteen  he  became  clerk  in  a  store;  in 
1877  was  elected  City  Clerk  of  Sparta,  but  the 
next  year  resigned  to  become  Deputy  Circuit 
Clerk  at  Chester,  remaining  until  1882,  when  he 
was  elected  Sheriff  of  Randolph  County.  In 
1886  he  was  chosen  a  Representative  in  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  and,  in  1889,  was  appointed,  by 
Governor  Fifer,  Warden  of  the  Southern  Illinois 
Penitentiary  at  Chester,  but  retired  from  this 
position  in  1892,  and  removed  to  East  St.  Louis. 
Two  years  later  he  was  elected  as  a  Republican 
to  the  Fifty-fourth  Congress  for  the  Twenty-first 
District,  but  was  defeated  for  re-election  by  a 
small  majority  in  1896,  by  Jehu  Baker,  Democrat 
and  Populist.  In  1899  Mr.  Murphy  was  appointed 
Warden  of  the  State  Penitentiary  at  Joliet,  to 
succeed  Col.  R.  W.  McClaughry. 

MURPHYSBORO,  the  county-seat  of  Jackson 
County,  situated  on  the  Big  Muddy  River  and  on 
main  line  of  the  Mobile  &  Ohio,  the  St.  Louis 
Division  of  the  Illinois  Central,  and  a  branch  of 
the  St.  Louis  Valley  Railroads,  52  miles  north  of 
Cairo  and  90  miles  south-southeast  of  St.  Louis. 
Coal  of  a  superior  quality  is  extensively  mined  in 
the  vicinity.  The  city  has  a  foundry,  machine 
shops,  skewer  factory,  furniture  factory,  flour 
and  saw  mills,  thirteen  churches,  four  schools, 
three  banks,  two  daily  and  two  weekly  newspapers, 
city  and  rural  free  mail  delivery.  Population  (1890), 
3,380;  (1900),  6,463;  (1910),  7,485. 

MURPHYSBORO  &  SHAWBTEETOWN  RAIL. 
ROAD.  (See  Carbondale  &  Shawneetown,  St. 
Louis  Southern  and  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre 
Haute  Railroads.) 

NAPERVILLE,  a  city  of  Du  Page  County,  on 
the  west  branch  of  the  Du  Page  River  and  on  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  80  miles 
west-southwest  of  Chicago,  and  9  miles  east  of 
Aurora.  It  has  three  banks,  a  weekly  newspaper, 
stone  quarries,  couch  factory,  and  nine  churches; 
is  also  the  seat  of  the  Northwestern  College,  an 
institution  founded  in  1861  by  the  Evangelical 


Association ;  the  college  now  has  a  normal  school 
department.    Pop.  (1900),  2,629;  (1910),  3,449. 

NAPLES,  a  town  of  Scott  County,  on  the  Illi- 
nois River  and  the  Hannibal  and  Naples  branch 
of  the  Wabash  Railway,  21  miles  west  of  Jackson- 
ville. Pop.  (1900),  398;  (1910),  457. 

NASHYILLE,  an  incorporated  city,  the  county- 
seat  of  Washington  County,  on  the  Centralia  & 
Chester  and  the  Louisville  &  Nashville  Railways; 
is  120  miles  south  of  Springfield  and  50  miles  east 
by  south  from  St.  Louis.  It  stands  in  a  coal- 
producing  and  rich  agricultural  region.  There 
are  two  coal  mines  within  the  corporate  limits, 
and  two  large  flouring  mills  do  a  considerable 
business.  There  are  numerous  churches,  public 
schools,  including  a  high  school,  a  State  bank, 
and  five  weekly  papers,  two  of  them  German.  Pop. 
(1890),  2,084;  (1900),  2,184;  (1910),  2,135. 

NAUVOO,  a  city  in  Hancock  County,  at  the 
head  of  the  Lower  Rapids  on  the  Mississippi, 
between  Fort  Madison  and  Keokuk,  Iowa.  It 
was  founded  by  the  Mormons  in  1840,  and  its 
early  growth  was  rapid.  After  the  expulsion  of 
the  "Saints"  in  1846,  it  was  settled  by  a  colony  of 
French  Icarians,  who  introduced  the  culture  of 
grapes  on  a  large  scale.  They  were  a  sort  of 
communistic  order,  bat  their  experiment  did  not 
prove  a  success,  and  in  a  few  years  they  gave 
place  to  another  class,  the  majority  of  the  popu- 
lation now  being  of  German  extraction.  The 
chief  industries  are  agriculture  and  horticulture. 
Large  quantities  of  grapes  and  strawberries  are 
raised  and  shipped,  and  considerable  native  wine 
is  produced.  Nauvoo  was  founded  adjacent  to  the 
original  town  of  Commerce.  Pop.  (1900),  1,321; 
(1910),  1,020.  (See  also  Mormons.) 

NAVIGABLE  STREAMS  (by  Statute).  Fol- 
lowing the  example  of  the  French  explorers,  who 
chiefly  followed  the  water-ways  in  their  early 
explorations,  the  early  permanent  settlers  of  Illi- 
nois, not  only  settled,  to  a  great  extent,  on  the 
principal  streams,  but  later  took  especial  pains  to 
maintain  their  navigable  character  by  statute. 
This  was,  of  course,  partly  due  to  the  absence  of 
improved  highways,  but  also  to  the  belief  that, 
as  the  country  developed,  the  streams  would 
become  extremely  valuable,  if  not  indispensable, 
especially  in  the  transportation  of  heavy  commod- 
ities. Accordingly,  for  the  first  quarter  century 
after  the  organization  of  the  State  Government, 
one  of  the  questions  receiving  the  attention  of 
the  Legislature,  at  almost  every  session,  was  the 
enactment  of  laws  affirming  the  navigability  of 
certain  streams  now  regarded  as  of  little  impor- 
tance, or  utterly  insignificant,  as  channels  of 


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transportation.  Legislation  of  this  character 
began  with  the  first  General  Assembly  (1819), 
and  continued,  at  intervals,  with  reference  to 
one  or  two  of  the  more  important  interior  rivers 
of  the  State,  as  late  as  1867.  Besides  the  Illinois 
and  Wabash,  still  recognized  as  navigable 
streams,  the  following  were  made  the  subject  of 
legislation  of  this  character:  Beaucoup  Creek,  a 
branch  of  the  Big  Muddy,  in  Perry  and  Jackson 
Counties  (law  of  1819);  Big  Bay,  a  tributary  of 
the  Ohio  in  Pope  County  (Acts  of  1833);  Big 
Muddy,  to  the  junction  of  the  East  and  West 
Forks  in  Jefferson  County  (1835),  with  various 
subsequent  amendments ;  Big  Vermilion,  declared 
navigable  (1831) ;  Bon  Pas,  a  branch  of  the 
Wabash,  between  Wabash  and  Edwards  Coun- 
ties (1831) ;  Cache  River,  to  main  fork  in  Johnson 
County  (1819) ;  Des  Plaines,  declared  navigable 
(1839) ;  Embarras  (1831),  with  various  subsequent 
acts  in  reference  to  improvement;  Fox  River, 
declared  navigable  to  the  Wisconsin  line  (1840), 
and  Fox  River  Navigation  Company,  incorpo- 
rated (1855) ;  Kankakee  and  Iroquois  Navigation 
&  Manufacturing  Company,  incorporated  (1847), 
with  various  changes  and  amendments  (1851-65) ; 
Kaskaskia  (or  Okaw),  declared  navigable  to  a 
point  in  Fayette  County  north  of  Vandalia  (1819), 
with  various  modifying  acts  (1823-67) ;  Macoupin 
Creek,  to  Carrollton  and  Alton  road  (1837); 
Piasa,  declared  navigable  in  Jersey  and  Madison 
Counties  (1861) ;  Rock  River  Navigation  Com- 
pany, incorporated  (1841),  with  subsequent  acts 
(1845-67) ;  Sangamon  River,  declared  navigable 
to  Third  Principal  Meridian — east  line  of  Sanga- 
mon County— (1822),  and  the  North  Fork  of  same 
to  Champaign  County  (1845);  Sny-Carty  (a  bayou 
of  the  Mississippi),  declared  navigable  in  Pike 
and  Adams  Counties  (1859) ;  Spoon  River,  navi- 
gable to  Cameron's  mill  in  Fulton  County  (1835), 
with  various  modifying  acts  (1845-53);  Little 
Wabash  Navigation  Company,  incorporated 
and  river  declared  navigable  to  McCawley's 
bridge — probably  in  Clay  County — (1826),  with 
various  subsequent  acts  making  appropriations 
for  its  improvement;  Skillet  Fork  (a  branch 
of  the  Little  Wabash),  declared  navigable 
to  Slocum's  Mill  in  Marion  County  (1837),  and 
to  Ridgway  Mills  (1846).  Other  acts  passed  at 
various  times  declared  a  number  of  unim- 
portant streams  navigable,  including  Big  Creek 
in  Fulton  County,  Crooked  Creek  in  Schuyler 
County,  Lusk's  Creek  in  Pope  County,  McKee's 
Creek  in  Pike  County,  Seven  Mile  Creek  in  Ogle 
County,  besides  a  number  of  others'  of  similar 
character. 


NEALE,  THOMAS  M.,  pioneer  lawyer,  was 
born  in  Fauquier  County,  Va.,  1796;  while  yet  a 
child  removed  with  his  parents  to  Bowling  Green, 
Ky.,  and  became  a  common  soldier  in  the  War  of 
1812;  came  to  Springfield,  111.,  in  1824,  and  began 
the  practice  of  law ;  served  as  Colonel  of  a  regi- 
ment raised  in  Sangamon  and  Morgan  Counties 
for  the  Winnebago  War  (1827),  and  afterwards  as 
Surveyor  of  Sangamon  County,  appointing 
Abraham  Lincoln  as  his  deputy.  He  also  served 
as  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  for  a  number  of  years, 
at  Springfield.  Died,  August  7,  1840. 

NEECE,  William  H.,  ex-Congressman,  was 
born,  Feb.  26,  1831,  in  what  is  now  a  part  of 
Logan  County,  111.,  but  which  was  then  within  the 
limits  of  Sangamon ;  was  reared  on  a  farm  and 
attended  the  public  schools  in  McDonough 
County;  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1858,  and  was  afterwards  engaged  in 
practice.  His  political  career  began  in  1861, 
when  he  was  chosen  a  member  of  the  City  Coun- 
cil of  Macomb.  In  1864  he  was  elected  to  the 
Legislature,  and,  in  1869,  a  member  of  the  Con- 
stitutional Convention.  In  1871  he  was  again 
elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the  General  Assem- 
bly, and,  in  1878,  to  the  State  Senate.  From  1883 
to  1887  he  represented  the  Eleventh  Illinois  Dis- 
trict in  Congress,  as  a  Democrat,  but  was  defeated 
for  re-election  in  1890  by  William  H.  Gest, 
Republican.  Died  Jan.  3,  1909. 

NEGROES.    (See  Slavery  and  Slave  Laws.) 

NEOGA,  a  village  of  Cumberland  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Illinois  Central  and  the  Toledo, 
St.  Louis  &  Western  Railways,  20  miles  southwest 
of  Charleston;  has  a  bank,  one  newspaper,  some 
manufactories,  and  ships  grain,  hay,  fruit  and  live- 
stock. Pop.  (1900),  1,126;  (1910),  1,074. 

NEPOXSET,  a  village  and  station  on  the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  in  Bureau 
County,  4  miles  southwest  of  Mendota;  a  farming 
and  stock-growing  district.  Pop.  (1910),  542. 

NEW  ALBANY  &  ST.  LOUIS  RAILWAY. 
(See  Louisville,  Evansville  &  St.  Louis  (Consoli- 
dated) Railroad.) 

NEW  ATHENS,  a  village  of  St.  Clair  County, 
on  the  St.  Louis  &  Cairo  "Short  Line"  (now  Illi- 
nois Central)  Railroad,  at  the  crossing  of  the  Kas- 
kaskia River,  31  miles  southeast  of  St.  Louis ;  has 
one  newspaper,  foundries,  mills,  and  considerable 
grain  trade.  Pop.  (1900),  856;  (1910),  1,131. 

NEW  BERLIN,  a  village  of  Sangamon  County, 
on  the  Wabash  Railway,  17  miles  west  of  Spring- 
field. Pop.  (1880),  403;  (1900),  533;  (1910),  690. 

NEWBERRY  LIBRARY,  a  large  reference  li- 
brary, located  in  Chicago,  endowed  by  Walter  L. 


Art  Institute. 


Public   Library. 

Armour   Institute. 
PIJRLIC   BUILDINGS. 


Court-House. 


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Newberry,  an  early  business  man  of  Chicago,  who 
left  half  of  his  estate  (aggregating  over  $2,000,000) 
for  the  purpose.  The  property  bequeathed  was 
largely  in  real  estate,  which  has  since  greatly  in- 
creased in  value.  The  library  was  established  in 
temporary  quarters  in  1887,  and  the  first  section 
of  a  permanent  building  was  opened  in  the 
autumn  of  1893.  By  that  time  there  had  been 
accumulated  about  160,000  books  and  pamphlets. 
A  collection  of  nearly  fifty  portraits — chiefly  of 
eminent  Americans,  including  many  citizens  of 
Chicago — was  presented  to  the  library  by  G.  P.  A. 
Healy,  a  distinguished  artist,  since  deceased. 
The  site  of  the  building  occupies  an  entire  block, 
and  the  original  design  contemplates  a  handsome 
front  on  each  of  the  four  streets,  with  a  large 
rectangular  court  in  the  center.  The  section 
already  completed  is  massive  and  imposing,  and 
its  interior  is  admirably  adapted  to  the  purposes 
of  a  library,  and  at  the  same  time  rich  and 
beautiful.  When  completed,  the  building  will 
have  a  capacity  for  four  to  six  million  volumes. 

NEWBERRY,  Walter  C.,  ex-Congressman,  was 
born  at  Sangerfield,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  Dec. 
23,  1835.  Early  in  the  Civil  War  he  enlisted  as  a 
private,  and  rose,  step  by  step,  to  a  colonelcy,  and 
was  mustered  out  as  Brevet  Brigadier-General. 
In  1890  he  was  elected,  as  a  Democrat,  to  represent 
the  Fourth  Illinois  District  in  the  Fifty-second 
Congress  (1891-93).  His  home  is  in  Chicago. 

NEWBERRY,  Walter  L.,  merchant,  banker  and 
philanthropist,  was  born  at  East  Windsor,  Conn., 
Sept.  18,  1804,  descended  from  English  ancestry. 
He  was  President  Jackson's  personal  appointee 
to  the  United  States  Military  Academy  at  West 
Point,  but  was  prevented  from  taking  the  exami- 
nation by  sickness.  Subsequently  he  embarked  in 
business  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  going  to  Detroit  in 
1828,  and  settling  at  Chicago  in  1833.  After 
engaging  in  general  merchandising  for  several 
years,  he  turned  his  attention  to  banking,  in 
which  he  accumulated  a  large  fortune.  He  was 
a  prominent  and  influential  citizen,  serving 
several  terms  as  President  of  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation, and  being,  for  six  years,  the  President  of 
the  Chicago  Historical  Society.  He  died  at  sea, 
Nov.  6,  1868,  leaving  a  large  estate,  one-half  of 
which  he  devoted,  by  will,  to  the  founding  of  a 
free  reference  library  in  Chicago.  (See  Newberry 
Library. ) 

NEW  BOSTON,  a  city  of  Mercer  County,  on 
the  Mississippi  River,  at  the  western  terminus  of 
the  Galva  and  New  Boston  Division  of  the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  Railway.  Population 
(1890),  445;  (1900),  703;  (1910),  718. 


NEW  BADEN,  a  village  of  Clinton  County,  on 
the  Southern  Railway,  15  miles  east  of  Belleville. 
Pop.  (1900),  510;  (1910),  1,372. 

NEW  CANTON,  a  village  of  Pike  County,  on  the 
Quincy  and  St.  Louis  Division  of  the  Chicago, 
Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  20  miles  west  of 
Pittsfield,  in  agricultural  region;  has  a  bank  and 
one  newspaper.  Pop.  (1910),  473. 

NEW  DOUGLAS,  a  village  in  Madison  County, 
on  the  Toledo,  St.  Louis  &  Western  Railroad;  in 
farming  and  fruit-growing  region;  has  coal  mine, 
flour  mill  and  newspaper.  Population  (1910),  499. 

NEWELL,  John,  Railway  President,  was  born 
at  West  Newbury,  Mass.,  March  31,  1830,  being 
directly  descended  from  "Pilgrim"  stock.  At 
the  age  of  16  he  entered  the  employment  of  the 
Cheshire  Railroad  in  New  Hampshire.  Eighteen 
months  later  he  was  appointed  an  assistant  engi- 
neer on  the  Vermont  Central  Railroad,  and  placed 
in  charge  of  the  construction  of  a  10-mile  section 
of  the  line.  His  promotion  was  rapid,  and,  in 
1850,  he  accepted  a  responsible  position  on  the 
Champlain  &  St.  Lawrence  Railroad.  From  1850 
to  1856  he  was  engaged  in  making  surveys  for 
roads  in  Kentucky  and  New  York,  and,  during 
the  latter  year,  held  the  position  of  engineer  of 
the  Cairo  City  Company,  of  Cairo,  111.  In  1857  he 
entered  the  service  of  the  Illinois  Central  Rail- 
road Company,  as  Division  Engineer,  where  his 
remarkable  success  attracted  the  attention  of  the 
owners  of  the  old  Winona  &  St.  Peter  Railroad 
(now  a  part  of  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern 
system),  who  tendered  him  the  presidency.  This 
he  accepted,  but,  in  1864,  was  made  President  of 
the  Cleveland  &  Toledo  Railroad.  Four  years 
later,  he  accepted  the  position  of  General  Superin- 
tendent and  Chief  Engineer  of  the  New  York 
Central  Railroad,  but  resigned,  in  1869,  to  become 
Vice-President  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad. 
In  1871  he  was  elevated  to  the  presidency,  but 
retired  in  September,  1874,  to  accept  the  position 
of  General  Manager  of  the  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan 
Southern  Railroad,  of  which  he  was  elected 
President,  in  May,  1883,  and  continued  in  office 
until  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  at 
Youngstown,  Ohio,  August  25,  1894. 

NEWHALL,  (Dr.)  Horatio,  early  physician 
and  newspaper  publisher,  came  from  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  to  Galena,  111.,  in  1827,  and  engaged  in  min- 
ing and  smelting,  but  abandoned  this  business, 
the  following  year,  for  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion; soon  afterward  became  interested  in  the 
publication  of  "The  Miners'  Journal,"  and  still 
later  in  "The  Galena  Advertiser,"  with  which 
Hooper  Warren  and  Dr.  Philleo  were  associated. 


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In  1830  he  became  a  Surgeon  in  the  United  States 
Army,  and  was  stationed  at  Fort  Winnebago, 
but  retired  from  the  service,  in  1832,  and  returned 
to  Galena.  When  the  Black  Hawk  War  broke 
out  he  volunteered  his  services,  and,  by  order  of 
General  Scott,  was  placed  in  charge  of  a  military 
hospital  at  Galena,  of  which  he  had  control  until 
the  close  of  the  war.  The  difficulties  of  the  posi- 
tion were  increased  by  the  appearance  of  the 
Asiatic  cholera  among  the  troops,  but  he  seems 
to  have  discharged  his  duties  with  satisfaction 
to  the  military  authorities.  He  enjoyed  a  wide 
reputation  for  professional  ability,  and  had  an 
extensive  practice:  Died,  Sept.  19,  1870. 

NEWMAN,  a  city  of  Douglas  County,  on  the  Cin- 
cinnati, Hamilton  &  Dayton  Railway,  52  miles  east 
of  Decatur;  has  a  bank,  two  newspapers,  canning 
factory,  broom  factory,  electric  lights  and  large 
trade  in  agricultural  products  and  live-stock.  Pop. 
(1890),  990;  (1900),  1,166;  (1910),  1,264. 

NEWSPAPERS,  EARLY.  The  first  newspaper 
published  in  the  Northwest  Territory,  of  which 
the  present  State  of  Illinois,  at  the  time,  com- 
posed a  part,  was  "The  Centinel  of  the  Northwest 
Territory,"  established  at  Cincinnati  by  William 
Maxwell,  the  first  issue  appearing  in  November, 
1793.  This  was  also  the  first  newspaper  published 
west  of  the  Allegheny  Mountains.  In  1796  it  was 
sold  to  Edmund  Freeman  and  assumed  the  name 
of  "Freeman's  Journal."  Nathaniel  Willis 
(grandfather  of  N.  P.  Willis,  the  poet)  estab- 
lished "The  Scioto  Gazette,"  at  Chillicothe,  in 
1796.  "The  Western  Spy  and  Hamilton  Gazette" 
was  the  third  paper  in  Northwest  Territory  (also 
within  the  limits  of  Ohio),  founded  in  1799. 
Willis's  paper  became  the  organ  of  the  Terri- 
torial Government  on  the  removal  of  the  capital 
to  Chillicothe,  in  1800. 

The  first  newspaper  in  Indiana  Territory  (then 
including  Illinois)  was  established  by  Elihu  Stout 
at  Vincennes,  beginning  publication,  July  4, 1804. 
It  took  the  name  of  "The  Western  Sun  and  Gen- 
eral Advertiser,"  but  is  now  known  as  "The 
Western  Sun,"  having  had  a  continuous  exist- 
ence for  ninety-five  years. 

The  first  newspaper  published  in  Illinois  Terri- 
tory was  "The  Illinois  Herald,"  but,  owing  to  the 
absence  of  early  files  and  other  specific  records, 
the  date  of  its  establishment  has  been  involved 
in  some  doubt.  Its  founder  was  Matthew  Dun- 
can (a  brother  of  Joseph  Duncan,  who  was  after- 
wards a  member  of  Congress  and  Governor  of  the 
State  from  1834  to  1838),  and  its  place  of  pub- 
lication Kaskaskia,  at  that  time  the  Territorial 
capital.  Duncan,  who  was  a  native  of  Kentucky, 


brought  a  press  and  a  primitive  printer's  outfit 
with  him  from  that  State.  Gov.  John  Reynolds, 
who  came  as  a  boy  to  the  "Illinois  Country"  in 
1800,  while  it  was  still  a  part  of  the  "Northwest 
Territory,"  in  his  "Pioneer  History  of  Illinois," 
has  fixed  the  date  of  the  first  issue  of  this 
paper  in  1809,  the  same  year  in  which  Illinois 
was  severed  from  Indiana  Territory  and  placed 
under  a  separate  Territorial  Government.  There 
is  good  reason,  however,  for  believing  that  the 
Governor  was  mistaken  in  this  statement.  If 
Duncan  brought  his  press  to  Illinois  in  1809 — 
which  is  probable — it  does  not  seem  to  have  been 
employed  at  once  in  the  publication  of  a  news- 
paper, as  Hooper  Warren  (the  founder  of  the 
third  paper  established  in  Illinois)  says  it  "was 
for  years  only  used  for  the  public  printing." 
The  earliest  issue  of  "The  Illinois  Herald"  known 
to  be  in  existence,  is  No.  32  of  Vol.  II,  and  bears 
date,  April  18,  1816.  Calculating  from  .these 
data,  if  the  paper  was  issued  continuously  from 
its  establishment,  the  date  of  the  first  issue  would 
have  been  Sept.  6,  1814.  Corroborative  evidence 
of  this  is  found  in  the  fact  that  "The  Missouri 
Gazette,"  the  original  of  the  old  "Missouri  Repub- 
lican" (now  "The  St.  Louis  Republic"),  which 
was  established  in  1808,  makes  no  mention  of  the 
Kaskaskia  paper  before  1814,  although  communi- 
cation between  Kaskaskia  and  St.  Louis  was 
most  intimate,  and  these  two  were,  for  several 
years,  the  only  papers  published  west  of  Vin- 
cennes, Ind. 

In  August,  1817,  "The  Herald"  was  sold  to 
Daniel  P.  Cook  and  Robert  Blackwell,  and  the 
name  of  the  paper  was  changed  to  "The  Illinois 
Intelligencer."  Cook — who  had  previously  been 
Auditor  of  Public  Accounts  for  the  Territory,  and 
afterwards  became  a  Territorial  Circuit  Judge, 
the  first  Attorney-General  under  the  new  State 
Government,  and,  for  eight  years,  served  as  the 
only  Representative  in  Congress  from  Illinois — 
for  a  time  officiated  as  editor  of  "The  Intelli- 
gencer," while  Blackwell  (who  had  succeeded 
to  the  Auditorship)  had  charge  of  the  publication. 
The  size  of  the  paper,  which  had  been  four  pages 
of  three  wide  columns  to  the  page,  was  increased, 
by  the  new  publishers,  to  four  columns  to  the 
page.  On  the  removal  of  the  State  capital  to 
Vandalia,  in  1820,  "The  Intelligencer"  was 
removed  thither  also,  and  continued  under  its 
later  name,  afterwards  becoming,  after  a  change 
of  management,  an  opponent  of  the  scheme  for 
the  calling  of  a  State  Convention  to  revise  the 
State  Constitution  with  a  view  to  making  Illinois 
a  slave  State.  (See  Slavery  and  Slave  Laws.) 


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The  second  paper  established  on  Illinois  soil 
was  "The  Shawnee  Chief,"  which  began  publica- 
tion at  Shawneetown,  Sept.  5,  1818,  with  Henry 
Eddy — who  afterwards  became  a  prominent  law- 
yer of  Southern  Illinois — as  its  editor.  The  name 
of  "The  Chief"  was  soon  afterwards  changed  to 
"The  Illinois  Emigrant,"  and  some  years  later, 
became  "The  Shawneetown  Gazette."  Among 
others  who  were  associated  with  the  Shawnee- 
town paper,  in  early  days,  was  James  Hall,  after- 
wards a  Circuit  Judge  and  State  Treasurer,  and, 
without  doubt,  the  most  prolific  and  popular 
writer  of  his  day  in  Illinois.  Later,  he  estab- 
lished "The  Illinois  Magazine"  at  Vandalia,  sub- 
sequently removed  to  Cincinnati,  and  issued  under 
the  name  of  "The  Western  Monthly  Magazine." 
He  was  also  a  frequent  contributor  to  other  maga- 
zines of  that  period,  and  author  of  several  vol- 
umes, including  "Legends  of  the  West"  and 
"Border  Tales."  During  the  contest  over  the 
slavery  question,  in  1823-24,  "The  Gazette" 
rendered  valuable  service  to  the  anti-slavery 
party  by  the  publication  of  articles  in  opposition 
to  the  Convention  scheme,  from  the  pen  of  Morris 
Birkbeck  and  others. 

The  third  Illinois  paper— and,  in  1823-24,  the 
strongest  and  most  influential  opponent  of  the 
scheme  for  establishing  slavery  in  Illinois — was 
"The  Edwardsville  Spectator,"  which  began  pub- 
lication at  Edwardsville,  Madison  County,  May 
23,  1819.  Hooper  Warren  was  the  publisher  and 
responsible  editor,  though  he  received  valuable 
aid  from  the  pens  of  Governor  Coles,  George 
Churchill,  Rev.  Thomas  Lippincott,  Judge 
Samuel  D.  Lockwood,  Morris  Birkbeck  and 
others.  (See  Warren,  Hooper.)  Warren  sold 
"The  Spectator"  to  Rev.  Thomas  Lippincott  in 
1825,  and  was  afterwards  associated  with  papers 
at  Springfield,  Galena,  Chicago  and  elsewhere. 

The  agitation  of  the  slavery  question  (in  part, 
at  least)  led  to  the  establishment  of  two  new 
papers  in  1822.  The  first  of  these  was  "The 
Republican  Advocate,"  which  began  publication 
at  Kaskaskia,  in  April  of  that  year,  under  the 
management  of  Elias  Kent  Kane,  then  an  aspir- 
ant to  the  United  States  Senatorship.  After  his 
election  to  that  office  in  1824,  "The  Advocate" 
passed  into  the  hands  of  Robert  K.  Fleming,  who, 
after  a  period  of  suspension,  established  "The 
Kaskaskia  Recorder,"  but,  a  year  or  two  later, 
removed  to  Vandalia.  "The  Star  of  the  West" 
was  established  at  Edwardsville,  as  an  opponent 
of  Warren's  "Spectator,"  the  first  issue  making 
its  appearance,  Sept.  14,  1822,  with  Theophilus  W. 
Smith,  afterwards  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme 


Court,  as  its  reputed  editor.  A  few  months  later 
it  passed  into  new  hands,  a.nd,  in  August,  1823, 
assumed  the  name  of  "The  Illinois  Republican. " 
Both  "The  Republican  Advocate"  and  "The 
Illinois  Republican"  were  zealous  organs  of  the 
pro-slavery  party. 

With  the  settlement  of  the  slavery  question  in 
Illinois,  by  the  election  of  1824,  Illinois  journal- 
ism may  be  said  to  have  entered  upon  a  new  era. 
At  the  close  of  this  first  period  there  were  only 
five  papers  published  in  the  State — all  established 
within  a  period  of  ten  years;  and  one  of  these 
("The  Illinois  Republican,"  at  Edwardsville) 
promptly  ceased  publication  on  the  settlement  of 
the  slavery  question  in  opposition  to  the  views 
which  it  had  advocated.  The  next  period  of  fif- 
teen years  (1825-40)  was  prolific  in  the  establish- 
ment of  new  newspa.per  ventures,  as  might  be 
expected  from  the  rapid  increase  of  the  State  in 
population,  and  the  development  in  the  art  of 
printing  during  the  same  period.  "The  Western 
Sun,"  established  at  Belleville  (according  to  one 
report,  in  December,  1825,  and  according  to 
another,  in  the  winter  of  1827-28)  by  Dr.  Joseph 
Green,  appears  to  have  been  the  first  paper  pub- 
lished in  St.  Clair  County.  This  was  followed 
by  "The  Pioneer,"  begun,  April  25,  1829,  at  Rock 
Spring,  St.  Clair  County,  with  the  indomitable 
Dr.  John  M.  Peck,  author  of  "Peck's  Gazetteer," 
as  its  editor.  It  was  removed  in  1836  to  Upper 
Alton,  when  it  took  the  name  of  "The  Western 
Pioneer  and  Baptist  Banner."  Previous  to  this, 
however,  Hooper  Warren,  having  come  into  pos- 
session of  the  material  upon  which  he  had  printed 
"The  Edwardsville  Spectator,"  removed  it  to 
Springfield,  and,  in  the  winter  of  1826-27,  began 
the  publication  of  the  first  paper  at  the  present 
State  capital,  which  he  named  "The  Sangamo 
Gazette."  It  had  but  a  brief  existence.  During 
1830,  George  Forquer,  then  Attorney-General  of 
the  State,  in  conjunction  with  his  half-brother, 
Thomas  Ford  (afterwards  Governor),  was  engaged 
in  the  publication  of  a  paper  called  "The  Cour- 
ier," at  Springfield,  which  was  continued  only  a 
short  time.  The  earliest  paper  north  of  Spring- 
field appears  to  have  been  "The  Hennepin  Jour- 
nal," which  began  publication,  Sept.  15,  1827. 
"The  Sangamo  Journal"  —  now  "The  Illinois 
State  Journal,"  and  the  oldest  paper  of  continu- 
ous existence  in  the  State — was  established  at 
Springfield  by  Simeon  and  Josiah  Francis  (cous- 
ins from  Connecticut),  the  first  issue  bearing 
date,  Nov.  10,  1831.  Before  the  close  of  the  same 
year  James  G.  Edwards,  afterwards  the  founder 
of  "The  Burlington  (Iowa)  Hawkeye,"  began  the 


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publication  of  "The  Illinois  Patriot"  at  Jackson- 
ville. Another  paper,  established  the  same  year, 
was  "The  Gazette"  at  Vandalia,  then  the  State 
capital.  (See  Forquer,  George;  Ford,  Tliomas; 
Francis,  Simeon.) 

At  this  early  date  the  development  of  the  lead 
mines  about  Galena  had  made  that  place  a  center 
of  great  business  activity.  On  July  8,  1828, 
James  Jones  commenced  the  issue  of  "The 
Miners'  Journal, ' '  the  first  paper  at  Galena.  Jones 
died  of  cholera  in  1833,  and  his  paper  passed  into 
other  hands.  July  20,  1829,  "The  Galena  Adver- 
tiser and  Upper  Mississippi  Herald"  began  pub- 
lication, with  Drs.  Horatio  Newhall  and  Addison 
Philleo  as  editors,  and  Hooper  Warren  as  pub- 
lisher, but  appears  to  have  been  discontinued 
before  the  expiration  of  its  first  year.  "The 
Galenian"  was  established  as  a  Democratic  paper 
by  Philleo,  in  May,  1832,  but  ceased  publication  in 
September,  1836.  "The  Northwestern  Gazette 
and  Galena  Advertiser,"  founded  in  November, 
1834,  by  Loring  and  Bartlett  (the  last  named 
afterwards  one  of  the  founders  of  "The  Quincy 
Whig"),  has  had  a  continuous  existence,  being 
now  known  as  "The  Galena  Advertiser."  Benja- 
min Mills,  one  of  the  most  brilliant  lawyers  of 
his  time,  was  editor  of  this  paper  during  a  part 
of  the  first  year  of  its  publication. 

Robert  K.  Fleming,  who  has  already  been 
mentioned  as  the  successor  of  Elias  Kent  Kane 
in  the  publication  of  "The  Republican  Advocate," 
at  Kaskaskia,  later  published  a  paper  for  a  short 
time  at  Vandalia,  but,  in  1827,  removed  his 
establishment  to  Edwardsville,  where  he  began 
the  publication  of  "The  Corrector. "  The  latter 
was  continued  a  little  over  a  year,  when  it  was 
suspended.  He  then  resumed  the  publication  of 
"The  Recorder"  at  Kaskaskia.  In  December, 
1833,  he  removed  to  Belleville  and  began  the  pub- 
lication of  "The  St.  Clair  Gazette,"  which  after- 
wards passed,  through  various  changes  of  owners, 
under  the  names  of  "The  St.  Clair  Mercury"  and 
"Representative  and  Gazette."  This  was  suc- 
ceeded, in  1839,  by  "The  Belleville  Advocate," 
which  has  been  published  continuously  to  the 
present  time. 

Samuel  S.  Brooks  (the  father  of  Austin  Brooks, 
afterwards  of  "The  Quincy  Herald")  at  differ- 
ent times  published  papers  at  various  points 
in  the  State.  His  first  enterprise  was  "The 
Crisis"  at  Edwardsville,  which  he  changed 
to  "The  Illinois  Advocate,"  and,  at  the  close 
of  his  first  year,  sold  out  to  Judge  John 
York  Sawyer,  who  united  it  with  "The  Western 
Plowboy,"  which  he  had  established  a  few 


months  previous.  "The  Advocate"  was  removed 
to  Vandalia,  and,  on  the  death  of  the  owner  (who 
had  been  appointed  State  Printer),  was  consoli- 
dated with  "The  Illinois  Register,"  which  had 
been  established  in  1836.  The  new  paper  took  the 
name  of  "The  Illinois  Register  and  People's 
Advocate,"  in  1839  was  removed  to  Springfield, 
and  is  now  known  as  "The  Illinois  State  Regis- 
ter." 

Other  papers  established  between  1830  and  1840 
include:  "The  Vandalia  Whig"  (1831);  "The 
Alton  Spectator,"  the  first  paper  published  in 
Alton  (January,  1834);  "The  Chicago  Demo- 
crat," by  John  Calhoun  (Nov.  26,  1833);  "The 
Beardstown  Chronicle  and  Illinois  Bounty  Land 
Advertiser,"  by  Francis  A.  Arenz  (July  29,  1833) ; 
"The  Alton  American"  (1833);  "The  White 
County  News,"  at  Carmi  (1833);  "The  Danville 
Enquirer"  a833);  "The  Illinois  Champion,"  at 
Peoria  (1834);  "The  Mount  Carmel  Sentinel  and 
Wabash  Advocate"  (1834);  "The  Illinois  State 
Gazette  and  Jacksonville  News, ' '  at  Jacksonville 
(1835);  "The  Illinois  Argus  and  Bounty  Land 
Register,"  at  Quincy  (1835);  "The  Rushville 
Journal  and  Military  Tract  Advertiser"  (1835) ; 
"The  Alton  Telegraph"  (1836);  "The  Alton 
Observer"  (1836);  "The  Carthaginian,"  at  Car- 
thage (1836) ;  "The  Bloomington  Observer"  (1837) ; 
"The  Backwoodsman,"  founded  by  Prof.  John 
Russell,  at  Grafton,  and  the  first  paper  published 
in  Greene  County  (1837);  "The  Quincy  Whig" 
(1838) ;  "The  Illinois  Statesman,"  at  Paris,  Edgar 
County  (1838);  "The  Peoria  Register"  (1838). 
The  second  paper  to  be  established  in  Chicago 
was  "The  Chicago  American,"  whose  initial 
number  was  issued,  June  8,  1835,  with  Thomas  O. 
Davis  as  proprietor  and  editor.  In  July,  1837,  it 
passed  into  the  hands  of  William  Stuart  &  Co., 
and,  on  April  9,  1839,  its  publishers  began  the 
issue  of  the  first  daily  ever  published  in  Chicago. 
"The  Chicago  Express"  succeeded  "The  Ameri- 
can" in  1842,  and,  in  1844,  became  the  forerunner 
of  "The  Chicago  Journal."  The  third  Chicago 
paper  was  "The  Commercial  Advertiser," 
founded  by  Hooper  Warren,  in  1836.  It  lived 
only  about  a  year.  Zebina  Eastman,  who  was 
afterwards  associated  with  Warren,  and  became 
one  of  the  most  influential  journalistic  opponents 
of  slavery,  arrived  in  the  State  in  1839,  and,  in 
the  latter  part  of  that  year,  was  associated  with 
the  celebrated  Abolitionist,  Benjamin  Lundy,  in 
the  preliminary  steps  for  the  issue  of  "The 
Genius  of  Universal  Emancipation,"  projected 
by  Lundy  at  Lowell,  in  La  Salle  County.  Lundy's 
untimely  death,  in  August,  1839,  however,  pre- 


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vented  him  from  seeing  the  consummation  of  his 
plan,  although  Eastman  lived  to  carry  it  out  in 
part.  A  paper  whose  career,  although  extending 
only  a  little  over  one  year,  marked  an  era  in  Illi- 
nois journalism,  was  "The  Alton  Observer,"  its 
history  closing  with  the  assassination  of  its 
editor,  Rev.  Elijah  P.  Lovejoy,  on  the  night  of 
Nov.  8,  1837,  while  unsuccessfully  attempting  to 
protect  his  press  from  destruction,  for  the  fourth 
time,  by  a  pro-slavery  mob.  Humiliating  as  was 
this  crime  to  every  law-abiding  Illinoisan,  it 
undoubtedly  strengthened  the  cause  of  free 
speech  and  assisted  in  hastening  the  downfall  of 
the  institution  in  whose  behalf  it  was  committed. 
That  the  development  in  the  field  of  journal- 
ism, within  the  past  sixty  years,  has  more  than 
kept  pace  with  the  growth  in  population,  is 
shown  by  the  fact  that  there  is  not  a  county  in 
the  State  without  its  newspaper,  while  every 
town  of  a  few  hundred  population  has  either  one 
or  more.  According  to  statistics  for  1898,  there 
were  605  cities  and  towns  in  the  State  having 
periodical  publications  of  some  sort,  making  a 
total  of  1,709,  of  which  174  were  issued  daily,  34 
semi- weekly,  1,205  weekly,  28  semi-monthly,  238 
monthly,  and  the  remainder  at  various  periods 
ranging  from  tri-weekly  to  eight  times  a  year. 

NEWTON,  the  county -seat  of  Jasper  County, 
situated  on  the  Embarras  River,  at  the  intersec- 
tion of  subsidiary  lines  of  the  Illinois  Central 
Railroad  from  Peoria  and  Efflngham;  is  an  in- 
corporated city,  was  settled  in  1828,  and  made  the 
county-seat  in  1836.  Agriculture,  coal-mining 
and  dairy  farming  are  the  principal  pursuits  in 
the  surrounding  region.  The  city  has  water- 
power,  which  is  utilized  to  some  extent  in  manu- 
facturing, but  most  of  its  factories  are  operated 
by  steam.  Among  these  establishments  are  flour 
and  saw  mills,  and  grain  elevators.  There  are  a 
half-dozen  churches,  a  good  public  school  system, 
including  parochial  school  and  high  school, 
besides  two  banks,  two  weekly  and  one  monthly 
paper.  Pop.  (1900),  1,630;  (1910),  2,108. 

NEW  YORK,  CHICAGO  &  ST.  LOUIS  RAIL- 
WAY (Nickel  Plate),  a  line  522.47  miles  in  length, 
of  which  (1898)  only  9.96  miles  are  operated  in 
Illinois.  It  owns  no  track  in  Illinois,  but  uses 
the  track  of  the  Chicago  &  State  Line  Railroad 
(9.96  miles  in  length),  of  which  it  has  financial 
control,  to  enter  the  city  of  Chicago.  The  total 
capitalization  of  the  New  York,  Chicago  &  St. 
Louis,  in  1898,  is  $50,222,568,  of  which  $19,425,000 
is  in  bonds.— (HISTORY.)  The  New  York,  Chi- 
cago &  St.  Louis  Railroad  was  incorporated  under 
the  laws  of  New  York,  Pennsylvania,  Ohio, 


Indiana  and  Illinois  in  1881,  construction  begun 
immediately,  and  the  road  put  in  operation  in 
1882.  In  1885  it  passed  into  the  hands  of  a 
receiver,  was  sold  under  foreclosure  in  1887,  and 
reorganized  by  the  consolidation  of  various  east- 
ern lines  with  the  Fort  Wayne  &  Illinois  Railroad, 
forming  the  line  under  its  present  name.  The 
road  between  Buffalo,  N.  Y. ,  and  the  west  line  of 
Indiana  is  owned  by  the  Company,  but,  for  its 
line  in  Illinois,  it  uses  the  track  of  the  Chicago  & 
State  Line  Railroad,  of  which  it  is  the  lessee,  as 
well  as  the  owner  of  its  capital  stock.  The  main 
line  of  the  "Nickel  Plate"  is  controlled  by  the 
Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  Railway,  which 
owns  more  than  half  of  both  the  preferred  and 
common  stock. 

NIANTIC,  a  town  in  Macon  County,  on  the 
Wabash  Railway,  27  miles  east  of  Springfield. 
Agriculture  is  the  leading  industry.  The  town 
has  three  elevators,  three  churches,  school,  coal 
mine,  a  newspaper  and  a  bank.  Pop.  (1910),  685. 

NICOLAY,  John  George,  author,  was  born  in 
Essingen,  Bavaria,  Feb.  26,  1832;  at  6  years  of  age 
was  brought  to  the  United  States,  lived  for  a 
time  in  Cincinnati,  attending  the  public  schools 
there,  and  then  came  to  Illinois;  at  16  entered  the 
office  of  "The  Pike  County  Free  Press"  at  Pitts- 
field,  and,  while  still  in  his  minority,  became 
editor  and  proprietor  of  the  paper.  In  1857  he 
became  Assistant  Secretary  of  State  under  O.  M. 
Hatch,  the  first  Republican  Secretary,  but  during 
Mr.  Lincoln's  candidacy  for  President,  in  1860, 
aided  him  as  private  secretary,  also  acting  as  a 
correspondent  of  "The  St.  Louis  Democrat." 
After  the  election  he  was  formally  selected  by 
Mr.  Lincoln  as  his  private  secretary,  accompany- 
ing him  to  Washington  and  remaining  until  Mr. 
Lincoln's  assassination.  In  1865  he  was  appointed 
United  States  Consul  at  Paris,  remaining  until 
1869;  on  his  return  for  some  time  edited  "The 
Chicago  Republican";  was  also  Marshal  of  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court  in  Washington 
from  1872  to  1887.  Mr.  Nicolay  was  author,  in  col- 
laboration with  John  Hay,  of  "Abraham  Lincoln: 
A  History,"  first  published  serially  in  "The  Cen- 
tury Magazine,"  and  later  issued  in  ten  volumes; 
of  "The  Outbreak  of  the  Rebellion"  and  "Cam- 
paigns of  the  Civil  War,"  besides  numerous  magazine 
articles.  Died  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  Sept.  26,  1901. 

NICOLET,  Jean,  early  French  explorer,  came 
from  Cherbourg,  France,  in  1618,  and,  for  several 
years,  lived  among  the  Algonquins,  whose  lan- 
guage he  learned  and  for  whom  he  acted  as 
interpreter.  On  July  4,  1634,  he  discovered  Lake 
Michigan,  then  called  the  "Lake  of  the  Illinois," 


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and  visited  the  Chippewas,  Menominees  and 
Winnebagoes,  in  the  region  about  Green  Bay, 
among  whom  he  was  received  kindly.  From  the 
Mascoutins,  on  the  Fox  River  (of  Wisconsin),  he 
learned  of  the  Illinois  Indians,  some  of  whose 
northern  villages  he  also  visited.  He  subse- 
quently returned  to  Quebec,  where  he  was 
drowned,  in  October,  1642.  He  was  probably  the 
first  Caucasian  to  visit  Wisconsin  and  Illinois. 

NILES,  Nathaniel,  lawyer,  editor  and  soldier, 
born  at  Plainfield,  Otsego  County,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  4, 
1817;  attended  an  academy  at  Albany,  from  1830 
to  '34,  was  licensed  to  practice  law  and  removed 
west  in  1837,  residing  successively  at  Delphi  and 
Frankfort,  Ind.,  and  at  Owensburg,  Ky.,  until 
1842,  when  he  settled  in  Belleville,  111.  In  1846 
he  was  commissioned  a  First  Lieutenant  in  the 
Second  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers  (Colonel 
Bissell's)  for  the  Mexican  War,  but,  after  the 
battle  of  Buena  Vista,  was  promoted  by  General 
Wool  to  the  captaincy  of  an  independent  com- 
pany of  Texas  foot.  He  was  elected  Chief  Clerk 
of  the  House  of  Representatives  at  the  session  of 
1849,  and  the  same  year  was  chosen  County 
Judge  of  St.  Clair  County,  serving  until  1861. 
With  the  exception  of  brief  periods  from  1851  to 
>59,  he  was  editor  and  part  owner  of  "The  Belle- 
ville Advocate,"  a  paper  originally  Democratic, 
but  which  became  Republican  on  the  organiza- 
tion of  the  Republican  party.  In  1861  he  was 
appointed  Colonel  of  the  Fifty-fourth  Illinois 
Volunteer  Infantry,  but  the  completion  of  its 
organization  having  been  delayed,  he  resigned, 
and,  the  following  year,  was  commissioned  Colo- 
nel of  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirtieth,  serving 
until  May,  1864,  when  he  resigned — in  March, 
1865,  receiving  the  compliment  of  a  brevet  Briga- 
dier-Generalship. During  the  winter  of  1862  63 
he  was  in  command  at  Memphis,  but  later  took 
part  in  the  Vicksburg  campaign,  and  in  the  cam- 
paigns on  Red  River  and  Bayou  Teche.  After 
the  war  he  served  as  Representative  in  the 
General  Assembly  from  St.  Clair  County  (1865-66) ; 
as  Trustee  of  the  Institution  for  the  Deaf  and 
Dumb  at  Jacksonville;  on  the  Commission  for 
building  the  State  Penitentiary  at  Joliet,  and  as 
Commissioner  (by  appointment  of  Governor 
Oglesby)  for  locating  the  Soldiers'  Orphans' 
Home.  His  later  years  have  been  spent  chiefly  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession,  with  occasional  excursions 
into  journalism.  Originally  a  Democrat,  he  became 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  Republican  party  in 
Southern  Illinois.  Died  Sept.  16,  1900. 

NIXON,  William  IVnn.  journalist,  Collector  of 
Customs,  was  born  in  Wayne  County,  Ind.,  of 


North  Carolina  and  Quaker  ancestry,  early  in 
1832.  In  1853  he  graduated  from  Farmers'  (now 
Belmont)  College,  near  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  After 
devoting  two  years  to  teaching,  hs  entered  the 
law  department  of  the  University  oi  Pennsyl- 
vania (1855),  graduating  in  1859.  For  nine  years 
thereafter  he  practiced  law  at  Cincinnati,  during 
which  period  he  was  thrice  elected  to  the  Ohio 
Legislature.  In  1868  he  embarked  in  journalism, 
he  and  his  older  brother,  Dr.  O.  W.  Nixon,  with 
'a  few  friends,  founding  "The  Cincinnati  Chron- 
icle." A  few  years  later  "The  Times"  was  pur- 
chased, and  the  two  papers  were  consolidated 
under  the  name  of  "The  Times-Chronicle."  In 
May,  1872,  having  disposed  of  his  interests  in 
Cincinnati,  he  assumed  the  business  manage- 
ment of  "The  Chicago  Inter  Ocean,"  then  a  new 
venture  and  struggling  for  a  foothold.  In  1875 
he  and  his  brother,  Dr.  O.  W.  Nixon,  secured  a 
controlling  interest  in  the  paper,  when  the 
former  assumed  the  position  of  editor-in-chief, 
which  he  continued  to  occupy  until  1897,  when 
he  was  appointed  Collector  of  Customs  for  the 
City  of  Chicago,  serving  two  terms. 

NOKOMIS,  a  city  of  Montgomery  County,  on  the 
Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Rail- 
road, 81  miles  east  by  north  from  St.  Louis  and 
52  miles  west  of  Mattoon;  in  important  grain- 
growing  and  hay-producing  section ;  has  water- 
works, electric  lights,  three  flour  mills,  two 
machine  shops,  wagon  factory,  creamery,  seven 
churches,  high  school,  two  banks  and  three 
papers;  is  noted  for  shipments  of  poultry,  butter 
and  eggs.  Pop.  (1900),  1,371;  (1910),  1,872. 

NORMAL,  a  city  in  McLean  County,  2  miles 
north  of  Bloomington  and  124  southwest  of  Chi- 
cago; at  intersecting  point  of  the  Chicago  & 
Alton  and  the  Illinois  Central  Railroads.  It  lies 
in  a  rich  coal  and  agricultural  region,  and  has 
extensive  fruit-tree  nurseries,  two  canning  fac- 
tories, one  bank,  hospital,  and  four  periodicals. 
It  is  the  seat  of  the  Soldiers'  Orphans'  Home, 
founded  in  1869,  and  the  Illinois  State  Normal 
University,  founded  in  1857;  has  city  and  rural 
mail  delivery.  Pop.  (1900),  3,795;  (1910),  4,024. 

NORMAL  UNIVERSITIES.  (See  Southern 
Illinois  Normal  University;  State  Normal  Uni- 
versity.) 

NORRIS  CITY,  a  village  of  White  County,  on  the 
Bait.  &  Ohio  S.  W.  and  Big  Four  R.Rs.  fruit  and 
grain-growing  region.  Pop.  (1900), 868;  (1910),  1,055. 

NORTHCOTT,  William  A.,  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor,  was  born  in  Murfreesboro,  Tenn.,  Jan.  28, 
1854— the  son  of  Gen.  R.  S.  Northcott,  whose 
loyalty  to  the  Union,  at  the  beginning  of  the 


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Rebellion,  compelled  him  to  leave  his  Southern 
home  and  seek  safety  for  himself  and  family  in 
the  North.  He  went  to  West  Virginia,  was  com- 
missioned Colonel  of  a  regiment  and  served 
through  the  war,  being  for  some  nine  months  a 
prisoner  in  Libby  Prison.  After  acquiring  his 
literary  education  in  the  public  schools,  the 
younger  Northcott  spent  some  time  in  the  Naval 
Academy  at  Annapolis,  Md.,  after  which  he  was 
engaged  in  teaching.  Meanwhile,  he  was  prepar- 
ing for  the  practice  of  law  and  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1877,  two  years  later  coming  to  Green- 
ville, Bond  County,  111.,  which  has  since  been  his 
home.  In  1880,  by  appointment  of  President 
Hayes,  he  served  as  Supervisor  of  the  Census  for 
the  Seventh  District;  in  1882  was  elected  State's 
Attorney  for  Bond  County  and  re-elected  suc- 
cessively in  '84  and  '88 ;  in  1890  was  appointed  on 
the  Board  of  Visitors  to  the  United  States  Naval 
Academy,  and,  by  selection  of  the  Board, 
delivered  the  annual  address  to  the  graduating 
class  of  that  year.  In  1892  he  was  the  Repub- 
lican nominee  for  Congress  for  the  Eighteenth  Dis- 
trict, but  was  defeated  in  the  general  landslide  of 
that  year.  In  1896  he  was  more  fortunate,  being 
elected  Lieutenant-Governor  by  the  vote  of  the 
State,  receiving  a  plurality  of  over  137,000  over 
his  Democratic  opponent;  was  re-elected  in  1900, 
serving  two  terms  and  at  the  present  time  (1911)  is 
serving  his  third  term  as  U.  S.  District  Attorney 
for  the  Southern  District  of  Illinois. 

NORTHERN  BOUNDARY  QUESTION,  THE. 
The  Ordinance  of  1787,  making  the  first  specific 
provision,  by  Congress,  for  the  government  of  the 
country  lying  northwest  of  the  Ohio  River  and 
east  of  the  Mississippi  (known  as  the  Northwest 
Territory),  provided,  among  other  things  (Art. 
V.,  Ordinance  1787),  .that  "there  shall  be  formed 
in  the  said  Territory  not  less  than  three  nor  more 
than  five  States."  It  then  proceeds  to  fix  the 
boundaries  of  the  proposed  States,  on  the  assump- 
tion that  there  shall  be  three  in  number,  adding 
thereto  the  following  proviso:  "Provided,  how- 
ever, and  it  is  further  understood  and  declared, 
that  the  boundaries  of  these  three  States  shall  be 
subject  so  far  to  be  altered  that,  if  Congress  shall 
hereafter  find  it  expedient,  they  shall  have 
authority  to  form  one  or  two  States  in  that  part 
of  the  said  Territory  which  lies  north  of  an  east 
and  west  line  drawn  through  the  southerly  bend 
or  extreme  of  Lake  Michigan."  On  the  basis  of 
this  provision  it  has  been  claimed  that  the  north- 
ern boundaries  of  Illinois,  Indiana  and  Ohio 
should  have  been  on  the  exact  latitude  of  the 
southern  limit  of  Lake  Michigan,  and  that  the 


failure  to  establish  this  boundary  was  a  violation 
of  the  Ordinance,  inasmuch  as  the  fourteenth  sec- 
tion of  the  preamble  thereto  declares  that  "the 
following  articles  shall  be  considered  as  articles 
of  compact  between  the  original  States  and  the 
people  and  States  in  the  said  Territory,  and  for- 
ever remain  unalterable,  unless  by  common  con- 
sent."— In    the    limited    state    of     geographical 
knowledge,  existing  at  the  time  of  the  adoption  of 
the  Ordinance,   there  seems  to  have   been  con- 
siderable difference  of  opinion  as  to  the  latitude 
of  the  southern  limit  of    Lake  Michigan.     The 
map  of  Mitchell  (1755)  had  placed  it  on  the  paral- 
lel of  42°  20',   while  that  of    Thomas  Hutching 
(1778)  fixed  it  at  41°  37'.     It  was  officially  estab- 
lished by  Government  survey,  in  1835,  at  41°  37' 
07.9".     As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  northern  bound- 
ary of  neither  of  the  three  States  named  was  finally 
fixed  on  the  line  mentioned  in  the  proviso  above 
quoted  from  the  Ordinance — that  of  Ohio,  where 
it  meets  the  shore  of  Lake  Erie,  being  a  little 
north  of  41°  44' ;  that  of  Indiana  at  41°  46'  (some 
10  miles  north  of  the  southern  bend  of  the  lake), 
and  that  of   Illinois  at  42°  30'— about  61  miles 
north    of    the    same  line.     The   boundary    line 
between  Ohio  and  Michigan  was  settled  after  a 
bitter  controversy,  on  the  admission  of  the  latter 
State  into  the  Union,  in  1837,  in  the  acceptance 
by  her  of  certain  conditions  proposed  by  Congress. 
These  included  the   annexation  to   Michigan  of 
what    is    known    as    the     "Upper    Peninsula," 
lying    between  Lakes    Michigan   and    Superior, 
in   lieu  of  a  strip  averaging  six  miles  on   her 
southern    border,    which    she     demanded    from 
Ohio. — The  establishment  of  the  northern  bound- 
ary of  Illinois,  in  1818,  upon  the  line  which  now 
exists,  is  universally  conceded  to  have  been  due 
to  the  action  of  Judge  Nathaniel  Pope,  then  the 
Delegate    in    Congress    from  Illinois    Territory. 
While  it  was  then  acquiesced  in  without  ques- 
tion, it  has  since  been  the  subject  of  considerable 
controversy  and    has    been  followed  by  almost 
incalculable    results.     The    "enabling    act,"    as 
originally  introduced  early  in  1818,  empowering 
the  people  of  Illinois  Territory  to  form  a  State 
Government,  fixed  the  northern  boundary  of  the 
proposed  State  at  41°  39',  then  the  supposed  lati- 
tude of  the  southern  extremity  of  Lake  Michigan. 
While  the  act  was  under  consideration  in  Com- 
mittee of  the  Whole,  Mr.  Pope  offered  an  amend- 
ment advancing  the   northern  boundary  to  42° 
30'.     The  object  of   his  amendment  (as   he  ex- 
plained) was  to  gain  for  the  new  State  a  coast 
line  on  Lake  Michigan,  bringing  it  into  political 
and  commercial  relations  with  the  States  east  of 


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it — Indiana,  Ohio,  Pennsylvania  and  New  York — 
thus  "affording  additional  security  to  the  per- 
petuity of  the  Union."  He  argued  that  the 
location  of  the  State  between  the  Mississippi, 
Wabash  and  Ohio  Rivers — all  flowing  to  the 
south — would  bring  it  in  intimate  communica- 
tion with  the  Southern  States,  and  that,  in  the 
event  of  an  attempted  disruption  of  the  Union,  it 
was  important  that  it  should  be  identified  with 
the  commerce  of  the  Lakes,  instead  of  being  left 
entirely  to  the  waters  of  the  south-flowing 
rivers.  '  'Thus,  "said  he,  '  'a  rival  interest  would  be 
created  to  check  the  wish  for  a  Western  or  South- 
ern Confederacy.  Her  interests  would  thus  be 
balanced  and  her  inclinations  turned  to  the 
North."  He  recognized  Illinois  as  already  "the 
key  to  the  West,"  and  he  evidently  foresaw  that 
the  time  might  come  when  it  would  be 'the  Key- 
stone of  the  Union.  While  this  evinced  wonder- 
ful foresight,  scarcely  less  convincing  was  his 
argument  that,  in  time,  a  commercial  emporium 
would  grow  up  upon  Lake  Michigan,  which  would 
demand  an  outlet  by  means  of  a  canal  to  the  Illi- 
nois River — a  work  which  was  realized  in  the 
completion  of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal 
thirty  years  later,  but  which  would  scarcely  have 
been  accomplished  had  the  State  been  practically 
cut  off  from  the  Lake  and  its  chief  emporium 
left  to  grow  up  in  another  commonwealth,  or  not 
at  all.  Judge  Pope's  amendment  was  accepted 
without  division,  and,  in  this  form,  a  few  days 
later,  the  bill  became  a  law. — The  almost  super- 
human sagacity  exhibited  in  Judge  Pope's  argu- 
ment, has  been  repeatedly  illustrated  in  the 
commercial  and  political  history  of  the  State 
since,  but  never  more  significantly  than  in  the 
commanding  position  which  Illinois  occupied 
during  the  late  Civil  War,  with  one  of  its  citi- 
zens in  the  Presidential  chair  and  another  leading 
its  250,000  citizen  soldiery  and  the  armies  of  the 
Union  in  battling  for  the  perpetuity  of  the 
Republic — a  position  which  more  than  fulfilled 
every  prediction  made  for  it.  —  The  territory 
affected  by  this  settlement  of  the  northern 
boundary,  includes  all  that  part  of  the  State 
north  of  the  northern  line  of  La  Salle  County, 
and  embraces  the  greater  portion  of  the  fourteen 
counties  of  Cook,  Dupage,  Kane,  Lake,  McHenry, 
Boone,  DeKalb,  Lee,  Ogle,  Winnebago,  Stephen- 
son,  Jo  Daviess,  Carroll  and  Whiteside,  with  por- 
tions of  Kendall,  Will  and  Rock  Island— estimated 
at  8,500  square  miles,  or  more  than  one-seventh 
of  the  present  area  of  the  State.  It  has  been 
argued  that  this  territory  belonged  to  the  State 
of  Wisconsin  under  the  provisions  of  the  Ordi- 


nance of  1787,  and  there  were  repeated  attempts 
made,  on  the  part  of  the  Wisconsin  Legislature 
and  its  Territorial  Governor  (Doty),  between  1839 
and  1843,  to  induce  the  people  of  these  counties  to 
recognize  this  claim.  These  were,  in  a  few 
instances,  partially  successful,  although  no  official 
notice  was  taken  of  them  by  the  authorities  of  Illi- 
nois. The  reply  made  to  the  Wisconsin  claim  by 
Governor  Ford — who  wrote  his  "History  of  Illi- 
nois" when  the  subject  was  fresh  in  the  public 
mind — was  that,  while  the  Ordinance  of  1787 
gave  Congress  power  to  organize  a  State  north  of 
the  parallel  running  through  the  southern  bend 
of  Lake  Michigan,  "there  is  nothing  in  the  Ordi- 
nance requiring  such  additional  State  to  be 
organized  of  the  territory  north  of  that  line."  In 
other  words,  that,  when  Congress,  in  1818, 
authorized  the  organization  of  an  additional 
State  north  of  and  in  (i.  e.,  within)  the  line 
named,  it  did  not  violate  the  Ordinance  of  1787, 
but  acted  in  accordance  with  it — in  practically 
assuming  that  the  new  State  "need  not  neces- 
sarily include  the  whole  of  the  region  north  of 
that  line."  The  question  was  set  at  rest  by  Wis- 
consin herself  in  the  action  of  her  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1847-48,  in  framing  her  first  con- 
stitution, in  form  recognizing  the  northern 
boundary  of  Illinois  as  fixed  by  the  enabling  act 
of  1818. 

NORTHERN  HOSPITAL  FOR  THE  INSANE, 
an  institution  for  the  treatment  of  the  insane, 
created  by  Act  of  the  Legislature,  approved,  April 
16,  1869.  The  Commissioners  appointed  by  Gov- 
ernor Palmer  to  fix  its  location  consisted  of 
August  Adams,  B.  F.  Shaw,  W.  R.  Brown,  M.  L. 
Joslyn,  D.  S.  Hammond  and  William  Adams. 
After  considering  many  offers  and  examining 
numerous  sites,  the  Commissioners  finally  selected 
the  Chisholm  farm,  consisting  of  about  155  acres, 
1V4  miles  from  Elgin,  on  the  west  side  of  Fox 
River,  and  overlooking  that  stream,  as  a  site — 
this  having  been  tendered  as  a  donation  by  the 
citizens  of  Elgin.  Plans  were  adopted  in  the 
latter  part  of  1869,  the  system  of  construction 
chosen  conforming,  in  the  main,  to  that  of  the 
United  States  Hospital  for  the  Insane  at  Wash- 
ington, D.  G.  By  January,  1872,  the  north  wing 
and  rear  building  were  so  far  advanced  as  to  per- 
mit the  reception  of  sixty  patients.  The  center 
building  was  ready  for  occupancy  in  April,  1873, 
and  the  south  wing  before  the  end  of  the  follow- 
ing year.  The  total  expenditures  previous  to 
1876  had  exceeded  $637,000,  and  since  that  date 
liberal  appropriations  have  been  made  for  addi- 
tions, repairs  and  improvements,  including  the 


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addition  of  between  300  and  400  acres  to  the  lands 
connected  with  the  institution  The  first  Board 
of  Trustees  consisted  of  Charles  N.  Holden, 
Oliver  Everett  and  Henry  W.  Sherman,  with  Dr. 
E.  A.  Kilbourne  as  the  first  Superintendent,  and 
Dr.  Richard  A.  Dewey  (afterwards  Superintend- 
ent of  the  Eastern  Hospital  at  Kankakee)  as  his 
Assistant.  Dr.  Kilbourne  remained  at  the  head 
of  the  institution  until  his  death,  Feb.  27,  1890, 
covering  a  period  of  nineteen  years.  Dr.  Kil- 
bourne was  succeeded  by  Dr.  Henry  J.  Brooks, 
and  he,  by  Dr.  Loewy,  in  June,  1893,  and  the 
latter  by  Dr.  John  B.  Hamilton  (former  Super- 
vising Surgeon  of  the  United  States  Marine  Hos- 
pital Service)  in  1897.  Dr.  Hamilton  died  in 
December,  1898.  (See  Hamilton,  John  B.)  The 
total  value  of  State  property,  June  30,  1894,  was 
$882,745.66,  of  which  $701,330  was  in  land  and 
buildings.  Under  the  terms  of  the  law  estab- 
lishing the  hospital,  provision  is  made  for  the 
care  therein  of  the  incurably  insane,  so  that  it  is 
both  a  hospital  and  an  asylum.  The  whole  num- 
ber of  patients  under  treatment,  for  the  two  years 
preceding  June  30,  1894,  was  1,797,  the  number 
of  inmates,  on  Dec.  1,  1897,  1,054,  and  the  average 
daily  attendance  for  treatment,  for  the  year  1896, 
1,296.  The  following  counties  comprise  the  dis- 
trict dependent  upon  the  Elgin  Hospital :  Boone, 
Carroll,  Cook,  DeKalb,  Jo  Daviess,  Kane,  Ken- 
dall, Lake,  Stephenson,  Whiteside  and  Winne- 
bago. 

NORTHERN  ILLINOIS  NORMAL  SCHOOL, 
an  institution,  incorporated  in  1884,  at  Dixon,  Lee 
County,  111.,  for  the  purpose  of  giving  instruction 
in  branches  related  to  the  art  of  teaching.  Its 
last  report  claims  a  total  of  1,639  pupils,  of  whom 
885  were  men  and  744  women,  receiving  instruc- 
tion from  thirty -six  teachers.  The  total  value  of 
property  was  estimated  at  more  than  $200,000,  of 
which  $160,000  was  in  real  estate  and  $45,000  in 
apparatus.  Attendance  on  the  institution  has 
been  affected  by  the  establishment,  under  act  of 
the  Legislature  of  1895,  of  the  Northern  State 
Normal  School  at  DeKalb  (which  see). 

NORTHERN  PENITENTIARY,  THE,  an  insti- 
tution for  the  confinement  of  criminals  of  the 
State,  located  at  Joliet,  Will  County.  The  site 
was  purchased  by  the  State  in  1857,  and  com- 
prises some  seventy -two  acres.  Its  erection  was 
found  necessary  because  of  the  inadequacy  of  the 
first  penitentiary,  at  Alton.  (See  Alton  Peni- 
tentiary.) The  original  plan  contemplated  a 
cell-house  containing  1,000  cells,  which,  it  was 
thought,  would  meet  the  public  necessities  for 
many  years  to  come.  Its  estimated  cost  was 


$550,000;  but,  within  ten  years,  there  had  been 
expended  upon  the  institution  the  sum  of  $934,- 
000,  and  its  capacity  was  taxed  to  the  utmost. 
Subsequent  enlargements  have  increased  the 
cost  to  over  $1,600,000,  but  by  1877,  the  institution 
had  become  so  overcrowded  that  the  erection  of 
another  State  penal  institution  became  positively 
necessary.  (See  Southern  Penitentiary.)  The 
prison  has  always  been  conducted  on  "the 
Auburn  system,"  which  contemplates  associate 
labor  in  silence,  silent  meals  in  a  common  refec- 
tory, and  (as  nearly  as  practicable)  isolation  at 
night.  The  system  of  labor  has  varied  at  differ- 
ent times,  the  "lessee  system,"  the  "contract 
system"  and  the  "State  account  plan"  being 
successively  in  force.  (See  Convict  Labor. )  The 
whole  number  of  convicts  in  the  institution,  at 
the  date  of  the  official  report  of  1895,  was  1,566. 
The  total  assets  of  the  institution,  Sept.  30,  1894, 
were  reported  at  $2,121,308.86,  of  which  $1,644,- 
601.11  was  in  real  estate. 

NORTH  &  SOUTH  RAILROAD.  (See  St. 
Louis,  Peoria  &  Nori'iern  Railway.) 

NORTHERN  STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOL,  an 
institution  for  the  education  of  teachers  of  the 
common  schools,  authorized  to  be  established  by 
act  of  the  Legislature  passed  at  the  session  of 
1895.  The  act  made  an  appropriation  of  $50,000 
for  the  erection  of  buildings  and  other  improve- 
ments. The  institution  was  located  at  DeKalb, 
DeKalb  County,  in  the  spring  of  1896,  and  the 
erection  of  buildings  commenced  soon  after — 
Isaac  F.  Elhvood,  of  DeKalb,  contributing  $20,- 
000  in  cash,  and  J.  F.  Glidden,  a  site  of  sixty- 
seven  acres  of  land.  Up  to  Dec.  1,  1897,  the 
appropriations  and  contributions,  in  land  and 
money,  aggregated  $175,000.  The  school  was 
expected  to  be  ready  for  the  reception  of  pupils 
in  the  latter  part  of  1899,  and,  it  is  estimated,  will 
accommodate  1,000  students. 

NORTHWEST  TERRITORY.  The  name 
formerly  applied  to  that  portion  of  the  United 
States  north  and  west  of  the  Ohio  River  and  east 
of  the  Mississippi,  comprising  the  present  States 
of  Ohio,  Indiana,  Illinois,  Michigan  and  Wiscon- 
sin. The  claim  of  the  Government  to  the  land 
had  been  acquired  partly  through  conquest,  by 
the  expedition  of  Col.  George  Rogers  Clark 
(which  see),  under  the  auspices  of  the  State  of 
Virginia  in  1778 ;  partly  through  treaties  with  the 
Indians,  and  partly  through  cessions  from  those 
of  the  original  States  laying  claim  thereto.  The 
first  plan  for  the  government  of  this  vast  region 
was  devised  and  formulated  by  Thomas  Jefferson, 
in  his  proposed  Ordinance  of  1784,  which  failed 


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of  ultimate  passage.  But  three  years  later  a 
broader  scheme  was  evolved,  and  the  famous 
Ordinance  of  1787,  with  its  clause  prohibiting  the 
extension  of  slavery  beyond  the  Ohio  River, 
passed  the  Continental  Congress.  This  act  has 
been  sometimes  termed  "The  American  Magna 
Charta, "  because  of  its  engrafting  upon  the 
organic  law  the  principles  of  human  freedom  and 
«qual  rights.  The  plan  for  the  establishment  of 
u  distinctive  territorial  civil  government  in  a 
rvew  Territory — the  first  of  its  kind  in  the  new 
republic — was  felt  to  be  a  tentative  step,  and  too 
much  power  was  not  granted  to  the  residents. 
All  the  officers  were  appointive,  and  each  official 
was  required  to  be  a  land-owner.  The  elective 
franchise  (but  only  for  members  of  the  General 
Assembly)  could  first  be  exercised  only  after  the 
population  had  reached  5,000.  Even  then,  every 
elector  must  own  fifty  acres  of  land,  and  every 
Representative,  200  acres.  More  liberal  provisions, 
however,  were  subsequently  incorporated  by 
amendment,  in  1809.  The  first  civil  government 
in  the  Northwest  Territory  was  established  by  act 
of  the  Virginia  Legislature,  in  the  organization 
of  all  the  country  west  of  the  Ohio  under  the 
name  "Illinois  County,"  of  which  the  Governor 
was  authorized  to  appoint  a  "County  Lieuten- 
ant" or  "Commandant-in-Chief . "  The  first 
"Commandant"  appointed  was  Col.  John  Todd, 
of  Kentucky,  though  he  continued  to  discharge 
the  duties  for  only  a  short  period,  being  killed  in 
the  battle  of  Blue  Licks,  in  1782.  After  that  the 
Illinois  Country  was  almost  without  the  semblance 
of  an  organized  civil  government,  until  1788, 
when  Gen.  Arthur  St.  Clair  was  appointed  the 
first  Governor  of  Northwest  Territory,  under  the 
Ordinance  of  1787,  serving  until  the  separation  of 
this  region  into  the  Territories  of  Ohio  and  Indi- 
ana in  1800,  when  William  Henry  Harrison 
became  the  Governor  of  the  latter,  embracing  all 
that  portion  of  the  original  Northwest  Territory 
except  the  State  of  Ohio.  During  St.  Glair's 
administration  (1790)  that  part  of  the  present  State 
of  Illinois  between  the  Mississippi  and  Illinois 
Rivers  on  the  west,  and  a  line  extending  north 
from  about  the  site  of  old  Fort  Massac,  on  the 
Ohio,  to  the  mouth  of  the  Mackinaw  River,  in  the 
present  county  of  Tazewell,  on  the  east,  was 
erected  into  a  county  under  the  name  of  St. 
Clair,  with  three  county-seats,  viz. :  Cahokia, 
Kaskaskia  and  Prairie  du  Rocher.  (See  St.  Clair 
County. )  Between  1830  and  1834  the  name  North- 
west Territory  was  applied  to  an  unorganized 
region,  embracing  the  present  State  of  Wisconsin, 
attached  to  Michigan  Territory  for  governmental 


purposes.    (See  Illinois  County;  St  Clair,  Arthur; 
and  Todd,  John.) 

NORTHWESTERN  COLLEGE,  located  at 
Naperville,  Du  Page  County,  and  founded  in 
1865,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Evangelical  Asso- 
ciation. It  maintains  business,  preparatory  and 
collegiate  departments,  besides  a  theological 
school.  In  1898  it  had  a  faculty  of  nineteen  profes- 
sors and  assistants,  with  some  360  students,  less 
than  one-third  of  the  latter  being  females,  though 
both  sexes  are  admitted  to  the  college  on  an  equal 
footing.  The  institution  owns  property  to  the 
value  of  $207,000,  including  an  endowment  of 
$85,000. 

NORTHWESTERN  GRAND  TRUNK  RAIL- 
WAT.  (See  Chicago  &  Grand  Trunk  Railway. ) 

NORTHWESTERN  NORMAL,  located  at  Gene- 
seo;  Henry  County,  111.,  incorporated  in  1884;  in 
1894  had  a  faculty  of  twelve  teachers  with  171 
pupils,  of  whom  ninety  were  male  and  eighty-one 
female. 

NORTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY,  an  impor- 
tant educational  institution,  established  at 
Evanston,  in  Cook  County,  in  1851.  In  1898  it 
reported  2,599  students  (1,980  male  and  619 
female),  and  a  faculty  of  234  instructors. 
It  embraces  the  following  departments,  all  of 
which  confer  degrees:  A  College  of  Liberal 
Arts;  two  Medical  Schools  (one  for  women 
exclusively);  a  Law  School;  a  School  of  Phar- 
macy and  a  Dental  College.  The  Garrett  Bibli- 
cal Institute,  at  which  no  degrees  are  con- 
ferred, constitutes  the  theological  department  of 
the  University.  The  charter  of  the  institution 
requires  a  majority  of  the  Trustees  to  be  mem- 
bers of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church,  and  the 
University  is  the  largest  and  wealthiest  of  the 
schools  controlled  by  that  denomination.  The 
College  of  Liberal  Arts  and  the  Garrett  Biblical 
Institute  are  at  Evanston ;  the  other  departments 
(all  professional)  are  located  in  Chicago.  In  the 
academic  department  (Liberal  Arts  School),  pro- 
vision is  made  for  both  graduate  and  post-gradu- 
ate courses.  The  Medical  School  was  formerly 
known  as  the  Chicago  Medical  College,  and  its 
Law  Department  was  originally  the  Union  Col- 
lege of  Law,  both  of  which  have  been  absorbed 
by  the  University,  as  have  also  its  schools  of 
dentistry  and  pharmacy,  which  were  formerly 
independent  institutions.  The  property  owned  by 
the  University  is  valued  at  $4,870,000,  of  which 
$1,100,000  is  real  estate,  and  $2,250,000  in  endow- 
ment funds.  Its  income  from  fees  paid  by  students 
in  1898  was  $215,288,  and  total  receipts  from  all 
sources,  $482,389.  Co-education  of  the  sexes  pre- 


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vails  in  the  College  of  Liberal  Arts.     Dr.  Henry 
Wade  Rogers  is  President. 
NORTHWESTERN   UNIVERSITY    MEDICAL 

SCHOOL,  located  in  Chicago;  was  organized  in 
1859  as  Medical  School  of  the  Lind  (now  Lake 
Forest)  University.  Three  annual  terms,  of  five 
months  each,  at  first  constituted  a  course, 
although  attendance  at  two  only  was  compul- 
sory. The  institution  first  opened  in  temporary 
quarters,  Oct.  9,  1859,  with  thirteen  professors 
and  thirty-three  students.  By  1863  more  ample 
accommodations  were  needed,  and  the  Trustees 
of  the  Lind  University  being  unable  to  provide  a 
building,  one  was  erected  by  the  faculty.  In 
1864  the  University  relinquished  all  claim  to  the 
institution,  which  was  thereupon  incorporated  as 
the  Chicago  Medical  College.  In  1868  the  length 
of  the  annual  terms  was  increased  to  six  months, 
and  additional  requirements  were  imposed  on 
candidates  for  both  matriculation  and  gradu- 
ation. The  same  year,  the  college  building  was 
sold,  and  the  erection  of  a  new  and  more  commo- 
dious edifice,  on  the  grounds  of  the  Mercy  Hos- 
pital, was  commenced.  This  was  completed  in 
1870,  and  the  college  became  the  medical  depart- 
ment of  the  Northwestern  University.  The 
number  of  professorships  had  been  increased  to 
eighteen,  and  that  of  undergraduates  to  107. 
•Since  that  date  new  laboratory  and  clinical  build- 
ings have  been  erected,  and  the  growth  of  the 
institution  has  been  steady  and  substantial. 
Mercy  and  St.  Luke's  Hospital,  and  the  South 
Side  Free  Dispensary  afford  resources  for  clinical 
instruction.  The  teaching  faculty,  as  constituted 
in  1898,  consists-  of  about  fifty  instructors,  in- 
cluding professors,  lecturers,  demonstrators,  and 
assistants. 

NORTHWESTERN  UNIVERSITY  WOMAN'S 
MEDICAL  SCHOOL,  an  institution  for  the  pro 
fessional  education  of  women,  located  in 
Chicago.  Its  first  corporate  name  was  the 
"Woman's  Hospital  Medical  College  of  Chicago," 
and  it  was  in  close  connection  with  the  Chicago 
Hospital  for  Women  and  Children.  Later,  it. 
severed  its  connection  with  the  hospital  and  took 
the  name  of  the  "Woman's  Medical  College  of 
Chicago."  Co-education  of  the  sexes,  in  medicine 
and  surgery,  was  experimentally  tried  from  1868 
to  1870,  but  the  experiment  proved  repugnant  to 
tho  male  students,  who  unanimously  signed  a 
protest  against  the  continuance  of  the  system. 
The  result  was  the  establishment  of  a  separate 
school  for  women  in  1870,  with  a  faculty  of  six- 
teen professors.  The  requirements  for  graduation 
were  fixed  art  four  years  of  medical  study,  includ- 


ing three  annual  graded  college  terms  of  six 
months  each.  The  first  term  opened  in  the 
autumn  of  1870,  with  an  attendance  of  twenty 
students.  The  original  location  of  the  school 
was  in  the  "North  Division"  of  Chicago,  in  tem- 
porary quarters.  After  the  fire  of  1871  a  removal 
was  effected  to  the  "West  Division,"  where  (in 
1878-79)  a  modest,  but  well  arranged  building  was 
erected.  A  larger  structure  was  built  in  1884, 
and,  in  1891,  the  institution  became  a  part  of  the 
Northwestern  University.  The  college,  in  all  its 
departments,  is  organized  along  the  lines  of  the 
best  medical  schools  of  the  country.  In  1896 
there  were  twenty-four  professorships,  all  capably 
filled,  and  among  the  faculty  are  some  of  the 
best  known  specialists  in  the  country. 

NORTON,  Jesse  0.,  lawyer,  Congressman  and 
Judge,  was  born  at  Bennington,  Vt.,  April  25, 
1812,  and  graduated  from  Williams  College  in 
1835.  He  settled  at  Joliet  in  1839,  and  soon 
became  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  Will  County. 
His  first  public  office  was  that  of  City  Attorney, 
after  which  he  served  as  County  Judge  (1846-50). 
Meanwhile,  he  was  chosen  a  Delegate  to  the  Con- 
stitutional Convention  of  1847.  In  1850  he  was 
elected  to  the  Legislature,  and,  in  1852,  to  Con- 
gress, as  a  Whig.  His  vigorous  opposition  to  the 
repeal  of  the  Missouri  Compromise  resulted  in 
his  re-election  as  a  Representative  in  1854.  At 
the  expiration  of  his  second  term  (1857)  he  was 
chosen  Judge  of  the  eleventh  circuit,  to  fill  the 
unexpired  term  of  Judge  Randall,  resigned.  He 
was  once  more  elected  to  Congress  in  1862,  but 
disagreed  with  his  party  as  to  the  legal  status  of 
the  States  lately  in  rebellion.  President  Johnson 
appointed  him  United  States  Attorney  for  the 
Northern  District  of  Illinois,  which  office  he  filled 
until  1869.  Immediately  upon  his  retirement  he 
began  private  practice  at  Chicago,  where  he  died, 
August  3,  1875. 

NORTH  CHICAGO,  a  city  of  Lake  County  (in- 
corporated 1909)  on  C.  &  N.  W.  R.  R.,  33  miles 
north  of  Chicago;  has  a  bank,  steel  and  wireworks 
and  one  weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1910);  3,306. 

NOYES,  George  Clement,  clergyman,  was  born 
at  Landaff,  N.  H.,  August  4,  1833,  brought  by 
his  parents  to  Pike  County,  111.,  in  1844,  and,  at 
the  age  of  16,  determined  to  devote  his  life  to  the 
ministry ;  in  1851,  entered  Illinois  College  at  Jack- 
sonville, graduating  with  first  honors  in  the  class 
of  1855.  In  the  following  autumn  he  entered 
Union  Theological  Seminary  in  New  York,  and, 
having  graduated  in  1858,  was  ordained  the  same 
year,  and  installed  pastor  of  the  First  Presby- 
terian Church  at  Laporte,  Ind.  Here  he  remained 


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ten  years,  when  he  accepted  a  call  to  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Evanston,  111.,  then  a 
small  organization  which  developed,  during  the 
twenty  years  of  his  pastorate,  into  one  of  the 
strongest  and  most  influential  churches  in  Evans- 
ton.  For  a  number  of  years  Dr.  Noyes  was  an 
editorial  writer  and  weekly  correspondent  of 
"The  New  York  Evangelist,"  over  the  signature 
of  "Clement."  He  was  also,  for  several  years,  an 
active  and  very  efficient  member  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  Knox  College.  The  liberal  bent  of 
his  mind  was  illustrated  in  the  fact  that  he  acted 
as  counsel  for  Prof.  David  Swing,  during  the  cele- 
brated trial  of  the  latter  for  heresy  before  the 
Chicago  Presbytery  —  his  argument  on  that 
occasion  winning  encomiums  from  all  classes  of 
people.  His  death  took  place  at  Evanston,  Jan. 
14,  1889,  as  the  result  of  an  attack  of  pneumonia, 
and  was  deeply  deplored,  not  only  by  his  own 
church  and  denomination,  but  by  the  whole  com- 
munity. Some  two  weeks  after  it  occurred  .a 
union  meeting  was  held  in  one  of  the  churches  at 
Evanston,  at  which  addresses  in  commemoration 
of  his  services  were  delivered  by  some  dozen 
ministers  of  that  village  and  of  Chicago,  while 
various  social  and  literary  organizations  and  the 
press  bore  testimony  to  his  high  character.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Literary  Society  of  Chicago, 
and,  during  the  last  year  of  his  life,  served  as  its 
President.  Dr.  Noyes  was  married,  in  1858,  to  a 
daughter  of  David  A.  Smith,  Esq.,  an  honored 
citizen  and  able  lawyer  of  Jacksonville. 

OAKLAND,  a  city  of  Coles  County  on  the  Van- 
dalia  Line  and  the  Toledo,  St.  Louis  &  Western 
Railroad,  15  miles  northeast  of  Charleston;  is  in 
grain  center  and  broom-corn  belt ;  the  town  has 
a  bank  and  two  weekly  papers.  Pop.  (1890), 
995;  (1900),  1,198;  (1910),  1,159. 

OAK  PARK,  a  village  of  Cook  County,  and 
popular  residence  suburb  of  Chicago,  9  miles 
west  of  the  initial  station  of  the  Chicago  & 
Northwestern  Railroad,  on  which  it  is  located ;  is 
also  upon  the  line  of  the  Wisconsin  Central  Rail- 
road. The  place  has  numerous  churches,  pros- 
perous schools,  a  public  library,  telegraph  and 
express  offices,  banks  and  three  local  papers.  Pop. 
(1890),  4,771;  (1910),  19,444. 

OBERLT,  John  H.,  journalist  and  Civil  Serv- 
ice Commissioner,  was  born  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  Dec.  6,  1837;  spent  part  of  his  boyhood  in 
Allegheny  County,  Pa.,  but,  in  1853,  began  learn- 
ing the  printer's  trade  in  the  office  of  "The  Woos- 
ter  (Ohio)  Republican,"  completing  it  at  Memphis, 
Tenn.,  and  becoming  a  journeyman  printer  in 


1857.  He  worked  in  various  offices,  including 
the  Wooster  paper,  where  he  also  began  the  study 
of  law,  but,  in  1860,  became  part  proprietor  of 
"The  Bulletin"  job  office  at  Memphis,  in  which 
he  had  been  employed  as  an  apprentice,  and, 
later,  as  foreman.  Having  been  notified  to  leave 
Memphis  on  account  of  his  Union  principles 
after  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War,  he  returned 
to  Wooster,  Ohio,  and  conducted  various  papers 
there  during  the  next  four  years,  but,  in  1865, 
came  to  Cairo,  111. ,  where  he  served  for  a  time  as 
foreman  of  "The  Cairo  Democrat,"  three  years 
later  establishing  "The  Cairo  Bulletin. "  Although 
the  latter  paper  was  burned  out  a  few  months  later, 
it  was  immediately  re-established.  In  1872  he 
was  elected  Representative  in  the  Twenty -eighth 
General  Assembly,  and,  in  1877,  was  appointed 
by  Governor  Cullom  the  Democratic  member  of 
the  Railroad  and  Warehouse  Commission,  serving 
four  years,  meanwhile  (in  1880)  being  the  Demo- 
cratic candidate  for  Secretary  of  State.  Other 
positions  held  by  him  included  Mayor  of  the  city 
of  Cairo  (1869) ;  President  of  the  National  Typo- 
graphical Union  at  Chicago  (1865),  and  at  Mem- 
phis (1866);  delegate  to  the  Democratic  National 
Convention  at  Baltimore  (1872),  and  Chairman  of 
the  Democratic  State  Central  Committee 
(1882-84).  After  retiring  from  the  Railroad  and 
Warehouse  Commission,  he  united  in  founding 
"The  Bloomington  (111.)  Bulletin,"  of  which  he 
was  editor  some  three  years.  During  President 
Cleveland's  administration  he  was  appointed  a 
member  of  the  Civil  Service  Commission,  being 
later  transferred  to  the  Commissionership  of 
Indian  Affairs.  He  was  subsequently  connected 
in  an  editorial  capacity  with  "The  Washington 
Post,"  "The  Richmond  (Va.)  State,"  "The  Con- 
cord (N.  H.)  People  and  Patriot"  and  "The  Wash- 
ington Times."  While  engaged  in  an  attempt  to 
reorganize  "The  People  and  Patriot,"  he  died  at 
Concord,  N.  H.,  April  15,  1899. 

ODD  FELLOWS.  "Western  Star"  Lodge,  No. 
1,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  was  instituted  at  Alton,  June  11, 
.  1836.  In  1838  the  Grand  Lodge  of  Illinois  was 
instituted  at  the  same  place,  and  reorganized,  at 
Springfield,  in  1842.  S.  C.  Pierce  was  the  first 
Grand  Master,  and  Samuel  L.  Miller,  Grand  Sec- 
retary. Wildey  Encampment,  No.  1,  was  organ- 
ized at  Alton  in  1838,  and  the  Grand  Encampment, 
at  Peoria,  in  1850,  with  Charles  H.  Constable 
Grand  Patriarch.  In  1850  the  subordinate  branches 
of  the  Order  numbered  seventy-six,  with  3,291 
members,  and  $25,392.87  revenue.  In  1895  the 
Lodges  numbered  838,  the  membership  50,544, 
with  $475,252,18  revenue,  of  which  $135,018.40 


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was  expended  for  relief.  The  Encampment 
branch,  in  1895,  embraced  179  organizations  with 
a  membership  of  6,812  and  $23,865.25  revenue,  of 
which  $6,781.40  was  paid  out  for  relief.  The 
Rebekah  branch,  for  the  same  year,  comprised  422 
Lodges,  with  22,000  members  and  $43,215.65 
revenue,  of  which  $3,122.79  was  for  relief.  The 
total  sum  distributed  for  relief  by  the  several 
organizations  (1895)  was  $144,972.59.  The  Order 
was  especially  liberal  in  its  benefactions  to  the 
sufferers  by  the  Chicago  fire  of  1871,  an  appeal  to 
its  members  calling  forth  a  generous  response 
throughout  the  United  States.  (See  Odd  Fellows' 
Orphans'  Home.) 

ODD  FELLOWS'  ORPHANS'  HOME,  a  benevo- 
lent  institution,  incorporated  in  1889,  erected  at 
Lincoln,  111. ,  under  the  auspices  of  the  Daughters 
of  Rebekah  (see  Odd  Fellows),  and  dedicated 
August  19,  1892.  The  building  is  four  stories  in 
height,  has  a  capacity  for  the  accommodation  of 
fifty  children,  and  cost  $36,524.76,  exclusive  of 
forty  acres  of  land  valued  at  $8,000. 

ODELL,  a  village  of  Livingston  County,  and 
station  on  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railway,  82 
miles  south-southwest  of  Chicago;  in  a  grain  and 
stock-raising  region;  has  a  bank  and  one  newspaper. 
Pop.  (1900),  1,000;  (1910),  1,035. 

ODIN,  a  village,  of  Marion  County,  at  the  cross- 
ing of  the  Chicago  branch  of  the  Illinois  Central 
and  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern  Rail- 
ways, 244  miles  south  by  west  from  Chicago;  in 
fruit  belt ;  has  coal-mine,  two  fruit  evaporators, 
bank  and  a  newspaper.  Pop.  (1910),  1,400. 

O'FALLON,  a  village  of  St.  Clair  County,  on 
the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern  Railway,  18 
miles  east  of  St.  Louis ;  has  interurban  railway, 
electric  lights,  water-worts,  factories,  coal-mines, 
bank  and  a  newspaper.  Pop.  (1910),  2,018. 

OGDEN,  William  Butler,  capitalist  and  Rail- 
way President,  born  at  Walton,  N.  Y.,  June  15, 
1805.  He  was  a  member  of  the  New  York  Legis- 
lature in  1834,  and,  the  following  year,  removed 
to  Chicago,  where  he  established  a  land  and  trust 
agency.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the  various 
enterprises  centering  around  Chicago,  and,  on 
the  incorporation  of  the  city,  was  elected  its  first 
Mayor.  He  was  prominently  identified  with  the 
construction  of  the  Galena  &  Chicago  Union 
Railroad,  and,  in  1847,  became  its  President. 
While  visiting  Europe  in  1853,  he  made  a  careful 
study  of  the  canals  of  Holland,  which  convinced 
him  of  the  desirability  of  widening  and  deepen- 
ing the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal  and  of  con- 
structing a  ship  canal  across  the  southern 
peninsula  of  Michigan.  In  1855  he  became  Presi- 


dent of  the  Chicago,  St.  Paul  &  Fond  du  Lac 
Railroad,  and  effected  its  consolidation  with  the 
Galena  &  Chicago  Union.  Out  of  this  consoli- 
dation sprang  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Rail- 
way Company,  of  which  he  was  elected  President. 
In  1850  he  presided  over  the  National  Pacific 
Railroad  Convention,  and,  upon  the  formation  of 
the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  Company,  he  became 
its  President.  He  was  largely  connected  with 
the  inception  of  the  Northern  Pacific  line,  in  the 
success  of  which  he  was  a  firm  believer.  He 
also  controlled  various  other  interests  of  public 
importance,  among  them  the  great  lumbering 
establishments  at  Peshtigo,  Wis.,  and,  at  the  time 
of  his  death,  was  the  owner  of  what  was  probably 
the  largest  plant  of  that  description  in  the  world. 
His  benefactions  were  numerous,  among  the 
recipients  being  the  Rush  Medical  College,  of 
which  he  was  President;  the  Theological  Semi- 
nary of  the  Northwest,  the  Chicago  Historical 
Society,  the  Academy  of  Sciences,  the  University 
of  Chicago,  the  Astronomical  Society,  and  many 
other  educational  and  benevolent  institutions 
and  organizations  in  the  Northwest.  Died,  in 
New  York  City,  August  3,  1877.  (See  Chicago  & 
Northwestern  Railroad. ) 

OGLE,  Joseph,  pioneer,  was  born  in  Virginia 
in  1741,  came  to  Illinois  in  1785,  settling  in  the 
American  Bottom  within  the  present  County  of 
Monroe,  but  afterwards  removed  to  St.  Clair 
County,  about  the  site  of  the  present  town  of 
O'Fallon,  8  miles  north  of  Belleville ;  was  selected 
by  his  neighbors  to  serve  as  Captain  in  their 
skirmishes  with  the  Indians.  Died,  at  his  home 
in  St.  Clair  County,  in  February,  1821.  Captain 
Ogle  had  the  reputation  of  being  the  earliest  con- 
vert to  Methodism  in  Illinois.  Ogle  County,  in 
Northern  Illinois,  was  named  in  his  honor. — 
Jacob  (Ogle),  son  of  the  preceding,  also  a  native 
of  Virginia,  was  born  about  1772,  came  to  Illinois 
with  his  father  in  1785,  and  was  a  "Ranger"  in 
the  War  of  1812.  He  served  as  a  Representative 
from  St.  Clair  County  in  the  Third  General 
Assembly  (1822),  and  again  in  the  Seventh 
(1830),  in  the  former  being  an  opponent  of  the 
pro-slavery  convention  scheme.  Beyond  two 
terms  in  the  Legislature  he  seems  to  have  held 
no  public  office  except  that  of  Justice  of  the 
Peace.  Like  his  father,  he  was  a  zealous  Metho- 
dist and  highly  respected.  Died,  in  1844,  aged  72 
years. 

OGLE  COUNTY,  next  to  the  "northern  tier"  of 
counties  of  the  State  and  originally  a  part  of  Jo 
Daviess.  It  was  separately  organized  in  1837, 
and  Lee  County  was  carved  from  its  territory  in 


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1839.  In  1900  its  area  was  773  square  miles,  and 
its  population  29,129.  Before  the  Black  Hawk 
War  immigration  was  slow,  and  life  primitive. 
Peoria  was  the  nearest  food  market.  New  grain 
was  "ground"  on  a  grater,  and  old  pounded 
with  an  extemporized  pestle  in  a  wooden  mortar. 
Rock  Kiver  flows  across  the  county  from  north- 
east to  southwest.  A  little  oak  timber  grows 
along  its  banks,  but,  generally  speaking,  the  sur- 
face is  undulating  prairie,  with  soil  of  a  rich 
loam.  Sandstone  is  in  ample  supply,  and  all  the 
limestones  abound.  An  extensive  peat-bed  has 
been  discovered  on  the  Killbuck  Creek.  Oregon, 
the  county-seat,  has  fine  water-power.  The  other 
principal  towns  are  Rochelle,  Polo,  Forreston  and 
Mount  Morris.  Pop.  of  the  county  (1910),  27,864. 
OOLESBY,  Richard  James,  Governor  and 
United  States  Senator,  was  born  in  Oldham 
County,  Ky.,  July  25,  1824;  left  an  orphan  at  the 
age  of  8  years ;  in  1836  accompanied  an  uncle  to 
Decatur,  111.,  where,  until  1844,  he  worked  at 
farming,  carpentering  and  rope-making,  devoting 
his  leisure  hours  to  the  study  of  law.  In  1845  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  began  practice  at 
Sullivan,  in  Moultrie  County.  In  1846  he  was 
commissioned  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Fourth  Regi- 
ment, Illinois  Volunteers  (Col.  E.  D.  Baker's  regi- 
ment), and  served  through  the  Mexican  War, 
taking  part  in  the  siege  of  Vera  Cruz  and  the 
battle  of  Cerro  Gordo.  In  1847  he  pursued  a 
course  of  study  at  the  Louisville  Law  School, 
graduating  in  1848.  He  was  a  "forty-niner"  in 
California,  but  returned  to  Decatur  in  1851.  In 
1858  he  made  an  unsuccessful  campaign  for  Con- 
gress in  the  Decatur  District.  In  1860  he  was 
elected  to  the  State  Senate,  but  early  in  1861 
resigned  his  seat  to  accept  the  colonelcy  of  the 
Eighth  Illinois  Volunteers.  Through  gallantry 
(notably  at  Forts  Henry  and  Donelson  and  at 
Corinth)  he  rose  to  be  Major-General,  being  se- 
verely wounded  in  the  last-named  battle.  He 
resigned  his  commission  on  account  of  disability, 
in  May,  1864,  and  the  following  November  was 
elected  Governor,  as  a  Republican.  In  1872  he 
was  re-elected  Governor,  but,  two  weeks  after 
his  inauguration,  resigned  to  accept  a  seat  in  the 
United  States  Senate,  to  which  he  was  elected 
by  the  Legislature  of  1873.  In  1884  he  was 
elected  Governor  for  the  third  time — being  the 
only  man  in  the  history  of  the  State  who  (up  to 
the  present  time — 1899)  has  been  thus  honored. 
After  the  expiration  of  his  last  term  as  Governor, 
he  devoted  his  attention  to  his  private  affairs  at 
his  home  at  Elkhart,  in  Logan  County,  where  he 
died,  April  24,  1899,  deeply  mourned  by  personal 


and  political  friends  in  all  parts  of  the  Union, 
who  admired  his  strict  integrity  and  sterling 
patriotism. 

OHIO,  INDIANA  &  WESTERN  RAILWAY. 
(See  Peoria  &  Eastern  Railroad.) 

OHIO  RIVER,  an  affluent  of  the  Mississippi, 
formed  by  the  union  of  the  Monongahela  and 
Allegheny  Rivers,  at  Pittsburg,  Pa.  At  this  point 
it  becomes  a  navigable  stream  about  400  yards 
wide,  with  an  elevation  of  about  700  feet  above 
sea-level.  The  beauty  of  the  scenery  along  its 
banks  secured  for  it,  from  the  early  French 
explorers  (of  whom  La  Salle  was  one),  the  name 
of  "La  Belle  Riviere."  Its  general  course  is  to 
the  southwest,  but  with  many  sinuosities,  form- 
ing the  southern  boundary  of  the  States  of  Ohio, 
Indiana  and  Illinois,  and  the  western  and  north- 
ern boundary  of  West  Virginia  and  Kentucky, 
until  it  enters  the  Mississippi  at  Cairo,  in  latitude 
37°  N.,  and  about  1,200  miles  above  the  mouth  of 
the  latter  stream.  The  area  which  it  drains  is 
computed  to  be  214,000  square  miles.  Its  mouth 
is  268  feet  above  the  level  of  the  sea  The  current 
is  remarkably  gentle  and  uniform,  except  near 
Louisville,  where  there  is  a  descent  of  twenty- 
two  feet  within  two  miles,  which  is  evaded  by 
means  of  a  canal  around  the  falls.  Large  steam- 
boats can  navigate  its  whole  length,  except  in  low 
stages  of  water  and  when  closed  by  ice  in  winter. 
Its  largest  affluents  are  the  Tennessee,  the  Cum- 
berland, the  Kentucky,  the  Great  Kanawha  and 
the  Green  Rivers,  from  the  south,  and  the  Wa- 
bash,  the  Miami,  Scioto  and  Muskingum  from  the 
north.  The  principal  cities  on  its  banks  are  Pitts- 
burg,  Wheeling,  Cincinnati,  Louisville,  Evans- 
ville,  New  Albany,  Madison  and  Cairo.  It  is 
crossed  by  bridges  at  Wheeling,  Cincinnati  and 
Cairo.  The  surface  of  the  Ohio  is  subject  to  a 
variation  of  forty-two  to  fifty -one  feet  between 
high  and  low  water.  Its  length  is  975  miles,  and 
its  width  varies  from  400  to  1,000  yards.  (See 
Inundations,  Remarkable.) 

OHIO  &  MISSISSIPPI  RAILWAY.  (See  Bal- 
timore &  Ohio  Southwestern  Railroad. ) 

OLNEY,  an  incorporated  city  and  the  county- 
seat  of  Richland  County,  31  miles  west  of  Vin- 
cennes,  Ind.,  and  117  miles  east  of  St.  Louis,  Mo., 
at  the  junction  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  South- 
western and  the  Peoria  Division  of  the  Illinois 
Central  and  the  Ohio  River  Division  of  the  Cin- 
cinnati, Hamilton  &  Dayton  Railroad;  is  in  the 
center  of  the  fruit  belt  and  an  important  shipping 
point  for  farm  produce  and  live-stock ;  has  flour 
mills,  a  furniture  factory  and  railroad  repair 
shops,  banks,  a  public  library,  churches  and  five 


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newspapers,  one  issuing  daily  and  another  semi- 
weekly  editions.  Population  (1890),  3,831 ;  (1900), 
4,260;  (1910),  5,011. 

OMELTENT,  John,  pioneer  and  head  of  a 
numerous  family  which  became  prominent  in 
Southern  Illinois;  was  a  native  of  Ireland  who 
came  to  America  about  1798  or  1799.  After  resid- 
ing in  Kentucky  a  few  years,  he  removed  to  Illi- 
nois, locating  in  what  afterwards  became  Pope 
County,  whither  his  oldest  son,  Samuel,  had 
preceded  him  about  1797  or  1798.  The  latter  for 
a  time  followed  the  occupation  of  flat-boating, 
carrying  produce  to  New  Orleans.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1818 
from  Pope  County,  being  the  colleague  of  Hamlet 
Ferguson.  A  year  later  he  removed  to  Randolph 
County,  where  he  served  as  a  member  of  the 
County  Court,  but,  in  1820-22,  we  find  him  a 
member  of  the  Second  General  Assembly  from 
Union  County,  having  successfully  contested  the 
seat  of  Samuel  Alexander,  who  had  received  the 
certificate  of  election.  He  died  in  1828.— Edward 
(Omelveny),  another  member  of  this  family,  and 
grandson  of  the  elder  John  Omelveny,  represented 
Monroe  County  in  the  Fifteenth  General  Assem- 
bly (1846-48),  and  was  Presidential  Elector  in 
1852,  but  died  sometime  during  the  Civil  War. — 
Harvey  K.  S.  (Omelveny),  the  fifth  son  of  Wil- 
liam Omelveny  and  grandson  of  John,  was  born 
in  Todd  County,  Ky.,  in  1823,  came  to  Southern 
Illinois,  in  1852,  and  engaged  in  the  practice  of 
law,  being  for  a  time  the  partner  of  Senator 
Thomas  E.  Merritt,  at  Salem.  Early  in  1858  he 
was  elected  a  Justice  of  the  Circuit  Court  to 
succeed  Judge  Breese,  who  had  been  promoted  to 
the  Supreme  Court,  but  resigned  in  1861.  He 
gained  considerable  notoriety  by  his  intense 
hostility  to  the  policy  of  the  Government  during 
the  Civil  War,  was  a  Delegate  to  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  of  1862,  and  was  named  as  a 
member  of  the  Peace  Commission  proposed  to  be 
appointed  by  the  General  Assembly,  in  1863,  to 
secure  terms  of  peace  with  the  Southern  Con- 
federacy. He  was  also  a  leading  spirit  in  the 
peace  meeting  held  at  Peoria,  in  August,  1863. 
In  1869  Mr.  Omelveny  removed  to  Los  Angeles, 
Cal. ,  which  has  since  been  his  home,  and  where 
he  has  carried  on  a  lucrative  law  practice. 

O  N  A 1!  I ;  A ,  a  town  in  Iroquois  County,  on  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad,  85  miles  south  by  west 
from  Chicago,  and  43  miles  north  by  east  from 
Champaign.  It  is  a  manufacturing  town,  flour, 
wagons,  wire-fencing,  stoves  and  tile  being 
among  the  products.  It  has  banks,  tileworks,  a  can- 
ning factory,  several  churches,  a  graded  school,  a 


commercial  college,  and  a  weekly  newspaper.  Pop. 
(1900),  1,270;  (1910),  1,273. 

ONEIDA,  a  city  in  Knox  County,  on  the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  12  miles 
northeast  of  Galesburg;  has  wagon,  pump  and 
furniture  factories,  two  banks,  electric  lights, 
several  churches,  a  graded  school,  and  a  weekly 
paper.  The  surrounding  country  is  rich  prairie, 
where  coal  is  mined  about  twenty  feet  below  the 
surface.  Pop.  (1900),  785;  (1910),  589. 

OQUAWKA,  the  county-seat  of  Henderson 
County,  situated  on  the  Mississippi  River,  about 
15  miles  above  Burlington.  Iowa,  and  32  miles 
w^est  of  Galesburg.  It  is  in  a  farming  region, 
but  has  some  manufactories.  The  town  has 
five  churches,  a  graded  school,  a  bank  and  three 
newspapers  Pop.  (1900),  1,010;  (1910),  907. 

ORDINANCE  OF  1787.  This  is  the  name 
given  to  the  first  organic  act,  passed  by  Congress, 
for  the  government  of  the  territory  northwest  of 
the  Ohio  River,  comprising  the  present  States  of 
Ohio,  Indiana,  Illinois,  Michigan  and  Wisconsin. 
The  first  step  in  this  direction  was  taken  in  the 
appointment,  by  Congress,  on  March  1,  1784,  of  a 
committee,  of  which  Thomas  Jefferson  was  Chair- 
man, to  prepare  a  plan  for  the  temporary  govern- 
ment of  the  region  which  had  been  acquired,  by 
the  capture  of  Kaskaskia,  by  Col.  George  Rogers 
Clark,  nearly  six  years  previous.  The  necessity 
for  some  step  of  this  sort  had  grown  all  the  more 
urgent,  in  consequence  of  the  recognition  of  the 
right  of  the  United  States  to  this  region  by  the 
Treaty  of  Paris  of  1783,  and  the  surrender,  by  Vir- 
ginia, of  the  title  she  had  maintained  thereto  on 
account  of  Clark's  conquest  under  her  auspices— 
a  right  which  she  had  exercised  by  furnishing 
whatever  semblance  of  government  so  far  existed 
northwest  of  the  Ohio.  The  report  submitted 
from  Jefferson's  committee  proposed  the  division 
of  the  Territory  into  seven  States,  to  which  was 
added  the  proviso  that,  after  the  year  1800,  "there 
shall  be  neither  slavery  nor  involuntary  servitude 
in  any  of  said  States,  otherwise  than  in  punish- 
ment of  crime  whereof  the  party  shall  have  been 
duly  convicted."  This  report  failed  of  adoption, 
however,  Congress  contenting  itself  with  the 
passage  of  a  resolution  providing  for  future 
organization  of  this  territory  into  States  by  the 
people — the  measures  necessary  for  temporary 
government  being  left  to  future  Congressional 
action.  While  the  postponement,  in  the  reso- 
lution as  introduced  by  Jefferson,  of  the  inhi- 
bition of  slavery  to  the  year  1800,  has  been 
criticised,  its  introduction  was  significant,  as 
coming  from  a  representative  from  a  slave  State, 


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and  being  the  first  proposition  in  Congress  look- 
ing to  restriction,  of  any  character,  on  the  subject 
of  slavery.  Congress  having  taken  no  further 
step  under  the  resolution  adopted  in  1784,  the 
condition  of  the  country  (thus  left  practically 
without  a  responsible  government,  while  increas- 
ing in  population)  became  constantly  more 
deplorable.  An  appeal  from  the  people  about 
Kaskaskia  for  some  better  form  of  government, 
in  1786,  aided  by  the  influence  of  the  newly 
organized  "Ohio  Company,'-'  who  desired  to  en- 
courage emigration  to  the  lands  which  they  were 
planning  to  secure  from  the  General  Government, 
at  last  brought  about  the  desired  result,  in  the 
passage  of  the  famous  "Ordinance,"  on  the  13th 
day  of  July,  1787.  While  making  provision  for  a 
mode  of  temporary  self-government  by  the 
people,  its  most  striking  features  are  to  be  found 
in  the  six  "articles"— a  sort  of  "Bill  of  Rights" — 
with  which  the  document  closes.  These  assert: 
(1)  the  right  of  freedom  of  worship  and  religious 
opinion;  (2)  the  right  to  the  benefit  of  habeas 
corpus  and  trial  by  jury ;  to  proportionate  repre- 
sentation, and  to  protection  in  liberty  and  prop- 
erty; (3)  that  "religion,  morality  and  knowledge, 
being  necessary  to  good  government  and  the 
happiness  of  mankind,  schools  and  the  means  of 
education  shall  forever  be  encouraged";  (4)  that 
the  States,  formed  within  the  territory  referred 
to,  "shall  forever  remain  a  part  of  this  confeder- 
acy of  the  United  States  of  America,  subject  to 
the  Articles  of  Confederation  and  to  such  alter- 
ations therein  as  shall  be  constitutionally  made" ; 
(5)  prescribe  the  boundaries  of  the  States  to  be 
formed  therein  and  the  conditions  of  their  admis- 
sion into  the  Union ;  and  (6 — and  most  significant 
of  all)  repeat  the  prohibition  regarding  the 
introduction  of  slavery  into  the  Northwest  Terri- 
tory, as  proposed  by  Jefferson,  but  without  any 
qualification  as  to  time.  There  has  been  consider- 
able controversy  regarding  the  authorship  of  this 
portion  of  the  Ordinance,  into  which  it  is  not 
necessary  to  enter  here.  While  it  has  been  char- 
acterized as  a  second  and  advanced  Declaration 
of  Independence — and  probably  no  single  act  of 
Congress  was  ever  fraught  with  more  important 
and  far-reaching  results — it  seems  remarkable 
that  a  majority  of  the  States  supporting  it  and 
securing  its  adoption,  were  then,  and  long  con- 
tinued to  be,  slave  States. 

OREGON,  the  county-seat  of  Ogle  County, 
situated  on  Rock  River  and  the  Minneapolis 
Branch  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Rail- 
road, 100  miles  west  from  Chicago.  The  sur- 
rounding region  is  agricultural;  the  town  has 


water  power  and  manufactures  flour,  pianos,  steel 
tanks,  street  sprinklers,  and  iron  castings.  It  lias 
two  banks,  water-works  supplied  by  flowing 
artesian  wells,  cereal  mill,  and  two  weekly  news- 
papers ;  has  also  obtained  some  repute  as  a  summer 
resort.  Pop.  (1900),  1,577;  (1910),  2,180. 

ORION,  a  village  of  Henry  County,  at  the  inter- 
section of  the  Rock  Island  Division  of  the  Chicago 
Burlington  &  Quincy  and  the  Chicago,  Rock 
Island  &  Pacific  Railways,  19  miles  southeast  of 
Rock  Island.  Pop.  (1900),  584;  (1910),  655. 

OSBORN,  William  Henry,  Railway  President, 
was  born  at  Salem,  Mass.,  Dec.  21,  1820.  After 
receiving  a  high  school  education  in  his  native 
town,  he  entered  the  counting  room  of  the  East 
India  house  of  Peele,  Hubbell  &  Co. ;  was  subse- 
quently sent  to  represent  the  firm  at  Manila, 
finally  engaging  in  business  on  his  own  account, 
during  which  he  traveled  extensively  in  Europe. 
Returning  to  the  United  States  in  1853,  he  took 
up  his  residence  in  New  York,  and,  having  mar- 
ried the  daughter  of  Jonathan  Sturges,  one  of  the 
original  incorporators  and  promoters  of  the  Illi- 
nois Central  Railroad,  he  soon  after  became  asso- 
ciated with  that  enterprise.  In  August,  1854,  he 
was  chosen  a  Director  of  the  Company,  and,  on 
Dec.  1,  1855,  became  its  third  President,  serving 
in  the  latter  position  nearly  ten  years  (until  July 
11,  1865),  and,  as  a  Director,  until  1877— in  all, 
twenty-two  years.  After  retiring  from  his  con- 
nection with  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  Mr. 
Osborn  gave  his  attention  largely  to  enterprises 
of  an  educational  and  benevolent  character  in  aid 
of  the  unfortunate  classes  in  the  State  of  New 
York. 

OSBORN,  Thomas  0.,  soldier  and  diplomatist, 
was  born  in  Licking  County,  Ohio,  August  11, 
1832;  graduated  from  the  Ohio  University  at 
Athens,  in  1854;  studied  law  at  Crawfordsville, 
Ind.,  with  Gen.  Lew  Wallace,  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  and  began  practice  in  Chicago.  Early  in 
the  war  for  the  Union  he  joined  the  "Yates 
Phalanx,"  which,  after  some  delay  on  account  of 
the  quota  being  full,  was  mustered  into  the  serv- 
ice, in  August,  1861,  as  the  Thirty-ninth  Illinois 
Volunteers,  the  subject  of  this  sketch  being  com- 
missioned its  Lieutenant-Colonel.  His  promotion 
to  the  colonelcy  soon  followed,  the  regiment 
being  sent  east  to  guard  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
Railroad,  where  it  met  the  celebrated  Stonewall 
Jackson,  and  took  part  in  many  important  en- 
gagements, including  the  battles  of  Winchester, 
Bermuda  Hundreds,  and  Drury's  Bluff,  besides 
the  sieges  of  Charleston  and  Petersburg.  At 
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wounded,  losing  the  use  of  his  right  arm.  He 
bore  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  operations  about 
Richmond  which  resulted  in  the  capture  of  the 
rebel  capital,  his  services  being  recognized  by 
promotion  to  the  brevet  rank  of  Major-General. 
At  the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  the  prac- 
tice of  law  in  Chicago,  but,  in  1874,  was  appointed 
Consul-General  and  Minister-Resident  to  the 
Argentine  Republic,  remaining  in  that  position 
until  June,  1885,  when  he  resigned,  resuming  his 
residence  in  Chicago.  Died  March  27,  1904. 

OSWEGO,  a  village  in  Kendall  County,  on  the 
Aurora  and  Streator  branch  of  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Quincy  Railway,  6  miles  south  of 
Aurora.  Pop.  (1890),  641;  (1900),  618;  (1910),  600. 

OTTAWA,  the  county-seat  and  principal  city 
of  La  Salle  County,  being  incorporated  as  a  vil- 
lage in  1838,  and,  as  a  city,  in  1853.  It  is  located 
at  the  confluence  of  the  Illinois  and  Fox  Rivers 
and  on  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal.  It  is  the 
intersecting  point  of  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  & 
Pacific  Railway  and  the  Streator  branch  of  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy,  98  miles  east  of 
Rock  Island  and  83  miles  west-southwest  of  Chi- 
cago. The  surrounding  region  abounds  in  coal. 
Sand  of  a  superior  quality  for  the  manufacture  of 
glass  is  found  in  the  vicinity  and  the  place  has 
extensive  glass  works.  Other  manufactured 
products  are  brick,  drain-tile,  sewer-pipe,  tile- 
roofing,  pottery,  pianos,  organs,  cigars,  wagons 
and  carriages,  agricultural  implements,  hay 
carriers,  hay  presses,  sash,  doors,  blinds,  cabinet 
work,  saddlery  and  harness  and  pumps.  The  city 
has  some  handsome  public  buildings  including 
the  Appellate  (formerly  Supreme)  Court  House 
for  the  Northern  Division.  It  also  has  several 
public  parks,  one  of  which  (South  Park)  contains 
a  medicinal  spring.  There  are  a  dozen  churches 
and  numerous  public  school  buildings,  including 
a  high  school.  The  city  is  lighted  by  gas  and 
electricity,  has  electric  street  railways,  good 
sewerage,  and  water-works  supplied  from  over 
150  artesian  wells  and  numerous  natural  springs. 
It  has  one  private  and  two  national  banks,  five 
libraries,  and  eight  weekly  newspapers  (three 
German),  of  which  four  issue  daily  editions.  Pop. 
(1890),  9,985;  (1900),  10,588;  (1910),  9,535. 

OTTAWA,  CHICAGO  &  FOX  RIVER  VALLEY 
RAILROAD.  (See  Chicago,  Burlington  <fc  Quincy 
Railroad.) 

OUTAGAMIES,  a  name  given,  by  the  French, 
to  the  Indian  tribe  known  as  the  Foxes.  (See 
Sacs  and  Foxes. ) 

OWEJf,  Thomas  J.  V.,  early  legislator  and 
Indian  Agent,  was  born  in  Kentucky,  April  5, 


1801;  came  to  Illinois  at  an  early  day,  and,  in 
1830,  was  elected  to  the  Seventh  General  Assem- 
bly from  Randolph  County;  the  following  year 
was  appointed  Indian  Agent  at  Chicago,  as  suc- 
cessor to  Dr.  Alexander  Wolcott,  who  had  died  in 
the  latter  part  of  1830.  Mr.  Owen  served  as 
Indian  Agent  until  1833;  was  a  member  of  the 
first  Board  of  Town  Trustees  of  the  village  of  Chi- 
cago, Commissioner  of  School  Lands,  and  one  of 
the  Government  Commissioners  who  conducted 
the  treaty  with  the  Pottawatomie  and  other 
tribes  of  Indians  at  Chicago,  in  September,  1833. 
Died,  in  Chicago,  Oct.  15,  1835. 

PADDOCK,  Gaius,  pioneer,  a  native  of  Massa- 
chusetts, was  born  in  1758;  at  the  age  of  17  he 
entered  the  Colonial  Army,  serving  until  the 
close  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  being  in 
Washington's  command  at  the  crossing  of  the 
Delaware.  After  the  war  he  removed  to  Ver- 
mont; but,  in  1815,  went  to  Cincinnati,  and,  a 
year  later,  to  St.  Charles,  Mo.  Then,  after  hav- 
ing spent  about  a  year  at  St.  Louis,  in  1818  he 
located  in  Madison  County,  111.,  at  a  point  after- 
wards known  as  "Paddock's  Grove,"  and  which 
became  one  of  the  most  prosperous  agricultural 
sections  of  Southern  Illinois.  Died,  in  1831. 

PAINE,  (Gen.)  Eleazer  A.,  soldier,  was  born  in 
Parkman,  Geauga  County,  Ohio,  Sept.  10,  1815; 
graduated  at  West  Point  Military  Academy,  in 
1839,  and  was  assigned  to  the  First  Infantry, 
serving  in  the  Florida  War  (1839-40),  but  resigned, 
Oct.  11,  1840.  He  then  studied  law  and  practiced 
at  Painesville,  Ohio,  (1843-48),  and  at  Monmouth, 
111.,  (1848-61),  meanwhile  serving  in  the  lower 
branch  of  the  Eighteenth  General  Assembly 
(1852-53).  Before  leaving  Ohio,  he  had  been 
Deputy  United  States  Marshal  and  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  of  the  State  Militia,  and,  in  Illinois, 
became  Brigadier-General  of  Militia  (1845-48). 
He  was  appointed  Colonel  of  the  Ninth  Illinois  in 
April,  1861,  and  served  through  the  war,  being 
promoted  Brigadier-General  in  September,  1861. 
The  first  duty  performed  by  his  regiment,  after 
this  date,  was  the  occupation  of  Paducah,  Ky., 
where  he  was  in  command.  Later,  it  took  part 
in  the  capture  of  Forts  Henry  and  Donelson, 
the  battles  of  Shiloh,  New  Madrid  and  Corinth, 
and  also  in  the  various  engagements  in  Northern 
Georgia  and  in  the  "march  to  the  sea."  From 
November,  1862,  to  May,  1864,  General  Paine  was 
guarding  railroad  lines  in  Central  Tennessee, 
and,  during  a  part  of  1864,  in  command  of  the 
Western  District  of  Kentucky.  He  resigned, 
April  5,  1865,  and  died  in  Jersey  City,  Dec.  16, 


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1882.  A  sturdy  Union  man,  he  performed  his 
duty  as  a  soldier  with  great  zeal  and  efficiency. 

PALATINE,  a  village  of  Cook  County,  on  the 
Wisconsin  Division  of  the  Chicago  &  Northwest- 
ern Railroad,  26  miles  northwest  from  Chicago. 
There  are  flour  and  planing  mills  here;  dairying 
and  farming  are  leading  industries  of  the  sur- 
rounding country.  The  village  has  good  schools, 
churches  and  one  newspaper.  Pop.  (1910),  1,144. 

PALESTINE,  a  town  in  Crawford  County,  about 
2  miles  from  the  Wabash  River,  7  miles  east  of 
Robinson,  and  35  miles  southwest  of  Terre  Haute, 
on  the  Indianapolis  Southern  Railway;  has  churches, 
a  graded  school,  a  bank,  weekly  newspaper,  flour 
mill,  cold  storage  plant,  canning  factory,  garment 
factory,  and  municipal  light  and  power  plant. 
Pop.  (1890),  732;  (1900),  979;  (1910),  1,399. 

PALMER,  Frank  W.,  journalist,  ex-Congress- 
man and  Public  Printer,  was  born  at  Manchester, 
Dearborn  County,  Ind.,  Oct.  11,  1827;  learned  the 
printer's  trade  at  Jamestown,  N.  Y.,  afterwards 
edited  "The  Jamestown  Journal,"  and  served 
two  terms  in  the  New  York  Legislature;  in  1858 
removed  to  Dubuque,  Iowa,  and  edited  "The 
Dubuque  Times,"  was  elected  to  Congress  in  1860, 
and  again  in  1868  and  1872,  meanwhile  having 
purchased  "The  Des  Moines  Register,"  which  he 
edited  for  several  years.  In  1873  he  removed  to 
Chicago  and  became  editor  of  "The  Inter  Ocean," 
remaining  two  years;  in  1877  was  appointed  Post- 
master of  the  city  of  Chicago,  serving  eight  years. 
Shortly  after  the  accession  of  President  Harrison, 
in  1889,  he  was  appointed  Public  Printer,  continu- 
ing in  office  until  the  accession  of  President  Cleve- 
land in  1893,  when  he  returned  to  newspaper  work, 
but  resumed  his  old  place  at  the  head  of  the 
Government  Printing  Bureau  after  the  inaugura- 
tion of  President  McKinley,  1897.  Died  Dec.  3,  1907. 

PALMER,  John  McAuley,  lawyer,  soldier  and 
United  States  Senator,  was  born  in  Scott  County, 
Ky.,  Sept.  13,  1817;  removed  with  his  father  to 
Madison  County,  111.,  in  1831,  and,  four  years 
later,  entered  Shurtleff  College,  at  Upper  Alton, 
as  a  student ;  later  taught  and  studied  law,  being 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1839.  In  1843  he  was 
elected  Probate  Judge  of  Macoupin  County,  also 
served  in  the  State  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1847;  after  discharging  the  duties  of  Probate  and 
County  Judge,  was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  to 
fill  a  vacancy,  in  1852,  and  re-elected  in  1854,  as 
an  Anti-Nebraska  Democrat,  casting  his  vote  for 
Lyman  Trumbull  for  United  States  Senator  in 
1855,  but  resigned  his  seat  in  1856 ;  was  President 
of  the  first  Republican  State  Convention,  held  at 
Bloomington  in  the  latter  year,  and  appointed  a 


delegate  to  the  National  Convention  at  Philadel- 
phia ;  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  Congress 
in  1859,  and  chosen  a  Presidential  Elector  on  the 
Republican  ticket  in  1860 ;  served  as  a  member  of 
the  National  Peace  Conference  of  1861 ;  entered 
the  army  as  Colonel  of  the  Fourteenth  Regiment 
Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry ;  was  promoted  Briga- 
dier General,  in  November,  1861 ,  taking  part  in 
the  campaign  in  Tennessee  up  to  Chickamauga, 
assuming  the  command  of  the  Fourteenth  Army 
Corps  with  the  rank  of  Major-General,  but  was 
relieved  at  his  own  request  before  Atlanta.  In 
1865  he  was  assigned,  by  President  Lincoln,  to 
command  of  the  Military  Department  of  Ken- 
tucky, but,  in  September,  1866,  retired  from  the 
service,  and,  in  1867,  became  a  citizen  of  Spring- 
field. The  following  year  he  was  elected  Gov- 
ernor, as  a  Republican,  but,  in  1872,  supported 
Horace  Greeley  for  President,  and  has  since  co- 
operated with  the  Democratic  party.  He  was 
three  times  the  unsuccessful  candidate  of  his 
party  for  United  States  Senator,  and  was  their 
nominee  for  Governor  in  1888,  but  defeated.  In 
1890  he  was  nominated  for  United  States  Senator 
by  the  Democratic  State  Convention  and  elected 
in  joint  session  of  the  Legislature,  March  11, 1891, 
receiving  on  the  154th  ballot  101  Democratic  and 
two  Farmers'  Mutual  Alliance  votes.  He  became 
an  important  factor  in  the  campaign  of  1896  as 
candidate  of  the  "Sound  Money"  Democracy  for 
President,  although  receiving  no  electoral  votes, 
proving  his  devotion  to  principle.  His  last  years 
were  occupied  in  preparation  of  a  volume  of 
personal  recollections,  which  was  completed, 
under  the  title  of  "The  Story  of  an  Earnest  Life,1' 
a  few  weeks  before  his  death,  which  occurred  at- 
his  home  in  Springfield,  September  25,  1900. 

PALMER,  Potter,  merchant  and  capitalist, 
was  born  in  Albany  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1825; 
received  an  English  education  and  became  a 
junior  clerk  in  a  country  store  at  Durham, 
Greene  County,  in  that  State,  three  years  later 
being  placed  in  charge  of  the  business,  and  finally 
engaging  in  business  on  his  own  account.  Com- 
ing to  Chicago  in  1852,  he  embarked  in  the  dry- 
goods  business  on  Lake  Street,  establishing  the 
house  which  afterwards  became  Field,  Leiter  & 
Co.  (now  Marshall  Field  &  Co. ),  from  which  here- 
tired,  in  1865,  with  the  basis  of  an  ample  fortune, 
which  later  was  greatly  increased  by  fortunate  in- 
vestments. He  died  May  9,  1902.  Mr.  Palmer 
was  Second  Vice-President  of  the  first  Board  of 
Local  Directors  of  the  World's  Columbian  Expo- 
sition in  1891.— Mrs.  Bertha  M.  Honore  (Palmer), 
wife  of  the  preceding,  is  the  daughter  of  H.  H. 


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Honore,  formerly  a  prominent  real-estate  owner 
and  operator  of  Chicago.  She  is  a  native  of 
Louisville,  Ky.,  where  her  girlhood  was  chiefly 
spent,  though  she  was  educated  at  a  convent  near 
Baltimore,  Md.  Later  she  came  with  her  family 
to  Chicago,  and,  in  1870,  was  married  to  Potter 
Palmer.  Mrs.  Palmer  has  been  a  recognized 
leader  in  many  social  and  benevolent  movements, 
but  won  the  highest  praise  by  her  ability  and 
administrative  skill,  exhibited  as  President  of  the 
Board  of  Lady  Managers  of  the  World's  Colum- 
bian Exposition  of  1893. 

PALMYRA,  a  village  of  Macoupin  County,  on 
the  Springfield  Division  of  the  St.  Louis,  Chicago, 
Peoria  &  St.  Louis  Railway,  33  miles  southwest  from 
Springfield;  has  some  local  manufactories,  a  bank 
and  a  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  813;  (1910),  873 

PANA,  an  important  railway  center  and  prin- 
cipal city  of  Christian  County,  situated  in  the 
southeastern  part  of  the  County,  and  at  the  inter- 
secting point  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwest- 
ern, the  Illinois  Central  and  the  Cleveland, 
Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railroads,  35 
miles  south  by  west  from  Decatur,  and  42  miles 
southeast  of  Springfield.  It  is  an  important  ship- 
ping-point for  grain  and  has  two  elevators.  Its 
mechanical  establishments  include  two  flouring 
mills,  a  foundry,  two  machine  shops  and  two 
planing  mills.  The  surrounding  region  is  rich  in 
coal,  which  is  extensively  mined.  Pana  has 
banks,  several  churches,  graded  schools,  and 
one  paper  issuing  daily  and  weekly  editions.  Pop. 
(1890),  5,077;  (1900),  5,530;  (1910),  6,055. 

PANA,  SPRINGFIELD  &  NORTHWESTERN 
RAILROAD.  (See  Baltimore  &  Ohio  South- 
western Railroad.) 

PARIS,  a  handsome  and  flourishing  city,  the 
county-seat  of  Edgar  County.  It  is  an  important 
railway  center,  situated  on  the  "Big  Four"  and 
the  Vandalia  Line,  160  miles  south  of  Chicago, 
and  170  miles  east-northeast  of  St.  Louis;  is  in 
the  heart  of  a  wealthy  and  populous  agricultural 
region,  and  has  a  prosperous  trade.  Its  industries 
include  foundries,  three  elevators,  flour,  saw,  and 
planing  mills,  glass,  broom,  and  corn  product 
factories.  The  city  has  three  banks,  three  daily 
and  three  weekly  n  'Wspapers,  one  monthly  publica- 
tion, several  churches,  and  graded  schools.  Pop. 
(1900),  6,105;  (1910),  7,664. 

PARIS  &  DECATUR  RAILROAD.  (See  Terre 
Haute  &  Peoria  Railroad.) 

PARIS  &  TERRE  HAUTE  RAILROAD.  (See 
Terre  Haute  &  Peoria  Railroad. ) 

PARKS,  Gavion  D.  A.,  lawyer,  was  born  at 
Bristol,  Ontario  County,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  17.  1817; 


went  to  New  York  City  in  1838,  where  he  com- 
pleted his  legal  studies  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  removing  to  Lockport,  111.,  in  1842.  Here 
he  successively  edited  a  paper,  served  as  Master 
in  Chancery  and  in  an  engineering  corps  on  the 
Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal;  was  elected  County 
Judge  in  1849,  removed  to  Joliet,  and,  for  a  time, 
acted  as  an  attorney  of  the  Chicago  &  Rock 
Island,  the  Michigan  Central  and  the  Chicago 
&  Alton  Railroads;  was  also  a  Trustee  of  the 
Institution  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  at  Jackson- 
ville ;  was  elected  Representative  in  1852,  became 
a  Republican  and  served  on  the  first  Republican 
State  Central  Committee  (1856);  the  same  year 
was  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  and  was  a 
Commissioner  of  the  State  Penitentiary  in  1864. 
In  1872  Mr.  Parks  joined  in  the  Liberal-Repub- 
lican movement,  was  defeated  for  Congress,  and 
afterwards  acted  with  the  Democratic  party. 
Died,  Dec.  28,  1895. 

PARKS,  Lawson  A.,  journalist,  was  born  at 
Mecklenburg,  N.  C.,  April  15,  1813;  learned  the 
printing  tra.de  at  Charlotte,  in  that  State ;  came 
to  St.  Louis  in  1833,  and,  in  1836,  assisted  in  estab- 
lishing "The  Alton  Telegraph,"  but  sold  his 
interest  a  few  years  later.  Then,  having  offi- 
ciated as  pastor  of  Presbyterian  churches  for  some 
years,  in  1854  he  again  became  associated  with 
"The  Telegraph,"  acting  as  its  editor.  Died  at 
Alton,  March  31,  1875. 

PARK  RIDGE,  a  suburban  village  on  the  Wis- 
consin Division  of  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern 
Railroad,  13  miles  northwest  of  Chicago.  Popu- 
lation (1890),  987;  (1900),  1,340;  (1910),  2,009. 

PARTRIDGE,  Charles  Addison,  journalist  and 
Assistant  Adjutant-General  of  the  Grand  Army 
of  the  Republic,  was  born  in  Westford,  Chittenden 
County,  Vt.,  Dec.  8,  1843;  came  with  his  parents 
to  Lake  County,  111.,  in  1844,  and  spent  his  boy- 
hood on  a'farm,  receiving  his  education  in  the 
district  school,  with  four  terms  in  a  high  school 
at  Burlington,  Wis.  At  16  he  taught  a  winter 
district  school  near  his  boyhood  home,  and  at  18 
enlisted  in  what  became  Company  C  of  the 
Ninety -sixth  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers,  being 
mustered  into  the  service  as  Eighth  Corporal  at 
Rockford.  His  regiment  becoming  attached  to 
the  Army  of  the  Cumberland,  he  participated 
with  it  in  the  battles  of  Chickamauga  and  the 
Atlanta  campaign,  as  well  as  those  of  Franklin 
and  Nashville,  and  has  taken  a  just  pride  in  the 
fact  that  he  never  fell  out  on  the  march,  took 
medicine  from  a  doctor  or  was  absent  from  his 
regiment  during  its  term  of  service,  except  for 
four  months  while  recovering  from  a  gun-shot 


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wound  received  ai  Chickamauga.  He  was  pro- 
moted successively  to  Sergeant,  Sergeant-Major, 
and  commissioned  Second  Lieutenant  of  his  old 
company,  of  which  his  father  was  First  Lieuten- 
ant for  six  months  and  until  forced  to  resign  on 
account  of  impaired  health.  Receiving  his  final 
discharge,  June  28,  1865,  he  returned  to  the  farm, 
where  he  remained  until  1869,  in  the  meantime 
being  married  to  Miss  Jennie  E.  Earle,  in  1866, 
and  teaching  school  one  winter.  In  1869  he  was 
elected  County  Treasurer  of  Lake  County  on  the 
Republican  ticket,  and  re-elected  in  1871;  in 
January  of  the  latter  year,  purchased  an  interest 
in  "The  Waukegan  Gazette,"  with  which  he 
remained  associated  some  fifteen  years,  at  first  as 
the  partner  of  Rev.  A.  K.  Fox,  and  later  of  his 
younger  brother,  H.  E.  Partridge.  In  1877  he 
was  appointed,  by  President  Hayes,  Postmaster 
at  Waukegan,  serving  four  years;  in  1886  was 
elected  to  the  Legislature,  serving  (by  successive 
elections)  as  Representative  in  the  Thirty-fifth, 
Thirty-sixth  and  Thirty-seventh  General  Assem- 
blies, being  frequently  called  upon  to  occupy  the 
Speaker's  chair,  and,  especially  during  the  long 
Senatorial  contest  of  1891,  being  recognized  as  a 
leader  of  the  Republican  minority.  In  1888  he 
was  called  to  the  service  of  the  Republican  State 
Central  Committee  (of  which  he  had  previously 
been  a  member),  as  assistant  to  the  veteran  Secre- 
tary, the  late  Daniel  Shepard,  remaining  until 
the  death  of  his  chief,  when  he  succeeded  to  the 
secretaryship.  During  the  Presidential  campaign 
of  1892  he  was  associated  with  the  late  William 
J.  Campbell,  then  the  Illinois  member  of  the 
Republican  National  Committee,  and  was  en- 
trusted by  him  with  many  important  and  confi- 
dential missions.  Without  solicitation  on  his 
part,  in  1894  he  was  again  called  to  assume  the 
secretaryship  of  the  Republican  State  Central 
Committee,  and  bore  a  conspicuous  and  influ- 
ential part  in  winning  the  brilliant  success 
achieved  by  the  party  in  the  campaign  of  that 
year.  From  1893  to  1895  he  served  as  Mayor  of 
Waukegan ;  in  1896  became  Assistant  Adjutant- 
General  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  for 
the  Department  of  Illinois — a  position  which  he 
held  in  1889  under  Commander  James  S.  Martin, 
and  to  which  he  was  reappointed  by  successive 
Department  Commanders  up  to  the  year  1910.  Mr. 
Partridge's  service  in  the  various  public  positions 
held  by  him  gave  him  an  acquaintance  extending 
to  every  county  in  the  State.  Died  widely  mourned, 
Dec.  13,  1910. 

PATOKA,  a   village  of  Marion  County,  on  the 
Western  branch  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railway, 


15  miles  south  of  Vandalia.     There  are  flour  and 
saw  mills  here ;  the  surrounding  country  is  agri- 
cultural.   Pop.  (1900),  640;  (1910),  676. 
PATTERSON,  Robert    Wilson,   D.D.,  LL.D., 

clergyman,  was  born  in  Blount  County,  Tenn., 
Jan.  21,  1814;  came  to  Bond  County,  111.,  with 
his  parents  in  1822,  his  father  dying  two  years 
later;  at  18  had  had  only  nine  months'  schooling, 
but  graduated  at  Illinois  College  in  1837 ;  spent  a 
year  at  Lane  Theological  Seminary,  another  as 
tutor  in  Illinois  College,  and  then,  after  two  years 
more  at  Lane  Seminary  and  preaching  in  Chicago 
and  at  Monroe,  Mich.,  in  1842  established  the 
Second  Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago,  of  which 
he  remained  the  pastor  over  thirty  years.  In 
185(1  he  received  a  call  to  the  chair  of  Didactic 
Theology  at  Lane  Seminary,  as  successor  to  Dr. 
Lyman  Beecher,  but  it  was  declined,  as  was  a 
similar  call  ten  years  later.  Resigning  his  pastor- 
ship in  1873,  he  was,  for  several  years,  Professor  of 
Christian  Evidences  and  Ethics  in  the  Theological 
Seminary  of  the  Northwest ;  in  1876-78  served  as 
President  of  Lake  Forest  University  (of  which  he 
was  one  of  the  founders),  and,  in  1880-83,  as 
lecturer  in  Lane  Theological  Seminary.  He 
received  the  degree  of  D.D.  from  Hamilton  Col- 
lege, N.  Y.,  in  1854,  that  of  LL.D.  from  Lake 
Forest  University,  and  was  Moderator  of  the 
Presbyterian  General  Assembly  (N.  S.)  at  Wil- 
mington, Del.,  in  1859.  Died,  at  Evanston,  111., 
Feb.  24,  1894. 

PA  YET,  Charles  W.,  soldier  and  ex-State 
Auditor,  was  born  in  Highland  County,  Ohio, 
Nov.  8,  1835 ;  removed  to  Illinois  in  1859,  settling 
in  the  vicinity  of  Mount  Vernon,  and,  for  a  time, 
followed  the  occupation  of  a  farmer  and  stock- 
raiser.  In  August,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  the  Eighti- 
eth Illinois  Volunteers  for  the  Civil  War,  and 
became  First  Lieutenant  of  Company  E.  He  was 
severely  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Sand  Mountain 
and,  having  been  captured,  was  confined  in  Libby 
Prison,  at  Salisbury,  N.  C.,  and  at  Danville, 
Va.,  for  a  period  of  nearly  two  years,  enduring 
great  hardship  and  suffering.  Having  been 
exchanged,  he  served  to  the  close  of  the  war  as 
Assistant  Inspector-General  on  the  Staff  of  Gen- 
eral Rousseau,  in  Tennessee.  He  was  a  delegate 
to  the  Republican  National  Convention  of  1880, 
which  nominated  General  Garfield  for  the  Presi- 
dency, and  was  one  of  the  famous  "306"  who 
stood  by  General  Grant  in  that  struggle.  In  1882 
he  was  appointed  by  President  Arthur  Collector 
of  Internal  Revenue  for  the  Southern  District, 
and,  in  1888,  was  nominated  and  elected  State 
Auditor  on  the  Republican  ticket,  but  was  de- 


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feated  for  re-election  in  the  "land-slide"  of  1892. 
General  Pavey  has  been  prominent  in  "G.  A.  R." 
councils,  and  held  the  position  of  Junior  Vice- 
Commander  for  the  Department  of  Illinois  in 

1878,  and   that   of    Senior   Vice-Commander    in 

1879.  He  also  served  as  Brigadier-General  of  the 
National  Guard,  for  Southern  Illinois,  during  the 
railroad  strike  of  1877.     In  1897  he  received  from 
President  McKinley  the  appointment  of  Special 
Agent  of  the  Treasury  Department.     His  home 
was  in  Mount  Vernon,  111.    Died  May  11,  1910. 

PAWNEE,  a  village  of  Sangamon  County,  on 
the  Chicago  &  Illinois  Midland  Railroad,  19  miles 
south  of  Springfield.  The  town  has  two  elevators, 
a  coal  mine,  a  bank  and  a  weekly  paper.  Popula- 
tion (1900),  595;  (1910),  1,399. 

PAWNEE  RAILROAD,  a  short  line  in  Sanga- 
mon County,  extending  from  Pawnee  to  Auburn 
(9  miles),  where  it  forms  a  junction  with  the 
Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad.  The  company  was 
organized  and  procured  a  charter  in  December, 
1888,  and  the  road  completed  the  following  year. 
The  cost  was  §101,774.  Capital  stock  authorized, 
$100,000;  funded  debt  (1895),  $50,000. 

PAW  PAW,  a  village  of  Lee  County,  at  the 
junction  of  two  branches  of  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Quincy  Railway,  8  miles  northwest  of 
Earlville.  The  town  is  in  a  farming  region,  but 
has  a  brick  and  tile  factory,  a  bank  and  one  weekly 
paper.  Pop.  (1900),  765;  (1910),  709. 

PAXTON,  the  county-seat  of  Ford  County,  is 
situated  at  the  intersection  of  the  Chicago  Divi- 
sion of  the  Illinois  Central  and  the  Lake  Erie  & 
Western  Railroads,  103  miles  south  by  west  from 
Chicago,  and  49  miles  east  of  Bloomington.  It 
contains  a  court  house,  two  schools,  water-works, 
electric  light  and  water-heating  system,  two  banks, 
nine  churches,  one  daily  and  two  weekly  papers. 
It  is  an  important  shipping-point  for  the  farm 
products  of  the  surrounding  territory,  which  is  a 
rich  agricultural  region.  Besides  brick  and  tile 
works  and  flour  mills,  factories  for  the  manu- 
facture of  carriages,  buggies,  hardware,  cigars, 
brooms,  and  plows  are  located  here.  Pop.  (1890), 
2,187;  (1900),  3,036;  (1910),  2,912. 

PAYSON,  a  village  in  Adams  County,  15  miles 
southeast  of  Quincy;  the  nearest  railroad  station 
being  Fall  Creek,  on  the  Quincy  and  Louisiana 
Division  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railway;  has  a  bank  and  one  newspaper.  Pop. 
(1900),  465;  (1910),  467. 

PAYSON,  Lewis  E.,  lawyer  and  ex-Congress- 
man,  was  born  at  Providence,  R.  I.,  Sept.  17, 
1840;  came  to  Illinois  at  the  age  of  12,  and,  after 
passing  through  the  common  schools,  attended 


Lombard  University,  at  Galesburg,  for  two  years. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Ottawa  in  1862, 
and,  in  1865,  took  up  his  residence  at  Pontiac. 
From  1869  to  1873  he  was  Judge  of  the  Livingston 
County  Court,  and,  from  1881  to  1891,  represented 
his  District  in  Congress,  being  elected  as  a 
Republican,  but,  in  1890,  was  defeated  by  his 
Democratic  opponent,  Herman  W.  Snow.  After 
retiring  from  Congress  he  practiced  his  profession 
in  Washington,  D.  C.  Died  Oct.  4,  1909. 

PEABODY,  Selim  Hobart,  educator,  was  born 
in  Rockingham  County,  Vt.,  August  20,  1829; 
after  reaching  13  years  of  age,  spent  a  year  in  a 
Boston  Latin  School,  then  engaged  in  various 
occupations,  including  teaching,  until  1848,  when 
he  entered  the  University  of  Vermont,  graduat- 
ing third  in  his  class  in  1852 ;  was  appointed  Pro- 
fessor of  Mathematics  and  Engineering  in  the 
Polytechnic  College  at  Philadelphia,  in  1854, 
remaining  three  years,  when  he  spent  five  years 
in  Wisconsin,  the  last  three  as  Superintendent  of 
Schools  at  Racine.  From  1865  to  1871  he  was 
teacher  of  physical  science  in  Chicago  High 
School,  also  conducting  night  schools  for  work- 
ing men ;  in  1871  became  Professor  of  Physics  and 
Engineering  in  Massachusetts  Agricultural  Col- 
lege, but  returned  to  the  Chicago  High  School  in 
1874;  in  1876  took  charge  of  the  Chicago  Acad- 
emy of  Sciences,  and,  in  1878,  entered  the  Illinois 
Industrial  University  (now  University  of  Illinois), 
at  Champaign,  first  as  Professor  of  Mechanical 
Engineering,  in  1880  becoming  President,  but 
resigning  in  1891.  During  the  World's  Colum- 
bian Exposition  at  Chicago,  Professor  Peabody 
was  Chief  of  the  Department  of  Liberal  Arts, 
and,  on  the  expiration  of  his  service  there, 
assumed  the  position  of  Curator  of  the  newly 
organized  Chicago  Academy  of  Sciences,  from 
which  he  retired  two  years  later.  Died  May  26,  1903. 

PEARL,  a  village  of  Pike  County,  on  the 
Kansas  City  branch  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Rail- 
road, 14  miles  west  of  Roodhouse.  Population 
(1890),  928;  (1900),  722;  (1910),  842. 

PEARSON,  Isaac  N.,  ex-Secretary  of  State, 
was  born  at  Centreville,  Pa.,  July  27,  1842;  removed 
to  Macomb,  McDonough  County,  111.,  in  1858,  and 
continued  his  residence  there.  In  1872  he  was 
elected  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court,  and  re-elected 
in  1876.  Later  he  engaged  in  real-estate  and 
banking  business.  He  was  a  member  of  the  lower 
house  in  the  Thirty-third,  and  of  the  Senate  in 
the  Thirty-fifth,  General  Assembly,  but  before  the 
expiration  of  his  term  in  the  latter,  was  elected 
Secretary  of  State,  on  the  Republican  ticket,  in 
1888.  In  1892  he  was  a  candidate  for  re-election, 


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but  was  defeated,  although,  next  to  Governor 
Fifer,  he  received  the  largest  vote  cast  for  any 
candidate  for  a  political  office  on  the  Republican 
State  ticket.  Died  Feb.  27,  1908. 

PEARSON,  John  M.,  ex-Railway  and  Ware- 
house Commissioner,  born  at  Newburyport, 
Mass.,  in  1832— the  son  of  a  ship-carpenter;  was 
educated  in  his  native  State  and  came  to  Illinois 
in  1849,  locating  at  the  city  of  Alton,  where  he 
was  afterwards  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
agricultural  implements.  In  1873  he  was  ap- 
pointed a  member  of  the  first  Railway  and  Ware- 
house Commission,  serving  four  years;  in  1878 
was  elected  Representative  in  the  Thirty-first 
General  Assembly  from  Madison  County,  and 
was  re-elected,  successively,  in  1880  and  '82.  He 
was  appointed  a  member  of  the  first  Board  of 
Live-Stock  Commissioners  in  1885,  serving  until 
1893,  for  a  considerable  portion  of  the  time  as 
President  of  the  Board.  Mr.  Pearson  was  a  life- 
long Republican  and  prominent  member  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity.  His  home  was  at  Godfrey,  111. 
Died  June  4,  1910. 

PEARSONS,  Daniel  K.,  M.D.,  real-estate  oper- 
ator and  capitalist,  was  born  at  Bradfordton,  Vt., 
April  14,  1820 ;  began  teaching  at  16  years  of  age, 
and,  at  21,  entered  Dartmouth  College,  taking  a 
two  years'  course.  He  then  studied  medicine, 
and,  after  practicing  a  short  time  in  his  native 
State,  removed  to  Chicopee,  Mass.,  where  he 
remained  from  1843  to  1857.  The  latter  year  he 
came  to  Ogle  County,  111.,  and  began  operating 
in  real  estate,  finally  adding  to  this  a  loan  busi- 
ness for  Eastern  parties,  but  discontinued  this 
line  in  1877.  He  owns  extensive  tracts  of  timber 
lands  in  Michigan,  is  a  Director  in  the  Chicago 
City  Railway  Company  and  American  Exchange 
Bank,  besides  being  interested  in  other  financial 
institutions.  He  has  been  one  of  the  most  liberal 
supporters  of  the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  and 
a  princely  contributor  to  various  benevolent  and 
educational  institutions,  his  gifts  to  colleges,  in 
different  parts  of  the  country,  aggregating  over  a 
million  dollars. 

PECATONICA,  a  town  in  Pecatonica  Township, 
Winnebago  County,  on  the  Pecatonica  River.  It 
is  on  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway,  mid- 
way beween  Freeport  and  Rockford,  being  14 
miles  from  each.  It  contains  a  carriage  factory, 
machine  shop,  condensed  milk  factory,  a  bank, 
six  churches,  a  graded  school,  and  a  weekly  news- 
paper. Pop.  (1900),  1,045;  (1910),  1,022. 

PECATONICA  RIVER,  a  stream  formed  by  the 
confluence  of  two  branches,  both  of  which  rise 
in  Iowa  County,  Wis.  They  unite  a  little  north 


of  the  Illinois  State  line,  whence  the  river  runs 
southeast  to  Freeport,  then  east  and  northeast, 
until  it  enters  Rock  River  at  Rockton.  From  the 
headwaters  of  either  branch  to  the  mouth  of  the 
river  is  about  50  miles. 

PECK,  Ebenezer,  early  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Portland,  Maine,  May  22,  1805;  received  an  aca- 
demical education,  studied  law  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  Canada  in  1827.  He  was  twice 
elected  to  the  Provincial  Parliament  and  made 
King's  Counsel  in  1833 ;  came  to  Illinois  in  1835, 
settling  in  Chicago;  served  in  the  State  Senate 
(1838-40),  and  in  the  House  (1840-42  and  1858-60); 
was  also  Clerk  of  the  Supreme  Court  (1841-45), 
Reporter  of  Supreme  Court  decisions  (1849-63), 
and  member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1869-70.  Mr.  Peck  was  an  intimate  personal 
friend  of  Abraham  Lincoln,  by  whom  he  was 
appointed  a  member  of  the  Court  of  Claims,  at 
Washington,  serving  until  1875.  Died,  May  25, 
1881. 

PECK,  Ferdinand  Wythe,  lawyer  and  finan- 
cier, was  born  in  Chicago,  July  15,  1848 — the  son 
of  Philip  F.  W.  Peck,  a  pioneer  and  early  mer- 
chant of  the  metropolis  of  Illinois;  was  educated 
in  the  public  schools,  the  Chicago  University 
and  Union  College  of  Law,  graduating  from 
both  of  the  last  named  institutions,  and  being 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1869.  For  a  time  he 
engaged  in  practice,  but  his  father  having  died  in 
1871,  the  responsibility  of  caring  for  a  large 
estate  devolved  upon  him  and  has  since  occupied 
his  time,  though  he  has  given  much  attention  to 
the  amelioration  of  the  condition  of  the  poor  of 
his  native  city,  and  works  of  practical  benevo- 
lence and  public  interest.  He  is  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Illinois  Humane  Society,  has  been 
President  and  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Control 
of  the  Chicago  Athenasum,  member  of  the  Board 
of  Education,  President  of  the  Chicago  Union 
League,  and  was  an  influential  factor  in  securing 
the  success  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition 
at  Chicago,  in  1893,  serving  as  First  Vice-Presi- 
dent of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Directors,  Chair- 
man of  the  Finance  Committee,  and  member  of 
the  Board  of  Reference  and  Control.  Of  late 
years,  Mr.  Peck  has  been  connected  with  several 
important  building  enterprises  of  a  semi-public 
character,  which  have  added  to  the  reputation  of 
Chicago,  including  the  Auditorium,  Stock  Ex- 
change Building  and  others  in  which  he  is  a 
leading  stockholder,  and  in  the  erection  of  which 
he  has  been  a  chief  promoter.  In  1898  he  was 
appointed,  by  President  McKinley,  the  United 
States  Commissioner  to  the  International  Expo- 


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sition  at  Paris  of  1900,  as  successor  to  the  late 
Maj.  M.  P.  Handy,  and  the  success  which  lias 
followed  his  discharge  of  the  duties  of  that 
position,  has  demonstrated  the  fitness  of  his 
selection. 

PECK,  George  I!.,  railway  attorney,  born  in 
Steuben  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1843;  was  early  taken 
to  Wisconsin,  where  he  assisted  in  clearing  his 
father's  farm;  at  16  became  a  country  school- 
teacher to  aid  in  freeing  the  same  farm  from 
debt ;  enlisted  at  19  in  the  First  Wisconsin  Heavy 
Artillery,  later  becoming  a  Captain  in  the  Thirty- 
first  Wisconsin  Infantry,  with  which  he  joined  in 
"Sherman's  March  to  the  Sea."  Returning  home 
at  the  close  of  the  war,  he  began  the  study  of 
law  at  Janesville,  spending  six  years  there  as  a 
student,  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  and  in  prac- 
tice. From  there  he  went  to  Kansas  and,  between 
1871  and  '74,  practiced  his  profession  at  Independ- 
ence, when  he  was  appointed  by  President  Grant 
United  States  District  Attorney  for  the  Kansas 
District,  but  resigned  this  position,  in  1879,  to 
return  to  general  practice.  In  1881  he  became 
General  Solicitor  of  the  Atchison,  Topeka  & 
Santa  Fe  Railroad,  removing  to  Chicago  in 
1893.  In  1895  he  resigned  his  position  with  the 
Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railroad  to  accept 
a  similar  position  with  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee 
&  St.  Paul  Railway  Company,  which  (1898)  he 
still  holds.  Mr.  Peck  is  recognized  as  one  of  the 
most  gifted  orators  in  the  West,  and,  in  1897,  was 
chosen  to  deliver  the  principal  address  at  the  un- 
veiling of  the  Logan  equestrian  statue  in  Lake 
Front  Park,  Chicago ;  has  also  officiated  as  orator 
on  a  number  of  other  important  public  occasions, 
always  acquitting  himself  with  distinction. 

PECK,  John  Mason,  !).!>.,  clergyman  and  edu- 
cator, was  born  in  Litchfield,  Conn.,  Oct.  31,  1789; 
removed  to  Greene  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1811,  where 
he  united  with  the  Baptist  Church,  the  same 
year  entering  on  pastoral  work,  while  prosecuting 
his  studies  and  supporting  himself  by  teaching. 
In  1814  he  became  pastor  of  a  church  at  Amenia, 
N.  Y.,  and,  in  1817,  was  sent  west  as  a  mission- 
ary, arriving  in  St.  Louis  in  the  latter  part  of  the 
same  year.  During  the  next  nine  years  he  trav- 
eled extensively  through  Missouri  and  Illinois,  as 
an  itinerant  preacher  and  teacher,  finally  locating 
at  Rock  Spring,  St.  Clair  County,  where,  in  1826, 
he  established  the  Rock  Spring  Seminary  for  the 
education  of  teachers  and  ministers.  Out  of  this 
grew  Shurtleff  College,  founded  at  Upper  Alton 
in  1835,  in  securing  the  endowment  of  which  Dr. 
Peck  traveled  many  thousands  of  miles  and  col- 
lected §20,000,  and  of  which  he  served  as  Trustee 


for  many  years.  Up  to  1843  he  devoted  much 
time  to  aiding  in  the  establishment  of  a  theolog- 
ical institution  at  Covington,  Ky.,  and,  for  two 
years  following,  was  Corresponding  Secretary  and 
Financial  Agent  of  the  American  Baptist  Publi- 
cation Society,  with  headquarters  in  Philadelphia. 
Returning  to  the  West,  he  served  as  pastor  of  sev- 
eral important  churches  in  Missouri,  Illinois  and 
Kentucky.  A  man  of  indomitable  will,  unflag- 
ging industry  and  thoroughly  upright  in  conduct, 
for  a  period  of  a  quarter  of  a  century,  in  the  early 
history  of  the  State,  probably  no  man  exerted  a 
larger  influence  for  good  and  the  advancement 
of  the  cause  of  education,  among  the  pioneer  citi- 
zens of  all  classes,  than  Dr.  Peck.  Though  giving 
his  attention  so  constantly  to  preaching  and 
teaching,  he  found  time  to  write  much,  not  only 
for  the  various  publications  with  which  lie  was, 
from  time  to  time,  connected,  but  also  for  other 
periodicals,  besides  publishing  "A  Guide  for  Emi- 
grants" (1831),  of  which  a  new  edition  appeared 
in  1836,  and  a  "Gazetteer  of  Illinois"  (Jackson- 
ville, 1834,  and  Boston,  1837),  which  continue  to 
be  valued  for  the  information  they  contain  of  the 
condition  of  the  country  at  that  time.  He  was 
an  industrious  collector  of  historical  records  in 
the  form  of  newspapers  and  pamphlets,  which 
were  unfortunately  destroyed  by  fire  a  few  years 
before  his  death.  In  1852  he  received  the  degree 
of  D.  D.  from  Harvard  University.  Died,  at  Rock 
Spring,  St.  Clair  County,  March  15,  1858. 

PECK,  Philip  F.  W.,  pioneer  merchant,  was 
born  in  Providence,  R.  I.,  in  1809,  the  son  of  a 
wholesale  merchant  who  had  lost  his  fortune  by 
indorsing  for  a  friend.  After  some  years  spent 
in  a  mercantile  house  in  New  York,  he  came  to 
Chicago  on  a  prospecting  tour,  in  1830;  the  fol- 
lowing year  brought  a  stock  of  goods  to  the 
embryo  emporium  of  the  Northwest — then  a  small 
backwoods  hamlet — and,  by  trade  and  fortunate 
investments  in  real  estate,  laid  the  foundation  of 
what  afterwards  became  a  large  fortune.  He 
died,  Oct.  23,  1871,  as  the  result  of  an  accident 
occurring  about  the  time  of  the  great  fire  of  two 
weeks  previous,  from  which  he  was  a  heavy 
sufferer  pecuniarily.  Three  of  his  sons,  Walter  L. , 
Clarence  I.  and  Ferdinand  W.  Peck,  are  among 
Chicago's  most  substantial  citizens. 

PEKIX,  a  flourishing  city,  the  county-seat  of 
Tazewell  County,  and  an  important  railway  cen- 
ter, located  on  the  Illinois  River,  10  miles  south 
of  Peoria  and  56  miles  north  of  Springfield. 
Agriculture  and  coal-mining  are  the  chief  occu- 
pations in  the  surrounding  country,  but  the  city 
itself  is  an  important  grain  market  with  large 


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general  shipping  interests.  It  has  several  dis- 
tilleries, besides  grain  elevators,  malt-houses, 
brick  and  tile  works,  lumber  yards,  planing  mills, 
marble  works,  plow  and  wagon  works,  and  a 
factory  for  corn  products.  Its  banking  facilities 
are  adequate,  and  its  religious  and  educational 
advantages  are  excellent.  The  city  has  a  public 
library,  park,  steam-heating  plant,  two  daily  and 
three  weekly  papers.  Pop.  (1890),  6,347;  (1900), 
8,420;  (1910),  9,897. 

PEKIN,  LINCOLN  &  DECATUR  RAILROAD. 
(See  Peoria,  Decatur  cfc  Eransville  Raihray.) 

PELL,  Gilbert  T.,  Representative  in  the  Third 
Illinois  General  Assembly  (1822)  from  Edwards 
County,  and  an  opponent  of  the  resolution  for  a 
State  Convention  adopted  by  the  Legislature  at 
that  session,  designed  to  open  the  door  for  the 
admission  of  slavery.  Mr.  Pell  was  a  son-in-law 
of  Morris  Birkbeck,  who  was  one  of  the  leaders 
in  opposition  to  the  Convention  scheme,  and  very 
naturally  sympathized  with  his  father-in-law. 
He  was  elected  to  the  Legislature,  for  a  second 
term,  in  1828,  but  subsequently  left  the  State, 
dying  elsewhere,  when  his  widow  removed  to 
Australia.  '• 

PENNSYLVANIA  RAILROAD.  As  to  oper- 
ations of  this  corporation  in  Illinois,  see  Calumet 
River;  Pittsburg,  Fort  Wayne  &  Chicago;  South 
Chicago  &  Southern,  and  Pittsburg,  Cincinnati, 
Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railways.  The  whole  num- 
ber of  miles  owned,  leased  and  operated  by  the 
Pennsylvania  System,  in  1898,  was  1,987.21,  of 
which  only  61.34  miles  were  in  Illinois.  It  owns, 
however,  a  controlling  interest  in  the  stock  of 
the  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Western  Railway  (which 
see). 

PEORIA,  the  second  largest  city  of  the  State 
and  the  county-seat  of  Peoria  County,  is  160  miles 
southwest  of  Chicago,  and  at  the  foot  of  an  expan- 
sion of  the  Illinois  River  known  as  Peoria  Lake. 
The  site  of  the  town  occupies  an  elevated  plateau, 
having  a  water  frontage  of  four  miles  and  extend- 
ing back  to  a  bluff,  which  rises  230  feet  above  the 
river  level  and  about  120  feet  above  the  highest 
point  of  the  main  site.  It  was  settled  in  1778  or 
'79,  although,  as  generally  believed,  the  French 
missionaries  had  a  station  there  in  1711.  There 
was  certainly  a  settlement  there  as  early  as  1725, 
when  Renault  received  a  grant  of  lands  at  Pimi- 
teoui,  facing  the  lake  then  bearing  the  same 
name  as  the  village.  From  that  date  until  1812, 
the  place  was  continuously  occupied  as  a  French 
village,  and  is  said  to  have  been  the  most  impor- 
tant point  for  trading  in  the  Mississippi  Valley. 
The  original  village  was  situated  about  a  mile  and 


a  half  above  the  foot  of  the  lake ;  but  later,  the  pres- 
ent site  was  occupied,  at  first  receiving  the  name 
of  "La  Ville  de  Maillet, "  f rom  a  French  Canadian 
who  resided  in  Peoria,  from  1765  to  1801  (the  time 
of  his  death),  and  who  commanded  a  company  of 
volunteers  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  The  popu- 
lation of  the  old  town  removed  to  the  new  site, 
and  the  present  name  was  given  to  the  place  by 
American  settlers,  from  the  Peoria  Indians,  who 
were  the  occupants  of  the  country  when  it  was 
first  discovered,  but  who  had  followed  their  cog- 
nate tribes  of  the  Illinois  family  to  Cahokia  and 
Kaskaskia,  about  a  century  before  American 
occupation  of  this  region.  In  1812  the  town  is 
estimated  to  have  contained  about  seventy  dwell- 
ings, with  a  population  of  between  200  and 
300,  made  up  largely  of  French  traders, 
hunters  and  voyageurs,  with  a  considerable 
admixture  of  half-breeds  and  Indians,  and  a  few 
Americans.  Among  the  latter  were  Thomas 
Forsyth,  Indian  Agent  and  confidential  adviser 
of  Governor  Edwards ;  Michael  La  Croix,  son-in- 
law  of  Julian  Dubuque,  founder  of  the  city  of 
Dubuque;  Antoine  Le  Claire,  founder  of  Daven- 
port, and  for  whom  Le  Claire,  Iowa,  is  named; 
William  Arundel,  afterwards  Recorder  of  St. 
Clair  County,  and  Isaac  Darnielle,  the  second  law- 
yer in  Illinois. — In  November,  1812,  about  half 
the  town  was  burned,  by  order  of  Capt.  Thomas 
E.  Craig,  who  had  been  directed,  by  Governor 
Edwards,  to  proceed  up  the  river  in  boats  with 
materials  to  build  a  fort  at  Peoria.  At  the  same 
time,  the  Governor  himself  was  at  the  head  of  a 
force  marching  against  Black  Partridge's  vil- 
lage, which  he  destroyed.  Edwards  had  no  com- 
munication with  Craig,  who  appears  to  have 
acted  solely  on  his  own  responsibility.  That  the 
latter's  action  was  utterly  unjustifiable,  there  can 
now  be  little  doubt.  He  alleged,  by  way  of 
excuse,  that  his  boats  had  been  fired  upon  from 
the  shore,  at  night,  by  Indians  or  others,  who 
were  harbored  by  the  citizens.  The  testimony 
of  the  French,  however,  is  to  the  effect  that  it 
was  an  unprovoked  and  cowardly  assault,  insti- 
gated by  wine  which  the  soldiers  had  stolen  from 
the  cellars  of  the  inhabitants.  The  bulk  of  those 
who  remained  after  the  fire  were  taken  by  Craig 
to  a  point  below  Alton  and  put  ashore.  This 
occurred  in  the  beginning  of  winter,  and  the 
people,  being  left  in  a  destitute  condition,  were 
subjected  to  great  suffering.  A  Congressional 
investigation  followed,  and  the  French,  having 
satisfactorily  established  the  fact  that  they  were 
not  hostile,  were  restored  to  their  possessions. — In 
1813  a  fort,  designed  for  permanent  occupancy, 


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was  erected  and  named  Fort  Clark,  in  honor  of 
Col.  George  Rogers  Clark.  It  had  one  (if  not 
two)  block-houses,  with  magazines  and  quarters 
for  officers  and  men.  It  was  finally  evacuated  in 
1818,  and  was  soon  afterwards  burned  by  the 
Indians.  Although  a  trading-post  had  been 
maintained  here,  at  intervals,  after  the  affair  of 
1812,  there  was  no  attempt  made  to  rebuild  the 
town  until  1819,  when  Americans  began  to 
arrive. — In  1834  a  post  of  the  American  Fur  Com- 
pany was  established  here  by  John  Hamlin,  the 
company  having  already  had,  for  five  years,  a 
station  at  Wesley  City,  three  miles  farther  down 
the  river.  1  lam  I  in  also  traded  in  pork  and  other 
products,  and  was  the  first  to  introduce  keel- 
boats  on  the  Illinois  River.  By  transferring  his 
cargo  to  lighter  draft  boats,  when  necessary,  he 
made  the  trip  from  Peoria  to  Chicago  entirely  by 
water,  going  from  the  Des  Plaines  to  Mud  Lake, 
and  thence  to  the  South  Branch  of  the  Chicago 
River,  without  unloading.  In  1834  the  town  had 
but  seven  frame  houses  and  twenty-one  log 
cabins.  It  was  incorporated  as  a  town  in  1835 
(Rudolphus  Rouse  being  the  first  President),  and, 
as  the  City  of  Peoria,  ten  years  later  (Wm.  Hale 
being  the  first  Mayor). — Peoria  is  an  important 
railway  and  business  center,  eleven  railroad  lines 
concentrating  here.  It  presents  many  attractive 
features,  such  as  handsome  residences,  fine  views 
of  river,  bluff  and  valley  scenery,  with  an  elab- 
orate system  of  parks  and  drives.  An  excellent 
school  system  is  liberally  supported,  and  its  public 
buildings  (national,  county  and  city)  are  fine  and 
costly.  Its  churches  are  elegant  and  well 
attended,  the  leading  denominations  being 
Methodist  Episcopal,  Congregational,  Presby- 
terian, Baptist,  Protestant  and  Reformed  Episco- 
pal, Lutheran,  Evangelical  and  Roman  Catholic. 
It  is  the  seat  of  Bradley  Polytechnic  Institute,  a 
young  and  flourishing  scientific  school  affiliated 
with  the  University  of  Chicago,  and  richly  en- 
dowed through  the  munificence  of  Mrs.  Lydia 
Bradley,  who  devotes  her  whole  estate,  of  at 
least  a  million  dollars,  to  this  object.  Right  Rev. 
John  L.  Spaulding,  Bishop  of  the  Roman  Catho- 
lic diocese  of  Peoria,  is  erecting  a  handsome  and 
costly  building  for  the  Spaulding  Institute,  a 
school  for  the  higher  education  of  young  men. — 
At  Bartonville,  a  suburb  of  Peoria,  on  an  eleva- 
tion commanding  a  magnificent  view  of  the  Illi- 
nois River  valley  for  many  miles,  the  State  has 
located  an  asylum  for  the  incurable  insane.  It  is 
now  in  process  of  erection,  and  is  intended  to  be 
one  of  the  most  complete  of  its  kind  in  the  world. 
Peoria  lies  in  a  corn  and  coal  region,  is  noted  for 


the  number  and  extent  of  its  distilleries,  and,  in 
1890,  ranked  eighth  among  the  grain  markets  of 
the  country.  It  also  has  an  extensive  commerce 
with  Chicago,  St.  Louis  and  other  important 
cities ;  was  credited,  by  the  census  of  1890,  with 
554  manufacturing  establishments,  representing 
90  different  branches  of  industry,  with  a  capital 
of  $15,072,567  and  an  estimated  annual  product  of 
$55,504,523.  Its  leading  industries  are  the  manu- 
facture of  distilled  and  malt  liquors,  agricultural 
implements,  glucose  and  machine-shop  products. 
Its  contributions  to  the  internal  revenue  of  the 
country  are  second  only  to  those  of  the  New  York 
district.  Population  (1870),  22,849;  (1880),  29,259; 
(1890),  41,  024;  (1900),  56,100;  (1910),  66,950. 

PEORIA  COUNTY,  originally  a  part  of  Fulton 
County,  but  cut  off  in  1825.  It  took  its  name 
from  the  Peoria  Indians,  who  occupied  that  region 
when  it  was  first  discovered.  As  first  organized, 
it  included  the  present  counties  of  Jo  Daviess  and 
Cook,  with  many  others  in  the  northern  part  of 
the  State.  At  that  time  there  were  less  than 
1,500  inhabitants  in  the  entire  region;  and  John 
Hamlin,  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  on  his  return 
from  Green  Bay  (whither  he  had  accompanied 
William  S.  Hamilton,  a  son  of  Alexander  Hamil- 
ton, with  a  drove  of  cattle  for  the  fort  there), 
solemnized,  at  Chicago,  the  marriage  of  Alex- 
ander Wolcott,  then  Indian  Agent,  with  a 
daughter  of  John  Kinzie.  The  original  Peoria 
County  has  been  subdivided  into  thirty  counties, 
among  them  being  some  of  the  largest  and  rich- 
est in  the  State.  The  first  county  officer  was 
Norman  Hyde,  who  was  elected  Judge  of  the 
Probate  Court  by  the  Legislature  in  January, 
1825.  His  commission  from  Governor  Coles  was 
dated  on  the  eighteenth  of  that  month,  but  he 
did  not  qualify  until  June  4,  following,  when  he 
took  the  oath  of  office  before  John  Dixon,  Circuit 
Clerk,  who  founded  the  city  that  bears  his  name. 
Meanwhile,  Mr.  Hyde  had  been  appointed  the 
first  Clerk  of  the  County  Commissioners'  Court, 
and  served  in  that  capacity  until  entering  upon 
his  duties  as  Probate  Judge.  The  first  election 
of  county  officers  was  held,  March  7,  1825,  at  the 
house  of  William  Eads.  Nathan  Dillon,  Joseph 
Smith,  and  William  Holland  were  chosen  Com- 
missioners; Samuel  Fulton  Sheriff,  and  William 
Phillips  Coroner.  The  first  County  Treasurer 
was  Aaron  Hawley,  and  the  first  general  election 
of  officers  took  place  in  1826.  The"  first  court 
house  was  a  log  cabin,  and  the  first  term  of 
the  Circuit  Court  began  Nov.  14,  1825,  John 
York  Sawyer  sitting  on  the  bench,  with  John 
Dixon,  Clerk;  Samuel  Fulton,  Sheriff;  and  John 


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Twiney,  the  Attorney-General,  present.  Peoria 
County  is,  at  present,  one  of  the  wealthiest  and 
most  populous  counties  in  the  State.  Its  soil  is 
fertile  and  its  manufactures  numerous,  especially 
at  Peoria,  the  county-seat  and  principal  city 
(which  see).  The  area  of  the  county  is  630  square 
miles,  and  its  population  (1880),  55,353;  (1890}, 
70,378;  (1900),  88,608;  (1910),  100,255. 

PEORIA  LAKE,  an  expansion  of  the  Illinois 
River,  forming  the  eastern  boundary  of  Peoria 
County,  which  it  separates  from  the  counties  of 
Woodford  and  Tazewell.  It  is  about  20  miles 
long  and  2*4  miles  broad  at  the  widest  part. 

PEORIA,  ATLANTA  &  DECATUR  RAIL- 
ROAD.  (See  Terre  Haute  &  Peoria  Railroad.) 

PEORIA,  DECATUR  &  EVANSVILLE  RAIL- 
WAT.  The  total  length  of  this  line,  extending 
from  Peoria,  111.,  to  Evansville,  Ind.,  is  330.87 
miles,  all  owned  by  the  company,  of  which  273 
miles  are  in  Illinois.  It  extends  from  Pekin, 
southeast  to  Gray  ville,  on  the  Wabash  River — is 
single  track,  unballasted,  and  of  standard  gauge. 
Between  Pekin  and  Peoria  the  company  uses  the 
tracks  of  the  Peoria  &  Pekin  Union  Railway,  of 
which  it  is  one-fourth  owner.  Between  Hervey 
City  and  Midland  Junction  it  has  trackage  privi- 
leges over  the  line  owned  jointly  by  the  Peoria, 
Decatur  &  Evansville  and  the  Terre  Haute  & 
Peoria  Companies  (7.5  miles).  Between  Midland 
Junction  and  Decatur  (2.4  miles)  the  tracks  of 
the  Illinois  Central  are  used,  the  two  lines  having 
terminal  facilities  at  Decatur  in  common.  The 
rails  are  of  fifty-two  and  sixty-pound  steel. — 
(HiSTOEY.)  The  main  line  of  the  Peoria,  Decatur 
&  Evansville  Railway  is  the  result  of  the  consoli- 
dation of  several  lines  built  under  separate  char- 
ters. (1)  The  Pekin,  Lincoln  &  Decatur  Railroad, 
chartered  in  1867,  built  in  1869-71,  and  operated 
the  latter  year,  was  leased  to  the  Toledo,  Wabash 
&  Western  Railway,  but  sold  to  representatives 
of  the  bond-holders,  on  account  of  default  on 
interest,  in  1876,  and  reorganized  as  the  Pekiu, 
Lincoln  &  Decatur  Railway.  (2)  The  Decatur, 
Sullivan  &  Mattoon  Railroad,  (projected  from 
Decatur  to  Mattoon),  was  incorporated  in  1871, 
completed  from  Mattoon  to  Hervey  City,  in  1872, 
and,  the  same  year,  consolidated  with  the  Chi- 
cago &  Great  Southern;  in  January,  1874,  the 
Decatur  line  passed  into  the  hands  of  a  receiver, 
and,  in  1877,  having  been  sold  under  foreclosure, 
was  reorganized  as  the  Decatur,  Mattoon  &  South- 
ern Railroad.  In  1879  it  was  placed  in  the  hands 
of  trustees,  but  the  Pekin,  Lincoln  &  Decatur 
Railway  having  acquired  a  controlling  interest 
during  the  same  year,  the  two  lines  were  con- 


solidated under  the  name  of  the  Peoria,  Decatur 
&  Evansville  Railway  Company.  (3)  The  Gray- 
ville  &  Mattoon  Railroad,  chartered  in  1857,  was 
consolidated  in  1872  with  the  Mount  Vernon  & 
Grayville  Railroad  (projected),  the  new  corpo- 
ration taking  the  name  of  the  Chicago  &  Illinois 
Southern  (already  mentioned).  In  1872  the  latter 
corporation  was  consolidated  with  the  Decatur, 
Sullivan  &  Mattoon  Railroad,  under  the  name  of 
the  Chicago  &  Illinois  Southern  Railway.  Both 
consolidations,  however,  were  set  aside  by  decree 
of  the  United  States  District  Court,  in  1876,  and 
the  partially  graded  road  and  franchises  of  the 
Grayville  &  Mattoon  lines  sold,  under  foreclosure, 
to  the  contractors  for  the  construction ;  20  miles 
of  the  line  from  Olney  to  Newton,  were  completed 
during  the  month  of  September  of  that  year,  and 
the  entire  line,  from  Grayville  to  Mattoon,  in 
1878.  In  1880  this  line  was  sold,  under  decree  of 
foreclosure,  to  the  Peoria,  Decatur  &  Evansville 
Railway  Company,  which  had  already  acquired 
the  Decatur  &  Mattoon  Division —thus  placing 
the  entire  line,  from  Peoria  to  Grayville,  in  the 
hands  of  one  corporation.  A  line  under  the  name 
of  the  Evansville  &  Peoria  Railroad,  chartered  in 
Indiana  in  1880,  was  consolidated,  the  same  year, 
with  the  Illinois  corporation  under  the  name  of 
the  latter,  and  completed  from  Grayville  to 
Evansville  in  1882.  (4)  The  Chicago  &  Ohio 
River  Railroad — chartered,  in  1869,  as  the  Dan- 
ville, Olney  &  Ohio  River  Railroad — was  con- 
structed, as  a  narrow-gauge  line,  from  Kansas  to 
West  Liberty,  in  1878-81 ;  in  the  latter  year  was 
changed  to  standard  gauge  and  completed,  in 
1883,  from  Sidell  to  Olney  (86  miles).  The  same 
year  it  went  into  the  hands  of  a  receiver,  was  sold 
under  foreclosure,  in  February,  1886,  and  reorgan- 
ized, in  May  following,  as  the  Chicago  &  Ohio 
River  Railroad ;  was  consolidated  with  the  Peoria, 
Decatur  &  Evansville  Railway,  in  1893,  and  used 
as  the  Chicago  Division  of  that  line.  The  property 
and  franchises  of  the  entire  line  passed  into  the 
hands  of  receivers  in  1894,  and  are  still  (1898) 
under  their  management. 

PEORIA,  PEKIN  &  JACKSONVILLE  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  Chicago,  Peoria  &  St.  Louis  Rail- 
road of  Illinois. ) 

PEORIA  &  BUREAU  VALLEY  RAILROAD,  a 
short  line,  46.7  miles  in  length,  operated  by  the 
Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific  Railway  Com- 
pany, extending  from  Peoria  to  Bureau  Junction, 
111.  It  was  incorporated,  Feb.  12,  1853,  com- 
pleted the  following  year,  and  leased  to  the  Rock 
Island  in  perpetuity,  April  14,  1854,  the  annual 
rental  being  $125,000.  The  par  value  of  the 


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capital  stock  is  $1,500,000.  Annual  dividends  of 
8  per  cent  are  guaranteed,  payable  semi-annu- 
ally.  (See  Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific 
Railway. ) 

PEORIA  &  EASTERN  RAILROAD.  Of  this 
line  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St. 
Louis  Railroad  Company  is  the  lessee.  Its  total 
length  is  350/4  miles,  132  of  which  lie  in  Illinois 
— 123  being  owned  by  the  Company.  That  por- 
tion within  this  State  extends  east  from  Pekin  to 
the  Indiana  State  line,  in  addition  to  which  the 
Company  has  trackage  facilities  over  the  line  of 
the  Peoria  &  Pekin  Union  Railway  (9  miles)  to 
Peoria.  The  gauge  is  standard.  The  track  is 
single,  laid  with  sixty  and  sixty-seven-pound 
steel  rails  and  ballasted  almost  wholly  with 
gravel.  The  capital  stock  is  $10,000,000.  In  1895 
it  had  a  bonded  debt  of  $13,603,000  and  a  floating 
debt  of  $1,261,130,  making  a  total  capitalization 
of  $24,864,130.— (HISTORY.)  The  original  of  this 
corporation  was  the  Danville,  Urbana,  Blooming- 
ton  &  Pekin  Railroad,  which  was  consolidated, 
in  July,  1869,  with  the  Indianapolis,  Crawfords- 
ville  &  Danville  Railroad — the  new  corporation 
taking  the  name  of  the  Indianapolis,  Blooming- 
ton  &  Western — and  was  opened  to  Pekin  the 
same  year.  In  1874  it  passed  into  the  hands  of  a 
receiver,  was  sold  under  foreclosure  in  1879,  and 
reorganized  as  the  Indiana,  Bloomington  & 
Western  Railway  Company.  The  next  change 
occurred  in  1881,  when  it  was  consolidated  with 
an  Ohio  corporation  (the  Ohio,  Indiana  &  Pacific 
Railroad),  again  undergoing  a  slight  change  of 
name  in  its  reorganization  as  the  Indiana,  Bloom- 
iugton  &  Western  Railroad  Company.  In  1886 
it  again  got  into  financial  straits,  was  placed  in 
charge  of  a  receiver  and  sold  to  a  reorganization 
committee,  and,  in  January,  1887,  took  the  name 
of  the  Ohio,  Indiana  &  Western  Railway  Com- 
pany. The  final  reorganization,  under  its  present 
name,  took  place  in  February,  1890,  when  it  was 
leased  to  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  & 
St.  Louis  Railway,  by  which  it  is  operated. 
(See  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  &  St.  Louis 
Railway. ) 

PEORIA  &  HANNIBAL  RAILROAD.  (See 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad. ) 

PEORIA  &  OQUAWKA  RAILROAD.  (See 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad.) 

PEORIA  &  PEKIN  UNION  RAILWAY.  A  line 
connecting  the  cities  of  Peoria  and  Pekin,  which 
are  only  8  miles  apart.  It  was  chartered  in  1880, 
and  acquired,  by  purchase,  the  tracks  of  the  Peoria, 
Pekin  &  Jacksonville  and  the  Peoria  &  Spring- 
field Railroads,  between  the  two  cities  named  in 


its  title,  giving  it  control  of  two  lines,  which  are 
used  by  nearly  all  the  railroads  entering  both 
cities  from  the  east  side  of  the  Illinois  River.  The 
mileage,  including  both  divisions,  is  18.14  miles, 
second  tracks  and  sidings  increasing  the  total  to 
nearly  60  miles.  The  track  is  of  standard  gauge, 
about  two-thirds  being  laid  with  steel  rails.  The 
total  cost  of  construction  was  $4,350,987.  Its 
total  capitalization  (1898)  was  $4,177,763,  includ- 
ing $1,000,000  in  stock,  and  a  funded  debt  of 
$2,904,000.  The  capital  stock  is  held  in  equal 
amounts  (each  a,  500  shares)  by  the  Wabash,  the 
Peoria,  Decatur  &  Evansville,  the  Chicago, 
Peoria  &  St.  Louis  and  the  Peoria  &  Eastern  com- 
panies, with  1,000  shares  by  the  Lake  Erie  & 
Western.  Terminal  charges  and  annual  rentals 
are  also  paid  by  the  Terre  Haute  &  Peoria  and 
the  Iowa  Central  Railways. 

PEORIA  &  SPRINGFIELD  RAILROAD.  (See 
Chicago,  Peoria  &  St.  Louis  Railroad  of  Illinois.) 

PEOTONE,  a  village  of  Will  County,  on  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad,  41  miles  south-southwest 
from  Chicago;  has  some  manufactures,  a  bank 
and  a  newspaper.  The  surrounding  country  is 
agricultural.  Pop.  (1900),  1,003;  (1910),  1,207. 

PERCY,  a  village  of  Randolph  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Wabash,  Chester  &  Western 
and  the  Mobile  &  Ohio  Railways.  Population 
(1890),  360;  (1900),  660;  (1910),  1,033. 

PERROT,  Nicholas,  a  French  explorer,  wno 
visited  the  valley  of  the  Fox  River  (of  Wisconsin) 
and  the  country  around  the  great  lakes,  at  various 
times  between  1670  and  1690.  He  was  present, 
as  a  guide  and  interpreter,  at  the  celebrated  con- 
ference held  at  Sault  Ste.  Marie,  in  1671,  Which 
was  attended  by  fifteen  Frenchmen  and  repre- 
sentatives from  seventeen  Indian  tribes,  and  at 
which  the  Sieur  de  Lusson  took  formal  possession 
of  Lakes  Huron  and  Superior,  with  the  surround- 
ing region  and  "all  the  country  southward  to  the 
sea,"  in  the  name  of  Louis  XIV.  of  France. 
Perrot  was  the  first  to  discover  lead  in  the  West, 
and,  for  several  years,  was  Commandant  in  the 
Green  Bay  district.  As  a  chronicler  he  was 
intelligent,  interesting  and  accurate.  His  writ- 
ings were  not  published  until  1864,  but  have 
always  been  highly  prized  as  authority. 

PERRY,  a  town  of  Pike  County ;  has  a  bank 
and  a  newspaper.  Population  (1880),  770;  (1890), 
705;  (1900),  642;  (1910),  649. 

PERRY  COUNTY,  !ies  in  the  southwest  quarter 
of  the  State,  with  an  area  of  432  square  miles  and 
a  population  (1900)  of  19,830.  It  was  organized 
as  a  county  in  1827,  and  named  for  Com.  Oliver 
H.  Perry.  The  general  surface  is  rolling, 


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although  flat  prairies  occupy  a  considerable  por- 
tion, interspersed  with  "post-oak  flats."  Limestone 
is  found  in  the  southern,  and  sandstone  in  the 
northern,  sections,  but  the  chief  mineral  wealth 
of  the  county  is  coal,  which  is  abundant,  and,  at 
several  points,  easily  mined,  some  of  it  being  of 
a  superior  quality.  Salt  is  manufactured,  to  some 
extent,  and  the  chief  agricultural  output  is 
wheat.  Pinckneyville,  the  county-seat,  has  a 
central  position  and  a  population  of  about  2,70C. 
Duquoir  is  the  largest  city.  Beaucoup  Creek  is 
the  principal  stream,  and  the  county  is  crossed 
by  several  lines  of  railroad.  Pop.  (1910),  22,088. 

PERU,  a  city  in  La  Salle  County,  at  the  head 
of  navigation  on  the  Illinois  River,  which  is  here 
spanned  by  a  handsome  bridge.  It  is  distant  100 
miles  southwest  from  Chicago,  and  the  same  dis- 
tance north-northeast  from  Springfield.  It  is 
connected  by  street  cars  with  La  Salle,  one  mile 
distant,  which  is  the  terminus  of  the  Illinois  & 
Michigan  Canal.  It  is  situated  in  a  rich  coal- 
mining region,  is  an  important  trade  center,  and 
has  several  manufacturing  establishments,  includ- 
ing zinc  "smelting  works,  rolling  mills,  nickeloid 
factory,  metal  novelty  works,  gas  engine  factory, 
tile  works,  plow,  scale  and  patent-pump  factories, 
foundries  and  machine  shops,  flour  and  saw  mills, 
clock  factory,  etc.  Two  national  banks,  with  a 
combined  capital  of  $200,000,  are  located  at  Peru, 
and  one  daily.and  one  weekly  paper.  Population 
(1890),  5,550;' (1900),  6,863;  (1910),  7,984. 

PETERSBURG,  a  city  of  Menard  County,  and 
the  county-seat,  on  the  Sangamon  River,  at  the 
intersection  Chicago  &  Alton  with  the  Chicago, 
Peoria  &  St.  Louis  Railway;  23  miles  northwest 
of  Springfield  and  28  miles  northeast  of  Jackson- 
ville. The  town  was  surveyed  and  platted  by 
Abraham  Lincoln  in  1837,  and  is  the  seat  of  the 
"Old  Salem"  Chautauqua.  It  has  machine  shops, 
two  banks,  two  weekly  papers  and  nine  churches. 
The  manufactures  include  woolen  goods,  brick 
and  drain-tile,  bed-springs,  mattresses,  and 
canned  goods.  Pop.  (1900),  2,807;  (1910),  2,587. 

PETERS,  Onslow,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was  born 
in  Massachusetts,  graduated  at  Brown  Univer- 
sity, and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and  practiced 
law  in  his  native  State  until  1837,  when  he  set- 
tled at  Peoria,  111.  He  served  in  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention  of  1847,  was  elected  to  the 
bench  of  the  Sixteenth  Judicial  Circuit  in  1853, 
and  re-elected  in  1855.  Died,  Feb.  28,  1856. 

PHILO,  a  village  of  Champaign,  on  the  Wabash 
Railroad,  six  miles  northeast  of  Tolono;  is  a  grain 
and  produce  shipping  point;  has  a  bank  and  one 
weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  502;  (1910),  562. 


PHILLIPS,  David  L  ,  journalist  and  politician, 
was  born  where  the  town  of  Marion,  Williamson 
County,  111.,  now  stands,  Oct.  28,  1823;  came  to 
St.  Clair  County  in  childhood,  his  father  settling 
near  Belleville ;  began  teaching  at  an  early  age, 
and,  when  about  18,  joined  the  Baptist  Church, 
and,  after  a  brief  course  with  the  distinguished 
Dr.  Peck,  at  his  Rock  Spring  Seminary,  two  years 
later  entered  the  ministry,  serving  churches  in 
Washington  and  other  Southern  Illinois  counties, 
finally  taking  charge  of  a  church  at  Jonesboro. 
Though  originally  a  Democrat,  his  advanced 
views  on  slavery  led  to  a  disagreement  with  his 
church,  and  he  withdrew ;  then  accepted  a  posi- 
tion as  paymaster  in  the  construction  department 
of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  finally  being 
transferred  to  that  of  Land  Agent  for  the  South- 
ern section,  in  this  capacity  visiting  different 
parts  of  the  State  from  one  end  of  the  main  line 
to  the  other.  About  1854  he  became  associated 
with  the  management  of  "The  Jonesboro  Ga- 
zette," a  Democratic  paper,  which,  during  his  con- 
nection with  it  (some  two  years),  he  made  an 
earnest  opponent  of  the  Kansas-Nebraska  Bill. 
At  the  Anti -Nebraska  Editorial  Convention 
(which  see),  held  at  Decatur,  Feb.  22,  1856,  he 
was  appointed  a  member  of  their  State  Central 
Committee,  and,  as  such,  joined  in  the  call  for  the 
first  Republican  State  Convention,  held  at  Bloom- 
ington  in  May  following,  where  he  served  as 
Vice-President  for  his  District,  and  was  nomi- 
nated for  Presidential  Elector  on  the  Fremont 
ticket.  Two  years  later  (1858)  he  was  the 
unsuccessful  Republican  candidate  for  Congress 
in  the  Southern  District,  being  defeated  by  John 
A.  Logan ;  was  again  in  the  State  Convention  of 
1860,  and  a  delegate  to  the  National  Convention 
which  nominated  Abraham  Lincoln  for  President 
the  first  time;  was  appointed  by  Mr.  Lincoln 
United  States  Marshal  for  the  Southern  District 
in  1861,  and  re-appointed  in  1865,  but  resigned 
after  Andrew  Johnson's  defection  in  1866.  Dur- 
ing 1862  Mr.  Phillips  became  part  proprietor  of 
"The  State  Journal"  at  Springfield,  retaining 
this  relation  until  1878,  at  intervals  performing 
editorial  service;  also  took  a  prominent  part  in 
organizing  and  equipping  the  One  Hundred  and 
Ninth  Regiment  Illinois  Volunteers  (sometimes 
called  the  "Phillips  Regiment"),  and,  in  1865, 
was  one  of  the  committee  of  citizens  sent  to 
escort  the  remains  of  President  Lincoln  to 
Springfield.  He  joined  in  the  Liberal  Republican 
movement  at  Cincinnati  in  1872,  but,  in  1876, 
was  in  line  with  his  former  party  associates,  and 
served  in  that  year  as  an  unsuccessful  candidate 


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for  Congress,  in  the  Springfield  District,  in  oppo- 
sition to  William  M.  Springer,  early  the  following 
year  receiving  the  appointment  of  Postmaster 
for  the  city  of  Springfield  from  President  Hayes. 
Died,  at  Springfield,  June  19,  1880. 

PHILLIPS,  George  S.,  author,  was  born  at 
Peterborough,  England,  in  January,  1816 ;  gradu- 
ated at  Cambridge,  and  came  to  the  United 
States,  engaging  in  journalism.  In  1845  he 
returned  to  England,  and,  for  a  time,  was  editor 
of  "The  Leeds  Times,"  still  later  being  Principal 
of  the  People's  College  at  Huddersfield.  Return- 
ing to  the  United  States,  he  came  to  Cook  County, 
and,  about  1866-68,  was  a  writer  of  sketches  over 
the  nom  de  plume  of  "January  Searle"  for  "The 
Chicago  Republican"— later  was  literary  editor 
of  "The  New  York  Sun"  for  several  years.  His 
mind  becoming  impaired,  he  was  placed  in  an 
asylum  at  Trenton,  N.  J.,  finally  dying  at  Morris- 
town,  N.  J.,  Jan.  14,  1889.  Mr.  Phillips  was  the 
author  of  several  volumes,  chiefly  sketches  of 
travel  and  biography. 

PHILLIPS,  Jesse  J.,  lawyer,  soldier  and 
jurist,  was  born  in  Montgomery  County,  111., 
May  22,  1837.  Shortly  after  graduating  from  the 
Hillsboro  Academy,  he  read  law,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1860.  In  1861  he  organized 
a  company  of  volunteers,  of  which  he  was 
chosen  Captain,  and  which  was  attached  to  the 
Ninth  Illinois  Infantry.  Captain  Phillips  was 
successively  advanced  to  the  rank  of  Major, 
Lieutenant-Colonel  and  Colonel;  resigned  on 
account  of  disability,  in  August,  1864,  but  was 
brevetted  Brigadier-General  at  the  close  of  the 
war.  His  military  record  was  exceptionally 
brilliant.  He  was  wounded  three  times  at 
Shiloh,  and  was  personally  thanked  and  compli- 
mented by  Generals  Grant  and  Oglesby  for  gal- 
lantry and  efficient  service.  At  the  termination 
of  the  struggle  he  returned  to  Hillsboro  and 
engaged  in  practice.  In  1866,  and  again  in  1868, 
he  was  the  Democratic  candidate  for  State  Treas- 
urer, but  was  both  times  defeated.  In  1879  he 
was  elected  to  the  bench  of  the  Fifth  Judicial 
Circuit,  and  re-elected  in  1885.  In  1890  he  was 
assigned  to  the  bench  of  the  Appellate  Court  of 
the  Fourth  District,  and,  in  1893,  was  elected  a 
Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court,  to  fill  the  vacancy 
created  by  the  death  of  Justice  John  M.  Scholfield, 
his  term  expiring  in  1897,  when  he  was  re-elected 
to  succeed  himself,  but  died  before  the  expiration 
of  his  term,  Feb.  16,  1901. 

PHILLIPS,  Joseph,  early  jurist,  was  born  in 
Tennessee,  received  a  classical  and  legal  edu- 
cation, and  served  as  a  Captain  in  the  War  of 


1813 ;  in  1816  was  appointed  Secretary  of  Illinois 
Territory,  serving  until  the  admission  of  Illinois 
as  a  State,  when  he  became  the  first  Chief  Jus- 
tice of  the  Supreme  Court,  serving  until  July, 
1822,  when  he  resigned,  being  succeeded  on  the 
bench  by  John  Reynolds,  afterwards  Governor. 
In  1822  he  was  a  candidate  for  Governor  in  the 
interest  of  the  advocates  of  a  pro-slavery  amend- 
ment of  the  State  Constitution,  but  was  defeated 
by  Edward  Coles,  the  leader  of  the  anti-slavery 
party.  (See  Coles,  Edward,  and  Slavery  and  Slave 
Laivs.)  He  appears  from  the  "Edwards  Papers" 
to  have  been  in  Illinois  as  late  as  1832,  but  is 
said  eventually  to  have  returned  to  Tennessee. 
The  date  of  his  death  is  unknown. 

PIANKESHAWS,  THE,  a  branch  of  the  Miami 
tribe  of  Indians.  Their  name,  like  those  of  their 
brethren,  underwent  many  mutations  of  orthog- 
raphy, the  tribe  being  referred  to,  variously,  as 
the  "Pou-an-ke-kiahs,"  the  "Pi-an-gie-shaws," 
the  "Pi-an-qui-shaws,"  and  the  "Py-an-ke- 
shaws."  They  were  less  numerous  than  the 
Weas,  their  numerical  strength  ranking  lowest 
among  the  bands  of  the  Miamis.  At  the  time  La 
Salle  planted  his  colony  around  Starved  Rock, 
their  warriors  numbered  150.  Subsequent  to  the 
dispersion  of  this  colony  they  (alone  of  the  Miamis) 
occupied  portions  of  the  present  territory  of  Illi- 
nois, having  villages  on  the  Vermilion  and 
Wabash  Rivers.  Their  earliest  inclinations 
toward  the  whites  were  friendly,  the  French 
traders  having  intermarried  with  women  of  the 
tribe  soon  after  the  advent  of  the  first  explor- 
ers. Col.  George  Rogers  Clark  experienced  little 
difficulty  in  securing  their  allegiance  to  the  new 
government  which  he  proclaimed.  In  the  san- 
guinary raids  (usually  followed  by  reprisals), 
which  marked  Western  history  during  the  years 
immediately  succeeding  the  Revolution,  the 
Piankeshaws  took  no  part ;  yet  the  outrages,  per- 
petrated upon  peaceable  colonists,  had  so  stirred 
the  settlers'  blood,  that  all  Indians  were  included 
in  the  general  thirst  for  vengeance,  and  each  was 
unceremoniously  dispatched  as  soon  as  seen.  The 
Piankeshaws  appealed  to  Washington  for  protec- 
tion, and  the  President  issued  a  special  procla- 
mation in  their  behalf.  After  the  cession  of  the 
last  remnant  of  the  Miami  territory  to  the  United 
States,  the  tribe  was  removed  to  a  Kansas  reser- 
vation, and  its  last  remnant  finally  found  a  home 
in  Indian  Territory.  (See  also  Miamis;  Weas.) 

"PIASA  BIRD,"  LEGEND  OF  THE.  When 
the  French  explorers  first  descended  the  Upper 
Mississippi  River,  they  found  some  remarkable 
figures  depicted  upon  the  face  of  the  bluff,  just 


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above  the  site  of  the  present  city  of  Alton,  which 
excited  their  wonder  and  continued  to  attract 
interest  long  after  the  country  was  occupied  by 
the  whites.  The  account  given  of  the  discov- 
ery by  Marquette,  who  descended  the  river  from 
the  mouth  of  the  Wisconsin,  in  June,  1673,  is  as 
follows:  "As  we  coasted  along"  (after  passing 
the  mouth  of  the  Illinois)  "rocks  frightful  for 
their  height  and  length,  we  saw  two  monsters 
painted  on  one  of  the  rocks,  which  startled  us  at 
first,  and  upon  which  the  boldest  Indian  dare  not 
gaze  long.  They  are  as  large  as  a  calf,  with  horns 
on  the  head  like  a  deer,  a  frightful  look,  red 
eyes,  bearded  like  a  tiger,  the  face  somewhat 
like  a  man's,  the  body  covered  with  scales,  and 
the  tail  so  long  that  it  twice  makes  the  turn  of 
the  body,  passing  over  the  head  and  down  be- 
tween the  legs,  ending  at  last  in  a  fish's  tail. 
Green,  red  and  black  are  the  colors  employed. 
On  the  whole,  these  two  monsters  are  so  well 
painted  that  we  could  not  believe  any  Indian  to 
have  been  the  designer,  as  good  painters  in 
France  would  find  it  hard  to  do  as  well.  Besides 
this,  they  are  painted  so  high  upon  the  rock  that 
it  is  hard  to  get  conveniently  at  them  to  paint 
them."  As  the  Indians  could  give  no  account  of 
the  origin  of  these  figures,  but  had  their  terror 
even  more  excited  at  the  sight  of  them  than  Mar- 
quette himself,  they  are  supposed  to  have  been 
the  work  of  some  prehistoric  race  occupying  the 
country  long  before  the  arrival  of  the  aborigines 
whom  Marquette  and  his  companions  found  in 
Illinois.  There  was  a  tradition  that  the  figures 
were  intended  to  represent  a  creature,  part  beast 
and  part  bird,  which  destroyed  immense  numbers 
of  the  inhabitants  by  swooping  down  upon  them 
from  its  abode  upon  the  rocks.  At  last  a  chief  is 
said  to  have  offered  himself  a  victim  for  his 
people,  and  when  the  monster  made  its  appear- 
ance, twenty  of  his  warriors,  concealed  near  by, 
discharged  their  arrows  at  it,  killing  it  just 
before  it  reached  its  prey.  In  this  manner  the 
life  of  the  chief  was  saved  and  his  people  were 
preserved  from  further  depredations;  and  it  was 
to  commemorate  this  event  that  the  figure  of  the 
bird  was  painted  on  the  face  of  the  cliff  on  whose 
summit  the  chief  stood.  This  story,  told  in  a 
paper  by  Mr.  John  Russell,  a  pioneer  author  of 
Illinois,  obtained  wide  circulation  in  this  country 
and  in  Europe,  about  the  close  of  the  first 
quarter  of  the  present  century,  as  the  genuine 
"Legend  of  the  Piasa  Bird."  It  is  said,  however, 
that  Mr.  Russell,  who  was  a  popular  writer  of 
fiction,  acknowledged  that  it  was  drawn  largely 
from  his  imagination.  Many  prehistoric  relics 


and  human  remains  are  said,  by  the  late  William 
McAdams,  the  antiquarian  of  Alton,  to  have 
been  found  in  caves  in  the  vicinity,  and  it  seems 
a  well  authenticated  fact  that  the  Indians,  when 
passing  the  spot,  were  accustomed  to  discharge 
their  arrows — and,  later,  their  firearms — at  the 
figure  on  the  face  of  the  cliff.  Traces  of  this 
celebrated  pictograph  were  visible  as  late  as  1840 
to  1845,  but  have  since  been  entirely  quarried 
away. 

PIATT  COUNTY,  organized  in  1841,  consist- 
ing of  parts  of  Macon  and  Dewitt  Counties.  Its 
area  is  440  square  miles ;  population(1910),  16,376. 
The  first  Commissioners  were  John  Hughes,  W. 
Bailey  and  E.  Peck.  John  Piatt,  after  whose 
family  the  county  was  named,  was  the  first 
Sheriff.  The  North  Fork  of  the  Sangamon  River 
flows  centrally  through  the  county  from  north- 
east to  southwest,  and  several  lines  of  railroad 
afford  transportation  for  its  products.  Its  re- 
sources and  the  occupation  of  the  people  are 
abnost  wholly  agricultural,  the  surface  being 
level  prairie  and  the  soil  fertile.  Monticello,  the 
county-seat,  has  a  population  of  about  1,700. 
Other  leading  towns  are  Cerro  Gordo  (939)  and 
Bement  (1,129). 

PICKET!,  Thomas  Johnson,  journalist,  was 
born  in  Louisville,  Ky.,  March  17,  1821;  spent 
six  years  (1830-36)  in  St.  Louis,  when  his  family 
removed  to  Peoria;  learned  the  printer's  trade  in 
the  latter  city,  and,  in  1840,  began  the  publica- 
tion of  "The  Peoria  News,"  then  sold  out  and 
established  "The  Republican"  (afterwards  "The 
Transcript") ;  was  a  member  of  the  Anti-Nebraska 
Editorial  Convention  held  at  Decatur,  Feb.  22, 
1856,  serving  on  the  Committee  on  Resolutions, 
and  being  appointed  on  the  State  Central  Com- 
mittee, which  called  the  first  Republican  State 
Convention,  held  at  Bloomington,  in  May  follow- 
ing, and  was  there  appointed  a  delegate  to  the 
National  Convention  at  Philadelphia,  which 
nominated  General  Fremont  for  President. 
Later,  he  published  papers  at  Pekin  and  Rock 
Island,  at  the  latter  place  being  one  of  the  first  to 
name  Abraham  Lincoln  for  the  Presidency ;  was 
elected  State  Senator  in  1860,  and,  in  1862,  com- 
missioned Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the  Sixty-ninth 
Illinois  Volunteers,  being  transferred,  as  Colonel, 
to  the  One  Hundred  and  Thirty-second  Illinois 
(100-days'  men),  and  serving  at  Camp  Douglas 
during  the  "Conspiracy"  excitement.  After  the 
war,  Colonel  Pickett  removed  to  Paducah,  Ky., 
published  a  paper  there  called  "The  Federal 
Union,"  was  appointed  Postmaster,  and,  later, 
Clerk  of  the  United  States  District  Court,  and 


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was  the  Republican  nominee  for  Congress,  in  that 
District,  in  1874.  Removing  to  Nebraska  in  1879, 
he  at  different  times  conducted  several  papers  in 
that  State,  residing  for  the  most  part  at  Lincoln. 
Died,  at  Ashland,  Neb.,  Dec.  24,  1891. 

PIERSON,  David,  pioneer  banker,  was  born  at 
Cazenovia,  N.  Y.,  July  9,  1806;  at  the  age  of  13 
removed  west  with  his  parents,  arriving  at  St. 
Louis,  June  3,  1820.  The  family  soon  after  set- 
tled near  Collinsville,  Madison  County,  111. ,  where 
the  father  having  died,  they  removed  to  the  vi- 
cinity of  Carrollton,  Greene  County,  in  1821.  Here 
they  opened  a  farm,  but,  in  1827,  Mr.  Pierson 
went  to  the  lead  mines  at  Galena,  where  he  re- 
mained a  year,  then  returning  to  Carrollton.  In 
1834,  having  sold  his  farm,  he  began  merchandis- 
ing, still  later  being  engaged  in  the  pork  and 
grain  trade  at  Alton.  In  1854  he  added  the  bank- 
ing business  to  his  dry-goods  trade  at  Carrollton, 
also  engaged  in  milling,  and,  in  1862-63,  erected 
a  woolen  factory,  which  was  destroyed  by  an 
incendiary  fire  in  1872.  Originally  an  anti-slavery 
Clay  Whig,  Mr.  Pierson  became  a  Republican  on 
the  organization  of  that  party  in  1856,  served  for 
a  time  as  Collector  of  Internal  Revenue,  was  a 
delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Convention 
at  Philadelphia  in  1872,  and  a  prominent  candi- 
date for  the  Republican  nomination  for  Lieuten- 
ant-Governor  in  1876.  Of  high  integrity  and 
unswerving  patriotism,  Mr.  Pierson  was  generous 
in  his  benefactions,  being  one  of  the  most  liberal 
contributors  to  the  establishment  of  the  Langston 
School  for  the  Education  of  Freedmen  at  Holly 
Springs,  Miss. ,  soon  after  the  war.  He  died  at 
Carrollton,  May  8,  1891.— Oman  (Pierson),  a  son 
of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a  member  of 
the  Thirty-second  General  Assembly  (1881)  from 
Greene  County,  and  is  present  cashier  of  the 
Greene  County  National  Bank  at  Carrollton. 

PIG60TT,  Isaac  N.,  early  politician,  was  born 
about  1792;  served  as  an  itinerant  Methodist 
preacher  in  Missouri  and  Illinois,  between  1819 
and  1824,  but  finally  located  southwest  of  Jersey  - 
ville  and  obtained  a  license  to  run  a  ferry  be- 
tween Grafton  and  Alton;  in  1828  ran  as  a 
candidate  for  the  State  Senate  against  Thomas 
Cariin  (afterwards  Governor) ;  removed  to  St. 
Louis  in  1858,  and  died  there  in  1874. 

PIKE  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  western  por- 
tion of  the  State,  lying  between  the  Illinois  and 
Mississippi  Rivers,  having  an  area  of  756  square 
miles— named  in  honor  of  the  explorer,  Capt. 
Zebulon  Pike.  The  first  American  settlers  came 
about  1820,  and,  in  1821,  the  county  was  organ- 
ized, at  first  embracing  all  the  country  north  and 


west  of  the  Illinois  River,  including  the  present 
county  of  Cook.  Out  of  this  territory  were  finally 
organized  about  one  fourth  of  the  counties  of  the 
State.  Coles'  Grove  (now  Gilead,  in  Calhoun 
County)  was  the  first  county-seat,  but  the  seat  of 
justice  was  removed,  in  1824,  to  Atlas,  and  to 
Pittsfield  in  1833.  The  surface  is  undulating,  in 
some  portions  is  hilly,  and  diversified  with  prai 
ries  and  hardwood  timber.  Live-stock,  cereals 
and  hay  are  the  staple  products,  while  coal  and 
Niagara  limestone  are  found  in  abundance. 
Population  (1900),  31,595;  (1910),  28,622. 

PILLSBURY,  Nathaniel  Joy,  lawyer  and 
judge,  was  born  in  York  County,  Maine,  Oct.  21, 
1834;  in  1855  removed  to  Illinois,  and,  in  1858, 
began  farming  in  Livingston  County.  He  began 
the  study  of  law  in  1863,  and,  after  admission  to 
the  bar,  commenced  practice  at  Pontiac.  He 
represented  La  Salle  and  Livingston  Counties  in 
the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1869-70,  and,  in 
1873,  was  elected  to  the  bench  of  the  Thirteenth 
Judicial  Circuit.  He  was  re-elected  in  1879  and 
again  in  1885.  He  was  assigned  to  the  bench  of 
the  Appellate  Court  in  1877,  and  again  in  1879 
and  '85.  He  was  severely  wounded  by  a  shot 
received  from  strikers  on  the  line  of  the  Chicago 
&  Alton  Railroad,  near  Chicago,  in  1886,  resulting 
in  his  being  permanently  disabled  physically,  in 
consequence  of  which  he  declined  a  re-election  to 
the  bench  in  1891 

PINCKNEYVILLE,  a  city  and  the  county-seat 
of  Perry  County,  situated  at  the  intersection  of 
the  Paducah  Division  Illinois  Central  and  the 
Wabash,  Chester  &  Western  Railways,  10  miles 
west-northwest  of  Duquoin.  Coal-mining  is 
carried  on  in  the  immediate  vicinity,  and  flour, 
carriages,  plows  and  dressed  lumber  are  among 
the  manufactured  products.  Pinckneyville  has 
two  banks — one  of  which  is  national — two  weekly 
newspapers,  seven  churches,  a  graded  and  a  high 
school.  Population  (1880),  964;  (1890),  1,298; 
(1900),  2,357;  (1910),  2,722. 

PITTSBURG,  CINCINNATI,  CHICAGO  & 
ST.  LOUIS  RAILROAD,  one  of  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Company's  lines,  operating  1,403  miles  of 
road,  of  which  1,090  miles  are  owned  and  the 
remainder  leased — length  of  line  in  Illinois,  28 
miles.  The  Company  is  the  outgrowth  of  a  con- 
solidation, in  1890,  of  the  Pittsburg.  Cincinnati  & 
St.  Louis  Railway  with  the  Chicago,  St.  Louis  & 
Pittsburg,  the  Cincinnati  &  Richmond  and  the 
Jefferson ville,  Madison  &  Indianapolis  Railroads. 
The  Pennsylvania  Railroad  Company  controls 
the  entire  line  through  ownership  of  stock. 
Capital  stock  outstanding,  in  1898,  $47,791,601: 


HISTORICAL   ENCYCLOPEDIA   OF   ILLINOIS. 


funded  debt,  §48,433,000;  floating  debt,  §2,214,703 
—total  capital  $98,500,584.  —  (HISTORY.)  The 
Chicago,  St.  Louis  &  Pittsburg  Railroad,  em- 
bracing the  Illinois  division  of  this  line,  was  made 
up  of  various  corporations  organized  under  the 
laws  of  Illinois  and  Indiana.  One  of  its  compo- 
nent parts  was  the  Chicago  &  Great  Eastern 
Railway,  organized,  in  1865,  by  consolidation  of 
the  Galena  &  Illinois  River  Railroad  (chartered 
in  1857),  the  Chicago  &  Great  Eastern  Railway 
of  Indiana,  the  Cincinnati  &  Chicago  Air-Line 
(organized  1860),  and  the  Cincinnati,  Logans- 
port  &  Chicago  Railway.  In  1869,  the  consoli- 
dated line  was  leased  to  the  Pittsburg,  Cincinnati 
&  St.  Louis  Railway  Company,  and  operated 
under  the  name  of  the  Columbus,  Chicago  & 
Indiana  Central  between  Bradford,  Ohio,  and 
Chicago,  from  1869  until  its  consolidation,  under 
the  present  name,  in  1890.  (See  Pennsylvania 
Railroad.) 

PITTSBURG,  FOBT  WAYNE  &  CHICAGO 
RAILROAD.  (See  Pittsburg,  Fort  Wayne  &  Chi- 
cago Railway. ) 

PITTSBURG,  FORT  WAYNE  &  CHICAGO 
RAILWAY.  The  total  length  of  this  line  is 
nearly  470  miles,  but  only  a  little  over  16  miles 
are  within  Illinois.  It  was  operated  by  the  Penn- 
sylvania Railroad  Company  as  lessee.  The  entire 
capitalization  in  1898  was  152,549,990;  and  the 
earnings  in  Illinois,  $472,228.— (HISTORY.)  The 
Pittsburg,  Fort  Wayne  &  Chicago  Railway  is  the 
result  of  the  consolidation,  August  1,  1856,  of  the 
Ohio  &  Pennsylvania,  the  Ohio  &  Indiana  and 
the  Fort  Wayne  &  Chicago  Railroad  Companies, 
under  the  name  of  the  Pittsburg,  Fort  Wayne  & 
Chicago  Railroad.  The  road  was  opened  through 
its  entire  length,  Jan.  1,  1859;  was  sold  under 
foreclosure  in  1861 ;  reorganized  under  its  present 
title,  in  1862,  and  leased  to  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  Company,  for  999  years,  from  July  1, 
1869.  (See  Pennsylvania  Railroad.) 

PITTS  FIE  LI),  the  county -seat  of  Pike  County, 
situated  on  the  Hannibal  &  Naples  branch  of  the 
Wabash  Railway,  about  40  miles  southeast  of 
Quincy,  and  about  the  same  distance  south  of 
west  from  Jacksonville.  Its  public  buildings 
include  a  handsome  court  house  and  graded  and 
high  school  buildings.  The  city  has  an  electric 
light  plant,  city  water-works,  a  flour  mill,  a 
National  and  a  State  bank,  nine  churches,  and 
three  weekly  newspapers;  in  an  agricultural  district. 
Pop.  (1900),  2,293;  (1910),  2,095. 

PLAINFIELD,  a  village  of  Will  County,  on  the 
Elgin,  Joliet  &  Eastern  Railroad  and  an  interur- 
ban  electric  line,  8  miles  northwest  of  Joliet;  is 


in  a  dairying  section;  has  a  bank  and  one  newspaper. 
Pop.  (1890),  852;  (1900),  920;  (1910),  1,019. 

PLANO,  a  city  in  Kendall  County,  situated  near 
the  Fox  River,  and  on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  Railroad,  14  miles  west-southwest  of  Aurora. 
The  city  is  in  an  agricultural  and  dairying  district, 
has  malleable  iron  works,  agricultural  implement 
factories,  banks,  several  churches,  graded  and  high 
schools,  and  a  weekly  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900), 
1,634;  (1910),  1,627. 

PLEASANT  PLAINS,  a  village  of  Sangamon 
County,  on  Springfield  Division  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
S.  W.  Railroad,  16  miles  northwest  of  Springfield; 
in  rich  farming  region;  has  coal-shaft,  bank,  five 
churches,  college  and  one  newspaper.  Pop.  (1890), 
518;  (1900),  575;  (1910),  625. 

PLEASANTS,  George  Washington,  jurist,  was 
born  in  Harrodsburg,  Ky. ,  Nov.  24,  1823 ;  received 
a  classical  education  at  Williams  College,  Mass... 
graduating  in  1842;  studied  law  in  New  York 
City,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Rochester, 
N.  Y.,  in  1845,  establishing  himself  in  practice  at 
Williamstown,  Mass.,  where  he  remained  until 
1849.  In  1851  he  removed  to  Washington,  D.  C., 
and,  after  residing  there  two  years,  came  to  Illi- 
nois, locating  at  Rock  Island,  which  has  since 
been  his  home.  In  1861  he  was  elected,  as  a 
Republican,  to  the  State  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion which  met  at  Springfield  in  January  follow- 
ing, and,  in  1867,  was  chosen  Judge  for  the  Sixth 
(now  Tenth)  Judicial  Circuit,  having  served  by 
successive  re-elections  until  June,  1897,  retiring 
at  the  close  of  his  fifth  term— a  record  for  length 
of  service  seldom  paralleled  in  the  judicial  his- 
tory of  the  State.  The  last  twenty  years  of  this 
period  were  spent  on  the  Appellate  bench.  For 
several  years  past  Judge  Pleasants  has  been  a 
sufferer  from  failing  eyesight,  but  has  been  faith- 
ful in  attendance  on  his  judicial  duties.  As  a 
judicial  officer  and  a  man,  his  reputation  stands 
among  the  highest. 

PLUMB,  Ralph,  soldier  and  ex-Congressman, 
was  born  in  Chautauqua  County,  N.  Y.,  March  29, 
1816.  After  leaving  school  he  became  a  mer- 
chant's clerk,  and  was  himself  a  merchant  for 
eighteen  years.  From  New  York  he  removed  to 
Ohio,  where  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
Legislature  in  1855,  later  coming  to  Illinois. 
During  the  Civil  War  he  served  four  years  in  the 
Union  army  as  Captain  and  Quartermaster,  being 
brevetted  Lieutenant-Colonel  at  its  close.  He 
made  his  home  at  Streator,  where  he  was  elected 
Mayor  (1881-1883).  There  he  engaged  in  coal- 
mining and  has  been  connected  with  several 
important  enterprises.  From  1885  to  1889  he 


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represented  the  Eighth  Illinois  District  in  Con- 
gress, after  which  he  retired  to  private  life. 

PLYMOUTH,  a  village  of  Hancock  County,  on 
the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railway,  41 
miles  northeast  of  Quincy ;  is  trade  center  of  rich 
farming  district ;  has  two  banks,  electric  lights, 
water-works,  and  one  paper.  Pop.  (1910),  829. 

POINTE  DE  SAIBLE,  Jean  Baptiste,  a  negro 
and  Indian-trader,  reputed  to  have  been  the  first 
settler  on  the  present  site  of  the  city  of  Chicago. 
He  is  said  to  have  been  a  native  of  San  Domingo, 
but  is  described  by  his  contemporaries  as  "well 
educated  and  handsome,"  though  dissipated.  He 
appears  to  have  been  at  the  present  site  of  Chi- 
cago as  early  as  1794,  his  house  being  located  on 
the  north  side  near  the  junction  of  the  North  and 
South  branches  of  the  Chicago  River,  where  he 
carried  on  a  considerable  trade  with  the  Indians. 
About  1796  he  is  said  to  have  sold  out  to  a  French 
trader  named  Le  Mai,  and  joined  a  countryman 
of  his,  named  Glamorgan,  at  Peoria,  where  he  died 
soon  after.  Glamorgan,  who  was  the  reputed 
owner  of  a  large  Spanish  land-grant  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  St.  Louis,  is  said  to  have  been  associated 
with  Point  de  Saible  in  trade  among  the  Peorias, 
before  the  latter  came  to  Chicago. 

POLO,  a  city  in  Ogle  County,  at  intersection 
of  the  Illinois  Central  and  the  Chicago,  Burling- 
ton &  Northern  Railways,  23  miles  south  of  Free- 
port  and  12  miles  north  of  Dixon.  The 
surrounding  region  is  devoted  to  agriculture  and 
stock-raising,  and  Polo  is  a  shipping  point  for 
large  quantities  of  cattle  and  hogs.  Agricultural 
implements  (including  harvesters)  and  buggies 
are  manufactured  here.  The  city  has  banks,  one 
weekly  and  one  semi -weekly  paper,  seven 
churches,  a  graded  public  and  high  school,  and  a 
public  library.  Pop.  (1900),  1,869;  (1910),  1,829. 

PONTIAC,  an  Ottawa  chief,  born  on  the 
Ottawa  River,  in  Canada,  about  1720.  While  yet 
a  young  man  he  became  the  principal  Chief  of 
the  allied  Ottawas,  Ojibways  and  Pottawatomies. 
He  was  always  a  firm  ally  of  the  French,  to 
whose  interests  he  was  devotedly  attached, 
defending  them  at  Detroit  against  an  attack  of 
the  Northern  tribes,  and  (it  is  generally  believed) 
leading  the  Ottawas  in  the  defeat  of  Braddock. 
He  reluctantly  acquiesced  in  the  issue  of  the 
French  and  Indian  War,  although  at  first  strongly 
disposed  to  dispute  the  progress  of  Major  Rogers, 
the  British  officer  sent  to  take  possession  of  the 
western  forts.  In  1762  he  dispatched  emissaries 
to  a  large  number  of  tribes,  whom  he  desired  to 
unite  in  a  league  for  the  extermination  of  the 
English.  His  proposals  were  favorably  received, 


and  thus  was  organized  what  is  commonly 
spoken  of  as  the  "Conspiracy  of  Pontiac."  He 
himself  undertook  to  lead  an  assault  upon  Detroit. 
The  garrison,  however,  was  apprised  of  his  inten- 
tion, and  made  preparations  accordingly.  Pontiac 
thereupon  laid  siege  to  the  fort,  but  was  unable 
to  prevent  the  ingress  of  provisions,  the  Canadian 
settlers  furnishing  supplies  to  both  besieged  and 
besiegers  with  absolute  impartiality.  Finally  a 
boat-load  of  ammunition  and  supplies  was  landed 
at  Detroit  from  Lake  Erie,  and  the  English  made 
an  unsuccessful  sortie  on  July  81,  1763.  After  a 
desultory  warfare,  lasting  for  nearly  three 
months,  the  Indians  withdrew  into  Indiana, 
where  Pontiac  tried  in  vain  to  organize  another 
movement.  Although  Detroit  had  not  been 
taken,  the  Indians  captured  Forts  Sandusky,  St. 
Joseph,  Miami,  Ouiatanon,  LeBoeuf  and  Venango, 
besides  the  posts  of  Mackinaw  and  Presque  Isle. 
The  garrisons  at  all  these  points  were  massacred 
and  innumerable  outrages  perpetrated  elsewhere. 
Additional  British  troops  were  sent  west,  and 
the  Indians  finally  brought  under  control. 
Pontiac  was  present  at  Oswego  when  a  treaty  was 
signed  with  Sir  William  Johnson,  but  remained 
implacable.  His  end  was  tragic.  Broken  in 
heart,  but  still  proud  in  spirit  and  relentless  in 
purpose,  he  applied  to  the  former  (and  last) 
French  Governor  of  Illinois,  the  younger  St. 
Ange,  who  was  then  at  St.  Louis,  for  co-operation 
and  support  in  another  raid  against  the  British. 
Being  refused  aid  or  countenance,  according  to  a 
story  long  popularly  received,  he  returned  to  the 
vicinity  of  Cahokia,  where,  in  17C9,  he  was  mur- 
dered by  a  Kaskaskia  Indian  in  consideration  of 
a  barrel  of  liquor.  N.  Matson,  author  of  several 
volumes  bearing  on  early  history  in  Illinois,  cit- 
ing Col.  Joseph  N.  Bourassa,  an  educated  half- 
breed  of  Kansas,  as  authority  for  his  statement, 
asserts  that  the  Indian  killed  at  Cahokia  was  an 
impostor,  and  that  the  true  Pontiac  was  assassi- 
nated by  Kineboo,  the  Head  Chief  of  the  Illinois, 
in  a  council  held  on  the  Des  Plaines  River,  near 
the  present  site  of  Joliet.  So  well  convinced,  it 
is  said,  was  Pierre  Chouteau,  the  St.  Louis  Indian 
trader,  of  the  truth  of  this  last  story,  that  he 
caused  a  monument,  which  he  had  erected  over 
the  grave  of  the  false  Pontiac,  to  be  removed. 
Out  of  the  murder  of  Pontiac,  whether  occurring 
at  Cahokia  or  Joliet,  it  is  generally  agreed, 
resulted  the  extermination  of  the  Illinois  and  the 
tragedy  of  ' '  Starved  Rock. ' '  (See  Starved  Rock. ) 
PONTIAC,  an  incorporated  city,  the  county- 
seat  of  Livingston  County.  It  stands  on  the 
bank  of  the  Vemillion  River,  and  is  also  a  point 


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of  intersection  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton,  the 
Wabash  and  the  Illinois  Central  Railroads.  It  is 
33  miles  north-northeast  from  Bloomington  and 
93  miles  south-southwest  of  Chicago.  The  sur- 
rounding region  is  devoted  to  agriculture,  stock- 
raising  and  coal-mining.  Pontiac  has  four  banks 
and  four  weekly  newspapers  (two  issuing  daily 
editions),  numerous  churches  and  good  schools. 
Various  kinds  of  manufacturing  are  conducted, 
among  the  principal  establishments  being  flour- 
ing mills,  three  shoe  factories,  straw  paper  and 
candy  factories  and  a  foundry.  The  State  Re- 
formatory for  Juvenile  Offenders  is  located  here. 
Pop.  (1890),  2,784;  (1900),  4,266;  (1910),  6,090. 

POOL,  Orval,  merchant  and  banker,  was  born 
in  Union  County,  Ky.,  near  Shawneetcwn,  111., 
Feb.  17, 1809,  but  lived  in  Shawneetown  from  seven 
years  of  age;  in  boyhood  learned  the  saddler's 
trade,  but,  in  1843,  engaged  in  the  dry-goods 
business,  J.  McKee  Peoples  and  Thomas  S.  Ridg- 
way  becoming  his  partners  in  1846.  In  1850  he 
retired  from  the  dry-goods  trade  and  became  an 
extensive  dealer  in  produce,  pork  and  tobacco. 
In  1871  he  established  the  Gallatin  County 
National  Bank,  of  which  he  was  the  first  Presi- 
dent. Died,  June  30,  1871. 

POOLE,  William  Frederick,  bibliographer, 
librarian  and  historical  writer,  was  born  at 
Salem,  Mass.,  Dec.  24,  1821,  graduated  from  Yale 
College  in  1849,  and,  at  the  close  of  his  sophomore 
year,  was  appointed  assistant  librarian  of  his  col- 
lege society,  which  owned  a  library  of  10,000  vol- 
umes. Here  he  prepared  and  published  the  first 
edition  of  his  now  famous  "Index  to  Periodical 
Literature."  A  second  and  enlarged  addition 
was  published  in  1853,  and  secured  for  its  author 
wide  fame,  in  both  America  and  Europe.  In  1852 
he  was  made  Librarian  of  the  Boston  Mercantile 
Library,  and,  from  1856  to  1869,  had  charge  of  the 
Boston  Athenaeum,  then  one  of  the  largest  li- 
braries in  the  United  States,  which  he  relinquished 
to  engage  in  expert  library  work.  He  organized 
libraries  in  several  New  England  cities  and 
towns,  at  the  United  States  Naval  Academy,  and 
the  Cincinnati  Public  Library,  finally  becoming 
Librarian  of  the  latter  institution.  In  October, 
1873,  he  assumed  charge  of  the  Chicago  Public 
Library,  then  being  organized,  and,  in  1887, 
became  Librarian  of  the  Newberry  Library, 
organizing  this  institution  and  remaining  at  its 
head  until  his  death,  which  occurred,  March  1, 
1894.  The  degree  of  LL.  D.  was  conferred  on  him 
by  the  Northwestern  University  in  1882.  Dr. 
Poole  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  organization 
of  library  associations,  and  was  one  of  the  Vice- 


Presidents  of  the  International  Conference  of 
Librarians,  held  in  London  in  1871.  His  advice 
was  much  sought  in  relation  to  library  architec- 
ture and  management.  He  wrote  much  on  topics 
connected  with  his  profession  and  on  historical 
subjects,  frequently  contributing  to  "The  North 
American  Review."  In  1874-75  he  edited  a  liter- 
ary paper  at  Chicago,  called  "The  Owl,"  and  was 
later  a  constant  contributor  to  "The  Dial."  He 
was  President  of  the  American  Historical  Society 
and  member  of  State  Historical  Societies  and  of 
other  kindred  associations. 

POPE,  Nathaniel,  first  Territorial  Secretary  of 
Illinois,  Delegate  in  Congress  and  jurist,  was  born 
at  Louisville,  Ky.,  in  1784;  graduated  with  high 
honor  from  Transylvania  University,  at  Lexing- 
ton, Ky.,  read  law  with  his  brother,  Senator  John 
Pope,  and,  in  1804,  emigrated  to  New  Orleans, 
later  living,  for  a  time,  at  Ste.  Genevieve,  Mo.  In 
1808  he  became  a  resident  of  Kaskaskia  and,  the 
next  year,  was  appointed  the  first  Territorial 
Secretary  of  Illinois.  His  native  judgment  was 
strong  and  profound  and  his  intellect  quick  and 
far-reaching,  while  both  were  thoroughly  trained 
and  disciplined  by  study.  In  1816  he  was  elected 
a  Territorial  Delegate  to  Congress,  and  proved 
himself,  not  only  devoted  to  the  interests  of  his 
constituents,  but  also  a  shrewd  tactician.  He  was 
largely  instrumental  in  securing  the  passage  of 
the  act  authorizing  the  formation  of  a  State 
government,  and  it  was  mainly  through  his 
efforts  that  the  northern  boundary  of  Illinois  was 
fixed  at  lat.  42°  30'  north,  instead  of  the  southern 
bend  of  Lake  Michigan.  Upon  the  admission  of 
Illinois  into  the  Union,  he  was  made  United 
States  Judge  of  the  District,  which  then  embraced 
the  entire  State.  This  office  he  filled  with  dig- 
nity, impartiality  and  acceptability  until  his 
death,  at  the  home  of  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Lu- 
cretia  Yeatman,  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Jan.  23,  1850. 
Pope  County  was  named  in  his  honor. — Gen.  John 
(Pope),  son  of  the  preceding,  was  born  in  Louis- 
ville, Ky.,  March  16, 1822 ;  graduated  at  the  United 
States  Military  Academy,  1842,  and  appointed 
brevet  Second  Lieutenant  of  Topographical 
Engineers;  served  in  Florida  (1842-44),  on  the 
northeast  boundary  survey,  and  in  the  Mexican 
War  (1846-47),  being  promoted  First  Lieutenant 
for  bravery  at  Monterey  and  Captain  at  Buena 
Vista.  In  1849  he  conducted  an  exploring  expe- 
dition in  Minnesota,  was  in  charge  of  topograph- 
ical engineering  service  in  New  Mexico  (1851-53), 
and  of  the  survey  of  a  route  for  the  Union  Pacific 
Railway  (1853-59),  meanwhile  experimenting  on 
the  feasibility  of  artesian  wells  on  the  "Staked 


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Plains"  in  Northwestern  Texas.  He  was  a  zeal- 
ous friend  of  Abraham  Lincoln  in  the  political 
campaign  of  1860,  and  was  court-martialed  for 
criticising  the  policy  of  President  Buchanan,  in  a 
paper  read  before  a  literary  society  in  Cincinnati, 
the  proceedings  being  finally  dropped  on  the 
recommendation  of  the  (then)  Secretary  of  War, 
Joseph  Holt.  In  1861  he  was  one  of  the  officers 
detailed  by  the  War  Department  to  conduct  Mr. 
Lincoln  to  the  capital,  and,  in  May  following, 
was  made  Brigadier-General  of  Volunteers  and 
assigned  to  command  in  Missouri,  where  he  per- 
formed valuable  service  in  protecting  railroad 
communications  and  driving  out  guerrillas,  gain- 
ing an  important  victory  over  Sterling  Price  at 
Blackwater,  in  December  of  that  year;  in  1862 
had  command  of  the  land  forces  co-operating 
with  Admiral  Foote,  in  the  expedition  against 
New  Madrid  and  Island  No.  10,  resulting  in  the 
capture  of  that  stronghold  with  6,500  prisoners, 
125  cannon  and  7,000  small  arms,  thereby  win- 
ning a  Major-General's  commission.  Later,  hav- 
ing participated  in  the  operations  against  Corinth, 
he  was  transferred  to  command  of  the  Army  of 
Virginia,  and  soon  after  commissioned  Briga- 
dier-General in  the  regular  army.  Here,  being 
forced  to  meet  a  greatly  superior  force  under 
General  Lee,  he  was  subjected  to  reverses  which 
led  to  his  falling  back  on  Washington  and  a 
request  to  be  relieved  of  his  command.  For  fail- 
ure to  give  him  proper  support,  Gen.  Fitzjohn 
Porter  was  tried  by  court-martial,  and,  having 
been  convicted,  was  cashiered  and  declared  for- 
ever disqualified  from  holding  any  office  of  trust 
or  profit  under  the  United  States  Government — 
although  this  verdict  was  finally  set  aside  and 
Porter  restored  to  the  army  as  Colonel,  by  act  of 
Congress,  in  August,  1886.  General  Pope's  sub- 
sequent service  was  performed  chiefly  against 
the  Indians  in  the  Northwest,  until  1865,  when  he 
took  command  of  the  military  division  of  Mis- 
souri, and,  in  June  following,  of  the  Department 
of  the  Missouri,  including  all  the  Northwestern 
States  and  Territories,  from  which  he  was 
relieved  early  in  1866.  Later,  he  held  command, 
under  the  Reconstruction  Acts,  in  Georgia,  Ala- 
bama and  Florida  (1867-68) ;  the  Department  of  the 
Lakes  (1868-70) ;  Department  of  the  Missouri  (1870- 
84) ;  and  Department  of  the  Pacific,  from  1884  to 
his  retirement,  March  16,  1886.  General  Pope 
published  "Explorations  from  the  Bed  River  to 
the  Rio  Grande"  and  "Campaigns  in  Virginia" 
(1863).  Died,  at  Sandusky,  Ohio,  Sept  23,  1892. 

POPE  COUNTY,  lies  on  the  southern  border  of 
the  State,   and    contains  an  area  of  about    360 


square  miles— named  in  honor  of  Judge  Nathaniel 
Pope.  It  was  erected  in  1816  (two  years  before 
the  admission  of  Illinois  as  a  State)  from  parts  of 
Gallatin  and  Johnson  Counties.  The  county-seat 
was  first  located  at  Sandsville,  but  later  changed 
to  Golconda.  Robert  Lacy,  Benoni  Lee  and 
Thomas  Ferguson  were  the  first  Commissioners ; 
Hamlet  Ferguson  was  chosen  Sheriff;  John  Scott, 
Recorder ;  Thomas  C.  Browne,  Prosecuting- Attor- 
ney, and  Samuel  Omelveney,  Treasurer.  The 
highest  land  in  Southern  Illinois  is  in  the  north- 
eastern part  of  this  county,  reaching  an  elevation 
of  1,046  feet.  The  bluffs  along  the  Ohio  River  are 
bold  in  outline,  and  the  ridges  are  surmounted  by 
a  thick  growth  of  timber,  notably  oak  and  hick- 
ory. Portions  of  the  bottom  lands  are  submerged, 
at  times,  during  a  part  of  the  year  and  are 
covered  with  cypress  timber.  The  remains  of 
Indian  mounds  and  fortifications  are  found,  and 
some  interesting  relics  have  been  exhumed.  Sand- 
stone is  quarried  in  abundance,  and  coal  is  found 
here  and  there.  Mineral  springs  (with  copperas 
as  the  chief  ingredient)  are  numerous.  Iron  is 
found  in  limited  quantities,  among  the  rocks 
toward  the  south,  while  spar  and  kaolin  clay  are 
found  in  the  north.  The  chief  agricultural 
products  are  potatoes,  corn  and  tobacco.  Pop. 
(1890),  14,016;  (1900),  13,585;  (1910),  11,215. 

PORT  BTRON,  a  village  of  Rock  Island  County, 
on  the  Mississippi  River  and  the  Chicago,  Mil- 
waukee &  St.  Paul  Railway,  16  miles  above  Rock 
Island;  has  lime  kilns,  grain  elevator,  two  banks, 
academy,  public  schools,  and  a  newspaper.  Pop. 
(1910),  642.  The  (Illinois)  Western  Hospital  for 
the  Insane  is  located  at  Watertown,  twelve  miles 
below  Port  Byron. 

PORTER,  (Rev.)  Jeremiah,  pioneer  clergy- 
man, was  born  at  Hadley,  Mass.,  in  1804;  gradu- 
ated from  Williams  College  in  1825,  and  studied 
theology  at  both  Andover  and  Princeton  semi- 
naries, graduating  from  the  latter  in  1831.  The 
same  year  he  made  the  (then)  long  and  perilous 
journey  to  Fort  Brady,  a  military  post  at  the 
Sault  Ste.  Marie,  where  he  began  his  work  as  a 
missionary.  In  1833  he  came  to  Chicago,  where 
he  remained  for  two  years,  organizing  the  First 
Presbyterian  Church  of  Chicago,  with  a  member- 
ship of  twenty-six  persons.  Afterwards  he  had 
pastoral  charge  of  churches  at  Peoria  and  Farm- 
ington.  While  in  Chicago  he  was  married  to 
Miss  Eliza  Chappell,  one  of  the  earliest  teachers 
in  Chicago.  From  1840  to  '58  he  was  located  at 
Green  Bay,  Wis.,  accepting  a  call  from  a  Chicago 
Church  in  the  year  last  named.  In  1861  he  was 
commissioned  Chaplain  in  the  volunteer  service 


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by  Governor  Yates,  and  mustered  out  in  1865. 
The  next  five  years  were  divided  between  labors 
at  Brownsville,  Tex.,  in  the  service  of  the  Sani- 
tary Commission,  and  a  pastorate  at  Prairie  du 
Chien.  In  1870  he  was  commissioned  Chaplain 
in  the  regular  army,  remaining  in  the  service 
(with  occasional  leaves  of  absence)  until  1882, 
when  he  was  retired  from  active  service  on 
account  of  advanced  age.  His  closing  years  were 
spent  at  the  homes  of  his  children  in  Detroit  and 
Beloit;  died  at  the  latter  city,  July  25,  1893,  at 
the  age  of  89  years. 

POSEY,  (Gen.)  Thomas,  Continental  and 
Revolutionary  soldier,  was  born  in  Virginia,  July 
9, 1750 ;  in  1774  took  part  in  Lord  Dunmore's  expe- 
dition against  the  Indians,  and,  later,  in  various 
engagements  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  being 
part  of  the  time  under  the  immediate  command 
of  Washington ;  was  with  General  Wayne  in  the 
assault  on  Stony  Point  and  present  at  Cornwallis' 
surrender  at  Yorktown ;  also  served,  after  the  war, 
with  Wayne  as  a  Brigadier-General  in  the  North- 
west Territory.  Removing  to  Kentucky,  he 
served  in  the  State  Senate,  for  a  time  being 
presiding  officer  and  acting  Lieutenant-Governor ; 
later  (1812),  was  elected  United"  States  Senator 
from  Louisiana,  and,  from  1813  to  '16,  served  as 
Territorial  Governor  of  Indiana  Died,  at  the 
home  of  his  son-in-law,  Joseph  M.  Street,  at 
Shawneetown,  111. ,  March  18,  1818,  where  he  lies 
buried.  At  the  time  of  his  death  General  Posey 
was  serving  as  Indian  Agent. 

POST,  Joel  S.,  lawyer  and  soldier  of  the  Mexi- 
can War;  was  born  in  Ontario  (now  Wayne) 
County,  N.  Y.,  April  27,  1816;  in  1828  removed 
with  his  father  to  Washtenaw  County,  Mich., 
remaining  there  until  1839,  when  he  came  to 
Macon  County,  111.  The  following  year,  he  com- 
menced the  study  of  law  with  Judge  Charles 
Emmerson,  of  Decatur,  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1841.  In  1846  he  enlisted  in  the  Mexican 
War,  and  served  as  Quartermaster  of  the  Fourth 
Regiment  (Col.  E.  D.  Baker's) ;  in  1856  was  elected 
to  the  State  Senate,  and,  at  the  following  session, 
was  a  leading  supporter  of  the  measures  which 
resulted  in  the  establishment  of  the  State  Nor- 
mal School  at  Bloomington.  Capt.  Post's  later 
years  were  spent  at  Decatur,  where  he  died, 
June  7,  1886. 

POST,  Philip  Sidney,  soldier  and  Congress- 
man, was  born  at  Florida,  Orange  County,  N.  Y., 
March  19,  1833;  at  the  age  of  22  graduated  from 
Union  College,  studied  law  at  Poughkeepsie  Law 
School,  and,  removing  to  Illinois,  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  1856  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 


War  he  enlisted,  and  was  commissioned  Second 
Lieutenant  in  the  Fifty-nintk  Illinois  Volunteers. 
He  was  a  gallant,  fearless  soldier,  and  was  re- 
peatedly promoted  for  bravery  and  meritorious 
service,  until  he  attained  the  rank  of  brevet 
Brigadier-General.  He  participated  in  many 
important  battles  and  was  severely  wounded  at 
Pea  Ridge  and  Nashville.  In  1865  he  was  in  com- 
mand in  Western  Texas.  After  the  close  of  the 
war  he  entered  the  diplomatic  service,  being 
appointed  Consul-General  to  Austria-Hungary 
in  1874,  but  resigned  in  1879,  and  returned  to  his 
home  in  Galesburg.  From  1882  to  1886  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Republican  State  Central  Com- 
mittee, and,  during  1886,  was  Commander  of  the 
Department  of  Illinois,  G.  A.  R.  He  was  elected 
to  Congress  from  the  Tenth  District  on  the  Repub- 
lican ticket  in  1886,  serving  continuously  by  re- 
election until  his  death,  which  occurred  in 
Washington,  Jan.  6,  1895. 

POST,  Truman  Marcellus,  D.D.,  clergyman, 
was  born  at  Middlebury,  Vt.,  June  3,  1810;  gradu- 
ated at  Middlebury  College  in  1829,  was  Principal 
of  Castleton  Academy  for  a  year,  and  a  tutor  at 
Middlebury  two  years,  meanwhile  studying  law. 
After  a  winter  spent  in  Washington,  listening  to 
the  orators  of  the  time  in  Congress  and  before  the 
Supreme  Court,  including  Clay,  Webster,  Wirt 
and  their  contemporaries,  he  went  west  in  1833, 
first  visiting  St.  Louis,  but  finally  settling  at 
Jacksonville,  111.,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  but  soon  after  accepted  the  Professorship  of 
Classical  Languages  in  Illinois  College,  and 
later  that  of  History;  then  began  the  study  of 
theology,  was  ordained  in  1840,  and  assumed  the 
pastorship  of  the  Congregational  Church  in  Jack- 
sonville. In  1847  he  was  called  to  the  pastorate 
of  the  Third  Presbyterian  Church  of  St.  Louis, 
and,  in  1851,  to  the  First  Congregational  Church, 
of  which  the  former  furnished  the  nucleus.  For 
a  year  or  two  after  removing  to  St.  Louis,  he 
continued  his  lectures  on  history  at  Illinois  Col- 
lege for  a  short  period  each  year;  also  held  the 
professorship  of  Ancient  and  Modern  History  in 
Washington  University,  in  St.  Louis;  in  1873-75 
was  Southworth  lecturer  on  Congregationalism 
in  Andover  Theological  Seminary  and,  for  sev- 
eral years,  Professor  of  Ecclesiastical  History  in 
Chicago  Theological  Seminary.  His  splendid 
diction  and  his  noble  style  of  oratory  caused 
him  to  be  much  sought  after  as  a  public  lecturer 
or  platform  speaker  at  college  commencements, 
while  his  purity  of  life  and  refinement  of  charac- 
ter attracted  to  him  all  with  whom  he  came  in 
personal  contact.  He  received  the  degree  of 


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D.D.  from  Middlebury  College  in  1855;  was  a  fre- 
quent contributor  to  "The  Biblical  Repository" 
and  other  religious  publications,  and,  besides 
numerous  addresses,  sermons  and  pamphlets,  he 
was  the  author  of  a  volume  entitled  "The  Skep- 
tical Era  in  Modern  History"  (New  York,  1856). 
He  resigned  his  pastorate  in  January,  1882,  but 
continued  to  be  a  frequent  speaker,  either  in  the 
pulpit  or  on  the  lecture  platform,  nearly  to  the 
period  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  St.  Louis, 
Dec.  31,  1886.  For  a  quarter  of  a  century  he  was 
one  of  the  Trustees  of  Monticello  Female  Semi- 
nary, at  Godfrey,  111.,  being,  for  a  considerable 
portion  of  the  time,  President  of  the  Board. 

POTTAWATOMIES,  THE,  an  Indian  tribe, 
one  of  the  three  subdivisions  of  the  Ojibwas  (or 
Ojibbeways),  who,  in  turn,  constituted  a  numer- 
ous family  of  the  Algonquins.  The  other 
branches  were  the  Ottawa  and  the  Chippewas. 
The  latter,  however,  retained  the  family  name, 
and  hence  some  writers  have  regarded  the  "Ojib- 
beways" and  the  "Chippewas"  as  essentially 
identical.  This  interchanging  of  names  has  been 
a  prolific  source  of  error.  Inherently,  the  dis- 
tinction was  analogous  to  that  existing  between 
genus  and  species,  although  a  confusion  of 
nomenclature  has  naturally  resulted  in  errors 
more  or  less  serious.  These  three  tribes  early 
separated,  the  Pottawatomies  going  south  from 
Green  Bay  along  the  western  shore  of  Lake 
Michigan.  The  meaning  of  the  name  is,  "we  are 
making  a  fire,"  and  the  word  is  a  translation  into 
the  Pottawatomie  language  of  the  name  first 
given  to  the  tribe  by  the  Miamis.  These  Indians 
were  tall,  fierce  and  haughty,  and  the  tribe  was 
divided  into  four  branches,  or  clans,  called  by 
names  which  signify,  respectively,  the  golden 
carp,  the  tortoise,  the  crab  and  the  frog.  Accord- 
ing to  the  "Jesuit  Relations,"  the  Pottawatomies 
were  first  met  by  the  French,  on  the  north  of 
Lake  Huron,  in  1639-40.  More  than  a  quarter  of 
a  century  later  (1666)  Father  Allouez  speaks  of 
them  as  dwellers  on  the  shores  of  Lake  Michigan. 
The  same  Father  described  them  as  idolatrous 
and  polygamous,  yet  as  possessing  a  rude  civility 
and  as  being  kindly  disposed  toward  the  French. 
This  friendship  continued  unbroken  until  the 
expulsion  of  the  latter  from  the  Northwest. 
About  1678  they  spread  southward  from  Green 
Bay  to  the  head  of  Lake  Michigan,  a  portion  Of 
the  tribe  settling  in  Illinois  as  far  soutli  as  the 
Kankakee  and  Illinois  Rivers,  crowding  the 
Winnebagoes  and  the  Sacs  and  Foxes  on  the  west, 
and  advancing,  on  the  east,  into  the  country  of 
the  Miamis  as  far  as  the  Wabash  and  the 


Maumee.  They  fought  on  the  side  of  the 
French  in  the  French  and  Indian  War,  and 
later  took  part  in  the  conspiracy  of  Pontiac 
to  capture  and  reduce  the  British  posts,  and 
were  so  influenced  by  Tecumseh  and  the  Prophet 
that  a  considerable  number  of  their  warri- 
ors fought  against  General  Harrison  at  Tippe- 
canoe.  During  the  War  of  1812  they  actively 
supported  the  British.  They  were  also  prominent 
at  the  Chicago  massacre.  Schoolcraft  says  of 
them,  "They  were  foremost  at  all  treaties  where 
lands  were  to  be  ceded,  clamoring  for  the  lion's 
share  of  all  presents  and  annuities,  particularly 
where  these  last  were  the  price  paid  for  the  sale 
of  other  lands  than  their  own."  The  Pottawato- 
mies were  parties  to  the  treaties  at  Chicago  in 
1832  and  1833,  and  were  among  the  last  of  the 
tribes  to  remove  beyond  the  Mississippi,  their 
final  emigration  not  taking  place  until  1838.  In 
1846  the  scattered  fragments  of  this  tribe  coalesced 
with  those  of  the  Chippewas  and  Ottawas,  and 
formed  the  Pottawatomie  nation.  They  ceded  all 
their  lands,  wherever  located,  to  the  United  States, 
for  $850,000,  agreeing  to  accept  576,000  acres  in 
Kansas  in  lieu  of  §87,000  of  this  amount.  Through 
the  rapacity  and  trespasses  of  white  settlers,  this 
reservation  was  soon  dismembered,  and  the  lands 
passed  into  other  hands.  In  1867,  under  an  ena- 
bling act  of  Congress,  1,400  of  the  nation  (then 
estimated  at  2,500)  became  citizens.  Their  pres- 
ent location  is  in  the  southeastern  part  of  Okla- 
homa. 

POWELL,  John  Wesley,  Ph.D.,  LL.D.,  geolo- 
gist and  anthropologist,  was  born  at  Mount  Morris 
N.  Y.,  March  24,  1834,  the  son  of  a  Methodist 
itinerant  preacher,  passing  his  early  life  at  vari- 
ous places  in  Ohio,  Wisconsin  and  Illinois ;  studied 
for  a  time  in  Illinois  College  (Jacksonville),  and 
subsequently  in  Wheaton  College,  but,  in  1854, 
began  a  special  course  at  Oberlin,  Ohio,  teaching 
at  intervals  in  public  schools.  Having  a  predi- 
lection for  the  natural  sciences,  he  spent  much 
time  in  making  collections,  which  he  placed  in 
various  Illinois  institutions.  Entering  the  army 
in  1861  as  a  private  of  the  Twentieth  Illinois 
Volunteers,  he  later  became  a  Captain  of  the 
Second  Illinois  Artillery,  being  finally  promoted 
Major.  He  lost  his  right  arm  at  the  battle  of 
Shiloh,  but  returned  to  his  regiment  as  soon  as 
sufficiently  recovered,  and  continued  in  active 
service  to  the  close  of  the  war.  In  1865  he  'became 
Professor  of  Geology  and  Curator  of  the  Museum 
in  Illinois  Wesleyan  University  at  Bloomington, 
but  resigned  to  accept  a  similar  position  in  the 
State  Normal  University.  In  1867  he  began  his 


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greatest  work  in  connection  with  science  by 
leading  a  class  of  pupils  to  the  mountains  of 
Colorado  for  the  study  of  geology,  which  he  fol- 
lowed, a  year  later,  by  a  more  thorough  survey  of 
the  canon  of  the  Colorado  River  than  had  ever 
before  been  attempted.  This  led  to  provision  by 
Congress,  in  1870,  for  a  topographical  and  geo- 
logical survey  of  the  Colorado  and  its  tributaries, 
which  was  appropriately  placed  under  his  direc- 
tion. Later,  he  was  placed  in  charge  of  the 
Bureau  of  Ethnology  in  connection  with  the 
Smithsonian  Institute,  and,  again  in  1881,  was 
assigned  to  the  directorship  of  the  United  States 
Geological  Survey,  later  becoming  Director  of  the 
Bureau  of  Ethnology,  in  connection  with  the 
Smithsonian  Institute  in  Washington  City, 
but  died  September  23,  1902.  In  1886  Major 
Powell  received  the  degree  of  Ph.D.  from  Heidel- 
berg University,  and  that  of  LL.D.  from  Har- 
vard the  same  year.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
leading  scientific  associations  of  the  country, 
while  his  reports  and  addresses  fill  numerous 
volumes  issued  by  the  Government. 

POWELL,  William  Henry,  soldier  and  manu- 
facturer, was  born  in  South  Wales,  May  10,  1825 ; 
came  to  America  in  1830,  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools  of  Tennessee,  and  (1856-61)  was 
manager  of  a  manufacturing  company  at  Iron- 
ton,  Ohio;  in  1861,  became  Captain  of  a  West 
Virginia  cavalry  company,  and  was  advanced 
through  the  grades  of  Major,  Lieutenant-Colonel 
and  Colonel ;  was  wounded  while  leading  a  charge 
at  Wytheville,  Va.,  left  on  the  field,  captured  and 
confined  in  Libby  Prison  six  months.  After  ex- 
change he  led  a  cavalry  division  in  the  Army  of 
the  Shenandoah ;  was  made  Brigadier-General  in 
October,  1864 ;  after  the  war  settled  in  West  Vir- 
ginia, and  was  a  Republican  Presidential  Elector 
in  1868.  He  was  at  the  head  of  a  nail  mill  and 
foundry  in  Belleville,  and  was  Commander  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  for  the  Department  of 
Illinois  during  1895-96.  Died  Dec.  26,  1904. 

PRAIRIE  CITY,  a  village  in  McDonough 
County,  on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railroad,  23  miles  southwest  from  Galesburg  and 
17  miles  northeast  of  Macomb;  has  a  carriage 
factory,  flour  mill,  elevators,  lumber  and  stock 
yards,  a  nursery,  a  bank,  four  churches  and  two 
weekly  papers.  Pop.  (1900),  818;  (1910),  719. 

PRAIRIE  DU  POST,  (in  English,  Bridge 
Prairie),  an  early  French  settlement,  one  mile 
south  of  Cahokia.  It  was  commenced  about  1760, 
located  on  the  banks  of  a  creek,  on  whicli  was 
the  first  mill,  operated  by  water-power,  in  that 
section,  having  been  erected  by  missionaries 


from  St.  Sulpice,  in  1754.  In  1765  the  village 
contained  fourteen  families.  In  1844  it  was 
inundated  and  nearly  destroyed. 

PRAIRIE  du  ROCHER,  (in  English,  Prairie  of 
the  Rock),  an  early  French  village  in  what  is 
now  Randolph  County,  which  began  to  spring  up 
near  Fort  Chartres  (see  Fort  Chartres),  and  by  1722 
had  grown  to  be  a  considerable  settlement.  It  stood 
at  the  foot  of  the  Mississippi  bluffs,  about  four  miles 
northeast  of  the  fort.  Like  other  French  villages 
in  Illinois,  it  had  its  church  and  priest,  its  common 
field  and  commons.  The  village  is  on  the  line  of 
the  St.  Louis,  Iron  Mountain  &  Southern  Railroad, 
48  miles  south  of  St.  Louis.  Near  the  outlet  of  a 
creek  which  runs  through  the  bluff  may  be  seen 
the  vestiges  of  a  water  mill,  said  to  have  been 
erected  by  the  Jesuits  during  the  days  of  French 
occupation.  Pop.  (1910),  511. 

PRENTICE,  William  S.,  Methodist  Episcopal 
clergyman,  was  born  in  St.  Clair  County,  111.,  in 
1819;  licensed  as  a  Methodist  preacher  in  1849, 
and  filled  pastorates  at  Paris,  Danville,  Carlin- 
ville,  Springfield,  Jacksonville  and  other  places — 
the  latter  part  of  his  life,  serving  as  "Presiding 
Elder ;  was  a  delegate  to  the  General  Conference 
of  1860,  and  regularly  re-elected  from  1872  to  the 
end  of  his  life.  During  the  latter  part  of  his  life 
his  home  was  in  Springfield.  Died,  June  28,  1887. 

PRENTISS,  Benjamin  Mayberry,  soldier,  was 
born  at  Belleville,  Wood  County,  Va.,  Nov.  23, 
1819;  in  1835  accompanied  his  parents  to  Mis- 
souri, and,  in  1841,  removed  to  Quincy,  111.,  where 
he  learned  a  trade,  afterwards  embarking  in  the 
commission  business.  In  1844-45  he  was  Lieuten- 
ant of  a  company  sent  against  the  Mormons  at 
Nauvoo,  later  serving  as  Captain  of  Volunteers  in 
the  Mexican  War.  In  1860  he  was  an  unsuccess- 
ful Republican  candidate  for  Congress;  at  the 
outbreak  of  the  Civil  War  tendered  his  services 
to  Governor  Yates,  and  was  commissioned  Colonel 
of  the  Tenth  Illinois  Volunteers,  was  almost 
immediately  promoted  to  Brigadier-General  and 
placed  in  command  at  Cairo,  so  continuing  until 
relieved  by  General  Grant,  in  September,  1861. 
At  the  battle  of  Shiloh,  in  April  following,  he 
was  captured  with  most  of  his  command,  after  a 
most  vigorous  fight  with  a  superior  rebel  force, 
but,  in  1862,  was  exchanged  and  brevetted  Major- 
General  of  Volunteers.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
court-martial  that  tried  Gen.  Fitzjohn  Porter, 
and,  as  commander  at  Helena,  Ark. ,  defeated  the 
Confederate  Generals  Holmes  and  Price  on  July 
3,  1863.  He  resigned  his  commission,  Oct.  28, 
1863.  In  1869  he  was  appointed  by  President 
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years.  At  present  (1898)  General  Prentiss'  resi- 
dence is  at  Bethany,  Mo.,  where  he  served  as 
Postmaster,  during  the  administration  of  Presi- 
dent Benjamin  Harrison,  and  was  reappointed  by 
President  McKinley.  Died  Feb.  8,  1901. 
PRESIDENTIAL  ELECTORS.  (See  Elections.) 
PRESBYTERIAN  HOSPITAL,  located  at  Chi- 
cago, was  organized  in  1883  by  a  number  of 
wealthy  and  liberal  Presbyterians,  "for  the  pur- 
pose of  affording  medical  and  surgical  aid  to  sick 
and  disabled  persons,  and  to  provide  them,  while 
inmates  of  the  hospital,  with  the  ministrations 
of  the  gospel,  agreeably  to  the  doctrines  and 
forms  of  the  Presbyterian  Church."  Rush  Med- 
ical College  offered  a  portion  of  its  ground  as  a  site 
(see  Rush  Medical  College) ,  and  through  generous 
subscriptions,  a  well-planned  building  was 
erected,  capable  of  accommodating  about  250 
patients.  A  corridor  connects  the  college  and 
hospital  buildings.  The  medical  staff  comprises 
eighteen  of  Chicago's  best  known  physicians  and 
surgeons. 

PRESBYTERIANS,  THE.  The  first  Presby- 
terian society  in  Illinois  was  organized  by  Rev. 
James  McGready,  of  Kentucky,  in  1810,  at 
Sharon,  White  County.  Revs.  Samuel  J.  Mills 
and  Daniel  Smith,  also  Presbyterians,  had  visited 
the  State  in  1814,  as  representatives  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Missionary  Society,  but  had  formed  no 
society.  The  members  of  the  Sharon  church 
were  almost  all  immigrants  from  the  South,  and 
were  largely  of  Scotch-Irish  extraction.  Two 
other  churches  were  established  in  1819 — one  at 
Shoal  Creek,  Bond  County,  and  the  other  at 
Edwardsville.  In  1825  there  were  but  three 
Presbyterian  ministers  in  Illinois — Revs.  Stephen 
Bliss,  John  Brich  and  B.  F.  Spilman.  Ten  years 
later  there  were  80  churches,  with  a  membership 
of  2,500  and  60  ministers.  In  1880  the  number  of 
churches  had  increased  to  487;  but,  in  1890,  (as 
shown  by  the  United  States  census)  there  were 
less.  In  the  latter  year  there  were  405  ministers 
and  52,945  members.  The  Synod  of  Illinois  is  the 
highest  ecclesiastical  court  of  the  denomination 
in  the  State,  and,  under  its  jurisdiction,  the 
church  maintains  two  seminaries:  one  (the  Mc- 
Cormick)  at  Chicago,  and  the  other  (the  Black- 
burn University)  at  Carlinville.  The  organ  of 
the  denomination  is  "The  Interior,"  founded  by 
Cyrus  H.  McCormick,  and  published  weekly  at 
Chicago,  with  William  C.  Gray  as  editor.  The 
Illinois  Synod  embraced  within  its  jurisdiction 
(1895)  eleven  Presbyteries,  to  which  were  attached 
483  churches,  464  ministers  and  a  membership  of 
63,247.  (See  also  Religious  Denominations.) 


PRICKETT,  Abraham,  pioneer  merchant,  was 
born  near  Lexington,  Ky.,  came  to  Madison 
County,  111.,  in  1808;  was  employed  for  a  time  in 
the  drug  business  in  St.  Louis,  then  opened  a 
store  at  Edwardsville,  where,  in  1813,  he  received 
from  the  first  County  Court  of  Madison  County, 
a  license  to  retail  merchandise.  In  1818,  he  served 
as  one  of  the  three  Delegates  from  Madison 
County  to  the  Convention  which  framed  the  first 
State  Constitution,  and,  the  same  year,  was 
elected  a  Representative  in  the  First  General 
Assembly;  was  also  Postmaster  of  the  town  of 
Edwardsville  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1825  he 
removed  to  Adams  County  and  laid  out  an  addi- 
tion to  the  city  of  Quincy;  was  also  engaged 
there  in  trade  with  the  Indians.  In  1836,  while 
engaged  on  a  Government  contract  for  the  re- 
moval of  snags  and  other  obstructions  to  the  navi- 
gation of  Red  River,  he  died  at  Natchitoches,  La. 
— George  W.  (Prickett)  a  son  of  the  preceding, 
and  afterwards  a  citizen  of  Chicago,  is  said  to 
have  been  the  first  white  child  born  in  Edwards- 
ville.— Isaac  (Prickett),  a  brother  of  Abraham, 
came  to  St.  Louis  in  1815,  and  to  Edwardsville  in 
1818,  where  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  busi- 
ness with  his  brother  and,  later,  on  his  own 
account.  He  held  the  offices  of  Postmaster,  Pub- 
lic Administrator,  Quartermaster-General  of 
State  Militia,  Inspector  of  the  State  Penitentiary, 
and,  from  1838  to  '42,  was  Receiver  of  Public 
Moneys  at  Edwardsville,  dying  in  1844. 

PRICKETT,  David,  pioneer  lawyer,  was  born 
in  Franklin  County,  Ga.,  Sept.  21,  1800;  in  early 
childhood  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Kentucky 
and  from  there  to  Edwardsville,  111.  lie  gradu- 
ated from  Transylvania  University,  and,  in  1821, 
began  the  practice  of  law ;  was  the  first  Supreme 
Court  Reporter  of  Illinois,  Judge  of  the  Madison 
County  Probate  Court,  Representative  in  the 
General  Assembly  (1826-28),  Aid-de-Camp  to 
General'  Whiteside  in  the  Black  Hawk  War, 
State's  Attorney  for  Springfield  Judicial  Circuit 
(1837),  Treasurer  of  the  Board  of  Canal  Commis- 
sioners (1840),  Director  of  the  State  Bank  of  Illi- 
nois (1842),  Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
for  ten  sessions  and  Assistant  Clerk  of  the  same 
at  the  time  of  his  death,  March  1,  1847. 

PRINCE,  David,  physician  and  surgeon,  was 
born  in  Brooklyne,  Windham  County,  Conn., 
June  21,  1816;  removed  with  his  parents  to 
Canandaigua,  N.  Y.,  and  was  educated  in  the 
academy  there ;  began  the  study  of  medicine  in 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons  in  New 
York,  finishing  at  the  Ohio  Medical  College,  Cin- 
cinnati, where  he  was  associated,  for  a  year  and  a 


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half,  with  the  celebrated  surgeon,  Dr.  Muzzy.  In 
1843  he  came  to  Jacksonville,  111.,  and,  for  two 
years,  was  Professor  of  Anatomy  in  the  Medical 
Department  of  Illinois  College;  later,  spent  five 
years  practicing  in  St.  Louis,  and  lecturing  on 
surgery  in  the  St.  Louis  Medical  College,  when, 
returning  to  Jacksonville  in  1852,  he  established 
himself  in  practice  there,  devoting  special  atten- 
tion to  surgery,  in  which  he  had  already  won  a 
wide  reputation.  During  the  latter  part  of  the 
Civil  War  he  served,  for  fourteen  months,  as 
Brigade  Surgeon  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac, 
and,  on  the  capture  of  a  portion  of  his  brigade, 
voluntarily  surrendered  himself  that  he  might 
attend  the  captives  of  his  command  in  Libby 
Prison.  After  the  close  of  the  war  he  was 
employed  for  some  months,  by  the  Sanitary  Com- 
mission, in  writing  a  medical  history  of  the  war. 
He  visited  Europe  twice,  first  in  1881  as  a  dele- 
gate to  the  International  Medical  Congress  in 
London,  and  again  as  a  member  of  the  Copen- 
hagen Congress  of  1884 — at  each  visit  making 
careful  inspection  of  the  hospitals  in  London, 
Paris,  and  Berlin.  About  1867  he  established  a 
Sanitarium  in  Jacksonville  for  the  treatment  of 
surgical  cases  and  chronic  diseases,  to  which  he 
gave  the  closing  years  of  his  life.  Thoroughly 
devoted  to  his  profession,  liberal,  public-spirited 
and  sagacious  in  the  adoption  of  new  methods,  he 
stood  in  the  front  rank  of  his  profession,  and  his 
death  was  mourned  by  large  numbers  who  had 
received  the  benefit  of  his  ministrations  without 
money  and  without  price.  He  was  member  of 
a  number  of  leading  professional  associations, 
besides  local  literary  and  social  organizations. 
Died,  at  Jacksonville,  Dec.  19,  1889. 

PRINCE,  Edward,  lawyer,  was  born  at  West 
Bloomfield,  Ontario  County,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  8,  1832; 
attended  school  at  Payson,  111.,  and  Illinois  Col- 
lege, Jacksonville,  graduating  from  the  latter  in 
1852 ;  studied  law  at  Quincy,  and  after  admission 
to  the  bar  in  1853,  began  dealing  in  real  estate. 
In  1861  he  offered  his  services  to  Governor  Yates, 
was  made  Captain  and  Drill-master  of  cavalry 
and,  a  few  months  later,  commissioned  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel of  the  Seventh  Illinois  Cavalry,  tak- 
ing part,  as  second  in  command,  in  the  celebrated 
"Grierson  raid"  through  Mississippi,  in  1863, 
serving  until  discharged  with  the  rank  of  Colonel 
of  his  regiment,  in  1864.  After  the  war  he  gave 
considerable  attention  to  engineering  and  the 
construction  of  a  system  of  water-works  for  the 
city  of  Quincy.  Died  December,  1908. 

PRINCE,  Georgre  W.,  lawyer  and  Congressman, 
born  in  Tazewell  County,  111.,  March  4,  1854;  was 


educated  in  the  public  schools  and  at  Knox  Col- 
lege, graduating  from  the  latter  in  1878.  He 
then  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1880 ;  was  elected  City  Attorney  of  Galesburg  the 
following  year ;  served  as  chairman  of  the  Knox 
County  Republican  Central  Committee  in  1884, 
and,  in  1888,  was  elected  Representative  in  the 
General  Assembly  and  re-elected  two  years  later. 
In  1892  he  was  the  Republican  nominee  for 
Attorney-General  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  but  was 
defeated  with  the  rest  of  the  State  ticket;  at 
a  special  election,  held  in  April,  1895,  he  was 
chosen  Representative  in  Congress  from  the 
Tenth  District  to  fill  the  vacancy  caused  by  the 
death  of  Col.  Philip  Sidney  Post,  which  had 
occurred  in  January  preceding.  In  common  with 
a  majority  of  his  colleagues,  Mr.  Prince  was 
re-elected  in  1896,  receiving  a  plurality  of  nearly 
16,000  votes,  and  was  elected  for  a  third  term  in 
November,  1898. 

PRINCETON,  a  city  and  the  county-seat  of 
Bureau  County,  on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  Railroad,  22  miles  west-southwest  of 
Mendota,  and  104  miles  west-southwest  of  Chi- 
cago; has  a  court  house,  gas-works,  electric 
lights,  graded  and  high  schools,  numerous 
churches,  three  newspapers  and  several  banks. 
Coal  is  mined  five  miles  east,  and  the  manufac- 
tures include  flour,  carriages  and  farm  imple- 
ments. Pop.  (1890),  3,396;  (1900),  4,023.  Prince- 
ton is  populated  with  one  of  the  most  intelligent 
and  progressive  communities  in  the  State.  It 
was  the  home  of  Owen  Love  joy  during  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  in  Illinois.  Pop.  (1910),  4,131. 

PRINCETON  &  WESTERN  RAILWAY.  (See 
Chicago  &  Northwestern  Railway, ) 

PRINCETILLE,  a  village  of  Peoria  County,  on 
the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  and  the  Rock 
Island  &  Peoria  Railways,  22  miles  northwest  of 
Peoria ;  is  a  trade  center  for  a  prosperous  agricul- 
tural region.  Pop.  (1900),  735;  (1910),  982. 

PROPHETSTOWN,  a  town  in  Whiteside 
County,  on  Rock  River  and  the  Fulton  Branch  of 
the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad,  45 
miles  northwest  of  Mendota;  is  a  grain  trade  center, 
has  some  manufactories,  banks  and  a  weekly  news- 
paper. Pop.  (1900),  1,143;  (1910),  1,083. 

PROPORTIONAL  REPRESENTATION.  (See 
Minority  Representation.) 

PROTESTANT  EPISCOPAL  CHURCH.  The 
pioneer  Episcopal  clergyman  in  this  State  was  the 
Rt.  Rev.  Philander  Chase,  who  was  made  Bishop 
of  Illinois  in  1835,  and  was  the  founder  of  Jubi- 
lee College.  (See  Chase,  Rev.  Philander.)  The 
State  at  present  is  organized  under  the  provincial 


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system,  the  province  comprising  the  dioceses  of 
Chicago,  Quincy  and  Springfield.  At  its  head 
(1898)  is  the  Rt.  Rev.  William  E.  McLaren,  Bishop 
of  Chicago.  Rev.  George  F.  Seymour  of  Spring- 
field is  Bishop  of  the  Springfield  Diocese,  with 
C.  R.  Hale,  Coadjutor  at  Cairo,  and  Rev.  Alex- 
ander Burgess,  Bishop  of  the  Quincy  Diocese,  with 
residence  at  Peoria.  The  numerical  strength  of 
the  church  in  Illinois  is  not  great,  although 
between  1880  and  1890  its  membership  was  almost 
doubled.  In  1840  there  were  but  eighteen 
parishes,  with  thirteen  clergymen  and  a  member- 
ship of  267.  By  1880  the  number  of  parishes  had 
increased  to  89,  there  being  127  ministers  and 
9,842  communicants.  The  United  States  Census 
of  1890  showed  the  following  figures:  Parishes, 
197;  clergymen,  150,  membership,  18,609.  Total 
contributions  (1890)  for  general  church  and  mis- 
sion work,  $373,798.  The  chief  educational  insti- 
tution of  the  denomination  in  the  West  is  the 
Western  Theological  Seminary  at  Chicago.  (See 
also  Religious  Denominations.) 

PRTOR,  Joseph  Everett,  pioneer  and  early 
steamboat  captain,  was  born  in  Virginia,  August 
10,  1787 — the  son  of  a  non-commissioned  officer  of 
the  Revolution,  who  emigrated  to  Kentucky  about 
1790  and  settled  near  Louisville,  which  was  then 
a  fort  with  some  twenty  log  cabins.  In  1813  the 
son  located  where  Golconda,  Pope  County,  now 
stands,  and  early  in  life  adopted  the  calling  of  a 
boatman,  which  he  pursued  some  forty  years. 
At  this  time  he  held  a  commission  as  a  "Falls 
Pilot,"  and  piloted  the  first  steamer  that  ascended 
the  Ohio  River  from  New  Orleans.  During  his 
long  service  no  accident  happened  to  any  steamer 
for  which  he  was  responsible,  although  the  Mis- 
sissippi then  bristled  with  snags.  He  owned  and 
commanded  the  steamer  Telegraph,  which  was 
sunk,  in  1835,  by  collision  with  the  Duke  of 
Orleans  on  the  Mississippi,  but,  owing  to  his  pres- 
ence of  mind  and  the  good  discipline  of  his  crew, 
no  lives  were  lost.  The  salient  features  of  his 
character  were  a  boundless  benevolence  mani- 
fested to  others,  and  his  dauntless  courage,  dis- 
played not  only  in  the  face  of  dangers  met  in  his 
career  as  a  boatman,  but  in  his  encounters  with 
robbers  who  then  infested  portions  of  Southern 
Illinois.  He  had  a  reputation  as  a  skillful  pilot 
and  popular  commander  not  excelled  by  any  of 
his  contemporaries.  He  died,  at  his  home  in  Pope 
County,  Oct.  5,  1851,  leaving  one  daughter,  now 
Mrs.  Cornelia  P.  Bozman,  of  Cairo,  111. 

PUBLIC  INSTRUCTION,  SUPERINTEND- 
ENTS  OF.  (See  Superintendents  of  Public 
Instruction.) 


PUGH,  Isaac  C.,  soldier,  was  born  in  Christian 
County,  Ky.,  Nov.  23,  1805;  came  to  Illinois,  in 
1821,  with  his  father,  who  first  settled  in  Shelby 
County,  but,  in  1829,  removed  to  Macon  County, 
where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  resided  until  his 
death,  at  Decatur,  Nov.  14,  1874.  General  Pugh 
served  in  three  wars — first  in  the  Black  Hawk 
War  of  1832 ;  then,  with  the  rank  of  Captain  and 
Field  Officer  in  the  Fourth  Regiment  Illinois 
Volunteers  (Col.  E.  D.  Baker's)  in  the  war  with 
Mexico,  and,  during  the  Civil  War,  entering  upon 
the  latter  as  Colonel  of  the  Forty-first  Illinois 
Volunteer  Infantry,  in  September,  1861,  and 
being  mustered  out  with  the  rank  of  full  Briga- 
dier-General in  August,  1864,  when  his  regiment 
was  consolidated  with  the  Fifty -third.  He  took 
part  with  his  regiment  in  the  battles  of  Fort 
Donelson  and  Shiloh,  and  in  the  operations 
around  Vicksburg,  being  wounded  at  the  latter. 
In  the  year  of  his  retirement  from  the  army 
(1864)  he  was  elected  a  Representative  in  the 
Twenty-fourth  General  Assembly,  and,  the  fol- 
lowing year,  was  chosen  County-Clerk  of  Macon 
County,  serving  four  years. 

PUGH,  Jonathan  H.,  pioneer  lawyer,  was  born 
in  Bath  County,  Ky.,  came  to  Bond  County,  111., 
finally  locating  at  Springfield  in  1823,  and  being 
the  second  lawyer  to  establish  himself  in  practice 
in  that  city.  He  served  in  the  Third,  Fifth, 
Sixth  and  Seventh  General  Assemblies,  and  was 
defeated  for  Congress  by  Joseph  Duncan  (after- 
wards Governor),  in  1831.  Died,  in  1833.  Mr. 
Pugh  is  described  by  his  contemporaries  as  a  man 
of  brilliant  parts,  an  able  lawyer  and  a  great  wit. 

PULASKI  COUNTY,  an  extreme  southern 
county  and  one  of  the  smallest  in  the  State, 
bordering  on  the  Ohio  River  and  having  an  area 
of  190  square  miles  and  a  population  (1900),  of 
14,554.  It  was  cut  off  from  Alexander  County  in 
1843,  and  named  in  honor  of  a  Polish  patriot  who 
had  aided  the  Americans  during  the  Revolution. 
The  soil  is  generally  rich,  and  the  surface  varied 
with  much  low  land  along  the  Cache  and  the  Ohio 
Rivers.  Wheat,  corn  and  fruit  are  the  principal 
crops,  while  considerable  timber  is  cut  upon  the 
bottom  lands.  Mound  City  is  the  county-seat 
and  was  conceded  a  population,  by  the  census  of 
1890,  of  2,550.  Only  the  lowest,  barren  portion  of 
the  carboniferous  formation  extends  under  the 
soil,  the  coal  measures  being  absent.  Traces  of 
iron  have  been  found  and  sulphur  and  copperas 
springs  abound.  Population  (1910),  15,650. 

PULASKI,  a  village  of  Pulaski  County,  on  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad,  12J  miles  north  of  Cairo; 
in  lumber  district.  Pop.  (1910),  592. 


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PULLMAN,  a  former  suburb,  now  part  of  the 
city  of  Chicago,  where  the  Pullman  Palace  Car 
Company  began  the  erection  of  buildings  in  1880, 
.the  first  family  locating  here  in  1881.  Within 
the  next  few  years,  it  became  the  center  of  the 
largest  manufacturing  establishments  in  the 
country,  including  the  Pullman  Car  Works,  the 
Allen  Paper  Car  Wheel  Works  and  extensive 
steel  forging  works,  employing  thousands  of 
mechanics.  Large  numbers  of  sleeping  and  din- 
ing cars,  besides  ordinary  passenger  coaches  and 
freight  cars,  were  manufactured  here  every  year, 
not  only  for  use  on  the  railroads  of  the  United 
States,  but  for  foreign  countries  as  well.  The 
town  was  named  for  the  late  George  M.  Pullman, 
the  founder  of  the  car-works,  and  was  regarded 
as  a  model  city,  made  up  of  comfortable  homes 
erected  by  the  Palace  Car  Company  for  the  use  of 
its  employes.  It  was  well  supplied  with  school- 
houses,  and  churches,  and  a  public  library  was 
established  there  and  opened  to  the  public  in 
1883.  The  town  was  annexed  to  the  city  of  Chi- 
cago in  1890. 

PULLMAN,  George  Mortimer,  founder  of  the 
Pullman  Palace  Car  Company,  was  born  at  Broc- 
ton,  N.  Y.,  March  3,  1831,  enjoyed  ordinary  edu- 
cational advantages  in  his  boyhood  and,  at 
fourteen  years  of  age,  obtained  employment  as  a 
clerk,  but  a  year  later  joined  his  brother  in  the 
cabinet-making  business  at  Albion.  His  father, 
who  was  a  house-builder  and  house-mover,  hav- 
ing died  in  1853,  young  Pullman  assumed  the 
responsibility  of  caring  for  the  family  and,  hav- 
ing secured  a  contract  for  raising  a  number  of 
buildings  along  the  Erie  Canal,  made  necessary 
by  the  enlargement  of  that  thoroughfare,  in  this 
way  acquired  some  capital  and  experience  which 
was  most  valuable  to  him  in  after  years.  Com- 
ing to  Chicago  in  1859,  when  the  work  of  raising 
the  grade  of  the  streets  in  the  business  portion  of 
the  city  had  been  in  progress  for  a  year  or  two, 
he  found  a  new  field  for  the  exercise  of  his 
inventive  skill,  achieving  some  marvelous  trans- 
formations in  a  number  of  the  principal  business 
blocks  in  that  part  of  the  city.  As  early  as  1858, 
Mr.  Pullman  had  had  his  attention  turned  to 
devising  some  means  for  increasing  the  comforts 
of  night-travel  upon  railways,  and,  in  1859,  he 
remodeled  two  old  day-coaches  into  a  species  of 
sleeping-cars,  which  were  used  upon  the  Alton 
Road.  From  1860  to  1863  he  spent  in  Colorado 
devoting  his  engineering  skill  to  mining;  but 
returning  to  Chicago  the  latter  year,  entered 
upon  his  great  work  of  developing  the  idea  of  the 
sleeping-car  Into  practical  reality.  The  first 


car  was  completed  and  received  the  name  of  the 
"Pioneer."  This  car  constituted  a  part  of  the 
funeral  train  which  took  the  remains  of  Abraham 
Lincoln  to  Springfield,  111.,  after  his  assassination 
in  April,  1865.  The  development  of  the  "Pull- 
man palace  sleeping-car,"  the  invention  of  the 
dining-car,  and  of  vestibule  trains,  and  the  build- 
ing up  of  the  great  industrial  town  which  bears 
his  name,  and  is  now  a  part  of  the  city  of  Chi- 
cago, constituted  a  work  of  gradual  development 
which  resulted  in  some  of  the  most  remarkable 
achievements  in  the  history  of  the  nineteenth 
century,  both  in  a  business  sense  and  in  promot- 
ing the  comfort  and  safety  of  the  traveling  pub- 
lic, as  well  as  in  bettering  the  conditions  of 
workingmen.  He  lived  to  see  the  results  of  his 
inventive  genius  and  manufacturing  skill  in  use 
upon  the  principal  railroads  of  the  United  States 
and  introduced  upon  a  number  of  important  lines 
in  Europe  also.  Mr.  Pullman  was  identified  with 
a  number  of  other  enterprises  more  or  less  closely 
related  to  the  transportation  business,  but  the 
Pullman  Palace  Car  Company  was  the  one  with 
which  he  was  most  closely  connected,  and  by 
which  he  will  be  longest  remembered.  He  was 
also  associated  with  some  of  the  leading  educa- 
tional and  benevolent  enterprises  about  the  city 
of  Chicago,  to  which  he  contributed  in  a  liberal 
manner  during  his  life  and  in  his  will.  His 
death  occurred  suddenly,  from  heart  disease,  at 
his  home  in  Chicago,  Oct.  19,  1897. 

PURPLE,  Norman  H.,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was 
born  in  Litchfield  County,  Conn.,  read  law  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Tioga  County,  Pa., 
settled  at  Peoria,  111.,  in  1836,  and  the  following 
year  was  appointed  Prosecuting  Attorney  for  the 
Ninth  Judicial  District,  which  then  embraced 
the  greater  portion  of  the  State  east  of  Peoria. 
In  1844  he  was  a  Presidential  Elector,  and,  in 
1845,  Governor  Ford  appointed  him  a  Justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court,  vice  Jesse  B.  Thomas,  Jr., 
who  had  resigned.  As  required  by  law,  he  at  the 
same  time  served  as  Circuit  Judge,  his  district 
embracing  all  the  counties  west  of  Peoria,  and 
his  home  being  at  Quincy.  After  the  adoption  of 
the  Constitution  of  1848  he  returned  to  Peoria  and 
resumed  practice.  He  compiled  the  Illinois 
Statutes  relating  to  real  property,  and,  in  1857, 
made  a  compilation  of  the  general  laws,  gener- 
ally known  to  the  legal  profession  as  the  "Purple 
Statutes."  He  subsequently  undertook  to  com- 
pile and  arrange  the  laws  passed  from  1857  to  '63, 
and  was  engaged  on  this  work  when  overtaken 
by  death,  at  Chicago,  Aug  9,  1863.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1862, 


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and,  during  the  last  ten  years  of  his  life,  promi- 
nent at  the  Chicago  bar. 

PUTERBAUGH,  Sabin  D.,  judge  and  author, 
was  born  in  Miami  County,  Ohio,  Sept.  28,  1834; 
at  8  years  of  age  removed  with  his  parents  to  Taze- 
well  County,  111 ;  settled  in  Pekin  in  1853,  where 
he  read  law,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1856. 
At  the  outbreak  of  the  rebellion  he  was  commis- 
sioned, by  Governor  Yates,  Major  of  the  Eleventh 
Illinois  Cavalry,  and  took  part  in  numerous 
engagements  in  Western  Tennessee  and  Missis- 
sippi, including  the  battles  of  Shiloh  and  Corinth. 
Resigning  his  commission  in  1862,  he  took  up  his 
residence  at  Peoria,  where  he  resumed  practice 
and  began  the  preparation  of  his  first  legal  work 
— "Common  Law  Pleading  and  Practice."  In 
1864  he  formed  a  partnership  with  Col.  Robert  G. 
Ingersoll,  which  continued  until  1867,  when  Mr. 
Puterbaugh  was  elected  Circuit  Court  Judge. 
He  retired  from  the  bench  in  1873  to  resume  pri- 
vate practice  and  pursue  his  work  as  an  author. 
His  first  work,  having  already  run  through  three 
editions,  was  followed  by  "Puterbaugh's  Chan- 
cery Pleading  and  Practice,"  the  first  edition  of 
which  appeared  in  1874,  and  "Michigan  Chancery 
Practice,"  which  appeared  in  1881.  In  1880  he 
was  chosen  Presidential  Elector  on  the  Republi- 
can ticket.  Died,  Sept.  25,  1892.  Leslie  D. 
(Puterbaugh),  a  son  of  Judge  Puterbaugh,  is 
Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  the  Peoria  Circuit. 

PUTNAM  COUNTY,  the  smallest  county  in  the 
State,  both  as  to  area  and  population,  containing 
only  170  square  miles;  population  (1900),  4,746. 
It  lies  near  the  center  of  the  north  half  of  the 
State,  and  was  named  in  honor  of  Gen.  Israel 
Putnam.  The  first  American  to  erect  a  cabin 
within  its  limits  was  Gurdon  S.  Hubbard,  who 
was  in  business  there,  as  a  fur-trader,  as  early  as 
1825,  but  afterwards  became  a  prominent  citizen 
of  Chicago.  The  county  was  created  by  act  of 
the  Legislature  in  1825,  although  a  local  govern- 
ment was  not  organized  until  some  years  later. 
Since  that  date,  Bureau,  Marshall  and  Stark 
Counties  have  been  erected  therefrom.  It  is 
crossed  and  drained  by  the  Illinois  River.  The 
surface  is  moderately  undulating  and  the  soil 
fertile.  Corn  is  the  chief  staple,  although  wheat 
and  oats  are  extensively  cultivated.  Coal  is 
mined  and  exported.  Hennepin  is  the  county- 
seat.  Population  of  the  county  (1910),  7,561. 

QUINCY,  the  principal  city  of  Western  Illinois, 
and  the  county-seat  of  Adams  County.  It  was 
founded  in  1822 — the  late  Gov.  John  Wood  erect- 
ing the  first  log-cabin  there — and  was  incorporated 


in  1839.  The  site  is  naturally  one  of  the  most  beauti- 
ful in  the  State,  the  principal  part  of  the  city  being 
built  on  a  limestone  bluff  having  an  elevation 
of  125  to  150  feet,  and  overlooking  the  Mississippi 
for  a  long  distance.  Its  location  is  112  miles  west 
of  Springfield  and  264  miles  southwest  of  Chi- 
cago. Besides  being  a  principal  shipping  point 
for  the  river  trade  north  of  St.  Louis,  it  is  the 
converging  point  of  several  important  railway 
lines,  including  the  Wabash,  four  branches  of  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy,  and  the  Quincy, 
Omaha  &  Kansas  City,  giving  east  and  west,  as 
well  as  north  and  south,  connections.  At  the 
present  time  (1904)  several  important  lines,  or 
extensions  of  railroads  already  constructed,  are  in 
contemplation,  which,  when  completed,  will  add 
largely  to  the  commercial  importance  of  the  city. 
The  city  is  regularly  laid  out,  the  streets  inter- 
secting each  other  at  right  angles,  and  being 
lighted  with  gas  and  electricity.  Water  is 
obtained  from  the  Mississippi.  There  are  several 
electric  railway  lines,  four  public  parks,  a  fine 
railway  bridge  across  the  Mississippi,  to  which  a 
wagon  bridge  has  been  added  within  the  past  two 
years ;  two  fine  railway  depots,  and  several  elegant 
public  buildings,  including  a  handsome  county 
court-house,  a  Government  building  for  the  use 
of  the  Post-office  and  the  United  States  District 
Court.  The  Illinois  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home 
is  located  here,  embracing  a  large  group  of  cot- 
tages occupied  by  veterans  of  the  Civil  War, 
besides  hospital  and  administration  buildings  for 
the  use  of  the  officers.  The  city  has  more  than 
thirty  churches,  three  libraries  (one  free-public 
and  two  college),  with  excellent  schools  and 
other  educational  advantages.  Among  the 
higher  institutions  of  learning  are  the  Chaddock 
College  (Methodist  Episcopal)  and  the  St.  Francis 
Solanus  College  (Roman  Catholic).  There  are 
two  or  three  national  banks,  a  State  bank  with  a 
capital  of  $300,000,  beside  two  private  banks,  four 
or  five  daily  papers,  with  several  weekly  and  one 
or  two  monthly  publications.  Its  advantages  as  a 
shipping  point  by  river  and  railroad  have  made  it 
one  of  the  most  important  manufacturing  cen- 
ters west  of  Chicago.  The  census  of  1890  showed 
a  total  of  374  manufacturing  establishments, 
having  an  aggregate  capital  of  $6, 187,845,  employ- 
ing 5,058  persons,  and  turning  out  an  annual 
product  valued  at  $10,160,492.  The  cost  of 
material  used  was  $5,597,990,  and  the  wages  paid 
$2,383,571.  The  number  of  different  industries 
reported  aggregated  seventy-six,  the  more  impor- 
tant being  foundries,  carriage  and  wagon  fac- 
tories, agricultural  implement  works,  cigar  and 


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tobacco  factories,  flour-mills,  breweries,  brick- 
yards, lime  works,  saddle  and  harness  shops, 
paper  mills,  furniture  factories,  organ  works,  and 
artificial-ice  factories.  Population  (1880) ,  27, 268 ; 
(1890),  31,494;  (1900),  36,252;  (1910),  36,589. 

QUINCT,  ALTON  &  ST.  LOUIS  RAILROAD. 
(See  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad.) 

QUINCT  &  CHICAGO  RAILROAD.  (See  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad.) 

QUINCY  &  TOLEDO  RAILROAD.  (See 
Wabash  Railroad.) 

QUINCT  &  WARSAW  RAILROAD.  (See 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad.) 

RAAB,  Henry,  former  State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction,  was  born  in  Wetzlar,  Rhen- 
ish Prussia,  June  20,  1837 ;  learned  the  trade  of  a 
currier  with  his  father  and  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1853,  finally  locating  at  Belleville,  111., 
where,  in  1857,  he  became  a  teacher  in  the  pub- 
lic schools;  in  1873  was  made  Superintendent  of 
schools  for  that  city,  and,  in  1882,  was  elected 
State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  on 
the  Democratic  ticket,  declined  a  renomination 
in  1886;  was  nominated  a  second  time  in  1890, 
and  re-elected,  but  defeated  by  S.  M.  Inglis  in 
1894.  In  the  administration  of  his  office,  Pro- 
fessor Raab  showed  a  commendable  freedom  from 
partisanship.  After  retiring  from  the  office  of 
State  Superintendent,  he  resumed  a  position  in 
the  public  schools  at  Belleville.  Died  Mar.  13,  1901. 

RADISSON,  Pierre  Esprit,  an  early  French 
traveler  and  trader,  who  is  said  to  have  reached 
the  Upper  Mississippi  on  his  third  voyage  to  the 
West  in  1658-59.  The  period  of  his  explorations 
extended  from  1652  to  1684,  of  which  he  prepared 
a  narrative  which  was  published  by  the  Prince 
Society  of  Boston  in  1885,  under  the  title  of 
"Radisson's  Voyages."  He  and  his  brother-in- 
law,  Medard  Chouart,  first  conceived  the  idea  of 
planting  a  settlement  at  Hudson's  Bay.  (See 
Chouart,  Medard.) 

RAILROAD  AND  WAREHOUSE  COMMIS- 
SION, a  Board  of  three  Commissioners,  appointed 
by  the  executive  (by  and  with  the  advice  and  con- 
sent of  the  Senate) ,  under  authority  of  an  act  ap- 
proved, April  13, 1871,  for  the  enforcement  of  the 
provisions  of  the  Constitution  and  laws  in  relation 
to  railroads  and  warehouses.  The  Commission's 
powers  are  partly  judicial,  partly  executive.  The 
following  is  a  summary  of  its  powers  and  duties: 
To  establish  a  schedule  of  maximum  rates,  equi- 
table to  shipper  and  carrier  alike;  to  require 
yearly  reports  from  railroads  and  warehouses; 
to  hear  and  pass  upon  complaints  of  extortion  and 


unjust  discrimination,  and  (if  necessary)  enforce 
prosecutions  therefor;  to  secure  the  safe  condi- 
tion of  railway  road-beds,  bridges  and  trestles ;  to 
hear  and  decide  all  manner  of  complaints  relative 
to  intersections  and  to  protect  grade-crossings; 
to  insure  the  adoption  of  a  safe  interlocking  sys- 
tem, to  be  approved  by  the  Commission;  to 
enforce  proper  rules  for  the  inspection  and  regis- 
tration of  grain  throughout  the  State.  The  prin- 
cipal offices  of  the  Commission  are  at  the  State 
capital,  where  monthly  sessions  are  held.  For 
the  purpose  of  properly  conducting  the  grain 
inspection  department,  monthly  meetings  are 
also  held  at  Chicago,  where  the  offices  of  a  Grain 
Inspector,  appointed  by  the  Board,  are  located. 
Here  all  business  relating  to  this  department  is 
discussed  and  necessary  special  meetings  are 
held.  The  inspection  department  has  no  revenue 
outside  of  fees,  but  the  latter  are  ample  for  its 
maintenance.  Fees  for  inspection  on  arrival 
("inspection  in")  are  twenty-five  cents  per  car- 
load, ten  cents  per  wagon-load,  and  forty  cents 
per  1,000  bushels  from  canal-boat  or  vessels.  For 
inspection  from  store  ("inspected  out")  the  fees 
are  fifty  cents  per  1,000  bushels  to  vessels; 
thirty-five  cents  per  car-load,  and  ten  cents  per 
wagon-load  to  teams.  While  there  are  never 
wanting  some  cases  of  friction  between  the  trans- 
portation companies  and  warehousemen  on  the 
one  hand,  and  the  Commission  on  the  other, 
there  can  be  no  question  that  the  formation  of 
the  latter  has  been  of  great  value  to  the  receiv- 
ers, shippers,  forwarders  and  tax-payers  of  the 
State  generally.  Similar  regulations  in  regard  to 
the  inspection  of  grain  in  warehouses,  at  East  St. 
Louis  and  Peoria,  are  also  in  force.  Following  is  a 
list  of  Commissioners  up  to  1911  with  terms:  1871-73 
— Gustavus  Koerner,  Richard  P.  Morgan,  David  S. 
Hammond;  1873-77 — Henry  D.  Cook  (deceased, 
1873,  succeeded  by  Jas.Steele),  David  A.  Brown,  John 
M.  Pearson;  1877-83— Wm.M.  Smith,  Geo.M.Bogue, 
John  H.  Oberly  (retired  1881,  succeeded  by  Wm.  M. 
Robinson) ;  1883-85 — Wm.  N.  Brainard,  E.  C.  Lewis, 
Chas.  T.  Stratton;  1885-89— John  I.  Rinaker,  Benj. 
F.  Marsh,  Wm.  T.  Johnson  (retired  1887,  succeeded 
by  Jason  Rogers);  1889-93 — John  R.  Wheeler,  Isaac 
N.  Phillips,  W.  S.  Crim  (succeeded,  1891,  by  John  R. 
Tanner);  1893-97— W.  S.  Cantrell,  Thos.  F.  Gahui, 
Chas.  F.  Lape  (succeeded,  1895,  by  Geo.  W.  Fithian) ; 
1897-1901 — Cicero  J.  Lindley,  Chas.  S.  Rannells,  Jas. 
E.  Bidwell,  Arthur  L.  French  (1901-07),  Jas.  Mc- 
Kinney  (1901-02),  Jas.  S.  Neville  (1901-06),  Isaac 
L.  Elwood  (1902-07),  Wm.  H.  Boys  (1906-09), 
Bernard  A.  Eckhart  and  Jas  A.  Willoughby 
(1907—);  Orville  H.  Berry,  Chairman  (1909—). 


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RAILROADS  (IN  GENERAL).  The  existing 
railroad  system  of  Illinois  had  its  inception  in  the 
mania  for  internal  improvement  which  swept 
over  the  country  in  1836-37,  the  basis  of  the  plan 
adopted  in  Illinois  (as  in  the  Eastern  States)  being 
that  the  State  should  construct,  maintain,  own 
and  operate  an  elaborate  system.  Lines  were  to 
be  constructed  from  Cairo  to  Galena,  from  Alton 
to  Mount  Carmel,  from  Peoria  to  Warsaw,  from 
Alton  to  the  Central  Railroad,  from  Belleville 
to  Mount  Carmel,  from  Bloomington  to  Mack- 
inaw Town,  and  from  Meredosia  to  Springfield. 
The  experiment  proved  extremely  unfortunate 
to  the  financial  interests  of  the  State,  and  laid  the 
foundation  of  an  immense  debt  under  which  it 
staggered  for  many  years.  The  Northern  Cross 
Railroad,  extending  from  Meredosia  to  Spring- 
field, was  the  only  one  so  far  completed  as  to  be  in 
operation.  It  was  sold,  in  1847,  to  Nicholas  H. 
Ridgely,  of  Springfield  for  $21,100,  he  being  the 
highest  bidder.  This  line  formed  a  nucleus  of 
the  existing  Wabash  system.  The  first  road  to 
be  operated  by  private  parties  (outside  of  a  prim- 
itive tramway  in  St.  Clair  County,  designed  for 
the  transportation  of  coal  to  St.  Louis)  was  the 
Galena  &  Chicago  Union,  chartered  in  1836.  This 
was  the  second  line  completed  in  the  State,  and 
the  first  to  run  from  Chicago.  The  subsequent 
development  of  the  railway  system  of  Illinois 
was  at  first  gradual,  then  steady  and  finally 
rapid.  A  succinct  description  of  the  various 
lines  now  in  operation  in  the  State  may  be  found 
under  appropriate  headings.  At  present  Illinois 
leads  all  the  States  of  the  Union  in  the  extent  of 
railways  in  operation,  the  total  mileage  (1897)  of 
main  track  being  10,785.43 — or  19  miles  for  each 
100  square  miles  of  territory  and  25  miles  for  each 
10,000  inhabitants — estimating  the  population 
(1898)  at  four  and  a  quarter  millions.  Every  one 
of  the  102  counties  of  the  State  is  traversed  by  at 
least  one  railroad  except  three — Calhoun,  Hardin 
and  Pope.  The  entire  capitalization  of  the  111 
companies  doing  business  in  the  State  in  1896, 
(including  capital  stock,  funded  debt  and  current 
liabilities),  was  §2,669,164,142— equal  to  167,556 
per  mile.  In  1894,  fifteen  owned  and  ten  leased 
lines  paid  dividends  of  from  four  to  eight  per 
cent  on  common,  and  from  four  to  ten  per  cent 
on  preferred,  stock — the  total  amount  thus  paid 
aggregating  §25,321,752.  The  total  earnings  and 
income,  in  Illinois,  of  ,all  lines  operated  in  the 
State,  aggregated  §77,508,537,  while  the  total 
expenditure  within  the  State  was  171,463,367. 
Of  the  58,263,860  tons  of  freight  carried,  11,611,- 
798  were  of  agricultural  products  and  17,179,366 


mineral  products.  The  number  of  passengers 
(earning  revenue)  carried  during  the  year,  was 
83,281,655.  The  total  number  of  railroad  em- 
ployes (of  all  classes)  was  61,200.  The  entire 
amount  of  taxes  paid  by  railroad  companies  for 
the  year  was  $3,846,379.  Prom  1836,  when  the 
first  special  charter  was  granted  for  the  con- 
struction of  a  railroad  in  Illinois,  until  1869 — 
after  which  all  corporations  of  this  character 
came  under  the  general  incorporation  laws  of  the 
State  in  accordance  with  the  Constitution  of  1870 
— 293  special  charters  for  the  construction  of 
railroads  were  granted  by  the  Legislature,  besides 
numerous  amendments  of  charters  already  in 
existence.  (For  the  history  of  important  indi- 
vidual lines  see  each  road  under  its  corporate 
name. ) 

RALSTON,  Virgil  Young,  editor  and  soldier, 
was  born,  July  16,  1828,  at  Vanceburg,  Ky. ;  was 
a  student  in  Illinois  College  one  year  (1846-47), 
after  which  he  studied  law  in  Quincy  and  prac- 
ticed for  a  time ;  also  resided  some  time  in  Cali- 
fornia; 1855-57  was  one  of  the  editors  of  "The 
Quincy  Whig,"  and  represented  that  paper  in  the 
Editorial  Convention  at  Decatur,  Feb.  22,  1856. 
(See  Anti-Nebraska  Editorial  Convention.)  In 
1861,  he  was  commissioned  a  Captain  in  the  Six- 
teenth Illinois  Volunteers,  but  soon  resigned  on 
account  of  ill-health ;  later,  enlisted  in  an  Iowa 
regiment,  but  died  in  hospital  at  St.  Louis,  from 
wounds  and  exposure,  April  19,  1864. 

RAMSAY,  I!  ii  I'us  N.,  State  Treasurer,  was  born 
on  a  farm  in  Clinton  County,  111.,  May  20,  1838; 
received  a  collegiate  education  at  Illinois  and 
McKendree  Colleges,  and  at  Indiana  State  Uni- 
versity ;  studied  law  with  ex-Gov.  A.  C.  French, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1865,  but  soon 
abandoned  the  law  for  banking,  in  which  he  was 
engaged  both  at  Lebanon  and  Carlyle,  limiting 
his  business  to  the  latter  place  about  1890.  He 
served  one  term  (from  1865)  as  County  Clerk,  and 
two  terms  (1889  and  '91)  as  Representative  in  the 
General  Assembly,  and,  in  1892,  was  nominated 
as  a  Democrat  and  elected  State  Treasurer.  Died 
in  office,  at  Carlyle,  Nov.  11,  1894. 

RAMSEY,  a  village  of  Fayette  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Illinois  Central  and  the  Toledo, 
St.  Louis  &  Western  Railroads,  12  miles  north  of 
Vanilalia;  the  district  is  agricultural;  has  one 
weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  747;  (1910),  769. 

RANDOLPH  COUNTY,  lies  in  the  southwest 
section  of  the  State,  and  borders  on  the  Missis- 
sippi River;  area  560  square  miles;  named  for 
Beverly  Randolph.  It  was  set  off  from  St.  Clair 
County  in  1795,  being  the  second  county  organ- 


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ized  in  the  territory  which  now  constitutes  the 
State  of  Illinois.  From  the  earliest  period  of  Illi- 
nois history,  Randolph  County  has  been  a  pivotal 
point.  In  the  autumn  of  1700  a  French  and 
Indian  settlement  was  established  at  Kaskaskia, 
which  subsequently  became  the  center  of  French 
influence  in  the  Mississippi  Valley.  In  1722 
Prairie  du  Rocher  was  founded  by  the  French. 
It  was  in  Randolph  County  that  Fort  Chartres 
was  built,  in  1720,  and  it  was  here  that  Col. 
George  Rogers  Clark's  expedition  for  the  seizure 
of  the  "Illinois  Country"  met  with  success  in  the 
capture  of  Kaskaskia.  American  immigration 
began  with  the  close  of  the  Revolutionary  War. 
Among  the  early  settlers  were  the  Cranes  (Icha- 
bod  and  George),  Gen.  John  Edgar,  the  Dodge 
family,  the  Morrisons,  and  John  Rice  Jones. 
Toward  the  close  of  the  century  came  Shadrach 
Bond  (afterwards  the  first  Governor  of  the  State) 
with  his  uncle  of  the  same  name,  and  the 
Menards  (Pierre  and  Hippolyte),  the  first  of 
whom  subsequently  became  Lieutenant  -  Gov- 
ernor. (See  Bond,  Shadrach;  Menard,  Pierre.) 
In  outline,  Randolph  County  is  triangular,  while 
its  surface  is  diversified.  Timber  and  building 
stone  are  abundant,  and  coal  underlies  a  consid- 
erable area.  Chester,  the  county-seat,  a  city  of 
3,000  inhabitants,  is  a  place  of  considerable  trade 
and  the  seat  of  the  Southern  Illinois  Penitentiary. 
The  county  is  crossed  by  several  railroad  lines, 
and  transportation  facilities  are  excellent.  Pop. 
(1890),  25,049;  (1900),  28,001;  (1910),  29,120. 

RANSOM,  (Gen.)  Thomas  Edward  Greenfield, 
soldier,  was  born  at  Norwich,  Vt.,  Nov.  29,  1834; 
educated  at  Norwich  University,  an  institution 
under  charge  of  his  father,  who  was  later  an 
officer  of  the  Mexican  War  and  killed  at  Chapul- 
tepec.  Having  learned  civil  engineering,  he 
entered  on  his  profession  at  Peru,  111.,  in  1851; 
in  1855  became  a  member  of  the  real-estate  firm 
of  A.  J.  Galloway  &  Co.,  Chicago,  soon  after 
removing  to  Fayette  County,  where  he  acted  as 
agent  of  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad.  Under 
the  first  call  for  volunteers,  in  April,  1861,  he 
organized  a  company,  which  having  been  incor- 
porated in  the  Eleventh  Illinois,  he  was  elected 
Major,  and,  on  the  reorganization  of  the  regiment 
for  the  three-years'  service,  was  commissioned 
Lieutenant-Colonel,  in  this  capacity  having  com- 
mand of  his  regiment  at  Fort  Donelson,  where  he 
was  severely  wounded  and  won  deserved  pro- 
motion to  a  colonelcy,  as  successor  to  Gen.  W.  H. 
L.  Wallace,  afterwards  killed  at  Shiloh.  Here 
Colonel  Ransom  again  distinguished  himself  by 
his  bravery,  and  though  again  wounded  while 


leading  his  regiment,  remained  in  command 
through  the  day.  His  service  was  recognized  by 
promotion  as  Brigadier  -  General.  He  bore  a 
prominent  part  in  the  siege  of  Vicksburg  and  in 
the  Red  River  campaign,  and,  later,  commanded 
the  Seventh  Army  Corps  in  the  operations  about 
Atlanta,  but  finally  fell  a  victim  to  disease  and 
his  numerous  wounds,  dying  in  Chicago,  Oct.  29, 
1864,  having  previously  received  the  brevet  rank 
of  Major-General.  General  Ransom  was  con- 
fessedly one  of  the  most  brilliant  officers  contrib- 
uted by  Illinois  to  the  War  for  the  Union,  and 
was  pronounced,  by  both  Grant  and  Sherman,  one 
of  the  ablest  volunteer  generals  in  their  com- 
mands. 

RANTOUL,  a  city  in  Champaign  County,  at 
the  junction  of  the  main  line  of  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral Railroad,  with  its  West  Lebanon  and  Leroy 
branch,  14  miles  north-northeast  of  Champaign 
and  114  miles  south  by  west  of  Chicago.  It  has 
a  national  bank,  seven  churches,  opera  house, 
graded  school,  two  weekly  papers,  machine  shops, 
flouring  and  flax  mills,  tile  factories,  and  many 
handsome  residences.  Pop.  (1910),  1,384. 

RASLE,  Sebastian,  a  Jesuit  missionary,  born 
in  France,  in  1658;  at  his  own  request  was 
attached  to  the  French  missions  in  Canada  in 
1689,  and,  about  1691  or  '92,  was  sent  to  the  Illi- 
nois Country,  where  he  labored  for  two  years, 
traveling  much  and  making  a  careful  study  of 
the  Indian  dialects.  He  left  many  manuscripts 
descriptive  of  his  journeyings  and  of  the  mode  of 
life  and  character  of  the  aborigines.  From  Illi- 
nois he  was  transferred  to  Norridgewock,  Maine, 
where  he  prepared  a  dictionary  of  the  Abenaki 
language  in  three  volumes,  which  is  now  pre- 
served in  the  library  of  Harvard  College.  His 
influence  over  his  Indian  parishioners  was  great, 
and  his  use  of  it,  during  the  French  and  Indian 
War,  so  incensed  the  English  colonists  in  Massa- 
chusetts that  the  Governor  set  a  price  upon  his 
head.  On  August  12,  1724,  he  was  slain,  with 
seven  Indian  chiefs  who  were  seeking  to  aid  his 
escape,  during  a  night  attack  upon  Norridge- 
wock by  a  force  of  English  soldiers  from  Fort 
Richmond,  his  mutilated  bod}'  being  interred  the 
next  day  by  the  Indians.  In  1833,  the  citizens  of 
Norridgewock  erected  a  monument  to  his  mem- 
ory on  the  spot  where  he  fell. 

RASTER,  Herman,  journalist,  was  born  in  Ger- 
many in  1828 ;  entered  journalism  and  came  to 
America  in  1851,  being  employed  on  German 
papers  in  Buffalo  and  New  York  City;  in  1867 
accepted  the  position  of  editor-in-chief  of  "The 
Chicago  Staats  Zeitung, "  which  he  continued  to 


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fill  until  June,  1890,  when  he  went  to  Europe  for 
the  benefit  of  his  health,  dying  at  Dresden,  July 
24,  1891.  While  employed  on  papers  in  this 
country  during  the  Civil  War,  he  acted  as  the 
American  correspondent  of  papers  at  Berlin, 
Bremen,  Vienna,  and  other  cities  of  Central 
Europe.  He  served  as  delegate  to  both  State  and 
National  Conventions  of  the  Republican  party, 
and,  in  1869,  received  from  President  Grant  the 
appointment  of  Collector  of  Internal  Revenue  for 
the  Chicago  District,  but,  during  the  later  years 
of  his  life,  cooperated  with  the  Democratic 
party. 

RAUCH,  John  Henry,  physician  and  sanitary 
expert,  born  in  Lebanon,  Pa.,  Sept.  4,  1828,  and 
graduated  in  medicine  at  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania, in  1849.  The  following  year  he  removed 
to  Iowa,  settling  at  Burlington.  He  was  an 
active  member  of  the  Iowa  State  Medical  Society, 
and,  in  1851,  prepared  and  published  a  "Report 
on  the  Medical  and  Economic  Botany  of  Iowa," 
and,  later,  made  a  collection  of  ichthyologic 
remains  of  the  Upper  Mississippi  and  Missouri  for 
Professor  Agassiz.  From  1857  to  I860  he  filled 
the  chair  of  Materia  Medica  and  Medical  Botany 
at  Rush  Medical  College,  Chicago,  occupying  the 
same  position  in  1859  in  the  Chicago  College  of 
Pharmacy,  of  which  he  was  one  of  the  organ- 
izers. During  the  Civil  War  he  served,  until 
1864,  as  Assistant  Medical  Director,  first  in  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  later  in  Louisiana, 
being  brevetted  Lieutenant-Colonel  at  the  close  of 
the  struggle.  Returning  to  Chicago,  he  aided  in 
reorganizing  the  city's  health  service,  and,  in 
1867,  was  appointed  a  member  of  the  new  Board 
of  Health  and  Sanitary  Inspector,  serving  until 
1876.  The  latter  year  he  was  chosen  President  of 
the  American  Public  Health  Association,  and, 
in  1877,  a  member  of  the  newly  created  State 
Board  of  Health  of  Illinois,  and  elected  its  first 
President.  Later,  he  became  Secretary,  and  con- 
tinued in  that  office  during  his  connection  with 
the  Board.  In  1878-79  he  devoted  much  attention 
to  the  yellow-fever  epidemic,  and  was  instru- 
mental in  the  formation  of  the  Sanitary  Council 
of  the  Mississippi,  and  in  securing  the  adoption 
of  a  system  of  river  inspection  by  the  National 
Board  of  Health.  He  was  a  member  of  many 
scientific  bodies,  and  the  author  of  numerous 
monographs  and  printed  addresses,  chiefly  in  the 
domain  of  sanitary  science  and  preventive  med- 
icine Among  them  may  be  noticed  "Intra- 
mural Interments  and  Their  Influence  on  Health 
and  Epidemics,"  "Sanitary  Problems  of  Chi- 
cago," "Prevention  of  Asiatic  Cholera  in  North 


America,"  and  a  series  of  reports  as  Secretary  of 
the  State  Board  of  Health.  Died,  at  Lebanon, 
Pa.,  March  24,  1894. 

RAUM,  (Gen.)  Green  Berry,  soldier  and  author, 
was  born  at  Golconda,  Pope  County,  111.,  Dec.  3, 
1829,  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1853,  but,  three  years  later,  removed  with  his 
family  to  Kansas.  His  Free-State  proclivities 
rendering  him  obnoxious  to  the  pro-slavery  party 
there,  he  returned  to  Illinois  in  1857,  settling  at 
Harrisburg,  Saline  County.  Early  in  the  Civil 
War  he  was  commissioned  a  Major  in  the  Fifty- 
sixth  Illinois  Volunteers,  was  subsequently  pro- 
moted to  a  Lieutenant-Colonelcy,  and,  later, 
advanced  to  a  Brigadier-Generalship,  resigning 
his  commission  at  the  close  of  the  war  (May  6, 
1865).  He  was  with  Rosecrans  in  the  Mississippi 
campaign  of  1862,  took  a  conspicuous  part  in  the 
battle  of  Corinth,  participated  in  the  siege  of 
Vicksburg  and  was  wounded  at  Missionary  Ridge. 
He  also  rendered  valuable  service  during  the 
Atlanta  campaign,  keeping  lines  of  communi- 
cation open,  re-enforcing  Resaca  and  repulsing  an 
attack  by  General  Hood.  He  was  with  Sherman 
in  the  "March  to  the  Sea,"  and  with  Hancock,  in 
the  Shenandoah  Valley,  when  the  war  closed.  In 
1866  General  Raum  became  President  of  the  pro- 
jected Cairo  &  Vincennes  Railroad,  an  enterprise 
of  which  he  had  been  an  active  promoter.  He 
was  elected  to  Congress  in  1866  from  the  South- 
ern Illinois  District  (then  the  Thirteenth),  serv- 
ing one  term,  and  the  same  y*ear  presided  over  the 
Republican  State  Convention,  as  he  did  again  in 
1876  and  in  1880 — was  also  a  delegate  to  the 
National  Conventions  at  Cincinnati  and  Chicago 
the  last  two  years  just  mentioned.  From  August 
2,  1876,  to  May  31,  1883,  General  Raum  served  as 
Commissioner  of  Internal  Revenue  at  Washing- 
ton, in  that  time  having  superintended  the  col- 
lection of  §800,000,000  of  revenue,  and  the 
disbursement  of  $30,000,000.  After  retiring  from 
the  Commissionership,  he  resumed  the  practice 
of  law  in  Washington.  In  1889  he  was  appointed 
Commissioner  of  Pensions,  remaining  to  the 
close  of  President  Harrison's  administration, 
when  he  removed  to  Chicago  and  again  engaged 
in  practice.  During  the  various  political  cam- 
paigns of  the  past  thirty  years,  his  services  have 
been  in  frequent  request  as  a  campaign  speaker, 
and  he  has  canvassed  a  number  of  States  in  the 
interest  of  the  Republican  party.  Besides  his 
official  reports,  he  is  author  of  "The  Existing 
Conflict  Between  Republican  Government  and 
Southern  Oligarchy"  (Washington,  1884),  and  a 
number  of  magazine  articles.  Died  Dec.  12,  1909. 


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RAUM,  John,  pioneer  and  early  legislator,  was 
born  in  Hummelstown,  Pa.,  July  14,  1793,  and 
died  at  Golconda,  111.,  March  14,  1869.  Having 
received  a  liberal  education  in  his  native  State, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  settled  at  Shawneetown, 
111.,  in  1823,  but  removed  to  Golconda,  Pope 
County,  in  1826.  He  had  previously  served  three 
years  in  the  War  of  1812,  as  First  Lieutenant  of 
the  Sixteenth  Infantry,  and,  while  a  resident  of 
Illinois,  served  in  the  Black  Hawk  War  of  1832  as 
Brigade  Major.  He  was  also  elected  Senator 
from  the  District  composed  of  Pope  and  Johnson 
Counties  in  the  Eighth  General  Assembly  (1833), 
as  successor  to  Samuel  Alexander,  who  had 
resigned.  The  following  year  he  was  appointed 
Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court  of  Pope  County,  and 
was  also  elected  Clerk  of  the  County  Court  the 
same  year,  holding  both  offices  for  many  years, 
and  retaining  the  County  Clerkship  up  to  his 
death,  a  period  of  thirty-five  years.  He  was 
married  March  22,  1827,  to  Juliet  C.  Field,  and 
was  father  of  Brig. -Gen.  Green  B.  Eaum,  and 
Maj.  John  M.  Raum,  both  of  whom  served  in  the 
volunteer  army  from  Illinois  during  the  Civil 
War. 

RAWLINS,  John  Aaron,  soldier,  Secretary  of 
War,  was  born  at  East  Galena,  Feb.  13,  1831,  the 
son  of  a  small  farmer,  who  was  also  a  charcoal- 
burner.  The  son,  after  irregular  attendance  on 
the  district  schools  and  a  year  passed  at  Mount 
Morris  Academy,  began  the  study  of  law.  He 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Galena  in  1854,  and  at 
once  began  practice.  In  1857  he  was  elected  City 
Attorney  of  Galena,  and  nominated  on  the  Doug- 
las electoral  ticket  in  1860.  At  the  outbreak  of 
the  Civil  War  he  favored,  and  publicly  advocated, 
coercive  measures,  and  it  is  said  that  it  was 
partly  through  his  influence  that  General  Grant 
early  tendered  his  services  to  the  Government. 
He  served  on  the  staff  of  the  latter  from  the  time 
General  Grant  was  given  command  of  a  brigade 
until  the  close  of  the  war,  most  of  the  time  being 
its  chief,  and  rising  in  rank,  step  by  step,  until, 
in  1863,  he  became  a  Brigadier-General,  and,  in 
1865,  a  Major-General.  His  long  service  on  the 
staff  of  General  Grant  indicates  the  estimation 
in  which  he  was  held  by  his  chief.  Promptly  on 
the  assumption  of  the  Presidency  by  General 
Grant,  in  March,  1869,  he  was  appointed  Secre- 
tary of  War,  but  consumption  had  already 
obtained  a  hold  upon  his  constitution,  and  he  sur- 
vived only  six  months,  dying  in  office,  Sept.  6, 
1869. 

RAY,  Charles  M .,  journalist,  was  born  at  Nor- 
wich, Chenango  County,  N.  Y.,  March  12,  1821; 


came  west  in  1843,  studied  medicine  and  began 
practice  at  Muscatine,  Iowa,  afterwards  locating 
in  Tazewell  County,  111.,  also  being  associated, 
for  a  time,  with  the  publication  of  a  temperance 
paper  at  Springfield.  In  1847  he  removed  to 
Galena,  soon  after  becoming  editor  of  "The 
Galena  Jeffersonian, "  a  .Democratic  paper,  with 
which  he  remained  until  1854.  He  took  strong 
ground  against  the  Kansas-Nebraska  Bill,  and,  at 
the  session  of  the  Legislature  of  1855,  served  as 
Secretary  of  the  Senate,  also  acting  as  corre- 
spondent of  "The  New  York  Tribune";  a  few 
months  later  became  associated  with  Joseph 
Medill  and  John  C.  Vaughan  in  the  purchase  and 
management  of  "The  Chicago  Tribune,"  Dr.  Ray 
assuming  the  position  of  editor-in-chief.  Dr. 
Ray  was  one  of  the  most  trenchant  and  powerful 
writers  ever  connected  with  the  Illinois  press, 
and  his  articles  exerted  a  wide  influence  during 
the  period  of  the  organization  of  the  Republican 
party,  in  which  he  was  an  influential  factor.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Convention  of  Anti-Neb- 
raska editors  held  at  Decatur,  Feb.  22,  1856,  and 
served  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Reso- 
lutions. (See  Anti-Nebraska  Editorial  Conven- 
tion.) At  the  State  Republican  Convention  held 
at  Bloomington,  in  May  following,  he  was 
appointed  a  member  of  the  State  Central  Com- 
mittee for  that  year ;  was  also  Canal  Trustee  by 
appointment  of  Governor  Bissell,  serving  from 
1857  to  1861.  In  November,  1863,  he  severed  his 
connection  with  "The  Tribune"  and  engaged  in 
oil  speculations  in  Canada  which  proved  finan- 
cially disastrous.  In  1865  he  returned  to  the  paper 
as  an  editorial  writer,  remaining  only  for  a  short 
time.  In  1868  he  assumed  the  management  of 
"The  Chicago  Evening  Post,"  with  which  he 
remained  identified  until  his  death,  Sept.  23, 
1870. 

RAT,  I.vinan  Beecher,  ex-Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor,  was  born  in  Crittenden  County,  Vt., 
August  17,  1831 ;  removed  to  Illinois  in  1852,  and 
has  since  been  engaged  in  mercantile  business  in 
this  State.  After  filling  several  local  offices  he 
was  elected  to  represent  Grundy  County  in  the 
lower  house  of  the  Twenty-eighth  General 
Assembly  (1872),  and,  ten  years  later,  was  chosen 
State  Senator,  serving  from  1883  to  1887,  and 
being  one  of  the  recognized  party  leaders  on  the 
floor.  In  1888,  he  was  elected  Lieutenant-Gov- 
ernor  on  the  Republican  ticket,  his  term  expiring 
in  1893.  His  home  is  at  Morris,  Grundy  County. 

RAT,  William  H.,  Congressman,  was  born  in 
Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  14,  1812;  grew  to 
manhood  in  his  native  State,  receiving  a  limited 


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education;  in  1834  removed  to  Rushville,  111., 
engaging  in  business  as  a  merchant  and,  later,  as 
a  banker ;  was  a  member  of  the  first  State  Board 
of  Equalization  (1867-69),  and,  in  1872,  was 
elected  to  Congress  as  a  Republican,  representing 
his  District  from  1873  to  1875.  Died,  Jan.  25, 
1881. 

RAYMOND,  a  village  of  Montgomery  County, 
on  the  St.  Louis  Division  of  the  Wabash  Railway, 
50  miles  southwest  of  Decatur;  has  electric  lights, 
some  manufactures  and  a  weekly  paper.  Con- 
siderable coal  is  mined  here  and  grain  and  fruit 
grown  in  the  surrounding  country.  Population 
(1890),  841;  (1900),  906;  (1910),  881. 

RAYMOND,  (Rev.)  Miner,  D.D.,  clergyman 
and  educator,  was  born  in  New  York  City, 
August  29,  1811,  being  descended  from  a  family 
of  Huguenots  (known  by  the  name  of  "Rai- 
monde"),  who  were  expelled  from  France  on 
account  of  their  religion.  In  his  youth  he 
learned  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker  with  his  father, 
at  Rensselaerville,  N.  Y.  He  united  with  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  Church  at  the  age  of  17, 
later  taking  a  course  in  the  Wesleyan  Academy 
at  Wilbraham,  Mass.,  where  he  afterwards 
became  a  teacher.  In  1838  he  joined  the  New 
England  Conference  and,  three  years  later,  began 
pastoral  work  at  Worcester,  subsequently  occu- 
pying pulpits  in  Boston  and  Westfield.  In  1848, 
on  the  resignation  of  Dr.  Robert  Allyn  (after- 
wards President  of  McKendree  College  and  of  the 
Southern  Illinois  Normal  University  at  Carbon- 
dale),  Dr.  Raymond  succeeded  to  the  principalship 
of  the  Academy  at  Wilbraham,  remaining  there 
until  1864,  when  he  was  elected  to  the  chair  of 
systematic  theology  in  the  Garrett  Biblical  Insti- 
tute at  Evanston,  111.,  his  connection  with  the 
latter  institution  continuing  until  1895,  when  he 
resigned.  For  some  three  years  of  this  period  he 
served  as  pastor  of  the  First  Methodist  Church 
at  Evanston.  His  death  occurred,  Nov.  25,  1897. 

REAVIS,  Logan  Uriah,  journalist,  was  born 
in  the  Sangamon  Bottom,  Mason  County,  111., 
March  26,  1831;  in  1855  entered  the  office  of  "The 
Beardstown  Gazette, ' '  later  purchased  an  interest 
in  the  paper  and  continued  its  publication  under 
the  name  of  "The  Central  Illinoian,"  until  1857, 
when  he  sold  out  and  went  to  Nebraska.  Return- 
ing, in  1860,  he  repurchased  his  old  paper  and 
conducted  it  until  1866,  when  he  sold  out  for  the 
last  time.  The  remainder  of  his  life  was  devoted 
chiefly  to  advocating  the  removal  of  the  National 
Capital  to  St.  Louis,  which  he  did  by  lectures  and 
the  publication  of  pamphlets  and  books  on  the 
subject;  also  published  a  "Life  of  Horace 


Greeley,"  another  of  General  Harney,  and  two 
or  three  other  volumes.  Died  in  St.  Louis, 
April  25,  1889. 

RECTOR,  the  name  of  a  prominent  and  influ- 
ential family  who  lived  at  Kaskaskia  in  Terri- 
torial days.  According  to  Governor  Reynolds, 
who  has  left  the  most  detailed  account  of  them  in 
his  "Pioneer  History  of  Illinois,"  they  consisted 
of  nine  brothers  and  four  daughters,  all  of  whom 
were  born  in  Fauquier  County,  Va.,  some  of 
them  emigrating  to  Ohio,  while  others  came  to 
Illinois,  arriving  at  Kaskaskia  in  1806.  Reynolds 
describes  them  as  passionate  and  impulsive,  but 
possessed  of  a  high  standard  of  integrity  and  a 
chivalrous  and  patriotic  spirit. — William,  the 
oldest  brother,  and  regarded  as  the  head  of  the 
family,  became  a  Deputy  Surveyor  soon  after 
coming  to  Illinois,  and  took  part  in  the  Indian 
campaigns  between  1812  and  1814.  In  1816  he 
was  appointed  Surveyor-General  of  Illinois,  Mis- 
souri and  Arkansas,  and  afterwards  removed  to 
St.  Louis.— Stephen,  another  of  the  brothers, 
was  a  Lieutenant  in  Captain  Moore's  Company 
of  Rangers  in  the  War  of  1812,  while  Charles 
commanded  one  of  the  two  regiments  organized 
by  Governor  Edwards,  in  1812,  for  the  expedition 
against  the  Indians  at  the  head  of  Peoria  Lake. 
— Nelson,  still  another  brother,  served  in  the 
same  expedition  on  the  staff  of  Governor 
Edwards.  Stephen,  already  mentioned,  was  a 
member  of  the  expedition  sent  to  strengthen 
Prairie  du  Chien  in  1814,  and  showed  great  cour- 
age in  a  fight  with  the  Indians  at  Rock  Island. 
During  the  same  year  Nelson  Rector  and  Captain 
Samuel  Whiteside  joined  Col.  Zachary  Taylor 
(afterwards  President)  in  an  expedition  on  the 
Upper  Mississippi,  in  which  they  came  in  conflict 
with  the  British  and  Indians  at  Rock  Island,  in 
which  Captain  Rector  again  displayed  the  cour- 
age so  characteristic  of  his  family.  On  the  1st  of 
March,  1814,  while  in  charge  of  a  surveying  party 
on  Saline  Creek,  in  Gallatin  County,  according  to 
Reynolds,  Nelson  was  ambushed  by  the  Indians 
and,  though  severely  wounded,  was  carried  away 
by  his  horse,  and  recovered. — Ellas,  another  mem- 
ber of  the  family,  was  Governor  Edwards'  first 
Adjutant-General,  serving  a  few  months  in  1809, 
when  he  gave  place  to  Robert  Morrison,  but  was 
reappointed  in  1810,  serving  for  more  than  three 
years. — Thomas,  one  of  the  younger  members, 
had  a  duel  with  Joshua  Barton  on  "Bloody 
Island,"  sometime  between  1812  and  1814,  in 
which  he  killed  his  antagonist.  (See  Duels.)  A 
portion  of  this  historic  family  drifted  into  Arkan- 
sas, where  they  became  prominent,  one  of  their 


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descendants  serving  as  Governor  of  that  State 
during  the  Civil  War  period. 

RED  BUD,  a  city  in  Randolph  County,  on  the 
Mobile  &  Ohio  Railroad,  some  37  miles  south- 
southeast  of  St.  Louis,  and  21  miles  south  of  Belle- 
ville; has  a  carriage  factory  and  two  flouring 
mills,  electric  lights,  a  hospital,  two  banks,  five 
churches,  a  graded  school  and  a  weekly  news- 
paper. Pop.  (1900),  1,169;  (1910),  1,240. 

REEVES,  Owen  T.,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was 
born  in  Ross  County,  Ohio,  Dec.  18,  1829;  gradu- 
ated at  the  Ohio  Wesleyan  University,  at  Dela- 
ware, in  1850,  afterwards  serving  as  a  tutor  in 
that  institution  and  as  Principal  of  a  High 
School  at  Chillicothe.  In  1854  he  came  to  Bloom- 
ington,  111.,  and,  as  a  member  of  the  School 
Board,  assisted  in  reorganizing  the  school  system 
of  that  city;  also  has  served  continuously,  for 
over  40  years,  as  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Illi- 
nois Wesleyan  University,  being  a  part  of  the 
time  President  of  the  Board.  In  the  meantime,  he 
had  begun  the  practice  of  law,  served  as  City 
Attorney  and  member  of  the  Board  of  Supervis- 
ors. July  1,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  the  Seventieth 
Illinois  Volunteers  (a  100-days'  emergency  regi- 
ment), was  elected  Colonel  and  mustered  out, 
with  his  command,  in  October,  1862.  Colonel 
Reeves  was  subsequently  connected  with  the 
construction  of  the  Lafayette,  Bloomington  & 
Mississippi  Railroad  (now  a  part  of  the  Illinois 
Central),  and  was  also  one  of  the  founders  of  the 
Law  Department  of  the  Wesleyan  University. 
In  1877  he  was  elected  to  the  Circuit  bench,  serv- 
ing continuously,  by  repeated  re-elections,  until 
1891 — during  the  latter  part  of  his  incumbency 
being  upon  the  Appellate  bench. 

REETES,  Walter,  Member  of  Congress  and 
lawyer,  was  born  near  Brownsville,  Pa.,  Sept.  25, 
1848 ;  removed  to  Illinois  at  8  years  of  age  and 
was  reared  on  a  farm;  later  became  a  teacher 
and  lawyer,  following  his  profession  at  Streator ; 
in  1894  he  was  nominated  by  the  Republicans  of 
the  Eleventh  District  for  Congress,  as  successor  to 
the  Hon.  Thomas  J.  Henderson,  and  was  elected, 
receiving  a  majority  over  three  competitors. 
Mr.  Reeves  was  re-elected  three  times,  serving  in  all 
four  terms  and  until  1903.  Died  April  9,  1909. 

REFORMATORY,  ILLINOIS  STATE,  a  prison 
for  the  incarceration  of  male  offenders  under  21 
years  of  age,  who  are  believed  to  be  susceptible  of 
reformation.  It  is  the  successor  of  the  "State, 
Reform  School,"  which  was  created  by  act  of 
the  Legislature  of  1867,  but  not  opened  for  the 
admission  of  inmates  until  1871.  It  is  located  at 
Pontiac.  The  number  of  inmates,  in  1872,  was  165, 


which  was  increased  to  324  in  1890.     The  results, 
while  moderately  successful,  were  not  altogether 
satisfactory.     The  appropriations  made  for  con- 
struction,  maintenance,   etc.,   were  not   upon  a 
scale  adequate  to  accomplish  what  was  desired, 
and,   in    1891,  a    radical    change   was    effected. 
Previous  to  that  date  the  limit,  as  to  age,  was  16 
years.     The  law  establishing  the  present  reforma- 
tory provides  for  a  system  of  indeterminate  sen- 
tences,  and   a  release   upon  parole,  of  inmates 
who,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Board  of  Managers, 
may  be    safely  granted   conditional    liberation. 
The  inmates   are  divided  into  two   classes.    (1) 
those  between  the  ages  of  10  and  16,  and  (2)  those 
between  16  and  21.     The  Board  of  Managers  is 
composed  of  five  members,  not  more  than  three  of 
whom  shall  be  of  the  same  party,  their  term  of 
office  to  be  for  ten  years.     The  course  of  treat- 
ment is  educational  (intellectually,  morally  and 
industrially),  schools    being    conducted,    trades 
taught,  and  the    inmates  constantly  impressed 
with  the  conviction  that,  only  through  genuine 
and  unmistakable  evidence  of  improvement,  can 
they    regain    their    freedom.     The    reformatory 
influence  of  the  institution  may  be  best  inferred 
from  the  results  of  one  year's  operation.     Of  146 
inmates   paroled,   15  violated   their  parole    and 
became    fugitives,     6    were     returned    to    the 
Reformatory,     1     died,     and    124    remained     in 
employment   and   regularly  reporting.     Among 
the  industries  carried  on  are  painting  and  glaz- 
ing, masonry  and   plastering,    gardening,   knit- 
ting, chair-caning,  broom-making,  carpentering, 
tailoring  and  blacksmithing.     The  grounds  of  the 
Reformatory  contain   a  vein  of   excellent  coal, 
which  it  is  proposed  to  mine,  utilizing  the  clay, 
thus    obtained,  in    the    manufacture    of    brick, 
which  can  be  employed  in  the  construction  of 
additional  needed  buildings.     The  average  num- 
ber of  inmates  is  about  800,  and  the  crimes  for 
which  they  are  sentenced  range,  in  gravity,  from 
simple  assault,  or  petit  larceny,  to  the  most  seri- 
ous offenses  known  to  the  criminal  code,  with 
the    exception    of    homicide.      The    number  of 
inmates,  at  the  beginning  of  the  year  1895,  was 
812.     An  institution  of  a  similar  character,  for 
the  confinement  of  juvenile  female  offenders,  was 
established    under   an    act    of    the    Legislature 
passed  at  the  session  of  1893,  and  located  at  Gen- 
eva, Kane    County.      (See    Home  for    Juvenile 
Female  Offenders.) 

RELIGIOUS  DENOMINATIONS.  The  State 
constitution  contains  'the  familiar  guaranty  of 
absolute  freedom  of  conscience.  The  chief 
denominations  have  grown  in  like  ratio  with  the 


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population,  as  may  be  seen  from  figures  given 
below.  The  earliest  Christian  services  held  were 
conducted  by  Catholic  missionaries,  who  attested 
the  sincerity  of  their  convictions  (in  many 
instances)  by  the  sacrifice  of  their  lives,  either 
through  violence  or  exposure.  The  aborigines, 
however,  were  not  easily  Christianized ;  and, 
shortly  after  the  cession  of  Illinois  by  France  to 
Great  Britain,  the  Catholic  missions,  being  gener- 
ally withdrawn,  ceased  to  exert  much  influence 
upon  the  red  men,  although  the  French,  who 
remained  in  the  ceded  territory,  continued  to 
adhere  to  their  ancient  faith.  (See  Early  Mis- 
sionaries. )  One  of  the  first  Protestant  sects  to 
hold  service  in  Illinois,  was  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal; Rev.  Joseph  Lillard  coming  to  Illinois  in 
1793,  and  Rev.  Hosea  Riggs  settling  in  the 
American  Bottom  in  1796.  (For  history  of 
Methodism  in  Illinois,  see  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church.)  The  pioneer  Protestant  preacher, 
however,  was  a  Baptist — Elder  James  Smith — 
who  came  to  New  Design  in  1787.  Revs.  David 
Badgley  and  Joseph  Chance  followed  him  in 
1796,  and  the  first  denominational  association 
was  formed  in  1807.  ( As  to  inception  and  growth 
of  this  denomination  in  Illinois,  see  also  Bap- 
tists.) In  1814  the  Massachusetts  Missionary 
Society  sent  two  missionaries  to  Illinois — Revs. 
Samuel  J.  Mills  and  Daniel  Smith.  Two  years 
later  (1816),  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  was 
organized  at  Sharon,  by  Rev.  James  McGready, 
of  Kentucky.  (See  also  Presbyterians.)  The 
Congregationalists  began  to  arrive  with  the  tide 
of  immigration  that  set  in  from  the  Eastern 
States,  early  in  the  '30's.  Four  churches  were 
organized  in  1833,  and  the  subsequent  growth  of 
the  denomination  in  the  State,  if  gradual,  has 
been  steady.  (See  Congregationalists.)  About 
the  same  time  came  the  Disciples  of  Christ  (some- 
times called,  from  their  founder,  "Campbellites"). 
They  encouraged  free  discussion,  were  liberal  and 
warm  hearted,  and  did  not  require  belief  in  any 
particular  creed  as  a  condition  of  membership. 
The  sect  grew  rapidly  in  numerical  strength. 
(See  Disciples  of  Christ. )  The  Protestant  Episco- 
palians obtained  their  first  foothold  in  Illinois,  in 
1835,  when  Rev.  Philander  Chase  (afterward  con- 
secrated Bishop)  immigrated  to  the  State  from 
the  East.  (See  Protestant  Episcopal  Church.) 
The  Lutherans  in  Illinois  are  chiefly  of  German 
or  Scandinavian  birth  or  descent,  as  may  be 
inferred  from  the  fact  that,  out  of  sixty-four 
churches  in  Chicago  under  care  of  the  Missouri 
Synod,  only  four  use  the  English  language.  They 
are  the  only  Protestant  sect  maintaining  (when- 


ever possible)  a  system  of  parochial  schools.  (See 
Lutherans.)  There  are  twenty -six  other  religious 
bodies  in  the  State,  exclusive  of  the  Jews,  who 
have  twelve  synagogues  and  nine  rabbis.  Ac- 
cording to  the  census  statistics  of  1890,  these 
twenty-six  sects,  with  their  numerical  strength, 
number  of  buildings,  ministers,  etc.,  are  as  fol- 
lows: Anti-Mission  Baptists,  2,800  members,  78 
churches  and  63  ministers;  Church  of  God,  1,200 
members,  39  churches,  34  ministers;  Dunkards, 
121,000  members,  155  churches,  83  ministers; 
Friends  ("Quakers")  2,655  members,  25  churches; 
Free  Methodists,  1,805  members,  38  churches,  84 
ministers;  Free-\V ill  Baptists,  4,694  members,  107 
churches,  72  ministers;  Evangelical  Association, 
15,904  members,  143  churches,  152  ministers; 
Cumberland  Presbyterians,  11,804  members,  198 
churches,  149  ministers;  Methodist  Episcopal 
(South)  3,927  members,  34  churches,  33  minis- 
ters; Moravians,  720  members,  3  churches,  3 
ministers ;  New  Jerusalem  Church  (Swedenborgi- 
ans),  662  members,  14  churches,  8  ministers; 
Primitive  Methodist,  230  members,  2  churches,  2 
ministers;  Protestant  Methodist,  5,000  members, 
91  churches,  106  ministers;  Reformed  Church  in 
United  States,  4,100  members,  34  churches,  19 
ministers;  Reformed  Church  of  America,  2,200 
members,  24  churches,  23  ministers;  Reformed 
Episcopalians,  2,150  members,  13  churches,  11 
ministers;  Reformed  Presbyterians,  1,400  mem- 
bers, 7  churches,  6  ministers;  Salvation  Army, 
1,980  members;  Second  Adventists,  4,500  mem- 
bers, 64  churches,  35  ministers;  Seventh  Day 
Baptists,  320  members,  7  churches,  11  ministers; 
Universalists,  3,160  members,  45  churches,  37 
ministers;  Unitarians,  1,225  members,  19 
churches,  14  ministers;  United  Evangelical, 
30,000  members,  129  churches,  108  ministers; 
United  Brethren,  16,500  members,  275  churches, 
260  ministers;  United  Presbyterians,  11,250  mem- 
bers, 203  churches,  199  ministers;  Wesleyan 
Methodists,  1,100  members,  16  churches,  33  min- 
isters. (See  various  Churches  under  their  proper 
names;,  also  Roman  Catholic  Church.') 

REND,  William  Patrick,  soldier,  capitalist, 
and  coal-operator,  was  born  in  County  Leitrim, 
Ireland,  Feb.  10,  1840,  brought  to  Lowell,  Mass., 
in  boyhood,  and  graduated  from  the  high  school 
there  at  17;  taught  for  a  time  near  New  York 
City  and  later  in  Maryland,  where  he  began  a 
course  of  classical  study.  The  Civil  War  coming 
on,  he  enlisted  in  the  Fourteenth  Regiment  New 
York  Volunteers,  serving  most  of  the  time  as  a 
non-commissioned  officer,  and  participating  in  the 
battles  of  the  second  Bull  Run,  Malvern  Hill, 


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Antietam,  Fredericksburg  and  Chancellorsville. 
After  the  war  he  came  to  Chicago  and  secured 
employment  in  a  railway  surveyor's  office,  later 
acting  as  foreman  of  the  Northwestern  freight 
depot,  and  finally  embarking  in  the  coal  business, 
which  was  conducted  with  such  success  that  he 
became  the  owner  of  some  of  the  most  valuable 
mining  properties  in  the  country.  Meanwhile 
he  has  taken  a  deep  interest  in  the  welfare  of 
miners  and  other  classes  of  laborers,  and  has 


sought  to  promote  arbitration  and  conciliation 
between  employers  and  employed,  as  a  means  of 
averting  disastrous  strikes.  He  was  especially 
active  during  the  long  strike  of  1897,  in  efforts  to 
bring  about  an  understanding  between  the 
miners  and  the  operators.  For  several  years 
he  held  a  commission  as  Lieutenant-Colonel  of 
the  Illinois  National  Guard  until  compelled,  by 
the  demands  of  his  private  business,  to  tender 
his  resignation. 


REPRESENTATIVES   IN   CONGRESS. 

The  following  table  presents  the  names,  residence,  Districts  represented,  politics  (except  as  to  earlier  ones),  and  length  of 
term  or  terms  of  service  of  Illinois  Representatives  in  the  lower  House  of  Congress,  from  the  organization  of  Illinois 
as  a  Territory  down  to  the  present  time;  (D,  Democrat;  \V,  Whig;  R,  Republican;  G-B,  Greenback;  P,  Populist). 


NAME. 

RESIDBNCK. 

DIST. 

TERM. 

REMARKS. 

1612-14  

Made  Rec'r  of  Pub.  Moneys. 
Made  Rec'r  of  Pub.  Moneys. 

1814-16 

Nathaniel  Pope  

1816-18  

Shawneetown  

State  
State  

1818-19  
1819-27  

Elected  U.  S.  Senator,  1824  and  ^9. 

Jackson&  Morgan  Cos 
Jacksonville  
Spri  ngfield  
Belleville  
Belleville  
Belleville  
Mt.  Vernon  
Belleville  
Springfield  

State  

1827-33 

Third.:  
Third  
First  
First  
First  
Second  

1833-34  
1834-39  
1833-34  
1834-37  
1839-43  
1833-43  

Elected  Governor;  resigned. 
To  succeed  Duncan. 
Died;  term  completed  by  Reynolds. 
One  and  one-half  terms. 

William  it  May  D 

Charles  Slade  
John  Reynolds,D  
John  Reynolds,  D  
Zadoc  Casey.  D  
Adam  W.  Snyder,  D  
John  T.  Stuart,  W  

First  
Third  

1837-39  
1839-43  

John  T.  .Stuart,  O.P.  

Springfield  

Eighth  

1863-65  

First  

1843-49 

John  A.  McClernand,  D  ..  . 
John  A  .  McClernand,  I)  ... 
Orlando  B.  Ficklin,  D  

Shawneetown  
Springfield  

1843-51  

Sixtn  
Third  

1859-62  

1843-49  

Resigned,  Dec.,  '61  ;  succeeded  by  A.  JL.  Knapp. 

Orlando  B.  Ficklin,  D  
John  Wentworth  D  

Third  

1851-53 

Fourth  

1843-51  

John  Wentworth,  D  

Chicago  

Second  

1853-55  

John  Wentworth,  R  

First  

1865-67  

Stephen  A.  Douglas,  D  
William  A.  Richardson,  IX 
William  A.  Richardson,  D. 

Quincy  
Rush  ville  and  Quincy 

Fil'th  
Firth  
Sixth  

1843-47  
1847-56  
1861-63  

El'd  U.S.  Sen,.Apr..'47  ;suc.by  W.A.Richardson 
Res'd,Aug.,'56;  term  rilled  by  Jacob  C.  Davis. 

Sixth  

1843-45... 

John  J.  Hardin,  W  
Edward  D.  Baker,  W  
Edward  D  Baker,  W 

Jacksonville  
Springfield  

Seventh  
Seventh  
Sixth  

1843-45  
1845-46  
1849-51 

Resigned,  Dec.,  '46;  succeeded  by  John  Henry. 

John  Henry,  W  
Thomas  J.  Turner,  D  

Jacksonville  

Seventh  
Sixth  

Feb.  to  Mar.,  1847. 
1847-49  

Served  Baker's  unexpired  term. 

Abraham  Lincoln,  W  
William  H.  Bissell,  D  

Springfield  
Belleville  

Seventh  
First  

1847-49  
1849-53  

William  H  .  Bissell,  D  

Belleville  

Eighth.  

1853-55 

Timothy  R.  Young,  D  
Thomas  L.  Harris,  D  
Thomas  L.  Harris,  D  
Willis  Allen,  D  

Marshall  
Petersburg  
Petersburg  
Marion  
Marion  
Belvidere  
Galena  

Third  

1849-51  

Seventh  
Sixth  
Second  
Ninth  
Fourth  
Sixth  

1849-51  
1855-58  
1851-53  
1853-55  
1851-53  
1851-53  

Died,  Nov.  24,  '58;  sue.  by  Clias.  D.  Hodges. 

Willis  Allen,  D  
Richard  8.  Maloney,  11  
Thompson  Campbell,  D.... 

1851-53 

Richard  Yates  W 

Sixth  

1853-55 

E.  B.  Washburne,  R  

First  

1853-63  

E.  B.  Washburne,  R  
Jesse  O.  Norton,  R  

Galena  
Joliet  

Third  
Third  

1863-69  

1853-57.... 

(  Resignd,  March  9,  '69  to  accept  Fi  ench  mis- 
(     sion;  term  filled  by  H.  C.  Burchard. 

Jesse  O.  Norton,  R  

Joliet  

Sixth  

1863-65  
1853-57 

Palestine  
Palestine  

Seventh  

1853-57  

1863-65     .. 

James  H.  Woodworth,  R.  . 
Jacob  C.  Davis,  L>  
.Lyman  Trumbull,  B  

Chicago  

1855-57  

Quincy  
Belleville  
Belleville.. 

Fifth  
Eighth  
Eighth  

1856-57  
1855  
1855-57  

To  till  unexpired  term  of  Richardson. 
Chosen  U.  ».  Senator;  resigned. 
Filled  Trimj  bull's  unexpired  term. 

Samuels.  Marshall,  D  
Samuel  S.  Marshall,  D  
Samuel  S.  Marshall,  D  
John  P.  Farnsworth,  R  — 
JohnF.  Farnsworth,  R  

Ninth  

1855-59  

McLeansboro  
McLeansboro  
Chicago  
St.  Charles  

Eleventh  

1865-73  
1873-75  



1857-61            .  .. 

Second  
Third 

1863-73  
1857-63 

Owen  Lovcloy.  R  
William  Kellogg,  R  
Isaac  N.  Morris,  D  
Charles  D.  Hodges,  D   
Aaron  Shaw,  D   

Princeton  
Canton  
Quincy  
Carrollton  
Lawrericeville  

Fifth  
Fourth  
Fifth  

Sixth  
Seventh  

1863-65  
1857-63  
1857-61 

Died,  Mar.,  -64;  term  filled  by  E.C.Ingersoll. 

Jan.  to  Mar.,  1859.. 
1857-59  

Filled  unexpired  term  of  Thos.  L.  Harris. 

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NAME. 

RESIDENCE. 

DIST. 

1   1   KM 

REMARKS. 

1883-85 

James  C.  Bohinson,  D  

Marshall  

1859-63  .     . 

Marshall    

Springfield  

Eighth 

1871-73 

Twelfth  

1873-75 

Philip  B.  Fouke,  D..  
John  A.  Logan,  B  

John  A.  Logan,  D  

Isaac  N.  Arnold,  B  
Isaac  N.  Arnold   B  

Belleville  
Benton  ...-.  

Carbondale  
Chicago  

Eighth 

1859-63 

Ninth  
State-at-large. 

1859-62  
1869-71  
1861-63  

Res'd,  Apr.  >62;  term  filled  by  W  .  J.Allen. 
(  Chosen  U.  S.  Senator,  1871;  resigned;  term 
\     filled  by  John  L.  Beveridge. 

First  

1863-65 

William  J  Allen    D      .     .. 

Ninth  
Thirteenth.  .  .. 
Firth  
Tenth  
Fourth  
Fifth  

1862-63  
1863-65  
1861-63  
1863-65  
1863-65  
1864-71  
1863-65 

Served  Logan's  unexpired  term. 
Served  McClernand's  unexpired  term. 

1864-'65  filled  Lovejoy's  unexpired  term  . 

William  J.  Allen,  D  
A.  L.  Kuapp,  D  
A.  L.  Knapp,  D  
Charles  M.  Harris,  R  
Ebon  C.  Ingersoll,  B  

Marion  
Jersey  ville  
Jerseyville  
Oquawka  
Peoria  

John  R.  Eden,  D  
John  R.  Eden,  D  
Lewlt  W.  Boss,  D  
William  R.  Morrison,  D.... 
William  B.  Morrison,  D  ... 
William  B.  Morrison,  D.... 
8.  W.  Moulton.H  
8.W.  Moulton,  D  
8.  W.  Moulton,  D  
Abner  C.  Harding,  B  

Sullivan  
Sullivan  
Lewis  town  
Waterloo  
Waterloo  
Waterloo  
Shelbyville  
Shelbyville  
Shelbyville  

Fifteenth  

1873-79    ...    ' 

1885-87  

Ninth  
Twelfth  

1863-69  
1863-65  
1873-83 

Eighteenth.... 

State-at-large. 

1883-87  
1365-67  ..  . 

1881-83 



1883-85   

Fourth  

1865-69  

. 

Ottawa  
Charleston  
Spri  ngfield  
Shelbyville  
Belleville           

Sixth  
Seventh  
Eighth   

1865-71  
1865-69  

Re-elected,  '70  but  res'd  before  beg'ng  of  term. 

H.  P.  H.  Broiiiwell.R  
Shelby  M.  Cullom,  K  
Anthony  Thornton,  D  

1865-71. 



Tenth  
Twelfth  

1865-67  
1865-69 

Jehu  Baker,  R  
Jehu  Baker,  P  
A.  J.  Kuykendall,  R  

Belleville  
Belleville  
Vienna  

Eighteenth.... 

1887-89  

Twenty-first  .. 
Thirteenth  — 
First  

1897-99  
1865-67  
1867-71  



Albert  G.  Burr,  D  

Carrollton  
Metropolis  
Freeport  

Tenth  
Thirteenth  
Third  
Fifth  

1867-71  
1867-69  
1869-73  
1873-79  . 

Filled  unexpired  term  of  Washburue. 

Horatio  C.  Burchard,  R.... 
HoralioC.  Burchard,  R  — 

Fourth  

1869-73  .               

Sixth  

1873-75 

Thomas  W.  McNeeley,  D.. 
John  R  Hay,  B  
JohnM.  Crebs.  D  
JohnL.  Beveridge,  B  
Charles  B.  Farwell.  B  
Charles  B.  Farwell,  B  
Charles  B.  Farwel  1,  B  

Petersburg  
Belleville  
Carmi  
Evanston  
Chicago  
Chicago  
Chicago  

Ninth  

1869-73  
1869  73 

Thirteenth  
State-at-large. 
First  
Third  
Third  
Fifth,  

1869-73  
1871-73  
1871-73  
1873-76  
1881-83  
1871  73  

Served  unexpired  term  of  Logan. 
May,  76,  seat  awarded  to  J.  V.  Le  Moyue. 

1871  73 

Filled  unexpired  term  of  B.  C.  Cook. 

Tenth  

John  B.  Rice,  R.'  
B.  G.  Caulfleld,  D  

Chicago  
Chicago  

First  
First  

1873-74  
1874-77  

Died  Dec.,  '74;    succeeded  by  B.  Q.  Caulfleld. 
From  1874-75  served  out  Rice's  term. 

Stephen  A.  Hurlbut,  B  

Belvidere  

Fourth  
Seventh  

1873-77  
1873-75   

Qreenbury  L.  Fort,  B  
Uranville  Barriere,  B  
William  H.  Bay,  B  

Lacon  

Eighth  

Ninth  

1873-75  

Rush  ville  

Tenth  
Eleventh  

1873-75  
1873-75  

1877-79 

John  McNulta,  R'.  
Joseph  G.  Cannon,  R  
Joseph  O.  Cannon,  R  
Joseph  G.  Cannon,  R  
Joseph  G.  Cannon,  R  
James  9.  Martin,  R  
Isaac  Clements,  R  

Bloomington  
Tuscola  and  Danville. 
Danville  
Danville  
Danville  
Salem  
Carbondale  

Thirteenth.... 

1873-75  

Fifteenth  
Fif.eenth  
Twelfth  
Sixteenth  
Eighteenth.... 

1883-91  

1893-95  
1895-1903  
1873-75..;  
1873-76  

Carter  H.  Harrison,  D  
John  V.  Le  Moyne,  D  

Chicago  
Chicago  
Princeton  &  Geneseo.  . 

Third  
Sixth  

1875  79  
1876-77  
1875  83 

Awarded  seat,  vice  Farwell. 

Seventh  

1883  95  

Alexander  Campbell,  G.B.. 

Seventh  

1875  77  

Ninth  

1875-77  

John  C.  Bagby,  D  

Rush  ville  

Tenth  

1875-77  

Scott  Wike,  D  
William  M.  Springer.  D.  .. 
William  M.  Springer,  D.    . 
Adlai  K.  Htevenson,  D  
Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  D  
William  A.  J.  Sparks.  D-... 
William  Hartzell.D  ..      .. 
William  B.  Anderson,  D   .. 
William  Aldrich,  R  
Carter  H    Harrison,  D  .... 
Lorenz  Brentano,  R  
William  Lathrop,  R  
PhllipC.  Hayes.  R  
Thomas  A.  Boyd,  K  
Benjamin  F  Ma  rah,  R.  .. 

Pittsfield  
Springfield  

Twelfth  
Twelfth  

1889-93  



Thirteenth.  ... 

1883  95  

"iH          -       «  

Bloomington  
Carlyle  
Chester  
Mt.  Vernon  
Chicago  
Chicago  
Chicago  
Rockford  
Morris  
Lewiston  
Warsaw  

Thirteenth.... 

1879-81  



1875  79  

Nineteenth.  .. 

1875  77    

First  

1877-83.  
1877-79  



Third  
Fourth  
Seventh  

1877-79  
1877-79  
1877-81  



Tenth  

1877-83  



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NAMB. 

RESIDENCE. 

DlST. 

TERM. 

REMARKS. 

Benjamin  F.  Marsh,  R  

Warsaw  

Eleventh  

1893-95  



Tliomas  F.  Tiptou,  R  
R.  W.  Townshend,  D  

Bloomington  
Shawneetown  

Thirteenth.... 
Nineteenth  — 

1877-79  
1877-89  
1879  83 



Hiram  Barber,  R  
John  C.  Sherwin,  R  

Chicago  

Third  

1879-81  

1879-83 

R.  M.  A.  Hawk.B  

Mt.  Carroll  

Fifth  

1879-82  

Died,  '82;  succeeded  by  R.  R.  Hitt. 

James  W.  Singleton,  D  
A.  P.  Forsythe,  G.  B  
JohnR.  Thomas,  H  
John  R.  Thomas.  R  
William  Cullen,  R  

Quincy  
Isabel  
Metropolis  
Metropolis  

Eleventh  
Fifteenth  
Eighteenth.... 
Twentieth  

1879  83  
1879  81  
1879  83  
1883-89  
1881--83 

William  Cullen,  R 

Eighth 

1883-85 

Eighth 

1861  83  

Ninth 

1883-91 

John  H.  Lewis,  R  
Dietrich  C.  Smith.  R  

Knoxville  
Pekin  

Ninth 

1881-83 

1881-83  

R.  W.  Dunham,  R  

First 

1883-89 

John  F.  Finerty,  R  
George  E.  Adams,  R  
Reuben  Ellwood,  R  

Chicago  
Chicago  

1883  85  

Fourth  
Fifth  

1883-91  
1882-85  

Robert  R.  Hitt,  R  
Robert  R.  Hitt,  R  

Mt.  Morris  

Sixth  
Ninth  

1882-95  
1895-1903  

Succeeded  R.  M.  A.  Hawk,  deceased. 

N.  E.  Worthington.  D  

1883-87  

William  H.  Neece,  U  
.1  iiincs  M.  RiggS,  D  
Jonathan  H.  Rowell,  R  
Prank  Lawler.D  
James  H.  Ward.  D  
Albert  J.  Hopkins  R 

tf  acorn  b  
Winchester  

Eleventh  
Twelfth  

1883-87  
1883-87  

1883-91.... 

Chicago  
Chicago  

Second  1885-91  
Third  1885-87  |  
Fifth                    11885-95                        i   -   - 

Albert  J.  Hopki  ns  R  

Eighth                  MMUMM 

Ralph  Plumb,  R  

1885-89  

Silas  G.  Landes,  D  
William  E.  Mason,  R.  
Philip  Sidney  Post  R  

Mt.  Carmel  
Chicago  

Sixteenth  
Third  

1885-89  
1887-91  

1887-95 

bi'edi'jan.6,'l895."" 

William  H.  Gest,  R 

18S7-91 

George  A.  Anderson,  D  
Edward  Lane,  D  
Abner  Taylor,  R  

Twelfth  

1887-89  

Hills  boro  

1887-95 

First  

1869-93  

Charles  A.  Hill,  B  

joliet  

Eighth  

1889-91  

Geo.  W.  Fithian,  D  

1889-95  

William  8.  Forman.  D  
James  R.  Williams   D  

Nashville  

1889-95 

1889-95  

James  R.  Williams.  D  

1899-1903  

George  W.  Smith,  R  
George  W.  Smith.  R  
Lawrence  E.  McGann,  D.  .. 

tfurphysboro  
Murphysboro  

Twentieth  

Twenty-sec'  nd 

1889-95  
1895-1903  
1891-95  

Allan  C.  Durborow,  Jr..  D.. 

Chicago  

Third  

1891-95  

Walter  C.  Newberry,  D... 

Chicago  

Fourth  

Eighth 

1891-93  

1891-93  . 

Herman  W.  Snow.  R  

1  S91-93  

Benjamin  T.  Cable,  D  
Owen  Scott.  D  
Samuel  T.  Busey,  D  
JohnC.  Black,  D  

iock  Island  
Sloomington  
Jrbana  
Chicago  
Paris 

eleventh  
fourteenth  .... 

U91-93  
1891-93  
1891-93  

State-at-large. 
State-at-large. 

1*93-95  
1893-95   

Andrew  J.  Hunter.  D  

1897-99  

J.  Frank  Aldrich,  R  

1893-97     

1893-95  . 

Robert  A.  Childs,  R  

Hinsdale 

Eighth 

1893-95  

Hamilton  K.  Wheeler,  R... 

Ninth       

1893-95  

John  J.  McDannold,  D  

Mt.  Sterling   

[•welfth  

1893-95  
1893-95 

William  Lorimer.R  ...     . 

1895-1901  

Hugh  R.  Bel  knap,  R  
Charles  W.  Woodman,  R.  . 
Geo.  E.  White,  R... 

Chicago  
Jhicago  

Third  
Fourth  
Fifth 

1895-99  
1895-97  
1895-99   

Awarded  seat  after  con.  with  L.  E.  McGann. 

Edward  D.  Cooke,  R  

Jhicago  
Jhicago  
Galesburg  
Streator  
Clinton  
Pekin  

Sixth  
Seventh  
Tenth  
Eleventh  
Thirteenth  
Fourteenth  .... 

1805-98  
1895-1903  
1895-1903  
1895-1903  
1895-1903  
1895-1903  

Died,  June  4,  '98;  suc'd.  by  Henry  8.  Boutell. 

George  E.  Foss,  R  
George  W.  Prince,  R  
Walter  Reeves,  R  
Vespasian  Warner,  R  
J  V.Graff.B  

Wm    H    llinrichsen.  D  

1897-99            .      . 

Springfield  

Seventeenth... 
Eighteenth.... 

1895-99  
1895—  
1895-97  

Diedi  July  ii'/'gsV  suc'd.'  by  '  W.'F.'L.'Hadiey. 
Elected  to  fill  vacancy. 

Wm.  F.  L.  Hadley,  R  
Benson  Wood,  B,  
Orlando  Bnrrell.R  
Everett  J.  Murphy,  R  
James  R.  Mann,  R  
Daniel  W.  Mills,  R  
Thomas  M.  Jett,  D  
James  R.  Campbell,  D  
George  P.  Foster,  R  
Thomas  Cusack,  D  
Edgar  T.  N  i  in  nan  ,  D  
Henry  S.  Boutell,  R  
W.  E.  Williamg,  D  
B.  F.Caldwell.D  
Joseph  B.  Crowley  ,  D  

Sdwardsville  
Effingharn  
Carmi  
East  St.  Louis  
:hii-:imi  
Chicago  

Nineteenth.  ... 
Twentieth  
Twenty-first.. 
First  
Fourth  

1895-97  
1895-97  
1895-97  
189T-1903  
189T-99  

VlcLeansboro  
Chicago  
Chicago  
Chicago  
Chicago  
Pittsfield  
Chatham  

Twentieth  
Third  
Fourth  
Fifth  
Sixth  
Sixteenth  
Seven  teenlh... 

1897-99  
1899-1903  
1899-1901  
1899-1901  
1898-1903  
1899-1901  
1899-1903  

Succeeded  E.  D.  Cooke,  deceased. 

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44Sa 


NAME. 

RESIDENCE. 

DlST. 

TEHM. 

REMARKS. 

1899-1903  

Jehu   Baker.    Pop  
Win.    A.    Hodenberg.    R  

Belleville  
East  St.  Louis  
Belleville 

Twenty-first  
Twenty-first  

1897-99  
1899-1901  

1901-03  

1901-03            .      ... 

Chicago  

Fifth  

1901-03  

1901-03   

Hardin.    . 

1901-03 

First  

1903-05  

First  

1905-11  

Chicago  

1903-11  

Wro.    Warfleld   Wilson.   R.... 

Chicago  

Third  

1903-11  
1903-05  

Fourth  

1905-07  

James  T.   McDerraott.   D  

Chicago  

Fourth  
Fifth  

1907-11  
1903-05  

Chicago  

Fifth  

1905-07  

Fifth  

1907-11  

William    Lorimer     R  

Chicago  

Sixth  

1903-09  

Sixth  

1909-11  

1903-09  

Fred    Lundln,    R  

Chicago  

Seventh  
Eighth  

1909-11  
1903-05  

Charles    McGavin,    R  

Chicago  

Eighth  
Eighth  

1905-09  
1909-11  

Henry   S.    Boutell,    R  

Ninth  

1903-11  

Tenth  

1903-11  

1903-11 

Charles  E.  Fuller,  R  

Twelfth 

1903-11 

Vice    R     R     Hitt                          .                

Died   June   2     1905                                       

James    McKinney.    R  
Ceo.   W.   Prince,  R  

Aledo  

Fourteenth  

1905-11  

Vice  B.   F.   Marsh  

Joseph   V.    Graff,    R  
John   A.    Sterling,    R  

Peoria  
Bloomington  

Sixteenth  
Seventeenth  

1903-11  
1903-11  

Win.   B.   McKinley,    R  

Champaign  

Nineteenth  

1905-11  

Benj.    F.    Caldwell.    D  

1903-05 

Zeno   S.    Rives,    R  
Benj.    F.    Caldwell      D  

Litchfield  

Twenty-first  

1905-07  

Snrinirfl  Id  

T\    ntv  fl_t*  ' 

Wm.  A.  Rodenberg,  R  
Joseph   B.    Crowley,   D  

East  St  Louis  

Twenty  -second  

1903-11  
1903-05  .... 

Frank    L.     Dickson  ,    R  
Martin   D.    Foster.   D  
James  R.   Williams,   D..    .. 

Ramsey  
Olney  

Twenty-third  
Twenty-third  

1905-07  
1907-11  
1903-05 

Vienna 

1905-11  

Geo.    W.    Smith.   R     ... 

X.    B.    Thlstlewood,    R  

Cairo  ...'.'.'. 

Twenty-fifth  

1908-11  

Vice   G.    W.    Smith  

REPRESENTATIVES   IN   SIXTY-SECOND   CONGRESS. 

The   following    (s   a    list    of   Representatives   in   the   Sixty-second 
(1911-1913)   Congress,   us  chosen   at  the  November  election,   1910: 

1.  Martin    B.    Madden.    R Chicago 

2.  James    R.    Mann.    R Chicago 

3.  William    Warfleld   Wilson.    R Chicago 

4.  James  T.    McDermott.    D Chicago 

5.  Adolph   J.    Stabath.    D Chicago 

6.  Edmund   J.    Stack,    D Chicago 

7.  Frank    Buchanan,    D Chicago 

8.  Thomas   Gallagher,    D Chicago 

9.  Lynden    Evans.   D. Chicago 

10.  George  E.  Foss,  B Chicago 


11.  Ira  C.  Copley,  R Aurora 

12.  Charles  E.  Fuller,   R Belvldere 

13.  John   C.   McKenzle.    R Elizabeth 

14.  James  McKlnney,  R Aledo 

15.  Geo.   W.    Prince,   R Galesburg 

16.  Claude  0.   Stone,   D Peoria 

17.  John  A    Sterling,  R Bloomington 

18.  Joseph   G.    Cannon,    R Danville 

19.  William    B.    MeKlnley.    R Champaign 

20.  Henry  T.   Rainey,   D Carrollton 

21.  James  M.   Graham,   D Springfield 

22.  William  A.    Rodenberg.    R East   St.    Louis 

23.  Martin    D.    Foster,    D Olney 

24.  H.    Robert    Fowler,    D Elizabeth-town 

25.  N.    B.    Tblrtlewood,    R Cairo 


448b 


HISTORICAL  ENCYCLOPEDIA  OF  ILLINOIS 


BOARD  OF  CIVIL  SERVICE.  The  State 
Board  of  Civil  Service,  consisting  of  three  members, 
was  created  by  act  of  the  General  Assembly  in 
1905.  With  the  exception  of  the  Superintendent, 
Chief  Clerk,  Treasurer  and  stenographer,  in  each 
State  charitable  institution,  all  appointments  to 
subordinate  positions  in  the  same  are  made  after 
examination  of  applicants  on  the  basis  of  qualifi- 
cations and  merit,  and  removals  are  made  only  on 
the  ground  of  incompetency,  disobedience  or  other 
reasonable  cause.  Political  assessments  upon 
employes  are  also  prohibited. 

BOARD  OF  EQUALIZATION,  organized  under 
act  of  the  General  Assembly,  approved  March  8, 
1867;  after  various  changes  now  (1911)  consists  of 
25  members  chosen  by  popular  vote — one  from  each 
Congressional  District — with  the  State  Auditor  as 
ex-officio  member  and  Chairman.  It  meets  annually 
on  the  first  Tuesday  after  August  10th,  its  duty 
then  being  to  examine  abstracts  of  assessments  from 
the  several  counties  and  equalize  the  same  in  order 
that  equal  rates  may  be  imposed  upon  property 
according  to  value  in  all  parts  of  the  State.  For 
this  purpose  property  is  divided  into  five  classes, 
viz.:  Personal  property;  town  and  city  lots;  land 
other  than  town  lots;  railroad,  telegraph  and  tele- 
phone stock  and  property;  and  capital  stock  of 
franchise  corporations.  Separate  committees  are 
appointed  to  deal  with  these  classes,  besides  a  com- 
mittee of  general  equalization.  Each  member 
receives  a  salary  of  $5  per  day  while  in  session, 
and  the  Board  chooses  its  Secretary,  the  necessary 
number  of  clerks  and  other  employes,  and  provides 
for  printing  and  distribution  of  copies  of  proceed- 
ings after  each  session.  The  most  difficult  problem 
the  Board  has  to  meet  is  the  equitable  assessment 
upon  capital  stock  and  franchises  of  corporations. 
After  the  work  of  the  Board  is  completed,  the 
Governor,  Auditor  and  State  Treasurer  fix  the  rate 
of  taxation  requisite  to  meet  the  appropriations 
made  by  the  General  Assembly. 

BOARD  OF  HEALTH,  created  by  act  of  the 
Legislature  in  1877,  with  supervision  of  measures 
for  protection  of  the  health  and  lives  of  the  people, 
matters  pertaining  to  quarantine,  and  investigation 
of  the  sanitary  condition  of  hotels  and  lodging 
houses  in  cities  having  over  100,000  inhabitants. 
In  1899  its  jurisdiction  was  extended  over  th» 
examination  and  licensing  of  surgeons  and  physi 
cians,  reporting  the  standing  of  medical  colleges, 
and,  by  a  later  act,  it  is  required  to  keep  a  record 
of  all  births  and  deaths  within  the  State;  is  also 
charged  with  the  examination,  licensing  and  regis- 
tration of  embalmers,  the  appointment  of  agents 
for  the  distribution  of  diphtheria  antitoxins,  is 


empowered  to  investigate  the  water  of  cities  having 
a  population  of  2,000  or  over,  to  supervise  measures 
for  the  prevention  and  restriction  of  consumption, 
investigate  fraudulent  medical  colleges  and  other- 
wise protect  the  public  health. 

BOARD 'OF  PHARMACY,  created  by  an  act  of 
1881,  is  composed  of  five  members,  registered 
pharmacists  of  at  least  ten  years'  experience, 
empowered  to  examine  all  applicants  and  issue 
certificates  to  the  same  when  entitled  to  receive 
them,  and  to  prosecute  violations  of  the  pharmacy 
act.  The  Board  is  required  to  hold  meetings  for 
the  examination  of  applicants  for  registration,  and 
is  empowered  to  issue  three  grades  of  certificates — 
to  apprentices,  assistant  and  registered  pharmacists. 

BOARD  OF  PARDONS.  This  Board  was 
created  by  act  of  the  Legislature  on  recommenda- 
tion of  Governor  Tanner  in  1897,  under  provision 
of  the  Constitution  (Art.  5,  Sec.  13)  empowering 
the  Governor  to  "grant  reprieves,  commutations 
and  pardons,  after  convictions,  for  all  offenses  .  .  . 
subject  to  such  regulations  as  may  be  provided  by 
law" — the  object  being  to  reduce  the  personal 
labor  of  the  Governor  in  this  department.  All 
applications  for  pardon  are  required  to  be  presented 
to  the  Board,  and,  after  investigation,  reports  are 
submitted  to  the  Governor,  with  such  recommenda- 
tions as  may  be  agreed  upon  by  a  majority  of  the 
Board.  Before  the  adoption  of  this  policy,  all 
petitions  were  submitted  to  the  Governor.  The 
Board  is  non-partisan,  consisting  of  three  appointive 
members,  of  whom  only  two  may  belong  to  the 
same  party.  Regular  sessions  of  the  Board  are  held 
quarterly,  but  in  case  of  emergency,  special  meet- 
ings may  be  held  under  call  of  the  Governor  or 
Chairman.  The  duty  of  administering  the  parole 
law  is  also  imposed  upon  the  Board.  The  present 
Board  (1911)  consists  of  G.  De  F.  Kinney,  Charles 
G.  Eckhart  and  Ethan  Allan  Snively  (Chairman). 
The  Board  visits  each  penitentiary  once  each  month 
for  the  purpose  of  investigating  the  records  of 
prisoners  petitioning  for  parole. 

STATE  PURE  FOOD  COMMISSION.  The  act 
establishing  the  State  Food  Commission  went  into 
effect  July  1,  1899,  Alfred  H.  Jones,  of  Robinson, 
III.,  being  then  appointed  Commissioner  and  hold- 
ing office  to  the  present  time  (1911).  An  act  passed 
May  14,  1807,  enlarged  the  powers  of  the  Com- 
mission, authorizing  the  appointment  of  an  Assistant 
Commissioner,  a  State  Analyst,  an  Attorney  and  a 
Chief  Clerk,  besides  several  chemists,  inspectors  and 
other  employes,  whose  duty  it  is  to  investigate  and 
report  upon  the  condition  of  raw  material  and 
manufactured  food  products  to  prevent  adultera- 
tion and  protect  the  consumer  from  fraud. 


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REYNOLDS,  John,  Justice  of  Supreme  Court 
and  fourth  Governor  of  Illinois,  was  born  of  Irish 
ancestry,  in  Montgomery  County,  Pa.,  Feb.  26, 
1789,  and  brought  by  his  parents  to  Kaskaskia, 
111.,  in  1800,  spending  the  first  nine  years  of  his 
life  in  Illinois  on  a  farm.  After  receiving  a  com- 
mon school  education,  and  a  two  years'  course  of 
study  in  a  college  at  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  he  studied 
law  and  began  practice.  In  1812-13  he  served  as 
a  scout  in  the  campaigns  against  the  Indians, 
winning  for  himself  the  title,  in  after  life,  of  "The 
Old  Ranger."  Afterwards  he  removed  to 
Cahokia,  where  he  began  the  practice  of 
law,  and,  in  1818,  became  Associate  Justice  of  the 
first  Supreme  Court  of  the  new  State.  Retiring 
from  the  bench  in  1825,  he  served  two  terms  in 
the  Legislature,  and  was  elected  Governor  in 
1830,  in  1832  personally  commanding  the  State 
volunteers  called  for  service  in  the  Black  Hawk 
War.  Two  weeks  before  the  expiration  of  his 
term  (1834),  he  resigned  to  accept  a  seat  in  Con- 
gress, to  which  he  had  been  elected  as  the  suc- 
cessor of  Charles  Slade,  who  had  died  in  office, 
and  was  again  elected  in  1838,  always  as  a  Demo- 
crat. He  also  served  as  Representative  in  the 
Fifteenth  General  Assembly,  and  again  in  the 
Eighteenth  (1852-54),  being  chosen  Speaker  of  the 
latter.  In  1858  he  was  the  administration  (or 
Buchanan)  Democratic  candidate  for  State  Su- 
perintendent of  Public  Instruction,  as  opposed  to 
the  Republican  and  regular  (or  Douglas)  Demo- 
cratic candidates.  For  some  years  lie  edited  a 
daily  paper  called  "The  Eagle,"  which  was  pub- 
lished at  Belleville.  While  Governor  Reynolds 
acquired  some  reputation  as  a  "classical  scholar," 
from  the  time  spent  in  a  Tennessee  College  at 
that  early  day,  this  was  not  sustained  by  either 
his  colloquial  or  written  style.  He  was  an 
ardent  champion  of  slavery,  and,  in  the  early 
days  of  the  Rebellion,  gained  unfavorable  notori- 
ety in  consequence  of  a  letter  written  to  Jefferson 
Davis  expressing  sympathy  with  the  cause  of 
"secession."  Nevertheless,  in  spite  of  intense 
prejudice  and  bitter  partisanship  on  some  ques- 
tions, he  possessed  many  amiable  qualities,  as 
shown  by  his  devotion  to  temperance,  and  his 
popularity  among  persons  of  opposite  political 
opinions.  Although  at  times  crude  in  style,  and 
not  always  reliable  in  his  statement  of  historical 
facts  and  events,  Governor  Reynolds  lias  rendered 
a  valuable  service  to  posterity  by  his  writings 
relating  to  the  early  history  of  the  State,  espe- 
cially those  connected  with  his  own  times.  His 
best  known  works  are:  "Pioneer History  of  Illi- 
nois" (Belleville,  1848);  "A  Glance  at  the  Crystal 


Palace,  and  Sketches  of  Travel"  (1854);  and  "My 
Life  and"  Times"  (1855).  His  death  occurred  at 
Belleville,  May  8,  1865. 

REYNOLDS,  John  Parker,  Secretary  and 
President  of  State  Board  of  Agriculture,  was  born 
at  Lebanon,  Ohio,  March  1,  1820,  and  graduated 
from  the  Miami  University  at  the  age  of  18.  In 
1840  he  graduated  from  the  Cincinnati  Law 
School,  and  soon  afterward  began  practice.  He 
removed  to  Illinois  in  1854,  settling  first  in  Win- 
nebago  County,  later,  successively  in  Marion 
County,  in  Springfield  and  in  Chicago.  From 
1860  to  1870  he  was  Secretary  of  the  State  Agri- 
cultural Society,  and,  upon  the  creation  of  the 
State  Board  of  Agriculture  in  1871,  was  elected 
its  President,  filling  that  position  until  1888, 
when  he  resigned.  He  has  also  occupied  numer- 
ous other  posts  of  honor  and  of  trust  of  a  public 
or  semi-public  character,  having  been  President 
of  the  Illinois  State  Sanitary  Commission  during 
the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  a  Commissioner  to  the 
Paris  Exposition  of  1867,  Chief  Grain  Inspector 
from  1878  to  1882,  and  Secretary  of  the  Inter- 
State  Industrial  Exposition  Company  of  Chicago, 
from  the  date  of  its  organization  (1873)  until  its 
final  dissolution.  His  most  important  public 
service,  in  recent  years,  was  rendered  asDirector- 
in-Chief  of  the  Illinois  exhibit  in  the  World's 
Columbian  Exposition  of  1893. 

REYNOLDS,  Joseph  Smith,  soldier  and  legis- 
lator, was  born  at  New  Lenox,  111.,  Dec.  3,  1839; 
at  17  years  of  age  went  to  Chicago,  was  educated 
in  the  high  school  there,  within  a  month  after 
graduation  enlisting  as  a  private  in  the  Sixty- 
fourth  Illinois  Volunteers.  From  the  ranks  he 
rose  to  a  colonelcy  through  the  gradations  of 
Second-Lieutenant  and  Captain,  and,  in  July, 
1865,  was  brevetted  Brigadier-General.  He  was 
a  gallant  soldier,  and  was  thrice  wounded.  On 
his  return  home  after  nearly  four  years'  service, 
he  entered  the  law  department  of  the  Chicago 
University,  graduating  therefrom  and  beginning 
practice  in  1866.  General  Reynolds  has  been 
prominent  in  public  life,  having  served  as  a 
member  of  both  branches  of  the  General  Assem- 
bly, and  having  been  a  State  Commissioner  to  the 
Vienna  Exposition  of  1873.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  G.  A.  R.,  and,  in  1875,  was  elected  Senior 
Vice-Commander  of  the  order  for  the  United 
States. 

REYNOLDS,  William  Morton,  clergyman,  was 
born  in  Fayette  County,  Pa. ,  March  4,  1812 ;  after 
graduating  at  Jefferson  College,  Pa.,  in  1832,  was 
connected  with  various  institutions  in  that  State, 
as  well  as  President  of  Capital  University  at 


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Columbus,  Ohio, ;  then,  coming  to  Illinois,  was 
President  of  the  Illinois  State  University  at 
Springfield,  1857-60,  after  which  he  became  Prin- 
cipal of  a  female  seminary  in  Chicago.  Previ- 
ously a  Lutheran,  he  took  orders  in  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Church  in  1864,  and  served  several 
parishes  until  his  death.  In  his  early  life  he 
founded,  and,  for  a  time,  conducted  several  reli- 
gious publications  at  Gettysburg,  Pa.,  besides 
issuing  a  number  of  printed  addresses  and  other 
published  works.  Died  at  Oak  Park,  near  Chi- 
cago, Sept.  5,  1876. 

RHOADS,  (Col.)  Franklin  Lawrence,  soldier 
and  steamboat  captain,  was  born  in  Harrisburg, 
Pa.,  Oct.  11,  1824;  brought  to  Pekin,  Tazewell 
County,  111.,  in  1836,  where  he  learned  the  print- 
er's trade,  and,  on  the  breaking  out  of  the 
Mexican  War,  enlisted,  serving  to  the  close. 
Returning  home  he  engaged  in  the  river  trade, 
and,  for  fifteen  years,  commanded  steamboats  on 
the  Illinois,  Mississippi  and  Ohio  Rivers.  In 
April,  1861,  he  was  commissioned  Captain  of  a 
company  of  three  months'  men  attached  to  the 
Eighth  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  and,  on  the 
reorganization  of  the  regiment  for  the  three- 
years'  service,  was  commissioned  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  soon  after  being  promoted  to  the  colo- 
nelcy, as  successor  to  Col.  Richard  J.  Oglesby,  who 
had  been  promoted  Brigadier-General.  After 
serving  through  the  spring  campaign  of  1862  in 
Western  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  he  was  com- 
pelled by  rapidly  declining  health  to  resign,  when 
he  located  in,  Shawneetown,  retiring  in  1874  to 
his  farm  near  that  city.  During  the  latter  years 
of  his  life  he  was  a  confirmed  invalid,  dying  at 
Shawneetown,  Jan.  6,  1879. 

RHOADS,  Joshna,  M.I)..  A.M.,  physician  and 
educator,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Sept.  14, 
1806;  studied  medicine  and  graduated  at  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  with  the  degree  of 
M.D.,  also  receiving  the  degree  of  A.M.,  from 
Princeton ;  after  several  years  spent  in  practice 
as  a  physician,  and  as  Principal  in  some  of  the 
public  schools  of  Philadelphia,  in  1839  he  was 
elected  Principal  of  the  Pennsylvania  Institution 
for  the  Blind,  and,  in  1850,  took  charge  of  the 
State  Institution  for  the  Blind  at  Jacksonville, 
111.,  then  in  its  infancy.  Here  he  remained  until 
1874,  when  he  retired.  Died,  February  1,  1876. 

RICE,  Edward  T.,  lawyer  and  jurist,  born  in 
Logan  County,  Ky.,  Feb.  8,  1820,  was  educated  in 
the  common  schools  and  at  Shurtleff  College, 
after  which  he  read  law  with  John  M.  Palmer  at 
Carlinville,  and  was  admitted  to  practice,  in  1845, 
at  Hillsboro ;  in  1847  was  elected  County  Recorder 


of  Montgomery  County,  and,  in  1848,  to  the  Six- 
teenth General  Assembly,  serving  one  term. 
Later  he  was  elected  County  Judge  of  Montgom- 
ery County,  was  Master  in  Chancery  from  1853  to 
1857,  and  the  latter  year  was  elected  Judge  of  the 
Eighteenth  Circuit,  being  re-elected  in  1861  and 
again  in  1867.  He  was  also  a  member  of  the 
Constitutional  Convention  of  1869-70,  and,  at  the 
election  of  the  latter  year,  was  chosen  Repre- 
sentative in  the  Forty-second  Congress  as  a 
Democrat.  Died,  April  16,  1883. 

RICE,  John  B.,  theatrical  manager,  Mayor  of 
Chicago,  and  Congressman,  was  born  at  Easton, 
Md.,  in  1809.  By  profession  he  was  an  actor, 
and,  coming  to  Chicago  in  1847,  built  and  opened 
there  the  first  theater.  In  1857  he  retired  from 
the  stage,  and,  in  1865,  was  elected  Mayor  of 
Chicago,  the  city  of  his  adoption,  and  re-elected 
in  1867.  He  was  also  prominent  in  the  early 
stages  of  the  Civil  War  in  the  measures  taken  to 
raise  troops  in  Chicago.  In  1872  he  was  elected 
to  the  Forty-third  Congress  as  a  Republican,  but, 
before  the  expiration  of  his  term,  died,  at  Nor- 
folk, Va.,  on  Dec.  6,  1874.  At  a  special  election 
to  fill  the  vacancy,  Bernard  G.  Caulfield  was 
chosen  to  succeed  him. 

RICHARDSON,  William  A.,  lawyer  and  poli- 
tician, born  in  Fayette  County,  Ky.,  Oct.  11, 
1811,  was  educated  at  Transylvania  University, 
came  to  the  bar  at  19,  and  settled  in  Schuyler 
County,  111.,  becoming  State's  Attorney  in  1835 ; 
was  elected  to  the  lower  branch  of  the  Legislature 
in  1836,  to  the  Senate  in  1838,  and  to  the  House 
again  in  1844,  from  Adams  County — the  latter 
year  being  also  chosen  Presidential  Elector  on 
the  Polk  and  Dallas  ticket,  and,  at  the  succeeding 
session  of  the  General  Assembly,  serving  as 
Speaker  of  the  House.  He  entered  the  Mexican 
War  as  Captain,  and  won  a  Majority  through 
gallantry  at  Buena  Vista.  From  1847  to  1856 
(when  he  resigned  to  become  a  candidate  for 
Governor),  he  was  a  Democratic  Representative 
in  Congress  from  the  Quincy  District;  re-entered 
Congress  in  1861,  and,  in  1863,  was  chosen 
United  States  Senator  to  fill  the  unexpired  term 
of  Stephen  A.  Douglas.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the 
National  Democratic  Convention  of  1868,  but 
after  that  retired  to  private  life,  acting,  for  a 
short  time,  as  editor  of  "The  Quincy  Herald." 
Died,  at  Quincy,  Dec.  27,  1875. 

RICHLAND  COUNTY,  situated  in  the  south- 
east quarter  of  the  State,  and  has  an  area  of  380 
square  miles.  It  was  organized  from  Edwards 
County  in  1841.  Among  the  early  pioneers  may 
be  mentioned  the  Evans  brothers,  Thaddeus 


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Morehouse,  Hugh  Calhoun  and  son,  Thomas 
Gardner,  James  Parker,  Cornelius  De  Long, 
James  Gilmore  and  Elijah  Nelson.  In  1820 
there  were  but  thirty  families  in  the  district. 
The  first  frame  houses — the  Nelson  and  More- 
house  homesteads — were  built  in  1821,  and,  some 
years  later,  James  Laws  erected  the  first  brick 
house.  The  pioneers  traded  at  Vincennes,  but, 
in  1825,  a  store  was  opened  at  Stringtown  by 
Jacob  May ;  and  the  same  year  the  first  school  was 
opened  at  Watertown,  taught  by  Isaac  Chaun- 
cey.  The  first  church  was  erected  by  the  Bap- 
tists in  1822,  and  services  were  conducted  by 
William  Martin,  a  Kentuckian.  For  a  long  time 
the  mails  were  carried  on  horseback  by  Louis 
and  James  Beard,  but,  in  1824,  Mills  and  Whet- 
sell  established  a  line  of  four-horse  stages.  The 
principal  road,  known  as  the  "trace  road,"  lead- 
ing from  Louisville  to  Cahokia,  followed  a 
buffalo  and  Indian  trail  about  where  the  main 
street  of  Olney  now  is.  Olney  was  selected  as 
the  county-seat  upon  the  organization  of  the 
county,  and  a  Mr.  Lilly  built  the  first  house 
there.  The  chief  branches  of  industry  followed 
by  the  inhabitants  are  agriculture  and  fruit- 
growing. Population  (1880),  15,545;  (1890), 
15,019;  (1900),  16,391;  (1910),  15,970. 

RICHMOND,  a  village  of  McHenry  County,  on 
the  Chicago  &  North  Western  R  R.,  60  miles  north- 
west of  Chicago;  a  grain  and  live-stock  region;  has  a 
bank  and  one  weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1910),  554. 

RIDGE  FARM,  a  village  of  Vermilion  County, 
at  junction  of  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago  & 
St.  Louis  and  the  Toledo,  St.  Louis  &  Western  Rail- 
roads, 174  miles  northeast  of  St.  Louis;  has  electric 
light  plant,  planing  mill,  elevators,  bank  and  one 
weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  933;  (1910),  967. 

RIDGELY,  Charles,  manufacturer  and  capi- 
talist, born  in  Springfield,  111.,  Jan.  17,  1836;  was 
educated  in  private  schools  and  at  Illinois  Col- 
lege ;  after  leaving  college  spent  some  time  as  a 
clerk  in  his  father's  bank  at  Springfield,  finally 
becoming  a  member  of  the  firm  and  successively 
Cashier  and  Vice-President.  In  1870  he  was 
Democratic  candidate  for  State  Treasurer,  but 
later  was  affiliated  with  the  Republican  party. 
About  1872  he  became  identified  with  the  Spring- 
field Iron  Company,  of  which  he  served  as  President 
for  many  years;  had  also  been  President  of  the  Con- 
solidated Coal  Company  of  St.  Louis  and,  for  some 
time,  was  a  Director  of  the  Wabash  Railroad.  Mr. 
Ridgely  served  some  time  as  a  Trustee  of  Illinois 
College.  Died  Aug.  11,  1910. 

RIDGELT,  Nicholas  H.,  early  banker,  was 
born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  April  27,  1800;  after 


leaving  school  was  engaged,  for  a  time,  in  the 
dry-goods  trade,  but,  in  1829,  came  to  St.  Louis 
to  assume  a  clerkship  in  the  branch  of  the 
United  States  Bank  just  organized  there.  In 
1835  a  branch  of  the  State  Bank  of  Illinois  was 
established  at  Springfield,  and  Mr.  Ridgely 
became  its  cashier,  and,  when  it  went  into  liqui- 
dation, was  appointed  one  of  the  trustees  to  wind 
up  its  affairs.  He  subsequently  became  Presi- 
dent of  the  Clark's  Exchange  Bank  in  that  city, 
but  this  having  gone  into  liquidation  a  few  years 
later,  he  went  into  the  private  banking  business 
as  head  of  the  "Ridgely  Bank,"  which,  in  1866, 
became  the  "Ridgely  National  Bank,"  one  of  the 
strongest  financial  institutions  in  the  State  out- 
side of  Chicago.  After  the  collapse  of  the  inter- 
nal improvement  scheme,  Mr.  Ridgely  became 
one  of  the  purchasers  of  the  "Northern  Cross 
Railroad"  (now  that  part  of  the  Wabash  system 
extending  from  the  Illinois  river  to  Springfield), 
when  it  was  sold  by  the  State  in  1847,  paying 
therefor  121,100.  He  was  also  one  of  the  Spring- 
field bankers  to  tender  a  loan  to  the  State  at  the 
beginning  of  the  war  in  1861.  He  was  one  of  the 
builders  and  principal  owner  of  the  Springfield 
gas-light  system.  His  business  career  was  an 
eminently  successful  one,  leaving  an  estate  at 
his  death,  Jan.  31,  1888,  valued  at  over  $2,000,000. 

RIDGWAY,  a  village  of  Gallatin  County,  on  the  . 
Shawneetown  Division  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
Southwestern  Railway,   12   miles    northwest    of 
Shawneetown;   has  a  bank  and  one  newspaper. 
Pop.  (1910),  1,054. 

RIDGWAY,  Thomas  S.,  merchant,  banker  and 
politician,  was  born  at  Carmi,  111.,  August  30, 
1826.  His  father  having  died  when  he  was  but  4 
years  old  and  his  mother  when  he  was  14,  his 
education  was  largely  acquired  through  contact 
with  the  world,  apart  from  such  as  he  received 
from  his  mother  and  during  a  year's  attendance 
at  a  private  school.  When  he  was  6  years  of  age 
the  family  removed  to  Shawneetown,  where  he 
ever  afterwards  made  his  home.  In  1845  he  em- 
barked in  business  as  a  merchant,  and  the  firm 
of  Peeples  &  Ridgway  soon  became  one  of  the 
most  prominent  in  Southern  Illinois.  In  1865  the 
partners  closed  out  their  business  and  organized 
the  first  National  Bank  of  Shawneetown,  of 
which,  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Peeples  in  1875, 
Mr.  Ridgway  was  President.  He  was  one  of 
the  projectors  of  the  Springfield  &  Illinois  South- 
eastern Railway,  now  a  part  of  the  Baltimore  & 
Ohio  Southwestern  system,  and,  from  1867  to 
1874,  served  as  its  President.  He  was  an  ardent 
and  active  Republican,  and  served  as  a  delegate 


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to  every  State  and  National  Convention  of  his 
party  from  1868  to  1896.  In  1874  he  was  elected 
State  Treasurer,  the  candidate  for  Superintendent 
of  Public  Instruction  on  the  same  ticket  being 
defeated.  In  1876  and  1880  he  was  an  unsuccess- 
ful candidate  for  his  party's  nomination  for  Gov- 
ernor. Three  times  he  consented  to  lead  the 
forlorn  hope  of  the  Republicans  as  a  candidate 
for  Congress  from  an  impregnably  Democratic 
stronghold.  For  several  years  he  was  a  Director 
of  the  McCormick  Theological  Seminary,  at  Chi- 
cago, and,  for  nineteen  years,  was  a  Trustee  of  the 
Southern  Illinois  Normal  University  at  Carbon- 
dale,  resigning  in  1893.  Died,  at  Shawneetown, 
Nov.  17,  1897. 

RIGGS,  James  M.,  ex-Congressman,  was  born 
in  Scott  County,  111.,  April  17,  1839,  where  he 
received  a  common  school  education,  supple- 
mented by  a  partial  collegiate  course.  He  is  a 
practicing  lawyer  of  Winchester.  In  1864  he  was 
elected  Sheriff,  serving  two  years.  In  1871-72  he 
represented  Scott  County  in  the  lower  house  of 
the  Twenty-seventh  General  Assembly,  and  was 
State's  Attorney  from  1872  to  1876.  In  1882,  and 
again  in  1884,  he  was  the  successful  Democratic 
candidate  for  Congress  in  the  Twelfth  Illinois 
District. 

RIGGS,  Scott,  pioneer,  was  born  in  North 
Carolina  about  1790;  removed  to  Crawford 
County,  111,  early  in  1815,  and  represented  that 
county  in  the  First  General  Assembly  (1818-20). 
In  1825  he  removed  to  Scott  County,  where  he 
continued  to  reside  until  his  death,  Feb.  24,  1872. 

RINAKER,  John  I.,  lawyer  and  Congressman, 
bora  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  Nov.  18,  1830.  Left  an 
orphan  at  an  early  age,  he  came  to  Illinois  in 
1836,  and,  for  several  years,  lived  on  farms  in 
Sangamon  and  Morgan  Counties;  was  educated 
at  Illinois  and  McKendree  Colleges,  graduating 
from  the  latter  in  1851;  in  1852  began  reading 
law  with  John  M.  Palmer  at  Carlinville,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1854.  In  August,  1862,  he 
recruited  the  One  Hundred  and  Twenty-seconu 
Illinois  Volunteers,  of  which  he  was  commis- 
sioned Colonel.  Four  months  later  he  was 
wounded  in  battle,  but  served  with  his  regiment 
through  the  war,  and  was  brevetted  Brigadier- 
General  at  its  close.  Returning  from  the  war  he 
resumed  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Carlin- 
ville. Since  1858  he  has  been  an  active  Repub- 
lican ;  has  twice  (1872  and  '76)  served  his  party 
as  a  Presidential  Elector — the  latter  year  for  the 
State-at-large — and,  in  1874,  accepted  a  nomina- 
tion for  Congress  against  William  R.  Morrison, 
largely  reducing  the  normal  Democratic  major- 


ity. At  the  State  Republican  Convention  of  1880 
he  was  a  prominent,  but  unsuccessful,  candidate 
for  the  Republican  nomination  for  Governor.  I; 
1894  he  made  the  race  as  the  Republican  candi- 
date for  Congress  in  the  Sixteenth  District  and, 
although  his  opponent  was  awarded  the  certifi- 
cate of  election,  on  a  bare  majority  of  60  votes  on 
the  face  of  the  returns,  a  re-count,  ordered  by  the 
Fifty-fourth  Congress,  showed  a  majority  for 
General  Rinaker,  and  he  was  seated  near  the 
close  of  the  first  session.  He  was  a  candidate 
for  re-election  in  1896,  but  defeated  in  a  strongly 
Democratic  District. 

RIPLEY,  Edward  Payson,  Railway  President, 
was  born  in  Dorchester  (now  a  part  of  Boston), 
Mass.,  Oct.  30, 1845,  being  related,  on  his  mother's 
side,  to  the  distinguished  author,  Dr.  Edward 
Payson.  After  receiving  his  education  in  the 
high  school  of  his  native  place,  at  the  age  of  17 
he  entered  upon  a  commercial  life,  as  clerk  in  a 
wholesale  dry-goods  establishment  in  Boston. 
About  the  time  he  became  of  age,  he  entered  into 
the  service  of  the  Pennsylvania  Railroad  as  a 
clerk  in  the  freight  department  in  the  Boston 
office,  but,  a  few  years  later,  assumed  a  responsible 
position  in  connection  with  the  Chicago,  Burling- 
ton &  Quincy  line,  finally  becoming  General 
Agent  for  the  business  of  that  road  east  of 
Buffalo,  though  retaining  his  headquarters  at 
Boston.  In  1878  he  removed  to  Chicago  to  accept 
the  position  of  General  Freight  Agent  of  the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy  System,  with  which 
he  remained  twelve  years,  serving  successively  as 
General  Traffic  Manager  and  General  Manager, 
until  June  1,  1890,  when  he  resigned  to  become 
Third  Vice-President  of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee 
&  St.  Paul  line.  This  relation  was  continued 
until  Jan.  1,  1896,  when  Mr.  Ripley  accepted 
the  Presidency  of  the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa 
Fe  Railroad,  which  (1899)  he  now  holds.  Mr. 
Ripley  was  a  prominent  factor  in  securing  the 
location  of  the  World's  Columbian  Exposition  at 
Chicago,  and,  in  April,  1891,  was  chosen  one  of 
the  Directors  of  the  Exposition,  serving  on  the 
Executive  Committee  and  the  Committee  of 
Ways  and  Means  and  Transportation,  being  Chair- 
man of  the  latter. 

RIVERSIDE,  a  suburban  town  on  the  Des 
Plaines  River  and  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  Railway,  11  miles  west  of  Chicago;  has 
handsome  parks,  several  churches,  a  bank, 
two  local  papers  and  numerous  fine  residences. 
Pop.  (1890),  1,000;  (1900),  1,551;  (1910),  1,702. 

RIVERTON,  a  village  in  Clear  Creek  Town- 
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Wabash  Kailroad  over  the  Sangamon  River,  6>£ 
miles  east-northeast  of  Springfield.  It  has  four 
churches,  a  nursery,  and  two  coal  mines  Popu- 
lation (1880),  705;  (1890),  1,127;  (1900),  1,511; 
(1910),  1,911. 

RIVES,  John  Cook,  early  banker  and  journal- 
ist, was  born  in  Franklin  County,  Va.,  May  24, 
1795;  in  1806  removed  to  Kentucky,  where  he 
grew  up  under  care  of  an  uncle,  Samuel  Casey. 
He  received  a  good  education  and  was  a  man  of 
high  character  and  attractive  manners.  In  his 
early  manhood  he  came  to  Illinois,  and  was  con- 
nected, for  a  time,  with  the  Branch  State  Bank 
at  Edwardsville,  but,  about  1824,  removed  to 
Shawneetown  and  held  a  position  in  the  bank 
there;  also  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to 
practice.  Finally,  having  accepted  a  clerkship 
in  the  Fourth  Auditor's  Office  in  Washington, 
he  removed  to  that  city,  and,  in  1830,  became 
associated  with  Francis  P.  Blair,  Sr.,  in  the 
establishment  of  "The  Congressional  Globe"  (the 
predecessor  of  "The  Congressional  Record"),  of 
which  he  finally  became  sole  proprietor,  so 
remaining  until  1864.  Like  his  partner,  Blair, 
although  a  native  of  Virginia  and  a  life-long 
Democrat,  he  was  intensely  loyal,  and  contrib- 
uted liberally  of  his  means  for  the  equipment  of 
soldiers  from  the  District  of  Columbia,  and  for 
the  support  of  their  families,  during  the  Civil 
War.  His  expenditures  for  these  objects  have 
been  estimated  at  some  $30,000.  Died,  in  Prince 
George's  County,  Md.,  April  10,  1864. 

ROANOKE,  a  village  of  Woodford  County,  on 
the  Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe  Railway,  26 
miles  northeast  of  Peoria;  is  in  a  coal  district; 
has  two  banks,  a  coal  mine,  and  one  newspaper. 
Pop.  (1890),  831;  (1900),  966;  (1910),  1,311. 

ROBB,  Thomas  Patten,  Sanitary  Agent,  was 
born  in  Bath,  Maine,  in  1819;  came  to  Cook 
County,  111.,  in  1838,  and,  after  arriving  at  man- 
hood, established  the  first  exclusive  wholesale 
grocery  house  in  Chicago,  remaining  in  the  busi- 
ness until  1850.  He  then  went  to  California, 
establishing  himself  in  mercantile  business  at 
Sacramento,  where  he  remained  seven  years, 
meanwhile  being  elected  Mayor  of  that  city. 
Returning  to  Chicago  on  the  breaking  out  of  the 
war,  he  was  appointed  on  the  staff  of  Governor 
Yates  with  the  rank  of  Major,  and,  while  serv- 
ing in  this  capacity,  was  instrumental  in  giving 
General  Grant  the  first  duty  he  performed  in  the- 
office  of  the  Adjutant-General  after  his  arrival 
from  Galena.  Later,  he  was  assigned  to  duty  as 
Inspector-General  of  Illinois  troops  with  the  rank 
of  Colonel,  having  general  charge  of  sanitary 


affairs  until  the  close  of  the  war,  when  he  was 
appointed  Cotton  Agent  for  the  State  of  Georgia, 
and,  still  later.  President  of  the  Board  of  Tax 
Commissioners  for  that  State.  Other  positions 
held  by  him  were  those  of  Postmaster  and  Col- 
lector of  Customs  at  Savannah,  Ga. ;  he  was  also 
one  of  the  publishers  of  "The  New  Era,"  a 
Republican  paper  at  Atlanta,  and  a  prominent 
actor  in  reconstruction  affairs.  Resigning  the 
Collectorship,  he  was  appointed  by  the  President 
United  States  Commissioner  to  investigate  Mexi- 
can outrages  on  the  Rio  Grande  border ;  was  sub- 
sequently identified  with  Texas  railroad  interests 
as  the  President  of  the  Corpus  Christi  &  Rio 
Grande  Railroad,  and  one  of  the  projectors  of  the 
Chicago,  Texas  &  Mexican  Central  Railway,  being 
thus  engaged  until  1872.  Later  he  returned  to 
California,  dying  near  Glenwood,  in  that  State, 
April  10,  1895,  aged  75  years  and  10  months. 

ROBERTS,  William  Charles,  clergyman  and 
educator,  was  born  in  a  small  village  of  Wales, 
England.,  Sept.  23,  1832;  received  his  primary 
education  in  that  country,  but,  removing  to 
America  during  his  minority,  graduated  from 
Princeton  College  in  1855,  and  from  Princeton 
Theological  Seminary  in  1858.  After  filling  vari- 
ous pastorates  in  Delaware,  New  Jersey  and  Ohio, 
in  1881  he  was  elected  Corresponding  Secretary 
of  the  Presbyterian  Board  of  Foreign  Missions, 
the  next  year  being  offered  the  Presidency  of 
Rutgers  College,  which  he  declined.  In  1887  he 
accepted  the  presidency  of  Lake  Forest  Univer- 
sity, which  he  still  retains.  From  1859  to  1863 
he  was  a  Trustee  of  Lafayette  College,  and,  in 
1866,  was  elected  to  a  trusteeship  of  his  Alma 
Mater.  He  has  traveled  extensively  in  the 
Orient,  and  was  a  member  of  the  first  and  third 
councils  of  the  Reformed  Churches,  held  at  Edin- 
burgh and  Belfast.  Besides  occasional  sermons 
and  frequent  contributions  to  English,  Ameri- 
can, German  and  Welsh  periodicals,  Dr.  Roberts 
has  published  a  Welsh  translation  of  the  West- 
minster shorter  catechism  and  a  collection  of 
letters  on  the  great  preachers  of  Wales,  which 
appeared  in  Utica,  1868.  He  received  the  degree 
of  D.D.,  from  Union  College  in  1872,  and  that  of 
LL.D.,  from  Princeton,  in  1887. 

ROBINSON,  an  incorporated  city  and  the 
county -seat  of  Crawford  Courty,  25  miles  north- 
west of  Vincennes,  Ind. ,  and  44  miles  south  of 
Paris,  III.;  is  on  two  lines  of  railroad,  in  the  heart 
of  a  fruit  and  agricultural  region,  also  near  to  rich 
oil  and  gas  fields,  has  water-works,  electric  lights, 
banks  and  two  weekly  newspapers.  Pop.  (1900), 
1,683;  (1910),  3,863. 


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ROBINSON,  James  C.,  lawyer  and  former 
Congressman,  was  born  in  Edgar  County,  111.,  in 
1822,  read  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1850.  He  served  as  a  private  during  the  Mexican 
War,  and,  in  1858,  was  elected  to  Congress  as  a 
Democrat,  as  he  was  again  in  1860,  '63,  '70  and 
'72.  In  1864  he  was  the  Democratic  nominee  for 
Governor.  He  was  a  fluent  speaker,  and  attained 
considerable  distinction  as  an  advocate  in  crimi- 
nal practice.  Died,  at  Springfield,  Nov.  3,  1886. 

ROBINSON,  John  M.,  United  States  Senator, 
born  in  Kentucky  in  1793,  was  liberally  educated 
and  became  a  lawyer  by  profession.  In  early  life 
he  settled  at  Carmi,  111.,  where  he  married.  He 
was  of  fine  physique,  of  engaging  manners,  and 
personally  popular.  Through  his  association 
with  the  State  militia  he  earned  the  title  of 
"General."  In  1830  he  was  elected  to  the  United 
States  Senate,  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  of  John 
McLean.  His  immediate  predecessor  was  David 
Jewett  Baker,  appointed  by  Governor  Edwards, 
who  served  one  month  but  failed  of  election  by 
the  Legislature.  In  1834  Mr.  Robinson  was  re- 
elected  for  a  full  term,  which  expired  in  1841. 
In  1843  he  was  elected  to  a  seat  upon  the  Illinois 
Supreme  bench,  but  died  at  Ottawa,  April  27,  of 
the  same  year,  within  three  months  after  his 
elevation. 

ROCHELLE,  a  city  of  Ogle  County  and  an 
intersecting  point  of  the  Chicago  &  Northwestern 
and  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railways. 
It  is  75  miles  west  of  Chicago,  27  miles  south  of 
Rockford,  and  23  miles  east  by  north  of  Dixon. 
It  is  in  a  rich  agricultural  and  stock-raising 
region,  rendering  Rochelle  an  important  ship- 
ping point.  Among  its  industrial  establish- 
ments are  water- works,  electric  lights,  a  flouring 
mill  and  silk-underwear  factory  The  city  has 
three  banks,  five  churches  and  three  newspapers. 
Pop.  (1900),  2,073;  (1910),  2,732. 

ROCHESTER,  a  village  and  early  settlement 
in  Sangamon  County,  laid  out  in  1819;  in  rich 
agricultural  district,  on  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
Southwestern  Railroad,  ll/2  miles  southeast  of 
Springfield ;  has  a  bank,  two  churches,  one  school, 
and  a  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  365;  (1910),  444. 

ROCK  FALLS,  a  city  in  Whiteside  County,  on 
Rock  River  and  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railroad;  has  excellent  water-power,  a  good 
public  school  system  with  a  high  school,  banks 
and  a  weekly  newspaper.  Agricultural  imple- 
ments, barbed  wire,  furniture,  flour  and  paper  are 
its  chief  manufactures.  Water  for  the  navigable 
feeder  of  the  Hennepin  Canal  is  taken  from  Rock 
River  at  this  point.  Pop.  (1900), 2,176;  (1910),  2,657. 


ROCKFORD,  a  flourishing  manufacturing 
city,  the  county -seat  of  Winnebago  County ;  lies 
on  both  sides  of  the  Rock  River,  92  miles  west  of 
Chicago.  Four  trunk  lines  of  railroad — the  Chi- 
cago, Burlington  &  Quincy,  the  Chicago  &  North- 
western, the  Illinois  Central  and  the  Chicago, 
Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul — intersect  here.  Excellent 
water-power  is  secured  by  a  dam  across  the  river, 
and  communication  between  the  two  divisions  of 
the  city  is  facilitated  by  three  railway  and  three 
highway  bridges.  Water  is  provided  from  five 
artesian  wells,  a  reserve  main  leading  to  the 
river.  The  city  is  wealthy,  prosperous  and  pro- 
gressive. The  assessed  valuation  of  property,  in 
1893,  was  $6,531,235.  Churches  are  numerous  and 
schools,  both  public  and  private,  are  abundant 
and  well  conducted.  The  census  of  1890  showed 
$7,715,069  capital  invested  in  246  manufacturing 
establishments,  which  employed  5,223persons.and 
turned  out  an  annual  product  valued  at  $8,888,- 
904.  The  principal  industries  are  the  manufac- 
ture of  agricultural  implements  and  furniture, 
though  watches,  pianos,  sewing  machines,  paper  and 
flour  are  among  the  other  products;  the  city  has 
three  daily  papers.  Pop.  (1910),  45,401. 

ROCKFORD  COLLEGE,  located  at  Rockford, 
111.,  incorporated  in  1847;  in  1898  had  a  faculty 
of  21  instructors  with  161  pupils.  The  brandies 
taught  include  the  classics,  music  and  fine  arts. 
It  has  a  library  of  6,150  volumes,  funds  and  en- 
dowment aggregating  $50,880  and  property 
valued  at  $240,880,  of  which  $150,000  is  real 
estate. 

ROCK  ISLAND,  the  principal  city  and  county- 
seat  of  Rock  Island  County,  on  the  Mississippi 
River,  182  miles  west  by  south  from  Chicago;  is 
the  converging  point  of  five  lines  of  railroad,  and 
the  western  terminus  of  the  Hennepin  Canal. 
The  name  is  derived  from  an  island  in  the  Missis- 
sippi River,  opposite  the  city,  3  miles  long,  which 
belongs  to  the  United  States  Government  and 
contains  an  arsenal  and  armory.  The  river 
channel  north  of  the  island  is  navigable,  the 
southern  channel  having  been  dammed  by  the 
Government,  thereby  giving  great  water  power 
to  Rock  Island  and  Moline.  A  combined  railway, 
and  highway  bridge  spans  the  river  from  Rock 
Island  to  Davenport,  Iowa,  crossing  the  island, 
while  a  railway  bridge  connects  the  cities  a  mile 
below.  The  island  was  the  site  of  Fort  Arm- 
strong during  the  Black  Hawk  War,  and  was  also 
a  place  for  the  confinement  of  Confederate  prison- 
ers during  the  Civil  War.  Rock  Island  is  in  a  re- 
gion of  much  picturesque  scenery  and  has  exten- 
sive manufactures  of  lumber,  agricultural  imple- 


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ments,  iron,  carriages  and  wagons  add  oilcloth; 
also  banks  and  two  daily  and  weekly  and  one  semi- 
weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  19,493;  (1910),  24,335. 

ROCK  ISLAND  COUNTY,  in  the  northwestern 
section  of  the  State  bordering  upon  the  Missis- 
sippi River  (which  constitutes  its  northwestern 
boundary  for  more  than  60  miles),  and  having  an 
area  of  420  square  miles.  In  1816  the  Govern- 
ment erected  a  fort  on  Rock  Island  (an  island  in 
the  Mississippi,  3  miles  long  and  one-half  to 
three-quarters  of  a  mile  wide),  naming  it  Fort 
Armstrong.  It  has  always  remained  a  military 
post,  and  is  now  the  seat  of  an  extensive  arsenal 
and  work-shops.  In  the  spring  of  1828,  settle- 
ments were  made  near  Port  Byron  by  John  and 
Thomas  Kinney,  Archibald  Allen  and  George 
Harlan.  Other  early  settlers,  near  Rock  Island 
and  Rapids  City,  were  J.  W.  Spencer,  J.  W.  Bar- 
riels,  Benjamin  F.  Pike  and  Conrad  Leak;  and 
among  the  pioneers  were  Wells  and  Michael  Bart- 
lett,  Joel  Thompson,  the  Simms  brothers  and 
George  Davenport.  The  country  was  full  of 
Indians,  this  being  the  headquarters  of  Black 
Hawk  and  the  initial  point  of  the  Black  Hawk 
War.  (See  Black  Hawk,  and  Black  Hawk  War.) 
By  1829  settlers  were  increased  in  number  and 
county  organization  was  effected  in  1831,  Rock 
Island  (then  called  Stephenson)  being  made  the 
county-seat.  Joseph  Conway  was  the  first 
County  Clerk,  and  Joel  Wells,  Sr.,  the  first  Treas- 
urer. The  first  court  was  held  at  the  residence 
of  John  W.  Barriels,  in  Farnhamsburg.  The 
county  is  irregular  in  shape,  and  the  soil  and 
scenery  greatly  varied.  Coal  is  abundant,  the 
water-power  inexhaustible,  and  the  county's 
mining  and  manufacturing  interests  are  very 
extensive.  Several  lines  of  railway  cross  the 
county,  affording  admirable  transportation  facili- 
ties to  both  eastern  and  western  markets.  Rock 
Island  and  Moline  (which  see)  are  the  two  prin- 
cipal cities  in  the  county,  though  there  are 
several  other  important  points.  Coal  Valley  is 
the  center  of  large  mining  interests,  and  Milan  is 
also  a  manufacturing  center.  Port  Byron  is  one 
of  the  oldest  towns  in  the  county,  and  has  con- 
siderable lime  and  lumber  interests,  while  Water- 
town  is  the  seat  of  the  Western  Hospital  for  the 
Insane.  Population  of  the  county  (1880),  38,302; 
(1890),  41,917;  (1900),  55,249;  (1910),  70,404. 

ROCK  ISLAND  &  PEORIA  RAILWAY,  a 
standard-guage  road,  laid  with  steel  rails,  extend- 
ing from  Rock  Island  to  Peoria,  91  miles.  It  is 
lessee  of  the  Rock  Island  &  Mercer  County  Rail- 
road, running  from  Milan  to  Cable,  111.,  giving  it 
a  total  length  of  118  miles— with  Peoria  Terminal, 


121.10  miles. — (HISTORY.)  The  company  is  a 
reorganization  (Oct.  9,  1877)  of  the  Peoria  & 
Rock  Island  Railroad  Company,  whose  road  was 
sold  under  foreclosure,  April  4,  1877.  The  latter 
Road  was  the  result  of  the  consolidation,  in  1869, 
of  two  corporations — the  Rock  Island  &  Peoria 
and  the  Peoria  &  Rock  Island  Railroad  Compa- 
nies— the  new  organization  taking  the  latter 
name.  The_road  was  opened  through  its  entire 
length,  Jan.  1,  1872,  its  sale  under  foreclosure  and 
reorganization  under  its  present  name  taking 
place,  as  already  stated,  in  1877.  The  Cable 
Branch  was  organized  in  1876,  as  the  Rock  Island 
&  Mercer  County  Railroad,  and  opened  in  De- 
cember of  the  same  year,  sold  under  foreclosure  in 
1877,  and  leased  to  the  Rock  Island  &  Peoria  Rail- 
road, July  1,  1885,  for  999  years,  the  rental  for 
the  entire  period  being  commuted  at  $450,000. — 
(FINANCIAL.)  The  cost  of  the  entire  road  and 
equipment  was  $2,654,487.  The  capital  stock 
(1898)  is  $1,500,000;  funded  debt,  $600,000;  other 
forms  of  indebtedness  increasing  the  total  capital 
invested  to  $2,181,066. 

ROCK  RIVER,  a  stream  which  rises  in  Wash- 
ington County,  Wis.,  and  flows  generally  in  a 
southerly  direction,  a  part  of  its  course  being  very 
sinuous.  After  crossing  the  northern  boundary 
of  Illinois,  it  runs  southwestward,  intersecting 
the  counties  of  Winnebago,  Ogle,  Lee,  Whiteside 
and  Rock  Island,  and  entering  the  Mississippi 
three  miles  below  the  city  of  Rock  Island. 
It  is  about  375  miles  long,  but  its  navigation  is 
partly  obstructed  by  rapids,  which,  however, 
furnish  abundant  water-power.  The  principal 
towns  on  its  banks  are  Rockford,  Dixon  and 
Sterling.  Its  valley  is  wide,  and  noted  for  its 
beauty  and  fertility. 

ROCKTON,  a  village  in  Winnebago  County,  at 
the  junction  of  two  branches  of  the  Chicago, 
Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railroad,  on  Rock  River, 
13  miles  north  of  Rockford ;  has  manufactures  of 
paper  and  agricultural  implements,  a  feed  mill, 
and  local  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  936;  (1910),  841. 

ROE,  Edward  Reynolds,  A.B.,  M.D.,  physician, 
soldier  and  author,  was  born  at  Lebanon,  Ohio, 
June  22,  1813;  removed  with  his  father,  in  1819, 
to  Cincinnati,  and  graduated  at  Louisville  Med- 
ical Institute  in  1842 ;  began  practice  at  Anderson, 
Ind.,  but  soon  removed  to  Shawneetown,  111., 
where  he  gave  much  attention  to  geological 
research  and  made  some  extensive  natural  his- 
tory collections.  From  1848  to  '52  he  resided  at 
Jacksonville,  lectured  extensively  on  his  favorite 
science,  wrote  for  the  press  and,  for  two  years 
(1850-52),  edited  "The  Jacksonville  Journal,"  still 


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later  editing  the  newly  established  "Constitu- 
tionalist" for  a  few  months.  During  a  part  of 
this  period  he  was  lecturer  on  natural  science  at 
Shurtleff  College ;  also  delivered  a  lecture  before 
the  State  Legislature  on  the  geology  of  Illinois, 
which  was  immediately  followed  by  the  passage 
of  the  act  establishing  the  State  Geological 
Department.  A  majority  of  both  houses  joined 
in  a  request  for  his  appointment  as  State  Geolo- 
gist, but  it  was  rejected  on  partisan  grounds — 
he,  then,  being  a  Whig.  Removing  to  Blooming- 
ton  in  1852,  Dr.  Roe  became  prominent  in  educa- 
tional matters,  being  the  first  Professor  of  Natural 
Science  in  the  State  Normal  University,  and  also 
a  Trustee  of  the  Illinois  Wesleyan  University. 
Having  identified  himself  with  the  Democratic 
party  at  this  time,  he  became  its  nominee  for 
State  Superintendent  of  Public  Instruction  in 
1860,  but,  on  the  inception  of  the  war  in  1861,  he 
promptly  espoused  the  cause  of  the  Union,  raised 
three  companies  (mostly  Normal  students)  which 
were  attached  to  the  Thirty-third  Illinois  (Nor- 
mal) Regiment ;  was  elected  Captain  and  succes- 
sively promoted  to  Major  and  Lieutenant-Colonel. 
Having  been  dangerously  wounded  in  the  assault 
at  Vicksburg,  on  May  22,  1863,  and  compelled  to 
return  home,  he  was  elected  Circuit  Clerk  by  the 
combined  vote  of  both  parties,  was  re-elected 
four  years  later,  became  editor  of  "The  Bloom- 
ington  Pantagraph"  and,  in  1870,  was  elected  to 
the  Twenty-seventh  General  Assembly,  where 
he  won  distinction  by  a  somewhat  notable 
humorous  speech  in  opposition  to  removing  the 
State  Capital  to  Peoria.  In  1871  he  was  ap- 
pointed Marshal  for  the  Southern  District  of  Illi- 
nois, serving  nine  years.  Dr.  Roe  was  a  somewhat 
prolific  author,  having  produced  more  than  a 
dozen  works  which  have  appeared  in  book  form. 
One  of  these,  "Virginia  Rose;  a  Tale  of  Illinois 
in  Early  Days,"  first  appeared  as  a  prize  serial  in 
"The  Alton  Courier"  in  1852.  Others  of  his  more 
noteworthy  productions  are :  "The  Gray  and  the 
Blue";  "Brought  to  Bay";  "From  the  Beaten 
Path";  "G.  A.  R. ;  or  How  She  Married  His 
Double";  "Dr.  Caldwell;  or  the  Trail  of  the 
Serpent";  and  "Prairie-Land  and  Other  Poems." 
He  died  in  Chicago,  Nov.  6,  1893. 

ROGERS,  George  Clarke,  soldier,  was  born  in 
Graf  ton  County,  N  H.,  Nov.  22,  1838;  but  was 
educated  in  Vermont  and  Illinois,  having  re- 
moved to  the  latter  State  early  in  life.  While 
teaching  he  studied  law  and  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1860;  was  the  first,  in  1861,  to  raise  a  com- 
pany in  Lake  County  for  the  war,  which  was 
mustered  into  the  Fifteenth  Illinois  Volunteers ; 


was  chosen  Second-Lieutenant  and  later  Captain ; 
was  wounded  four  times  at  Shiloh,  but  refused  to 
leave  the  field,  and  led  his  regiment  in  the  final 
charge;  was  promoted  Lieutenant-Colonel  and 
soon  after  commissioned  Colonel  for  gallantry  at 
Hatchie.  At  Champion  Hills  he  received  three 
wounds,  from  one  of  which  he  never  fully  re- 
covered ;  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  operations 
at  Allatoona  and  commanded  a  brigade  nearly 
two  years,  including  the  Atlanta  campaign, 
retiring  with  the  rank  of  brevet  Brigadier-Gen- 
eral. Since  the  war  has  practiced  law  in  Illinois 
and  in  Kansas. 

ROGERS,  Henry  Wade,  educator,  lawyer  and 
author,  was  born  in  Central  New  York  in  1853 ; 
entered  Hamilton  College,  but  the  following 
year  became  a  student  in  Michigan  University, 
graduating  there  in  1874,  also  receiving  the 
degree  of  A.M.,  from  the  same  institution,  in 
1877.  In  1883  he  was  elected  to  a  professorship 
in  the  Ann  Arbor  Law  School,  and,  in  1885,  was 
made  Dean  of  the  Faculty,  succeeding  Judge 
Cooley,  at  the  age  of  32.  Five  years  later  he  was 
tendered,  and  accepted,  the  Presidency  of  the 
Northwestern  University,  at  Evanston,  being  the 
first  layman  chosen  to  the  position,  and  succeed- 
ing a  long  line  of  Bishops  and  divines.  The  same 
year  (1890),  Wesleyan  University  conferred  upon 
him  the  honorary  degree  of  LL.  D.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  American  Bar  Association,  has  served 
for  a  number  of  years  on  its  Committee  on  Legal 
Education  and  Admission  to  the  Bar,  and  was 
the  first  Chairman  of  the  Section  on  Legal  Edu- 
cation. President  Rogers  was  the  General  Chair- 
man of  the  Conference  on  the  Future  Foreign 
Policy  of  the  United  States,  held  at  Saratoga 
Springs,  N.  Y.,  in  August,  1898.  At  the  Con- 
gress held  in  1893,  as  auxiliary  to  the  Columbian 
Exposition,  he  was  chosen  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Law  Reform  and  Jurisprudence,  and 
was  for  a  time  associate  editor  of  "The  American 
Law  Register,"  of  Philadelphia.  He  is  also  the 
author  of  a  treatise  on  "Expert  Testimony," 
which  has  passed  through  two  editions,  and  has 
edited  a  work  entitled  "Illinois  Citations," 
besides  doing  much  other  valuable  literary  work 
of  a  similar  character. 

ROGERS,  John  Gorin,  jurist,  was  born  at 
Glasgow,  Ky.,  Dec.  28,  1818,  of  English  and  early 
Virginian  ancestry ;  was  educated  at  Center  Col- 
lege, Danville,  Ky.,  and  at  Transylvania  Univer- 
sity, graduating  from  the  latter  institution  in 
1841,  with  the  degree  of  Bachelor  of  Laws.  For 
sixteen  years  he  practiced  in  his  native  town, 
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attained  professional  prominence.  In  1870  he 
was  elected  a  Judge  of  the  Cook  County  Circuit 
Court,  continuing  on  the  bench,  through  repeated 
re-elections,  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
suddenly,  Jan.  10,  1887,  four  years  before  the 
expiration  of  the  term  for  which  he  had  been 
elected. 

RIVERDALE,  a  southern  suburb  of  the  city  of 
Chicago  on  the  Illinois  Central  Railroad  and  four 
other  lines.  Pop.  (1900),  554;  (1910),  917. 

RIVER  FOREST,  a  western  suburb  of  the  city 
of  Chicago,  on  the  lines  of  the  Chicago  &  North 
Western  and  the  Wisconsin  Central  Railroads;  is  a 
growing  residence  suburb.  Pop.  (1910),  2,456. 

ROLL,  John  E.,  pioneer,  was  born  in  Green 
Village,  N.  J.,  June  4,  1814;  came  to  Illinois  in 
1830,  and  settled  in  Sangamon  County.  He 
assisted  Abraham  Lincoln  in  the  construction  of 
the  flat-boat  with  which  the  latter  descended  the 
Mississippi  River  to  New  Orleans,  in  1831.  Mr. 
Roll,  who  was  a  mechanic  and  contractor,  built 
a  number  of  houses  in  Springfield,  where  he  has 
since  continued  to  reside. 

ROMAN  CATHOLIC  CHURCH.  The  earliest 
Christians  to  establish  places  of  worship  in  Illi- 
nois were  priests  of  the  Catholic  faith.  Early 
Catholic  missionaries  were  explorers  and  histori- 
ans as  well  as  preachers.  (See  Allouez;  Bergier; 
Early  Missionaries;  Gravier;  Marquette.)  The 
church  went  hand  in  hand  with  the  represent- 
atives of  the  French  Government,  carrying  in 
one  1  KUI 1 1  the  cross  and  in  the  other  the  flag  of 
France,  simultaneously  disseminating  the  doc- 
trines of  Christianity  and  inculcating  loyalty  to 
the  House  of  Bourbon.  For  nearly  a  hundred 
years,  the  self-sacrificing  and  devoted  Catholic 
clergy  of  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  cen- 
turies ministered  to  the  spiritual  wants  of  the 
early  French  settlers  and  the  natives.  They  were 
not  without  factional  jealousies,  however,  and  a 
severe  blow  was  dealt  to  a  branch  of  them  in  the 
order  for  the  banishment  of  the  Jesuits  and  the 
confiscation  of  their  property.  (See  Early  Mis- 
sionaries.) The  subsequent  occupation  of  the 
country  by  the  English,  with  the  contemporane- 
ous emigration  cf  a  considerable  portion  of  the 
French  west  of  the  Mississippi,  dissipated  many 
congregations.  Up  to  1830  Illinois  was  included 
in  the  diocese  of  Missouri;  but  at  that  time  it  was 
constituted  a  separate  diocese,  under  the  episco- 
pal control  of  Rt.  Rev.  Joseph  Rosatti.  At  that 
date  there  were  few,  if  any,  priests  in  Illinois. 
But  Bishop  Rosatti  was  a  man  of  earnest  purpose 
and  rare  administrative  ability.  New  parishes 
were  organized  as  rapidly  as  circumstances 


would  permit,  and  the  growth  of  the  church  has 
been  steady.  By  1840  there  were  thirty-one 
parishes  and  twenty  priests.  In  1896  there  are 
reported  698  parishes,  764  clergymen  and  a 
Catholic  population  exceeding  850,000.  (See  also 
Religious  Denominations. ) 

ROODHOUSE,  a  city  in  Greene  County,  21 
miles  south  of  Jacksonville,  and  at  junction  of 
three  divisions  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad; 
is  in  fertile  agricultural  and  coal-mining  region ; 
city  contains  a  flouring  mill,  grain-elevator,  stock- 
yards, railway  shops,  water-w.orks,  electric  light 
plant,  two  private  banks,  fine  opera  house,  good 
school  buildings,  one  daily  and  one  weekly  paper. 
Pop.  (1900),  2,351;  (1910),  2,171. 

ROODHOUSE,  John,  farmer  and  founder  of 
the  town  of  Roodhouse,  in  Greene  County,  111., 
was  born  in  Yorkshire,  England,  brought  to 
America  in  childhood,  his  father  settling  in 
Greene  County,  111.,  in  1831.  In  his  early  man- 
hood he  opened  a  farm  in  Tazewell  County,  but 
finally  returned  to  the  paternal  home  in  Greene 
County,  where,  on  the  location  of  the  Jackson- 
ville Division  of  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad, 
he  laid  out  the  town  of  Roodhouse,  at  the  junc- 
tion of  the  Louisiana  and  Kansas  City  branch 
with  the  main  line. 

ROOT,  George  Frederick,  musical  composer 
and  author,  was  born  at  Sheffield,  Mass. ,  August 
30,  1820.  He  was  a  natural  musician,  and,  while 
employed  on  his  father's  farm,  learned  to  play  on 
various  instruments.  In  1838  he  removed  to  Bos- 
ton, where  he  began  his  life-work.  Besides 
teaching  music  in  the  public  schools,  he  was 
employed  to  direct  the  musical  service  in  two 
churches.  From  Boston  he  removed  to  New 
York,  and,  in  1850,  went  to  Paris  for  purposes  of 
musical  study.  In  1853  lie  made  his  first  public 
essay  as  a  composer  in  the  song,  "Hazel  Dell," 
which  became  popular  at  once.  From  this  time 
forward  his  success  as  a  song-writer  was  assured. 
His  music,  while  not  of  a  high  artistic  character, 
captivated  the  popular  ear  and  appealed  strongly 
to  the  heart.  In  1860  he  took  up  his  residence  in 
Chicago,  where  he  conducted  a  musical  journal 
and  wrote  those  "war  songs"  which  created  and 
perpetuated  his  fame.  Among  the  best  known 
are  "Rally  Round  the  Flag";  "Just  Before  the 
Battle,  Mother";  and  "Tramp,  Tramp,  Tramp." 
Other  popular  songs  by  him  are  "Rosalie,  the 
Prairie  Flower";  "A  Hundred  Years  Ago" ;  and 
"The  Old  Folks  are  Gone."  Besides  songs  he 
composed  several  cantatas  and  much  sacred 
music,  also  publishing  many  books  of  instruction 
and  numerous  collections  of  vocal  and  instru- 


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mental  music.  In  1872  the  University  of  Chicago 
conferred  on  him  the  degree  of  Mus.  Doc.  Died, 
near  Portland,  Maine,  August  6,  1895. 

ROOTS,  Benajah  Guernsey,  civil  engineer, 
and  educator,  was  born  in  Onondaga  County 
N.  Y.,  April  20,  1811,  and  educated  in  the  schools 
and  academies  of  Central  New  York;  began 
teaching  in  1827,  and,  after  spending  a  year  at 
sea  for  the  benefit  of  his  health,  took  a  course  in 
law  and  civil  engineering.  He  was  employed  as 
a  civil  engineer  on  the  Western  Railroad  of 
Massachusetts  until  1838,  when  he  came  to  Illi- 
nois and  obtained  employment  on  the  railroad 
projected  from  Alton  to  Shawneetown,  under 
the  "internal  improvement  system"  of  1837. 
When  that  was  suspended  in  1839,  he  settled  on 
a  farm  near  the  present  site  of  Tamaroa,  Perry 
County,  and  soon  after  opened  a  boarding  school, 
continuing  its  management  until  1846,  when  he 
became  Principal  of  a  seminary  at  Sparta.  In 
1851  he  went  into  the  service  of  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral Railroad,  first  as  resident  engineer  in 
charge  of  surveys  and  construction,  later  as  land 
agent  and  attorney.  He  was  prominent  in  the 
introduction  of  the  graded  school  system  in  Illi- 
nois and  in  the  establishment  of  the  State  Nor- 
mal School  at  Blooinington  and  the  University  of 
Illinois  at  Champaign ;  was  a  member  of  the 
State  Board  of  Education  from  its  organization, 
and  served  as  delegate  to  the  National  Repub- 
lican Convention  of  1868.  Died,  at  his  home  in 
Perry  County,  111.,  May  9,  1888.— Philander  Keep 
(Roots),  son  of  the  preceding,  born  in  Tolland 
County,  Conii.,  June  4,  1838,  brought  to  Illinois 
the  same  year  and  educated  in  his  father's  school, 
and  in  an  academy  at  Carrollton  and  the  Wes- 
leyan  University  at  Bloomington ;  at  the  age  of 
17  belonged  to  a  corps  of  engineers  employed  on 
a  Southern  railroad,  and,  during  the  war,  served 
as  a  civil  engineer  in  the  construction  and  repair 
of  military  roads.  Later,  he  was  Deputy  Sur- 
veyor-General of  Nebraska ;  in  1871  became  Chief 
Engineer  on  the  Cairo  &  Fulton  (now  a  part  of 
the  Iron  Mountain)  Railway;  then  engaged  in 
the  banking  business  in  Arkansas,  first  as  cashier 
of  a  bank  at  Fort  Smith  and  afterwards  of  the 
Merchants'  National  Bank  at  Little  Rock,  of 
which  his  brother,  Logan  H.,  was  President. — 
Logan  H.  (Roots),  another  son,  born  near  Tama- 
roa, Perry  County,  111.,  March  22,  1841,  was  edu- 
cated at  home  and  at  tlie  State  Normal  at 
Bloomington,  meanwhile  serving  as  principal 
of  a  high  school  at  Duquoin ;  in  1802  enlisted  in 
the  Eighty-first  Illinois  Volunteers,  serving 
through  the  war  and  acting  as  Chief  Commissary 


for  General  Sherman  on  the  "March  to  the  Sea," 
and  participating  in  the  great  review  in  Wash- 
ington, in  May,  1865.  After  the  conclusion  of 
the  war  he  was  appointed  Collector  of  Internal 
Revenue  for  the  First  Arkansas  District,  was 
elected  from  that  State  to  the  Fortieth  and 
Forty-first  Congresses  (1868  and  1870)— being,  at 
the  time,  the  youngest  member  in  that  body — and 
was  appointed  United  States  Marshal  by  Presi- 
dent Grant.  He  finally  became  President  of  the 
Merchants'  National  Bank  at  Little  Rock,  with 
which  he  remained  nearly  twenty  years.  Died, 
suddenly,  of  congestion  of  the  brain,  May  30, 
1893,  leaving  an  estate  valued  at  nearly  one  and 
a  half  millions,  of  which  he  gave  a  large  share  to 
charitable  purposes  and  to  the  .city  of  Little 
Rock,  for  the  benefit  of  its  hospitals  and  the  im- 
provement of  its  parks. 

ROSE,  James  A.,  Secretary  of  State,  was  born 
at  Golconda,  Pope  County,  111.,  Oct.  13,  1850. 
The  foundation  of  his  education  was  secured  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  place,  and,  after 
a  term  in  the  Normal  University  at  Normal,  111., 
at  the  age  of  18  he  took  charge  of  a  country 
school.  Soon  he  was  chosen  Principal  of  the 
Golconda  graded  schools,  was  later  made  County 
Superintendent  of  Schools,  and  re-elected  for  a 
second  term.  During  his  second  term  he  was 
admitted  to  the  bar,  and,  resigning  the  office  of 
Superintendent,  was  elected  State's  Attorney 
without  opposition,  being  re-elected  for  another 
term.  In  1889,  by  appointment  of  Governor 
Fifer,  he  became  one  of  the  Trustees  of  the 
Pontiac  Reformatory,  serving  until  the  next 
year,  when  he  was  transferred  to  the  Board  of 
Commissioners  of  the  Southern  Illinois  Peniten- 
tiary at  Chester,  which  position  he  continued  to 
occupy  until  1893.  In  1896  he  was  elected  Secre- 
tary of  State  on  the  Republican  ticket;  by  three 
successive  re-elections  is  still  in  office  in  1912. 

ROSEVILLE,  a  village  in  Warren  County,  on 
the  Rock  Island  Division  of  the  Chicago,  Burling- 
ton &  Quincy  Railroad,  17  miles  northwest  of 
Bushnell ;  has  water  and  electric-light  plants,  two 
banks,  public  library  and  one  newspaper  Region 
agricultural  and  coal-mining.  Pop.  (1910),  882. 

ROSS,  Leonard  Fulton,  soldier,  born  in  Fulton 
County,  111.,  July  18,  1823;  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools  and  at  Illinois  College,  Jackson- 
ville, studied  law  and  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1845; 
the  following  year  enlisted  in  the  Fourth  Illinois 
Volunteers  for  the  Mexican  War,  became  First 
Lieutenant  and  was  commended  for  services  at 
Vera  Cruz  and  Cerro  Gordo ;  also  performed  im- 
portant service  as  bearer  of  dispatches  for  Gen- 


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eral  Taylor.  After  the  war  he  served  six  years 
as  Probate  Judge.  In  May,  1861,  he  enlisted  in 
the  war  for  the  Union,  and  was  chosen  Colonel 
of  the  Seventeenth  Illinois  Volunteers,  serving 
with  it  in  Missouri  and  Kentucky;  was  commis- 
sioned Brigadier-General  a  few  weeks  after  the 
capture  of  Fort  Donelson,  and,  after  the  evacu- 
ation of  Corinth,  was  assigned  to  the  command 
of  a  division  with  headquarters  at  Bolivar,  Tenn. 
He  resigned  in  July,  1863,  and,  in  1867,  was 
appointed  by  President  Johnson  Collector  of 
Internal  Revenue  for  the  Ninth  District;  has 
been  three  times  a  delegate  to  National  Repub- 
lican Conventions  and  twice  defeated  as  a  candi- 
date for  Congress  in  a  Democratic  District. 
Since  the  war  he  lias  devoted  his  attention 
largely  to  stock-raising,  having  a  large  stock- 
farm  in  Iowa.  In  his  later  years  was  President 
of  a  bank  at  Lewistown,  111  Died  Jan.  17,  1901. 
ROSS,  (Col.)  William,  pioneer,  was  born  at 
Monson,  Hampden  County,  Mass.,  April  24,  1792; 
removed  with  his  father's  family,  in  1805,  to 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  where  lie  remained  until  his 
twentieth  year,  when  he  was  commissioned  an 
Ensign  in  the  Twenty-first  Regiment  United 
States  Infantry,  serving  through  the  War  of 
1812  14,  and  participating  in  the  battle  of  Sack- 
ett's  Harbor.  During  the  latter  part  of  his  serv- 
ice he  acted  as  drill-master  at  various  points. 
Then,  returning  to  Pittsfield,  he  carried  on  the 
business  of  blacksmithing  as  an  employer,  mean- 
while filling  some  local  offices.  In  1820,  a  com- 
pany consisting  of  himself  and  four  brothers, 
with  their  families  and  a  few  others,  started  for 
the  West,  intending  to  settle  in  Illinois.  Reach- 
ing the  head-waters  of  the  Allegheny  overland, 
they  transferred  their  wagons,  teams  and  other 
property  to  flat-boats,  descending  that  stream 
and  the  Ohio  to  Shawneetown,  111.  Here  they 
disembarked  and,  crossing  the  State,  readied 
Upper  Alton,  where  they  found  only  one  house, 
that  of  Maj.  Charles  W.  Hunter.  Leaving  their 
families  at  Upper  Alton,  the  brothers  proceeded 
north,  crossing  the  Illinois  River  near  its  mouth, 
until  they  reached  a  point  in  the  western  part  of 
the  present  county  of  Pike,  where  the  town  of 
Atlas  was  afterwards  located.  Here  they 
erected  four  rough  log-cabins,  on  a  beautiful 
prairie  not  far  from  the  Mississippi,  removing 
their  families  thither  a  few  weeks  later.  They 
suffered  the  usual  privations  incident  to  life  in  a 
new  country,  not  excepting  sickness  and  death 
of  some  of  their  number.  At  the  next  session  of 
the  Legislature  (1820-21)  Pike  County  was  estab- 
lished, embracing  all  that  part  of  the  State  west 


and  north  of  the  Illinois,  and  including  the 
present  cities  of  Galena  and  Chicago.  The  Ross 
settlement  became  the  nucleus  of  the  town  of 
Atlas,  laid  out  by  Colonel  Ross  and  his  associates 
in  1823,  at  an  early  day  the  rival  of  Quincy,  and 
becoming  the  second  county-seat  of  Pike  County, 
so  remaining  from  1824  to  1833,  when  the  seat  of 
justice  was  removed  to  Pittsfield.  During  this 
period  Colonel  Ross  was  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent citizens  of  the  county,  holding,  simultane- 
ously or  successively,  the  offices  of  Probate 
Judge,  Circuit  and  County  Clerk,  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  and  others  of  a  subordinate  character. 
As  Colonel  of  Militia,  in  1832,  he  was  ordered  by 
Governor  Reynolds  to  raise  a  company  for  the 
Black  Hawk  War,  and,  in  four  days,  reported  at 
Beardstown  with  twice  the  number  of  men 
called  for.  In  1834  he  was  elected  to  the  lower 
branch  of  the  General  Assembly,  also  serving  in 
the  Senate  during  the  three  following  sessions,  a 
part  of  the  time  as  President  pro  tern,  of  the  last- 
named  body.  While  in  the  General  Assembly  he 
was  instrumental  in  securing  legislation  of  great 
importance  relating  to  Military  Tract  lands. 
The  year  following  the  establishment  of  the 
county-seat  at  Pittsfield  (1834)  he  became  a  citi- 
zen of  that  place,  which  he  had  the  privilege  of 
naming  for  his  early  home.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Republican  State  Convention  of  1856,  and  a 
delegate  to  the  National  Republican  Convention 
of  1860,  which  nominated  Mr.  Lincoln  for  Presi- 
dent the  first  time.  Beginning  life  poor  he 
acquired  considerable  property ;  was  liberal,  pub- 
lic-spirited and  patriotic,  making  a  handsome 
donation  to  the  first  company  organized  in  Pike 
County,  for  the  suppression  of  the  Rebellion. 
Died,  at  Pittsfield,  May  31,  1873. 

ROSSVILLE,  a  village  of  Vermillion  County, 
on  the  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois  Railroad,  19 
miles  north  of  Danville ;  has  electric-light  plant, 
water- works,  tile  and  brick-works,  two  banks  and 
one  weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1900),  1,435;  (1910),  1,422. 

ROUNDS,  Sterling  Parker,  public  printer, 
was  born  in  Berkshire,  Vt.,  June  27,  1828;  about 
1840  began  learning  the  printer's  trade  at  Ken- 
osha,  Wis. ,  and,  in  1845,  was  foreman  of  the  State 
printing  office  at  Madison,  afterward  working  in 
offices  in  Milwaukee,  Racine  and  Buffalo,  going 
to  Chicago  in  1851.  Here  he  finally  established 
a  printer's  warehouse,  to  which  he  later  added  an 
electrotype  foundry  and  the  manufacture  of 
presses,  also  commencing  the  issue  of  "Round's 
Printers'  Cabinet,"  a  trade-paper,  which  was 
continued  during  his  life.  In  1881  he  was  ap- 
pointed by  President  Garfield  Public  Printer  at 


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Washington,  serving  until  1885,  when  he  removed 
to  Omaha,  Neb.,  and  was  identified  with  "The 
Republican,"  of  that  city,  until  his  death,  Dec. 
17,  1887. 

ROUJfTREE,  Hiram,  County  Judge,  born  in 
Rutherford  County,  N.  C.,  Dec.  22,  1794;  was 
brought  to  Kentucky  in  infancy,  where  he  grew 
to  manhood  and  served  as  an  Ensign  in  the  War 
of  1812  under  General  Shelby.  In  1817  he  re- 
moved to  Illinois  Territory,  first  locating  in 
Madison  County,  where  he  taught  school  for  two 
years  near  Edwardsville,  but  removed  to  Fayette 
County  about  the  time  of  the  removal  of  the 
State  capital  to  Vandalia.  On  the  organization 
of  Montgomery  County,  in  1821;  he  was  appointed 
to  office  there  and  ever  afterwards  resided  at 
Hillsboro.  For  a  number  of  years  in  the  early 
history  .of  the  county,  he  held  (at  the  same  time) 
the  offices  of  Clerk  of  the  County  Commissioners 
Court,  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court,  County 
Recorder,  Justice  of  the  Peace,  Notary  Public, 
Master  in  Chancery  and  Judge  of  Probate,  besides 
that  of  Postmaster  for  the  town  of  Hillsboro.  In 
1826  he  was  elected  Enrolling  and  Engrossing 
Clerk  of  the  Senate  and  re-elected  in  1830 ;  served 
as  Delegate  in  the  Constitutional  Convention  of 
1847,  and  the  next  year  was  elected  to  the  State 
Senate,  serving  in  the  Sixteenth  and  Seven- 
teenth General  Assemblies.  On  retiring  from 
the  Senate  (1852),  he  was  elected  County  Judge 
without  opposition,  was  re-elected  to  the  same 
office  in  1861,  and  again,  in  1865,  as  the  nominee 
of  the  Republicans.  Judge  Rountree  was  noted 
for  his  sound  judgment  and  sterling  integrity. 
Died,  at  Hillsboro,  March  4,  1873. 

ROUTT,  John  L.,  soldier  and  Governor,  was 
born  at  Eddyville,  Ky.,  April  25,  1826,  brought 
to  Illinois  in  infancy  and  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools.  Soon  after  coming  of  age  he  was 
elected  and  served  one  term  as  Sheriff  of  McLean 
County ;  in  1862  enlisted  and  became  Captain  of 
Company  E,  Ninety-fourth  Illinois  Volunteers. 
After  the  war  he  engaged  in  business  in  Bloom- 
ington,  and  was  appointed  by  President  Grant, 
successively,  United  States  Marshal  for  the 
Southern  District  of  Illinois,  Second  Assistant 
Postmaster-General  and  Territorial  Governor  of 
Colorado.  On  the  admission  of  Colorado  as  a 
State,  he  was  elected  the  first  Governor  under  the 
State  Government,  and  re-elected  in  1890 — serv- 
ing, in  all,  three  years.  For  a  time  he  was  exten- 
sively and  successfully  identified  with  mining  enter- 
prises in  Colorado.  Died  in  Denver  Aug.  3,  1907. 

ROWELL,  Jonathan  II.,  ex-Congressman,  was 
born  at  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  Feb.  10,  1833;  was  a 


graduate  of  Eureka  College  and  of  the  Law 
Department  of  the  Chicago  University.  During 
the  War  of  the  Rebellion  he  served  three  years  as 
company  officer  in  the  Seventeenth  Illinois 
Infantry.  In  1868  he  was  elected  State's  Attor- 
ney for  the  Eighth  Judicial  Circuit,  and,  in  1880, 
was  a  Presidential  Elector  on  the  Republican 
ticket.  In  1882  he  was  elected  to  Congress  from 
the  Fourteenth  Illinois  District  and  three  times 
re-elected,  serving  until  March,  1891.  His  home 
was  at  Bloomington.  Died  May  15,  1908. 

ROWETT,  Richard,  soldier,  was  born  in  Corn- 
wall, England,  in  1830,  came  to  the  United 
States  in  1851,  finally  settling  on  a  farm  near 
Carlinville,  111.,  and  becoming  a  breeder  of 
thorough-bred  horses.  In  1861  he  entered  the 
service  as  a  Captain  in  the  Seventh  Illinois 
Volunteers  and  was  successively  promoted 
Major,  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  Colonel;  was 
wounded  in  the  battles  of  Shiloh,  Corinth  and 
Allatoona,  especially  distinguishing  himself  at  the 
latter  and  being  brevetted  Brigadier- General  for 
gallantry.  After  the  war  he  returned  to  his 
stock-farm,  but  later  held  the  positions  of  Canal 
Commissioner,  Penitentiary  Commissioner,  Rep- 
resentative in  the  Thirtieth  General  Assem- 
bly and  Collector  of  Internal  Revenue  for  the 
Fourth  (Quincy)  District,  until  its  consolidation 
with  the  Eighth  District  by  President  Cleveland. 
Died,  in  Chicago,  July  13,  1887. 

RUSH  MEDICAL  COLLEGE,  located  in  Chi- 
cago; incorporated  by  act  of  March  2,  1837,  the 
charter  having  been  prepared  the  previous  year 
by  Drs.  Daniel  Brainard  and  Josiah  C.  Goodhue. 
The  extreme  financial  depression  of  the  following 
year  prevented  the  organization  of  a  faculty 
until  1843.  The  institution  was  named  in  honor 
of  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  the  eminent  practitioner, 
medical  author  and  teacher  of  Philadelphia  in  the 
latter  half  of  the  eighteenth  century.  The  first 
faculty  consisted  of  four  professors,  and  the  first 
term  opened  on  Dec.  4,  1843,  with  a  class  of 
twenty-two  students.  Three  years'  study  was 
required  for  graduation,  but  only  two  annual 
terms  of  sixteen  weeks  each  need  be  attended  at 
the  college  itself.  Instruction  was  given  in  a 
few  rooms  temporarily  opened  for  that  purpose. 
The  next  year  a  small  building,  costing  between 
$3,000  and  $4,000,  was  erected.  This  was  re-ar- 
ranged and  enlarged  in  1855  at  a  cost  of  $15,000. 
The  constant  and  rapid  growth  of  the  college 
necessitated  the  erection  of  a  new  building  in 
1867,  the  cost  of  which  was  $70,000.  This  was 
destroyed  in  the  fire  of  1871,  and  another,  costing 
$54,000,  was  erected  in  1876  and  a  free  dispensary 


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added.  In  1844  the  Presbyterian  Hospital  was 
located  on  a  portion  of  the  college  lot,  and  the 
two  institutions  connected,  thus  insuring  abun- 
dant and  stable  facilities  for  clinical  instruction. 
Shortly  afterwards,  Rush  College  became  the 
medical  department  of  Lake  Forest  University. 
The  present  faculty  (1898)  consists  of  95  profes- 
sors, adjunct  professors,  lecturers  and  instructors 
of  all  grades,  and  over  600  students  in  attend- 
ance. The  length  of  the  annual  terms  is  six 
months,  and  four  years  of  study  are  required  for 
graduation,  attendance  upon  at  least  three  col- 
lege terms  being  compulsory. 

RUSHVILLE,  the  county-seat  of  Schuyler 
County,  50  miles  northeast  of  Quincy  and  11 
miles  northwest  of  Beardstown ;  is  the  southern 
terminus  of  the  Buda  and  Rushville  branch  of  the 
Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  Railroad.  The 
town  was  selected  as  the  county-seat  in  1826, 
the  seat  of  justice  being  removed  from  a  place 
called  Beardstown,  about  five  miles  eastward 
(not  the  present  Beardstown  in  Cass  County), 
where  it  had  been  located  at  the  time  of  the 
organization  of  Schuyler  County,  a  year  previous. 
At  first  the  new  seat  of  justice  was  called  Rush- 
ton,  in  honor  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  but  after- 
wards took  its  present  name.  It  is  a  coal-mining, 
grain  and  fruit-growing  region,  and  contains 
several  manufactories,  including  flour-mills,  brick 
and  tile  works;  also  has  two  banks  (State  and 
private)  and  a  public  library.  Four  periodicals 
(one  daily)  are  published  here.  Population 
(1890),  2,031;  (1900),  2,292;  (1910),  2,422. 

RUSSELL,  John,  pioneer  teacher  and  author, 
was  born  at  Cavendish,  Vt.,  July  31,  1793,  and 
educated  in  the  common  schools  of  his  native 
State  and  at  Middlebury  College,  where  he  gradu- 
ated in  1818 — having  obtained  means  to  support 
himself,  during  his  college  course,  by  teaching 
and  by  the  publication,  before  he  had  reached  his 
20th  year,  of  a  volume  entitled  "The  Authentic 
History  of  Vermont  State  Prison. "  After  gradu- 
ation he  taught  for  a  short  time  in  Georgia ;  but, 
early  in  the  following  year,  joined  his  father  on 
the  way  to  Missouri.  The  next  five  years  he 
spent  in  teaching  in  the  "Bonhommie  Bottom" 
on  the  Missouri  River.  During  this  period  he 
published,  anonymously,  in  "The  St.  Charles  Mis- 
sourian,"  a  temperance  allegory  entitled  "The 
Venomous  Worm"  (or  "The  Worm  of  the  Still"), 
which  gained  a  wide  popularity  and  was  early 
recognized  by  the  compilers  of  school-readers  as 
a  sort  of  classic.  Leaving  this  locality  he  taught 
a  year  in  St.  Louis,  when  he  removed  to  Vandalia 
(then  the  capital  of  Illinois),  after  which  he  spent 


two  years  teaching  in  the  Seminary  at  Upper 
Alton,  which  afterwards  became  Shurtleff  College. 
In  1828  he  removed  to  Greene  County,  locating 
at  a  point  near  the  Illinois  River  to  which  he 
gave  the  name  of  Bluffdale.  Here  he  was  li- 
censed as  a  Baptist  preacher,  officiating  in  this  ca- 
pacity only  occasionally,  while  pursuing  his 
calling  as  a  teacher  or  writer  for  the  press,  to 
which  he  was  an  almost  constant  contributor 
during  the  last  twenty-five  years  of  his  life. 
About  1837  or  1838  he  was  editor  of  a  paper  called 
"The  Backwoodsman"  at  Graf  ton — then  a  part 
of  Greene  County,  but  now  in  Jersey  County — to 
which  he  afterwards  continued  to  be  a  contribu- 
tor some  time  longer,  and,  in  1841-42,  was  editor 
of  "The  Advertiser, '  at  Louisville,  Ky.  He  was 
also,  for  several  years,  Principal  of  the  Spring 
Hill  Academy  in  East  Feliciana  Parish,  La., 
meanwhile  serving  for  a  portion  of  the  time  as 
Superintendent  of  Public  Schools.  He  was  the 
author  of  a  number  of  stories  and  sketches,  some 
of  which  went  through  several  editions,  and,  at 
the  time  of  his  death,  had  in  preparation  a  his- 
tory of  "The  Black  Hawk  War,"  "Evidences  of 
Christianity"  and  a  "History  of  Illinois."  He 
was  an  accomplished  linguist,  being  able  to  read 
with  fluency  Greek,  Latin,  French,  Spanish  and 
Italian,  besides  having  considerable  familiarity 
with  several  other  modern  languages.  In  1862 
he  received  from  the  University  of  Chicago  the 
degree  of  LL.D.  Died,  Jan.  2,  1863,  and  was 
buried  on  the  old  homestead  at  Bluffdale. 

RUSSELL,  Martin  J.,  politician  and  journal- 
ist, born  in  Chicago,  Dec.  20,  1845.  He  was  a 
nephew  of  Col.  James  A.  Mulligan  (see  Mulligan, 
James  A.)  and  served  with  credit  as  Adjutant- 
General  on  the  staff  of  the  latter  in  the  Civil 
War.  In  1870  he  became  a  reporter  on  "The 
Chicago  Evening  Post,"  and  was  advanced  to 
the  position  of  city  editor.  Subsequently  he  was 
connected  with  "The  Times,"  and  "The  Tele- 
gram" ;  was  also  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Edu- 
cation of  Hyde  Park  before  the  annexation  of 
that  village  to  Chicago,  and  has  been  one  of  the 
South  Park  Commissioners  of  the  city  last  named. 
After  the  purchase  of  "The  Chicago  Times"  by 
Carter  H.  Harrison  he  remained  for  a  time  on 
the  editorial  staff.  In  1894  President  Cleveland 
appointed  him  Collector  of  the  Port  of  Chicago. 
At  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  office  he  resumed 
editorial  work  as  editor-in-chief  of  "The  Chron- 
icle," the  organ  of  the  Democratic  party  in 
Chicago.  Died  June  25,  1900. 

RUTHERFORD,  Friend  S.,  lawyer  and  sol- 
dier, was  born  in  Schenectady,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  25, 


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1820;  studied  law  in  Troy  and  removed  to  Illi- 
nois, settling  at  Edwardsville,  and  finally  at 
Alton;  was  a  Republican  candidate  for  Presi- 
dential Elector  in  1856,  and,  in  1860,  a  member  of 
the  National  Republican  Convention  at  Chicago, 
which  nominated  Mr.  Lincoln  for  the  Presidency. 
In  September,  1862,  he  was  commissioned  Colonel 
of  the  Ninety-seventh  Illinois  Volunteers,  and 
participated  in  the  capture  of  Port  Gibson  and  in 
the  operations  about  Vicksburg — also  leading  in 
the  attack  on  Arkansas  Post,  and  subsequently 
serving  in  Louisiana,  but  died  as  the  result  of 
fatigue  and  exposure  in  the  service,  June  20, 
1864,  one  week  before  his  promotion  to  the  rank 
of  Brigadier-General. — Reuben  C.  (Rutherford), 
brother  of  the  preceding,  was  born  at  Troy,  N.  Y., 
Sept.  29,  1823,  but  grew  up  in  Vermont  and  New 
Hampshire ;  received  a  degree  in  law  when  quite 
young,  but  afterwards  fitted  himself  as  a  lec- 
turer on  physiology  and  hygiene,  upon  which  he 
lectured  extensively  in  Michigan,  Illinois  and 
other  States  after  coming  west  in  1849.  During 
1854-55,  in  co-operation  with  Prof.  J.  B.  Turner 
and  others,  he  canvassed  and  lectured  extensively 
throughout  Illinois  in  support  of  the  movement 
which  resulted  in  the  donation  of  public  lands, 
by  Congress,  for  the  establishment  of  "Industrial 
Colleges"  in  the  several  States.  The  establish- 
ment of  the  University  of  Illinois,  at  Champaign, 
was  the  outgrowth  of  this  movement.  In  1856  he 
located  at  Quincy,  where  he  resided  some  thirty 
years;  in  1861,  served  for  several  months  as  the 
first  Commissary  of  Subsistence  at  Cairo;  was 
later  associated  with  the  State  Quartermaster's 
Department,  finally  entering  the  secret  service  of 
the  War  Department,  in  which  he  remained  until 
1867,  retiring  with  the  rank  of  brevet  Brigadier- 
General.  In  1886,  General  Rutherford  removed 
to  New  York  City,  where  he  died,  June  24, 1895. — 
George  T.  (Rutherford),  another  brother,  was 
born  at  Rutland,  Vt.,  1830;  was  first  admitted  to 
the  bar,  but  afterwards  took  charge  of  the  con- 
struction of  telegraph  lines  in  some  of  the  South- 
ern States;  at  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  Wai- 
became  Assistant  Quartermaster-General  of  the 
State  of  Illinois,  at  Springfield,  under  ex-Gov. 
John  Wood,  but  subsequently  entered  the 
Quartermaster's  service  of  the  General  Govern- 
ment in  Washington,  retiring  after  the  war  with 
the  rank  of  Brigadier-General.  He  then  returned 
to  Quincy,  111.,  where  he  resided  until  1872,  when 
he  engaged  in  manufacturing  business  at  North- 
ampton, Mass.,  but  finally  removed  to  California 
for  the  benefit  of  his  failing  health.  Died,  at  St. 
Helena,  Cal.,  August  28,  1872. 


RUTLAND,  a  village  of  La  Salle  County,  on 
the  Illinois  Central  Railroad,  25  miles  south  of  La 
Salle;  has  a  bank,  five  churches,  school,  and  a 
newspaper,  with  coal  mines  in  the  vicinity.  Pop. 
(1890),  509;  (1900),  893;  (1910),  754. 

RTJTLEDGE,  (Rev.)  William  J.,  clergyman, 
Army  Chaplain,  born  in  Augusta  County,  Va. , 
June  24,  1820;  was  converted  at  the  age  of  12 
years  and,  at  21,  became  a  member  of  the  Illinois 
Conference  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church, 
serving  various  churches  in  the  central  and  west- 
ern parts  of  the  State — also  acting,  for  a  time,  as 
Agent  of  the  Illinois  Conference  Female  College 
at  Jacksonville.  From  1861  to  1863  he  was  Chap- 
lain of  the  Fourteenth  Regiment  Illinois  Volun- 
teers. Returning  from  the  war,  he  served  as 
pastor  of  churches  at  Jacksonville,  Bloomington, 
Quincy,  Rushville,  Springfield,  Griggsville  and 
other  points;  from  1881  to  '84  was  Chaplain  of 
the  Illinois  State  Penitentiary  at  Joliet.  Mr. 
Rutledge  was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  and  served  for  many  years 
as  Chaplain  of  the  order  for  the  Department  of 
Illinois.  In  connection  with  the  ministry,  he 
has  occupied  a  supernumerary  relation  since 
1885.  Died  in  Jacksonville,  April  14,  1900. 

RUTZ,  Edward,  State  Treasurer,  was  born  in 
a  village  in  the  Duchy  of  Baden,  Germany,  May 
5,  1829 ;  came  to  America  in  1848,  locating  on  a 
farm  in  St.  Clair  County,  111. ;  went  to  California 
in  1857,  and,  early  in  1861,  enlisted  in  the  Third 
United  States  Artillery  at  San  Francisco,  serving 
with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  until  his  discharge 
in  1864,  and  taking  part  in  every  battle  in  which 
his  command  was  engaged.  After  his  return  in 
1865,  he  located  in  St.  Clair  County,  and  was 
elected  County  Surveyor,  served  three  consecu- 
tive terms  as  County  Treasurer,  and  was  elected 
State  Treasurer  three  times— 1872,  '76  and  '80. 
About  1892  he  removed  to  California,  where  he 
resided  until  his  death,  May  28,  1905. 

RTAJf,  Edward  0.,  early  editor  and  jurist, 
born  at  Newcastle  House,  County  Meath,  Ireland, 
Nov.  13,  1810;  was  educated  for  the  priesthood, 
but  turned  his  attention  to  law,  and,  in  1830, 
came  to  New  York  and  engaged  in  teaching 
while  prosecuting  his  legal  studies;  in  1836  re- 
moved to  Chicago,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  and  was,  for  a  time,  associated  in  practice 
with  Hugh  T.  Dickey.  In  April,  1840,  Mr.  Ryan 
assumed  the  editorship  of  a  weekly  paper  in  Chi- 
cago called  "The  Illinois  Tribune,"  which  he 
conducted  for  over  a  year,  and  which  is  remem- 
bered chiefly  on  account  of  its  bitter  assaults  on 
Judge  John  Pearson  of  Danville,  who  had 


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aroused  the  hostility  of  some  members  of  the 
Chicago  bar  by  his  rulings  upon  the  bench. 
About  1842  Ryan  removed  to  Milwaukee,  Wis., 
where  he  was,  for  a  time,  a  partner  of  Matthew 
H.  Carpenter  (afterwards  United  States  Senator), 
and  was  connected  with  a  number  of  celebrated 
trials  before  the  courts  of  that  State,  including 
the  Barstow-Bashford  case,  which  ended  with 
Bashford  becoming  the  first  Republican  Governor 
of  Wisconsin.  In  1874  he  was  appointed  Chief 
Justice  of  Wisconsin,  serving  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  at  Madison,  Oct.  19,  1880.  He 
was  a  strong  partisan,  and,  during  the  Civil  War, 
was  an  intense  opponent  of  the  war  policy  of  the 
Government.  In  spite  of  infirmities  of  temper, 
he  appears  to  have  been  a  man  of  much  learning 
and  recognized  legal  ability. 

RYAN,  James,  Roman  Catholic  Bishop,  born 
in  Ireland  in  1848  and  emigrated  to  America  in 
childhood;  was  educated  for  the  priesthood  in 
Kentucky,  and,  after  ordination,  was  made  a  pro- 
'fessor  in  St.  Joseph's  Seminary,  at  Bardstown, 
Ky.  In  1878  he  removed  to  Illinois,  attaching 
himself  to  the  diocese  of  Peoria,  and  having 
charge  of  parishes  at  Wataga  and  Danville.  In 
1881  he  became  rector  of  the  Ottawa  parish, 
within  the  episcopal  jurisdiction  of  the  Arch- 
bishop of  Chicago.  In  1888  he  was  made  Bishop 
of  the  see  of  Alton,  the  prior  incumbent  (Bishop 
Baltes)  having  died  in  1886. 

SACS  AND  FOXES,  two  confederated  Indian 
tribes,  who  were  among  the  most  warlike  and 
powerful  of  the  aborigines  of  the  Illinois  Country. 
The  Foxes  called  themselves  the  Musk-wah-ha- 
kee,  a  name  compounded  of  two  words,  signify- 
ing "those  of  red  earth."  The  French  called 
them  Ou-ta-ga-mies,  that  being  their  spelling  of 
the  name  given  them  by  other  tribes,  the  mean- 
ing of  which  was  "Foxes,"  and  which  was 
bestowed  upon  them  because  their  totem  (or 
armorial  device,  as  it  may  be  called)  was  a  fox. 
They  seem  to  have  been  driven  westward  from 
the  northern  shore  of  Lake  Ontario,  by  way  of 
Niagara  and  Mackinac,  to  the  region  around 
Green  Bay,  Wis. — Concerning  their  allied  breth- 
ren, the  Sacs,  less  is  known.  The  name  is  vari- 
ously spelled  in  the  Indian  dialects — Ou-sa-kies, 
Sauks,  etc. — and  the  term  Sacs  is  unquestionably 
an  abbreviated  corruption.  Black  Hawk  be- 
longed to  this  tribe.  The  Foxes  and  Sacs  formed 
a  confederation  according  to  aboriginal  tradition, 
on  what  is  now  known  as  the  Sac  River,  near 
Green  Bay,  but  the  date  of  the  alliance  cannot 
be  determined.  The  origin  of  the  Sacs  is  equally 


uncertain.  Black  Hawk  claimed  that  his  tribe 
originally  dwelt  around  Quebec,  but,  as  to  the 
authenticity  of  this  claim,  historical  authorities 
differ  widely.  Subsequent  to  1670  the  history  of 
the  allied  tribes  is  tolerably  well  defined.  Their 
characteristics,  location  and  habits  are  described 
at  some  length  by  Father  Allouez,  who  visited 
them  in  1666-67.  He  says  that  they  were  numer- 
ous and  warlike,  but  depicts  them  as  "penurious, 
avaricious,  thievish  and  quarrelsome."  That 
they  were  cordially  detested  by  their  neighbors 
is  certain,  and  Judge  James  Hall  calls  them  "the 
Ishmaelites  of  the  lakes. "  They  were  unfriendly 
to  the  French,  who  attached  to  themselves  other 
tribes,  and,  through  the  aid  of  the  latter,  had 
well-nigh  exterminated  them,  when  the  Sacs  and 
Foxes  sued  for  peace,  which  was  granted  on 
terms  most  humiliating  to  the  vanquished.  By 
1718,  however,  they  were  virtually  in  possession 
of  the  region  around  Rock  River  in  Illinois,  and, 
four  years  later,  through  the  aid  of  the  Mascou- 
tinsand  Kickapoos,  they  had  expelled  the  Illinois, 
driving  the  last  of  that  ill-fated  tribe  across  the 
Illinois  River.  They  abstained  from  taking  part 
in  the  border  wars  that  marked  the  close  of  the 
Revolutionary  War,  and  therefore  did  not  par- 
ticipate in  the  treaty  of  Greenville  in  1795.  At 
that  date,  according  to  Judge  Hall,  they  claimed 
the  country  as  far  west  as  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa, 
and  as  far  north  as  Prairie  du  Chien.  They 
offered  to  co-operate  with  the  United  States 
Government  in  the  War  of  1812,  but  this  offer 
was  declined,  and  a  portion  of  the  tribe,  under 
the  leadership  of  Black  Hawk,  enlisted  on  the 
side  of  the  British.  The  Black  Hawk  War  proved 
their  political  ruin.  By  the  treaty  of  Rock  Island 
they  ceded  vast  tracts  of  land,  including  a  large 
part  of  the  eastern  half  of  Iowa  and  a  large  body 
of  land  east  of  the  Mississippi.  (See  Black  Hawk 
War;  Indian  Treaties.)  In  1842  the  Government 
divided  the  nation  into  two  bands,  removing  both 
to  reservations  in  the  farther  West.  One  was 
located  on  the  Osage  River  and  the  other  on  the 
south  side  of  the  Nee-ma-ha  River,  near  the 
northwest  corner  of  Kansas.  From  these  reser- 
vations, there  is  little  doubt,  many  of  them  have 
silently  emigrated  toward  the  Rocky  Mountains, 
where  the  hoe  might  be  laid  aside  for  the  rifle, 
the  net  and  the  spear  of  the  hunter.  A  few 
years  ago  a  part  of  these  confederated  tribes 
were  located  in  the  eastern  part  of  Oklahoma. 

SAILOR  SPRINGS,  a  village  and  health  resort 
in  Clay  County,  5  miles  north  of  Clay  City,  has 
an  academy  and  a  local  paper.  Population  (1900), 
419;  (1910),  388. 


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SALEM,  an  incorporated  city,  the  county-seat 
of  Marion  County,  on  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  South- 
western, the  Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois  and  the 
Illinois  Southern  Railroads,  71  miles  east  of  St. 
Louis,  and  16  miles  northeast  of  Centralia;  in 
agricultural  and  coal  district.  A  leading  indus- 
try is  the  culture,  evaporation  and  shipment  of 
fruit.  The  city  has  flour-mills,  machine  shops, 
creamery,  two  banks  and  three  weekly  newspapers. 
Pop.  (1900),  1,642;  (1910),  2,669. 

SALINE  COUNTY,  a  southeastern  county, 
organized  in  1847,  having  an  area  of  396  square 
miles.  It  derives  its  name  from  the  salt  springs 
which  are  found  in  every  part  of  the  county. 
The  northern  portion  is  rolling  and  yields  an 
abundance  of  coal  of  a  quality  suitable  for  smith- 
ing. The  bottoms  are  swampy,  but  heavily 
timbered,  and  saw-mills  abound.  Oak,  hickory, 
sweet  gum,  mulberry,  locust  and  sassafras  are 
the  prevailing  varieties.  Fruit  and  tobacco  are 
extensively  cultivated.  The  climate  is  mild  and 
humid,  and  the  vegetation  varied.  The  soil  of 
the  low  lands  is  rich,  and,  when  drained,  makes 
excellent  farming  lands.  In  some  localities  a 
good  gray  sandstone,  soft  enough  to  be  worked, 
is  quarried,  and  millstone  grit  is  frequently  found. 
In  the  southern  half  of  the  county  are  the  Eagle 
Mountains,  a  line  of  hills  having  an  altitude  of 
some  450  to  500  feet  above  the  level  of  the  Mis- 
sissippi at  Cairo,  and  believed  by  geologists  to 
have  been  a  part  of  the  upheaval  that  gave  birth 
to  the  Ozark  Mountains  in  Missouri  and  Arkan- 
sas. The  highest  land  in  the  county  is  864  feet 
above  sea-level.  Tradition  says  that  these  hills 
are  rich  in  silver  ore,  but  it  has  not  been  found 
in  paying  quantities.  Springs  strongly  impreg- 
nated with  sulphur  are  found  on  the  slopes.  The 
county-seat  was  originally  located  at  Raleigh, 
which  was  platted  in  1848,  but  it  was  subse- 
quently removed  to  Harrisburg,  which  was  laid 
out  in  1859.  Population  of  the  county  (1890), 
19,342;  (1900),  21,685;  (1910),  30,204. 

SALINE  RIVER,  a  stream  formed  by  the  con- 
fluence of  two  branches,  both  of  which  flow 
through  portions  of  Saline  County,  uniting  in 
Gallatin  County.  The  North  Fork  rises  in  Hamil- 
ton County  and  runs  nearly  south,  while  the 
South  Fork  drains  part  of  Williamson  County, 
and  runs  east  through  Saline.  The  river  (which 
is  little  more  than  a  creek),  thus  formed,  runs 
southeast,  entering  the  Ohio  ten  miles  below 
Shawneetown. 

SALT  MANUFACTURE.  There  is  evidence 
going  to  show  that  the  saline  springs,  in  Gallatin 
County,  were  utilized  by  the  aboriginal  inhabit- 


ants in  the  making  of  salt,  long  before  the  advent 
of  white  settlers.  There  have  been  discovered,  at 
various  points,  what  appear  to  be  the  remains  of 
evaporating  kettles,  composed  of  hardened  clay 
and  pounded  shells,  varying  in  diameter  from 
three  to  four  feet.  In  1812,  with  a  view  to  en- 
couraging the  manufacture  of  salt  from  these 
springs,  Congress  granted  to  Illinois  the  use  of 
36  square  miles,  the  fee  still  remaining  in  the 
United  States.  These  lands  were  leased  by  the 
State  to  private  parties,  but  the  income  derived 
from  them  was  comparatively  small  and  fre- 
quently difficult  of  collection.  The  workmen 
were  mostly  slaves  from  Kentucky  and  Tennes- 
see, who  are  especially  referred  to  in  Article  VI. , 
Section  2,  of  the  Constitution  of  1818.  The  salt 
made  brought  $5  per  100  pounds,  and  was  shipped 
in  keel-boats  to  various  points  on  the  Ohio,  Mis- 
sissippi, Tennessee  and  Cumberland  Rivers,  while 
many  purchasers  came  hundreds  of  miles  on 
horseback  and  carried  it  away  on  pack  animals. 
In  1827,  the  State  treasury  being  empty  and  the 
General  Assembly  having  decided  to  erect  a  peni- 
tentiary at  Alton,  Congress  was  petitioned  to 
donate  these  lands  to  the  State  in  fee,  and  per- 
mission was  granted  "to  sell  30,000  acres  of  the 
Ohio  Salines  in  Gallatin  County,  and  apply  the 
proceeds  to  such  purposes  as  the  Legislature 
might  by  law  direct."  The  sale  was  made,  one- 
half  of  the  proceeds  set  apart  for  the  building  of 
the  penitentiary,  and  one-half  to  the  improve- 
ment of  roads  and  rivers  in  the  eastern  part  of 
the  State.  The  manufacture  of  salt  was  carried 
on,  however — for  a  time  by  lessees  and  subse- 
quently by  owners — until  1873,  about  which  time 
it  was  abandoned,  chiefly  because  it  had  ceased 
to  be  profitable  on  account  of  competition  with 
other  districts  possessing  superior  facilities. 
Some  salt  was  manufactured  in  Vermilion  County 
about  1824.  The  manufacture  has  been  success- 
fully carried  on  in  recent  years,  from  the  product 
of  artesian  wells,  at  St.  John,  in  Perry  County. 

SANDOVAL,  a  village  of  Marion  County,  at 
the  crossing  of  the  western  branch  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad,  and  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio 
Southwestern,  6  miles  north  of  Centralia.  The 
town  has  coal  mines  and  some  manufactures, 
with  banks  and  one  newspaper.  Population 
(1890),  834;  (1900),  1,258;  (1910),  1,563. 

SANDSTONE.  The  quantity  of  sandstone  quar- 
ried in  Illinois  is  comparatively  insignificant,  its 
value  being  less  than  one-fifth  of  one  per  cent  of 
the  value  of  the  output  of  the  entire  country. 
In  1890  the  State  ranked  twenty-fifth  in  the  list 
of  States  producing  this  mineral,  the  total  value 


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of  the  stone  quarried  being  but  $17,896,  repre- 
senting 141,605  cubic  feet,  taken  from  ten  quar- 
ries, which  employed  forty-six  hands,  and  had  an 
aggregate  capital  invested  of  $49,400. 

SANDWICH,  a  city  in  De  Kalb  County,  incor- 
porated in  1873,  on  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  Railroad,  58  miles  southwest  of  Chicago. 
The  principal  industries  are  the  manufacture  of 
agricultural  implements,  hay-presses,  corn-shell- 
ers,  pumps  and  wind-mills.  Sandwich  has  two 
or  more  banks,  two  weekly  and  one  semi-weekly 
papers.  Pop.  (1890),  2,516;  (1900),  2,520;  (1910), 
2,557. 

SANGAMON     COUNTY,    a    central    county, 
organized  under  act  of  June  30,  1821,  from  parts 
of  Bond  and  Madison  Counties,  and  embracing 
the  present  counties  of  Sangamon,  Cass,  Menard, 
Mason,  Tazewell,   Logan,  and  parts  of  Morgan, 
McLean,  Woodford,  Marshall  and    Putnam.     It 
was   named    for  the   river  flowing  through    it. 
Though  reduced   in  area  somewhat,  four  years 
later,  it  extended  to  the  Illinois  River,  but  was 
reduced  to  its  present  limits  by  the  setting  apart 
of    Menard,   Logan    and    Dane   (now  Christian) 
Counties,  in  1839.    Henry  Funderburk  is  believed 
to  have  been  the    first   white    settler,  arriving 
there  in  1817  and  locating  in  what  is  now  Cotton 
Hill  Township,  being  followed,  the  next  year,  by 
William  Drennan,  Joseph  Dodds,  James  McCoy, 
Robert  Pulliam  and  others.     John  Kelly  located 
on  the  present  site  of  the  city  of  Springfield  in 
1818,  and  was  there  at  the  time  of  the  selection 
of  that  place  as  the  temporary  seat  of  justice  in 
1821.     Other  settlements  were  made  at  Auburn, 
Island    Grove,  and    elsewhere,    and    population 
began  to  flow  in  rapidly.     Remnants  of  the  Potta- 
watomie  and  Kickapoo  Indians  were  still  there, 
but  soon  moved  north  or  west.     County  organi- 
zation was  effected  in  1821,   the  first  Board  of 
County  Commissioners  being  composed  of  Wil- 
liam Drennan,  Zachariah  Peter  and  Samuel  Lee. 
John  Reynolds  (afterwards  Governor)  held  the 
first  term  of  Circuit  Court,  with  John  Taylor, 
Sheriff;  Henry  Starr,  Prosecuting  Attorney,  and 
Charles  R.  Matheny,  Circuit   Clerk.     A  United 
States  Land  Office  was  established  at  Springfield 
in  1823,  with  Pascal  P.   Enos  as  Receiver,  the 
first  sale  of  lands  taking  place  the  same  year. 
The  soil  of  Sangamon  County  is  exuberantly  fer- 
tile, with  rich  underlying  deposits  of  bituminous 
coal,  which  is  mined  in  large  quantities.     The 
chief  towns  are  Springfield,   Auburn,  Riverton, 
Illiopolis  and  Pleasant  Plains.     The  area  of  the 
county  is  875  square  miles.     Pop.  (1880),  52,894; 
(1890),  61,195;  (1900),  71,593;  (1910),  91,024. 


SANGAMON  RITER,  formed  by  the  union  of 
the  North  and  South  Forks,  of  which  the  former 
is  the  longer,  or  main  branch.  The  North  Fork 
rises  in  the  northern  part  of  Champaign  County, 
whence  it  runs  southwest  to  the  city  of  Decatur, 
thence  westward  through  Sangamon  County, 
forming  the  north  boundary  of  Christian  County, 
and  emptying  into  the  Illinois  River  about  9  miles 
above  Beardstown.  The  Sangamon  is  nearly  240 
miles  long,  including  the  North  Fork.  The 
South  Fork  flows  through  Christian  County,  and 
joins  the  North  Fork  about  6  miles  east  of 
Springfield.  In  the  early  history  of  the  State  the 
Sangamon  was  regarded  as  a  navigable  stream, 
and  its  improvement  was  one  of  the  measures 
advocated  by  Abraham  Lincoln  in  1832,  when  he 
was  for  the  first  time  a  candidate  (though  unsuc- 
cessfully) for  the  Legislature.  In  the  spring  of 
1832  a  small  steamer  from  Cincinnati,  called  the 
"Talisman,"  ascended  the  river  to  a  point  near 
Springfield.  The  event  was  celebrated  with 
great  rejoicing  by  the  people,  but  the  vessel 
encountered  so  much  difficulty  in  getting  out  of 
the  river  that  the  experiment  was  never 
repeated. 

SANGAMON  &   MORGAN  RAILROAD.    (See 
Wabash  Railroad.) 

SANGER,  Lorenzo  P.,  railway  and  canal  con- 
tractor, was  born  at  Littleton,  N.  H.,  March  2, 
1809 ;  brought  in  childhood  to  Livingston  County, 
N.  Y.,  where  his  father  became  a  contractor  on 
the  Erie  Canal,  the  son  also  being  employed  upon 
the  same  work.  The  latter  subsequently  became 
a  contractor  on  the  Pennsylvania  Canal  on  his 
own  account,  being  known  as  "the  boy  contract- 
or." Then,  after  a  brief  experience  in  mercantile 
business,  and  a  year  spent  in  the  construction  of  a 
canal  in  Indiana,  in  1836  he  came  to  Illinois,  and 
soon  after  became  an  extensive  contractor  on  the 
Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal,  having  charge  of  rock 
excavation  at  Lockport.  He  was  also  connected 
with  the  Rock  River  improvement  scheme,  and 
interested  in  a  line  of  stages  between  Chicago 
and  Galena,  which,  having  been  consolidated 
with  the  line  managed  by  the  firm  of  Fink  & 
Walker,  finally  became  the  Northwestern  Stage 
Company,  extending  its  operations  throughout 
Michigan,  Indiana,  Illinois,  Wisconsin,  Iowa 
and  Missouri — Mr.  Sanger  having  charge  of  the 
Western  Division,  for  a  time,  with  headquarters 
at  St.  Louis.  In  1851  he  became  the  head  of  the 
firm  of  Sanger,  Camp  &  Co.,  contractors  for  the 
construction  of  the  Western  (or  Illinois)  Division 
of  the  Ohio  &  Mississippi  (now  the  Baltimore  & 
Ohio  Southwestern)  Railway,  upon  which  he 


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was  employed  for  several  years.  Other  works 
with  which  he  was  connected  were  the  North 
Missouri  Railroad  and  the  construction  of  the 
State  Penitentiary  at  Joliet,  as  member  of  the 
firm  of  Sanger  &  Casey,  for  a  time,  also  lessees  of 
convict  labor.  In  1862  Mr.  Sanger  received  from 
Governor  Yates,  by  request  of  President  Lincoln, 
a  commission  as  Colonel,  and  was  assigned  to 
staff  duty  in  Kentucky  and  Tennessee.  After 
the  war  he  became  largely  interested  in  stone 
quarries  adjacent  to  Joliet ;  also  had  an  extensive 
contract,  from  the  City  of  Chicago,  for  deepening 
the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal.  Died,  at  Oakland, 
Cal.,  March  23,  1875,  whither  he  had  gone  for  the 
benefit  of  his  health. —James  Young1  (Sanger), 
brother  of  the  preceding,  was  born  at  Sutton, 
Vt.,  March  14,  1814;  in  boyhood  spent  some  time 
in  a  large  mercantile  establishment  at  Pittsburg, 
Pa.,  later  being  associated  with  his  father  and 
elder  brother  in  contracts  on  the  Erie  Canal  and 
similar  works  in  Pennsylvania,  Ohio  and  Indi- 
ana. At  the  age  of  22  he  came  with  his  father's 
family  to  St.  Joseph,  Mich.,  where  they  estab- 
lished a  large  supply  store,  and  engaged  in 
bridge-building  and  similar  enterprises.  At  a 
later  period,  in  connection  with  his  father  and 
his  brother,  L.  P.  Sanger,  he  was  prominently 
connected  with  the  construction  of  the  Illinois  & 
Michigan  Canal — the  aqueduct  at  Ottawa  and 
the  locks  at  Peru  being  constructed  by  them. 
About  1850  the  Construction  Company,  of  which 
he  and  his  brother,  L.  P.  Sanger,  were  leading 
members,  undertook  the  construction  of  the  Ohio 
&  Mississippi  (now  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwest- 
ern) Railroad,  from  St.  Louis  to  Vincennes,  Ind., 
and  were  prominently  identified  with  other  rail- 
road enterprises  in  Southern  Illinois,  Missouri  and 
California.  Died,  July  3,  1867,  when  consum- 
mating arrangements  for  the  performance  of  a 
large  contract  on  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad. 

SANITARY  COMMISSION.  (See  Illinois  San- 
itary Commission.) 

SANITARY  DISTRICT  OF  CHICAGO.  (See 
Chicago  Drainage  Canal.) 

SAUGANASH,  the  Indian  name  of  a  half-breed 
known  as  Capt.  Billy  Caldwell,  the  son  of  a 
British  officer  and  a  Pottawatomie  woman,  born 
in  Canada  about  1780;  received  an  education 
from  the  Jesuits  at  Detroit,  and  was  able  to 
speak  and  write  English  and  French,  besides 
several  Indian  dialects;  was  a  friend  of  Tecum- 
seh's  and,  during  the  latter  part  of  his  life,  a 
devoted  friend  of  the  whites.  He  took  up  his 
residence  in  Chicago  about  1820,  and,  in  1826, 
was  a  Justice  of  the  Peace,  while  nominally  a 


subject  of  Great  Britain  and  a  Chief  of  the  Otta- 
was  and  Pottawatomies.  In  1828  the  Govern- 
ment, in  consideration  of  his  services,  built  for 
him  the  first  frame  house  ever  erected  in  Chicago, 
which  he  occupied  until  his  departure  with  his 
tribe  for  Council  Bluffs  in  1836.  By  a  treaty, 
made  Jan.  2,  1830,  reservations  were  granted  by 
the  Government  to  Sauganash,  Shabona  and 
other  friendly  Indians  (see  Shabona),  and  1,240 
acres  on  the  North  Branch  of  Chicago  River  set 
apart  for  Caldwell,  which  he  sold  before  leaving 
the  country.  Died,  at  Council  Bluffs,  Iowa, 
Sept.  28,  1841. 

SAVAGE,  George  S.  F.,  D.D.,  clergyman,  was 
born  at  Cromwell,  Conn.,  Jan.  29,  1817;  gradu- 
ated at  Yale  College  in  1844;  studied  theology  at 
Andover  and  New  Haven,  graduating  in  1847; 
was  ordained  a  home  missionary  the  same  year 
and  spent  twelve  years  as  pastor  at  St.  Charles, 
111.,  for  four  years  being  corresponding  editor  of 
"The  Prairie  Herald"  and  "The  Congregational 
Herald."  For  ten  years  he  was  in  the  service  of 
the  American  Tract  Society,  and,  during  the  Civil 
War,  was  engaged  in  sanitary  and  religious  work 
in  the  army.  In  1870  he  was  appointed  Western 
Secretary  of  the  Congregational  Publishing 
Society,  remaining  two  years,  after  which  he  be- 
came Financial  Secretary  of  the  Chicago  Theo- 
logical Seminary.  He  has  also  been  a  Director 
of  the  institution  since  1854,  a  Trustee  of  Beloit 
College  since  1850,  and,  for  several  years,  editor 
and  publisher  of  "The  Congregational  Review." 

SAVANNA,  a  city  in  Carroll  County,  situated 
on  the  Mississippi  River  and  the  Chicago,  Bur- 
lington &  Northern  and  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee 
&  St.  Paul  Railways;  is  10  miles  west  of  Mount 
Carroll  and  about  20  miles  north  of  Clinton, 
Iowa.  It  is  an  important  shipping-point  and  con- 
tains several  manufactories  of  machinery,  lumber, 
flour,  etc.  It  has  two  State  banks,  a  public 
library,  churches,  two  graded  schools,  township 
high  school,  and  two  daily  and  weekly  news- 
papers. Pop.  (1900),  3,325;  (1910),  3,691. 

SAYBROOK,  a  village  of  McLean  County,  on 
the  Lake  Erie  &  Western  Railroad,  26  miles  east 
of  Bloomington;  district  agricultural;  county  fairs 
held  here;  the  town  has  two  banks  and  one  news- 
paper. Pop.  (1900),  879;  (1910),  805. 

SCATES,  Walter  Bennett,  jurist  and  soldier, 
was  born  at  South  Boston,  Halifax  County,  Va., 
Jan.  18,  1808;  was  taken  in  infancy  to  Hopkins- 
ville,  Ky.,  where  he  resided  until  1831,  having 
meanwhile  learned  the  printer's  trade  at  Nash- 
ville and  studied  law  at  Louisville.  In  1831  he 
removed  to  Frankfort.  Franklin  County,  111., 


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where,  for  a  time,  he  was  County  Surveyor.  In 
1836,  having  been  appointed  Attorney-General, 
he  removed  to  Vandalia,  then  the  seat  of  govern- 
ment, but  resigned  at  the  close  of  the  same  year 
to  accept  the  judgeship  of  the  Third  Judicial 
Circuit,  and  took  up  his  residence  at  Shawnee- 
town.  In  1841  he  was  one  of  five  new  Judges 
added  to  the  Supreme  Court  bench,  the  others 
being  Sidney  Breese,  Stephen  A.  Douglas, 
Thomas  Ford  and  Samuel  H.  Treat.  In  that 
year  he  removed  to  Mount  Vernon,  Jefferson 
County,  and,  in  January,  1847,  resigned  his  seat 
upon  the  bench  to  resume  practice.  The  same 
year  he  was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional  Con- 
vention and  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Judiciary.  In  June,  1854,  he  again  took  a  seat 
upon  the  Supreme  Court  bench,  being  chosen  to 
succeed  Lyman  Trumbull,  but  resigned  in  May, 
1857,  and  resumed  practice  in  Chicago.  In 
1862  he  volunteered  in  defense  of  the  Union, 
received  a  Major's  commission  and  was  assigned 
to  duty  on  the  staff  of  General  McClernand ;  was 
made,  Assistant  Adjutant-General  and  mustered 
out  in  January,  1866.  In  July,  1866,  President 
Johnson  appointed  him  Collector  of  Customs  at 
Chicago,  which  position  he  filled  until  July  1, 
1869,  when  he  was  removed  by  President  Grant, 
during  the  same  period,  being  ex-officio  custodian 
of  United  States  funds,  the  office  of  Assistant 
Treasurer  not  having  been  then  created.  Died, 
at  Evanston,  Oct.  26,  1886. 

SCAMMON,  Jonathan  Young,  lawyer  and 
banker,  was  born  at  Whitefield,  Maine,  July  27, 
1812;  after  graduating  at  Waterville  (now  Colby) 
University  in  1831,  he  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  at  Hallowell,  in  1835  remov- 
ing to  Chicago,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of 
his  life.  After  a  year  spent  as  deputy  in  the 
office  of  the  Circuit  Clerk  of  Cook  County,  during 
which  he  prepared  a  revision  of  the  Illinois  stat- 
utes, he  was  appointed  attorney  for  the  State 
Bank  of  Illinois  in  1837,  and,  in  1839,  became 
reporter  of  the  Supreme  Court,  which  office  he 
held  until  1845.  In  the  meantime,  he  was  associ- 
ated with  several  prominent  lawyers,  his  first 
legal  firm  being  that  of  Scammon,  McCagg  & 
Fuller,  which  was  continued  up  to  the  fire  of 
1871.  A  large  operator  in  real  estate  and  identi- 
fied with  many  enterprises  of  a  public  or  benevo- 
lent character,  his  most  important  financial 
venture  was  in  connection  with  the  Chicago 
Marine  &  Fire  Insurance  Company,  which  con- 
ducted an  extensive  banking  business  for  many 
years,  and  of  which  he  was  the  President  and 
leading  spirit.  As  a  citizen  he  was  progressive, 


public-spirited  and  liberal.  He  was  one  of  the 
main  promoters  and  organizers  of  the  old  Galena 
&  Chicago  Union  Railway,  the  first  railroad  to 
run  west  from  Lake  Michigan ;  was  also  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  founding  of  the  Chi- 
cago public  school  system,  a  Trustee  of  the  (old) 
Chicago  University,  and  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  Chicago  Historical  Society,  of  the  Chicago 
Academy  of  Sciences  and  the  Chicago  Astro- 
nomical Society  —  being  the  first  President 
of  the  latter  body.  He  erected,  at  a  cost  of 
$30,000,  the  Fort  Dearborn  Observatory,  in 
which  he  caused  to  be  placed  the  most  power- 
ful telescope  which  had  at  that  time  been  brought 
to  the  West.  He  also  maintained  the  observatory 
at  his  own  expense.  He  was  the  pioneer  of 
Swedenborgianism  in  Chicago,  and,  in  politics,  a 
staunch  Whig,  and,  later,  an  ardent  Republican. 
In  1844  he  was  one  of  the  founders  of  "The  Chi- 
cago American,"  a  paper  designed  to  advance 
the  candidacy  of  Henry  Clay  for  the  Presidency ; 
and,  in  1872,  when  "The  Chicago  Tribune" 
espoused  the  Liberal  Republican  cause,  he  started 
"The  Inter-Ocean"  as  a  Republican  organ,  being, 
for  some  time,  its  sole  proprietor  and  editor-in- 
chief.  He  was  one  of  the  first  to  encourage  the 
adoption  of  the  homeopathic  system  of  medicine 
in  Chicago,  and  was  prominently  connected  with 
the  founding  of  the  Hahnemann  Medical  College 
and  the  Hahnemann  Hospital,  being  a  Trustee  in 
both  for  many  years.  As  a  member  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly  he  secured  the  passage  of  many 
important  measures,  among  them  being  legisla- 
tion looking  toward  the  bettering  of  the  currency 
and  the  banking  system.  He  accumulated  a 
large  fortune,  but  lost  most  of  it  by  the  fire  of 
1871  and  the  panic  of  1873.  Died,  in  Chicago, 
March  17,  1890. 

SCARRITT,  Nathan,  pioneer,  was  born  in  Con- 
necticut, came  to  Edwardsville,  111. ,  in  1820,  and, 
in  1821,  located  in  Scarritt's  Prairie,  Madison 
County.  His  sons  afterward  became  influential 
in  business  and  Methodist  church  circles.  Died, 
Dec.  12,  1847. 

SCENERY,  NATURAL.  Notwithstanding  the 
uniformity  of  surface  which  characterizes  a 
country  containing  no  mountain  ranges,  but 
which  is  made  up  largely  of  natural  prairies, 
there  are  a  number  of  localities  in  Illinois  where 
scenery  of  a  picturesque,  and  even  bold  and 
rugged  character,  may  be  found.  One  of  the 
most  striking  of  these  features  is  produced  by  a 
spur  or  low  range  of  hills  from  the  Ozark  Moun- 
tains of  Missouri,  projected  across  the  southern 
part  of  the  State  from  the  vicinity  of  Grand 


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Tower  in  Jackson  County,  through  the  northern 
part  of  Union,  and  through  portions  of  William- 
son, Johnson,  Saline,  Pope  and  Hardin  Counties. 
Grand  Tower,  the  initial  point  in  the  western 
part  of  the  State,  is  an  isolated  cliff  of  limestone, 
standing  out  in  the  channel  of  the  Mississippi, 
and  forming  an  island  nearly  100  feet  above  low- 
water  level.  It  has  been  a  conspicuous  landmark 
for  navigators  ever  since  the  discovery  of  the 
Mississippi.  "Fountain  Bluff,"  a  few  miles 
above  Grand  Tower,  is  another  conspicuous  point 
immediately  on  the  river  bank,  formed  by  some 
isolated  hills  about  three  miles  long  by  a  mile 
and  a  half  wide,  which  have  withstood  the  forces 
that  excavated  the  valley  now  occupied  by  the 
Mississippi.  About  half  a  mile  from  the  lower 
end  of  this  hill,  with  a  low  valley  between  them, 
is  a  smaller  eminence  known  as  the  "Devil's 
Bake  Oven."  The  main  chain  of  bluff s,  known 
as  the  "Back  Bone,"  is  about  five  miles  from  the 
river,  and  rises  to  a  height  of  nearly  700  feet 
above  low-tide  in  the  Gulf  of  Mexico,  or  more 
than  400  feet  above  the  level  of  the  river  at 
Cairo.  "Bald  Knob"  is  a  very  prominent  inland 
bluff  promontory  near  Alta  Pass  on  the  line  of 
the  Mobile  &  Ohio  Railroad,  in  the  northern  part 
of  Union  County,  with  an  elevation  above  tide- 
water of  985  feet.  The  highest  point  in  this 
range  of  hills  is  reached  in  the  northeastern  part 
of  Pope  County — the  elevation  at  that  point  (as 
ascertained  by  Prof.  Bolfe  of  the  State  University 
at  Champaign)  being  1,046  feet. — There  is  some 
striking  scenery  in  the  neighborhood  of  Grafton 
between  Alton  and  the  mouth  of  the  Illinois,  as 
well  as  some  distance  up  the  latter  stream — 
though  the  landscape  along  the  middle  section  of 
the  Illinois  is  generally  monotonous  or  only 
gently  undulating,  except  at  Peoria  and  a  few 
other  points,  where  bluffs  rise  to  a  considerable 
height.  On  the  Upper  Illinois,  beginning  at 
Peru,  the  scenery  again  becomes  picturesque, 
including  the  celebrated  "Starved  Rock,"  the 
site  of  La  Salle's  Fort  St.  Louis  (which  see). 
This  rock  rises  to  a  perpendicular  height  of 
about  125  feet  from  the  surface  of  the  river  at  the 
ordinary  stage.  On  the  opposite  side  of  the  river, 
about  four  miles  below  Ottawa,  is  "Buffalo 
Rock,"  an  isolated  ridge  of  rock  about  two  miles 
long  by  forty  to  sixty  rods  wide,  evidently  once 
an  island  at  a  period  when  the  Illinois  River 
occupied  the  whole  valley.  Additional  interest 
is  given  to  both  these  localities  by  their  associ- 
ation with  early  history.  Deer  Park,  on  the  Ver- 
milion River — some  two  miles  from  where  it 
empties  into  the  Illinois,  just  below  "Starved 


Rock" — is  a  peculiar  grotto-like  formation, caused 
by  a  ravine  which  enters  the  Vermilion  at  this 
point.  Ascending  this  ravine  from  its  mouth, 
for  a  quarter  of  a  mile,  between  almost  perpen- 
dicular walls,  the  road  terminates  abruptly  at  a 
dome-like  overhanging  rock  which  widens  at  this 
point  to  about  150  feet  in  diameter  at  the  base, 
with  a  height  of  about  75  feet.  A  clear  spring 
of  water  gushes  from  the  base  of  the  cliff,  and,  at 
certain  seasons  of  the  year,  a  beautiul  water-fall 
pours  from  the  cliffs  into  a  little  lake  at  the  bot- 
tom of  the  chasm.  There  is  much  other  striking 
scenery  higher  up,  on  both  the  Illinois  and  Fox 
Rivers. — A  point  which  arrested  the  attention  of 
the  earliest  explorers  in  this  region  was  Mount 
Joliet,  near  the  city  of  that  name.  It  is  first 
mentioned  by  St.  Cosme.  in  1698,  and  has  been 
variously  known  as  Monjolly,  Mont  Jolie,  Mount 
Juliet,  and  Mount  Joliet.  It  had  an  elevation,  in 
early  times,  of  about  30  feet  with  a  level  top 
1,300  by  225  feet.  Prof.  O.  H.  Marshall,  in  "The 
American  Antiquarian,"  expresses  the  opinion 
that,  originally,  it  was  an  island  in  the  river, 
which,  at  a  remote  period,  swept  down  the  valley 
of  the  Des  Plaines.  Mount  Joliet  was  a  favorite 
rallying  point  of  Illinois  Indians,  who  were 
accustomed  to  hold  their  councils  at  its  base. — 
The  scenery  along  Rock  River  is  not  striking 
from  its  boldness,  but  it  attracted  the  attention 
of  early  explorers  by  the  picturesque  beauty  of 
its  groves,  undulating  plains  and  sheets  of  water. 
The  highest  and  most  abrupt  elevations  are  met 
with  in  Jo  Daviess  County,  near  the  Wisconsin 
State  line.  Pilot  Knob,  a  natural  mound  about 
three  miles  south  of  Galena  and  two  miles  from 
the  Mississippi,  has  been  a  landmark  well  known 
to  tourists  and  river  men  ever  since  the  Upper 
Mississippi  began  to  be  navigated.  Towering 
above  the  surrounding  bluffs,  it  reaches  an  alti- 
tude of  some  430  feet  above  the  ordinary  level  of 
Fever  River.  A  chain  of  some  half  dozen  of  these 
mounds  extends  some  four  or  five  miles  in  a  north- 
easterly direction  from  Pilot  Knob,  Waddel's  and 
Jackson's  Mounds  being  conspicuous  among 
them.  There  are  also  some  castellated  rocks 
around  the  city  of  Galena  which  are  very  strik- 
ing. Charles  Mound,  belonging  to  the  system 
already  referred  to,  is  believed  to  be  the  highest 
elevation  in  the  State.  It  stands  near  the  Wis- 
consin State  line,  and,  according  to  Prof.  Rolfe, 
has  an  altitude  of  314  feet  above  the  Illinois  Cen- 
tral Railroad  at  Scales'  Mound  Station,  and,  1,257 
feet  above  the  Gulf  of  Mexico. 

SCHRAM  CITY,  a  village  of  Montgomery  County 
in  a  coal  mining  district.    Pop.  (1910),  516. 


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SCHXEIDER,  George,  journalist  and  banker, 
was  born  at  Pirmasens,  Bavaria,  Dec.  13,  1823. 
Being  sentenced  to  death  for  his  participation  in 
the  attempted  rebellion  of  1848,  he  escaped  to 
America  in  1849,  going  from  New  York  to  Cleve- 
land, and  afterwards  to  St.  Louis.  There,  in  con- 
nection with  his  brother,  he  established  a  German 
daily — "The  New  Era" — which  was  intensely 
anti-slavery  and  exerted  a  decided  political  influ- 
ence, especially  among  persons  of  German  birth. 
In  1851  he  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  became 
editor  of  "The  Staats  Zeitung,"  in  which  he 
vigorously  opposed  the  Kansas-Nebraska  bill  on 
its  introduction  by  Senator  Douglas.  His  attitude 
and  articles  gave  such  offense  to  the  partisan 
friends  of  this  measure,  that  "The  Zeitung"  was 
threatened  with  destruction  by  a  mob  in  1855. 
He  early  took  advanced  ground  in  opposition  to 
slavery,  and  was  a  member  of  the  convention  of 
Anti-Nebraska  editors,  held  at  Decatur  in  1856, 
and  of  the  first  Republican  State  Convention,  held 
at  Bloomington  the  same  year,  as  well  as  of  the 
National  Republican  Conventions  of  1856  and 
1860,  participating  in  the  nomination  of  both 
John  C.  Fremont  and  Abraham  Lincoln  for  the 
Presidency.  In  1861  he  was  a  member  of  the 
Chicago  Union  Defense  Committee,  and  was 
appointed,  by  Mr.  Lincoln,  Consul-General  at 
Elsinore,  Denmark.  Returning  to  America  in 
1862,  he  disposed  of  his  interest  in  "The  Staats 
Zeitung"  and  was  appointed  the  first  Collector  of 
Internal  Revenue  for  the  Chicago  District.  On 
retiring  from  this  office  he  engaged  in  banking, 
subsequently  becoming  President  of  the  National 
Bank  of  Illinois,  with  which  he  was  associated 
for  a  quarter  of  a  century.  In  1877  President 
Hayes  tendered  him  the  ministry  to  Switzerland, 
which  he  declined.  In  1880  he  was  chosen  Presi- 
dential Elector  for  the  State-at-large,  also  serving 
for  a  number  of  years  as  a  member  of  the  Repub- 
lican State  Central  Committee.  Died  Sept.  16,  1905. 

SCHOFIELD,  John  McAllister,  Major-General, 
was  born  in  Chautauqua  County,  N.  Y.,  Sept  29, 
1831;  brought  to  Bristol,  Kendall  County,  111.,  in 
1843,  and,  two  years  later,  removed  to  Freeport ; 
graduated  from  the  United  States  Military  Acad- 
emy, in  1853,  as  classmate  of  Generals  McPherson 
and  Sheridan ;  was  assigned  to  the  artillery  ser- 
vice and  served  two  years  in  Florida,  after  which 
he  spent  five  years  (1855-60)  as  an  instructor  at 
West  Point.  At  the  beginning  of  the  Civil  War 
he  was  on  leave  of  absence,  acting  as  Professor 
of  Physics  in  Washington  University  at  St. 
Louis,  but,  waiving  his  leave,  he  at  once  returned 
to  duty  and  was  appointed  mustering  officer; 


then,  by  permission  of  the  War  Department, 
entered  the  First  Missouri  Volunteers  as  Major, 
serving  as  Chief  of  Staff  to  General  Lyon  in  the 
early  battles  in  Missouri,  including  Wilson's 
Creek.  His  subsequent  career  included  the 
organization  of  the  Missouri  State  Militia  (1862), 
command  of  the  Army  of  the  Frontier  in  South- 
west Missouri,  command  of  the  Department  of 
the  Missouri  and  Ohio,  participation  in  the 
Atlanta  campaign  and  co-operation  with  Sher- 
man in  the  capture  of  the  rebel  Gen.  Joseph  E. 
Johnston  in  North  Carolina — his  army  having 
been  transferred  for  this  purpose,  from  Tennessee 
by  way  of  Washington.  After  the  close  of  the 
war  he  went  on  a  special  mission  to  Mexico 
to  investigate  the  French  occupation  of  that 
country ;  was  commander  of  the  Department  of 
the  Potomac,  and  served  as  Secretary  of  War,  by 
appointment  of  President  Johnson,  from  June, 
1868,  to  March,  1869.  On  retiring  from  the  Cabi- 
net he  was  commissioned  a  full  Major-General 
and  held  various  Division  and  Department  com- 
mands until  1886,  when,  on  the  death  of  General 
Sherman,  he  succeeded  to  the  'command  of  the 
Army,  with  headquarters  at  Washington. 
He  was  retired  under  the  age  limit,  Sept.  29, 
1895.  His  present  home  is  in  Washington. 

SCHOLFIELD,  John,  jurist,  was  born  in  Clark 
County,  111. ,  in  1834 ;  acquired  the  rudiments  of 
an  education  in  the  common  schools  during  boy- 
hood, meanwhile  gaining  some  knowledge  of  the 
higher  branches  through  toilsome  application  to 
text-books  without  a  preceptor.  At  the  age  of 
20  he  entered  the  law  school  at  Louisville,  Ky., 
graduating  two  years  later,  and  beginning  prac- 
tice at  Marshall,  111.  He  defrayed  his  expenses 
at  the  law  school  from  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  of 
a  small  piece  of  land  to  which  he  had  fallen  heir. 
In  1856  he  was  elected  State's  Attorney,  and,  in 
1860,  was  chosen  to  represent  his  county  in  the 
Legislature.  After  serving  one  term  he  returned 
to  his  professional  career  and  succeeded  in  build- 
ing up  a  profitable  practice.  In  1869-70  he  repre- 
sented Clark  and  Cumberland  Counties  in  the 
Constitutional  Convention,  and,  in  1870,  became 
Solicitor  for  the  Vandalia  Railroad.  In  1873  he 
was  elected  to  fill  the  vacancy  on  the  bench  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  the  State  for  the  Middle  Grand 
Division,  caused  by  the  resignation  of  Judge 
Anthony  Thornton,  and  re-elected  without  oppo- 
sition in  1879  and  1888.  Died,  in  office,  Feb.  13, 
1893.  It  has  been  claimed  that  President  Cleve- 
land would  have  tendered  him  the  Chief  Justice- 
ship of  the  United  States  Supreme  Court,  had  he 
not  insistently  declined  to  accept  the  honor. 


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SCHOOL-HOUSES,  EARLY.  The  primitive 
school-houses  of  Illinois  were  built  of  logs,  and 
were  extremely  rude,  as  regards  both  structure 
and  furnishing.  Indeed,  the  earliest  pioneers 
rarely  erected  a  special  building  to  be  used  as  a 
school-house.  An  old  smpke-house,  an  abandoned 
dwelling,  an  old  block-house,  or  the  loft  or  one 
end  of  a  settler's  cabinHot  unfrequently  answered 
the  purpose,  and  the  church  and  the  court-house 
were  often  made  to  accommodate  the  school. 
When  a  school-house,  as  such,  was  to  be  built,  the 
men  of  the  district  gathered  at  the  site  selected, 
bringing  their  axes  and  a  few  other  tools,  with 
their  ox-teams,  and  devoted  four  or  five  days  to 
constructing  a  house  into  which,  perhaps,  not  a 
nail  was  driven.  Trees  were  cut  from  the  public 
lands,  and,  without  hewing,  fashioned  into  a 
cabin.  Sixteen  feet  square  was  usually  con- 
sidered the  proper  dimensions.  In  the  walls 
were  cut  two  holes,  one  for  a  door  to  admit  light 
and  air,  and  the  other  for  the  open  fireplace,  from 
which  rose  a  chimney,  usually  built  of  sticks  and 
mud,  on  the  outside.  Danger  of  fire  was  averted 
by  thickly  lining  the  inside  of  the  chimney  with 
clay  mortar.  Sometimes,  but  only  with  great 
labor,  stone  was  substituted  for  mortar  made 
from  the  clay  soil.  The  chimneys  were  always 
wide,  seldom  less  than  six  feet,  and  sometimes 
extending  across  one  entire  end  of  the  building. 
The  fuel  used  was  wood  cut  directly  from  the 
forest,  frequently  in  its  green  state,  dragged  to 
the  spot  in  the  form  of  logs  or  entire  trees  to  be 
cut  by  the  older  pupils  in  lengths  suited  to  the 
width  of  the  chimney.  Occasionally  there  was 
no  chimney,  the  fire,  in  some  of  the  most  primi- 
tive structures,  being  built  on  the  earth  and  the 
smoke  escaping  through  a  hole  in  the  roof.  In 
such  houses  a  long  board  was  set  up  on  the  wind- 
ward side,  and  shifted  from  side  to  side  as  the 
wind  varied.  Stones  or  logs  -answered  for 
andirons,  clapboards  served  as  shovels,  and  no 
one  complained  of  the  lack  of  tongs.  Roofs  were 
made  of  roughly  split  clapboards,  held  in  place 
by  "weight  poles"  laid  on  the  boards,  and  by  sup- 
ports starting  from  "eaves  poles."  The  space 
between  the  logs,  which  constituted  the  walls  of 
the  building,  was  filled  in  with  blocks  of  wood 
or  "chinking,"  and  the  crevices,  both  exterior 
and  interior,  daubed  over  with  clay  mortar,  in 
which  straw  was  sometimes  mixed  to  increase  its 
adhesiveness.  On  one  side  of  the  structure  one 
or  two  logs  were  sometimes  cut  out  to  allow  the 
admission  of  light ;  and,  as  glass  could  not  always 
be  procured,  rain  and  snow  were  excluded  and 
light  admitted  by  the  use  of  greased  paper.  Over 


this  space  a  board,  attached  to  the  outer  wall  by 
leather  hinges,  was  sometimes  suspended  to  keep 
out  the  storms.  The  placing  of  a  glass  window 
in  a  country  school -house  at  Edwardsville,  in 
1834,  was  considered  an  important  event.  Ordi- 
narily the  floor  was  of  the  natural  earth,  although 
this  was  sometimes  covered  with  a  layer  of  clay, 
firmly  packed  down.  Only  the  more  pretentious 
school-houses  had  "puncheon  floors";  i.  e.,  floors 
made  of  split  logs  roughly  hewn.  Few  had 
"ceilings"  (so-called),  the  latter  being  usually 
made  of  clapboards,  sometimes  of  bark,  on  which 
was  spread  earth,  to  keep  out  the  cold.  The 
seats  were  also  of  puncheons  (without  backs) 
supported  on  four  legs  made  of  pieces  of  poles 
inserted  through  augur  holes.  No  one  had  a  desk, 
except  the  advanced  pupils  who  were  learning  to 
write.  For  their  convenience  a  broader  and 
smoother  puncheon  was  fastened  into  the  wall 
by  wooden  pins,  in  such  a  way  that  it  would 
slope  downward  toward  the  pupil,  the  front  being 
supported  by  a  brace  extending  from  the  wall. 
When  a  pupil  was  writing  he  faced  the  wall. 
When  he  had  finished  this  task,  he  "reversed  him- 
self" and  faced  the  teacher  and  his  schoolmates. 
These  adjuncts  completed  the  furnishings,  with 
the  exception  of  a  split-bottomed  chair  for  the 
teacher  (who  seldom  had  a  desk)  and  a  pail,  or 
"piggin,"-of  water,  with  a  gourd  for  a  drinking 
cup.  Rough  and  uncouth  as  these  structures 
were,  they  were  evidences  of  public  spirit  and  of 
appreciation  of  the  advantages  of  education. 
They  were  built  and  maintained  by  mutual  aid 
and  sacrifice,  and,  in  them,  some  of  the  great  men 
of  the  State  and  Nation  obtained  that  primary 
training  which  formed  the  foundation  of  their 
subsequent  careers.  (See  Education.) 

SCHTJYLER  COUNTY,  located  in  the  western 
portion  of  the  State,  has  an  area  of  414  square 
miles,  and  was  named  for  Gen.  Philip  Schuyler. 
The  first  American  settlers  arrived  in  1823,  and, 
among  the  earliest  pioneers,  were  Calvin  Hobart, 
William  H.  Taylor  and  Orris  McCartney.  The 
county  was  organized  from  a  portion  of  Pike 
County,  in  1825,  the  first  Commissioners  being 
Thomas  Blair,  Thomas  McKee  and  Samuel  Hor- 
ney.  The  Commissioners  appointed  to  locate  the 
county -scat,  selected  a  site  in  the  eastern  part  of 
the  county  about  one  mile  west  of  the  present 
village  of  Pleasant  View,  to  which  the  name  of 
Beardstown  was  given,  and  where  the  earliest 
court  was  held,  Judge  John  York  Sawyer  presid- 
ing, with  Hart  Fellows  as  Clerk,  and  Orris  Mc- 
Cartney, Sheriff.  This  location,  however,  proving 
unsatisfactory,  new  Commissioners  were  ap- 


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pointed,  who,  in  the  early  part  of  1826,  selected 
the  present  site  of  the  city  of  Kushville,  some 
five  miles  west  of  the  point  originally  chosen. 
The  new  seat  of  justice  was  first  called  Rushton, 
in  honor  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Rush,  but  the  name 
was  afterwards  changed  to  Rushville.  Ephraim 
Eggleston  was  the  pioneer  of  Rushville.  The 
surface  of  the  county  is  rolling,  and  the  region 
contains  excellent  farming  land,  which  is  well 
watered  by  the  Illinois  River  and  numerous 
creeks.  Pop.  (1900),  16,129;  (1910),  14,852. 

SCHWATKA,  Frederick,  Arctic  explorer,  was 
born  at  Galena,  111.,  Sept.  29,  1849;  graduated' 
from  the  United  States  Military  Academy  in  1871, 
and  was  commissioned  Second  Lieutenant  in  the 
Third  Cavalry,  serving  on  the  frontier  until  1877, 
meantime  studying  law  and  medicine,  being 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  1875,  and  graduating  in 
medicine  in  1876.  Having  his  interest  excited  by 
reports  of  traces  of  Sir  John  Franklin's  expedi- 
tion, found  by  the  Esquimaux,  he  obtained  leave 
of  absence  in  1878,  and,  with  Wm.  H.  Gilder  as 
second  in  command,  sailed  from  New  York  in  the 
"Eothen,"  June  19,  for  King  William's  Land. 
The  party  returned,  Sept.  22,  1880,  having  found 
and  buried  the  skeletons  of  many  of  Franklin's 
party,  besides  discovering  relics  which  tended  to 
clear  up  the  mystery  of  their  fate.  During  this 
period  he  made  a  sledge  journey  of  3,251  miles. 
Again,  in  1883,  he  headed  an  exploring  expedition 
up  the  Yukon  River.  After  a  brief  return  to 
army  duty  he  tendered  his  resignation  in  1885, 
and  the  next  year  led  a  special  expedition  to 
Alaska,  under  the  auspices  of  "The  New  York 
Times,"  later  making  a  voyage  of  discovery 
among  the  Aleutian  Islands.  In  1889  he  con- 
ducted an  expedition  to  Northern  Mexico,  where 
he  found  many  interesting  relics  of  Aztec  civili- 
zation and  of  the  cliff  and  cave-dwellers.  He 
received  the  Roquette  Arctic  Medal  from  •  the 
Geographical  Society  of  Paris,  and  a  medal  from 
the  Imperial  Geographical  Society  of  Russia;  also 
published  several  volumes  relating  to  his  re- 
searches, under  the  titles,  "Along  Alaska's 
Great  River";  "The  Franklin  Search  Under 
Lieutenant  Schwatka" ;  "Nimrod  of  the  North" ; 
and  "Children  of  the  Cold."  Died,  at  Portland, 
Ore.,  Nov.  2,  1892. 

SCOTT,  James  W.,  journalist,  was  born  in 
Wai  worth  County,  Wis.,  June  26,  1849,  the  son 
of  a  printer,  editor  and  publisher.  While  a  boy 
he  accompanied  his  father  to  Galena,  where  the 
latter  established  a  newspaper,  and  where  he 
learned  the  printer's  trade.  After  graduating 
from  the  Galena  high  school,  he  entered  Beloit 


College,  but  left  at  the  end  of  his  sophomore  year. 
Going  to  New  York,  he  became  interested  in  flori- 
culture, at  the  same  time  contributing  short 
articles  to  horticultural  periodicals.  Later  he 
was  a  compositor  in  Washington.  His  first  news- 
paper venture  was  the  publication  of  a  weekly 
newspaper  in  Maryland  in  1872.  Returning  to 
Illinois,  conjointly  with  his  father  he  started 
"The  Industrial  Press"  at  Galena,  but,  in  1875, 
removed  to  Chicago.  There  he  purchased  "The 
Daily  National  Hotel  Reporter,"  from  which  he 
withdrew  a  few  years  later.  In  May,  1881,  in 
conjunction  with  others,  he  organized  The  Chi- 
cago Herald  Company,  in  which  he  ultimately 
secured  a  controlling  interest.  His  journalistic 
and  executive  capability  soon  brought  additional 
responsibilities.  He  was  chosen  President  of  the 
American  Newspaper  Publishers'  Association,  of 
the  Chicago  Press  Club,  and  of  the  United  Press 
— the  latter  being  an  organization  for  the  collec- 
tion and  dissemination  of  telegraphic  news  to 
journals  throughout  the  United  States  and  Can- 
ada. He  was  also  conspicuously  connected  with 
the  preliminary  organization  of  the  World's 
Columbian  Exposition,  and  Chairman  of  the 
Press  Committee.  In  1893  he  started  an  evening 
paper  at  Chicago,  which  he  named  "The  Post." 
Early  in  1895  he  purchased  "The  Chicago  Times," 
intending  to  consolidate  it  with  "The  Herald," 
but  before  the  final  consummation  of  his  plans, 
he  died  suddenly,  while  on  a  business  visit  in 
New  York,  April  14,  1895. 

SCOTT,  John  M.,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was  born 
in  St.  Clair  County,  111.,  August  1,  1824;  his 
father  being  of  Scotch-Irish  descent  and  his 
mother  a  Virginian.  His  attendance  upon  dis- 
trict schools  was  supplemented  by  private  tuition, 
and  his  early  education  was  the  best  that  the 
comparatively  new  country  afforded.  He  read 
law  at  Belleville,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1848,  removed  to  McLean  County,  which  con- 
tinued to  be  his  home  for  nearly  fifty  years.  He 
served  as  County  School  Commissioner  from  1849 
to  1852,  and,  in  the  latter  year,  waselected  County 
Judge.  In  1856  he  was  an  unsuccessful  Repub- 
lican candidate  for  the  State  Senate,  frequently 
speaking  from  the  same  platform  with  Abraham 
Lincoln.  In  1862  he  was  elected  Judge  of  the 
Circuit  Court  of  the  Eighth  Judicial  Circuit,  to 
succeed  David  Davis  on  the  elevation  of  the 
latter  to  the  bench  of  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court,  and  was  re-elected  in  1867.  In  1870,  a 
new  judicial  election  being  rendered  necessary 
by  the  adoption  of  the  new  Constitution,  Judge 
Scott  was  chosen  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court 


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for  a  term  of  nine  years;  was  re-elected  in  1879, 
but  declined  a  renomination  in  1888.  The  latter 
years  of  his  life  were  devoted  to  his  private 
affairs.  Died,  at  Bloomington,  Jan.  21,  1898. 
Shortly  before  his  death  Judge  Scott  published  a 
volume  containing  a  History  of  the  Illinois 
Supreme  Court,  including  brief  sketches  of  the 
early  occupants  of  the  Supreme  Court  bench  and 
early  lawyers  of  the  State. 

SCOTT,  Matthew  Thompson,  agriculturist 
and  real-estate  operator,  was  born  at  Lexington, 
Ky.,  Feb.  24,  1828;  graduated  at  Centre  College 
in  1846,  then  spent  several  years  looking  after  his 
father's  landed  interests  in  Ohio,  when  he  came 
to  Illinois  and  invested  largely  in  lands  for  him- 
self and  others.  He  laid  out  the  town  of  Chenoa 
in  1856 ;  lived  in  Springfield  in  1870-72,  when  he 
removed  to  Bloomington,  where  he  organized  the 
McLean  County  Coal  Company,  remaining  as  its 
head  until  his  death;  was  also  the  founder  of 
"The  Bloomington  Bulletin,"  in  1878.  Died,  at 
Bloomington,  May  21,  1891. 

SCOTT,  Owen,  journalist  and  ex-Congressman, 
was  born  in  Jackson  Township,  Effingham 
County,  111.,  July  6,  1848,  reared  on  a  farm,  and, 
after  receiving  a  thorough  common-school  edu- 
cation, became  a  teacher,  and  was,  for  eight 
years,  Superintendent  of  Schools  for  his  native 
county.  In  January,  1874,  he  was  admitted  to 
the  bar,  but  abandoned  practice,  ten  years  later, 
to  engage  in  newspaper  work.  His  first  publi- 
cation was  "The  Effingham  Democrat, "  which  he 
left  to  become  proprietor  and  manager  of  "The 
Bloomington  Bulletin."  He  was  also  publisher 
of  "The  Illinois  Freemason,"  a  monthly  periodi- 
cal. Before  removing  to  Bloomington  he  filled 
the  offices  of  City  Attorney  and  Mayor  of  Effing- 
ham, and  also  served  as  Deputy  Collector  of 
Internal  Revenue.  In  1890  he  was  elected  as  a 
Democrat  from  the  Fourteenth  Illinois  District 
to  the  Fifty-second  Congress.  In  1892  he  was  a 
candidate  for  re-election,  but  was  defeated  by  his 
Republican  opponent,  Benjamin  F.  Funk.  Dur- 
ing the  past  few  years,  Mr.  Scott  has  been  editor 
of  "The  Bloomington  Leader." 

SCOTT  COUNTY,  lies  in  the  western  part  of 
the  State  adjoining  the  Illinois  River,  and  has  an 
area  of  252  square  miles.  The  region  was  origi- 
nally owned  by  the  Kickapoo  Indians,  who 
ceded  it  to  the  Government  by  the  treaty  of 
Edwardsville,  July  30,  1819.  Six  months  later 
(in  January,  1820)  a  party  of  Kentuckians  settled 
near  Lynnville  (now  in  Morgan  County),  their 
names  being  Thomas  Stevens,  James  Scott, 
Alfred  Miller,  Thomas  Allen,  John  Scott  and 


Adam  Miller.  Allen  erected  the  first  house  in  the 
county,  John  Scott  the  second  and  Adam  Miller 
the  third.  About  the  same  time  came  Stephen 
M.  Umpstead,  whose  wife  was  the  first  white 
woman  in  the  county.  Other  pioneers  were 
Jedediah  Webster,  Stephen  Pierce,  Joseph  Dens- 
more,  Jesse  Roberts,  and  Samuel  Bogard.  The 
country  was  rough  and  the  conveniences  of  civi- 
lization few  and  remote.  Settlers  took  their  corn 
to  Edwardsville  to  be  ground,  and  went  to  Alton 
for  their  mail.  Turbulence  early  showed  itself, 
and,  in  1822,  a  band  of  "Regulators"  was  organized 
from  the  best  citizens,  who  meted  out  a  rough 
and  ready  sort  of  justice,  until  1830,  occasionally 
shooting  a  desperado  at  his  cabin  door.  Scott 
County  was  cut  off  from  Morgan  and  organized 
in  1839.  It  contains  good  farming  land,  much  of 
it  being  originally  timbered,  and  it  is  well 
watered  by  the  Illinois  River  and  numerous 
small  streams.  Winchester  is  the  county-seat. 
Population  of  the  county  (1880),  10,741;  (1890), 
10,304;  (1900),  10,455;  (1910),  10,067. 

SCRIPPS,  John  L.,  journalist,  was  born  near 
Cape  Girardeau,  Mo.,  Feb.  18,  1818;  was  taken  to 
Rushville,  111.,  in  childhood,  and  educated  at 
McKendree  College;  studied  law  and  came  to 
Chicago  in  1847,  with  the  intention  of  practicing, 
but,  a  year  or  so  later,  bought  a  third  interest  in 
"The  Chicago  Tribune,"  which  had  been  estab- 
lished during  the  previous  year.  In  1852  he 
withdrew  from  "The  Tribune,"  and,  in  conjunc- 
tion with  William  Bross  (afterwards  Lieuten- 
ant-Governor),  established  "The  Daily  Demo- 
cratic Press,"  which  was  consolidated  with  "The 
Tribune"  in  July,  1858,  under  the  name  of  "The 
Press  and  Tribune,"  Mr.  Scripps  remaining  one 
of  the  editors  of  the  new  concern.  In  1861  he 
was  appointed,  by  Mr.  Lincoln,  Postmaster  of  the 
city  of  Chicago,  serving  until  1865,  when,  having 
sold  his  interest  in  "The  Tribune,"  he  engaged  in 
the  banking  business  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Scripps,  Preston  &  Kean.  His  health,  however, 
soon  showed  signs  of  failure,  and  he  died,  Sept. 
21,  1866,  at  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  whither  he  had 
gone  in  hopes  of  restoration.  Mr.  Scripps  was  a 
finished  and  able  writer  who  did  much  to  elevate 
the  standard  of  Chicago  journalism. 

SCROGGS,  George,  journalist,  was  born  at 
Wilmington,  Clinton,  County,  Ohio,  Oct.  7,  1842 
— the  son  of  Dr.  John  W.  Scroggs,  who  came  to 
Champaign  County,  111.,  in  1851,  and,  in  1858, 
took  charge  of  "The  Central  Illinois  Gazette."  In 
1866-67  Dr.  Scroggs  was  active  in  securing  the 
location  of  the  State  University  at  Champaign, 
afterwards  serving  as  a  member  of  the  first  Board 


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of  Trustees  of  that  institution.  The  son,  at  the 
age  of  15,  became  an  apprentice  in  his  father's 
printing  office,  continuing  until  1862,  when  he 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  One  Hundred  and 
Twenty -fifth  Illinois  Volunteer  Infantry,  being 
promoted  through  the  positions  of  Sergeant-Major 
and  Second  Lieutenant,  and  finally  serving  on 
the  staffs  of  Gen.  Jeff.  C.  Davis  and  Gen.  James 
D.  Morgan,  but  declining  a  commission  as  Adju- 
tant of  the  Sixtieth  Illinois.  He  participated  in 
the  battles  of  Perry ville,  Chickamauga,  Mission 
Ridge  and  the  march  with  Sherman  to  the  sea,  in 
the  latter  being  severely  wounded  at  Bentonville, 
N.  C.  He  remained  in  the  service  until  July, 
1865,  when  he  resigned;  then  entered  the  Uni- 
versity at  Champaign,  later  studied  law,  mean- 
while writing  for  "The  Champaign  Gazette  and 
Union,"  of  which  he  finally  became  sole  propri- 
etor. In  1877  he  was  appointed  an  Aid-de-Camp 
on  the  staff  of  Governor  Cullom,  and,  the  follow- 
ing year,  was  elected  to  the  Thirty-first  General 
Assembly,  but,  before  the  close  of  the  session 
(1879),  received  the  appointment  of  United  States 
Consul  to  Hamburg,  Germany.  He  was  com- 
pelled to  surrender  this  position,  a  year  later,  on 
account  of  ill-health,  and,  returning  home,  died, 
Oct.  15,  1880. 

SEATON  VILLE,  a  village  in  Hall  Township, 
Bureau  County.  Pop.  (1900),  909;  (1910),  1,370. 

SECRETARIES  OF  STATE.  The  following  is 
a  list  of  the  Secretaries  of  State  of  Illinois  from 
its  admission  into  the  Union  down  to  the  present 
time  (1899),  with  the  date  and  duration  of  the 
term  of  each  incumbent:  Elias  Kent  Kane, 
1818-22;  Samuel  D.  Lockwood,  1822-23;  David 
Blackwell,  1823-24;  Morris  Birkbeck,  October, 
1824  to  January,  1825  (failed  of  confirmation  by 
the  Senate) ;  George  Forquer,  1825-28 ;  Alexander 
Pope  Field,  1828-40;  Stephen  A.  Douglas,  1840-41 
(served  three  months — resigned  to  take  a  seat  on 
the  Supreme  bench);  Lyman  Trumbull,  1841-43; 
Thompson  Campbell,  1843-46;  Horace  S.  Cooley, 
1846-50;  David  L.  Gregg,  1850-58;  Alexander 
Starne,  1853-57;  Ozias  M.  Hatch,  1857-65;  Sharon 
Tyndale,  1865-69;  Edward  Rummel,  1869-73; 
George  H.  Harlow,  1873-81;  Henry  D.  Dement, 
1881-89;  Isaac  N.  Pearson,  1889-93;  William  H. 

Hinrichsen,  1893-97;  James  A.  Rose,  1897 . 

Nathaniel  Pope  and  Joseph  Phillips  were  the  only 
Secretaries  of  Illinois  during  the  Territorial 
period,  the  former  serving  from  1809  to  1816,  and 
the  latter  from  1816  to  1818.  Under  the  first  Con- 
stitution (1818)  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of 
State  was  filled  by  appointment  by  the  Governor, 
by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the 


Senate,  but  without  limitation  as  to  term  of 
office.  By  the  Constitution  of  1848,  and  again  by 
that  of  1870,  that  officer  was  made  elective  by 
the  people  at  the  same  time  as  the  Governor,  for 
a  term  of  four  years. 

SECRET  TREASONABLE  SOCIETIES.  Early 
in  the  War  of  the  Rebellion  there  sprang  up,  at 
various  points  in  the  Northwest,  organizations  of 
persons  disaffected  toward  the  National  Govern- 
ment. They  were  most  numerous  in  Ohio,  Indi- 
ana, Illinois,  Kentucky  and  Missouri.  At  first 
they  were  known  by  such  titles  as  "Circles  of 
Honor,"  "Mutual  Protective  Associations,"  etc. 
But  they  had  kindred  aims  and  their  members 
were  soon  united  in  one  organization,  styled 
"Knights  of  the  Golden  Circle."  Its  secrets 
having  been  partially  disclosed,  this  body  ceased 
to  exist — or,  it  would  be  more  correct  to  say, 
changed  its  name — being  soon  succeeded  (1863) 
by  an  organization  of  similar  character,  called 
the  "American  Knights."  These  societies,  as 
first  formed,  were  rather  political  than  military. 
The  "American  Knights"  had  more  forcible 
aims,  but  this,  in  turn,  was  also  exposed,  and  the 
order  was  re-organized  under  the  name  of  "Sons 
of  Liberty."  The  last  named  order  started  in 
Indiana,  and,  owing  to  its  more  perfect  organi- 
zation, rapidly  spread  over  the  Northwest, 
acquiring  much  more  strength  and  influence  than 
its  predecessors  had  done.  The  ultimate  author- 
ity of  the  organization  was  vested  in  a  Supreme 
Council,  whose  officers  were  a  "supreme  com- 
mander," "secretary  of  state, "and  "treasurer." 
Each  State  represented  formed  a  division,  under  a 
"deputy  grand  commander."  States  were  divided 
into  military  districts,  under  "major-generals." 
County  lodges  were  termed  "temples."  The 
order  was  virtually  an  officered  army,  and  its 
aims  were  aggressive.  It  had  its  commander-in- 
chief,  its  brigades  and  its  regiments.  Three 
degrees  were  recognized,  and  the  oaths  of  secrecy 
taken  at  each  initiation  surpassed,  in  binding 
force,  either  the  oath  of  allegiance  or  an  oath 
taken  in  a  court  of  justice.  The  maintenance  of 
slavery,  and  forcible  opposition  to  a  coercive 
policy  by  the  Government  in  dealing  with  seces- 
sion, were  the  pivotal  doctrines  of  the  order.  Its 
methods  and  purposes  were  to  discourage  enlist- 
ments and  resist  a  draft;  to  aid  and  protect 
deserters;  to  disseminate  treasonable  literature; 
to  aid  the  Confederates  in  destroying  Government 
property.  Clement  L.  Vallandigham,  the  expat- 
riated traitor,  was  at  its  head,  and,  in  1864, 
claimed  that  it  had  a  numerical  strength  of  400,- 
000,  of  whom  65,000  were  in  Illinois.  Many  overt 


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acts  were  committed,  but  the  organization,  hav- 
ing been  exposed  and  defeated  in  its  objects,  dis- 
banded in  1865.  (See  Camp  Douglas  Conspiracy. ) 
SEL1JY,  Paul,  editor,  was  born  in  Pickaway 
County,  Ohio,  July  20,  1825;  removed  with  his 
parents,  in  1837,  to  Van  Buren  County,  Iowa,  but, 
at  the  age  of  19,  went  to  Southern  Illinois,  where 
he  spent  four  years  teaching,  chiefly  in  Madison 
County.  In  1848  he  entered  the  preparatory 
department  of  Illinois  College  at  Jacksonville, 
but  left  the  institution  during  his  junior  year  to 
assume  the  editorship  of  "The  Morgan  Journal," 
at  Jacksonville,  with  which  he  remained  until 
the  fall  of  1858,  covering  the  period  of  the 
organization  of  the  Republican  party,  in  which 
"The  Journal"  took  an  active  part.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Anti-Nebraska  (afterwards  known 
as  Republican)  State  Convention,  which  met  at 
Springfield,  in  October,  1854  (the  first  ever  held  in 
the  State),  and,  on  Feb.  22,  1856,  attended  and 
presided  over  a  conference  of  Anti-Nebraska 
editors  of  the  State  at  Decatur,  called  to  devise  a 
line  of  policy  for  the  newly  organizing  Repub- 
lican party.  (See  Anti-Nebraska  Editorial 
Convention.)  This  body  appointed  the  first 
Republican  State  Central  Committee  and  desig- 
nated the  date  of  the  Bloomington  Convention 
of  May  29,  following,  which  put  in  nomination 
the  first  Republican  State  ticket  ever  named  in 
Illinois,  which  ticket  was  elected  in  the  following 
November  (See  Bloomington  Convention.)  In 
1859  he  prepared  a  pamphlet  giving  a  history  of 
the  celebrated  Canal  scrip  fraud,  which  was 
widely  circulated.  (See  Canal  Scrip  Fraud.) 
Going  South  in  the  fall  of  1859,  he  was  engaged 
in  teaching  in  the  State  of  Louisiana  until  the 
last  of  June,  1861.  Just  two  weeks  before  the 
fall  of  Fort  Sumter  he  was  denounced  to  his 
Southern  neighbors  as  an  "abolitionist"  and 
falsely  charged  with  having  been  connected  with 
the  "underground  railroad,"  in  letters  from 
secession  sympathizers  in  the  North,  whose  per- 
sonal and  political  enmity  he  had  incurred  while 
conducting  a  Republican  paper  in  Illinois,  some 
of  whom  referred  to  Jefferson  Davis,  Senator 
Slidell,  of  Louisiana,  and  other  Southern  leaders 
as  vouchers  for  their  characters.  He  at  once 
invited  an  investigation  by  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  institution,  of  which  he  was  the 
Principal,  when  that  body — although  composed, 
for  the  most  part,  of  Southern  men — on  the  basis 
of  testimonials  from  prominent  citizens  of  Jack- 
sonville, and  other  evidence,  adopted  resolutions 
declaring  the  charges  prompted  by  personal  hos- 
tility, and  delivered  the  letters  of  his  accusers  into 


his  hands.  Returning  North  with  his  family  in 
July,  1861,  he  spent  some  nine  months  in  the  com- 
missary and  transportation  branches  of  the  ser- 
vice at  Cairo  and  at  Paducah,  Ky.  In  July,  1862, 
he  became  associate  editor  of  "The  Illinois  State 
Journal"  at  Springfield,  remaining  until  Novem- 
ber, 1865.  The  next  six  months  were  spent  as 
Assistant  Deputy  Collector  in  the  Custom  House 
at  New  Orleans,  but,  returning  North  in  June, 
1866,  he  soon  after  became  identified  with  the 
Chicago  press,  serving,  first  upon  the  staff  of  "The 
Evening  Journal"  and,  later,  on  "The  Repub- 
lican." In  May,  1868,  he  assumed  the  editorship 
of  "The  Quincy  Whig,"  ultimately  becoming 
j5art  proprietor  of  that  paper,  but,  in  January, 
1874,  resumed  his  old  place  on  "The  State  Jour- 
nal," four  years  later  becoming  one  of  its  propri- 
etors. In  1880  he  was  appointed  by  President 
Hayes  Postmaster  of  Springfield,  was  reappointed 
by  Arthur  in  1884,  but  resigned  in  1886.  Mean- 
while he  had  sold  his  interest  in  "The  Journal," 
but  the  following  year  organized  a  new  company 
for  its  purchase,  when  he  resumed  his  former 
position  as  editor.  In  1889  he  disposed  of  his 
holding  in  "The  Journal,"  finally  removing  to 
Chicago,  where  he  has  been  employed  in  literary 
work.  In  all  he  has  been  engaged  in  editorial 
work  over  thirty-five  years,  of  which  eighteen 
were  spent  upon  "The  State  Journal."  In  1860 
Mr.  Selby  was  complimented  by  his  Alma  Mater 
with  the  honorary  degree  of  A.  M.  He  has  been 
twice  married,  first  to  Miss  Erra  Post,  of  Spring- 
field, who  died  in  November,  1865,  leaving  two 
daughters,  and,  in  1870,  to  Mrs.  Mary  J.  Hitch- 
cock, of  Quincy,  by  whom  he  had  two  children, 
both  of  whom  died  in  infancy. 

SEMPLE,  James,  United  States  Senator,  was 
born  in  Green  County,  Ky.,  Jan.  5,  1798,  of  Scotch 
descent ;  after  learning  the  tanner's  trade,  studied 
law  and  emigrated  to  Illinois  in  1818,  removing 
to  Missouri  four  years  later,  where  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  bar.  Returning  to  Illinois  in  1828, 
he  began  practice  at  Edwardsville,  but  later 
became  a  citizen  of  Alton.  During  the  Black 
Hawk  War  he  served  as  Brigadier-General.  He 
was  thrice  elected  to  the  lower  house  of  the 
Legislature  (1832,  '34  and  '36),  and  was  Speaker 
during  the  last  two  terms.  In  1833  he  was 
elected  Attorney-General  by  the  Legislature,  but 
served  only  until  the  following  year,  and,  in 
1837,  was  appointed  Minister  to  Granada,  South 
America.  In  1843  he  was  appointed,  and  after- 
wards elected,  United  States  Senator  to  fill  the 
unexpired  term  of  Samuel  McRoberts,  at  the 
expiration  of  his  term  (1847)  retiring  to  private 


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life.  He  laid  out  the  town  of  Elsah,  in  Jersey 
County,  just  south  of  which  he  owned  a  large 
estate  on  the  Mississippi  bluffs,  where  he  died, 
Dec.  30,  1866. 

SENECA  (formerly  Crotty),  a  village  of  La 
Salle  County,  situated  on  the  Illinois  River,  the 
Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal  and  the  Chicago,  Rock 
Island  &  Pacific  and  the  "Big  Four"  Railways,  13 
miles  east  of  Ottawa;  has  a  bank,  some  manufac- 
tures, coal  mines,  and  one  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900), 
1,036;  (1910),  1,005. 

SE8SER,  a  village  (incorp.  1906)  in  coal  mining 
district  in  Franklin  County.  Pop.  (1910),  1,292. 

SENN,  (Dr.)  Nicholas,  physican  and  surgeon, 
was  born  in  the  Canton  of  St.  Gaul,  Switzerland, 
Oct.  31,  1844;  was  brought  to  America  at  8  years 
of  age,  his  parents  settling  at  Washington,  Wis. 
He  received  a  grammar  school  education  at  Fond 
du  Lac,  and,  in  1864,  began  the  study  of  medi- 
cine, graduating  at  the  Chicago  Medical  College 
in  1868.  After  some  eighteen  months  spent  as 
resident  physician  in  the  Cook  County  Hospital, 
he  began  practice  at  Ashford,  Wis. ,  but  removed 
to  Milwaukee  in  1874,  where  he  became  attending 
physician  of  the  Milwaukee  Hospital.  In  1877  he 
visited  Europe,  graduated  the  following  year  from 
the  University  of  Munich,  and,  on  his  return, 
became  Professor  of  the  Principles  of  Surgery 
and  Surgical  Pathology  in  Rush  Medical  College 
in  Chicago — also  has  held  the  chair  of  the  Prac- 
tice of  Surgery  in  the  same  institution.  Dr. 
Senn  has  achieved  great  success  and  won  an 
international  reputation  in  the  treatment  of 
difficult  cases  of  abdominal  surgery.  He  is  the 
author  of  a  number  of  volumes  on  different 
branches  of  surgery  which  are  recognized  as 
standard  authorities.  A  few  years  ago  he  pur- 
chased the  extensive  library  of  the  late  Dr.  Will- 
iam Baum,  Professor  of  Surgery  in  the  University 
of  Gottingen,  which  he  presented  to  the  New- 
berry  Library  of  Chicago.  In  1893,  Dr.  Senn  was 
appointed  Surgeon-General  of  the  Illinois 
National  Guard,  and  has  also  been  President  of 
the  Association  of  Military  Surgeons  of  the 
National  Guard  of  the  United  States,  besides 
being  identified  with  various  other  medical 
bodies.  Soon  after  the  beginning  of  the  Spanish  - 
American  War,  he  was  appointed,  by  President 
McKinley,  a  Surgeon  of  Volunteers  with  the  rank 
of  Colonel,  and  rendered  most  efficient  service  in  the 
military  branch  at  Camp  Chickamauga  and  in  the 
Santiago  campaign.  Died  Jan.  2,  1908. 

SEXTON,  (Col.)  James  A.,  Commander-in- 
Chief  of  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  was  born 
in  the  city  of  Chicago,  Jan.  5,  1844 ;  in  April, 


1861,  being  then  only  a  little  over  17,  enlisted  as  a 
private  soldier  under  the  first  call  for  troops 
issued  by  President  Lincoln ;  at  the  close  of  his 
term  was  appointed  a  Sergeant,  with  authority  to 
recruit  a  company  which  afterwards  was  attached 
to  the  Fifty-first  Volunteer  Infantry.  Later,  he 
was  transferred  to  the  Sixty-seventh  with  the 
rank  of  Lieutenant,  and,  a  few  months  after,  to 
the  Seventy-second  with  a  commission  as  Captain 
of  Company  D,  which  he  had  recruited.  As  com- 
mander of  his  regiment,  then  constituting  a  part 
of  the  Seventeenth  Army  Corps,  he  participated 
in  the  battles  of  Columbia,  Duck  Creek,  Spring 
Hill,  Franklin  and  Nashville,  and  in  the  Nash- 
ville campaign.  Both  at  Nashville  and  Franklin 
he  was  wounded,  and  again,  at  Spanish  Fort,  by  a 
piece  of  shell  which  broke  his  leg.  His  regiment 
took  part  in  seven  battles  and  eleven  skirmishes, 
and,  while  it  went  out  967  strong  in  officers  and 
men,  it  returned  with  only  332,  all  told,  although 
it  had  been  recruited  by  234  men.  He  was  known 
as  "The  boy  Captain,"  being  only  18  years  old 
when  he  received  his  first  commission,  and  21 
when,  after  participating  in  the  Mobile  cam- 
paign, he  was  mustered  out  with  the  rank  of 
Lieutenant-Colonel.  After  the  close  of  the  war 
he  engaged  in  planting  in  the  South,  purchasing 
a  plantation  in  Lowndes  County,  Ala.,  but,  in 
1867,  returned  to  Chicago,  where  he  became  a 
member  of  the  firm  of  Cribben,  Sexton  &  Co., 
stove  manufacturers,  from  which  he  retired  in 
1898.  In  1884  he  served  as  Presidential  Elector 
on  the  Republican  ticket  for  the  Fourth  District, 
and,  in  1889,  was  appointed,  by  President  Harrison, 
Postmaster  of  the  city  of  Chicago,  serving  over 
five  years.  In  1888  he  was  chosen  Department 
Commander  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic 
for  the  State  of  Illinois,  and,  ten  years  later,  to 
the  position  of  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  order, 
which  he  held  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He  had 
also  been,  for  a  number  of  years,  one  of  the  Trus- 
tees of  the  Soldiers'  and  Sailors'  Home  at  Quincy, 
and,  during  most  of  the  time,  President  of  the 
Board.  Towards  the  close  of  the  year  1898,  he 
was  appointed  by  President  McKinley  a  member 
of  the  Commission  to  investigate  the  conduct  of 
the  Spanish-American  War,  but,  before  the  Com- 
mission had  concluded  its  labors,  was  taken  with 
"the  grip,"  which  developed  into  pneumonia? 
from  which  he  died  in  Washington,  Feb.  5,  1899. 
SEYMOUR,  George  Franklin,  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Bishop,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  Jan.  5, 
1829;  graduated  from  Columbia  College  in  1850, 
and  from  the  General  Theological  Seminary 
(New  York)  in  1854.  He  received  both  minor 


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and  major  orders  at  the  hands  of  Bishop  Potter, 
being  made  deacon  in  1854  and  ordained  priest  in 
1855.  For  several  years  he  was  engaged  in  mis- 
sionary work.  During  this  period  he  was  promi- 
nently identified  with  the  founding  of  St. 
Stephen's  College.  After  serving  as  rector  in 
various  parishes,  in  1865  he  was  made  Professor 
of  Ecclesiastical  History  in  the  New  York  Semi- 
nary, and,  ten  years  later,  was  chosen  Dean  of 
the  institution,  still  retaining  his  professorship. 
Racine  College  conferred  upon  him  the  degree  of 
S.T.D.,  in  1867,  and  Columbia  that  of  LL.D.  in 
1878.  In  1874  he  was  elected  Bishop  of  Illinois, 
but  failed  of  confirmation  in  the  House  of  Depu- 
ties. Upon  the  erection  of  the  new  diocese  of 
Springfield  (1877)  he  accepted  and  was  conse- 
crated Bishop  at  Trinity  Church,  N.  Y.,  June  11, 
1878.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Third 
Pan-Anglican  Council  (London,  1885),  and  has 
done  much  to  foster  the  growth  and  extend  the 
influence  of  his  church  in  his  diocese. 

SHABBONA,  a  village  of  De  Kalb  County,  on 
the  Iowa  Division  of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  & 
Quincy  Railroad,  25  miles  west  of  Aurora. 
Pop.  (1900),  587;  (1910),  594. 

SHABONA  (or  Shabbona),  an  Ottawa  Chief, 
was  born  near  the  Maumee  River,  in  Ohio,  about 
1775,  and  served  under  Tecumseh  from  1807  to 
the  battle  of  the  Thames  in  1813.  In  1810  he 
accompanied  Tecumseh  and  Capt.  Billy  Caldwell 
(see  Sauganash)  to  the  homes  of  the  Pottawato- 
mies  and  other  tribes  within  the  present  limits  of 
Illinois  and  Wisconsin,  to  secure  their  co-oper- 
ation in  driving  the  white  settlers  out  of  the 
country.  At  the  battle  of  the  Thames,  he  was  by 
the  side  of  Tecumseh  when  he  fell,  and  both  he 
and  Caldwell,  losing  faith  in  their  British  allies, 
soon  after  submitted  to  the  United  States  through 
General  Cass  at  Detroit.  Shabona  was  opposed 
to  Black  Hawk  in  1832,  and  did  much  to  thwart 
the  plans  of  the  latter  and  aid  the  whites.  Hav- 
ing married  a  daughter  of  a  Pottawatomie  chief, 
who  had  a  village  on  the  Illinois  River  east  of 
the  present  city  of  Ottawa,  he  lived  there  for 
some  time,  but  finally  removed  25  miles  north  to 
Shabona's  Grove  in  De  Kalb  County.  Here  he 
remained  till  1837,  when  he  removed  to  Western 
Missouri.  Black  Hawk's  followers  having  a 
"reservation  near  by,  hostilities  began  between 
them,  in  which  a  son  and  nephew  of  Shabona 
were  killed.  He  finally  returned  to  his  old  home 
in  Illinois,  but  found  it  occupied  by  whites,  who 
drove  him  from  the  grove  that  bore  his  name. 
Some  friends  then  bought  for  him  twenty  acres 
of  land  on  Mazon  Creek,  near  Morris,  where  he 


died,  July  27,  1859.  He  is  described  as  a  noble 
specimen  of  his  race.  A  life  of  him  has  been 
published  by  N.  Matson  (Chicago,  1878). 

SHANNON,  a  village  of  Carroll  County,  on  the 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway,  18  miles 
southwest  of  Freeport.  It  is  an  important  trade 
center,  has  a  bank  and  one  newspaper.  Popu- 
lation (1900),  678;  (1910),  633. 

SHAW,  Aaron,  former  Congressman,  born  in 
Orange  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1811;  was  educated  at 
the  Montgomery  Academy,  studied  law  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  at  Goshen  in  that  State.  In 
1833  he  removed  to  Lawrence  County,  111.  He 
has  held  various  important  public  offices.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  first  Internal  Improvement  . 
Convention  of  the  State;  was  chosen  State's 
Attorney  by  the  Legislature,  in  which  body  he 
served  two  terms ;  served  four  years  as  Judge  of 
the  Twenty-fifth  Judicial  Circuit;  was  elected  to- 
the  Thirty-fifth  Congress  in  1856,  and  to  the 
Forty-eighth  in  1882,  as  a  Democrat. 

SHAW,  James,  lawyer,  jurist,  was  born  in  Ire- 
land, May  3,  1832,  brought  to  this  country  in  in- 
fancy and  grew  up  on  a  farm  in  Cass  County,  111. ; 
graduated  from  Illinois  College  in  1857,  and,  after 
admission  to  the  bar,  began  practice  at  Mount 
Carroll.  In  1870  he  was  elected  to  the  lower 
house  of  the  General  Assembly,  being  re-elected 
in  1872,  '76  and  '78.  He  was  Speaker  of  the 
House  during  the  session  of  1877,  and  one  of  the 
Republican  leaders  on  the  floor  during  the  suc- 
ceeding session.  In  1872  he  was  chosen  a  Presi- 
dential Elector,  and,  in  1891,  to  a  seat  on  the 
Circuit  bench  from  the  Thirteenth  Circuit, 
and,  in  1897  was  re-elected  for  the  Fifteenth 
Circuit. 

SHAWNEETOWN,  a  city  and  the  county-seat 
of  Gallatin  County,  on  the  Ohio  River  120  miles 
from  its  mouth  and  at  the  terminus  of  the  Shaw- 
neetown  Divisions  of  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio  South- 
western and  the  Louisville  &  Nashville  Railroads; 
is  one  of  the  oldest  towns  in  the  State,  having 
been  laid  out  in  1808,  and  noted  for  the  number 
of  prominent  men  who  resided  there  at  an  early 
day.  Coal  is  extensively  mined  in  that  section, 
and  Shawneetown  is  one  of  the  largest  shipping 
points  for  lumber,  coal  and  farm  products 
between  Cairo  and  Louisville,  navigation  being 
open  the  year  round.  Some  manufacturing  is 
done  here;  the  city  has  several  mills,  a  foundry 
and  machine  shop,  two  or  three  banks,  several 
churches,  good  schools  and  two  weekly  papers. 
Since  the  disastrous  floods  of  1884  and  1898,  Shaw- 
neetown has  reconstructed  its  levee  system  on  a 
substantial  scale,  which  is  now  believed  to  furnish 


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ample  protection  against  the  recurrence  of  similar 
disaster.  Pop.  (1900),  1,698;  (1910),  1,863. 

SHEAHAN,  James  W.,  journalist,  was  born  in 
Baltimore,  Mil.,  spent  his  early  life,  after  reaching 
manhood,  in  Washington  City  as  a  Congressional 
Reporter,  and,  in  1847,  reported  the  proceedings 
of  the  Illinois  State  Constitutional  Convention  at 
Springfield.  Through  the  influence  of  Senator 
Douglas  he  was  induced,  in  1854,  to  accept  the 
editorship  of  "The  Young  America"  newspaper 
at  Chicago,  which  was  soon  after  changed  to 
"The  Chicago  Times."  Here  he  remained  until 
the  fall  of  1860,  when,  "The  Times"  having  been 
sold  and  consolidated  with  "The  Herald,"  a 
Buchanan-Breckenridge  organ,  he  established  a 
new  paper  called  "The  Morning  Post."  This  he 
made  representative  of  the  views  of  the  "War 
Democrats"  as  against  "The  Times,"  which  was 
opposed  to  the  war.  In  May,  1865,  he  sold  the 
plant  of  "The  Post"  and  it  became  "The  Chicago 
Eepublican"  —  now  "Inter  Ocean."  A  few 
months  later.  Mr.  Sheahan  accepted  a  position  as 
chief  writer  on  the  editorial  staff  of  "The  Chicago 
Tribune,"  which  he  retained  until  his  death, 
June  17,  1883. 

SHEFFIELD,  a  prosperous  village  of  Bureau 
County,  on  the  Chicago,  Rock  Island  &  Pacific 
Railroad,  44  miles  east  of  Rock  Island;  has  valu- 
able coal  mines,  a  bank  and  one  newspaper. 
Pop.  (1900),  1,265;  (1910),  1,009. 

SHELBY  COUNTY,  lies  south  of  the  center  of 
•the  State,  and  contains  an  area  of  760  square 
miles.  The  tide  of  immigration  to  this  county 
•was  at  first  from  Kentucky,  Tennessee  and  North 
Carolina,  although  later  it  began  to  set  in  from 
the  Northern  States.  The  first  cabin  in  the 
county  was  built  by  Simeon  Wakefield  on  what  is 
now  the  site  of  Williamsburg,  first  called  Cold 
Spring.  Joseph  Daniel  was  the  earliest  settler  in 
•what  is  now  Shelbyville,  pre-empting  ten  acres, 
•which  he  soon  afterward  sold  to  Joseph  Oliver, 
the  pioneer  merchant  of  the  county,  and  father 
of  the  first  white  child  born  within  its  limits. 
Other  pioneers  were  Shimei  Wakefield,  Levi 
Casey  and  Samuel  Hall.  In  lieu  of  hats  the  early 
settlers  wore  caps  made  of  squirrel  or  coon  skin, 
•with  the  tails  dangling  at  the  backs,  and  he  was 
regarded  as  well  dressed  who  boasted  a  fringed 
buckskin  shirt  and  trousers,  with  moccasins. 
The  county  was  formed  in  1827,  and  Shelbyville 
made  the  county-seat.  Both  county  and  town 
are  named  in  honor  of  Governor  Shelby,  of  Ken- 
tucky. County  Judge  Joseph  Oliver  held  the 
first  court  in  the  cabin  of  Barnett  Bone,  and 
.Judge  Theophilus  W.  Smith  presided  over  the 


first  Circuit  Court  in  1828.  Coal  is  abundant, 
and  limestone  and  sandstone  are  also  found.  The 
surface  is  somewhat  rolling  and  well  wooded. 
The  Little  Wabash  and  Kaskaskia  Rivers  flow 
through  the  central  and  southeastern  portions. 
The  county  lies  in  the  very  heart  of  the  great 
corn  belt  of  the  State,  and  has  excellent  transpor- 
tation facilities,  being  penetrated  by  four  lines  of 
railway.  Population  (1880),  30,270;  (1890),  31,- 
191;  (1900),  32,126;  (1910),  31,693. 

SHELBYVILLE,  the  county-seat  and  an  incor- 
porated city  of  Shelby  County,  on  the  Kaskaskia 
River  and  two  lines  of  railway,  32  miles  southeast 
of  Decatur.  Agriculture  is  carried  on  exten- 
sively, and  there  is  considerable  coal  mining  in 
the  immediate  vicinity.  The  city  has  two  flour- 
ing mills,  a  handle  factory,  a  creamery,  one 
National  and  one  State  bank,  one  daily  and  three 
weekly  papers  and  one  monthly  periodical,  an 
Orphans'  Home,  ten  churches,  two  graded  schools, 
and  a  public  library.  Population  (1890),  3,162; 
(1900),  3,546;  (1910),  3,590. 

SHELDON,  a  village  of  Iroquois  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Cleveland,  Cincinnati,  Chicago 
&  St.  Louis  and  the  Toledo,  Peoria  &  Western  Rail- 
ways, 9  miles  east  of  Watseka;  has  two  banks  and 
a  newspaper.  The  region  is  agricultural.  Pop. 
(1890),  910;  (1900),  1,103;  (1910),  1,143. 

SHELDON,  Benjamin  R.,  jurist,  was  born  in 
Massachusetts  in  1813,  graduated  from  Williams 
College  in  1831,  studied  law  at  the  Yale  Law 
School,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  in  1836. 
Emigrating  to  Illinois,  he  located  temporarily  at 
Hennepin,  Putnam  County,  but  soon  removed  to 
Galena,  and  finally  to  Rockford.  In  1848  he  was 
elected  Circuit  Judge  of  the  Sixth  Circuit,  which 
afterwards  being  divided,  he  was  assigned  to  the 
Fourteenth  Circuit,  remaining  until  1870,  when 
he  was  elected  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court, 
presiding  as  Chief  Justice  in  1877.  He  was  re- 
elected  in  1879,  but  retired  in  1888,  being  suc- 
ceeded by  the  late  Justice  Bailey.  Died,  April 
13,  1897. 

SHEPPARD,  Nathan,  author  and  lecturer,  was 
born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  Nov.  9,  1834;  graduated 
at  Rochester  Theological  Seminary  in  1859 ;  dur- 
ing the  Civil  War  was  special  correspondent  of 
"The  New  York  World"  and  "The  Chicago  Jour- 
nal" and  "Tribune,"  and,  during  the  Franco- 
German  War,  of  "The  Cincinnati  Gazette;"  also 
served  as  special  American  , correspondent  of 
"The  London  Times,"  and  was  a  contributor  to 
"Frazer's  Magazine"  and  "Temple  Bar."  In  1873 
he  became  a  lecturer  on  Modern  English  Liter- 
ature and  Rhetoric  in  Chicago  University  and, 


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four  years  later,  accepted  a  similar  position  in 
Allegheny  College;  also  spent  four  years  in 
Europe,  lecturing  in  the  principal  towns  of  Great 
Britain  and  Ireland.  In  1884  he  founded  the 
"Athenaeum"  at  Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y.,  of 
which  he  was  President  until  his  death,  early  in 
1888.  "The  Dickens  Reader,"  "Character  Read- 
ings from  George  Eliot"  and  "Essays  of  George 
Eliot"  were  among  the  volumes  issued  by  him 
between  1881  and  1887.  Died  in  New  York  City, 
Jan.  24,  1888. 

SHERMAN,  Alison  Smith,  early  Chicago  Mayor, 
was  born  at  Barre,  Vt.,  April  21,  1811,  remaining 
there  until  1836,  when  he  came  to  Chicago  and 
began  business  as  a  contractor  and  builder.  Sev- 
eral years  later  he  opened  the  first  stone  quarries 
at  Lemont,  111.  Mr.  Sherman  spent  many  years 
in  the  service  of  Chicago  as  a  public  official. 
From  1840  to  1842  he  was  Captain  of  a  company 
of  militia ;  for  two  years  served  as  Chief  of  the 
Fire  Department,  and  was  elected  Alderman  in 
1842,  serving  again  in  1846.  In  1844,  he  was 
chosen  Mayor,  his  administration  being  marked 
by  the  first  extensive  public  improvements  made 
in  Chicago.  After  his  term  as  Mayor  he  did 
much  to  secure  a  better  water  supply  for  the 
city.  He  was  especially  interested  in  promoting 
common  school  education,  being  for  several  years 
a  member  of  the  City  School  Board.  He  was 
Vice-President  of  the  first  Board  of  Trustees  of 
Northwestern  University.  Retired  from  active 
pursuits,  Mr.  Sherman  spent  his  last  years  at  Wau- 
kegan,  111.,  dying  Aug.  22,  1903.— Oren  (Sherman) 
brother  of  the  preceding  and  early  Chicago  mer- 
chant, was  born  at  Barre,  Vt.,  March  5,  1816. 
After  spending  several  years  in  a  mercantile 
house  in  Montpelier,  Vt. ,  at  the  age  of  twenty  he 
came  west,  first  to  New  Buffalo,  Mich.,  and,  in 
1836,  to  Chicago,  opening  a  dry-goods  store  there 
the  next  spring.  With  various  partners  Mr. 
Sherman  continued  in  a  general  mercantile  busi- 
ness until  1853,  at  the  same  time  being  extensively 
engaged  in  the  provision  trade,  one-half  the  entire 
transactions  in  pork  in  the  city  passing  through 
Lis  hands.  Next  he  engaged  in  developing  stone 
quarries  at  Lemont,  111. ;  also  became  extensively 
interested  in  the  marble  business,  continuing  in 
this  until  a  few  years  after  the  panic  of  1873, 
when  he  retired  in  consequence  of  a  shock  of 
paralysis.  Died,  in  Chicago,  Dec.  15,  1898. 

SHERMAN,  Elijah  B.,  lawyer,  was  born  at 
Fairfield,  Vt.,  June  18,  1832— his  family  being 
distantly  related  to  Roger  Sherman,  a  signer  of 
the  Declaration  of  Independence,  and  the  late 
Gen.  W.  T.  Sherman;  gained  his  education  in  the 


common  schools  and  at  Middlebury  College, 
where  he  graduated  in  1860 ;  began  teaching,  but 
soon  after  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  war  for  the 
Union ;  received  a  Lieutenant's  commission,  and 
served  until  captured  on  the  eve  of  the  battle  at 
Antietam,  when  he  was  paroled  and  sent  to  Camp 
Douglas,  Chicago,  awaiting  exchange.  During 
this  period  he  commenced  reading  law  and,  hav 
ing  resigned  his  commission,  graduated  from  the 
law  department  of  Chicago  University  in  1864 
In  1876  he  was  elected  Representative  in  the 
General  Assembly  from  Cook  County,  and  re- 
elected  in  1878,  and  the  following  year  appointed 
Master  in  Chancery  of  the  United  States  District 
Court,  a  position  which  he  last  occupied.  He  had 
repeatedly  been  called  upon  to  deliver  addresses 
on  political,  literary  and  patriotic  occasions,  one  of 
these  being  before  the  alumni  of  his  alma  mater, 
in  1884,  when  he  was  complimented  with  the  degree 
of  LL.D.  Died  May  1,  1910. 

SHIELDS,  James,  soldier  and  United  States 
Senator,  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1810,  emigrated 
to  the  United  States  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  and 
began  the  practice  of  law  at  Kaskaskia  in  1832. 
He  was  elected  to  the  Legislature  in  1836,  and 
State  Auditor  in  1839.  In  1843  he  became  a 
Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State,  and,  in 
1845,  was  made  Commissioner  of  the  General 
Land  Office.  In  July,  1846,  he  was  commissioned 
Brigadier-General  in  the  Mexican  War  gaining 
the  brevet  of  Major-General  at  Cerro-Gordo, 
where  he  was  severely  wounded.  He  was  again 
wounded  at  Chapultepec,  and  mustered  out  in 
1848.  The  same  year  he  was  appointed  Governor 
of  Oregon  Territory.  In  1849  the  Democrats  in 
the  Illinois  Legislature  elected  him  Senator,  and 
he  resigned  his  office  in  Oregon.  In  1856  he 
removed  to  Minnesota,  and,  in  1858,  was  chosen 
United  States  Senator  from  that  State,  his  term 
expiring  in  1859,  when  he  established  a  residence 
in  California.  At  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil  War 
(1861)  he  was  superintending  a  mine  in  Mexico, 
but  at  once  hastened  to  Washington  to  tender  his 
services  to  the  Governmnet.  He  was  commis- 
sioned Brigadier-General,  and  served  with  dis- 
tinction until  March,  1863,  when  the  effect  of 
numerous  wounds  caused  him  to  resign.  He  sub- 
sequently removed  to  Missouri,  practicing  law  at 
Carrollton  and  serving  in  the  Legislature  of  that 
State  in  1874  and  1879.  In  the  latter  year  he  was 
elected  United  States  Senator  to  fill  out  the  unex- 
pired  term  of  Senator  Bogy,  who  had  died  in 
office — serving  only  six  weeks,  but  being  the  only 
man  in  the  history  of  the  country  who  filled  the 
office  of  United  States  Senator  from  three  differ 


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ent  States.  Died,  at  Ottumwa,  Iowa,  June  1, 
1879. 

SHERIDAN,  a  village  of  La  Salle  County,  on 
C.,  B.  &  Q.  R.  R.,  Peoria  Branch.  Pop.  (1910),  506. 

SHERRARD,  a  village  of  Mercer  County,  a  coal 
mining  district.  Pop.  (1910),  906. 

sil  I  I'M  \  \.  George  E.,  M.D.,  physician  and 
philanthropist,  born  in  New  York  City,  March  4, 
1820 ;  graduated  at  the  University  of  New  York 
in  1839,  and  took  a  course  in  the  College  of  Phy- 
sicians and  Surgeons;  practiced  for  a  time  at 
Peoria,  111.,  but,  in  1846,  located  in  Chicago,  where 
he  assisted  in  organizing  the  first  Homeopathic 
Hospital  in  that  city,  and,  in  1855,  was  one  of  the 
first  Trustees  of  Hahnemann  College.  In  1871  he 
established,  in  Chicago,  the  Foundlings'  Home  at 
his  own  expense,  giving  to  it  the  latter  years  of 
his  life.  Died,  Jan.  20,  1893. 

SHORET,  Daniel  Lewis,  lawyer  and  philan- 
thropist, was  born  at  Jonesborough,  Washington 
County,  Maine,  Jan.  31,  1824;  educated  at  Phil- 
lips Academy,  Andover,  Mass. ,  and  at  Dartmouth 
College,  graduating  from  the  latter  in  1851; 
taught  two  years  in  Washington  City,  meanwhile 
reading  law,  afterwards  taking  a  course  at  Dane 
Law  School,  Cambridge ;  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  Boston  in  1854,  the  next  year  locating  at 
Davenport,  Iowa,  where  he  remained  ten  years. 
In  1865  he  removed  to  Chicago,  where  he  prose- 
cuted his  profession  until  1890,  when  he  retired. 
Mr.  Shorey  was  prominent  in  the  establishment 
of  the  Chicago  Public  Library,  and  a  member  of 
the  first  Library  Board;  was  also  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Chicago  Literary  Club,  and  was  a 
Director  in  the  new  University  of  Chicago  and 
deeply  interested  in  its  prosperity.  Died,  in  Chi- 
cago, March  4,  1899. 

SHORT,  (Key.)  William  F.,  clergyman  and 
educator,  was  born  in  Ohio  in  1829,  brought  to 
Morgan  County,  111.,  in  childhood,  and  lived  upon 
a  farm  until  20  years  of  age,  when  he  entered 
McKendree  College,  spending  his  senior  year, 
however,  at  Wesleyan  University,  Bloomington, 
where  he  graduated  in  1854.  He  had  meanwhile 
accepted  a  call  to  the  Missouri  Conference  Semi- 
nary at  Jackson,  Mo. ;  where  he  remained  three 
years,  when  he  returned  to  Illinois,  serving 
churches  at  Jacksonville  and  elsewhere,  for  a 
part  of  the  time  being  Presiding  Elder  of  the 
Jacksonville  District.  In  1875  he  was  elected 
President  of  Illinois  Female  College  at  Jackson- 
ville, continuing  in  that  position  until  1893,  when 
he  was  appointed  Superintendent  of  the  Illinois 
State  Institution  for  the  Blind  at  the  same  place, 
but  resigned  early  in  1897.  Dr.  Short  received 


the  degree  of  D.D.,  conferred  upon  him  by  Ohio 
Wesleyan  University  Died  Aug.  29,  1909. 

SHOUP,  George  L.,  United  States  Senator, 
was  born  at  Kittanning,  Pa.,  June  15,  1836;  came 
to  Illinois  in  1852,  his  father  locating  on  a  stock- 
farm  near  Galesburg;  in  1859  removed  to  Colo- 
rado, where  he  engaged  in  mining  and  mercantile 
business  until  1861,  when  he  enlisted  in  a  com- 
pany of  scouts,  being  advanced  from  the  rank  of 
First  Lieutenant  to  the  Colonelcy  of  the  Third 
Colorado  Cavalry,  meanwhile  serving  as  Delegate 
to  the  State  Constitutional  Convention  of  1864. 
Retiring  to  private  life,  he  again  engaged  in  mer- 
cantile and  mining  business,  first  in  Nevada  and 
then  in  Idaho;  served  two  terms  in  the  Terri- 
torial Legislature  of  the  latter,  was  appointed 
Territorial  Governor  in  1889  and,  in  1890,  was 
chosen  the  first  Governor  of  the  State,  in  October 
of  the  same  year  being  elected  to  the  United 
States  Senate,  and  re-elected  in  1895  for  a  second 
term,  which  ends  in  1901.  Senator  Shoup  is  one 
of  the  few  Western  Senators  who  remained  faith- 
ful to  the  regular  Republican  organization,  during 
the  political  campaign  of  1896. 

SHOWALTER,  John  W.,  jurist,  was  born  in 
Mason  County,  Ky.,  Feb.  8,  1844;  resided  some 
years  in  Scott  County  in  that  State,  and  was 
educated  in  the  local  schools,  at  Maysville  and 
Ohio  Univers'ty,  finally  graduating  at  Yale  Col- 
lege in  1867;  came  to  Chicago  in  1869,  studied 
law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1870.  He 
returned  to  Kentucky  after  the  fire  of  1871,  but, 
in  1872,  again  came  to  Chicago  and  entered  the 
employment  of  the  firm  of  Moore  &  Caulfield, 
with  whom  he  had  been  before  the  fire.  In  1879 
he  became  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Abbott, 
Oliver  &  Showalter  (later,  Oliver  &  Showalter), 
where  he  remained  until  his  appointment  as 
United  States  Circuit  Judge,  in  March,  1895. 
Died,  in  Chicago,  Deo.  12,  1898. 

SHUMAN,  Andrew,  journalist  and  Lieutenant- 
Governor,  was  born  at  Manor,  Lancaster  County, 
Pa.,  Nov.  8,  1830.  His  father  dying  in  1837,  he 
was  reared  by  an  uncle.  At  the  age  of  15  he 
became  an  apprentice  in  the  office  of  "The  Lan- 
caster Union  and  Sentinel."  A  year  later  he  ac- 
companied his  employer  to  Auburn,  N.  Y. ,  working 
for  two  years  on  "The  Daily  Advertiser"  of  that 
city,  then  known  as  Governor  Seward's  "home 
organ."  At  the  age  of  18  he  edited,  published 
and  distributed  —  during  his  leisure  hours — a 
small  weekly  paper  called  "The  Auburnian."  At 
the  conclusion  of  his  apprenticeship  he  was  em- 
ployed, for  a  year  or  two,  in  editing  and  publish- 
ing "The  Cayuga  Chief,"  a  temperance  journal. 


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In  1851  he  entered  Hamilton  College,  but,  before 
the  completion  of  Ids  junior  year,  consented,  at 
the  solicitation  of  friends  of  William  H.  Seward, 
to  assume  editorial  control  of  ''The  Syracuse 
Daily  Journal."  In  July,  1856,  he  came  to  Chi- 
cago, to  accept  an  editorial  position  on  "The 
Evening  Journal"  of  that  city,  later  becoming 
editor-in-chief  and  President  of  the  Journal  Com- 
pany. From  1865  to  1870  (first  by  executive 
appointment  and  afterward  by  popular  election) 
he  was  a  Commissioner  of  the  Illinois  State  Peni- 
tentiary at  Joliet,  resigning  the  office  four  years 
before  the  expiration  of  his  term.  In  1876  he 
was  elected  Lieutenant-Governor  on  the  Repub- 
lican ticket.  Owing  to  declining  health,  he 
abandoned  active  journalistic  work  in  1888, 
dying  in  Chicago,  May  5,  1890.  His  home  during 
the  latter  years  of  his  life  was  at  Evanston. 
Governor  Shuman  was  author  of  a  romance 
entitled  "Loves  of  a  Lawyer,"  besides  numerous 
addresses  before  literary,  commercial  and  scien- 
tific associations. 

SHUMWAY,  Dorice  Dwight,  merchant,  was 
born  at  Williamsburg,  Worcester  County,  Mass. , 
Sept.  28,  1813,  descended  from  French  Huguenot 
ancestry;  came  to  Zanosville,  Ohio,  in  1837,  and 
to  Montgomery  County,  111.,  in  1841;  married  a 
daughter  of  Hiram  Rountree,  an  early  resident 
of  Hillsboro,  and,  in  1843,  located  in  Christian 
County ;  was  engaged  for  a  time  in  merchandis- 
ing at  Taylorville,  but  retired  in  1858,  thereafter 
giving  his  attention  to  a  large  landed  estate.  In 
1846  he  was  chosen  Representative  in  the  General 
Assembly,  served  in  the  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion of  1847,  and  four  years  as  County  Judge  of 
Christian  County.  Died,  May  9,  1870.— Hiram 
P.  (Shumway),  eldest  son  of  the  preceding,  was 
born  in  Montgomery  County,  111.,  June,  1842; 
spent  his  boyhood  on  a  farm  in  Christian  County 
and  in  his  father's  store  at  Taylorville ;  took  an 
academy  course  and,  in  1864,  engaged  in  mercan- 
tile business;  was  Representative  in  the  Twenty- 
eighth  General  Assembly  and  Senator  in  the 
Thirty-sixth  and  Thirty-seventh,  afterwards 
removing  to  Springfield,  where  he  engaged  in 
the  stone  business.  Died  April  30,  1903. 

SHURTLEFF  COLLEGE,  an  institution 
located  at  Upper  Alton,  and  the  third  estab- 
lished in  Illinois.  It  was  originally  incorporated 
as  the  "Alton  College"  in  1831,  under  a  special 
charter  which  was  not  accepted,  but  re-incorpo- 
rated in  1835,  in  an  "omnibus  bill"  with  Illi- 
nois and  McKendree  Colleges.  (See  Early  Col- 
leges.) Its  primal  origin  was  a  school  at  Rock 
Spring  in  St.  Clair  County,  founded  about  1824, 


by  Rev.  John  M.  Peck.  This  became  the  "Rock 
Spring  Seminary"  in  1827,  and,  about  1831,  was 
united  with  an  academy  at  Upper  Alton.  This 
was  the  nucleus  of  "Alton"  (afterward  "Shurt- 
leff")  College.  As  far  as  its  denominational 
control  is  concerned,  it  has  always  been  domi- 
nated by  Baptist  influence.  Dr.  Peck's  original 
idea  was  to  found  a  school  for  teaching  theology 
and  Biblical  literature,  but  this  project  was  at 
first  inhibited  by  the  State.  Hubbard  Loomis 
and  John  Russell  were  among  the  first  instruc- 
tors. Later,  Dr.  Benjamin  Shurtleff  donated  the 
college  $10,000,  and  the  institution  was  named  ir 
his  honor.  College  classes  were  not  organized 
until  1840,  and  several  years  elapsed  before  a  class 
graduated.  Its  endowment  in  1898  was  over 
$126,000,  in  addition  to  $125,000  worth  of  real  and 
personal  property.  About  255  students  were  in 
attendance.  Besides  preparatory  and  collegiate 
departments,  the  college  also  maintains  a  theo- 
logical school.  It  has  a  faculty  of  twenty 
instructors  and  is  co-educational. 

S1BLEY,  Joseph,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was  born 
at  Westfield,  Mass.,  in  1818;  learned  the  trade  of 
a  whip-maker  and  afterwards  engaged  in  mer- 
chandising. In  1843  he  began  the  study  of  law 
at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  and,  upon  admission  to  the 
bar,  came  west,  finally  settling  at  Nauvoo,  Han- 
cock County.  He  maintained  a  neutral  attitude 
during  the  Mormon  troubles,  thus  giving  offense 
to  a  section  of  the  community.  In  1847  he  was 
an  unsuccessful  candidate  for  the  Legislature, 
but  was  elected  in  1850,  and  re-elected  in  1852. 
In  1853  he  removed  to  Warsaw,  and,  in  1855,  was 
elected  Judge  of  the  Circuit  Court,  and  re-elected 
in  1861,  '67  and  '73,  being  assigned  to  the  bench 
of  the  Appellate  Court  of  the  Second  District,  in 
1877.  His  residence,  after  1865,  was  at  Quincy, 
where  he  died,  June  18,  1897. 

SIDELL,  a  village  of  Vermillion  County,  on  the 
Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois  and  Cincinnati,  Hamil- 
ton &  Dayton  Railroads;  has  a  bank,  electric 
light  plant  and  a  newspaper.  Pop.  (1910),  741. 

SIDNEY,  a  village  of  Champaign  County,  on  the 
main  line  of  the  Wabash  Railway,  at  the  junctior 
of  a  branch  to  Champaign,  48  miles  east-northeast 
of  Decatur.  It  is  in  a  farming  district;  has  a  bank 
and  a  newspaper.  Pop.  (1900),  564;  (1910),  481. 

SI  I. VIS,  a  village  of  Rock  Island  County,  thret 
miles  east  of  the  city  of  Rock  Island  and  north  ol 
Rock  River;  incorporated  1906;  adjacent  to  a  rich 
coal  producing  district,  and  a  manufacturing  point 
Pop.  (1910),  1,163. 

SIM,  (Dr.)  William,  pioneer  physician,  was 
born  at  Aberdeen,  Scotland,  in  1795,  came  to 


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America  in  early  manhood,  and  was  the  first  phy- 
sician to  settle  at  Golconda,  in  Pope  County, 
which  he  represented  in  the  Fourth  and  Fifth 
General  Assemblies  (1834  and  '28).  He  married 
a  Miss  Elizabeth  Jack  of  Philadelphia,  making 
the  journey  from  Golconda  to  Philadelphia  for 
that  purpose  on  horseback.  He  had  a  family  of 
five  children,  one  son,  Dr.  Francis  L.  Sim,  rising 
to  distinction  as  a  physician,  and,  for  a  time, 
being  President  of  a  Medical  College  at  Memphis, 
Tenn.  The  elder  Dr.  Sim  died  at  Golconda,  in 
1868. 

SIMS,  James,  early  legislator  and  Methodist 
preacher,  was  a  native  of  South  Carolina,  but 
removed  to  Kentucky  in  early  manhood,  thence 
to  St.  Clair  County,  111.,  and,  in  1820,  to  Sanga- 
mon  County,  where  he  was  elected,  in  1822,  as  the 
first  Representative  from  that  county  in  the 
Third  General  Assembly.  At  the  succeeding  ses- 
sion of  the  Legislature,  he  was  one  of  those  who 
voted  against  the  Convention  resolution  designed 
to  prepare  the  way  for  making  Illinois  a  slave 
State.  Mr.  Sims  resided  for  a  time  in  Menard 
County,  but  finally  removed  to  Morgan. 

SINGER,  Horace  M.,  capitalist,  was  born  in 
Schnectady,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  1,  1823;  came  to  Chicago 
in  1836  and  found  employment  on  the  Illinois  & 
Michigan  Canal,  serving  as  superintendent  of 
repairs  upon  the  Canal  until  1853.  While  thus 
employed  he  became  one  of  the  proprietors  of 
the  stone-quarries  at  Lemont,  managed  by  the 
firm  of  Singer  &  Taloott  until  about  1890,  when 
they  became  the  property  of  the  Western  Stone 
Company.  Originally  a  Democrat,  he  became  a 
Republican  during  the  Civil  War,  and  served  as  a 
member  of  the  Twenty -fifth  General  Assembly 
(1867)  for  Cook  County,  was  elected  County  Com- 
missioner in  1870,  and  was  Chairman  of  the 
Republican  County  Central  Committee  in  1880. 
He  was  also  associated  with  several  financial 
institutions,  being  a  director  of  the  First  National 
Bank  and  of  the  Auditorium  Company  of  Chi- 
cago, and  a  member  of  the  Union  League  and 
Calumet  Clubs.  Died,  at  Pasadena,  Cal.,  Dec. 
28,  1896. 

SINGLETON,  James  W.,  Congressman,  born 
at  Paxton,  Va.,  Nov.  23,  1811;  was  educated  at 
the  Winchester  (Va.)  Academy,  and  removed  to 
Illinois  in  1833,  settling  first  at  Mount  Sterling, 
Brown  County,  and,  some  twenty  years  later, 
near  Quincy.  By  profession  he  was  a  lawyer, 
and  was  prominent  in  political  and  commercial 
affairs.  In  his  later  years  he  devoted  consider- 
able attention  to  stock-raising.  He  was  elected 
Brigadier-General  of  the  Illinois  militia  in  1844, 


being  identified  to  some  extent  with  the  "Mor- 
mon War";  was  a  member  of  the  Constitutional 
Conventions  of  1847  and  1862,  served  six  terms  in 
the  Legislature,  and  was  elected,  on  the  Demo- 
cratic ticket,  to  Congress  in  1878,  and  again  in 
1880.  In  1882  he  ran  as  an  independent  Demo- 
crat, but  was  defeated  by  the  regular  nominee  of 
his  party,  James  M.  Riggs.  During  the  War  of 
the  Rebellion  he  was  one  of  the  most  conspicuous 
leaders  of  the  "peace  party."  He  constructed 
the  Quincy  &  Toledo  (now  part  of  the  Wabash) 
and  the  Quincy,  Alton  &  St.  Louis  (now  part  of 
the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy)  Railways, 
being  President  of  both  companies.  His  death 
occurred  at  Baltimore,  Md. ,  April  4,  1892. 

SINNET,  John  S.,  pioneer,  was  born  at  Lex- 
ington, Ky. ,  March  10,  1796 ;  at  three  years  of  age, 
taken  by  his  parents  to  Missouri ;  enlisted  in  the 
War  of  1812,  but,  soon  after  the  war,  came  to 
Illinois,  and,  about  1818,  settled  in  what  is  now 
Christian  County,  locating  on  land  constituting 
a  part  of  the  present  city  of  Taylorville.  In  1840 
he  removed  to  Tazewell  County,  dying  there,  Jan. 
13,  1872. 

SKINNER,  Mark,  jurist,  was  born  at  Manches- 
ter, Vt.,  Sept.  13,  1813;  graduated  from  Middle- 
bury  College  in  1833,  studied  law,  and,  in  1836, 
came  to  Chicago;  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1839,  became  City  Attorney  in  1840,  later  Master 
in  Chancery  for  Cook  County,  and  finally  United 
States  District  Attorney  under  President  Tyler. 
As  member  of  the  House  Finance  Committee  in 
the  Fifteenth  General  Assembly  (1846-48),  he 
aided  influentially  in  securing  the  adoption  of 
measures  for  refunding  and  paying  the  State 
debt.  In  1851  he  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Court 
of  Common  Pleas  (now  Superior  Court)  of  Cook 
County,  but  declined  a  re-election  in  1853.  Origi- 
nally a  Democrat,  Judge  Skinner  was  an  ardent 
opponent  of  the  Kansas-Nebraska  Bill  and  a 
liberal  supporter  of  the  Government  policy  dur- 
ing the  rebellion.  He  liberally  aided  the  United 
States  Sanitary  Commission  and  was  identified 
with  all  the  leading  charities  of  the  city. 
Among  the  great  business  enterprises  with  which 
he  was  officially  associated  were  the  Galena  &  Chi- 
cago Union  and  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railways  (in  each  of  which  he  was  a  Director), 
the  Chicago  Marine  &  Fire  Insurance  Company, 
the  Gas-Light  and  Coke  Company  and  others. 
Died,  Sept.  16,  1887.  Judge  Skinner's  only  sur- 
viving son  was  killed  in  the  trenches  before 
Petersburg,  the  last  year  of  the  Civil  War. 

SKINNER,  Otis  Ainsworth,  clergyman  and 
author,  was  born  at  Royalton,  Vt.,  July  3,  1807; 


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taught  for  some  time,  became  a  Universalist 
minister,  serving  churches  in  Baltimore,  Boston 
and  New  York  between  1831  and  1857;  then 
came  to  Elgin,  111.,  was  elected  President  of  Lom- 
bard University  at  Galesburg,  but  the  following 
year  took  charge  of  a  church  at  Joliet.  Died,  at 
Naperville,  Sept.  18,  1861.  He  wrote  several  vol- 
umes on  religious  topics,  and,  at  different  times, 
edited  religious  periodicals  at  Baltimore,  Haver- 
hill,  Mass.,  and  Boston. 

SKINNER,  Ozias  C.,  lawyer  and  jurist,  was 
born  at  Floyd,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  in  1817;  in 
1836,  removed  to  Illinois,  settling  in  Peoria 
County,  where  he  engaged  in  farming.  In  1838 
he  began  the  study  of  law  at  Greenville,  Ohio, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  that  State  in  1840. 
Eighteen  months  later  he  returned  to  Illinois, 
and  began  practice  at  Carthage,  Hancock  County, 
removing  to  Quincy  in  1844.  During  the  "Mor- 
mon War"  he  served  as  Aid-de-camp  to  Governor 
Ford.  In  1848  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  house 
of  the  Sixteenth  General  Assembly,  and,  for  a 
short  time,  served  as  Prosecuting  Attorney  for 
the  district  including  Adams  and  Brown  Coun- 
ties. In  1851  he  was  elected  Judge  of  the  (then) 
Fifteenth  Judicial  Circuit,  and,  in  1855,  suc- 
ceeded Judge  S.  H.  Treat  on  the  Supreme  bench, 
resigning  this  position  in  April,  1858,  two  months 
before  the  expiration  of  his  term.  He  was  a 
large  land  owner  and  had  extensive  agricultural 
interests.  He  built,  and  was  the  first  President 
of  the  Carthage  &  Quincy  Railroad,  now  a  part 
of  the  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy  system.  He 
was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1869,  serving  as  Chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Judiciary.  Died  in  1877. 

SLADE,  Charles,  early  Congressman ;  his  early 
history,  including  date  and  place  of  birth,  are 
unknown.  In  1820  he  was  elected  Representative 
from  Washington  County  in  the  Second  General 
Assembly,  and,  in  1826,  was  re-elected  to  the 
same  body  for  Clinton  and  Washington.  In  1832 
he  was  elected  one  of  the  three  Congressmen 
from  Illinois,  representing  the  First  District. 
After  attending  the  first  session  of  the  Twenty- 
third  Congress,  while  on  his  way  home,  he  was 
attacked  with  cholera,  dying  near  Vincennes, 
Ind.,  July  11,  1834. 

SLADE,  James  P.,  ex-State  Superintendent  of 
Public  Instruction,  was  born  at  Westerlo,  Albany 
County,  N.  Y.,  Feb.  9,  1837,  and  spent  his  boy- 
hood with  his  parents  on  a  farm,  except  while 
absent  at  school ;  in  1856  removed  to  Belleville, 
111.,  where  he  soon  became  connected  with  the 
public  schools,  serving  for  a  number  of  years  as 


Principal  of  the  Belleville  High  School.  While 
connected  with  the  Belleville  schools,  he  was 
elected  County  Superintendent,  remaining  in 
office  some  ten  years ;  later  had  charge  of  Almira 
College  at  Greenville,  Bond  County,  served  six 
years  as  Superintendent  of  Schools  at  East  St. 
Louis  and,  in  1878,  was  elected  State  Superintend- 
ent of  Public  Instruction  as  the  nominee  of  the 
Republican  party.  On  retirement  from  the 
office  of  State  Superintendent,  he  resumed  his 
place  at  the  head  of  Almira  College,  but,  in  his  last 
few  years,  served  as  Superintendent  of  Schools  at 
East  St.  Louis.  Died  Apr.  18,  1908. 

SLAVERY  AGITATION  OP  1823-24.  (See 
Slavery  and  Slave  Laws. ) 

SLAVERY  AND  SLAVE  LAWS.  African  slaves 
were  first  brought  into  the  Illinois  country  by  a 
Frenchman  named  Pierre  F.  Renault,  aboul 
1722.  At  that  time  the  present  State  formed  a 
part  of  Louisiana,  and  the  traffic  in  slaves  was 
regulated  by  French  royal  edicts.  When  Great 
Britain  acquired  the  territory,  at  the  close  of  the 
French  and  Indian  War,  the  former  subjects  of 
France  were  guaranteed  security  for  their  per- 
sons "and  effects,"  and  no  interference  with 
slavery  was  attempted.  Upon  the  conquest  of 
Illinois  by  Virginia  (see  Clark,  George  Rogers), 
the  French  very  generally  professed  allegiance  to 
that  commonwealth,  and,  in  her  deed  of  cession 
to  the  United  States,  Virginia  expressly  stipulated 
for  the  protection  of  the  "rights  and  liberties" 
of  the  French  citizens.  This  was  construed  as 
recognizing  the  right  of  property  in  negro 
slaves.  Even  the  Ordinance  of  1787,  while  pro- 
hibiting slavery  in  the  Northwest  Territory,  pre- 
served to  the  settlers  (reference  being  especially 
made  to  the  French  and  Canadians)  "of  the  Kas- 
kaskias,  St.  Vincents  and  neighboring  villages, 
their  laws  and  customs,  now  (then)  in  force, 
relative  to  the  descent  and  conveyance  of  prop- 
erty. ' '  A  conservative  construction  of  this  clause 
was,  that  while  it  prohibited  the  extension  of 
slavery  and  the  importation  of  slaves,  the  status 
of  those  who  were  at  that  time  in  involuntary 
servitude,  and  of  their  descendants,  was  left  un- 
changed. There  were  those,  however,  who  denied 
the  constitutionality  of  the  Ordinance  in  toto, 
on  the  ground  that  Congress  had  exceeded  its 
powers  in  its  passage.  There  was  also  a  party 
which  claimed  that  all  children  of  slaves,  born 
after  1787,  were  free  from  birth.  In  1794  a  con- 
vention was  held  at  Vincennes,  pursuant  to  a  call 
from  Governor  Harrison,  and  a  memorial  to  Con- 
gress was  adopted,  praying  for  the  repeal — or.  at 
least  a  modification — of  the  sixth  clause  of  the 


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Ordinance  of  1787.  The  first  Congressional  Com- 
mittee, to  which  this  petition  was  referred, 
reported  adversely  upon  it ;  but  a  second  commit- 
tee recommended  the  suspension  of  the  operation 
of  the  clause  in  question  for  ten  years.  But  no 
action  was  taken  by  the  National  Legislature, 
and,  in  1807,  a  counter  petition,  extensively 
signed,  was  forwarded  to  that  body,  and  Congress 
left  the  matter  in  statu  quo.  It  is  worthy  of  note 
that  some  of  the  most  earnest  opponents  of  the 
measure  were  Representatives  from  Southern 
Slave  States,  John  Randolph,  of  Virginia,  being 
one  of  them.  The  pro-slavery  party  in  the  State 
then  prepared  what  is  popularly  known  as  the 
"Indenture  Law,"  which  was  one  of  the  first  acts 
adopted  by  Governor  Edwards  and  his  Council, 
and  was  re-enacted  by  the  first  Territorial  Legis- 
lature in  1812.  It  was  entitled,  "An  Act  relating 
to  the  Introduction  of  Negroes  and  Mulattoes  into 
this  Territory,"  and  gave  permission  to  bring 
slaves  above  15  years  of  age  into  the  State,  when 
they  might  be  registered  and  kept  in  servitude 
within  certain  limitations.  Slaves  under  that 
age  might  also  be  brought  in,  registered,  and  held 
in  bondage  until  they  reached  the  age  of  35,  if 
males,  and  30,  if  females.  The  issue  of  registered 
slaves  were  to  serve  their  mother's  master  until 
the  age  of  30  or  28,  according  to  sex.  The  effect 
of  this  legislation  was  rapidly  to  increase  the 
number  of  slaves.  The  Constitution  of  1818  pro- 
hibited the  introduction  of  slavery  thereafter — 
that  is  to  say,  after  its  adoption.  In  1822  the 
slave-holding  party,  with  their  supporters,  began 
to  agitate  the  question  of  so  amending  the 
organic  law  as  to  make  Illinois  a  slave  State.  To 
effect  such  a  change  the  calling  of  a  convention 
was  necessary,  and,  for  eighteen  months,  the 
struggle  between  "conventionists"  and  their 
opponents  was  bitter  and  fierce.  The  question 
was  submitted  to  a  popular  vote  on  August  2, 
1824,  the  result  of  the  count  showing  4,972  votes 
for  such  convention  and  6,640  against.  This 
decisive  result  settled  the  question  of  slave-hold- 
ing in  Illinois  for  all  future  time,  though  the 
existence  of  slavery  in  the  State,  continued  to  be 
recognized  by  the  National  Census  until  1840. 
The  number,  according  to  the  census  of  1810,  was 
168;  in  1820  they  had  increased  to  917.  Then 
the  number  began  to  diminish,  being  reduced  in 
1830  to  747,  and,  in  1840  (the  last  census  which 
shows  any  portion  of  the  population  held  in 
bondage),  it  was  331. 

Hooper  Warren — who  has  been  mentioned  else- 
where as  editor  of  "The  Edwardsville  Spectator," 
and  a  leading  factor  in  securing  the  defeat  of  the 


scheme  to  make  Illinois  a  slave  State  in  1822 — in 
an  article  in  the  first  number  of  "The  Genius  of 
Liberty"  (January,  1841),  speaking  of  that  con- 
test, says  there  were,  at  its  beginning,  only  three 
papers  in  the  State— "The  Intelligencer"  at  Van- 
dalia,  "The  Gazette"  at  Shawneetown,  and  "The 
Spectator"  at  Edwardsville.  The  first  two  of 
these,  at  the  outset,  favored  the  Convention 
scheme,  while  "The  Spectator"  opposed  it.  The 
management  of  the  campaign  on  the  part  of  the 
pro-slavery  party  was  assigned  to  Emanuel  J. 
West,  Theophilus  W.  Smith  and  Oliver  L.  Kelly, 
and  a  paper  was  established  by  the  name  of  "The 
Illinois  Republican,"  with  Smith  as  editor. 
Among  the  active  opponents  of  the  measure  were 
George  Churchill,  Thomas  Lippincott,  Samuel  D. 
Lockwood,  Henry  Starr  (afterwards  of  Cincin- 
nati), Rev.  John  M.  Peck  and  Rev.  James 
Lemen,  of  St.  Clair  County.  Others  who  con- 
tributed to  the  cause  were  Daniel  P.  Cook,  Morris 

Birkbeck,   Dr.   Hugh  Steel    and Burton    of 

Jackson  County,  Dr.  Henry  Perrine  of  Bond; 
William  Leggett  of  Edwardsville  (afterwards 
editor  of  "The  New  York  Evening  Post"),  Ben- 
jamin Lundy  (then  of  Missouri),  David  Blackwell 
and  Rev.  John  Dew,  of  St.  Clair  County.  Still 
others  were  Nathaniel  Pope  (Judge  of  the  United 
States  District  Court),  William  B.  Archer,  Wil- 
liam H.  Brown  and  Benjamin  Mills  (of  Vandalia), 
John  Tillson,  Dr.  Horatio  Newhall,  George  For- 
quer,  Col.  Thomas  Mather,  Thomas  Ford,  Judge 
David  J.  Baker,  Charles  W.  Hunter  and  Henry  H. 
Snow  (of  Alton).  This  testimony  is  of  interest 
as  coming  from  one  who  probably  had  more  to  do 
with  defeating  the  scheme,  with  the  exception  of 
Gov.  Edward  Coles.  Outside  of  the  more  elabor- 
ate Histories  of  Illinois,  the  most  accurate  and 
detailed  accounts  of  this  particular  period  are  to 
be  found  in  "Sketch  of  Edward  Coles"  by  the  late 
E.  B.  Washburne,  and  "Early  Movement  in  Illi- 
nois for  the  Legalization  of  Slavery,"  an  ad- 
dress before  the  Chicago  Historical  Society 
(1864),  by  Hon.  William  H.  Brown,  of  Chicago. 
(See  also,  Coles,  Edward;  Warren,Hooper;  Brown, 
William  H.;  Churchill,  George;  Lippincott, 
J7iomas/and  Newspapers,  Early,  elsewhere  in  this 
volume. ) 

SLOAN,  Wesley,  legislator  and  jurist,  was 
born  in  Dorchester  County,  Md.,  Feb.  20,,  1806. 
At  the  age  of  17,  having  received  a  fair  academic 
education,  he  accompanied  his  parents  to  Phila- 
delphia, where,  for  a  year,  he  was  employed  in  a 
wholesale  grocery.  His  father  dying,  he  returned 
to  Maryland  and  engaged  in  teaching,  at  the 
same  time  studying  law,  and  being  admitted  to 


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the  bar  in  1831.  He  came  to  Illinois  in  1838, 
going  first  to  Chicago,  and  afterward  to  Kaskas- 
kia,  finally  settling  at  Golconda  in  1839,  which 
continued  to  be  his  home  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  In  1848  he  was  elected  to  the  Legislature, 
and  re-elected  in  1850,  '52,  and  '56,  serving  three 
times  as  Chairman  of  the  Judiciary  Committee. 
He  was  one  of  the  members  of  the  first  State 
Board  of  Education,  created  by  Act  of  Feb.  18, 
1857,  and  took  a  prominent  part  in  the  founding 
and  organization  of  the  State  educational  insti- 
tutions. In  1857  lie  was  elected  to  the  bench  of 
the  Nineteenth  Judicial  Circuit,  and  re-elected  in 
1861,  but  declined  a  re-election  for  a  third  term. 
Died,  Jan.  15,  1887. 

SMITH,  Abner,  jurist,  was  born  at  Orange, 
Franklin  County,  Mass.,  August  4,  1843,  of  an 
old  New  England  family,  whose  ancestors  came 
to  Massachusetts  Colony  about  1630;  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  and  at  Middlebury 
College,  Vt. ,  graduating  from  the  latter  in  1866. 
After  graduation  he  spent  a  year  as  a  teacher  in 
Newton  Academy,  at  Shoreham,  Vt.,  coming  to 
Chicago  in  1867,  and  entering  upon  the  study  of 
law,  being  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1868.  The  next 
twenty-five  years  were  spent  in  the  practice  of 
his  profession  in  Chicago,  within  that  time  serv- 
ing as  the  attorney  of  several  important  corpo- 
rations. In  1893  he  was  elected  a  Judge  of  the 
Circuit  Court  of  Cook  County,  and  re-elected 
in  1897,  his  term  of  service  continuing  until 
1903. 

SMITH,  (Dr.)  Charles  Gilman,  physician,  was 
born  at  Exeter,  N.  H.,  Jan.  4,  1828,  received  his 
early  education  at  Phillips  Academy,  in  his  native 
place,  finally  graduating  from  Harvard  Univer- 
sity in  1847.  He  soon  after  commenced  the  study 
of  medicine  in  the  Harvard  Medical  School,  but 
completed  his  course  at  the  University  of  Penn- 
sylvania in  1851.  After  two  years  spent  as 
attending  physician  of  the  Alms  House  in  South 
Boston,  Mass. ,  in  1853  he  came  to  Chicago,  where 
he  soon  acquired  an  extensive  practice.  During 
the  Civil  War  he  was  one  of  six  physicians 
employed  by  the  Government  for  the  treatment 
of  prisoners  of  war  in  hospital  at  Camp  Douglas. 
In  1868  he  visited  Europe  for  the  purpose  of 
observing  the  management  of  hospitals  in  Ger- 
many, France  and  England,  on  his  return  being 
invited  to  lecture  in  the  Woman's  Medical  College 
in  Chicago,  and  also  becoming  consulting  phy- 
sician in  the  Women's  and  Children's  Hospital, 
as  well  as  in  the  Presbyterian  Hospital — a  position 
which  he  continued  to  occupy  for  the  remainder 
of  his  life,  gaining  a  wide  reputation  in  the  treat- 


ment of  women's  and  children's  diseases.  Died, 
Jan.  10,  1894. 

SMITH,  David  Allen,  lawyer,  was  born  near 
Richmond,  Va.,  June  18,  1809;  removed  with  his 
father,  at  an  early  day,  to  Pulaski,  Tenn. ;  at  17 
went  to  Courtland,  Lawrence  County,  Ala., 
where  he  studied  law  with  Judge  Bramlette  and 
began  practice.  His  father,  dying  about  1831,  left 
him  the  owner  of  a  number  of  slaves  whom,  in 
1837,  he  brought  to  Carlinville,  111.,  and  emanci- 
pated, giving  bond  that  they  should  not  become 
a  charge  to  the  State.  In  1839  he  removed  to 
Jacksonville,  where  he  practiced  law  until  his 
death.  Col.  John  J.  Hardin  was  his  partner  at 
the  time  of  his  death  on  the  battle-field  of  Buena 
Vista.  Mr.  Smith  was  a  Trustee  and  generous 
patron  of  Illinois  College,  for  a  quarter  of  a  cen- 
tury, but  never  held  any  political  office.  As  a 
lawyer  he  was  conscientious  and  faithful  to  the 
interests  of  his  clients;  as  a  citizen,  liberal,  pub- 
lic-spirited and  patriotic.  He  contributed  liber- 
ally to  the  support  of  the  Government  dur- 
ing the  war  for  the  Union.  Died,  at  Anoka, 
Minn.,  July  13,  1865,  where  he  had  gone  to 
accompany  an  invalid  son.  —  Thomas  William 
(Smith),  eldest  son  of  the  preceding,  born  at 
Courtland,  Ala.,  Sept.  27,  1832;  died  at  Clear- 
water,  Minn.,  Oct.  29,  1865.  He  graduated  at 
Illinois  College  in  1852,  studied  law  and  served 
as  Captain  in  the  Tenth  Illinois  Volunteers, 
until,  broken  in  health,  he  returned  home  to 
die. 

SMITH,  Dietrich  C.,  ex-Congressman,  was 
born  at  Ostfriesland,  Hanover,  April  4,  1840,  in 
boyhood  came  to  the  United  States,  and,  since 
1849,  has  been  a  resident  of  Pekin,  Tazewell 
County.  In  1861  he  enlisted  in  the  Eighth  Illi- 
nois Volunteers,  was  promoted  to  a  Lieutenancy, 
and,  while  so  serving,  was  severely  wounded  at 
Shiloh.  Later,  he  was  attached  to  the  One  Hun- 
dred and  Thirty-ninth  Illinois  Infantry,  and  was 
mustered  out  of  service  as  Captain  of  Company  C 
of  that  regiment.  His  business  is  that  of  banker 
and  manufacturer,  besides  which  he  has  had  con- 
siderable experience  in  the  construction  and 
management  of  railroads.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Thirtieth  General  Assembly,  and,  in  1880,  was 
elected  Representative  in  Congress  from  what 
was  then  the  Thirteenth  District,  on  the  Repub- 
lican ticket,  defeating  Adlai  E.  Stevenson,  after- 
wards Vice-President.  In  1882,  his  county  (Taze- 
well) having  been  attached  to  the  district  for 
many  years  represented  byWm.  M.  Springer,  he 
was  defeated  by  the  latter  as  a  candidate  for  re- 
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SMITH,  George,  one  of  Chicago's  pioneers  and 
early  bankers,  was  born  in  Aberdeenshire,  Scot- 
land, March  8,  1808.  It  was  his  early  intention 
to  study  medicine,  and  he  entered  Aberdeen  Col- 
lege with  this  end  in  view,  but  was  forced  to  quit 
the  institution  at  the  end  of  two  years,  because 
of  impaired  vision.  In  1833  he  came  to  America, 
and,  in  1834,  settled  in  Chicago,  where  he  resided 
until  1861,  meanwhile  spending  one  year  in  Scot- 
land. He  invested  largely  in  real  estate  in  Chi- 
cago and  Wisconsin,  at  one  time  owning  a 
considerable  portion  of  the  present  site  of  Mil- 
waukee. In  1837  he  secured  the  charter  for  the 
Wisconsin  Marine  and  Fire  Insurance  Company, 
whose  headquarters  were  at  Milwaukee.  He  was 
really  the  owner  of  the  company,  although  Alex- 
ander Mitchell,  of  Milwaukee,  was  its  Secretary. 
Under  this  charter  Mr.  Smith  was  able  to  issue 
$1,500,000  in  certificates,  which  circulated  freely 
as  currency.  In  1839  he  founded  Chicago's  first 
private  banking  house.  About  1843  he  was  inter- 
ested in  a  storage  and  commission  business  in 
Chicago,  with  a  Mr.  Webster  as  partner.  He 
was  a  Director  in  the  old  Galena  &  Chicago 
Union  Railroad  (now  a  part  of  the  Chicago  & 
Northwestern),  and  aided  it,  while  in  course  of 
construction,  by  loans  of  money;  was  also  a 
charter  member  of  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade, 
organized  in  1848.  In  1854,  the  State  of  Wiscon- 
sin having  prohibited  the  circulation  of  the  Wis- 
consin Marine  and  Fire  Insurance  certificates 
above  mentioned,  Mr.  Smith  sold  out  the  com- 
pany to  his  partner,  Mitchell,  and  bought  two 
Georgia  bank  charters,  which,  together,  em- 
powered him  to  issue  §3,000,000  in  currency.  The 
notes  were  duly  issued  in  Georgia,  and  put  into 
circulation  in  Illinois,  over  the  counter  of  George 
Smith  &  Co.'s  Chicago  bank.  About  1856  Mr. 
Smith  began  winding  up  his  affairs  in  Chicago, 
meanwhile  spending  most  of  his  time  in  Scotland, 
but,  returning  in  1860,  made  extensive  invest- 
ments in  railroad  and  other  American  securities, 
which  netted  him  large  profits.  The  amount  of 
capital  which  he  is  reputed  to  have  taken  with 
him  to  his  native  land  has  been  estimated  at 
$10,000,000,  though  he  retained  considerable 
tracts  of  valuable  lands  in  Wisconsin  and  about 
Chicago.  Among  those  who  were  associated 
with  him  in  business,  either  as  employes  or 
otherwise,  and  who  have  since  been  prominently 
identified  with  Chicago  business  affairs,  were 
Hon.  Charles  B.  Farwell,  E.  I.  Tinkham  (after- 
wards a  prominent  hanker  of  Chicago),  E.  W. 
Willard,  now  of  Newport,  R.  I. ,  and  others.  Mr. 
Smith  made  several  visits,  during  the  last  forty 


years,  to  the  United  States,  but  divided  his  time 
chiefly  between  Scotland  (where  he  was  the 
owner  of  a  castle)  and  London.  Died  Oct.  7,  1899. 

SMITH,  George  W.,  soldier,  lawyer  and  State 
Treasurer,  was  born  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  Jan. 
8,  1837.  It  was  his  intention  to  acquire  a  col- 
legiate education,  but  his  father's  business 
embarrassments  having  compelled  the  abandon- 
ment of  his  studies,  at  17  of  years  age  he  went 
to  Arkansas  and  taught  school  for  two  years.  In 
1856  he  returned  to  Albany  and  began  the  study 
of  law,  graduating  from  the  law  school  in  1858. 
In  October  of  that  year  he  removed  to  Chicago, 
where  he  remained  continuously  in  practice,  with 
the  exception  of  the  years  1862-65,  when  he  was 
serving  in  the  Union  army,  and  1867-68,  when  he 
filled  the  office  of  State  Treasurer.  He  was  mus- 
tered into  service,  August  27,  1862,  as  a  Captain  in 
the  Eighty-eighth  Illinois  hifantry— the  second 
Board  of  Trade  regiment.  At  Stone  River,  he 
was  seriously  wounded  and  captured.  After 
four  days'  confinement,  he  was  aided  by  a  negro 
to  escape.  He  made  his  way  to  the  Union  lines, 
but  was  granted  leave  of  absence,  being  incapaci- 
tated for  service.  On  his  return  to  duty  he 
joined  his  regiment  in  the  Chattanooga  cam- 
paign, and  was  officially  complimented  for  his 
bravery  at  Gordon's  Mills.  At  Mission  Ridge  he 
was  again  severely  wounded,  and  was  once  more 
personally  complimented  in  the  official  report. 
At  Kenesaw  Mountain  (June  27,  1864),  Capt. 
Smith  commanded  the  regiment  after  the  killing 
of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Chandler,  and  was  pro- 
moted to  a  Lieutenant-Colonelcy  for  bravery  on 
the  field.  He  led  the  charge  at  Franklin,  and 
was  brevetted  Colonel,  and  thanked  by  the  com- 
mander for  his  gallant  service.  In  the  spring  of 
1865  he  was  brevetted  Brigadier-General,  and,  in 
June  following,  was  mustered  out.  Returning 
to  Chicago,  he  resumed  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession, and  gained  a  prominent  position  at  the 
bar.  In  1866  he  was  elected  State  Treasurer,  and, 
after  the  expiration  of  his  term,  in  January, 
1869,  held  no  public  office.  General  Smith  was, 
for  many  years,  a  Trustee  of  the  Chicago  Histor- 
ical Society,  and  Vice-President  of  the  Board. 
Died,  in  Chicago,  Sept.  16,  1898. 

SMITH,  George  W.,  lawyer  and  Congressman, 
was  born  in  Putnam  County,  Ohio,  August  18, 
1846.  When  he  was  four  years  old,  his  father 
removed  to  Wayne  County,  111.,  settling  on  a 
farm.  He  attended  the  common  schools  and 
graduated  from  the  literary  department  of  Mc- 
Kendree  College,  at  Lebanon,  in  1868.  In  his 
youth  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith,  but 


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later  determined  to  study  law.  After  reading  for 
a  time  at  Fairfield,  111.,  he  entered  the  Law 
Department  of  the  Bloomington  (Ind.)  Univer- 
sity, graduating  there  in  1870.  The  same  year  he 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  Illinois,  and  continued 
practice  at  Murphysboro.  In  1880  he  was  a  Repub- 
lican Presidential  Elector,  and,  in  1888,  was  elected 
a  Republican  Representative  to  Congress  from  the 
Twentieth  Illinois  District,  and  was  continuously 
re-elected  up  to  1906.  Died  Nov.  30,  1907,  during 
his  tenth  term,  being  then  Representative  from  the 
Twenty-second  District. 

SMITH,  Giles  Alexander,  soldier,  and  Assist- 
ant Postmaster-General,  was  born  in  Jefferson 
County,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  29,  1829;  engaged  in  dry- 
goods  business  in  Cincinnati  and  Bloomington, 
111.,  in  1861  being  proprietor  of  a  hotel  in  the 
latter  place;  became  a  Captain  in  the  Eighth 
Missouri  Volunteer^,  was  engaged  at  Forts  Henry 
and  Donelson,  Shiloh  and  Corinth,  and  promoted 
Lieutenant-Colonel  and  Colonel  in  1862;  led  his 
regiment  on  the  first  attack  on  Vicksburg,  and 
was  severely  wounded  at  Arkansas  Post ;  was  pro- 
moted Brigadier-General  in  August,  1863,  for 
gallant  and  meritorious  conduct;  led  a  brigade 
of  the  Fifteenth  Army  Corps  at  Chattanooga  and 
Missionary  Ridge,  as  also  in  the  Atlanta  cam- 
paign, and  a  division  of  the  Seventeenth  Corps  in 
the  "March  to  the  Sea."  After  the  surrender  of 
Lee  he  was  transferred  to  the  Twenty-fifth  Army 
Corps,  became  Major-General  in  1865,  and 
resigned  in  1866,  having  declined  a  commission 
as  Colonel  in  the  regular  army ;  about  1869  was 
appointed,  by  President  Grant,  Second  Assistant 
Postmaster-General,  but  resigned  on  account  of 
failing  health  in  1872.  Died,  at  Bloomington, 
Nov.  8,  1876.  General  Smith  was  one  of  the 
founders  of  the  Society  of  the  Army  of  the 
Tennessee. 

SMITH,  Gnstavns  Adolphns,  soldier,  was  born 
in  Philadelphia,  Dec.  26,  1820;  at  16  joined  two 
brothers  who  had  located  at  Springfield,  Ohio, 
where  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  carriage-maker. 
In  December,  1837,  he  arrived  at  Decatur,  111., 
but  soon  after  located  at  Springfield,  where  he 
resided  some  six  years.  Then,  returning  to 
Decatur,  he  devoted  his  attention  to  carriage 
manufacture,  doing  a  large  business  with  the 
South,  but  losing  heavily  as  the  result  of  the 
war.  An  original  Whig,  he  became  a  Democrat 
on  the  dissolution  of  the  Whig  party,  but  early 
took  ground  in  favor  of  the  Union  after  the  firing 
on  Fort  Sumter;  was  offered  and  accepted  the 
colonelcy  of  the  Thirty-fifth  Regiment  Illinois 
Volunteers,  at  the  same  time  assisting  Governor 


Yates  in  the  selection  of  Camp  Butler  as  a  camp 
of  recruiting  and  instruction.  Having  been 
assigned  to  duty  in  Missouri,  in  the  summer  of 
1861,  he  proceeded  to  Jefferson  City,  joined  Fre- 
mont at  Carthage  in  that  State,  and  made  a 
forced  march  to  Springfield,  afterwards  taking 
part  in  the  campaign  in  Arkansas  and  in  the 
battle  of  Pea  Ridge,  where  he  had  a  horse  shot 
under  him  and  was  severely  (and,  it  was  supposed, 
fatally)  wounded,  not  recovering  until  1868. 
Being  compelled  to  return  home,  he  received 
authority  to  raise  an  independent  brigade,  but 
was  unable  to  accompany  it  to  the  field.  In  Sep- 
tember, 1862,  he  was  commissioned  a  Brigadier- 
General  by  President  Lincoln,  "for  meritorious 
conduct,"  but  was  unable  to  enter  into  active 
service  on  account  of  his  wound.  Later,  he  was 
assigned  to  the  command  of  a  convalescent  camp 
at  Murfreesboro,  Tenn.,  under  Gen.  George  H. 
Thomas.  In  1864  he  took  part  in  securing  the 
second  election  of  President  Lincoln,  and,  in  the 
early  part  of  1865,  was  commissioned  by  Gov- 
ernor Oglesby  Colonel  of  a  new  regiment  (the 
One  Hundred  and  Fifty-fifth  Illinois),  but,  on 
account  of  his  wounds,  was  assigned  to  court- 
martial  duty,  remaining  in  the  service  until 
January,  1866,  when  he  was  mustered  out  with 
the  brevet  rank  of  Brigadier-General.  During 
the  second  year  of  his  service  he  was  presented 
with  a  magnificent  sword  by  the  rank  and  file  of 
his  regiment  (the  Thirty-fifth),  for  brave  and  gal- 
lant conduct  at  Pea  Ridge.  After  retiring  from 
the  army,  he  engaged  in  cotton  planting  in  Ala- 
bama, but  was  not  successful;  in  1868,  canvassed 
Alabama  for  General  Grant  for  President,  but 
declined  a  nomination  in  his  own  favor  for  Con- 
gress. In  1870  he  was  appointed,  by  General 
Grant,  United  States  Collection  and  Disbursing 
Agent  for  the  District  of  New  Mexico,  where  he 
continued  to  reside. 

SMITH,  John  Corson,  soldier,  ex-Lieutenant- 
Governor  and  ex-State  Treasurer,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia,  Feb.  13,  1832.  At  the  age  of  16  he 
was  apprenticed  to  a  carpenter  and  builder.  In 
1854  he  came  to  Chicago,  and  worked  at  his  trade, 
for  a  time,  but  soon  removed  to  Galena,  where  he 
finally  engaged  in  business  as  a  contractor.  In 
1862  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Seventy-fourth 
Illinois  Volunteers,  but,  having  received  author- 
ity from  Governor  Yates,  raised  a  company,  of 
which  he  was  chosen  Captain,  and  which  was 
incorporated  in  the  Ninety-sixth  Illinois  Infan- 
try. Of  this  regiment  he  was  soon  elected  Major. 
After  a  short  service  about  Cincinnati,  Ohio, 
and  Covington  and  Newport,  Ky.,  the  Ninety- 


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sixth  was  sent  to  the  front,  and  took  part  (among 
other  battles)  in  the  second  engagement  at  Fort 
Donelson  and  in  the  bloody  fight  at  Franklin, 
Tenn.  Later,  Major  Smith  was  assigned  to  staff 
duty  under  Generals  Baird  and  Steedman,  serv- 
ing through  the  Tullahoma  campaign,  and  par- 
ticipating in  the  battles  of  Chickamauga,  Lookout 
Mountain  and  Missionary  Ridge.  Being  promoted 
to  a  Lieutenant-Colonelcy,  he  rejoined  his  regi- 
ment, and  was  given  command  of  a  brigade.  In 
the  Atlanta  campaign  he  served  gallantly,  tak- 
ing a  conspicuous  part  in  its  long  series  of  bloody 
engagements,  and  being  severely  wounded  at 
Kenesaw  Mountain.  In  February,  1865,  he  was 
bre vetted  Colonel,  and,  in  June,"  1865,  Brigadier- 
General.  Soon  after  his  return  to  Galena  he  was 
appointed  Assistant  Assessor  of  Internal  Revenue, 
but  was  legislated  out  of  office  in  1872.  In  1873 
he  removed  to  Chicago  and  embarked  in  business. 
In  1874-76  he  was  a  member  (and  Secretary)  of 
the  Illinois  Board  of  Commissioners  to  the  Cen- 
tennial Exposition  at  Philadelphia.  In  1875  he 
was  appointed  Chief  Grain-Inspector  at  Chicago, 
and  held  the  office  for  several  years.  In  1872  and 
'76  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  National  Republican 
Conventions  of  those  years,  and,  in  1878,  was 
elected  State  Treasurer,  as  he  was  again  in  1882. 
In  1884  he  was  elected  Lieutenant-Governor,  serv- 
ing until  1889.  He  was  a  prominent  Mason,  Knight 
Templar  and  Odd  Fellow,  as  well  as  a  distin- 
guished member  of  the  Order  of  Nobles  of  the 
Mystic  Shrine,  and  was  prominently  connected 
with  the  erection  of  the  "Masonic  Temple  Build- 
ing" in  Chicago.  Died  Dec.  31,  1910. 

SMITH,  John  Eugene,  soldier,  was  born  in 
Switzerland,  August  3,  1816,  the  son  of  an  officer 
who  had  served  under  Napoleon,  and  after  the 
downfall  of  the  latter,  emigrated  to  Philadelphia. 
The  subject  of  this  sketch  received  an  academic 
education  and  became  a  jeweler ;  in  1861  entered 
the  volunteer  service  as  Colonel  of  the  Forty-fifth 
Illinois  Infantry;  took  part  in  the  capture  of 
Forts  Henry  and  Donelson,  in  the  battle  of  Shiloh 
and  siege  of  Corinth ;  was  promoted  a  Brigadier- 
General  in  November,  1862,  and  placed  in  com- 
mand of  a  division  in  the  Sixteenth  Army  Corps ; 
led  the  Third  Division  of  the  Seventeenth  Army 
Corps  in  the  Vicksburg  campaign,  later  being 
transferred  to  the  Fifteenth,  and  taking  part  in 
the  battle  of  Missionary  Ridge  and  the  Atlanta 
and  Carolina  campaigns  of  1864-65.  He  received 
the  brevet  rank  of  Major-General  of  Volunteers 
in  January,  1865,  and,  on  his  muster-out  from  the 
volunteer  service,  became  Colonel  of  the  Twenty- 
seventh  United  States  Infantry,  being  transferred, 


in  1870,  to  the  Fourteenth.  In  1867  his  services 
at  Vicksburg  and  Savannah  were  further  recog- 
nized by  conferring  upon  him  the  brevets  of  Brig- 
adier and  Major-General  in  the  regular  army. 
In  May,  1881,  he  was  retired,  afterwards  residing 
in  Chicago,  where  he  died,  Jan.  29,  1897. 

SMITH,  Joseph,  the  founder  of  the  Mormon 
sect,  was  born  at  Sharon,  Vt.,  Dec.  23,  1805.  In 
1815  his  parents  removed  to  Palmyra,  N.  Y.,  and 
still  later  to  Manchester.  He  early  showed  a 
dreamy  mental  cast,  and  claimed  to  be  able  to 
locate  stolen  articles  by  means  of  a  magic  stone. 
In  1820  he  claimed  to  have  seen  a  vision,  but  his 
pretensions  were  ridiculed  by  his  acquaintances. 
His  story  of  the  revelation  of  the  golden  plates 
by  the  angel  Moroni,  and  of  the  latter's  instruc- 
tions to  him,  is  well  known.  With  the  aid  of 
Martin  Harris  and  Oliver  Cowdery  he  prepared 
the  "Book  of  Mormon,"  alleging  that  he  had 
deciphered  it  from  heaven-sent  characters, 
through  the  aid  of  miraculous  spectacles.  This 
was  published  in  1830.  In  later  years  Smith 
claimed  to  have  received  supplementary  reve- 
lations, which  so  taxed  the  credulity  of  his  fol- 
lowers that  some  of  them  apostatized.  He  also 
claimed  supernatural  power,  such  as  exorcism, 
etc.  He  soon  gained  followers  in  considerable 
numbers,  whom,  in  1832,  he  led  west,  a  part 
settling  at  Kirtland,  Ohio,  and  the  remainder  in 
Jackson  County,  Mo.  Driven  out  of  Ohio  five 
years  later,  the  bulk  of  the  sect  found  the  way  to 
their  friends  in  Missouri,  whence  they  were 
finally  expelled  after  many  conflicts  with  the 
authorities.  Smith,  with  the  other  refugees,  fled 
to  Hancock  County,  111.,  founding  the  city  of 
Nauvoo,  which  was  incorporated  in  1840.  Here 
was  begun,  in  the  following  year,  the  erection  of  a 
great  temple,  but  again  he  aroused  the  hostility 
of  the  authorities,  although  soon  wielding  con- 
siderable political  power.  After  various  unsuc- 
cessful attempts  to  arrest  him  in  1844,  Smith  and 
a  number  of  his  followers  were  induced  to  sur- 
render themselves  under  the  promise  of  protection 
from  violence  and  a  fair  trial.  Having  been 
taken  to  Carthage,  the  county-seat,  all  were  dis- 
charged under  recognizance  to  appear  at  court 
except  Smith  and  his  brother  Hyrum,  who  were 
held  under  the  new  charge  of  "treason, "  and  were 
placed  in  jail.  So  intense  had  been  the  feeling 
against  the  Mormons,  that  Governor  Ford  called 
out  the  militia  to  preserve  the  peace;  but  it  is 
evident  that  the  feeling  among  the  latter  was  in 
sympathy  with  that  of  the  populace.  Most  of 
the  militia  were  disbanded  after  Smith's  arrest, 
one  company  being  left  on  duty  at  Carthage, 


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from  whom  only  eight  men  were  detailed  to 
guard  the  jail.  In  this  condition  of  affairs  a  mob 
of  150  disguised  men,  alleged  to  be  from  Warsaw, 
appeared  before  the  jail  on  the  evening  of  June 
27,  and,  forcing  the  guards — who  made  only  a 
feeble  resistance, — Joseph  Smith  and  his  brother 
Hyrum  were  both  shot  down,  while  a  friend,  who 
had  remained  with  them,  was  wounded.  The  fate 
of  Smith  undoubtedly  went  far  to  win  for  him 
the  reputation  of  martyr,  and  give  a  new  impulse 
to  the  Mormon  faith.  (See  Mormons;  Nauvoo. ) 

SMITH,  Justin  Almerin,  D.U.,  clergyman 
and  editor,  was  born  at  Ticonderoga,  N.  Y.,  Dec. 
29,  1819,  educated  at  New  Hampton  Literary  and 
Theological  Institute  and  Union  College,  gradu- 
ating from  the  latter  in  1843;  served  a  year  as 
Principal  of  the  Union  Academy  at  Bennington, 
Vt.,  followed  by  four  years  of  pastoral  work, 
when  he  assumed  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Bap- 
tist church  at  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
remained  five  years.  Then  (1853)  he  removed  to 
Chicago  to  assume  the  editorship  of  '  The  Chris- 
tian Times"  (now  "The  Standard"),  with  which 
he  was  associated  for  the  remainder  of  his  life. 
Meanwhile  he  assisted  in  organizing  three  Baptist 
churches  in  Chicago,  serving  two  of  them  as 
pastor  for  a  considerable  period;  made  an  ex- 
tended tour  of  Europe  in  1869,  attending  the 
Vatican  Council  at  Home;  was  a  Trustee  and 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  old  Chicago  Univer- 
sity, and  Trustee  and  Lecturer  of  the  Baptist 
Theological  Seminary;  was  also  the  author  of 
several  religious  works.  Died,  at  Morgan  Park, 
near  Chicago,  Feb.  4,  1896. 

SMITH,  Perry  H.,  lawyer  and  politician,  was 
born  in  Augusta,  Oneida  County,  N.  Y.,  March 
18,  1828 ;  entered  Hamilton  College  at  the  age  of 
14  and  graduated,  second  in  his  class,  at  18 ;  began 
reading  law  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  on  com- 
ing of  age  in  1849.  Then,  removing  to  Appleton, 
Wis.,  when  23  years  of  age  he  was  elected  a 
Judge,  served  later  in  both  branches  of  the 
Legislature,  and,  in  1857,  became  Vice-President 
of  the  Chicago,  St.  Paul  &  Fond  du  Lac  Railway, 
retaining  the  same  position  in  the  reorganized 
corporation  when  it  became  the  Chicago  & 
Northwestern.  In  1856  Mr.  Smith  came  to  Chi- 
cago and  resided  there  till  his  death,  on  Palm 
Sunday  of  1885.  He  was  prominent  in  railway 
circles  and  in  the  councils  of  the  Democratic 
party,  being  the  recognized  representative  of  Mr. 
Tilden's  interests  in  the  Northwest  in  the  cam- 
paign of  1876. 

SMITH,  Robert,  Congressman  and  lawyer, 
was  born  at  Peterborough,  N.  H.,  June  12,  1802; 


was  educated  and  admitted  to  the  bar  in  his 
native  town,  settled  at  Alton,  111.,  in  1832,  and 
engaged  in  practice.  In  1836  he  was  elected  to 
the  General  Assembly  from  Madison  County, 
and  re-elected  in  1838.  In  1842  he  was  elected  to 
the  Twenty -eighth  Congress,  and  twice  re-elected, 
serving  three  successive  terms.  During  the  Civil 
War  he  was  commissioned  Paymaster,  with  the 
rank  of  Major,  and  was  stationed  at  St.  Louis. 
He  was  largely  interested  in  the  construction  of 
water  power  at  Minneapolis,  Minn.,  and  also  in 
railroad  enterprises  in  Illinois.  He  was  a  promi- 
nent Mason  and  a  public-spirited  citizen.  Died, 
at  Alton,  Dec.  20.  1867. 

SMITH,  Samuel  Lisle,  lawyer,  was  born  in 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  in  1817,  and,  belonging  to  a 
wealthy  family,  enjoyed  superior  educational 
advantages,  taking  a  course  in  the  Yale  Law 
School  at  an  age  too  early  to  admit  of  his  receiv- 
ing a  degree.  In  1836  he  came  to  Illinois,  to  look 
after  some  lauded  interests  of  his  father's  in  the 
vicinity  of  Peru.  Returning  east  within  the  next 
two  years,  he  obtained  his  diploma,  and,  again 
coming  west,  located  in  Chicago  in  1838,  and, 
for  a  time,  occupied  an  office  with  the  well-known 
law  firm  of  Butterfield  &  Collins.  In  1839  he  was 
elected  City  Attorney  and,  at  the  great  Whig 
meeting  at  Springfield,  in  June,  1840,  was  one  of 
the  principal  speakers,  establishing  a  reputation 
as  one  of  the  most  brilliant  campaign  orators  in 
the  West.  As  an  admirer  of  Henry  Clay,  he  was 
active  in  the  Presidential  campaign  of  1844,  and 
was  also  a  prominent  speaker  at  the  River  and 
Harbor  Convention  at  Chicago,  in  1847.  With  a 
keen  sense  of  humor,  brilliant,  witty  and  a  mas- 
ter of  repartee  and  invective,  he  achieved  popu- 
larity, both  at  the  bar  and  on  the  lecture 
platform,  and  had  the  promise  of  future  success, 
which  was  unfortunately  marred  by  his  convivial 
habits.  Died  of  cholera,  in  Chicago,  July  30,  1854. 
Mr.  Smith  married  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Potts,  of 
Philadelphia,  an  eminent  clergyman  of  the 
Episcopal  Church. 

SMITH,  Sidney,  jurist,  was  born  in  Washing- 
ton County,  N.  Y.,  May  12,  1829;  studied  law  and 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  at  Albion,  in  that  State, 
in  1851 ;  came  to  Chicago  in  1856  and  entered 
into  partnership  with  Grant  Goodrich  and  Will- 
iam W.  Farwell,  both  of  whom  were  afterwards 
elected  to  places  on  the  bench — the  first  in  the 
Superior,  and  the  latter  in  the  Circuit  Court.  In 
1879  Judge  Smith  was  elected  to  the  Superior 
Court  of  Cook  County,  serving  until  1885,  when 
he  became  the  attorney  of  the  Chicago  Board  of 
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Mayor,  in  opposition  to  Carter  H.  Harrison,  in 
1885,  and  is  believed  by  many  to  have  been 
honestly  elected,  though  defeated  on  the  face  of 
the  returns.  A  recount  was  ordered  by  the  court, 
but  so  much  delay  was  incurred  and  so  many 
obstacles  placed  in  the  way  of  carrying  the  order 
into  effect,  that  Judge  Smith  abandoned  the  con- 
test in  disgust,  although  making  material  gains 
as  far  as  it  had  gone.  During  his  professional 
career  he  was  connected,  as  counsel,  with  some  of 
the  most  important  trials  before  the  Chicago 
courts ;  was  also  one  of  the  Directors  of  the  Chi- 
cago Public  Library,  on  its  organization  in  1871. 
Died  suddenly,  in  Chicago,  Oct.  6,  1898. 

SMITH,  Theophilus  Washington,  Judge  and 
politician,  was  born  in  New  York  City,  Sept.  28, 
1784,  served  for  a  time  in  the  United  States  navy, 
was  a  law  student  in  the  office  of  Aaron  Burr, 
was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  his  native  State  in 
1805,  and,  in  1816,  came  west,  finally  locating  at 
Edwardsville,  where  he  soon  became  a  prominent 
figure  in  early  State  history.  In  1820  he  was  an 
unsuccessful  candidate  before  the  Legislature  for 
the  office  of  Attorney-General,  being  defeated  by 
Samuel  D.  Lockwood,  but  was  elected  to  the 
State  Senate  in  1822,  serving  four  years.  In  1823 
he  was  one  of  the  leaders  of  the  "Conventionist" 
party,  whose  aim  was  to  adopt  a  new  Constitution 
which  would  legalize  slavery  in  Illinois,  during 
this  period  being  the  editor  of  the  leading  organ 
of  the  pro-slavery  party.  In  1825  he  was  elected 
one  of  the  Associate  Justices  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  but  resigned,  Dec.  26,  1842.  He  was  im- 
peached in  1832  on  charges  alleging  oppressive 
conduct,  corruption,  and  other  high  misdemean- 
ors in  office,  but  secured  a  negative  acquittal,  a 
two-thirds  vote  being  necessary  to  conviction. 
The  vote  in  the  Senate  stood  twelve  for  convic- 
tion (on  a  part  of  the  charges)  to  ten  for  acquittal, 
four  being  excused  from  voting.  During  the 
Black  Hawk  War  he  served  as  Quartermaster- 
General  on  the  Governor's  staff.  As  a  jurist,  he 
was  charged  by  his  political  opponents  with 
being  unable  to  divest  himself  of  his  partisan 
bias,  and  even  with  privately  advising  counsel,  in 
political  causes,  of  defects  in  the  record,  which 
they  (the  counsel)  had  not  discovered.  He  was 
also  a  member  of  the  first  Board  of  Commission- 
ers of  the  Illinois  &  Michigan  Canal,  appointed  in 
1823.  Died,  in  Chicago,  May  6,  1846. 

SMITH,  William  Henry,  journalist,  Associ- 
ated Press  Manager,  was  born  in  Columbia 
County,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  1,  1833;  at  three  years  of  age 
was  taken  by  his  parents  to  Ohio,  where  he 
enjoyed  the  best  educational  advantages  that 


State  at  the  time  afforded.  After  completing  his 
school  course  he  began  teaching,  and,  for  a  time, 
served  as  tutor  in  a  Western  college,  but  soon 
turned  his  attention  to  journalism,  at  first  as 
assistant  editor  of  a  weekly  publication  at  Cincin- 
nati, still  later  becoming  its  editor,  and,  in  1855, 
city  editor  of  "The  Cincinnati  Gazette,"  with 
which  he  was  connected  in  a  more  responsible 
position  at  the  beginning  of  the  war,  incidentally 
doing  work  upon  "The  Literary  Review."  His 
connection  with  a  leading  paper  enabled  him  to 
exert  a  strong  influence  in  support  of  the  Govern- 
ment. This  he  used  most  faithfully  in  assisting 
to  raise  troops  in  the  first  years  of  the  war,  and, 
in  1863,  in  bringing  forward  and  securing  the 
election  of  John  Brough  as  a  Union  candidate  for 
Governor  in  opposition  to  Clement  L.  Vallandi- 
gham,  the  Democratic  candidate.  In  1864  he  was 
nominated  and  elected  Secretary  of  State,  being 
re-elected  two  years  later.  After  retiring  from 
office  he  returned  to  journalism  at  Cincinnati,  as 
editor  of  "The  Evening  Chronicle,"  from  which 
he  retired  in  1870  to  become  Agent  of  the  West- 
ern Associated  Press,  with  headquarters,  at  first 
at  Cleveland,  but  later  at  Chicago.  His  success 
in  this  line  was  demonstrated  by  the  final  union 
of  the  New  York  and  Western  Associated  Press 
organizations  under  his  management,  continuing 
until  1893,  when  he  retired.  Mr.  Smith  was  a 
strong  personal  friend  of  President  Hayes,  by 
whom  he  was  appointed  Collector  of  the  Port  of 
Chicago  in  1877.  While  engaged  in  official  duties 
he  found  time  to  do  considerable  literary  work, 
having  published,  several  years  ago,  "The  St.  Clair 
Papers,"  in  two  volumes,  and  a  life  of  Charles 
Hammond,  besides  contributions  to  periodicals. 
After  retiring  from  the  management  of  the 
Associated  Press,  he  was  engaged  upon  a  "His- 
tory of  American  Politics"  and  a  "Life  of  Ruther- 
ford B.  Hayes,"  which  are  said  to  have  been  well 
advanced  at  the  time  of  his  death,  which  took 
place  at  his  home,  at  Lake  Forest,  111.,  July  27, 
1896. 

SMITH,  William  M.,  merchant,  stock-breeder 
and  politician,  was  born  near  Frankfort,  Ky., 
May  23,  1827;  in  1846  accompanied  his  father's 
family  to  Lexington,  McLean  County,  111. ,  where 
they  settled.  A  few  years  later  he  bought  forty 
acres  of  government  land,  finally  increasing  his 
holdings  to  800  acres,  and  becoming  a  breeder  of 
fine  stock.  Still  later  he  added  to  his  agricultural 
pursuits  the  business  of  a  merchant.  Having 
early  identified  himself  with  the  Republican 
party,  he  remained  a  firm  adherent  of  its  prin- 
ciples during  the  Civil  War,  and,  while  declining 


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a  commission  tendered  him  by  Governor  Yates, 
devoted  his  time  and  means  liberally  to  the  re- 
cruiting and  organization  of  regiments  for  serv- 
ice in  the  field,  and  procuring  supplies  for  the 
sick  and  wounded.  In  1866  he  was  elected  to  the 
lower  house  of  the  Legislature,  and  was  re-elected 
in  1868  and  '70,  serving,  during  his  last  term,  as 
Speaker.  In  1877  he  was  appointed  by  Governor 
Cullom  a  member  of  the  Eailroad  and  Warehouse 
Commission,  of  which  body  he  served  as  President 
until  1883.  He  was  a  man  of  remarkably  genial 
temperament,  liberal  impulses,  and  wide  popu- 
larity. Died,  March  25,  1886. 

SMITH,  William  Sooy,  soldier  and  civil  engi- 
neer, was  born  at  Tarlton,  Pickaway  County, 
Ohio,  July  22,  1830;  graduated  at  Ohio  University 
in  1849,  and,  at  the  United  States  Military  Acad- 
emy, ha  1853,  having  among  his  classmates,  at  the 
latter,  Generals  McPherson,  Schofield  and  Sheri- 
dan. Coming  to  Chicago  the  following  year,  he 
first  found  employment  as  an  engineer  on  the 
Illinois  Central  Railroad,  but  later  became  assist- 
ant of  Lieutenant-Colonel  Graham  in  engineer 
service  on  the  lakes ;  a  year  later  took  charge  of 
a  select  school  in  Buffalo ;  in  1857  made  the  first 
surveys  for  the  International  Bridge  at  Niagara 
Falls,  then  went  into  the  service  of  extensive 
locomotive  and  bridge-works  at  Trenton,  N.  J., 
in  their  interest  making  a  visit  to  Cuba,  and  also 
superintending  the  construction  of  a  bridge 
across  the  Savannah  River.  The  war  intervening, 
he  returned  North  and  was  appointed  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  and  assigned  to  duty  as  Assistant  Adju- 
tant-General at  Camp  Denison,  Ohio,  but,  in 
June,  1862,  was  commissioned  Colonel  of  the 
Thirteenth  Ohio  Volunteers,  participating  in  the 
West  Virginia  campaigns,  and  later,  at  Shiloh  and 
Perryville.  In  April,  1862,  he  was  promoted 
Brigadier-General  of  volunteers,  commanding 
divisions  in  the  Army  of  the  Ohio  until  the  fall 
of  1862,  when  he  joined  Grant  and  took  part  in 
the  Vicksburg  campaign,  as  commander  of  the 
First  Division  of  the  Sixteenth  Army  Corps. 
Subsequently  he  was  made  Chief  of  the  Cavalry 
Department,  serving  on  the  staffs  of  Grant  and 
Sherman,  until  compelled  to  resign,  in  1864,  on 
account  of  impaired  health.  During  the  war 
General  Smith  rendered  valuable  service  to  the 
Union  cause  in  great  emergencies,  by  his  knowl- 
edge of  engineering.  On  retiring  to  private  life 
he  resumed  his  profession  at  Chicago,  and  since 
has  been  employed  by  the  Government  on  some 
of  its  most  stupendous  works  on  the  lakes,  and 
has  also  planned  several  of  the  most  important 
railroad  bridges  across  the  Missouri  and  other 


streams.  He  has  been  much  consulted  in  refer- 
ence to  municipal  engineering,  and  his  name  is 
connected  with  a  number  of  the  gigantic  edifices 
in  Chicago. 

SOMONAUK,  a  village  of  DeKalb  County  on  the 
C.,  B.  &  Q.  R.  R.;  in  farming  district;  has  some  fac- 
tories, a  bank  and  a  weekly  paper.  Pop.  (1910),  591. 

SJiAPP,  Henry,  Congressman,  born  in  Livings- 
ton County,  N.  Y.,  June  30,  1822,  came  to  Illinois 
with  his  father  when  11  years  old,  and,  having 
read  law  at  Joliet,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1847.  He  practiced  in  Will  County  for  twenty 
years  before  entering  public  life.  In  1868  he  was 
elected  to  the  State  Senate  and  occupied  a  seat  in 
that  body  until  his  election,  in  1871,  to  the  Forty- 
second  Congress,  by  the  Republicans  of  the  (then) 
Sixth  Illinois  District,  as  successor  to  B.  C.  Cook, 
who  had  resigned.  Died,  at  Joliet,  Nov.  23,  1895. 

SNOW,  Herman  W.,  ex-Congressman,  was  born 
in  La  Porte  County,  Ind.,  July  3,  1836,  but  was 
reared  in  Kentucky,  working  upon  a  farm  for 
five  years,  while  yet  in  his  minority  becoming  a 
resident  of  Illinois.  For  several  years  he  was  a 
school  teacher,  meanwhile  studying  law  and 
being  admitted  to  the  bar.  Early  in  the  war  he 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  One  Hundred  and 
Thirty-ninth  Illinois  Volunteers,  rising  to  the 
rank  of  Captain.  His  term  of  service  having 
expired,  he  re-enlisted  in  the  One  Hundred  and 
Fifty-first  Illinois,  and  was  mustered  out  with 
the  rank  of  Lieutenant-Colonel.  After  the  close 
of  the  war  he  resumed  teaching  at  the  Chicago 
High  School,  and  later  served  in  the  General 
Assembly  (1873-74)  as  Representative  from  Wood- 
ford  County.  In  1890  he  was  elected,  as  a  Demo- 
crat, to  represent  the  Ninth  Illinois  District  in 
Congress,  but  was  defeated  by  his  Republican 
opponent  in  1892. 

SNOWHOOK,  William  B.,  first  Collector  of 
Customs  at  Chicago,  was  born  in  Ireland  in  1804 : 
at  the  age  of  eight  years  was  brought  to  New 
York,  where  he  learned  the  printer's  trade, 
and  worked  for  some  time  in  the  same  office 
with  Horace  Greeley.  At  16  he  went  back  to 
Ireland,  remaining  two  years,  but,  returning  to 
the  United  States,  began  the  study  of  law ;  was 
also  employed  on  the  Passaic  Canal;  in  1836, 
came  to  Chicago,  and  was  soon  after  associated 
with  William  B.  Ogden  in  a  contract  on  the  Illi- 
nois &  Michigan  Canal,  which  lasted  until  1841. 
As  early  as  1840  he  became  prominent  as  a  leader 
in  the  Democratic  party,  and,  in  1846,  received 
from  President  Polk  an  appointment  as  first  Col- 
lector of  Customs  for  Chicago  (having  previously 
served  as  Special  Surveyor  of  the  Port,  while 


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attached  to  the  District  of  Detroit) ;  in  1853,  was 
re-appointed  to  the  Collectorship  by  President 
Pierce,  serving  two  years.  During  the  "Mormon 
War"  (1844)  he  organized  and  equipped,  at  his 
own  expense,  the  Montgomery  Guards,  and  was 
commissioned  Colonel,  but  the  disturbances  were 
brought  to  an  end  before  the  order  to  march. 
From  1856  he  devoted  his  attention  chiefly  to  his 
practice,  but,  in  1862,  was  one  of  the  Democrats 
of  Chicago  who  took  part  in  a  movement  to  sus- 
tain the  Government  by  stimulating  enlistments ; 
was  also  a  member  of  the  Convention  which 
nominated  Mr.  Greeley  for  President  in  1872. 
Died,  in  Chicago,  May  5,  1882. 

SJfYDER,  Adam  Wilson,  pioneer  lawyer,  and 
early  Congressman,  was  born  at  Connellsville, 
Pa.,  Oct.  6,  1799.  In  early  life  he  followed  the 
occupation  of  wool-curling  for  a  livelihood, 
attending  school  in  the  winter.  In  1815,  he  emi- 
grated to  Columbus,  Ohio,  and  afterwards  settled 
in  Ridge  Prairie,  St.  Clair  County,  111.  Being 
offered  a  situation  in  a  wool-curling  and  fulling 
mill  at  Cahokia,  he  removed  thither  in  1817.  He 
formed  the  friendship  of  Judge  Jesse  B.  Thomas, 
and,  through  the  latter's  encouragement  and  aid, 
studied  law  and  gained  a  solid  professional,  poli- 
tical, social  and  financial  position.  In  1830  he 
was  elected  State  Senator  from  St.  Clair  County, 
and  re-elected  for  two  successive  terms.  He 
served  through  the  Black  Hawk  War  as  private, 
Adjutant  and  Captain.  In  1833  he  removed  to 
Belleville,  and,  in  1834,  was  defeated  for  Congress 
by  Governor  Reynolds,  whom  he,  in  turn,  defeated 
in  1836.  Two  years  later  Reynolds  again  defeated 
him  for  the  same  position,  and,  in  1840,  he  was 
elected  State  Senator.  In  1841  he  was  the  Demo- 
cratic nominee  for  Governor.  The  election  was 
held  in  August,  1842,  but,  in  May  preceding,  he 
died  at  his  home  in  Belleville.  His  place  on  the 
ticket  was  filled  by  Thomas  Ford,  who  was 
elected. — William  H.  (Snyder),  son  of  the  pre- 
ceding, was  born  in  St.  Clair  County,  111.,  July 
12,  1825 ;  educated  at  McKendree  College,  studied 
law  with  Lieutenant-Governor  Koerner,  and  was 
admitted  to  practice  in  1845;  also  served  for  a 
time  as  Postmaster  of  the  city  of  Belleville,  and, 
during  the  Mexican  War,  as  First-Lieutenant  and 
Adjutant  of  the  Fifth  Illinois  Volunteers.  From 
1850  to  '54  he  represented  his  county  in  the  Legis- 
lature; in  1855  was  appointed,  by  Governor  Mat- 
teson,  State's  Attorney,  which  position  he  filled 
for  two  years.  He  was  an  unsuccessful  candidate 
for  the  office  of  Secretary  of  State  in  1856,  and, 
in  1857,  was  elected  a  Judge  of  the  Twenty- 
fourth  Circuit,  was  re-elected  for  the  Third  Cir- 


cuit in  '73,  '79  and  '85.  He  was  also  a  member  of 
the  Constitutional  Convention  of  1869-70.  Died, 
at  Belleville,  Dec.  24,  1892. 

SOLDIERS'  AND  SAILORS'  HOME,  a  State 
charitable  institution,  founded  by  act  of  the 
Legislature  in  1885,  and  located  at  Quincy, 
Adams  County.  The  object  of  its  establish- 
ment was  to  provide  a  comfortable  home  for 
such  disabled  or  dependent  veterans  of  the 
United  States  land  or  naval  forces  as  had 
honorably  served  during  the  Civil  War.  It 
was  opened  for  the  reception  of  veterans  on 
March  3,  1887,  the  first  cost  of  site  and  build- 
ings having  been  about  $350,000.  The  total  num- 
ber of  inmates  admitted  up  to  June  30,  1894,  was 
2,813;  the  number  in  attendance  during  the  two 
previous  years  988,  and  the  whole  number  present 
on  Nov.  10,  1894,'  1,088.  The  value  of  property  at 
that  time  was  $393,636.08.  Considerable  appro- 
priations have  been  made  for  additions  to  the 
buildings  at  subsequent  sessions  of  the  Legisla- 
ture. The  General  Government  pays  to  the  State 
$100  per  year  for  each  veteran  supported  at  the 
Home. 

SOLDIERS'  ORPHANS'  HOME,  ILLINOIS,  an 
institution,  created  by  act  of  1865,  for  the  main- 
tenance and  education  of  children  of  deceased 
soldiers  of  the  Civil  War.  An  eighty -acre  tract, 
one  mile  north  of  Normal,  was  selected  as  the 
site,  and  the  first  principal  building  was  com- 
pleted and  opened  for  the  admission  of  benefici- 
aries on  June  1,  1869.  Its  first  cost  was  $135,000, 
the  site  having  been  donated.  Repairs  and  the 
construction  of  new  buildings,  from  time  to 
time,  have  considerably  increased  this  sum.  In 
1875  the  benefits  of  the  institution  were  extended, 
by  legislative  enactment,  to  the  children  of  sol- 
diers who  had  died  after  the  close  of  the  war. 
The  aggregate  number  of  inmates,  in  1894,  was 
572,  of  whom  323  were  males  and  249  females. 

SOLDIERS'  WIDOWS'  HOME.  Provision  was 
made  for  the  establishment  of  this  institution  by 
the  Thirty-ninth  General  Assembly,  in  an  act, 
approved,  June  13,  1895,  appropriating  $20,000  for 
the  purchase  of  a  site,  the  erection  of  buildings 
and  furnishing  the  same.  It  is  designed  for  the 
reception  and  care  of  the  mothers,  wives,  widows 
and  daughters  of  such  honorably  discharged 
soldiers  or  sailors,  in  the  United  States  service,  as 
may  have  died,  or  may  be  physically  or  men- 
tally unable  to  provide  for  the  families  natu- 
rally dependent  on  them,  provided  that  such 
persons  have  been  residents  of  the  State  for 
at  least  one  year  previous  to  admission,  and 
are  without  means  or  ability  for  self-support. 


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The  affairs  of  the  Home  are  managed  by  a 
boaid  of  five  trustees,  of  whom  two  are  men  and 
three  women,  the  former  to  be  members  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic  and  of  different 
political  parties,  and  the  latter  members  of  the 
Women's  Relief  Corps  of  this  State.  The  institu- 
tion was  located  at  Wilmington,  occupying  a 
site  of  seventeen  acres,  where  it  was  formally 
opened  in  a  house  of  eighteen  rooms,  March  11, 
1896,  with  twenty-six  applications  for  admit- 
tance. The  plan*  contemplates  an  early  enlarge- 
ment by  the  erection  of  additional  cottages. 

SORENTO,  a  village  of  Bond  County,  at  the 
intersection  of  the  Jacksonville  &  St.  Louis  and 
the  Toledo,  St.  Louis  &  Western  Railways,  14 
miles  southeast  of  Lilchfield ;  has  a  bank  and  a 
newspaper.  Its  interests  are  agricultural  and 
mining.  Pop.  (1900),  1,000;  (1910),  1,018. 

SOULARD,  James  Qaston,  pioneer,  born  of 
French  ancestry  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  July  15,  1798; 
resided  there  until  1821,  when,  having  married 
the  daughter  of  a  soldier  of  the  Revolution,  he 
received  an  appointment  at  Fort  Snelling,  near 
the  present  city  of  St.  Paul,  then  under  command 
of  Col.  Snelling,  who  was  his  wife's  brother-in- 
law.  The  Fort  was  reached  after  a  tedious  jour- 
ney by  flat-boat  and  overland,  late  in  the  fall  of 
1821,  his  wife  accompanying  him.  Three  years 
later  they  returned  to  St.  Louis,  where,  being  an 
engineer,  he  was  engaged  for  several  years  in 
surveying.  In  1827  he  removed  with  his  family 
to  Galena,  for  the  next  six  years  had  charge  of  a 
store  of  the  Gratiot  Brothers,  early  business  men 
of  that  locality.  Towards  the  close  of  this  period 
he  received  the  appointment  of  County  Recorder, 
also  holding  the  position  of  County  Surveyor  and 
Postmaster  of  Galena  at  the  same  time.  His 
later  years  were  devoted  to  farming  and  horti- 
culture, his  death  taking  place,  Sept.  17,  1878. 
Mr.  Soulard  was  probably  the  first  man  to  engage 
in  freighting  between  Galena  and  Chicago. 
"The  Galena  Advertiser"  of  Sept.  14,  1829,  makes 
mention  of  a  wagon-load  of  lead  sent  by  him  to 
Chicago,  his  team  taking  back  a  load  of  salt,  the 
paper  remarking:  "This  is  the  first  wagon  that 
has  ever  passed  from  the  Mississippi  River  to 
Chicago."  Great  results  were  predicted  from 
the  exchange  of  commodities  between  the  lake 
and  the  lead  mine  district.  —  Mrs.  Eliza  M. 
Hunt  (Soulard),  wife  of  the  preceding,  was  born 
at  Detroit,  Dec.  18,  1804,  her  father  being  Col. 
Thomas  A.  Hunt,  who  had  taken  part  in  the 
Battle  of  Bunker  Hill  and  remained  in  the  army 
until  his  death,  at  St.  Louis,  in  1807.  His  descend- 
ants have  maintained  their  connection  with  the 


army  ever  since,  a  son  being  a  prominent  artillery 
officer  at  the  Battle  of  Gettysburg.  Mrs.  Soulard 
was  married  at  St.  Louis,  in  1820,  and  survived 
her  husband  some  sixteen  years,  dying  at  Galena, 
August  11,  1894.  She  had  resided  in  Galena 
nearly  seventy  years,  and  at  the  date  of  her 
death,  in  the  90th  year  of  her  age,  she  was  that 
city's  oldest  resident. 

SOUTH  CHICAGO  &  WESTERN  INDIANA. 
RAILROAD.  (See  Chicago  &  Western  Indiana 
Railroad. ) 

SOUTH  CHICAGO  HEIGHTS,  a  village  of 
Cook  County,  incorporated  1906;  has  various  indus- 
trial enterprises.  Pop.  (1910),  552. 

SOUTHEAST  &  ST.  LOUIS  RAILWAY.  (See 
Louisville  &  Nashville  Railroad ) 

SOUTH  ELGIN,  a  village  of  Kane  County,, 
near  the  city  of  Elgin.  Pop.  (1910),  580. 

SOUTHERN  COLLEGIATE  INSTITUTE, 
located  at  Albion,  Edwards  County,  incorporated 
in  1891 ;  had  a  faculty  of  ten  teachers  with  21ft' 
pupils  (1897-98) — about  equally  male  and  female. 
Besides  classical,  scientific,  normal,  music  and 
fine  arts  departments,  instruction  is  given  in  pre- 
paratory studies  and  business  education.  Its 
property  is  valued  at  $16,500. 

SOUTHERN  HOSPITAL  FOR  THE  INSANE, 
located  at  Anna,  Union  County,  founded  by  act 
of  the  Legislature  in  1869.  The  original  site  com- 
prised 290  acres  and  cost  a  little  more  than 
$22,000,  of  which  one-fourth  was  donated  by  citi- 
zens of  the  county.  The  construction  of  build- 
ings was  begun  in  1869,  but  it  was  not  until 
March,  1875,  that  the  north  wing  (the  first  com- 
pleted) was  ready  for  occupancy.  Other  portions 
were  completed  a  year  later.  The  Trustees  pur- 
chased 160  additional  acres  in  1883.  The  first 
cost  (up  to  September,  1876)  was  nearly  $635,000. 
In  1881  one  wing  of  the  main  building  was  de- 
stroyed by  fire,  and  was  subsequently  rebuilt ;  the 
patients  being,  meanwhile,  cared  for  in  temporary 
wooden  barracks.  The  total  value  of  lands  and 
buildings  belonging  to  the  State,  June  30,  1894, 
was  estimated  at  §738,580,  and,  of  property  of  all 
sorts,  at  $833,700.  The  wooden  barracks  were 
later  converted  into  a  permanent  ward,  additions 
made  to  the  main  buildings,  a  detached  building 
for  the  accommodation  of  300  patients  erected, 
numerous  outbuildings  put  up  and  general  im- 
provements made.  A  second  fire  on  the  night  of 
Jan.  3,  1895,  destroyed  a  large  part  of  the  main 
building,  inflicting  a  loss  upon  the  State  of 
§175,000.  Provision  was  made  for  rebuilding  by 
the  Legislature  of  that  year.  The  institution  has; 
capacity  for  about  750  patients. 


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SOUTHERN   ILLINOIS   NORMAL   UNIVER- 
SITY,  established    in    1869,   and   located,  after 
competitive  bidding,  at  Carbondale,  which  offered 
lands  and  bonds  at  first  estimated  to  be  of  the 
value  of  $229,000,  but  which  later  depreciated, 
through  shrinkage,  to  $75,000.     Construction  was 
commenced  in  May,  1870,  and  the  first  or  main 
building  was  completed  and  appropriately  dedi- 
cated in  July,  1874.     Its  cost  was  $265,000,  but  it 
was  destroyed  by  fire,  Nov.  26,  1883.     In  Febru- 
ary, 1887,  a  new  structure  was  completed  at  a  cost 
of  $150,000.     Two  normal  courses  of  instruction 
are  given — classical  and  scientific — each  extend, 
ing  over  a  period  of  four  years.     The  conditions 
of  admission  require  that  the  pupil  shall  be  16 
years  of  age,  and  shall  possess  the  qualifications 
enabling  him  to  pass  examination  for  a  second- 
grade  teacher's  certificate.     Those  unable  to  do  so 
may  enter    a    preparatory  department    for    six 
months.     Pupils  who  pledge  themselves  to  teach 
in  the  public  schools,  not  less  than  half  the  time 
of   their  attendance  at  the  University,  receive 
free  tuition  with  a  small  charge  for  incidentals, 
-while  others  pay  a  tuition  fee.     The  number  of 
.students  in  attendance  for  the  year  1897-98  was 
720,  coming  from  forty-seven  counties,  chiefly  in 
the  southern  half  of  the  State,  with  represent- 
atives from  eight  other  States.     The    teaching 
faculty  for  the  same  year  consisted,  besides  the 
President,  of  sixteen  instructors  in  the  various 
departments,    five    ladies  and    eleven    gentlemen. 
SOUTHERN  PENITENTIARY,  THE,  located 
near  Chester,  on  the  Mississippi  River.     Its  erec- 
tion was  rendered  necessary  by  the  overcrowding 
of    the  Northern   Penitentiary.     (See  Northern 
Penitentiary.)    The  law  providing  for  its  estab- 
lishment required  the  Commissioners  to  select  a 
site  convenient  of  access,  adjacent  to  stone  and 
timber,  and  having  a  high  elevation,  with  a  never 
failing  supply  of  water.     In  1877,  122  acres  were 
purchased  at  Chester,  and  the  erection  of  build- 
ings commenced.     The  first  appropriation  was  of 
$200,000,  and  $300,000  was    added  in   1879.     By 
March,   1878,  200    convicts   were    received,  and 
their  labor  was  utilized  in  the  completion  of  the 
buildings,  which  are  constructed  upon  approved 
modern  principles.     The  prison  receives  convicts 
sent  from  the  southern  portion  of  the  State,  and 
has  accommodation  for  some  1,200  prisoners.     In 
connection  with  this  penitentiary  is  an  asylum 
for  insane  convicts,  the  erection  of  which  was 
provided  for  by  the  Legislature  in  1889. 

SOUTH  WILMINGTON,  a  village  in  Grundy 
County,  on  the  Elgin,  Joliet  &  Eastern  R.  R.,  a 
mining  section.  Pop.  (1900),  711;  (1910),  2,403. 


SPALDIN6,  Jesse,  manufacturer.  Collector  of 
Customs  and  Street  Railway  President,  was  born 
at  Athens,  Bradford  County,  Pa.,  April  15,  1833; 
early  commenced  lumbering  on  the  Susquehanna, 
and,  at  23,  began  dealing  on  his  own  account.  In 
1857  he  removed  to  Chicago,  and  soon  after  bought 
the  property  of  the  New  York  Lumber  Company 
at  the  mouth  of  the  Menominee  River  in  Wiscon- 
sin, where,  with  different  partners,  and  finally 
practically  alone,  he  carried  on  the  business  of 
lumber  manufacture  on  a  large  scale  some  40 
years.  In  1881  he  was  appointed,  by  President 
Arthur,  Collector  of  the  Port  of  Chicago,  and,  in 
1889,  received  from  President  Harrison  an 
appointment  as  one  of  the  Government  Directors 
of  the  Union  Pacific  Railway.  Mr.  Spalding  was 
a  zealous  supporter  of  the  Government  during 
the  War  of  the  Rebellion  and  rendered  valuable 
aid  in  the  construction  and  equipment  of  Camp 
Douglas  and  the  barracks  at  Chicago  for  the 
returning  soldiers,  receiving  Auditor's  warrants 
in  payment,  when  no  funds  in  the  State  treasury 
were  available  for  the  purpose.  He  was  associ- 
ated with  William  B.  Ogden  and  others  in  the 
project  for  connecting  Green  Bay  and  Sturgeon 
Bay  by  a  ship  canal,  which  was  completed  in 
1882,  and,  on  the  death  of  Mr.  Ogden,  succeeded 
to  the  Presidency  of  the  Canal  Company,  serving 
until  1893,  when  the  canal  was  turned  over  to  the 
General  Government.  He  had  also  been  identified 
with  many  other  public  enterprises  intimately 
connected  with  the  development  and  prosperity 
of  Chicago,  and,  in  July,  1899,  became  President 
of  the  Chicago  Union  Traction  Company,  having 
control  of  the  North  and  West  Chicago  Street 
Railway  Systems.  Died  March  17,  1904. 

SPALDING,  John  Lancaster,  Catholic  Bishop, 
was  born  in  Lebanon,  Ky . ,  June  2,  1840 ;  educated 
in  the  United  States  and  in  Europe,  ordained  a 
priest  in  the  Catholic  Church  in  1863,  and  there- 
upon attached  to  the  cathedral  at  Louisville,  as 
assistant.  In  1869  he  organized  a  congregation 
of  colored  people,  and  built  for  their  use  the 
Church  of  St.  Augustine,  having  been  assigned 
to  that  parish  as  pastor.  Soon  afterwards  he  was 
appointed  Secretary  to  the  Bishop  and  made 
Chancellor  of  the  Diocese.  In  1873  he  was  trans- 
ferred from  Louisville  to  New  York,  where  he 
was  attached  to  the  missionary  parish  of  St. 
Michael's.  He  had,  by  this  time,  achieved  no  little 
fame  as  a  pulpit  orator  and  lecturer.  When 
the  diocese  of  Peoria,  111.,  was  created,  in  1877,  the 
choice  of  the  Pope  fell  upon  him  for  the  new  see, 
and  he  was  consecrated  Bishop,  on  May  1  of  that 
year,  by  Cardinal  McCloskey  at  New  York.  His 


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administration  has  been  characterized  by  both 
energy  and  success.  He  has  devoted  much  atten- 
tion to  the  subject  of  emigration,  and  has  brought 
about  the  founding  of  many  new  settlements  in 
the  far  West.  He  was  also  largely  instrumental 
in  bringing  about  the  founding  of  the  Catholic 
University  at  Washington.  Ho  is  a  frequent 
contributor  to  the  reviews,  and  the  author  of  a 
number  of  religious  works. 

SPANISH  INVASION  OF  ILLINOIS.  In  the 
month  of  June,  1779,  soon  after  the  declaration 
of  war  between  Spain  and  Great  Britain,  an  expe- 
dition was  organized  in  Canada,  to  attack  the 
Spanish  posts  along  the  Mississippi.  Simultane- 
ously, a  force  was  to  be  dispatched  from  Pensa- 
cola  against  New  Orleans,  then  commanded  by 
a  young  Spanish  Colonel,  Don  Bernardo  de 
Galvez.  Secret  instructions  had  been  sent  to 
British  Commandants,  all  through  the  Western 
country,  to  co  operate  with  both  expeditions.  De 
Galvez,  having  learned  of  the  scheme  through 
intercepted  letters,  resolved  to  forestall  the  attack 
by  becoming  the  assailant.  At  the  head  of  a 
force  of  670  men,  he  set  out  and  captured  Baton 
Rouge,  Fort  Manchac  and  Natchez,  almost  with- 
out opposition.  The  British  in  Canada,  being 
ignorant  of  what  had  been  going  on  in  the  South, 
in  February  following  dispatched  a  force  from 
Mackinac  to  support  the  expedition  from  Pensa- 
cola,  and,  incidentally,  to  subdue  the  American 
rebels  while  en  route.  Cahokia  and  Kaskaskia 
were  contemplated  points  of  attack,  as  well  as 
the  Spanish  forts  at  St.  Louis  and  St.  Genevieve. 
This  movement  was  planned  by  Capt.  Patrick 
Sinclair,  commandant  at  Mackinac,  but  Captain 
Hesse  was  placed  in  charge  of  the  expedition, 
which  numbered  some  750  men,  including  a  force 
of  Indians  led  by  a  chief  named  Wabasha.  The 
British  arrived  before  St.  Louis,  early  on  the 
morning  of  May  26,  1780,  taking  the  Spaniards 
by  surprise.  Meanwhile  Col.  George  Rogers 
Clark,  having  been  apprised  of  the  project, 
arrived  at  Cahokia  from  the  falls  of  the  Ohio, 
twenty-four  hours  in  advance  of  the  attack,  his 
presence  and  readiness  to  co-operate  with  the 
Spanish,  no  doubt,  contributing  to  the  defeat  of 
the  expedition.  The  accounts  of  what  followed 
are  conflicting,  the  number  of  killed  on  the  St. 
Louis  shore  being  variously  estimated  from  seven 
or  eight  to  sixty -eight — the  last  being  the  esti- 
mate of  Capt.  Sinclair  in  his  official  report.  All 
agree,  however,  that  the  invading  party  was 
forced  to  retreat  in  great  haste.  Colonel  Mont- 
gomery, who  had  been  in  command  at  Cahokia, 
with  a  force  of  350  and  a  party  of  Spanish  allies, 


pursued  the  retreating  invaders  as  far  as  the 
Rock  River,  destroying  many  Indian  villages  on 
the  way.  This  movement  on  the  part  of  the 
British  served  as  a  pretext  for  an  attempted  re- 
prisal, undertaken  by  the  Spaniards,  with  the  aid 
of  a  number  of  Cahokians,  early  in  1781.  Starting 
early  in  January,  this  latter  expedition  crossed 
Illinois,  with  the  design  of  attacking  Fort  St. 
Joseph,  at  the  head  of  Lake  Michigan,  which  had 
been  captured  from  the  English  by  Thomas  Brady 
and  afterwards  retaken.  The  Spaniards  were  com- 
manded by  Don  Eugenio  Pourre,  and  supported 
by  a  force  of  Caliokians  and  Indians.  The  fort 
was  easily  taken  and  the  British  flag  replaced  by 
the  ensign  of  Spain.  The  affair  was  regarded  as 
of  but  little  moment,  at  the  time,  the  post  being 
evacuated  in  a  few  days,  and  the  Spaniards 
returning  to  St.  Louis.  Yet  it  led  to  serious 
international  complications,  and  the  "conquest" 
was  seriously  urged  by  the  Spanish  ministry  as 
giving  that  country  a  right  to  the  territory  trav- 
ersed. This  claim  was  supported  by  France 
before  the  signing  of  the  Treaty  of  Paris,  but 
was  defeated,  through  the  combined  efforts  of 
Messrs.  Jay,  Franklin  and  Adams,  the  American 
Commissioners  in  charge  of  the  peace  negoti- 
ations with  England. 

SPARKS,  (Capt.)  David  R.,  manufacturer  and 
legislator,  was  born  near  Lanesville,  Ind.,  in 
1823;  in  1836,  removed  with  his  parents  to  Ma- 
coupin  County,  111. ;  in  1847,  enlisted  for  the 
Mexican  War,  crossing  the  plains  to  Santa  Fe, 
New  Mexico.  In  1850  he  made  the  overland  trip 
to  California,  returning  the  next  year  by  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama.  In  1855  he  engaged  in  the 
milling  business  at  Staunton,  Macoupin  County, 
but,  in  1860,  made  a  third  trip  across  the  plains 
in  search  of  gold,  taking  a  quartz-mill  which  was 
erected  near  where  Central  City,  Colo.,  now  is, 
and  which  was  the  second  steam-engine  in  that 
region.  He  returned  home  in  time  to  vote  for 
Stephen  A.  Douglas  for  President,  the  same  year, 
but  became  a  stalwart  Republican,  two  weeks 
later,  when  the  advocates  of  secession  began  to 
develop  their  policy  after  the  election  of  Lincoln. 
In  1861  he  enlisted,  under  the  call  for  500,000  vol- 
unteers following  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Run,  and 
was  commissioned  a  Captain  in  the  Third  Illinois 
Cavalry  (Col.  Eugene  A.  Carr),  serving  two  and  a 
half  years,  during  which  time  he  took  part  in 
several  hard-fought  battles,  and  being  present  at 
the  fall  of  Vicksburg.  At  the  end  of  his  service 
he  became  associated  with  his  former  partner  in 
the  erection  of  a  large  flouring  mill  at  Litchfield, 
but,  in  1869,  the  firm  bought  an  extensive  flour- 


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ing  mill  at  Alton,  of  which  he  became  the  princi- 
pal owner  in  1881,  and  which  has  since  been 
greatly  enlarged  and  improved,  until  it  is  now  one 
of  the  most  extensive  establishments  of  its  kind 
in  the  State.  Capt.  Sparks  was  elected  to  the 
House  of  Representatives  in  1888,  and  to  the  State 
Senate  in  1894,  serving  in  the  sessions  of  1895  and 
'97;  was  also  strongly  supported  as  a  candidate 
for  the  Republican  nomination  for  Congress  in 
1896.  Died  Nov.  10,  1907. 

SPARKS,  William  A.  J.,  ex-Congressman,  was 
born  near  New  Albany,  Ind.,  Nov.  19,  1828,  at  8 
years  of  age  was  brought  by  his  parents  to  Illi- 
nois, and  shortly  afterwards  left  an  orphan. 
Thrown  on  his  own  resources,  he  found  work 
upon  a  farm,  his  attendance  at  the  district 
schools  being  limited  to  the  winter  months. 
Later,  he  passed  through  McKendree  College, 
supporting  himself,  meanwhile,  by  teaching, 
graduating  in  1850.  He  read  law  with  Judge 
Sidney  Breese,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in 
1851.  His  first  public  office  was  that  of  Receiver 
of  the  Land  Office  at  Edwardsville,  to  which  he 
was  appointed  by  President  Pierce  in  1853,  re- 
maining until  1856,  when  he  was  chosen  Presi- 
dential Elector  on  the  Democratic  ticket.  The 
same  year  he  was  elected  to  the  lower  house  of 
the  General  Assembly,  and,  in  1863-64,  served  in 
the  State  Senate  for  the  unexpired  term  of  James 
M.  Rodgers,  deceased.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the 
National  Democratic  Convention  in  1868,  and  a 
Democratic  Representative  in  Congress  from  1875 
to  1883.  In  1885  he  was  appointed,  by  President 
Cleveland,  Commissioner  of  the  General  Land 
Office  in  Washington,  retiring,  by  resignation,  in 
1887.  Died  May  7,  1904. 

SPARTA  &  ST.  GENEVIEVE  RAILROAD. 
(See  Centralia  &  Chester  Railroad.) 

SPEED,  Joshua  Fry,  merchant,  and  intimate 
friend  of  Abraham  Lincoln ;  was  educated  in  the 
local  schools  and  at  St.  Joseph's  College,  Bards- 
town,  Ky.,  after  which  he  spent  some  time  in  a 
wholesale  mercantile  establishment  in  Louisville. 
About  1835  he  came  to  Springfield,  111.,  where  he 
engaged  in  the  mercantile  business,  later  becom- 
ing the  intimate  friend  and  associate  of  Abraham 
Lincoln,  to  whom  he  offered  the  privilege  of 
sharing  a  room  over  his  store,  when  Mr.  Lincoln 
removed  from  New  Salem  to  Springfield,  in  1836. 
Mr.  Speed  returned  to  Kentucky  in  1842,  but  the 
friendship  with  Mr.  Lincoln,  which  was  of  a 
most  devoted  character,  continued  until  the 
death  of  the  latter.  Having  located  in  Jefferson 
County,  Ky. ,  Mr.  Speed  was  elected  to  the  Legis- 
lature in  1848,  but  was  never  again  willing  to 


accept  office,  though  often  solicited  to  do  so.  In 
1851  he  removed  to  Louisville,  where  he  acquired 
a  handsome  fortune  in  the  real-estate  business. 
On  the  breaking  out  of  the  rebellion  in  1861,  he 
heartily  embraced  the  cause  of  the  Union,  and, 
during  the  war,  was  entrusted  with  many  deli- 
cate and  important  duties  in  the  interest  of  the 
Government,  by  Mr.  Lincoln,  whom  he  frequently 
visited  in  Washington.  His  death  occurred  at 
Louisville,  May  29,  1882.— James  (Speed),  an 
older  brother  of  the  preceding,  was  a  prominent 
Unionist  of  Kentucky,  and,  after  the  war,  a 
leading  Republican  of  that  State,  serving  as  dele- 
gate to  the  National  Republican  Conventions  of 
1872  and  1876.  In  1864  he  was  appointed  Attor- 
ney-General by  Mr  Lincoln  and  served  until  1866, 
when  he  resigned  on  account  of  disagreement 
with  President  Johnson.  He  died  in  1887,  at  the 
age  of  75  years. 

SPOON  RIVER,  rises  in  Bureau  County,  flows 
southward  through  Stark  County  into  Peoria, 
thence  southwest  through  Knox,  and  to  the  south 
and  southeast,  through  Fulton  County,  entering 
the  Illinois  River  opposite  Havana.  It  is  about 
150  miles  long. 

SPRINGER,  (ReT.)  Francis,  D.D.,  educator 
and  Army  Chaplain,  born  in  Franklin  County, 
Pa.,  March  19,  1810;  was  left  an  orphan  at  an 
early  age,  and  educated  at  Pennsylvania  College, 
Gettysburg;  entered  the  Lutheran  ministry  in 
1836,  and,  in  1839,  removed  to  Springfield,  111., 
where  he  preached  and  taught  school;  in  1847 
became  President  of  Hillsboro  College,  which,  in 
1852,  was  removed  to  Springfield  and  became  Illi- 
nois State  University,  now  known  as  Concordia 
Seminary.  Later,  he  served  for  a  time  as  Super- 
intendent of  Schools  for  the  city  of  Springfield, 
but,  in  September,  1861,  resigned  to  accept  the 
Chaplaincy  of  the  Tenth  Illinois  Cavalry ;  by  suc- 
cessive resignations  and  appointments,  held  the 
positions  of  Chaplain  of  the  First  Arkansas  Infan- 
try (1863-64)  and  Post  Chaplain  at  Fort  Smith, 
Ark.,  serving  in  the  latter  position  until  April, 
1867,  when  he  was  commissioned  Chaplain  of  the 
United  States  Army.  This  position  he  resigned 
while  stationed  at  Fort  Harker,  Kan. ,  August  23, 
1867.  During  a  considerable  part  of  his  incum- 
bency as  Chaplain  at  Fort  Smith,  he  acted  as 
Agent  of  the  Bureau  of  Refugees  and  Freedmen, 
performing  important  service  in  caring  for  non- 
combatants  rendered  homeless  by  the  vicissitudes 
of  war.  After  the  war  he  served,  for  a  time,  as 
Superintendent  of  Schools  for  Montgomery 
County,  111. ;  was  instrumental  in  the  founding 
of  Carthage  (111.)  College,  and  was  a  member  of 


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its  Board  of  Control  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
was  elected  Chaplain  of  the  Illinois  House  of 
Representatives  at  the  session  of  the  Thirty -fifth 
General  Assembly  (1887),  and  Chaplain  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Free  and  Accepted  Masons  of 
Illinois  for  two  consecutive  terms  (1890-'92). 
He  was  also  member  of  the  Stephenson  Post, 
No.  30,  G.  A.  R.,  at  Springfield,  and  served  as  its 
Chaplain  from  January,  1884,  to  his  death,  which 
occurred  at  Springfield,  Oct.  21,  1892. 

SPRINGER,  William  McKendree,  ex-Congress- 
man, Justice  of  United  States  Court,  was  born  in 
Sullivan  County,  Ind.,  May  30,  1836.  In  1848  he 
removed  with  his  parents  to  Jacksonville,  111., 
was  fitted  for  college  in  the  public  high  school  at 
Jacksonville,  under  the  tuition  of  the  late  Dr. 
Bateman,  entered  .Illinois  College,  remaining 
three  years,  when  he  removed  to  the  Indiana 
State  University,  graduating  there  in  1858.  The 
following  year  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar  and 
commenced  practice  in  Logan  County,  but  soon 
after  removed  to  Springfield.  He  entered  public 
life  as  Secretary  of  the  Constitutional  Convention 
of  1862.  In  1871-72  he  represented  Sangamon 
County  in  the  Legislature,  and,  in  1874,  waa 
elected  to  Congress  from  the  Thirteenth  Illinois 
District  as  a  Democrat.  From  that  time  until 
the  close  of  the  Fifty-third  Congress  (1895),  he 
served  in  Congress  continuously,  and  was  recog- 
nized as  one  of  the  leaders  of  his  party  on  the 
floor,  being  at  the  head  of  many  important  com- 
mittees when  that  party  was  in  the  ascendancy, 
and  a  candidate  for  the  Democratic  caucus  nomi- 
nation for  Speaker,  in  1893.  In  1894  he  was  the 
candidate  of  his  party  for  Congress  for  the 
eleventh  time,  but  was  defeated  by  his  Repub- 
lican opponent,  James  A.  Connolly.  In  1895 
he  was  appointed  by  President  Cleveland  U.  S.  Dis- 
trict Judge  for  Indian  Territory.  Died  Dec.  4,  1903. 

SPRINGFIELD,  the  State  capital,  and  the 
county-seat  of  Sangamon  County,  situated  five 
miles  south  of  the  Sangamon  River  and  185  miles 
southwest  of  Chicago;  is  an  important  railway 
center.  The  first  settlement  on  the  site  of  the 
present  city  was  made  by  John  Kelly  in  1819. 
On  April  10,  1821,  it  was  selected,  by  the  first 
Board  of  County  Commissioners,  as  the  temporary 
county-seat  of  Sangamon  County,  the  organi- 
zation of  which  had  been  authorized  by  act  of 
the  Legislature  in  January  previous,  and  the 
name  Springfield  was  given  to  it.  In  1823  the 
selection  was  made  permanent.  The  latter  year 
the  first  sale  of  lands  took  place,  the  original  site 
being  entered  by  Pascal  P.  Enos,  Elijah  lies  and 
Thomas  Cox.  The  town  was  platted  about  the 


same  time,  and  the  name  "Calhoun"  was  given  to 
a  section  in  the  northwest  quarter  of  the  present 
city — this  being  the  "hey-day"  of  the  South 
Carolina  statesman's  greatest  popularity — but 
the  change  was  not  popularly  accepted,  and  the 
new  name  was  soon  dropped.  It  was  incorpo- 
rated as  a  town,  April  2,  1832,  and  as  a  city,  April 
6,  1840;  and  re-incorporated,  under  the  general, 
law  in  1882.  It  was  made  the  State  capital  by 
act  of  the  Legislature,  passed  at  the  session  of 
1837,  which  went  into  effect,  July  4,  1839,  and  the 
Legislature  first  convened  there  in  December  of 
the  latter  year.  The  general  surface  is  flat, 
though  there  is  rolling  ground  to  the  west.  The 
city  has  excellent  water-works,  a  paid  fire-depart- 
ment, six  banks,  electric  street  railways,  gas  and 
electric  lighting,  commodious  hotels,  fine 
churches,  numerous  handsome  residences,  beauti- 
ful parks,  thorough  sewerage,  and  is  one  of  the 
best  paved  and  handsomest  cities  in  the  State. 
The  city  proper,  in  1890,  contained  an  area  of  four 
square  miles,  but  has  since  been  enlarged  by  the 
annexation  of  the  following  suburbs:  North 
Springfield,  April  7,  1891 ;  West  Springfield,  Jan. 
4,  1898;  and  South  Springfield  and  the  village  of 
Laurel,  April  5,  1898.  These  additions  give  to 
the  present  city  an  area  of  5.84  square  miles. 
The  population  of  the  original  city,  according  to 
the  census  of  1880,  was  19,743,  and,  in  1890,  24,963, 
while  that  of  the  annexed  suburbs,  at  the  last 
census,  was  2, 109— making  a  total  of  29,072.  The 
latest  school  census  (1898)  showed  a  total  popu- 
lation of  33,375 — population  by  census  (1900), 
34, 159.  Besides  the  State  House,  the  city  has  a 
handsome  United  States  Government  Building 
for  United  States  Court  and  post-office  purposes, 
a  county  courthouse  (the  former  State  capitol), 
a  city  hall  and  (State)  Executive  Mansion. 
Springfield  was  the  home  of  Abraham  Lincoln. 
His  former  residence  has  been  donated  to  the 
State,  and  his  tomb  and  monument  are  in  the 
beautiful  Oak  Ridge  cemetery,  adjoining  the 
city.  Springfield  is  an  important  coal-mining 
center,  and  has  many  important  industries, 
notably  a  watch  factory,  rolling  mills,  and  exten- 
sive manufactories  of  agricultural  implements 
and  furniture.  It  is  also  the  permanent  location 
of  the  State  Fairs,  for  which  extensive  buildings 
have  been  erected  on  the  Fair  Grounds  north  of 
the  city.  There  are  three  daily  papers— two  mom- 
ing  and  one  evening — published  here,  besides 
various  other  publications,  Pop.  (1910),  51,678. 

SPRINGFIELD,  EFFINGHAM  &  SOUTH- 
EASTERN  RAILROAD.  (See  St.  Louis,  Indian- 
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ST.  LOUIS,  ALTON  &  CHICAGO  RAILROAD. 

(See  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad.) 

ST.  LOUIS,  ALTON  &  SPRINGFIELD  RAIL- 
ROAD. (See  St.  Louis,  Chicago  &  St.  Paul 
Railroad. ) 

ST.  LOUIS,  ALTON  &  TERRE  HAUTE 
RAILOAD,  a  corporation  formerly  operating  an 
extensive  system  of  railroads  in  Illinois.  The  Terre 
Haute  &  Alton  Railroad  Company  (the  original 
corporation)  was  chartered  in  January,  1851, 
work  begun  in  1852,  and  the  main  line  from 
Terre  Haute  to  Alton  (172.5  miles)  completed, 
March  1,  1856.  The  Belleville  &  Illinoistown 
branch  (from  Belleville  to  East  St.  Louis)  was 
chartered  in  1852,  and  completed  between  the 
points  named  in  the  title,  in  the  fall  of  1854. 
This  corporation  secured  authority  to  construct 
an  extension  from  Illinoistown  (now  East  St. 
Louis)  to  Alton,  which  was  completed  in  October, 
1856,  giving  the  first  railroad  connection  between 
Alton  &  St.  Louis.  Simultaneously  with  this, 
these  two  roads  (the  Terre  Haute  &  Alton  and 
the  Belleville  &  Illinoistown)  were  consolidated 
under  a  single  charter  by  special  act  of  the  Legis- 
lature in  February,  1854,  the  consolidated  line 
taking  the  name  of  the  Terre  Haute,  Alton  &  St. 
Louis  Railroad.  Subsequently  the  road  became 
financially  embarassed,  was  sold  under  foreclosure 
and  reorganized,  in  1862,  under  the  name  of  the 
St.  Ixjuis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute  Railroad.  June 
1,  1867,  the  main  line  (from  Terre  Haute  to  St. 
Louis)  was  leased  for  niety-nine  years  to  the 
Indianapolis  &  St.  Louis  Railway  Company  (an 
Indiana  corporation)  guaranteed  by  certain  other 
lines,  but  the  lease  was  subsequently  broken  by 
the  insolvency  of  the  lessee  and  some  of  the 
guarantors.  The  Indianapolis  &  St.  Louis  went 
into  the  hands  of  a  receiver  in  1882,  and  was  sold 
under  foreclosure,  in  July  of  the  same  year,  its 
interest  being  absorbed  by  the  Cleveland,  Cin- 
cinnati, Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railway,  by  which 
the  main  line  is  now  operated.  The  properties 
officially  reported  as  remaining  in  the  hands  of 
the  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute  Railroad, 
June  30,  1895,  beside  the  Belleville  Branch  (14.40 
miles),  included  the  following  leased  and  subsidi- 
ary lines:  Belleville  &  Southern  Illinois — "Cairo 
Short  Line"  (56.40  miles) ;  Belleville  &  Eldorado, 
(50.20  miles);  Belleville  &  Carondelet  (17.30 
miles);  St.  Louis  Southern  and  brandies  (47.27 
miles),  and  Chicago,  St.  Louis  &  Paducah  Rail- 
way (53.50  miles).  All  these  have  been  leased, 
since  the  close  of  the  fiscal  year  1895,  to  the  Illi- 
nois Central.  (For  sketches  of  these  several 
roads  see  headings  of  each.) 


ST.  LOUIS,  CHICAGO  &  ST.  PAUL  RAIL. 
ROAD,  (Bluff  Line), a  line  running  from  Spring- 
field to  Granite  City,  111.,  (opposite  St.  Louis), 
102. 1  miles,  with  a  branch  from  Lock  Haven  to 
Grafton,  111.,  8.4  miles — total  length  of  line  in 
Illinois,  110.5  miles.  The  track  is  of  standard 
gauge,  laid  with  56  to  70-pound  steel  rails. — (His- 
TOEY.  )  The  road  was  originally  incorporated 
under  the  name  of  the  St.  Louis,  Jersey ville  & 
Springfield  Railroad,  built  from  Bates  to  Grafton 
in  1882,  and  absorbed  by  the  Wabash,  St.  Louis  & 
Pacific  Railway  Company ;  was  surrendered  by  the 
receivers  of  the  latter  in  1886,  and  passed  under 
the  control  of  the  bond-holders,  by  whom  it  was 
transferred  to  a  corporation  known  as  the  St. 
Louis  &  Central  Illinois  Railroad  Company.  In 
June,  1887,  the  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Springfield 
Railroad  Company  was  organized,  with  power  to 
build  extensions  from  Newbern  to  Alton,  and 
from  Bates  to  Springfield,  which  was  done.  In 
October,  1890,  a  receiver  was  appointed,  followed 
by  a  reorganization  under  the  present  name  (St. 
Louis,  Chicago  &  St.  Paul).  Default  was  made 
on  the  interest  and,  in  June  following,  it  was 
again  placed  in  the  hands  of  receivers,  by  whom 
it  was  operated  until  1898.  The  total  earnings 
and  income  for  the  fiscal  year  1897-98  were 
$318,815,  operating  expenses,  $373,270;  total 
capitalization,  $4,853,526,  of  which,  $1,500,000 
was  in  the  form  of  stock  and  $1,235  000  in  income 
bonds. 

ST.  LOUIS,  INDIANAPOLIS  &  EASTERN 
RAILROAD,  a  railroad  line  90  miles  in  length, 
extending  from  Switz  City,  Ind.,  to  Effingham, 
111. — 56  miles  being  within  the  State  of  Illinois. 
It  is  of  standard  gauge  and  the  track  laid  chiefly 
with  iron  rails. — (HISTORY.)  The  orginal  corpo- 
ration was  chartered  in  1869  as  the  Springfield, 
Efflngham  &  Quincy  Railway  Company.  It  was 
built  as  a  narrow-gauge  line  by  the  Cincinnati, 
Effingham  &  Quincy  Construction  Company, 
which  went  into  the  hands  of  a  receiver  in  1878. 
The  road  was  completed  by  the  receiver  in  1880, 
and,  in  1885,  restored  to  the  Construction  Com- 
pany by  the  discharge  of  the  receiver.  For  a 
short  time  it  was  operated  in  connection  with 
the  Bloomfield  Railroad  of  Indiana,  but  was 
reorganized  in  1886  as  the  Indiana  &  Illinois 
Southern  Railroad,  and  the  gauge  changed  to 
standard  in  1887.  Having  made  default  in  the 
payment  of  interest,  it  was  sold  under  foreclosure 
in  1890  and  purchased  in  the  interest  of  the  bond- 
holders, by  whom  it  was  conveyed  to  the  St. 
Louis,  Indianapolis  &  Eastern  Railroad  Company, 
in  whose  name  the  line  is  operated.  Its  business 


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is  limited,  and  chiefly  local.  The  total  earnings 
in  1898  were  $65,583  and  the  expenditures  $69,112. 
Its  capital  stock  was  $740,900;  bonded  debt, 
$978,000,  other  indebtedness  increasing  the  total 
capital  investment  to  $1,816,736. 

ST.  LOUIS,  JACKSONVILLE  &  CHICAGO 
RAILROAD.  (See  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad.) 

ST.  LOUIS,  JERSEYVILLE  &  SPRINGFIELD 
RAILROAD.  (See  St.  Louis,  Chicago  &  St.  Paul 
Railroad.) 

ST.  LOUIS,  MOUNT  CARMEL  &  NEW  AL- 
BANY RAILROAD.  (See  Louisville,  Evansville 
&  St.  Louis  (Consolidated)  Railroad.) 

ST.  LOUIS,  PEORIA  &  NORTHERN  RAIL- 
WAY, known  as  "Peoria  Short  Line,"  a  corpo- 
ration organized,  Feb.  29,  1896,  to  take  over  and 
unite  the  properties  of  the  St.  Louis  &  Eastern, 
the  St.  Louis  &  Peoria  and  the  North  and  South 
Railways,  and  to  extend  the  same  due  north 
from  Springfield  to  Peoria  (60  miles),  and  thence 
to  Fulton  or  East  Clinton,  111.,  on  the  Upper  Mis- 
sissippi. The  line  extends  from  Springfield  to 
Glen  Carbon  (84.46  miles),  with  trackage  facilities 
over  the  Chicago,  Peoria  &  St.  Louis  Railroad 
and  the  Merchants'  Terminal  Bridge  (18  miles) 
to  St.  Louis. — (HISTORY.)  This  road  has  been 
made  up  of  three  sections  or  divisions.  (1)  The 
initial  section  of  the  line  was  constructed  under 
the  name  of  the  St.  Louis  &  Chicago  Railroad  of 
Illinois,  incorporated  in  1885,  and  opened  from 
Mount  Olive  to  Alhambra  in  1887.  It  passed 
into  the  hands  of  a  receiver,  was  sold  under  fore- 
closure in  1889,  and  reorganized,  in  1890,  as  the  St. 
Louis  &  Peoria  Railroad.  The  St.  Louis  &  East- 
ern, chartered  in  1889,  built  the  line  from  Glen 
Carbon  to  Marine,  which  was  opened  in  1893;  the 
following  year,  bought  the  St.  Louis  &  Peoria 
line,  and,  in  1895,  constructed  the  link  (8  miles) 
between  Alhambra  and  Marine.  (3)  The  North 
&  South  Railroad  Company  of  Illinois,  organized 
in  1890,  as  successor  to  the  St.  Louis  &  Chicago 
Railway  Company,  proceeded  in  the  construction 
of  the  line  (50.46  miles)  from  Mt.  Olive  to  Spring- 
field, which  was  subsequently  leased  to  the  Chi- 
cago, Peoria  &  St.  Louis,  then  under  the 
management  of  the  Jacksonville,  Louisville  &  St. 
Louis  Railway.  The  latter  corporation  having 
defaulted,  the  property  passed  into  the  hands  of 
a  receiver.  By  expiration  of  the  lease  in  Decem- 
ber, 1896,  the  property  reverted  to  the  proprietary 
Company,  which  took  possession,  Jan.  1,  1896. 
The  St.  Louis  &  Southeastern  then  bought  the 
line  outright,  and  it  was  incorporated  as  a  part  of 
the  new  organization  under  the  name  of  the  St. 
Louis,  Peoria  &  Northern  Railway,  the  North 


&  South  Railroad  going  out  of  existence.  In 
May,  1899,  the  St.  Louis,  Peoria  &  Northern  was 
sold  to  the  reorganized  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad 
Company,  to  be  operated  as  a  short  line  between 
Peoria  &  St.  Louis. 

ST.  LOUIS,  ROCK  ISLAND  &  CHICAGO 
RAILROAD.  (See  Chicago,  Burlington  &  Quincy 
Railroad.) 

ST.  LOUIS  SOUTHERN  RAILROAD,  a  line 
running  from  Pinckneyville,  111.,  via  Murphys- 
boro,  to  Carbondale.  The  company  is  also  the 
lessee  of  the  Carbondale  &  Shawneetow'n  Rail- 
road, extending  from  Carbondale  to  Marion,  17.5 
miles — total,  50.5  miles.  The  track  is  of  standard 
gauge  and  laid  with  56  and  60-pound  steel  rails. 
The  company  was  organized  in  August,  1886,  to 
succeed  to  the  property  of  the  St.  Louis  Coal  Rail- 
road (organized  in  1879)  and  the  St.  Louis  Central 
Railway ;  and  was  leased  for  980  years  from  Dec. 
1,  1886,  to  the  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute 
Railroad  Company,  at  an  annual  rental  equal  to 
thirty  per  cent  of  the  gross  earnings,  with  a  mini- 
mum guarantee  of  $32,000,  which  is  sufficient 
to  pay  the  interest  on  the  first  mortgage  bonds. 
During  the  year  1896  this  line  passed  under  lease 
from  the  St.  Louis,  Alton  &  Terre  Haute  Rail- 
road Company,  into  the  hands  of  the  Illinois 
Central  Railroad  Company. 

ST.  LOUIS,  SPRINGFIELD  &  VINCENNES 
RAILROAD  COMPANY,  a  corporation  organized 
in  July,  1899,  to  take  over  the  property  of  the 
Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern  Railway  in  the 
State  of  Illinois,  known  as  the  Ohio  &  Mississippi 
and  the  Springfield  &  Illinois  Southeastern 
Railways  —  the  former  extending  from  Vin- 
cennes,  Ind.,  to  East  St.  Louis,  and  the  latter 
from  Beardstown  to  Shawneetown.  The  prop- 
erty was  sold  under  foreclosure,  at  Cincinnati, 
July  10,  1899,  and  transferred,  for  purposes  of 
reorganization,  into  the  hands  of  the  new  cor- 
poration, July  28,  1899.  (For  history  of  the 
several  lines  see  Baltimore  &  Ohio  Southwestern 
Railway.) 

ST.  LOUIS,  VANDALIA  &  TERRE  HAUTE 
RAILROAD.  This  line  extends  from  East  St. 
Louis  eastward  across  the  State,  to  the  Indiana 
State  line,  a  distance  of  158.3  miles.  The  Terre 
Haute  &  Indianapolis  Railroad  Company  is  the 
lessee.  The  track  is  single,  of  standard  gauge, 
and  laid  with  steel  rails.  The  outstanding  capi- 
tal stock,  in  1898,  was  $3,924, 058,  the  bonded  debt, 
$4,496,000,  and  the  floating  debt,  $218,480.— (His- 
TORY  )  The  St.  Louis,  Vandalia  &  Terre  Haute 
Railroad  was  chartered  in  1865,  opened  in  1870 
and  leased  to  the  Terre  Haute  &  Indianapolis 


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Railroad,  for  itself  and  the  Pittsburg,  Cincinnati, 
Chicago  &  St.  Louis  Railroad. 

ST.  LOUIS  &  CAIRO  RAILROAD,  extends 
from  East  St.  Louis  to  Cairo,  111.,  151.6  miles,  with 
a  branch  from  Millstadt  Junction  to  High  Prairie, 
9  miles.  The  track  is  of  standard  gauge  and  laid 
mainly  with  steel  rails. — (HISTORY.)  The  origi- 
nal charter  was  granted  to  the  Cairo  &  St.  Louis 
Railroad  Company,  Feb.  16,  1865,  and  the  road 
opened,  March  1,  1875.  Subsequently  it  passed 
into  the  hands  of  a  receiver,  was  sold  under  fore- 
closure, July  14,  1881,  and  was  taken  charge  of 
by  a  new  company  under  its  present  name,  Feb. 
1,  1882.  On  Feb.  1,  1886,  it  was  leased  to  the 
Mobile  &  Ohio  Railroad  Company  for  forty-five 
years,  and  now  constitutes  the  Illinois  Division 
of  that  line,  giving  it  a  connection  with  St. 
Louis.  (See  Mobile  &  Ohio  Railway. ) 

ST.  LOUIS  &  CENTRAL  ILLINOIS  RAIL- 
KOAD.  (See  St.  Louis,  Chicago  &  St.  Paul 
Railroad. ) 

ST.  LOUIS  &  CHICAGO  RAILROAD  (of 
Illinois).  (See  St.  Louis,  Peoria  &  Northern 
Railway. ) 

ST.  LOUIS  &  EASTERN  RAILROAD.  (See 
St.  Louis,  Peoria  &  Northern  Railway.) 

ST.  LOUIS  &  PEORIA  RAILWAY.  (See 
St.  Louis,  Peoria  &  Northern  Railway. ) 

ST.  LUKE'S  HOSPITAL,  located  in  Chicago. 
It  was  chartered  in   1865,  its  incorporators,  in 
their   initial   statement,  substantially  declaring 
their  object  to  be  the  establishment  of  a  free  hos- 
pital under  the  control  of  the  Protestant  Epis- 
copal Church,    which  should    be    open    to    the 
afflicted  poor,   without  distinction   of   race   or 
creed.     The  hospital  was  opened  on  a  small  scale, 
but  steadily  increased  until  1879,  when  re-incor- 
poration was  effected  under  the  general  law.     In 
1885  a  new  building  was  erected  on  land  donated 
for  that  purpose,  at  a  cost  exceeding  §150,000, 
exclusive  of  $20,000   for  furnishing.     While  its 
primary  object  has  been  to  afford  accommoda- 
tion, with  medical  and  surgical  care,  gratuitously, 
to  the  needy  poor,  the  institution  also  provides  a 
considerable  number   of    comfortable,   well-fur- 
nished private  rooms  for  patients  who  are  able 
and  willing  to  pay  for  the  same.     It  contains  an 
amphitheater  for  surgical  operations  and  clinics, 
and  has  a  free  dispensary  for  out-patients.     Dur- 
ing  the    past    few    years    important    additions 
have  been  made,  the  number  of  beds  increased, 
and   provision   made   for  a  training  school  for 
nurses.     The    medical    staff    (1896)    consists    of 
thirteen    physicians     and    surgeons     and    two 
pathologists. 


ST.  MARY'S  SCHOOL,  a  young  ladies'  semi- 
nary, under  the  patronage  of  the  Episcopal 
Church,  at  Knoxville,  Knox  County,  111. ;  was 
incorporated  in  1858,  in  1898  had  a  faculty  of  four- 
teen teachers,  giving  instruction  to  113  pupils. 
The  branches  taught  include  the  classics,  the 
sciences,  fine  arts,  music  and  preparatory  studies. 
The  institution  has  a  library  of  2,200  volumes, 
and  owns-  property  valued  at  §130,500,  of  which 
$100,000  is  real  estate. 

STAGER,  Anson,  soldier  and  Telegraph  Super- 
intendent, was  born  in  Ontario  County,  N.  Y., 
April  20,  1825;  at  16  years  of  age  entered  the  serv- 
ice of  Henry  O'Reilly,  a  printer  who  afterwards 
became  a  pioneer  in  building  telegraph  lines,  and 
with  whom  he  became  associated  in  various  enter- 
prises of  this  character.  Having  introduced 
several  improvements  in  the  construction  of  bat- 
teries and  the  arrangement  of  wires,  he  was,  in 
1852,  made  General  Superintendent  of  the  princi- 
pal lines  in  the  West,  and,  on  the  organization  of 
the  Western  Union  Company,  was  retained  in 
this  position.  Early  in  the  Civil  War  he  was 
entrusted  with  the  management  of  telegraph 
lines  in  Southern  Ohio  and  along  the  Virginia 
border,  and,  in  October  following,  was  appointed 
General  Superintendent  of  Government  tele- 
graphs, remaining  in  this  position  until  Septem- 
ber, 1868,  his  services  being  recognized  in  his 
promotion  to  a  brevet  Brigadier-Generalship  of 
Volunteers.  In  1869  General  Stager  returned  to 
Chicago  and,  in  addition  to  his  duties  as  General 
Superintendent,  engaged  in  the  promotion  of  a 
number  of  enterprises  connected  with  the  manu- 
facture of  electrical  appliances  and  other 
branches  of  the  business.  One  of  these  was  the 
consolidation  of  the  telephone  companies,  of 
which  he  became  President,  as  also  of  the  West- 
ern Edison  Electric  Light  Company,  besides  being 
a  Director  in  several  other  corporations.  Died, 
in  Chicago,  March  26,  1885. 

STANDISH,  John  Yan  Ness,  a  lineal  descendant 
of  Capt.  Miles  Standish,  the  Pilgrim  leader,  was 
born  at  Woodstock,  Vt.,  Feb.  26,  1825.  His  early 
years  were  spent  on  a  farm,  but  a  love  of  knowl- 
edge and  books  became  his  ruling  passion,  and  he 
devoted  several  years  to  study,  in  the  "Liberal 
Institute"  at  Lebanon,  N.  H.,  finally  graduating, 
with  the  degree  of  A.  B.,  at  Norwich  University 
in  the  class  of  1847.  Later,  he  received  the 
degree  of  A.M.,  in  due  course,  from  his  Alma 
Mater  in  1855;  that  of  Ph.D.  from  Knox  College, 
in  1883,  of  LL.D  from  St.  Lawrence  University 
in  1893,  and  from  Norwich,  in  1898.  Dr.  Standish 
chose  the  profession  of  a  teacher,  and  has  spent 


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over  fifty  years  in  its  pursuit  in  connection  with 
private  and  public  schools  and  the  College,  of 
which  more  than  forty  years  were  as  Professor  and 
President  of  Lombard  University  at  Galesburg. 
He  has  also  lectured  and  conducted  Teachers' 
Institutes  all  over  the  State,  and,  in  1859,  was 
elected  President  of  the  State  Teachers'  Associ- 
ation. He  made  three  visits  to  the  Old  World — 
in  1879,  '82-83,  and  '91-92— and,  during  his  second 
trip,  traveled  over  40,000  miles,  visiting  nearly 
every  country  of  Europe,  including  the  "Land  of 
the  Midnight  Sun,"  besides  Northern  Africa  . 
from  the  Mediterranean  to  the  Desert  of  Sahara, 
Egypt,  Palestine,  Syria  and  Asia  Minor.  A  lover 
of  art,  he  has  visited  nearly  all  the  principal 
museums  and  picture  galleries  of  the  world.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and,  in  opposition  to 
many  college  men,  a  firm  believer  in  the  doctrine 
of  protection.  In  religion,  he  is  a  Universalist. 

STAPP,  James  T.  B.,  State  Auditor,  was  born 
in  Woodford  County,  Ky.,  April  13,  1804;  at  the 
age  of  12  accompanied  his  widowed  mother  to 
Kaskaskia,  111. ,  where  she  settled ;  before  he  was 
20  years  old,  was  employed  as  a  clerk  in  the  office 
of  the  State  Auditor,  and,  upon  the  resignation  of 
that  officer,  was  appointed  his  successor,  being 
twice  thereafter  elected  by  the  Legislature,  serv- 
ing nearly  five  years.  He  resigned  the  auditor- 
ship  to  accept  the  Presidency  of  the  State  Bank 
at  Vandalia,  which  post  he  filled  for  thirteen 
years;  acted  as  Aid-de-camp  on  Governor  Rey- 
nolds staff  in  the  Black  Hawk  War,  and  served 
as  Adjutant  of  the  Third  Illinois  Volunteers  dur- 
ing the  war  with  Mexico.  President  Taylor 
appointed  Mr.  Stapp  Receiver  of  the  United 
States  Land  Office  at  Vandalia,  which  office  he 
held  during  the  Fillmore  administration,  resign- 
ing in  1855.  Two  years  later  he  removed  to 
Decatur,  where  he  continued  to  reside  until  his 
death  in  1876.  A  handsome  Methodist  chapel, 
erected  by  him  in  that  city,  bears  his  name. 

STARK  COUNTY,  an  interior  county  in  the 
northern  half  of  the  State,  lying  west  of  the  Illi- 
nois River ;  has  an  area  of  290  square  miles.  It 
has  a  rich,  alluvial  soil,  well  watered  by  numer- 
ous small  streams.  The  principal  industries  are 
agriculture  and  stock-raising,  and  the  chief 
towns  are  Toulon  and  Wyoming.  The  county 
was  erected  from  Putnam  and  Knox  in  1839,  and 
named  in  honor  of  General  Stark,  of  Revolution- 
ary fame.  The  earliest  settler  was  Isaac  B. 
Essex,  who  built  a  cabin  on  Spoon  River,  in  1828, 
and  gave  his  name  to  a  township.  Of  other  pio- 
neer families,  the  Buswells,  Smiths,  Spencers  and 


Eastmans  came  from  New  England ;  the  Thom- 
ases, Moores,  Holgates,  Fullers  and  Whittakers 
from  Pennsylvania;  the  Coxes  from  Ohio;  the 
Perrys  and  Parkers  from  Virginia ;  the  McClana- 
hans  from  Kentucky ;  the  Hendersons  from  Ten- 
nessee ;  the  Lees  and  Hazens  from  New  Jersey ; 
the  Halls  from  England,  and  the  Turnbulls  and 
Olivers  from  Scotland.  The  pioneer  church  was 
the  Congregational  at  Toulon.  Pop.  (1880),  11,207; 
(1890),  9,982;  (1900),  10,186;  (1910),  10,098. 

STARTED  ROCK,  a  celebrated  rock  or  cliff  on 
the  south  side  of  Illinois  River,  in  La  Salle 
County,  upon  which  the  French  explorer,  La 
Salle,  and  his  lieutenant,  Tonty,  erected  a  fort  in 
1682,  which  they  named  Fort  St.  Louis.  It  was 
one  mile  north  of  the  supposed  location  of  the 
Indian  village  of  La  Vantum,  the  metropolis,  so 
to  speak,  of  the  Illinois  Indians  about  the  time  of 
the  arrival  of  the  first  French  explorers.  The 
population  of  this  village,  in  1680,  according  to 
Father  Membre,  was  some  seven  or  eight  thou- 
sand. Both  La  Vantum  and  Fort  St.  Louis  were 
repeatedly  attacked  by  the  Iroquois.  The  Illinois 
were  temporarily  driven  from  La  Vantum,  but 
the  French,  for  the  time  being,  successfully 
defended  their  fortification.  In  1702  the  fort  was 
abandoned-  as  a  military  post,  but  continued  to 
be  used  as  a  French  trading-post  until  1718, 
when  it  was  burned  by  Indians.  The  Illinois 
were  not  again  molested  until  1722,  when  the 
Foxes  made  an  unsuccessful  attack  upon  them. 
The  larger  portion  of  the  tribe,  however,  resolved 
to  cast  in  their  fortunes  with  other  tribes  on  the 
Mississippi  River.  Those  who  remained  fell  an 
easy  prey  to  the  foes  by  whom  they  were  sur- 
rounded. In  1769  they  were  attacked  from  the 
north  by  tribes  who  desired  to  avenge  the  murder 
of  Pontiac.  Finding  themselves  hard  pressed, 
they  betook  themselves  to  the  bluff  where  Fort 
St.  Louis  had  formerly  stood.  Here  they  were 
besieged  for  twelve  days,  when,  destitute  of  food 
or  water,  they  made  a  gallant  but  hopeless  sortie. 
According  to  a  tradition  handed  down  among  the 
Indians,  all  were  massacred  by  the  besiegers  in 
an  attempt  to  escape  by  night,  except  one  half- 
breed,  who  succeeded  in  evading  his  pursuers. 
This  sanguinary  catastrophe  has  given  the  rock 
its  popular  name.  Elmer  Baldwin,  in  his  History 
of  La  Salle  County  (1877),  says:  "The  bones  of 
the  victims  lay  scattered  about  the  cliff  in  pro- 
fusion after  the  settlement  by  the  whites,  and 
are  still  found  mingled  plentifully  with  the  soil." 
In  19 1 1 ,  the  Starved  Rock  tract  (290  acres)  was  bought 
by  the  State  for  $146,000;  will  becomea  historic  park. 


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